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The Universe Unveiled: Instruments and Images Through History
by Bruce Stephenson  Publisher Comments The search for understanding creates more than answers; it also produces instruments, books, maps, and other tools made and used by those seeking knowledge. The Universe Unveiled uniquely focuses on these artifacts and devices resulting from the attempts...
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Weaving the Web Original Design & Ultima
by Tim Berners Lee Publisher Comments Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, has been hailed by Time magazine as one of the 100 greatest minds of this century. His creation has already changed the way people do business, entertain themselves, exchange ideas, and socialize with...
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The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments
by George Johnson Publisher Comments From the acclaimed New York Times science writer George Johnson, an irresistible book on the ten most fascinating experiments in the history of science — moments when a curious soul posed a particularly eloquent question to nature and received a...
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Adventures from the Technology Underground: Catapults, Pulsejets, Rail Guns, Flamethrowers, Tesla Coils, Air Cannons and the Garage Warriors Who Love Them
by William Gurstelle Publisher Comments The technology underground is a thriving, humming, and often literally scintillating subculture of amateur inventors and scientific envelope-pushers who dream up, design, and build machines that whoosh, rumble, fly—and occasionally hurl pumpkins...
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The Future of the Past
by Alexander Stille Publisher Comments A fascinating tour of the past as it exists today, and of the dangers that threaten it, through incisive portraits of our attempts to maintain it: the high-tech struggles to save the Great Sphinx and the Ganges; the efforts to preserve Latin within the...
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Where's My Jetpack?: A Guide to the Amazing Science Fiction Future That Never Arrived
by Daniel H. Wilson and Richard Horne 
Powells.com Staff Pick If you are like me, the Roomba just does not cut it when what I expect is the domestic help of the robot maid featured on The Jetsons. In this highly entertaining look at futuristic inventions once envisioned, but never fully realized, Daniel Wilson...
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Success through Failure: The Paradox of Design
by Henry Petroski
Powells.com Staff Pick Fear not! Despite the sound of the title, Success through Failure is blissfully free of the latest corporate management philosophies. Instead of business jargon, engineering and design author Henry Petroski focuses on the fascinating cycle of mistakes...
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The Plenitude: Creativity, Innovation, and Making Stuff (Simplicity: Design, Technology, Business, Life)
by Rich Gold Publisher Comments We live with a lot of stuff. The average kitchen, for example, is home to stuff galore, and every appliance, every utensil, every thing, is compound: composed of tens, hundreds, even thousands of other things. Although each piece of stuff satisfies some...
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To a Distant Day: The Rocket Pioneers (Outward Odyssey: A People's History of S)
by Chris Gainor Publisher Comments Although the dream of flying is as old as the human imagination, the notion of actually rocketing into space may have originated with Chinese experiments with gunpowder in the Middle Ages. Rockets as weapons and entertainment, whether sprung from science...
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Thunderstruck
by Erik Larson
Powells.com Staff Pick In this remarkable follow-up to his hit thriller Devil in the White City, Erik Larson applies his considerable skill to craft a story of invention and murder. A tightly written page-turner. Recommended by Michal, Powells...
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You Call This the Future? The Greatest Inventions Sci-Fi Imagined and Science Promised
by Nick Sagan and Mark Frary and Andy Walker Publisher Comments Examining the 50 coolest, most stylish, and most popular futuristic inventions, this handbook peers through the lens of today’s science, looking at which ones have become reality and how they work, and which are still in the imagined future: will...
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Better Off: Flipping the Switch on Technology (P.S.)
by Eric Brende
Publisher Comments What is the least we need to achieve the most? With this question in mind, MIT graduate Eric Brende flipped the switch on technology. He and his wife, Mary, ditched their car, electric stove, refrigerator, running water, and everything else motorized or "...
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The Wheelwright's Shop
by George Sturt Publisher Comments George Sturt's account of his trade as a wheelwright offers a unique glimpse into the working lives of late nineteenth century craftsmen....
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Design Paradigms: Case Histories of Error and Judgment in Engineering
by Henry Petroski Publisher Comments Case histories of engineering success and failure are presented to enrich understanding of the design process....
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Nothing Like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869
by Stephen E Ambrose From Powells.com Abraham Lincoln, prior to being elected president and at the time working as a railway lawyer, met future Civil War hero General Grenville Dodge, in Council Bluffs, Iowa in 1859. According to historian Stephen Ambrose, Lincoln's first words were "Dodge...
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Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho
by Jon Katz Synopsis The eye-opening, heart-rending account of how an alienated and disenfranchised generation is finding solidarity, opportunity, and hope on the Internet, by the author of "Running to the Mountain."...
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The Myths of Innovation
by Scott Berkun Publisher Comments How do you know whether a hot technology will succeed or fail? Or where the next big idea will come from? The best answers come not from the popular myths we tell about innovation, but instead from time-tested truths that explain how we've made it this...
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Technology and the Afrian-American Experience: Needs and Opportunities for Study
by Bruce Sinclair Publisher Comments Race and technology are two of the most powerful motifs in American history, but until recently they have not often been considered in relation to each other. This collection of essays examines the intersection of the two in a variety of social and...
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The Typewriter (Dover Pictorial Archives)
by Victor M Linoff Publisher Comments This very rare, superbly illustrated volume rescues the typewriter from historic neglect. First published in 1923 by a trade journal, it ranges from the 1829 Burt Machine, the first to be issued a U.S. patent, to the decidedly more streamlined models of...
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Backyard Ballistics
by William Gurstelle
Powells.com Staff Pick As tempting as it sounds to spend the afternoon with the two digital puppies wrestling under Lara Croft's wife-beater, nothing is really more entertaining than plain ol' throwing rocks at stuff. Or, better still, shooting said rocks out of a homemade...
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