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The Evolution of Useful Things: How Everyday Artifacts-From Forks and Pins to Paper Clips and Zippers-Came to Be as They Are. by Henry Petroski Publisher Comments Only Henry Petroski, author of The Pencil, could make one never pick up a paper clip again without being overcome with feelings of awe and reverence. In his new book the author examines a host of techno-trivia questions – how the fork got its tines... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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One Good Turn: History of the Screwdriver & the Screw by Witold Rybczynski Publisher Comments Suspense, Intrigue, Magic and Mysticism at Its Best With unexpected plot twists, the two couples that translated unknown scrolls in Secrets of the Magdalene Scrolls, are now shocked out of complacency when Ellen has a surprising encounter with a... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Mauve: How One Man Invented a Color That Changed the World (American) by Simon Garfield Publisher Comments Born of a laboratory accident, this odd shade of purple revolutionized fashion, industry, and the practice of science. Mauve is the story of a man who accidentally invented a color, and in the process transformed the world around him. Before 1856... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $12.95 Used - Hardcover
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Apple Confidential 2.0: The Definitive History of the World's Most Colorful Company by Owen W. Linzmayer Publisher Comments "Apple Confidential examines the tumultuous history of America's best-known Silicon Valley start-up--from its legendary founding almost 30 years ago, through a series of disastrous executive decisions, to its return to profitability, and including Apple... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $13.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Inventing the Internet (Inside Technology) by Janet Abbate Publisher Comments Since the late 1960s the Internet has grown from a single experimental network serving a dozen sites in the United States to a network of networks linking millions of computers worldwide. In Inventing the Internet, Janet Abbate recounts the key players... (read more) List Price $30.25 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Lady Tasting Tea: How Statistics Revolutionized Science in the Twentieth Century by David Salsburg Publisher Comments An insightful, revealing history of the magical mathematics that transformed our world. At a summer tea party in Cambridge, England, a guest states that tea poured into milk tastes different from milk poured into tea. Her notion is shouted down by the... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Fire: Servant, Scourge, and Enigma by Hazel Rossotti Publisher Comments The nature of fire, its symbolic significance, and its exploitation and control are examined in this fascinating study. Written in a lively style and enhanced by 117 compelling illustrations, it probes all aspects of fire, from the techniques used to... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $4.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Conversing with the Planets: How Science and Myth Invented the Cosmos by Anthony F Aveni Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-231) and index.... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $15.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Toothpick: Technology and Culture by Henry Petroski Publisher Comments Like "The Pencil," Petroskis "The Toothpick" is a celebration of a humble yet elegant device. As old as mankind and as universal as eating, this useful and ubiquitous tool finally gets its due in this wide-ranging and compulsively readable book.... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $17.95 Used - Hardcover 
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Radical Evolution: The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies -- And What It Means to Be Human by Joel Garreau Publisher Comments Taking us behind the scenes with today’s foremost researchers and pioneers, bestselling author Joel Garreau shows that we are at a turning point in history. At this moment we are engineering the next stage of human evolution. Through... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Lost Discoveries: The Ancient Roots of Modern Science -- From the Babylonians to the Maya by Dick Teresi Publisher Comments Boldly challenging conventional wisdom, acclaimed science writer and Omni magazine cofounder Dick Teresi traces the origins of contemporary science back to their ancient roots in an eye-opening account and landmark work. This innovative history proves... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Descartes's Secret Notebook: A True Tale of Mathematics, Mysticism, and the Quest to Understand the Universe by Amir D. Aczel Publisher Comments René Descartes (1596–1650) is one of the towering and central figures in Western philosophy and mathematics. His apothegm “Cogito, ergo sum” marked the birth of the mind-body problem, while his creation of so-called Cartesian... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Measuring Eternity: The Search for the Beginning of Time by Martin Gorst Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-313) and index.... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Backyard Ballistics by William Gurstelle 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... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Why Things Bite Back: Technology and the Revenge of Unintended Consequences by Edward Tenner Publisher Comments If computers really eliminate paperwork, why is the office recycling bin always overflowing? Why are the lines before the bank's ATMs often longer than the ones at the tellers' windows? Anyone who has ever pondered those questions will delight in Why... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $4.25 Used - Trade Paper
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Nothing Like It In The World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad, 1863-1869 by Stephen E Ambrose Publisher Comments In this account of an unprecedented feat of engineering, vision, and courage, Stephen E. Ambrose offers a historical successor to his universally acclaimed Undaunted Courage, which recounted the explorations of the West by Lewis and Clark. Nothing Like... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Hardcover
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Throwing Fire: Projectile Technology Through History by Alfred W Crosby Publisher Comments In Throwing Fire, historian Alfred W. Crosby looks at hard, accurate throwing and the manipulation of fire as unique human capabilities. Humans began throwing rocks in prehistory and then progressed to javelins, atlatls, bows and arrows. We learned to... (read more) List Price $39.25 Your price: $11.00 Used - Hardcover
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Dust by Joseph A Amato Publisher Comments While the story of the big has often been told, the story of the small has not yet even been outlined. With Dust, Joseph Amato enthralls the reader with the first history of the small and the invisible. Dust is a poetic meditation on how dust has been... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $7.46 Used - Hardcover
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Mauve : How One Man Invented a Color That Changed the World (00 Edition) by Simon Garfield Publisher Comments In 1856 eighteen-year-old English chemist William Perkin accidentally discovered a way to mass-produce color. In a witty, erudite, and entertaining (Esquire) style, Simon Garfield explains how the experimental mishap that produced an odd shade of purple... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Time Lord: Sir Sandford Fleming and the Creation of Standard Time by Clark Blaise Publisher Comments In Time Lord, Clark Blaise recounts the story of the creation of standard time in 1884, one of the great untold accomplishments of 19th-century progress and technology. Before Sanford Fleming, time was a local matter, so much so that in the middle of... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $4.00 Used - Trade Paper
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