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The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood (Vintage) by James Gleick Publisher Comments A New York Times Notable Book A Los Angeles Times and Cleveland Plain Dealer Best Book of the Year Winner of the PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award From the bestselling author of the acclaimed Chaos and Genius comes a thoughtful... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design by Henry Petroski Synopsis How did a simple design error cause one of the great disasters of the 1980s — the collapse of the walkways at the Kansas City Hyatt Regency Hotel? What made the graceful and innovative Tacoma Narrows Bridge twist apart in a mild wind in 1940? How... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson Staff Pick This learned and amusing work covers the origin of the universe to the human genome. A welcome journey with Bryson in typical wise and witty fashion.... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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You Are Here (10 Edition) by Christopher Potter Publisher Comments “You Are Here is not just physics for poets, but as close to poetry or music as science is ever likely to get. Christopher Potters narrative is as imaginative, ingenious, and elegantly concise as it is user-friendly.” — Sylvia Nasar,... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Wondrous Contrivances: Technology at the Threshold by Merritt Ierley Publisher Comments The telegraph, typewriter, phonograph, radio, train, plane, fax, and Internet were all at one time or another the latest technological wonder. All of them changed people's lives, but whether that was perceived as a blessing or a burden is a very human... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr Publisher Comments “Is Google making us stupid?” When Nicholas Carr posed that question, in a celebrated Atlantic Monthly cover story, he tapped into a well of anxiety about how the Internet is changing us. He also crystallized one of the most important debates... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Hardcover
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What Technology Wants (10 Edition) by Kevin Kelly Publisher Comments andquot;More thriller than primer, this is the best technology book I have ever read.andquot; -Nicholas Negroponte, author of Being Digital In this provocative book, one of today's most respected thinkers turns the conversation about technology on its... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Gecko's Foot: Bio- Inspiration: Engineering New Materials from Nature by Peter Forbes Publisher Comments “Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.” When Frank Lloyd Wright said this, he probably wasn’t envisioning self-cleaning surfaces, the photonic crystal, or Velcro. But nature has indeed yielded such inventions for... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science by Natalie Angier Staff Pick Another winner from one of the best science writers around, The Canon, like Bill Bryson's Short History of Nearly Everything, provides a pleasurable understanding of science.... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry by John Markoff Publisher Comments Most histories of the personal computer industry focus on technology or business. John Markoff’s landmark book is about the culture and consciousness behind the first PCs—the culture being counter– and the consciousness expanded... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Six Degrees the Science of a Connected Age by Duncan J Watts Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [307]-356) and index.... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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Democratizing Technology: Building on Andrew Feenberg's Critical Theory of Technology by Tyler Veak Publisher Comments Largely because of the Internet and the new economy, technology has become the buzzword of our culture. But what is it, and how does it affect our lives? More importantly, can we control and shape it, or does it control us? In short, can we make... (read more) List Price $37.95 Your price: $15.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Something Incredibly Wonderful Happens: Frank Oppenheimer and the World He Made Up by K C Cole Publisher Comments As a young man Frank Oppenheimer followed in his famous brothers footstepsgrowing up in a privileged Manhattan household, becoming a physicist, working on the atomic bomb. Tragically, Frank and Robert both had their careers destroyed by the Red Scare... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $18.50 Used - Hardcover
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VOLTA: Science and Culture in the Age of Enlightenment by Giuliano Pancaldi Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [291]-365) and index.... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $8.75 Used - Hardcover
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Harmonious Triads: Physicists, Musicians, and Instrument Makers in Nineteenth-Century Germany (Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Techn) by Myles W Jackson Publisher Comments andlt;Pandgt;Historically, music was long classified as both art and science. Aspects of music--from the mathematics of tuning to the music of the celestial spheres--were primarily studied as science until the seventeenth century. In the nineteenth... (read more) List Price $45.75 Your price: $17.50 Used - Hardcover
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Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love by Dava Sobel Publisher Comments While Galileo Galilei was under house arrest, accused of heresy for his claim that the earth revolved around the sun, his daughter Virginia, a cloistered nun, proved to be her father's greatest source of strength through the difficult years of his trial... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $5.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution by Steven Levy Publisher Comments With groundbreaking profiles of computer pioneers such as Bill Gates, Steve Wozinak, MIT's Tech Model Railroad Club, and more, "Hackers" captures a seminal moment with risk-takers and explorers who were poised to conquer 20th century America's last great... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Better Off: Flipping the Switch on Technology by Eric Brende Publisher Comments What happens when a graduate of MIT, the bastion of technological advancement, and his bride move to a community so primitive in its technology that even Amish groups consider it antiquated? Eric Brende conceives a real-life experiment: to see if, in... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Virtual Embodied: Presence/Practice/Technology by John Wood Publisher Comments The Virtual Embodied is intended to inform, provoke and delight. It explores the ideas of embodiment, knowledge, space, virtue and virtuality to address fundamental questions about technology and human presence. It juxtaposes cutting-edge theories... (read more) List Price $24.99 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Calendar:: Humanity's Epic Struggle to Determine a True and Accurate Year by David Ewing Duncan Publisher Comments Prelude: A Net Cast Over Time The . . . silent, never-resting thing called time, rolling, rushing on, swift, silent, like an all-embracing ocean tide . . . this is forever very literally a miracle; a thing to strike us dumb. --THOMAS CARLYLE, 1840 Not... (read more) List Price $13.50 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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