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Atomic Energy for Military Purposes: The Official Report on the Development of the Atomic Bomb Under the Auspices of the United States Government, 1by Henry De Wolf SmythISBN 0404147038 (0-404-14703-8)
Hardcover, Ams Pr Inc
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Basic Metric Surveyingby Walter S. WhyteISBN 0408036249 (0-408-03624-9)
Hardcover, Newnes-Butterworths
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Before the Industrial Revolution: European Society and Economy 1000-1700by Carlo M. CipollaISBN 0416809103 (0-416-80910-3)
Hardcover, Methuen
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The Behavior and Design of Steel Structuresby N.S. Trahair, Mark A. BradfordISBN 041229480X (0-412-29480-X)
Softcover, Routledge
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Bridges Are to Crossby Philemon Sturges, Giles LarocheISBN 0399231749 (0-399-23174-9)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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Built To Last: Building America's Amazing Bridges, Dams, Tunnels, And Skyscrapersby George SullivanISBN 0439517370 (0-439-51737-0)
Hardcover, Scholastic
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By the Sweat of Thy Brow: Work in the Western Worldby Joseph Gies, Melvin KranzbergISBN 0399113126 (0-399-11312-6)
Hardcover, Putnam
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Car Talkby Tom Magliozzi, Ray MagliozziISBN 0440503647 (0-440-50364-7)
Softcover, Dell Publishing
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Chemistryby Steven S. Zumdahl, Susan A. ZumdahlISBN 0395985811 (0-395-98581-1)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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Computer: A History of the Information Machineby William Aspray, Martin Campbell-KellyISBN 0465029892 (0-465-02989-2)
Hardcover, Perseus Books Group
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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Courtby Mark TwainISBN 0451529588 (0-451-52958-8)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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Construction Claims: Analysis, Presentation, Defenseby Robert A. RubinISBN 0442261454 (0-442-26145-4)
Hardcover, Van Nostrand Reinhold
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Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Changeby Victor PapanekISBN 0394470362 (0-394-47036-2)
Hardcover, Pantheon Books
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Designing Pleasurable Products: An Introduction to the New Human Factorsby Patrick W. JordanISBN 0415298873 (0-415-29887-3)
Softcover, Routledge
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Developing Products in Half the Timeby Preston G. Smith, Donald G. ReinertsenISBN 0442002432 (0-442-00243-2)
Hardcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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Diary Of An Early American Boy: Noah Blake 1805by Eric SloaneISBN 0396083374 (0-396-08337-4)
Hardcover, Dodd Mead
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The Discoverers: A History of Man's Search to Know His World and Himselfby Daniel BoorstinISBN 0394726251 (0-394-72625-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Discoverers: A History of Man's Search to Know His World and Himself'Book summary:Perhaps the greatest book by one of our greatest historians, The Discoverers is a volume of sweeping range and majestic interpretation. To call it a history of science is an understatement; this is the story of how humankind has come to know the world, however incompletely ("the eternal mystery of the world," Einstein once said, "is its comprehensibility"). Daniel J. Boorstin first describes the liberating concept of time--"the first grand discovery"--and continues through the age of exploration and the advent of the natural and social sciences. The approach is idiosyncratic, with Boorstin lingering over particular figures and accomplishments rather than rushing on to the next set of names and dates. It's also primarily Western, although Boorstin does ask (and answer) several interesting questions: Why didn't the Chinese "discover" Europe and America? Why didn't the Arabs circumnavigate the planet? His thesis about discovery ultimately turns on what he calls "illusions of knowledge." If we think we know something, then we face an obstacle to innovation. The great discoverers, Boorstin shows, dispel the illusions and reveal something new about the world.
Although The Discoverers easily stands on its own, it is technically the first entry in a trilogy that also includes The Creators and The Seekers. An outstanding book--one of the best works of history to be found anywhere. --John J. Miller [via]
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The Discoverersby Daniel Joseph Boorstin, Daniel J. Boorstin Collection (Library of Congress)ISBN 0460046624 (0-460-04662-4)
Hardcover, J.M. Dent & Sons
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Discoverers'Book summary:Perhaps the greatest book by one of our greatest historians, The Discoverers is a volume of sweeping range and majestic interpretation. To call it a history of science is an understatement; this is the story of how humankind has come to know the world, however incompletely ("the eternal mystery of the world," Einstein once said, "is its comprehensibility"). Daniel J. Boorstin first describes the liberating concept of time--"the first grand discovery"--and continues through the age of exploration and the advent of the natural and social sciences. The approach is idiosyncratic, with Boorstin lingering over particular figures and accomplishments rather than rushing on to the next set of names and dates. It's also primarily Western, although Boorstin does ask (and answer) several interesting questions: Why didn't the Chinese "discover" Europe and America? Why didn't the Arabs circumnavigate the planet? His thesis about discovery ultimately turns on what he calls "illusions of knowledge." If we think we know something, then we face an obstacle to innovation. The great discoverers, Boorstin shows, dispel the illusions and reveal something new about the world.
Although The Discoverers easily stands on its own, it is technically the first entry in a trilogy that also includes The Creators and The Seekers. An outstanding book--one of the best works of history to be found anywhere. --John J. Miller [via]
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E=Mc2: A Biography of the World's Most Famous Equationby David BodanisISBN 0425181642 (0-425-18164-2)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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Electrical Hazards and Accidents: Their Cause and Preventionby E.K. GreenwaldISBN 0442237995 (0-442-23799-5)
Hardcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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Engineering Fluid Mechanicsby John A. Roberson, C. T. CroweISBN 0395186072 (0-395-18607-2)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Failure Is Not an Option: Mission Control from Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyondby Gene KranzISBN 0425179877 (0-425-17987-7)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Failure Is Not an Option: Mission Control from Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond'Book summary:In 1957, the Russians launched Sputnik and the ensuing space race. Three years later, Gene Kranz left his aircraft testing job to join NASA and champion the American cause. What he found was an embryonic department run by whiz kids (such as himself), sharp engineers and technicians who had to create the Mercury mission rules and procedure from the ground up. As he says, "Since there were no books written on the actual methodology of space flight, we had to write them as we went along."
Kranz was part of the mission control team that, in January 1961, launched a chimpanzee into space and successfully retrieved him, and made Alan Shepard the first American in space in May 1961. Just two months later they launched Gus Grissom for a space orbit, John Glenn orbited Earth three times in February 1962, and in May of 1963 Gordon Cooper completed the final Project Mercury launch with 22 Earth orbits. And through them all, and the many Apollo missions that followed, Gene Kranz was one of the integral inside men--one of those who bore the responsibility for the Apollo 1 tragedy, and the leader of the "tiger team" that saved the Apollo 13 astronauts.
Moviegoers know Gene Kranz through Ed Harris's Oscar-nominated portrayal of him in Apollo 13, but Kranz provides a more detailed insider's perspective in his book Failure Is Not an Option. You see NASA through his eyes, from its primitive days when he first joined up, through the 1993 shuttle mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope, his last mission control project. His memoir, however, is not high literature. Kranz has many accomplishments and honors to his credit, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom, but this is his first book, and he's not a polished author. There are, perhaps, more behind-the-scenes details and more paragraphs devoted to what Cape Canaveral looked like than the general public demands. If, however, you have a long-standing fascination with aeronautics, if you watched Apollo 13 and wanted more, Failure Is Not an Option will fill the bill. --Stephanie Gold [via]
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Flight : My Life in Mission Controlby Chris KraftISBN 0452283043 (0-452-28304-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Flight : My Life in Mission Control'Book summary:Flight: My Life in Mission Control is the feisty memoir of Chris Kraft, head of mission control ground crew on the famous Eagle mission of 1969. On July 20, 1969, near the end of a great decade of near-space exploration, a small craft called Eagle landed on the moon's surface. As anyone who watched the televised broadcast of the landing might recall, the astronauts aboard Eagle were guided to their objective by a capable ground crew headed by Chris Kraft, whom his colleagues had long called "Flight". Kraft was unflappable on the surface, but, as he writes in this memoir, the Eagle's landing had moments of drama that gave him pause, and that few outside NASA knew about--including baleful alarms from the ship's on-board computer that warned of imminent disaster.
For Kraft, frightening moments were part of his job as director of Mission Control. He encountered many of them in the early years of the space programme, when failures were commonplace and all too often caused not by mechanics but politics. We learn of many in Kraft's pages. One such failure was the Soviet Union's Sputnik launch, on which Kraft thunders, "We should have beaten them.... We were stopped by anonymous doctors in the civilian world who didn't know what they were talking about, by a bureaucrat in the White House who'd been stung when JFK shot down his position on manned space flight, and by our friend the German rocket scientist who got cold feet when he should have been bold."
Plenty of other contemporaries, including John Glenn and Richard Nixon, come in for a scolding in Kraft's fiery account, which offers a fly-on-the-wall portrait of the challenging work of astronautics--work that, Kraft writes hopefully, is only beginning. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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Foundation Engineering for Difficult Subsoil Conditionsby Leonardo ZeevaertISBN 0442201699 (0-442-20169-9)
Hardcover, Van Nostrand Reinhold
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Foundation Engineering Handbookby Hsai-Yang FangISBN 0442224877 (0-442-22487-7)
Hardcover, Van Nostrand Reinhold
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Foundations of Engineering Geologyby Tony WalthamISBN 0415254507 (0-415-25450-7)
Softcover, Spon Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Foundations of Engineering Geology'Book summary:The second edition of this well established book provides a readable and highly illustrated overview of the main facets of geology for engineers. Comprehensively updated, and with four new sections, Foundations of Engineering Geology covers the entire spectrum of topics of interest to both student and practitioner. [via]
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The Fountains of Paradiseby Arthur Charles ClarkeISBN 0446677949 (0-446-67794-9)
Softcover, Aspect
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Fountains of Paradise'Book summary:This Hugo and Nebula Award-winning novel is reissued in this trade paperback edition. Vannemar Morgan's dream of linking Earth with the stars requires a 24,000-mile-high space elevator. But first he must solve a million technical, political, and economic problems while allaying the wrath of God. Includes a new introduction by the author. [via]
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From Know-How to Nowhere: The Development of American Technologyby Elting Elmore MorisonISBN 0465025803 (0-465-02580-3)
Hardcover, Basic Books
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Grand Constructionsby Gian Paolo CeseraniISBN 0399209425 (0-399-20942-5)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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Greek and Roman Technology: A Sourcebook Annotated Translations of Greek and Latin Texts and Documentsby John Peter Oleson, Andrew N. Sherwood, John William HumphreyISBN 0415061377 (0-415-06137-7)
Softcover, Routledge
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Hans Bethe, Prophet of Energyby Jeremy BernsteinISBN 0465029035 (0-465-02903-5)
Hardcover, Basic Books
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Heisenberg's War: The Secret History of the German Bombby Thomas PowersISBN 0394514114 (0-394-51411-4)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Hindenburg an Illustrated History: Reliving the Era of the Great Airshipsby Ken Marschall, Rick ArchboldISBN 0446517844 (0-446-51784-4)
Hardcover, Grand Central Publishing
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Hiroshima in America: Fifty Years of Denialby Greg Mitchell, Robert Jay LiftonISBN 0399140727 (0-399-14072-7)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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History of Aviationby Kenneth Munson, John William Ransom TaylorISBN 0450013855 (0-450-01385-5)
Hardcover, New English Library
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How They Built the Statue of Libertyby Mary J. Shapiro, Huck ScarryISBN 0394869575 (0-394-86957-5)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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How Things Don't Workby James Hennessey, Victor J. PapanekISBN 039449251X (0-394-49251-X)
Hardcover, Pantheon Books
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The Ice Limitby Douglas Preston, Lincoln ChildISBN 0446610232 (0-446-61023-2)
Softcover, Vision
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Ice Limit'Book summary:Billionaire Palmer Lloyd is accustomed to getting what he wants--and what he wants for his new museum is the largest meteorite on earth. Unfortunately for Lloyd, it's buried on an inhospitable Chilean island just north of the Ice Limit in the most brutal, unforgiving seas in the world.
Fortunately for Lloyd, he knows people--people like Eli Glinn, the hyper-focused president of Effective Engineering Solutions, Inc.; Glinn's nonconformist, genius of a mathematician, Rachel Amira; and the uncannily able construction engineer, Manuel Garza. Lloyd's also tapped the brilliant but disgraced meteorite hunter, Sam McFarlane, and the exceptional supertanker captain, Sally Britton, whose career was unshipped by intemperance and a reef. Of course, such a team has a hefty price tag:
Lloyd's broad features narrowed. "And that is... "
EES's plan is to obtain mining rights to the island, secure the allegiance of various Chilean functionaries via blinding sums of money, disguise a state-of- the-art supertanker as a decrepit ore rig, mine the rock, slip it into the ship, and zip back to New York to thunderous notoriety. Unforeseen, however, are a rogue Chilean naval captain, seas to make Sebastian Junger boot, and a blood-red meteorite of undetermined pedigree and a habit of discharging billions of volts of electricity for no apparent reason."One hundred and fifty million dollars. Including chartering the transport vessel. FOB the Lloyd Museum."
Lloyd's face went pale. "My God. One hundred and fifty million... " His chin sank onto his hands. "For a ten-thousand-ton rock. That's... "
"Seven dollars and fifty cents a pound," said Glinn.
Like Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child's earlier collaborations (Relic, Thunderhead, and others), The Ice Limit tools along swiftly, blending nicely drawn characters (excepting, regrettably, the book's true protagonist, the meteorite), a reasonably exciting narrative, and enough graspable science and plausible-seeming theories to bring readers happily up to speed and keep them climax-bound. Not the authors' best effort, certainly, but a fine diversion nonetheless. --Michael Hudson [via]
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The Idea Factory: Learning to Think at Mitby Pepper WhiteISBN 0452268419 (0-452-26841-9)
Softcover, Plumsock Mesoamerican Studies
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J. Robert Oppenheimer: Shatterer of Worldsby Peter GoodchildISBN 0395305306 (0-395-30530-6)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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James B. Conant: Harvard to Hiroshima and the Making of the Nuclear Ageby James HershbergISBN 0394579666 (0-394-57966-6)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Land's Polaroid: A Company and the Man Who Invented Itby Peter C. WensbergISBN 0395421144 (0-395-42114-4)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Moving Heavy Thingsby Jan AdkinsISBN 039560284X (0-395-60284-X)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Trees: Western Regionby Elbert Luther LittleISBN 0394507606 (0-394-50760-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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National Electrical Code 1996ISBN 0442022239 (0-442-02223-9)
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New Earths: Restructuring Earth and Other Planetsby James E. ObergISBN 0452006236 (0-452-00623-6)
Softcover, New American Library
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New York Underground: The Anatomy Of A Cityby Julia SolisISBN 0415950139 (0-415-95013-9)
Hardcover, Routledge
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Nice Workby David LodgeISBN 0436256673 (0-436-25667-3)
Hardcover, Secker & Warburg
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Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinciby Pamela TaylorISBN 0452258464 (0-452-25846-4)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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October Sky: A Memoirby Homer HickamISBN 0440235502 (0-440-23550-2)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'October Sky: A Memoir'Book summary:Inspired by Werner von Braun and his Cape Canaveral team, 14-year-old Homer Hickam decided in 1957 to build his own rockets. They were his ticket out of Coalwood, West Virginia, a mining town that everyone knew was dying--everyone except Sonny's father, the mine superintendent and a company man so dedicated that his family rarely saw him. Hickam's smart, iconoclastic mother wanted her son to become something more than a miner and, along with a female science teacher, encouraged the efforts of his grandiosely named Big Creek Missile Agency. He grew up to be a NASA engineer and his memoir of the bumpy ride toward a gold medal at the National Science Fair in 1960--an unprecedented honor for a miner's kid--is rich in humor as well as warm sentiment. Hickam vividly evokes a world of close communal ties in which a storekeeper who sold him saltpeter warned, "Listen, rocket boy. This stuff can blow you to kingdom come." Hickam is candid about the deep disagreements and tensions in his parents' marriage, even as he movingly depicts their quiet loyalty to each other. The portrait of his ultimately successful campaign to win his aloof father's respect is equally affecting. --Wendy Smith [via]
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Of a Fire on the Moonby Norman MailerISBN 0394620194 (0-394-62019-4)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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The Physics of Star Trekby Lawrence M. Krauss, Stephen W. HawkingISBN 0465002048 (0-465-00204-8)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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Discover the answers to these and many other fascinating questions as a renowned physicist and deicated Trekker explores The Physics of Star Trek. [via]More editions of The Physics of Star Trek:
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Player Pianoby Kurt VonnegutISBN 0440170370 (0-440-17037-0)
Softcover, Dell Publishing
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The Pleasure Of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynmanby Richard P Feynman, Jeffrey Robbin S, Freeman DysonISBN 0465023959 (0-465-02395-9)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Pleasure Of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman'Book summary:Why do we do science? Beyond altruistic and self-aggrandizing motivations, many of our best scientists work long hours seeking the electric thrill that comes only from learning something that nobody knew before. The Pleasure of Finding Things Out, a collection of previously unpublished or difficult-to-find short works by maverick physicist Richard Feynman, takes its title from his own answer. From TV interview transcripts to his acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize, we see his quick, sharp wit, his devotion to his work, and his unwillingness to bow to social pressure or convention. It's no wonder he was only grudgingly admired by the establishment during his lifetime--read his "Minority Report to the Space Shuttle Challenger Inquiry" to see him blowing off political considerations as impediments to finding the truth.
Feynman had a fantastic sense of humor, and his memoirs of his Manhattan Project days roil with fun despite his later misgivings about nuclear weapons. Though one or two pieces are a bit hard to follow for the nontechnical reader, for the most part the book is easygoing and engaging on a personal rather than a scientific level. Freeman Dyson's foreword and editor Jeffrey Robbins's introductions to each essay set the stage well and are respectful without being worshipful. Though Feynman has been gone now for many years, his work lives on in quantum physics, computer design, and nanotechnology; like any great scientist, he asked more questions than he answered, to give future generations the pleasure of finding things out. --Rob Lightner [via]
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Pounder's Marine Diesel Enginesby Wilbur, C.T. and Wright, D.A.ISBN 040801136X (0-408-01136-X)
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Practical Experiment Designs for Engineers and Scientistsby William J. DiamondISBN 0442318499 (0-442-31849-9)
Hardcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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Preventing and Solving Construction Contract Disputesby H. Murray HohnsISBN 0442234813 (0-442-23481-3)
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Principles of Communications: Systems, Modulation, and Noiseby William H. Tranter, Rodger E. ZiemerISBN 0395433134 (0-395-43313-4)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin Co
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Railway Traction: The Principles of Mechanical and Electrical Railway Tractionby H.I. AndrewsISBN 044442489X (0-444-42489-X)
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Red Star in Orbitby James E. ObergISBN 0394514297 (0-394-51429-7)
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Renewable Energy Resourcesby Tony Weir, John TwidellISBN 0419253203 (0-419-25320-3)
Hardcover, Spon Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Renewable Energy Resources'Book summary:Retaining the successful format of the first edition and building on its solid grounding in the principles of renewable energy resources, this second edition has been revised in line with the latest advances in the field to include new technologies and an assessment of their impact. Considering each technology in depth from both scientific and environmental perspectives, it covers solar energy, photovoltaic, wind, wave, tidal and hydro power, biofuels, geothermals and more, as well as featuring a new chapter on institutional factors, including economics. In addition, extra worked problems and case studies are also provided to help readers put theory into practice.
Reading and web-based material for further study is indicated after each chapter, making this text ideal, not only for practitioners, but also for students on multi-disciplinary masters degrees in science and engineering as well specialist modules in science and engineering first degrees.
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Shipby David MacaulayISBN 0395745187 (0-395-74518-7)
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A Single Pebbleby John HerseyISBN 0394756975 (0-394-75697-5)
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Software Product Assurance: Techniques for Reducing Software Riskby William L. Bryan, Stanley G. SiegelISBN 044401120X (0-444-01120-X)
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Soil Mechanicsby Robert F. CraigISBN 0412395908 (0-412-39590-8)
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Soil Mechanics: Concepts and Applicationsby William PowrieISBN 0419197206 (0-419-19720-6)
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Sojourner: An Insider's View of the Mars Pathfinder Missionby Andrew MishkinISBN 0425198391 (0-425-19839-1)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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122 million miles away from her controllers, a sophisticated robot smaller than a microwave oven did what had never been done before-explore the rocky, red terrain of Mars. Then, six-wheeled Sojourner beamed spectacular pictures of her one-of-a-kind mission back to Earth. And millions of people were captivated.
Now, with the touch of an expert thriller writer, Sojourner operations team leader Andrew Mishkin tells the inside, human story of the Mars Pathfinder mission's feverish efforts to build a self-guided, offroading robot to explore the surface of the Red Planet. With witty, compelling anecdotes, he describes the clash of temperamental geniuses, the invention of a new work ethic, the turf wars, the chewing-gum solutions to high-tech problems, the controlled chaos behind the strangely beautiful creation of an artificial intelligence-and the exhilaration of inaugurating the next great age of space exploration. [via]More editions of Sojourner: An Insider's View of the Mars Pathfinder Mission:
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Structural Analysisby M.G. Coutie, R.C. Coates, F.K. KongISBN 0412379805 (0-412-37980-5)
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Successful Systems Engineering for Engineers and Managersby Norman B. ReillyISBN 0442015860 (0-442-01586-0)
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Technopoly : The Surrender of Culture to Technologyby Neil PostmanISBN 0394582721 (0-394-58272-1)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Unbuildingby David MacaulayISBN 0395454255 (0-395-45425-5)
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Van Nostrand's Scientific Encyclopediaby Douglas M. ConsidineISBN 0442216297 (0-442-21629-7)
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Where Stuff Comes From: How Toasters, Toilets, Cars, Computers And Many Other Things Come To Be As They Areby Harvey MolotchISBN 0415950422 (0-415-95042-2)
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Who Moved My Cheese?by Spencer JohnsonISBN 0399147241 (0-399-14724-1)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Who Moved My Cheese?'Book summary:Change can be a blessing or a curse, depending on your perspective. The message of Who Moved My Cheese? is that all can come to see it as a blessing, if they understand the nature of cheese and the role it plays in their lives. Who Moved My Cheese? is a parable that takes place in a maze. Four beings live in that maze: Sniff and Scurry are mice--nonanalytical and nonjudgmental, they just want cheese and are willing to do whatever it takes to get it. Hem and Haw are "littlepeople," mouse-size humans who have an entirely different relationship with cheese. It's not just sustenance to them; it's their self-image. Their lives and belief systems are built around the cheese they've found. Most of us reading the story will see the cheese as something related to our livelihoods--our jobs, our career paths, the industries we work in--although it can stand for anything, from health to relationships. The point of the story is that we have to be alert to changes in the cheese, and be prepared to go running off in search of new sources of cheese when the cheese we have runs out.
Dr. Johnson, coauthor of The One Minute Manager and many other books, presents this parable to business, church groups, schools, military organizations--anyplace where you find people who may fear or resist change. And although more analytical and skeptical readers may find the tale a little too simplistic, its beauty is that it sums up all natural history in just 94 pages: Things change. They always have changed and always will change. And while there's no single way to deal with change, the consequence of pretending change won't happen is always the same: The cheese runs out. --Lou Schuler [via]
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Who Moved My Cheese?: An Amazing Way to Deal With Change in Your Work and in Your Lifeby Spencer Johnson, Kenneth H. BlanchardISBN 0399144463 (0-399-14446-3)
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Dr. Johnson, coauthor of The One Minute Manager and many other books, presents this parable to business, church groups, schools, military organizations--anyplace where you find people who may fear or resist change. And although more analytical and skeptical readers may find the tale a little too simplistic, its beauty is that it sums up all natural history in just 94 pages: Things change. They always have changed and always will change. And while there's no single way to deal with change, the consequence of pretending change won't happen is always the same: The cheese runs out. --Lou Schuler [via]
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Who Moved My Cheese? for Teensby Spencer JohnsonISBN 0399240071 (0-399-24007-1)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Who Moved My Cheese? for Teens'Book summary:Having a million-plus copies of the bestselling Who Moved My Cheese? in print hasn't stopped Spencer Johnson, (The One Minute Manager) from repackaging his homily about adapting to life changes for a teenage audience.
The core of this teen book--a cheesy (literally) allegory about four characters navigating a maze in pursuit of happiness (cheese) with varying success--is identical to the cheese-quest story told in Johnson's grownup book. The only difference is that the opening and closing backstory that pads out Who Moved My Cheese? for Teens involves a group of teenagers kibbutzing in the cafeteria, not a group of adults attending their high school reunion.
Of course, it's hard to argue with the essence of Johnson's commonsense message: one of the few constants in life is change, and the sooner we learn to anticipate and adjust to change, the happier we'll be. But most criticisms of the book (and there have been many) boil down to the fact that Cheese is just too reductive and simplistic, and sometimes change in our lives can and should be resisted. (It hasn't helped that the book's popularity among corporate managers has come to be associated with layoffs... er, cheese removals.) But whatever your take on Johnson's philosophy, you'd do well to keep it to yourself. Otherwise, you can count on your teenager to form the exact opposite opinion. (Ages 12 and older) --Paul Hughes [via]
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The Winning Weapon: The Atomic Bomb in the Cold War Nineteen Forty-Five to Nineteen Fiftyby Gregg F. HerkenISBN 0394503945 (0-394-50394-5)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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The Winning Weapon: The Atomic Bomb in the Cold War, 1945-1950by Gregg HerkenISBN 0394751604 (0-394-75160-4)
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