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Inside Technology eBook Series

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  • The Unreliable Nation

    Hostile Nature and Technological Failure in the Cold War

    by Edward Jones-Imhotep ...
    Series series Inside Technology
    An examination of how technological failures defined nature and national identity in Cold War Canada.Throughout the modern period, nations defined themselves through the relationship between nature and machines. Many cast themselves as a triumph of technology over the forces of climate, geography, and environment. Some, however, crafted a powerful alternative identity: they defined themselves not ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

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    Series series Volume 2

    $2.69 USD

  • The UFO Enigma

    A New Review of the Physical Evidence

    by Peter A. Sturrock ...
    "A comprehensive investigation of encounters with unidentified flying objects, all the more riveting because it is both skeptical and scrupulously objective." — Kirkus ReviewsFor over fifty years, the modern UFO controversy has raged between believers and debunkers, with little input from the scientific community. Now, in a major report commissioned by Laurance S. Rockefeller, an international ... Read more

    $11.69 USD

  • Conspiracy - HAARP

    Good Or Evil

    by Grant Boyden ...
    Series series Conspiracy
    Is it one of the worlds most controversial tools of science or just another weapon of mass destruction? The High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program, AKA HAARP, is an ionospheric research program designed to advance our understanding of Earth Science.But, HAARP is not only capable of helping mankind, it can destroy it too. This book will make you stop and think because the difference with ... Read more

    $2.54 USD

  • Normal Accidents

    Living with High Risk Technologies

    by Charles Perrow ...
    Normal Accidents analyzes the social side of technological risk. Charles Perrow argues that the conventional engineering approach to ensuring safety--building in more warnings and safeguards--fails because systems complexity makes failures inevitable. He asserts that typical precautions, by adding to complexity, may help create new categories of accidents. (At Chernobyl, tests of a new safety ... Read more

    $27.26 USD

  • The Essential Engineer

    by Henry Petroski ...
    From the acclaimed author of The Pencil and To Engineer Is Human, The Essential Engineer is an eye-opening exploration of the ways in which science and engineering must work together to address our world’s most pressing issues, from dealing with climate change and the prevention of natural disasters to the development of efficient automobiles and the search for renewable energy sources. While the ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Our Final Hour

    A Scientist's Warning

    by Martin Rees ...
    A scientist known for unraveling the complexities of the universe over millions of years, Sir Martin Rees now warns that humankind is potentially the maker of its own demise -- and that of the cosmos. Though the twenty-first century could be the critical era in which life on Earth spreads beyond our solar system, it is just as likely that we have endangered the future of the entire universe. With ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Pinpoint

    How GPS is Changing Technology, Culture, and Our Minds

    by Greg Milner ...
    "One of the most mesmerizing and exhilarating, yet alarming modern technology books…an extraordinary tale." —Gillian Tett, Financial TimesPinpoint tells the fascinating story of a hidden system that touches nearly every aspect of modern life. Tracking the development of GPS from its origins as a bomb guidance system to its present ubiquity, Greg Milner examines the technology’s double-edged effect ... Read more

    $11.15 USD

  • The Planet Remade

    How Geoengineering Could Change the World

    by Oliver Morton ...
    A fascinating look at the perils and promise of geoengineering and our potential future on a warming planetThe risks of global warming are pressing and potentially vast. The difficulty of doing without fossil fuels is daunting, possibly even insurmountable. So there is an urgent need to rethink our responses to the crisis. To meet that need, a small but increasingly influential group of scientists ... Read more

    $13.58 USD

  • The Enigma of the Aerofoil

    Rival Theories in Aerodynamics, 1909-1930

    by David Bloor ...
    Why do aircraft fly? How do their wings support them? In the early years of aviation, there was an intense dispute between British and German experts over the question of why and how an aircraft wing provides lift. The British, under the leadership of the great Cambridge mathematical physicist Lord Rayleigh, produced highly elaborate investigations of the nature of discontinuous flow, while the ... Read more

    $36.35 USD

  • Rescuing Prometheus

    Four Monumental Projects that Changed Our World

    by Thomas P. Hughes ...
    "A rare insight into industrial planning on a huge scale...Excellent." --The EconomistRescuing Prometheus is an eye-opening and marvelously informative look at some of the technological projects that helped shape the modern world. Thomas P. Hughes focuses on four postwar projects whose vastness and complexity inspired new technology, new organizations, and new management styles. The first use of ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Darwin Among The Machines

    The Evolution Of Global Intelligence

    by George B. Dyson ...
    As timely now as it was when it was first published in 1997, Darwin Among the Machines tells the story of humankind's long journey into the digital age. Historian of technology George Dyson traces the course of the information revolution, illuminating the lives and work of visionaries -- from Thomas Hobbes to John von Neumann -- who foresaw the development of artificial intelligence, artificial ... Read more

    $11.99 USD