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1001 Inventions: The Enduring Legacy of Muslim Civilization: Official Companion to the 1001 Inventions Exhibition
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A Brief History of Artificial Intelligence: What It Is, Where We Are, and Where We Are Going
HardcoverOriginal price $27.99Original price $27.99 - Original price $27.99Original price $27.99Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /From Oxford's leading AI researcher comes a fun and accessible tour through the history and future of one of the most cutting edge and misunderst...
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A popular history of American invention (Volume I)
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Aero Pinoeers: Wright Brothers Legacy
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American Genesis: A Century of Invention and Technological Enthusiasm, 1870-1970 / Edition 2
PaperbackOriginal price $34.00 - Original price $34.00Original price $34.00$48.99$48.99 - $48.99Current price $48.99| /The book that helped earn Thomas P. Hughes his reputation as one of the foremost historians of technology of our age and a finalist for the Pulit...
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Boston Made: From Revolution to Robotics, Innovations that Changed the World
HardcoverOriginal price $24.99Original price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /A fascinating look at how Boston became and remains a global center for innovation—told through 50 world-changing inventions. “Robert Krim is a ...
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Brilliant: The Evolution of Artificial Light
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Connections
PaperbackOriginal price $27.00Original price $27.00 - Original price $27.00Original price $27.00Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /How did the popularity of underwear in the twelfth century lead to the invention of the printing press?How did the waterwheel evolve into the com...
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Dawn of the New Everything: Encounters with Reality and Virtual Reality
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Edison's Ghosts: The Untold Weirdness of History's Greatest Geniuses
HardcoverOriginal price $29.00Original price $29.00 - Original price $29.00Original price $29.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Publishers Weekly Best Summer Reads Overturn everything you knew about history's greatest minds in this raucous and hilarious book, where it turns...
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Einstein's Wife: The Real Story of Mileva Einstein-Maric
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Was Einstein's first wife his uncredited coauthor, unpaid assistant, or his unacknowledged helpmeet? The real “Mileva Story. ” Albert Einstein'...
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Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00Original price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /A New York Times BestsellerIn the spirit of Steve Jobs and Moneyball, Elon Musk is both an illuminating and authorized look at the extraordinary li...
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Elon Musk: Tesla, Spacex, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /The New York Times Bestseller and Gift Idea for Entrepreneurs and Elon Musk FansIn the spirit of Steve Jobs and Moneyball, Elon Musk is both an ill...
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Fifty Inventions That Shaped the Modern Economy
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2017 by BLOOMBERG BUSINESSWEEK, THE FINANCIAL TIMES, AND AMAZONLook out for Tim's next book, The Data Detective.A lively his...
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Flight Paths: How a Passionate and Quirky Group of Pioneering Scientists Solved the Mystery of Bird Migration
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Product DetailsISBN-13: 9780063161146 Media Type: Hardcover Publisher: Harper Publication Date: 03-14-2023 Pages: 288 Product Dimensions: 9.26h x 6...
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From Wax Wings to Flying Drones: A Very Unreliable History of Aviation
HardcoverOriginal price $22.95Original price $22.95 - Original price $22.95Original price $22.95Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /This playful history looks back at the story of flight since the first patient-to-be jumped from a castle parapet to the joy that is flying with ...
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How Innovation Works: And Why It Flourishes in Freedom
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How the Internet Happened: From Netscape to the iPhone
HardcoverOriginal price $28.95Original price $28.95 - Original price $28.95Original price $28.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /A Library Journal Best Book of the Year Tech-guru Brian McCullough delivers a rollicking history of the internet, why it exploded, and how it cha...
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How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World
PaperbackOriginal price $19.00Original price $19.00 - Original price $19.00Original price $19.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /From the New York Times-bestselling author of Where Good Ideas Come From and Unexpected Life, a new look at the power and legacy of great ideas.In ...
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Innovation: A Very Short Introduction
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Inventing a Better Mousetrap: 200 Years of American History in the Amazing World of Patent Models
PaperbackOriginal price $24.99Original price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Learn about the role that patent models played in American history--and even learn to build your own replica! Patent models, working models requi...
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Invention and Innovation: A Brief History of Hype and Failure
HardcoverOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /From the New York Times-bestselling author, a new volume on the history of human ingenuity--and its attendant breakthroughs and busts. The world is...
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Jacquard's Web: How a Hand-Loom Led to the Birth of the Information Age
PaperbackOriginal price $26.99 - Original price $26.99Original price $26.99$38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /Circuits from silk? Today's technophiles probably have no idea how much today's computer technology owes to the invention of one ingenuous textil...
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James Watt: Inventor and Engineer Whose Improvements to The Steam Engine Were Fundamental to The Changes Wrought by the Industrial
PaperbackOriginal price $15.99 - Original price $15.99Original price $15.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /James Watt (19 January 1736 - 19 August 1819) was a Scottish inventor and engineer whose improvements to the steam engine were fundamental to the c...
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