Category - Technology & Engineering
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When Money Grew on Trees: A. B. Hammond and the Age of the Timber Baron
PaperbackOriginal price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /Born in the timber colony of New Brunswick, Maine, in 1848, Andrew Benoni Hammond got off to an inauspicious start as a teenage lumberjack. By his ...
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Lessons Learned: Stories from Women Leaders in STEM
PaperbackOriginal price $19.00 - Original price $19.00Original price $19.00$21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /"Lessons Learned brings us the stories of thirty-one brilliant women in STEM who overcame the odds to push science forward while paving the way for...
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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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The Inventions, Researches, and Writings of Nikola Tesla
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Dive into the mind of Nikola Tesla! Written in his own words, this Nikola Tesla book features the lectures, illustrations, and other works that est...
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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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Never Panic Early: An Apollo 13 Astronaut's Journey
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /"The extraordinary autobiography of astronaut Fred Haise, one of only 24 men to fly to the moon"--Product DetailsISBN-13: 9781588347138 Media Type:...
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Breaking All The Rules: The Inside Story of the New Race
PaperbackOriginal price $16.00 - Original price $16.00Original price $16.00$19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /Breaking All The Rules: The Inside Story of the New Race traces the origins of a second Space Race that began at the end of the original 1960's US-...
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Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
PaperbackOriginal price $17.00Original price $17.00 - Original price $17.00Original price $17.00Current price $16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /The dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest and of one man's forty-year obsession to find a solution to the thorniest scientific dilemma o...
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Gold Is Where It Finds You: The only survivor of a gold mining family shares their awe-inspiring journey
HardcoverOriginal price $28.99 - Original price $28.99Original price $28.99$35.99$35.99 - $35.99Current price $35.99| /Brian Johnson is a man who went looking for gold and found so much more-a soulmate for life, the child he had always dreamed of, and the joy of wor...
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Aero Pinoeers: Wright Brothers Legacy
PaperbackOriginal price $27.00Original price $27.00 - Original price $27.00Original price $27.00Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /The tradition of the Wright Siblings, Orville and Wilbur, remains as a getting through demonstration of human creativity and assurance in the domai...
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AgriHood Baltimore: Community Collaboration and Cleaner, Greener Foods: Community Collaboration
PaperbackOriginal price $14.99 - Original price $14.99Original price $14.99$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /AgriHood Baltimore: Community Collaboration and Cleaner, Greener Foods includes the first-person stories of seventeen junior farmers, volunteers, e...
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Many Hands Make a Farm: 47 Years of Questioning Authority, Feeding a Community, and Building an Organic Movement
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /*Northeast Organic Farmers Lifetime Achievement Award: Jack Kittredge and Julie Rawson In this heartfelt and unflinching memoir, two activists reco...
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Enzo Ferrari (Movie Tie-In Edition): The Man and the Machine
PaperbackOriginal price $24.00Original price $24.00 - Original price $24.00Original price $24.00Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /The inspiration for the major motion picture Ferrari directed by Michael Mann and starring Adam Driver, Penelope Cruz and Shailene Woodley, haile...
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Space Bites: Reflections of a NASA Food Scientist
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /"During her decades-long career at NASA, my friend and colleague Vickie Kloeris made sure my fellow astronauts and I were well-fed and healthy whil...
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Unraveling: What I Learned about Life While Shearing Sheep, Dyeing Wool, and Making the World's Ugliest Sweater
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /“Orenstein is such a breezy, funny writer, it’s easy to forget she’s an important thinker too.”—People In this lively, funny memoir, Peggy Orenst...
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The Lightning Tamers: True Stories of the Dreamers and Schemers Who Harnessed Electricity and Transformed Our World
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Science and History Collide: True Stories of the People Who Powered Our WorldIn this physics and engineering chronicle disguised as an electric tim...
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The Lightning Tamers: True Stories of the Dreamers and Schemers Who Harnessed Electricity and Transformed Our World
HardcoverOriginal price $25.99Original price $25.99 - Original price $25.99Original price $25.99Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /Science and History Collide: True Stories of the People Who Powered Our WorldIn this physics and engineering chronicle disguised as an electric tim...
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Unraveling: What I Learned about Life While Shearing Sheep, Dyeing Wool, and Making the World's Ugliest Sweater
HardcoverOriginal price $27.99Original price $27.99 - Original price $27.99Original price $27.99Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /"Orenstein is such a breezy, funny writer, it's easy to forget she's an important thinker too."--PeopleIn this lively, funny memoir, Peggy Orenstei...
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When the Heavens Went on Sale: The Misfits and Geniuses Racing to Put Space Within Reach
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00Original price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /An Instant New York Times Bestseller A momentous look at the private companies building a revolutionary new economy in space, from the New York Tim...
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Oil and Honey: The Education of an Unlikely Activist
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Bestselling author and environmental activist Bill McKibben recounts the personal and global story of the fight to build and preserve a sustainab...
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Oil Man: The Story of Frank Phillips and the Birth of Phillips Petroleum
PaperbackOriginal price $28.95Original price $28.95 - Original price $28.95Original price $28.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /This rich, rousing gusher of a biography captures the life and times of an American hero and the birth of the modern oil empire he created. Frank...
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Wizard: The Life and Times of Nikola Tesla: Biography of a Genius
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /“The story of one of the most prolific, independent, and iconoclastic inventors of this century . . . fascinating.”—Scientific AmericanNikola Tes...
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J. C. Penney: The Man, the Store, and American Agriculture
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /What is now called JCPenney, a fixture of suburban shopping malls, started out as a small-town Main Street store that fused its founder’s interes...
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Ignition!: An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants
PaperbackOriginal price $33.95Original price $33.95 - Original price $33.95Original price $33.95Current price $28.99$28.99 - $28.99Current price $28.99| /This newly reissued debut book in the Rutgers University Press Classics imprint is the story of the search for a rocket propellant which could be...
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