Category - Technology & Engineering
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The Day the Sun Rose Twice: The Story of the Trinity Site Nuclear Explosion, July 16, 1945
PaperbackOriginal price $21.95Original price $21.95 - Original price $21.95Original price $21.95Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Winner of the Western History Association's Robert G. Athearn Award for outstanding book on the twentieth-century American WestJust before dawn o...
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The Right Stuff
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /"Tom Wolfe at his very best" (The New York Times Book Review), The Right Stuff is the basis for the 1983 Oscar Award-winning film of the same name ...
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The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal 1870-1914
HardcoverOriginal price $37.50Original price $37.50 - Original price $37.50Original price $37.50Current price $30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /The National Book Award-winning epic chronicle of the creation of the Panama Canal, a first-rate drama of the bold and brilliant engineering feat t...
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Hollywood and the Movies of the Fifties: The Collapse of the Studio System, the Thrill of Cinerama, and the Invasion of the Ultimate Body Snatcher--Te
HardcoverOriginal price $40.00Original price $40.00 - Original price $40.00Original price $40.00Current price $36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /A fascinating look at Hollywood's most turbulent decade and the demise of the studio system--set against the boom of the post-World War II years, t...
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Failure Is Not an Option: Mission Control from Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /This New York Times bestselling memoir of a veteran NASA flight director tells riveting stories from the early days of the Mercury program through ...
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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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Pegasus Bridge
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /In the early morning hours of June 6, 1944, a small detachment of British airborne troops stormed the German defense forces and paved the way for...
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Engines of Change: A History of the American Dream in Fifteen Cars
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /From Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Paul Ingrassia comes a narrative of America like no other: a cultural history that explores how cars have ...
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American Moonshot: John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00Original price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /Instant New York Times Bestseller As the fiftieth anniversary of the first lunar landing approaches, the award winning historian and perennial Ne...
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American Moonshot: John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Now in paperback, an award-winning historian and perennial New York Times bestselling author takes a fresh look at the space program, President J...
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Across the Airless Wilds: The Lunar Rover and the Triumph of the Final Moon Landings
HardcoverOriginal price $28.99Original price $28.99 - Original price $28.99Original price $28.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /"THRILLING. ... Up-end[s] the Apollo narrative entirely." —The Times (London) A "brilliantly observed" (Newsweek) and "endlessly fascinating" (WS...
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