Elizabeth Mann

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

New York

The Story of How a Jungle Was Conquered and the World Made Smaller

Now in paperback: the history of how the Panama Canal was planned and built, including the political, international, and health aspects of getting the project finished on time.

The Panama Canal

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Mark Miodownik

Sarah Hunt Cooke

Sarah Scarlett

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Texas

Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World

A world-leading materials scientist presents an engrossing collection of stories that explain the science and history of materials, from the plastic in our appliances to the elastic in our underpants, revealing the miracles of engineering that seep into our everyday lives. 25,000 first printing.

Stuff Matters

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Royal Society of Chemistry - Bookplate pasted onto backside of front flap. ISBN: 9780854046164

New Jersey

An Introduction 

Rheology for Chemists

#education #engineering #children #homeschool 

Georgia

Full of fun, informative activities that teach practical skills; perfect for STEM classrooms; includes stickers, a poster, a model and a game.There are so many different types of engineer you could be, whether you�d love to work with jet engines, robots, racing cars, or even space stations! Packed full of great illustrations, fun facts, and absorbing activities, the projects in this book introduce the skills needed by real-life engineers.

Engineer Academy

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#Physics #science #scientists #engineers #engineering 

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Science

Volume 1

This edition of the standard text for introductory physics courses taken by science and engineering students has been extensively revised, with new artwork and updated examples. A wide range of innovative pedagogical features have also been added. Twentieth century developments such as quantum mechanics are introduced early on, so that students can appreciate their importance and see how they fit into the bigger picture. Now also includes a relativity minichapter.

Physics for Scientists and Engineers

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Henry Petroski

Maryland

Adventures in Engineering

Exploring the role of engineers in transforming and shaping the modern world, the author of The Evolution of Useful Things elucidates the principles of engineering as he looks at such achievements as the English Channel tunnel, the Panama Canal, and the Hoover Dam. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

Remaking the World

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#hardcover #chevy #chevrolet #pictures #history #pictorial #cars #engineering 

Oversized Hardcover (4 to 6 lbs)

Nevada

Chevrolet Chronicle - A Pictorial History from 1904

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#hardcover #automobile #cars #historyofcars #history #carhistory #technology #engineering #nonfiction

1886-1986

One Hundred Years of the Automobile

#hardcover #Ark #Faith #God #ArkEncounter #Religion #Engineering 

Why It Worked

The Ark Encounter represents more than just a giant wooden ship - it reveals important details about the viability of the Ark to function in and survive the forces of a global flood. Learn how ancient knowledge of bamboo pipes, cisterns, cage design, animal-powered machines, food storage, lighting, ventilation, and water systems reveal the ship was not just seaworthy, but also an actual working vessel.The Ark Encounter will include over 130 exhibit bays within the ship that share Christian teaching and ship details, the designs of which have been done by a world-renowned designer whose work has also been showcased at theme parks like Universal Studios in Florida, and constructed with the highest quality.

Inside Noah's Ark

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#science #biology #physics #chemistry #technology #education #space #engineering #nature #research #facts #nasa #astronomy #art #scientist #universe #knowledge  #math  #cosmos #sciencefacts  #study

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Oregon

Innovation for the Common Good from the Center for American Progress

"As we turn the page on eight years of cynical science policy in the White House, Science Next is exactly the book we need, with more provocative ideas per ounce than any volume you are likely to read this year."--Michael Pollan, author of In Defense of Food

"Science Next addresses important topics in science policy in prose that is beautifully written, clear, and to the point."--Marion Nestle, author of Food Politics and What to Eat
 
"Science Next illustrates the profound connections between science and many facets of our society.  I have enjoyed hop-scotching through the book and others who are concerned about the need for evidence-based policies in government and industry will too."--Harold Varmus, Nobel Prize-winning author of The Art and Politics of Science

"This elegant book lucidly covers an impressive amount of territory and sheds light on the current horizons of science.  It links science and innovation policy.  It bridges between the laboratory and the policy community. As such it will be invaluable to informed citizens, scientists and policy makers alike."--John Kao, author of Innovation Nation

Emerging from the Bush era when right-wing ideology frequently trumped mainstream science in government, America needs bold new approaches to the most important issues of our time, such as global warming, stem cell research, national security, and improving communication in the digital age. This is the informed citizen's essential guide to science policy from the premier progressive think tank dedicated to improving the lives of Americans through ideas and action. With foreword by Elizabeth Edwards.

Jonathan D. Moreno is editor-in-chief of the Center for American Progress' online magazine, Science Progress, and a professor of bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania.

Rick Weiss came to CAP from The Washington Post, where he was a science and medical reporter for fifteen years.

 

 

Science Next

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The book is in in pretty good condition. There’s prints on the cover but no internal or external writing or damage.

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Computer Science

In easy steps

Building A PC

Ingrid Chalufour

Karen Worth

Pennsylvania

Discover the science behind exploring, designing, and building block structures with young children.

Building Structures with Young Children

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Eric Sloane

This absorbing and profusely illustrated book describes in detail scores of early American tools and the wooden and metal artifacts made with them. Informally and expressively written, the text covers bulding tools and methods; farm and kitchen implements; and the tools of curriers, wheelwrights, coopers, blacksmiths, coachmakers, loggers, tanners, and many other craftsmen of the pre-industrial age. Scores of pen-and-ink sketches by the author accurately depict "special tools for every job," among them a hollowing gouge, hay fork, cornering chisel, apple butter paddle, boring auger, mortising chisel, a holding dog, hauling sledge, winnowing tray, reaping hooks, splitting wedge, felling axe, propping saw horse, and other traditional implements. Sure to be prized by cultural historians, this volume will delight woodcrafters interested in making their own tools and thrill general readers with its store of Americana. This description may be from another edition of this product.

Florida

Absorbing book describes, in detail, farm tools and kitchen implements and how they were made. Includes devices used by curriers, wheelwrights, coopers, blacksmiths, loggers, tanners, coachmakers, and other craftsmen of the pre-industrial age. An informal, expressively written book for cultural historians, woodcrafters, and Americana enthusiasts. 184 black-and-white illustrations.

A Museum of Early American Tools

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Jessica Easto

A unique glimpse into the mind of our era’s most visionary engineer and entrepreneur.

South Carolina

Elon Musk in His Own Words

Elon Musk, the South African-born entrepreneur who made his first fortune with Internet companies such as PayPal, has risen to global prominence as the visionary CEO of both Tesla Motors and SpaceX, two companies with self-proclaimed missions to improve life as we know it and better secure the future of humanity.

For the first time, the most insightful, thought-provoking, and revealing quotes from this entrepreneurial engineer have been compiled into a single book.Rocket Man: Elon Musk In His Own Words is a comprehensive guide to the inner workings of the man dubbed "the real Tony Stark." Hundreds of his best quotes, comprising thoughts on business, clean energy, innovation, engineering, technology, space, electric vehicles, entrepreneurship, life lessons, and more, provide an intimate and direct look into Silicon Valley's most ambitious industrialist.

Even with no prior experience in the complex, ultra-high-barrier-of-entry automotive and space industries, Musk has excelled. Tesla, the first successful American car startup in more than 90 years, received more than 325,000 reservations for its economical Model 3 in a single week--advancing the company's cause to "accelerate the advent of sustainable transport" via affordable, reliable electric vehicles. SpaceX, the first private company to launch, orbit, and recover arocket and dock at the International Space Station, has drastically reduced the cost of launching and manufacturing reusable spacecraft, which the company sees as the first step toward its "ultimate goal" of making life multiplanetary. In the words of Richard Branson, "Whatever skeptics have said can't be done, Elon has gone out and made real."

How could a young man who at one time seemed like "just" another Internet entrepreneur have gone on to build two highly disruptive companies and innovate technologies related to everything from electric batteries to rocket manufacturing? There's no better way to learn than through his own words.

This book curates Musk quotes from interviews, public appearances, online postings, company blogs, press releases, and more. What emerges is a 'word portrait' of the man whose companies' swift rise to the top will undoubtedly keep their status-quo competitors scrambling to keep up.

Rocket Man: Elon Musk in His Own Words

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Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

California

From Automobiles to Zippers

How Things are Made

Ray Wagner

Jane Wagner

No Jacket. Large Book. 565 Pages. HUNDREDS of B&W Photos.

American Combat Planes 3rd Edition 1982

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Cool Tech Gadgets, Games, Robots, and the Digital World

Did you know that it took ten million bricks to build the Empire State Building?

Did you know that residents of the John Hancock Center sometimes have to call down to the doorman to find out the weather on the streets below?

Did you know a building in Dubai is planned to be nearly one half mile high?

In Skyscraper, Lynn Curlee delves into one of man's endless fascinations -- building as high in the sky as possible.

From the the Empire State Building to the Chrysler Building, to the Sears and Hancock Towers, to the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, to the World Trade Center, Curlee captures all the drama, excitement, and tragedy of man's attempt to reach ever closer to the clouds. Skyscraper details the history of these monuments to ambition, science, and curiosity, beginning with their origins at the Pyramid of Giza and the Eiffel Tower and then moving to New York (the skyscraper capital of the world), Chicago, Boston, and finally to the skyward expansion that is spreading across the globe.

Skyscraper

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John E. Leffler

Ernest Grunwald

Dover Books on Chemistry Series. Ex-library bookplate pasted on back of front flap, but no other signs of ex-library status

As Treated by Statistical, Thermodynamic and Extrathermodynamic Methods

Graduate-level text stresses extrathermodynamic approach to quantitative prediction and constructs a logical framework that encompasses and classifies all known extrathermodynamic relationships. Numerous figures and tables. Author and Subject Indexes.

Rates and Equilbria of Organic Reactions

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#nonfiction #technology #engineering #paperback #tech #nature #educational #interesting

Alaska

New Findings, Best Photos, Trends and Facts

National Geographic Almanac 2019

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Stephen Halliday

Peter Bazalgette

Or: down, Through and Out in Paris, London, New York, &c

A global guide to sewers that celebrates the magnificently designed and engineered structures beneath the world's great cities. The sewer, in all its murkiness, filthiness, and subterranean seclusion, has been an evocative (and redolent) literary device, appearing in works by writers ranging from Charles Dickens to Graham Greene. This entertaining and erudite book provides the story behind, or beneath, these stories, offering a global guide to sewers that celebrates the magnificently designed and engineered structures that lie underneath the world's great cities. Historian Stephen Halliday leads readers on an expedition through the execrable evolution of waste management—the open sewers, the cesspools, the nightsoil men, the scourge of waterborne diseases, the networks of underground piping, the activated sludge, the fetid fatbergs, and the sublime super sewers. Halliday begins with sanitation in the ancient cities of Mesopotamia, Greece, and Imperial Rome, and continues with medieval waterways (also known as “sewage in the street”); the civil engineers and urban planners of the industrial age, as seen in Liverpool, Boston, Paris, London, and Hamburg; and, finally, the biochemical transformations of the modern city. The narrative is illustrated generously with photographs, both old and new, and by archival plans, blueprints, and color maps tracing the development of complex sewage systems in twenty cities. The photographs document construction feats, various heroics and disasters, and ingenious innovations; new photography from an urban exploration collective offers edgy takes on subterranean networks in cities including Montreal, Paris, London, Berlin, and Prague.

An Underground Guide to Sewers

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Excellent set of two Disney books! Disneyland An Imagineer’s Eye Tour and Disney Trivia from the Vault by Dave Smith and The Imagineers. 

Illinois

Disneyland An Imagineer’s Eye Tour and Disney Trivia from the Vault

#engine #technology #engineering #paperback 

Lost Technology Series (1894) reprinted 

Model Engine Construction

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#technology #engineering #tech #radioAmateur Good reference material for technically oriented amateur operator.The information in this book is hard to come by. Some of the technology hasn't changed and is a good current resource. Book is in better condition than good to very good. 

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Elizabeth Mann

The Panama Canal

Mark Miodownik; Sarah Hunt Cooke; Sarah Scarlett

Stuff Matters

J.W. Goodwin and R.W. Hughes

Rheology for Chemists

Steve Martin; Nastia Sleptsova (Illustrator)

Engineer Academy

Paul A. Tipler; Valerie Neal (Editor); Steve Tenney (Editor)

Physics for Scientists and Engineers

Henry Petroski

Remaking the World

Consumer Guide Editors; Arch Brown; Pat Chappell; Bob Hall

Chevrolet Chronicle - A Pictorial History from 1904

Marco Ruiz

One Hundred Years of the Automobile

Laura Welch (General Editor); Tim Chaffey (General Editor)

Inside Noah's Ark

Jonathan D. Moreno (Editor); Rick Weiss (Editor); Elizabeth Edwards (Foreword by)

Science Next

Stuart Yarnold

Building A PC

Ingrid Chalufour; Karen Worth

Building Structures with Young Children

Eric Sloane

A Museum of Early American Tools

Jessica Easto

Rocket Man: Elon Musk in His Own Words

Sharon Rose and Neil Schlager

How Things are Made

Ray Wagner; Jane Wagner

American Combat Planes 3rd Edition 1982

DK

Cool Tech Gadgets, Games, Robots, and the Digital World

Lynn Curlee

Skyscraper

John E. Leffler; Ernest Grunwald

Rates and Equilbria of Organic Reactions

National Geographic Staff, National Geographic

National Geographic Almanac 2019

Stephen Halliday; Peter Bazalgette

An Underground Guide to Sewers

Dave Smith and The Imagineers

Disneyland An Imagineer’s Eye Tour and Disney Trivia from the Vault

J. Alexander

Model Engine Construction

Amer Radio Relay League (June 1, 1978)

Fm and Repeaters for the Radio Amateur