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  • Code Girls

    The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II

    by Liza Mundy ...
    The award-winning New York Times bestseller about the American women who secretly served as codebreakers during World War II--a "prodigiously researched and engrossing" (New York Times) book that "shines a light on a hidden chapter of American history" (Denver Post).Recruited by the U.S. Army and Navy from small towns and elite colleges, more than ten thousand women served as codebreakers during ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Little Book of Aliens

    by Adam Frank ...
    “With wit and brio, Frank separates current nonsense about aliens from the serious and fascinating search for extraterrestrial life.” —Carlo Rovelli, New York Times bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on PhysicsFrom astrophysicist Adam Frank, a little book on the biggest questions in our search for extraterrestrial life, questions we stand ready to answer.Everyone is curious about life in ... Read more

    $12.99 USD $2.99 USD

  • Co-Intelligence

    Living and Working with AI

    by Ethan Mollick ...
    From Wharton professor and author of the popular One Useful Thing Substack newsletter Ethan Mollick comes the definitive playbook for working, learning, and living in the new age of AISomething new entered our world in November 2022 — the first general purpose AI that could pass for a human and do the kinds of creative, innovative work that only humans could do previously. Wharton professor Ethan ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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  • Call of the Reed Warbler

    A New Agriculture, A New Earth

    by Charles Massy ...
    “Charles Massy has written a definitive masterpiece that takes its place along with the writings of Aldo Leopold, Wendell Berry, Masanobu Fukuoka, Humberto Maturana, and Michael Pollan. No work has more brilliantly defined regenerative agriculture and the breadth of its restorative impact upon human health, biodiversity, climate, and ecological intelligence." --Paul HawkenIn Call of the Reed ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Ultralearning

    Master Hard Skills, Outsmart the Competition, and Accelerate Your Career

    Now a Wall Street Journal bestseller.Learn a new talent, stay relevant, reinvent yourself, and adapt to whatever the workplace throws your way. Ultralearning offers nine principles to master hard skills quickly. This is the essential guide to future-proof your career and maximize your competitive advantage through self-education.In these tumultuous times of economic and technological change, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Buffalo Creek Disaster

    How the survivors of one of the worst disasters in coal-mining history brought s uit against the coal company--and won

    The "suspenseful and completely absorbing story" (San Francisco Chronicle) of how survivors of the worst coal-mining disaster in history triumphed over corporate irresponsibility—written by the young lawyer who took on their case and won.One Saturday morning in February 1972, an impoundment dam owned by the Pittston Coal Company burst, sending a 130 million gallon, 25 foot tidal wave of water, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Tech Worker's Guide to Unions

    We are living in a golden age of labor organising, and nowhere is that more apparent than in the tech industry. From Kickstarter to Code for America, unions are blossoming to life, giving new power and voices to workers across the industry. Building a union is never easy, though. What can a union do for you? Why build a union at all?Journey with AppleTogether founder and whistleblower Janneke ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Stand out of our Light

    Freedom and Resistance in the Attention Economy

    Former Google advertising strategist, now Oxford-trained philosopher James Williams launches a plea to society and to the tech industry to help ensure that the technology we all carry with us every day does not distract us from pursuing our true goals in life. As information becomes ever more plentiful, the resource that is becoming more scarce is our attention. In this 'attention economy', we ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Digital Minimalism

    Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World

    by Cal Newport ...
    **A New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Publishers Weekly, and USA Today bestseller"Newport is making a bid to be the Marie Kondo of technology: someone with an actual plan for helping you realize the digital pursuits that do, and don't, bring value to your life."--Ezra Klein, VoxMinimalism is the art of knowing how much is just enough. Digital minimalism applies this idea to our personal ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Soul of A New Machine

    by Tracy Kidder ...
    Tracy Kidder's "riveting" (Washington Post) story of one company's efforts to bring a new microcomputer to market won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award and has become essential reading for understanding the history of the American tech industry.Computers have changed since 1981, when The Soul of a New Machine first examined the culture of the computer revolution. What has not ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Formula

    How Rogues, Geniuses, and Speed Freaks Reengineered F1 into the World's Fastest-Growing Sport

    Wall Street Journal reporters and authors of The Club, Joshua Robinson and Jonathan Clegg tell the riveting saga of how Formula 1 broke through in America, detailing the eclectic culture of racing obsessives, glamorous settings, gearheads, engineering geniuses, dashing racers, and bitter rivalries that have made F1 the world’s fastest growing sport.For decades in America, car racing meant NASCAR, ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Illustrated Directory of North American Locomotives

    The Story and Progression of Railroads from The Early Days to The Electric Powered Present

    More than 250 classic American locomotives."Let the country but make the railroads, and the railroads will make the country." — Edward PeaseDuring the mid-1800s, American railroads became the lifeblood of new communities in the West and brought new ways of life and means of commerce to rural communities. Railroads became the shining thread that tied together the tapestry of American life into a ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Simply Artificial Intelligence

    by DK ...
    Series series DK Simply
    Understanding AI has never been easier with Simply Artificial Intelligence.Combining bold graphics with easy-to-understand text, Simply Artificial Intelligence is the perfect introduction to the world of AI for those who are short of time but hungry for knowledge.Covering a broad range of fields within AI – from computing and mathematics to politics and philosophy – entries demystify what ... Read more

    $7.99 USD $1.99 USD

  • This Explains Everything

    150 Deep, Beautiful, and Elegant Theories of How the World Works

    by John Brockman ...
    Series series Edge Question Series
    Drawn from the cutting-edge frontiers of science, This Explains Everything will revolutionize your understanding of the world.What is your favorite deep, elegant, or beautiful explanation? This is the question John Brockman, publisher of Edge.org ("The world's smartest website"—The Guardian), posed to the world's most influential minds. Flowing from the horizons of physics, economics, psychology, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD $1.99 USD

  • Science and Technology in World History

    An Introduction

    Arguably the best general history of science and technology ever published.Tracing the relationship between science and technology from the dawn of civilization to the early twenty-first century, James E. McClellan III and Harold Dorn’s bestselling book argues that technology as “applied science” emerged relatively recently, as industry and governments began funding scientific research that would ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Getting Started in Radio Astronomy

    Beginner Projects for the Amateur

    by Steven Arnold ...
    Series series The Patrick Moore Practical Astronomy Series
    Radio astronomy is a mystery to the majority of amateur astronomers, yet it is the best subject to turn to when desirous of an expanded knowledge of the sky. This guideintends to instruct complete newcomers to radio astronomy, and provides help for the first steps on the road towards the study of this fascinating subject.In addition to a history of the science behind the pursuit, directions are ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Nuclear Power: A Very Short Introduction

    Series series Very Short Introductions
    With the World desperate to find energy sources that do not emit carbon gasses, nuclear power is back on the agenda and in the news, following the increasing cost of fossil fuels and concerns about the security of their future supply. However, the term 'nuclear power' causes anxiety in many people and there is confusion concerning the nature and extent of the associated risks. Here, Maxwell Irvine ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Blood in the Machine

    The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech

    "The most important book to read about the AI boom" (Wired): **The "gripping" (New Yorker) true story of the first time machines came for human jobs—and how the Luddite uprising explains the power, threat, and toll of big tech and AI todayNamed one of the best books of the year by The New Yorker, Wired, and the Financial Times • A Next Big Idea Book Club "Must-Read"**The most urgent story in ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Quality Agriculture

    Conversations about Regenerative Agronomy with Innovative Scientists and Growers

    by John Kempf ...
    An increasing number of farmers and scientists believe the foundational ideas of mainstream agronomy are incomplete and unsound. Conventional crop production ignores biology in favor of chemical interventions, leading farmers to buy inputs they don't need. Fertilizer recommendations keep going up, pest pressure becomes more intense, pesticide applications are needed more often, and soil health ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Resilient Farm and Homestead

    An Innovative Permaculture and Whole Systems Design Approach

    by Ben Falk ...
    The Resilient Farm and Homestead is a manual for developing durable, beautiful, and highly functional human habitat systems fit to handle an age of rapid transition.Ben Falk is a land designer and site developer whose permaculture-research farm has drawn national attention. The site is a terraced paradise on a hillside in Vermont that would otherwise be overlooked by conventional farmers as ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Woman on the Bridge

    You saw The Girl on the Train. You watched The Woman in the Window. Now meet The Woman on the Bridge

    by Holly Seddon ...
    'Strangers On A Train meets The Pact in this high concept thriller: daring, dramatic and totally original, I loved it.' Gillian McAllisterHow far would you go to save a perfect stranger?Maggie is trapped. Dumped on her wedding day, rejected by her family and hounded by a man determined to make her suffer.Charlotte is desperate. Double-crossed by her only friend and facing total ruin, she wi... ... Read more

    $2.99 USD $0.99 USD

  • The AI Revolution in Medicine

    GPT-4 and Beyond

    AI is about to transform medicine. Here's what you need to know right now.''The development of AI is as fundamental as the creation of the personal computer. It will change the way people work, learn, and communicate--and transform healthcare. But it must be managed carefully to ensure its benefits outweigh the risks. I'm encouraged to see this early exploration of the opportunities and ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Nuevos entornos, nueva carne. Reconfiguración y personalización tecnológica de la cultura (Cátedra Eusebio Francisco Kino)

    Series series Cátedra Eusebio Francisco Kino
    Los celulares, las computadoras y la Internet poco a poco se han ido convirtiendo en nuestras extensiones para relacionarnos al instante con personas que se pueden encontrar al otro lado del mundo. Este libro es una consideración crítica de estos sistemas, que parecen tener un alcance ilimitado en tiempo y espacio y que crean la experiencia de encontrarnos en casi cualquier parte y de detener el ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Desert or Paradise

    Restoring Endangered Landscapes Using Water Management, Including Lakes and Pond Construction

    by Sepp Holzer ...
    Desert or Paradise is a practical guide to restoring damaged, unproductive land by constructing or restoring lakes and ponds to support abundant edible landscapes. These provide fresh water mixed aquacultures, orchards and crops planted along the banks and literally reaquify the surrounding landscape to turn back the tide of encroaching desertification. Desert or Paradise will explain why natural ... Read more

    $9.99 USD