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Inside Technology eBook Series

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  • The Unreliable Nation

    Hostile Nature and Technological Failure in the Cold War

    by Edward Jones-Imhotep ...
    Series series Inside Technology
    An examination of how technological failures defined nature and national identity in Cold War Canada.Throughout the modern period, nations defined themselves through the relationship between nature and machines. Many cast themselves as a triumph of technology over the forces of climate, geography, and environment. Some, however, crafted a powerful alternative identity: they defined themselves not ... Read more

    $43.99 AUD

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  • The Disordered Cosmos

    A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred

    by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein ...
    From a star astrophysicist and author of the national bestseller The Edge of Space Time**, a journey into the world of particle physics and the cosmos – and a call for a more just, inclusive practice of science.****“A love letter to the wonderous universe we call home, and an urge to think critically about how we explore its depths” –**Smithsonian MagazineIn The Disordered Cosmos, Dr. Chanda Presc ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • the Montauk Project and Philadelphia Experiment

    by various ...
    Series series Volume 2

    $4.59 AUD

  • New Dark Age

    Technology and the End of the Future

    by James Bridle ...
    From the highly acclaimed author of WAYS OF BEING. We live in times of increasing inscrutability. Our news feeds are filled with unverified, unverifiable speculation, much of it automatically generated by anonymous software. As a result, we no longer understand what is happening around us. Underlying all of these trends is a single idea: the belief that quantitative data can provide a coherent ... Read more

    $12.99 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Normal Accidents

    Living with High Risk Technologies

    by Charles Perrow ...
    Normal Accidents analyzes the social side of technological risk. Charles Perrow argues that the conventional engineering approach to ensuring safety--building in more warnings and safeguards--fails because systems complexity makes failures inevitable. He asserts that typical precautions, by adding to complexity, may help create new categories of accidents. (At Chernobyl, tests of a new safety ... Read more

    $63.35 AUD

  • The Essential Engineer

    by Henry Petroski ...
    From the acclaimed author of The Pencil and To Engineer Is Human, The Essential Engineer is an eye-opening exploration of the ways in which science and engineering must work together to address our world’s most pressing issues, from dealing with climate change and the prevention of natural disasters to the development of efficient automobiles and the search for renewable energy sources. While the ... Read more

    $8.99 AUD

  • Where Is My Flying Car?

    by J. Storrs Hall ...
    From an engineer and futurist, an impassioned account of technological stagnation since the 1970s and an imaginative blueprint for a richer, more abundant future.The science fiction of the 1960s promised us a future remade by technological innovation. We’d vacation in geodesic domes on Mars, have meaningful conversations with computers, and drop our children off at school in flying cars. Fast ... Read more

    $11.99 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Conspiracy - HAARP

    Good Or Evil

    by Grant Boyden ...
    Series series Conspiracy
    Is it one of the worlds most controversial tools of science or just another weapon of mass destruction? The High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program, AKA HAARP, is an ionospheric research program designed to advance our understanding of Earth Science.But, HAARP is not only capable of helping mankind, it can destroy it too. This book will make you stop and think because the difference with ... Read more

    $3.99 AUD

  • Structural Engineering

    A Very Short Introduction

    by David Blockley ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Have you ever wondered how it's possible to build a skyscraper, a big bridge, a jumbo jet, or a cruise liner? Everything has structure. Structure is the difference between a random pile of components and a fully functional object. Through structure the parts connect to make the whole. Natural structures vary from the very smallest part of an atom to the entire cosmology of the universe. Man-made ... Read more

    $11.99 AUD

  • The Planet Remade

    How Geoengineering Could Change the World

    by Oliver Morton ...
    The risks of global warming are real, and potentially vast. The difficulty of doing without fossil fuels is daunting, and possibly insurmountable. So there is an urgent need for new thinking on climate change. To meet that need, a small but increasingly influential group of scientists is exploring proposals for planned human intervention in the climate system. A stratospheric veil against the sun; ... Read more

    $23.99 AUD

  • The Anti-Gravity Files

    A Compilation of Patents and Reports

    by David Hatcher Childress ...
    In the tradition of The Anti-Gravity Handbook and the Time-Travel Handbook comes this all-new compilation of material on anti-gravity, free energy, flying saucers and Tesla technology. With plenty of technical drawings and explanations, this suppressed technology will change the world in ways we can only dream of. Chapters on anti-gravity mercury gyros, the motionless electromagnet generator ... Read more

    $27.99 AUD

  • After the Map

    Cartography, Navigation, and the Transformation of Territory in the Twentieth Century

    by William Rankin ...
    For most of the twentieth century, maps were indispensable. They were how governments understood, managed, and defended their territory, and during the two world wars they were produced by the hundreds of millions. Cartographers and journalists predicted the dawning of a "map-minded age," where increasingly state-of-the-art maps would become everyday tools. By the century's end, however, there had ... Read more

    $20.99 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus