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When We Are No More

How Digital Memory Is Shaping Our Future

by Abby Smith Rumsey ...

"Excellent . . . especially good at charting the changing shape of the institutions to which we have entrusted (or outsourced) our collective memory." ―Wall Street JournalOur memory gives the human species a unique evolutionary advantage. Our stories and ideas—in a word, our "culture"—can be recorded and passed on to future generations. Today, we stand at the very edge of an uncharted digital ... Read more

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"Excellent . . . especially good at charting the changing shape of the institutions to which we have entrusted (or outsourced) our collective memory." ―Wall Street JournalOur memory gives the human species a unique evolutionary advantage. Our stories and ideas—in a word, our "culture"—can be recorded and passed on to future generations. Today, we stand at the very edge of an uncharted digital
... Read more
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

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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
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Disasters by Design

How Engineering Failures Shaped the Modern World

by Grady Hillhouse ...

How history’s most infamous disasters shaped the field of engineering, from the creator of the popular YouTube channel Practical EngineeringWhen a giant bridge collapses, a gas explosion blows up a building, or a major dam bursts, it’s hard not to wonder how things could have gone so catastrophically wrong. According to Grady Hillhouse, those failures are the defining force of engineering, where ... Read more

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How history’s most infamous disasters shaped the field of engineering, from the creator of the popular YouTube channel Practical EngineeringWhen a giant bridge collapses, a gas explosion blows up a building, or a major dam bursts, it’s hard not to wonder how things could have gone so catastrophically wrong. According to Grady Hillhouse, those failures are the defining force of engineering, where
... Read more
Into the Black

The electrifying true story of how the first flight of the Space Shuttle nearly ended in disaster

by Rowland White ...

On 12th April 1981 a revolutionary new spacecraft blasted off from Florida on her maiden flight. NASA’s Space Shuttle Columbia was the most advanced flying machine ever built – the high watermark of post-war aviation development. A direct descendant of the record-breaking X-planes the likes of which Chuck Yeager had tested in the skies over the Mojave Desert, Columbia was a winged rocket plane, ... Read more

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On 12th April 1981 a revolutionary new spacecraft blasted off from Florida on her maiden flight. NASA’s Space Shuttle Columbia was the most advanced flying machine ever built – the high watermark of post-war aviation development. A direct descendant of the record-breaking X-planes the likes of which Chuck Yeager had tested in the skies over the Mojave Desert, Columbia was a winged rocket plane,
... Read more
Wasteland

The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future

by Oliver Franklin-Wallis ...

**NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 BY THE NEW YORKER, THE GUARDIAN, and KIRKUS REVIEWSAn award-winning investigative journalist takes a deep dive into the global waste crisis, exposing the hidden world that enables our modern economy**—and finds out the dirty truth behind a simple question: what really happens to what we throw away?In Wasteland, journalist Oliver Franklin-Wallis takes us on a ... Read more

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**NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 BY THE NEW YORKER, THE GUARDIAN, and KIRKUS REVIEWSAn award-winning investigative journalist takes a deep dive into the global waste crisis, exposing the hidden world that enables our modern economy**—and finds out the dirty truth behind a simple question: what really happens to what we throw away?In Wasteland, journalist Oliver Franklin-Wallis takes us on a
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Planète plastique

Voyage sur les traces d’une matière envahissante

by Rémy Bourdillon ...

Le plastique est partout. Pratique et peu cher, symbole de la modernité industrielle, cette matière dérivée du pétrole a vu sa production et sa consommation exploser depuis un demi-siècle. Mais ses avantages indéniables ont un revers: une pollution durable et des effets négatifs importants sur le plan sanitaire. Pendant ce temps, les promesses de recyclage que nous répète l’industrie peinent ... Read more

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Le plastique est partout. Pratique et peu cher, symbole de la modernité industrielle, cette matière dérivée du pétrole a vu sa production et sa consommation exploser depuis un demi-siècle. Mais ses avantages indéniables ont un revers: une pollution durable et des effets négatifs importants sur le plan sanitaire. Pendant ce temps, les promesses de recyclage que nous répète l’industrie peinent
... Read more
Thunderstruck

by Erik Larson ...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An “irresistible” (The Washington Post) true story of love, murder, and the last moments of the “great hush” before wireless radio connected the world, from the renowned author of The Devil in the White City and The Demon of Unrest“Gripping . . . an edge-of-the-seat read.”—PeopleIn Thunderstruck, Erik Larson tells the interwoven stories of two men—Hawley Cripp... ... Read more

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An “irresistible” (The Washington Post) true story of love, murder, and the last moments of the “great hush” before wireless radio connected the world, from the renowned author of The Devil in the White City and The Demon of Unrest“Gripping . . . an edge-of-the-seat read.”—PeopleIn Thunderstruck, Erik Larson tells the interwoven stories of two men—Hawley Cripp...
... Read more
Who Ate the First Oyster?

The Extraordinary People Behind the Greatest Firsts in History

by Cody Cassidy ...

Who wore the first pants? Who painted the first masterpiece? Who first rode the horse? Who invented soap? This madcap adventure across ancient history uses everything from modern genetics to archaeology to uncover the geniuses behind these and other world-changing innovations.Who invented the wheel? Who told the first joke? Who drank the first beer? Who was the murderer in the first murder mystery ... Read more

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Who wore the first pants? Who painted the first masterpiece? Who first rode the horse? Who invented soap? This madcap adventure across ancient history uses everything from modern genetics to archaeology to uncover the geniuses behind these and other world-changing innovations.Who invented the wheel? Who told the first joke? Who drank the first beer? Who was the murderer in the first murder mystery
... Read more
Mothers of Invention

A History of Creativity from the Greek Muses

by Moiya McTier ...

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF AUGUST BY BARNES AND NOBLE AND KOBOA rollicking, enlightening examination of humanity’s changing relationship to creativity, written from the perspectives of the Greek Muses.The thing that sets humans apart from other animals is our ability to create, to imagine how one thing could become something else. For millennia, art and science, fueled by creativity, have driven the ... Read more

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NAMED A BEST BOOK OF AUGUST BY BARNES AND NOBLE AND KOBOA rollicking, enlightening examination of humanity’s changing relationship to creativity, written from the perspectives of the Greek Muses.The thing that sets humans apart from other animals is our ability to create, to imagine how one thing could become something else. For millennia, art and science, fueled by creativity, have driven the
... Read more
The Waste Managers

by William J. Plunkett ...

What started as a modest waste collection and disposal company in Chicago transformed into North America’s leading provider of waste collection, recycling, and disposal services.The Waste Managers recounts the creation and transformation of Waste Management, Inc., highlighting the stories of the young and untested talent pool who helped grow the company into what it is today.One of the key players ... Read more

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What started as a modest waste collection and disposal company in Chicago transformed into North America’s leading provider of waste collection, recycling, and disposal services.The Waste Managers recounts the creation and transformation of Waste Management, Inc., highlighting the stories of the young and untested talent pool who helped grow the company into what it is today.One of the key players
... Read more
Sustainability

A Systems Engineering Approach to the Global Grand Challenge

by Adedeji B. Badiru, Tina Agustiady ...

Series series Analytics and Control
Sustainability is one of the most embraced topics nowadays. Everybody is affected by issues of sustainability. Every organization needs to pay attention to these issues. As long as more people and more organizations are engaging in business and industry activities, there will always be a need for sustainability. This book presents tools such as lean six sigma to help sustain results by using ... Read more

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Sustainability is one of the most embraced topics nowadays. Everybody is affected by issues of sustainability. Every organization needs to pay attention to these issues. As long as more people and more organizations are engaging in business and industry activities, there will always be a need for sustainability. This book presents tools such as lean six sigma to help sustain results by using
... Read more
The Kill Chain

Defending America in the Future of High-Tech Warfare

by Christian Brose ...

From a former senior advisor to Senator John McCain comes an urgent wake-up call about how new technologies are threatening America's military might.For generations of Americans, our country has been the world's dominant military power. How the US military fights, and the systems and weapons that it fights with, have been uncontested. That old reality, however, is rapidly deteriorating. America's ... Read more

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From a former senior advisor to Senator John McCain comes an urgent wake-up call about how new technologies are threatening America's military might.For generations of Americans, our country has been the world's dominant military power. How the US military fights, and the systems and weapons that it fights with, have been uncontested. That old reality, however, is rapidly deteriorating. America's
... Read more
Inviting Disaster

Lessons From the Edge of Technology: An Inside Look at Catastrophes and Why They Happen

by James R. Chiles ...

This "very absorbing look at technological catastrophes and why they happen"explores systemic breakdowns behind disasters from Chernobyl to the Challenger ( Booklist).Inviting Disaster delves into over fifty of history's worst catastrophes in order to show how increasingly "smart" systems leave us wide open to human tragedy. Weaving a dramatic narrative that explains how breakdowns in these ... Read more

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This "very absorbing look at technological catastrophes and why they happen"explores systemic breakdowns behind disasters from Chernobyl to the Challenger ( Booklist).Inviting Disaster delves into over fifty of history's worst catastrophes in order to show how increasingly "smart" systems leave us wide open to human tragedy. Weaving a dramatic narrative that explains how breakdowns in these
... Read more
After the Affair, Third Edition

Healing the Pain and Rebuilding Trust When a Partner Has Been Unfaithful

by Janis A. Spring ...

“Full of juicy, concrete advice to heal from an affair.” —Esther Perel, MA, LMFT, New York Times bestselling author of Mating in Captivity and The State of AffairsFrom a clinical psychologist who served as a clinical supervisor in the Department of Psychology at Yale University, received the CPA’s award for Distinguished Contribution to the Practice of Psychology, and has treated couples and ... Read more

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“Full of juicy, concrete advice to heal from an affair.” —Esther Perel, MA, LMFT, New York Times bestselling author of Mating in Captivity and The State of AffairsFrom a clinical psychologist who served as a clinical supervisor in the Department of Psychology at Yale University, received the CPA’s award for Distinguished Contribution to the Practice of Psychology, and has treated couples and
... Read more
Sand Talk

How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World

by Tyson Yunkaporta ...

**Winner of the Randa and Sherif Nasr Book Prize on Religion & the World and the Australian Book Industry Small Publishers’ Adult Book of the Year**A paradigm-shifting, award-winning book in the vein of Sapiens that brings a crucial Indigenous perspective to historical and cultural issues of history, education, money, power, and sustainability—and offers a new template for living.As an indigenous ... Read more

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**Winner of the Randa and Sherif Nasr Book Prize on Religion & the World and the Australian Book Industry Small Publishers’ Adult Book of the Year**A paradigm-shifting, award-winning book in the vein of Sapiens that brings a crucial Indigenous perspective to historical and cultural issues of history, education, money, power, and sustainability—and offers a new template for living.As an indigenous
... Read more
Science Year by Year

The Ultimate Visual Guide to the Discoveries that Changed the World

by DK ...

Series series DK Definitive Visual Histories
This epic journey of scientific discovery starts in ancient times and travels through centuries of invention before fast forwarding into the future.From simple machines to modern-day marvels, you’ll follow incredible illustrated timelines that plot the entire history of science and highlight the most momentous discoveries. A jaw-dropping collection of more than 1,500 photographs, illustrations, ... Read more

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This epic journey of scientific discovery starts in ancient times and travels through centuries of invention before fast forwarding into the future.From simple machines to modern-day marvels, you’ll follow incredible illustrated timelines that plot the entire history of science and highlight the most momentous discoveries. A jaw-dropping collection of more than 1,500 photographs, illustrations,
... Read more
Thorium-Powered Abundance: Fuel for Bold Space Exploration, Sustainable Energy, Plentiful Freshwater, Thriving Agriculture

by Michael Anderson ...

Thorium may be the most important element you've never heard of—one that could reshape the future of energy, water, food, and even space exploration.Unlike uranium, thorium is abundant, safer to use, and capable of fueling molten salt reactors that run cleanly and efficiently. Imagine an energy source two hundred times more efficient than today's nuclear plants—one where a lifetime supply of fuel ... Read more

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Thorium may be the most important element you've never heard of—one that could reshape the future of energy, water, food, and even space exploration.Unlike uranium, thorium is abundant, safer to use, and capable of fueling molten salt reactors that run cleanly and efficiently. Imagine an energy source two hundred times more efficient than today's nuclear plants—one where a lifetime supply of fuel
... Read more
The Proof in the Code

How a Truth Machine Is Transforming Math and AI

by Kevin Hartnett ...

“The most interesting book I’ve ever read about math.” —Kevin Roose, New York Times tech columnist and co-host of the Hard Fork podcastThe Proof in the Code tells the inside story of Lean, a computer program that answers the age-old question: How do you know if something is true?It began as an obscure bug-checking program at Microsoft Research developed by a lone computer engineer named Le... ... Read more

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“The most interesting book I’ve ever read about math.” —Kevin Roose, New York Times tech columnist and co-host of the Hard Fork podcastThe Proof in the Code tells the inside story of Lean, a computer program that answers the age-old question: How do you know if something is true?It began as an obscure bug-checking program at Microsoft Research developed by a lone computer engineer named Le...
... Read more
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

An Inquiry Into Values

by Robert M. Pirsig ...

A man and his young son embark on a summer motorcycle road trip across America’s Northwest, seeking to reconnect and explore the open country.But this is no ordinary vacation. As the miles unspool, the journey transforms into a profound philosophical inquiry, a rolling Chautauqua that seeks to answer one of life’s most essential questions: What is best?On a vintage motorcycle, the narrator ... Read more

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A man and his young son embark on a summer motorcycle road trip across America’s Northwest, seeking to reconnect and explore the open country.But this is no ordinary vacation. As the miles unspool, the journey transforms into a profound philosophical inquiry, a rolling Chautauqua that seeks to answer one of life’s most essential questions: What is best?On a vintage motorcycle, the narrator
... Read more
Kinematics, Dynamics, and Design of Machinery

by Kenneth J. Waldron, Gary L. Kinzel, Sunil K. Agrawal ...

Kinematics, Dynamics, and Design of Machinery, Third Edition, presents a fresh approach to kinematic design and analysis and is an ideal textbook for senior undergraduates and graduates in mechanical, automotive and production engineeringPresents the traditional approach to the design and analysis of kinematic problems and shows how GCP can be used to solve the same problems more simplyProvides a ... Read more

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Kinematics, Dynamics, and Design of Machinery, Third Edition, presents a fresh approach to kinematic design and analysis and is an ideal textbook for senior undergraduates and graduates in mechanical, automotive and production engineeringPresents the traditional approach to the design and analysis of kinematic problems and shows how GCP can be used to solve the same problems more simplyProvides a
... Read more
The Code Book

The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography

by Simon Singh ...

In his first book since the bestselling Fermat's Enigma, Simon Singh offers the first sweeping history of encryption, tracing its evolution and revealing the dramatic effects codes have had on wars, nations, and individual lives. From Mary, Queen of Scots, trapped by her own code, to the Navajo Code Talkers who helped the Allies win World War II, to the incredible (and incredibly simple) ... Read more

$10.99 CAD

In his first book since the bestselling Fermat's Enigma, Simon Singh offers the first sweeping history of encryption, tracing its evolution and revealing the dramatic effects codes have had on wars, nations, and individual lives. From Mary, Queen of Scots, trapped by her own code, to the Navajo Code Talkers who helped the Allies win World War II, to the incredible (and incredibly simple)
... Read more
The Ship Beneath the Ice

The Discovery of Shackleton’s Endurance

by Mensun Bound ...

By the subject of the National Geographic documentary Endurance, streaming soon on Disney+"As thrilling as any tale from the heroic age of exploration. . . Bound’s account is a triumph. The storytelling is piano-wire taut, the writing saturated with polar moodiness." ― Sunday TimesThe inside story of how the Endurance, Ernest Shackleton's legendary lost ship, was found in the most hostile sea on ... Read more

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By the subject of the National Geographic documentary Endurance, streaming soon on Disney+"As thrilling as any tale from the heroic age of exploration. . . Bound’s account is a triumph. The storytelling is piano-wire taut, the writing saturated with polar moodiness." ― Sunday TimesThe inside story of how the Endurance, Ernest Shackleton's legendary lost ship, was found in the most hostile sea on
... Read more
How to Win a Grand Prix

From Pit Lane to Podium - the Inside Track

by Bernie Collins ...

'Bernie is not only a great strategist, but also a great team player and competitor' Sebastian Vettel***THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER***Race-winning team strategist shows how F1 really works.Welcome to Bernie Collins' world. Formula 1 drivers are the public face of Grand Prix racing but behind every driver is a team of several hundred people sharing the same passionate desire to win. On race ... Read more

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'Bernie is not only a great strategist, but also a great team player and competitor' Sebastian Vettel***THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER***Race-winning team strategist shows how F1 really works.Welcome to Bernie Collins' world. Formula 1 drivers are the public face of Grand Prix racing but behind every driver is a team of several hundred people sharing the same passionate desire to win. On race
... Read more
Learning to Bow

An American Teacher in a Japanese School

by Bruce Feiler ...

Learning to Bow has been heralded as one of the funniest, liveliest, and most insightful books ever written about the clash of cultures between America and Japan. With warmth and candor, Bruce Feiler recounts the year he spent as a teacher in a small rural town. Beginning with a ritual outdoor bath and culminating in an all-night trek to the top of Mt. Fuji, Feiler teaches his students about ... Read more

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Learning to Bow has been heralded as one of the funniest, liveliest, and most insightful books ever written about the clash of cultures between America and Japan. With warmth and candor, Bruce Feiler recounts the year he spent as a teacher in a small rural town. Beginning with a ritual outdoor bath and culminating in an all-night trek to the top of Mt. Fuji, Feiler teaches his students about
... Read more

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