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A Cultural History of Chemistry in the Eighteenth Century

Sets the progress of science and technology in its cultural context during the period often described as a "chemical revolution" from 1700-1815.

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A Cultural History of Chemistry in the Middle Ages

Explores alchemy and alchemical practice in the period from 600 to 1500 in European and Islamic cultures.

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Rebecca Siegel
How the Ghost Army Hoodwinked Hitler

The unbelievable true story of the American soldiers who used inflatable tanks and fake radio broadcasts as weapons in World War II.Right around D-Day of World War II, a small, unarmed American army unit …

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Patricia Newman,
Beatrice and the Nightingale

In 1924, an audience of more than one million listeners across the world listened in amazement to the first live radio broadcast of a nightingale accompanying the young cellist Beatrice Harrison.On May 19…

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Christy Hale,
Serious Fun!

Mid-century modern is fun for the whole family in this picture book about the importance of play for the designers of the iconic Eames chair.Twentieth-century design duo Charles and Ray Eames had serious …

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Andrew Clarke
The Immortals of NASCAR

The best of the best from the world of NASCAR.You can have the fastest car, the best engine, the smartest crew chief, but at the end of the day, it's the person behind the wheel who makes the difference.F…

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A Cultural History of Chemistry in Antiquity

Explores the chemical arts in the long period from 3000 BCE to 600 CE, when chemical artisans, recipes and ideas were exchanged between Mesopotamia, Egypt, Phoenicia, Greece, Rome and Byzantium. Also avai…

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Bengt Jangfeldt,
The Nobel Family

THE FINANCIAL TIMES BEST BOOKS OF THE YEARThis absorbing collective biography of the genius Nobel family reveals how the Nobels' business and personal lives were fundamentally intertwined with the histori…

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Techno-Orientalism 2.0

Techno-Orientalism 2.0 addresses the impact of a volatile post-COVID present on speculative futures by and about Asians. The volume engages with techno-Orientalist inflections in recent high-profile and l…

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Engineers and Society in India

This work examines the history of Indian engineers, exploring key events and policies that shaped India's engineering landscape from the colonial era to the present. It explores India's infrastructural an…

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Techno-Orientalism 2.0

Techno-Orientalism 2.0 addresses the impact of a volatile post-COVID present on speculative futures by and about Asians. The volume engages with techno-Orientalist inflections in recent high-profile and l…

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Ned Wolfe, Who Hq,
Who Discovered How to Breathe Underwater?: Jacques Cousteau

Explore how French naval officer Jacques Cousteau forever changed the way people experience life underwater in this STEM-driven graphic novel by GLAAD Media Award--winning author Ned Wolfe and illustrator…

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Ned Wolfe, Who Hq,
Who Discovered How to Breathe Underwater?: Jacques Cousteau

Explore how French naval officer Jacques Cousteau forever changed the way people experience life underwater in this STEM-driven graphic novel by GLAAD Media Award--winning author Ned Wolfe and illustrator…

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Norbert Wiener
The Human Use of Human Beings

For the 75th anniversary, a new edition of The Human Use of Human Beings-the landmark book that delves into the relationship between humans and computers, and presciently anticipates many contemporary dil…

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Eileen Buckholtz
Queens of Code

The stories of America's unsung computing women, brought out of the shadows and into their rightful place in the history of technology.The dearth of women in our histories of technology cannot be overstat…

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Tom Zaniello
Epidemic Films to Die for

A comprehensive chronical that unfolds the cinematic dimensions of epidemic films through an analysis of film history and how epidemics are reflected in popular media.

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Abigail Beall,
The Universe

This "book for children aged 7-9 explores the vast universe, beginning with the Big Bang and looking forward to the future of space travel. [It] covers the planets of the solar system, comets, nebula…

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Kate Peridot,
Satellites

"An informative and beautiful guide to satellites for children. Satellites introduces children aged 7-9 to smart satellite technology and the ways satellites monitor the planet's health and help us t…

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Marsha Diane Arnold,
Big Boy 4014 and the Steam Team

In the 1940s, they thundered across the United States, 25 600-ton steam locomotives called Big Boys. These mammoth engines were built to pull trains transporting soldiers and freight, supporting the war e…

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Laurie Lawlor
Many Voices

"The Nation's First Superhighway" existed before the spread of cars... or even railroads! This immersive photo book ferries readers through the past and present of the Erie Canal, from impossibl…

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