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Yijun Wang
The Tin Centuries

How a mundane metal bound miners and officials to global capitalism and an emerging technocratic state Tin was everywhere in early modern China--lining tea chests, shaping religious vessels, alloyed into …

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Body and Machine in Classical Antiquity

"Explores the ways in which the human body and the world of machines and technological artefacts intersected in the ancient world. Traces the origins of the body-machine interface from Homer's automa…

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David Rooney
The Big Hop

In 1919, in Newfoundland, four teams of aviators came from Britain to compete in "the Big Hop": an audacious race to be the first to fly, nonstop, across the Atlantic Ocean. One pair of competit…

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Kara Newhouse,
The Story of Everything

This book explains EVERYTHING--from the birth of the universe to the birth of YOU!How did the universe begin? Where did the sun and the planets come from? What about the earth and all of its plants and an…

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Ken Jennings,
Outer Space

Blast off into outer space with this interactive trivia book from Jeopardy! host and champion and New York Times bestselling author Ken Jennings---featuring updated facts!Take one giant leap into space wi…

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Ken Jennings,
Outer Space

"Now you can become a junior genius with Ken Jennings' first children's series! With this book you'll become an expert and wow your friends and teachers with out-of-this-world facts: Did you know tha…

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Larissa Theule,
Glass: Looking In, Looking Out

"As clear and colorful as its topic." ---Kirkus Reviews The author of Concrete: From the Ground Up brings her illuminating and often dry-humored approach to reflecting on another marvel of the e…

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Julia Tischler
Cultivating Race

Cultivating Race explores the rise of scientific knowledge in farming in South Africa and ways in which it informed - or was informed by - questions of race in the first half of the twentieth century.

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Marco Armiero
Vajont

The sobering political implications of a disaster---the Vajont landslide in Italy in 1963---and how it speaks directly to our present environmental crisis.On October 9, 1963, two thousand people perished …

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Tom Harper, Nick Dykes, Magdalena Peszko
Secret Maps

An illustrated story of the relationship between mapping and secrecy, charting the role maps played in concealing and revealing knowledge across centuries.Is there anything more intriguing than a secret m…

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Anto Mohsin
Electrifying Indonesia

Electrifying Indonesia tells the story of the entanglement of politics and technology during Indonesia's rapid post--World War II development. As a central part of its nation-building project, the Indones…

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Adam Higginbotham
Challenger

Winner of the 2024 National Book Critics Circle Award in Nonfiction • Winner of the 2024 Kirkus Nonfiction Prize • Shortlisted for the 2025 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction • A New York …

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Rebecca Heisman
Flight Paths

"Illuminating. . . . Flight Paths does what only the best science books do: It adds to our knowledge of the world without diminishing its wonder."---Wall Street JournalThe captivating, little-kn…

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Alberto Maria Pollastrini
Helmets and Body Armour in New Kingdom Egypt

"This book examines the dynamics around the introduction and spread of helmets and body armour throughout Egypt during the 18th, 19th and 20th Dynasties, and argues that the word 'introduction' is th…

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Kathryn Gibbs Davis,
Mr. Ferris and His Wheel

Science, history, and engineering combine in this uplifting nonfiction picture book about the invention of the world's most iconic amusement park ride, the Ferris wheel. Now available in paperback!Capturi…

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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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Joel J Miller
The Idea Machine

Books are our first and most lasting form of information technology. Books preserve ideas, yes, but they also provoke new ones--- they are true tools for thinking. In The Idea Machine , Joel J. Miller sho…

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Waiwai

For over a century, business interests and political insiders controlled waters across the Hawaiian Islands to benefit a privileged few at the expense of stream ecology, taro farmers, and our islands' fut…

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Waiwai

For over a century, business interests and political insiders controlled waters across the Hawaiian Islands to benefit a privileged few at the expense of stream ecology, taro farmers, and our islands' fut…

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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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