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Wonderland: How Play Made the Modern World
Steven Johnson · Riverhead Books
Pages: 336
Format: Print book |
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From the New York Times-bestselling author of How We Got to Now and Where Good Ideas Come From, a look at the world-changing innovations we made while keeping ourselves entertained. This lushly illustrated history of popular entertainment takes a long-zoom approach, contending that the pursuit... |
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Forensic Science
Ayn Embar-seddon O'reilly · Salem Press
Pages: 1200
Format: Hardcover - Revised Ed. |
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This completely updated, new edition of Forensic Science approaches its subject from multiple directions. One primary approach is from the points of view of forensic investigators. In addition to its core essays on subspecialties and allied fields, the set has essays on specific types of investigations,... |
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Information Doesn't Want to Be Free: Laws for the Internet Age
Cory Doctorow · McSweeney's
Format: Hardcover |
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In sharply argued, fast-moving chapters, Cory Doctorow's Information Doesn't Want to Be Free takes on the state of copyright and creative success in the digital age. Can small artists still thrive in the Internet era? Can giant record labels avoid alienating their audiences? This... |
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Breaking Through: Using Educational Technology for Children with Special Needs
Barbara Albers Hill · Square One Publishers
Pages: 143
Format: Paperback |
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While one-on-one therapy is certainly beneficial, for some children, the process of developing social skills, manual dexterity, and educational competency presents much more of a challenge. Fortunately, the introduction of new and easy-to-use technological devices has created a quiet revolution... |
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The Glass Cage: Automation and Us
Nicholas Carr · W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover |
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In The Glass Cage, best-selling author Nicholas Carr digs behind the headlines about factory robots and self-driving cars, wearable computers and digitized medicine, as he explores the hidden costs of granting software dominion over our work and our leisure and reveals something we already... |
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Follow Your Interests to Find the Right College
Janet Marthers · Wheatmark
Pages: 419
Format: Print book |
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Follow Your Interests to Find the Right College is a different sort of college guide -- one that helps students and their families better understand the vast amount of options available for college based on a student's interests. Topics in this comprehensive, easy-to-understand guide... |
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Lesson Plan: An Agenda for Change in American Higher Education
William G Bowen · Princeton University Press
Pages: 184
Format: Print book |
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American higher education faces some serious problems--but they are not the ones most people think. In this brief and accessible book, two leading experts show that many so-called crises--from the idea that typical students are drowning in debt to the belief that tuition increases are being... |
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Pinpoint: How GPS Is Changing Technology, Culture, and Our Minds
Greg Milner · W.W. Norton & Company
Pages: 336
Format: Print book |
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Pinpoint tells the story of GPS, a scientific marvel that enables almost all modern technology -- but is changing us in profound ways.Over the last fifty years, humanity has developed an extraordinary shared utility: the Global Positioning System. Even as it guides us across town, GPS helps... |
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A Beginner's Guide to 3D Printing: 14 Simple Toy Designs to Get You Started
Mike Rigsby · Chicago Review Press
Format: Book |
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3D printers have revolutionized the worlds of manufacturing, design, and art. But how does a person with little or no computer design experience create an object to print? The best way to learn is through hands-on experience. Professional engineer Mike Rigsby leads readers step-by-step... |
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