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Applied Minds: How Engineers Think
Guruprasad Madhavan · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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A journey inside the minds that build our world.Dubai's Burj Khalifa -- the world's tallest building -- looks nothing like Microsoft's Office Suite, and digital surround sound doesn't work like a citywide telecommunication grid. Yet these engineering feats have much in common.Applied... |
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How to Get Money for College 2019
PETERSON'S. · Peterson Nelnet Co
Format: Print book
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Peterson's How to Get Money for College 2019 is a great resource for students looking to supplement their federal financial aid package with aid from colleges and universities. This comprehensive directory points students and their families to complete and accurate information on need-based... |
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The Shark's Paintbrush: Biomimicry and How Nature Is Inspiring Innovation
Jay Harman · White Cloud Press
Pages: 333
Format: Paperback
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Today, an interdisciplinary and international group of scientists, inventors, and engineers are turning to nature to find elegant solutions to human problems. The principle driving this transformation is called biomimicry, and Harman shares a wide range of examples of how we're borrowing... |
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Kafka's Last Trial: The Case of a Literary Legacy
Benjamin Balint · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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The story of the international struggle to preserve Kafka's literary legacy.Kafka's Last Trial begins with Kafka's last instruction to his closest friend, Max Brod: to destroy all his remaining papers upon his death. But when the moment arrived in 1924, Brod could not bring... |
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A Space Traveler's Guide to the Solar System
Mark Thompson · Pegasus Books
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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An eye-opening and provocative tour of our solar system, from one of Britain's celebrated astronomists. Have you ever dreamed of being an astronaut, traveling through the universe on your very own space mission? What would it be like to tour the solar system, visiting the sun and the planets,... |
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Make: Getting Started with Arduino: The Open Source Electronics Prototyping Platform
Massimo Banzi · Maker Media, Inc
Pages: 262
Format: Paperback
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Arduino is the hot open source prototyping platform for artists, hobbyists, students, and anyone who wants to create interactive physical environments. Getting Started with Arduino is co-authored by Arduino co-founder Massimo Banzi, and incorporates his experience in teaching, using, and creating... |
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The Body Builders: Inside the Science of the Engineered Human
Adam Piore · Ecco
Pages: 400
Format: Print book
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For millennia, humans have tried - and often failed - to master nature and transcend our limits. But this has started to change. The new scientific frontier is the human body: the greatest engineers of our generation have turned their sights inward, and their work is beginning to revolutionize... |
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Beyond Earth: Our Path to a New Home in the Planets
Charles P Wohlforth · Pantheon Books
Pages: 320
Format: Print book
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From a leading planetary scientist and an award-winning science writer: a propulsive account of the developments and initiatives that have transformed the dream of space colonization into something that may well be achievable.We are at the cusp of a golden age in space science, as increasingly... |
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Breaking the chains of gravity : the story of spaceflight before nasa
Amy Shira Teitel · Bloomsbury Sigma
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NASA's history is a familiar story, culminating with the agency successfully landing men on the moon in 1969, but its prehistory is an important and rarely told tale. America's space agency drew together some of the best minds the non-Soviet world had to offer. At the end of World War II, Wernher... |
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