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The Powerhouse: Inside the Invention of a Battery to Save the World
Steve Levine - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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A Soul of the New Machine for our time, a gripping account of invention, commerce, and duplicity in the age of technology A worldwide race is on to perfect the next engine of economic growth, the advanced lithium-ion battery. It will power the electric car, relieve global warming, and catapult... |
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The Battle Over Homework: Common Ground for Administrators, Teachers, and Parents
Harris M. Cooper - Carrel Books; Third Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Homework is the cause of more friction between schools and home than any other aspect of education and becomes the prime battlefield when schools, families, and communities view one another as adversaries. This comprehensive fourth edition tackles all the tough questions: What’s... |
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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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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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The Game Believes in You: How Digital Play Can Make Our Kids Smarter
Greg Toppo - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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What if schools, from the wealthiest suburban nursery school to the grittiest urban high school, thrummed with the sounds of deep immersion? More and more people believe that can happen - with the aid of video games. Greg Toppo's The Game Believes in You presents the story of a small... |
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Coal Wars: The Future of Energy and the Fate of the Planet
Richard Martin - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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Since the late 18th century, when it emerged as a source of heating and, later, steam power, coal has brought untold benefits to mankind. Even today, coal generates almost 45 percent of the world's power. Our modern technological society would be inconceivable without coal and the energy... |
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Geek Heresy: Rescuing Social Change from the Cult of Technology
Kentaro Toyama - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover
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In 2004, Kentaro Toyama, an award-winning computer scientist, moved to India to start a new research group for Microsoft. Its mission: to explore novel technological solutions to the world's persistent social problems. Together with his team, he invented electronic devices for under-resourced... |
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More Than a Score: The New Uprising Against High-Stakes Testing
Diane Ravitch - Haymarket Books
Format: Book
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For too long so-called education reformers, mostly billionaires, politicians, and others with little or no background in teaching, have gotten away with using standardized testing to punish our nations youth and educators. Now, across the country, students are walking out, parents are opting... |
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Mindless: Why Smarter Machines are Making Dumber Humans
Simon Head - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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We live in the age of Computer Business Systems (CBSs) - the highly complex, computer-intensive management programs on which large organizations increasingly rely. In Mindless, Simon Head argues that these systems have come to trump human expertise, dictating the goals and strategies of a wide... |
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