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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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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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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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H Glenn Penny
In Humboldt's Shadow

A compelling history of the German ethnologists who were inspired by Prussian polymath and explorer Alexander von HumboldtThe Berlin Ethnological Museum is one of the world's largest and most important an…

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Loren Grush
The Six -- Young Readers Edition

"Sally Ride may have been the first US woman in space, but did you know there were five other incredible American women who helped blaze the trail for female astronauts by her side? When NASA sent as…

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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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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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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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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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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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Tim Wu
The Age of Extraction

Tech platforms manipulate attention, extract wealth, and deepen inequality. In this new book, Tim Wu (The Attention Merchants ) explains how we can reclaim control and create a balanced economy that works…

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Hunter Davies
George Stephenson

George Stephensonis the ultimate self-made man. Born in the pit village of Wylam, near Newcastle, and denied a formal education, he would go on to invent machines that transformed the world.From the momen…

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Whitney E Laemmli
Making Movement Modern

Explores how researchers used systems for recording human movement to navigate the relationship between mind and body, freedom and control, and the individual and the state.In the early twentieth century,…

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Dan O'Brien
Wild Idea

For more than forty years the prairies of South Dakota have been Dan O'Brien's home. Working as a writer and an endangered species biologist, he became convinced that returning free-roaming buffalo to the…

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Roland Betancourt
Disneyland and the Rise of Automation

A history of the engineering marvels behind one of America's most innovative and beloved entertainment experiencesWhen Disneyland opened to the public in 1955, it demystified the hidden world of factory a…

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Campbell Books,
Scientists

A novelty board book for preschoolers, introducing them to scientists who changed the world.

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Jeffrey T Manuel, Thomas D Rogers
Ethanol

Though ethanol, a liquid fuel made from agricultural byproducts, has generated controversy in recent years--good or bad for the environment? a big-ag boon or boondoggle?--its use goes back more than a cen…

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