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  • From the Laboratory to the Moon

    The Quiet Genius of George R. Carruthers

    de David H. Devorkin ...
    Series series Lemelson Center Studies in Invention and Innovation series
    The reserved genius and celebrated Black scientist, who built the first astronomical observatory on the moon and worked to inspire underserved students to pursue science and engineering.In April 1972, as George Carruthers closely monitored the operation from the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston, astronauts conducting the Apollo 16 mission positioned a gold-plated far ultraviolet electrographic ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD

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  • The Idea Factory

    Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation

    de Jon Gertner ...
    **The definitive history of America’s greatest incubator of innovation and the birthplace of some of the 20th century’s most influential technologies“Filled with colorful characters and inspiring lessons . . . The Idea Factory explores one of the most critical issues of our time: What causes innovation?” —Walter Isaacson, The New York Times Book Review“Compelling . . . Gertner's book offers ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

  • The Mission

    A True Story

    de David W. Brown ...
    "Exceptionally absorbing and thrilling. ... Masterful." — NatureA "magnificent" ( Scientific American), genre-defying narrative of the most ambitious science project ever conceived: NASA's deep space mission to Europa, the Jovian moon where might swim the first known alien life in our solar systemIn the spirit of Tom Wolfe and John McPhee, The Mission is an exuberant master class of creative ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Pillars of Creation

    How the James Webb Telescope Unlocked the Secrets of the Cosmos

    de Richard Panek ...
    The James Webb Space Telescope is transforming the universe right before our eyes—and here, for the first time, is the inside account of how the mission originated, how it performs its miracles of science, and what its revolutionary images are revealing.Pillars of Creation tells the story of one of the greatest scientific achievements in the history of civilization, a $10 billion instrument with a ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • The UFO Enigma

    A New Review of the Physical Evidence

    de Peter A. Sturrock ...
    "A comprehensive investigation of encounters with unidentified flying objects, all the more riveting because it is both skeptical and scrupulously objective." — Kirkus ReviewsFor over fifty years, the modern UFO controversy has raged between believers and debunkers, with little input from the scientific community. Now, in a major report commissioned by Laurance S. Rockefeller, an international ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Where Is My Flying Car?

    de J. Storrs Hall ...
    From an engineer and futurist, an impassioned account of technological stagnation since the 1970s and an imaginative blueprint for a richer, more abundant future.The science fiction of the 1960s promised us a future remade by technological innovation. We’d vacation in geodesic domes on Mars, have meaningful conversations with computers, and drop our children off at school in flying cars. Fast ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Essential Engineer

    de Henry Petroski ...
    From the acclaimed author of The Pencil and To Engineer Is Human, The Essential Engineer is an eye-opening exploration of the ways in which science and engineering must work together to address our world’s most pressing issues, from dealing with climate change and the prevention of natural disasters to the development of efficient automobiles and the search for renewable energy sources. While the ... Leer más

    $4.99 USD

  • The Anti-Gravity Handbook

    de David Hatcher Childress ...
    The new expanded compilation of material on Anti-Gravity, Free Energy, Flying Saucer Propulsion, UFOs, Suppressed Technology, NASA Cover-ups and more. Highly illustrated with patents, technical illustrations and photos. This revised and expanded edition has more material, including photos of Area 51, Nevada, the government’s secret testing facility. This classic on weird science is back in a new ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

  • The Long Space Age

    The Economic Origins of Space Exploration from Colonial America to the Cold War

    de Alexander MacDonald ...
    An economic historian traces uncovers the story of privately funded space exploration from early 19th century astronomical observatories to SpaceX.The standard historical narrative of American space exploration begins during the Cold War, with the federal government's efforts to beat the Soviet Union in the Space Race. Given this framing, the more recent emergence of private sector space ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Under an Ionized Sky

    From Chemtrails to Space Fence Lockdown

    de Elana Freeland ...
    Elana Freeland is a relentless prosletyzer. She maintains websites and social media chat groups with thousands of active participants. Her work has positioned her as the leading expert on counter-vailing theories of climate change.With the election of Trump, outsider prespectives are becoming more relevant to those seeking non-mainstream expertise. Freeland’s work will appeal to those sceptics.Her ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Pioneer Detectives

    Did a distant spacecraft prove Einstein and Newton wrong?

    de Konstantin Kakaes ...
    Explore one of the greatest scientific mysteries of our time, the Pioneer Anomaly: in the 1980s, NASA scientists detected an unknown force acting on the spacecraft Pioneer 10, the first man-made object to journey through the asteroid belt and study Jupiter, eventually leaving the solar system. No one seemed able to agree on a cause. (Dark matter? Tensor–vector–scalar gravity? Collisions with ... Leer más

    $2.99 USD

  • The Anti-Gravity Files

    A Compilation of Patents and Reports

    de David Hatcher Childress ...
    In the tradition of The Anti-Gravity Handbook and the Time-Travel Handbook comes this all-new compilation of material on anti-gravity, free energy, flying saucers and Tesla technology. With plenty of technical drawings and explanations, this suppressed technology will change the world in ways we can only dream of. Chapters on anti-gravity mercury gyros, the motionless electromagnet generator ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD