Category Archives: Technology

  • Electrical Wizard: How Nikola Tesla Lit Up the World

    0 June 3, 2016 standard

  • Mind Change: How Digital Technologies Are Leaving Their Mark on Our Brains

    0 June 2, 2016 standard

  • Flying Buttresses, Entropy and O-Rings: The World of an Engineer

    0 June 1, 2016 standard

  • The Usborne Official Astronaut’s Handbook

    0 May 28, 2016 standard

  • Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars

    0 May 17, 2016 standard

  • The Gene: An Intimate History

    0 May 16, 2016 standard

  • When Computing Got Personal: A history of the desktop computer

    0 May 10, 2016 standard

  • We Could Not Fail: The First African Americans in the Space Program

    0 May 6, 2016 standard

  • Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet

    0 May 5, 2016 standard

  • How to build a motorcycle: A racing adventure of mechanics, teamwork, and friendship (Technical Tales)

    0 May 3, 2016 standard

  • The Elements of Power: Gadgets, Guns, and the Struggle for a Sustainable Future in the Rare Metal Age

    0 April 21, 2016 standard

  • The Wild Robot

    0 April 18, 2016 standard

  • The Making of the Atomic Bomb

    0 April 15, 2016 standard

  • How Music Got Free: The End of an Industry, the Turn of the Century, and the Patient Zero of Piracy

    0 April 1, 2016 standard

  • Kevin Orrman-Rossiter Reviews Breaking the Chains of Gravity: The Story of Spaceflight before NASA

    0 March 24, 2016 standard

  • Breaking the Chains of Gravity: The Story of Spaceflight before NASA

    0 March 22, 2016 standard

  • Seven Wonders of the Industrial World

    0 March 9, 2016 standard

  • Sorting the Beef from the Bull: The Science of Food Fraud Forensics

    0 March 2, 2016 standard

  • The Lucky Years: How to Thrive in the Brave New World of Health

    0 February 22, 2016 standard

  • Electronic Dreams: How 1980s Britain Learned to Love the Computer

    0 February 15, 2016 standard

  • Renee Webster Reviews The Boy Who Played with Fusion: Extreme Science, Extreme Parenting, and How to Make a Star

    0 February 11, 2016 standard

  • The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage: The (Mostly) True Story of the First Computer

    0 February 10, 2016 standard

  • Science Book a Day Interviews Scott Huler

    0 February 8, 2016 standard

  • Nuclear is for Life: A Cultural Revolution

    0 February 4, 2016 standard

  • Linden Ashcroft Reviews Defining the Wind: The Beaufort Scale and How a 19th-Century Admiral Turned Science into Poetry

    0 February 4, 2016 standard

  • Defining the Wind: The Beaufort Scale and How a 19th-Century Admiral Turned Science into Poetry

    0 February 2, 2016 standard

  • Rocket Men: The Epic Story of the First Men on the Moon

    0 January 29, 2016 standard

  • Cheap and Clean: How Americans Think About Energy in the Age of Global Warming

    0 January 20, 2016 standard

  • Edison: A Life of Invention

    0 January 12, 2016 standard

  • Science Book a Day Interviews John Archibald

    0 January 11, 2016 standard

  • Lydia Hales Reviews The Village Effect: how face-to-face contact can make us healthier, happier and smarter

    1 January 7, 2016 standard

  • One Plus One Equals One: Symbiosis and the Evolution of Complex Life

    0 January 5, 2016 standard

  • Why Things Break: Understanding the World by the Way It Comes Apart

    0 December 22, 2015 standard

  • Inventions That Could Have Changed the World . . . But Didn’t!

    0 December 19, 2015 standard

  • Remaking the John: The Invention and Reinvention of the Toilet

    0 December 13, 2015 standard

  • Spaceshots and Snapshots of Projects Mercury and Gemini: A Rare Photographic History

    0 December 3, 2015 standard

  • Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future

    0 November 27, 2015 standard

  • How to Clone a Mammoth: The Science of De-Extinction

    1 November 22, 2015 standard

  • The Large Hadron Collider: The Extraordinary Story of the Higgs Boson and Other Stuff That Will Blow Your Mind

    0 November 12, 2015 standard

  • The Brain Electric: The Dramatic High-Tech Race to Merge Minds and Machines

    0 November 3, 2015 standard

  • Chilled: How Refrigeration Changed the World and Might Do So Again

    0 November 2, 2015 standard

  • The Nature Principle: Reconnecting with Life in a Virtual Age

    0 November 1, 2015 standard

  • Cryptonomicon

    0 October 31, 2015 standard

  • Margie Beilharz Reviews Junkyard Planet: travels in the billion-dollar trash trade

    0 October 29, 2015 standard

  • Ancillary Mercy (Imperial Radch)

    0 October 27, 2015 standard

  • SuperBetter: A Revolutionary Approach to Getting Stronger, Happier, Braver and More Resilient–Powered by the Science of Games

    0 October 26, 2015 standard

  • Rosalie Wodecki Reviews The Martian: A Novel

    0 October 22, 2015 standard

  • Imagination and a Pile of Junk: A Droll History of Inventors and Inventions

    0 October 18, 2015 standard

  • Invention by Design: How Engineers Get from Thought to Thing

    0 October 14, 2015 standard

  • The Patient Will See You Now: The Future of Medicine is in Your Hands

    0 October 8, 2015 standard