Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum

Hardcover | 416 pages | National Geographic | Transportation - Aviation - History; History - Military - Aviation; Technology - History
978-1-4262-0653-5 (1-4262-0653-4)

October 19, 2010 | $48.00



Designed to convey the awe of a visitor first walking into the world's largest showplace of aviation history, this Autobiography headlines the incredible collections, both on view and behind the scenes, of the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. The official story and insiders' tales of the museum are shared by...

Extra Lives

Hardcover | 240 pages | Pantheon | Social Science - Popular Culture; Technology - Television & Video
978-0-307-37870-5 (0-307-37870-5)

June 8, 2010 | $26.95



Like many otherwise functional adults, Tom Bissell is ad­dicted to video games, spending hours a day neglecting work and social engagements in favor of Oblivion, Left 4 Dead, and Grand Theft Auto IV. In Extra Lives, Bissell ex­amines the question that haunts him every time he turns off his consoles: Why...

Extra Lives

eBook | 208 pages | Pantheon | Social Science - Popular Culture; Technology - Television & Video
978-0-307-37928-3 (0-307-37928-0)

June 8, 2010 | $26.95



Like many otherwise functional adults, Tom Bissell is ad­dicted to video games, spending hours a day neglecting work and social engagements in favor of Oblivion, Left 4 Dead, and Grand Theft Auto IV. In Extra Lives, Bissell ex­amines the question that haunts him every time he turns off his consoles: Why...

History of the Space Shuttle, Volume Two

Trade Paperback | 488 pages | Smithsonian Books | Science - Astrophysics & Space Science; Technology - History
978-1-58834-285-0 (1-58834-285-9)

May 18, 2010 | $38.95

On the Frontier

Trade Paperback | 584 pages | Smithsonian Books | Science - Astrophysics & Space Science; Technology - Aeronautics & Astronautics
978-1-58834-289-8 (1-58834-289-1)

May 18, 2010 | $47.00

The Wire Re-Up

Trade Paperback | 304 pages | Guardian Books | Technology - Television & Video
978-0-85265-221-3 (0-85265-221-6)

January 18, 2010 | $23.95

The Average Life of the Average Person

Hardcover | 408 pages | Square Peg | Technology - Environmental; Education - Teaching Methods - Social Science
978-0-224-08623-3 (0-224-08623-5)

October 19, 2009 | $37.95



This irresistible miscellany of 100 things, both material and intangible, that make up the average life reveals the untold stories behind the everyday things we take for granted and builds up a fascinating picture of the numbers that make up a human life.

Moon Lander

Trade Paperback | 288 pages | Smithsonian Books | Science - Astrophysics & Space Science; Technology - History
978-1-58834-273-7 (1-58834-273-5)

September 11, 2009 | $25.99

Our Own Devices

eBook | pages | Vintage | Technology
978-0-307-48922-7 (0-307-48922-1)

August 26, 2009 | $19.95



From the author of Why Things Bite Back- which introduced us to the revenge antics of technology-Our Own Devices is a wonderfully revealing look at the inventions of everyday things that protect us, position us, or enhance our performance.

In helping and hurting us, these body technologies have produced consequences that...

Being Digital

Abridged Audiobook Download | pages | Random House Audio | Technology - Telecommunications
978-0-307-70453-5 (0-307-70453-X)

May 26, 2009 | $11.00



In lively, mordantly witty prose, Negroponte decodes the mysteries--and debunks the hype--surrounding bandwidth, multimedia, virtual reality, and the Internet, and explains why such touted innovations as the fax and the CD-ROM are likely to go the way of the BetaMax. "Succinct and readable. . . . If you suffer from digital...

The Pixar Touch

Trade Paperback | 320 pages | Vintage | Business & Economics; Technology; Performing Arts - Animation
978-0-307-27829-6 (0-307-27829-8)

May 5, 2009 | $19.00



The Pixar Touch is a lively chronicle of Pixar Animation Studios' history and evolution, and the “fraternity of geeks” who shaped it. With the help of animating genius John Lasseter and visionary businessman Steve Jobs, Pixar has become the gold standard of animated filmmaking, beginning with a short special effects shot...

Tomorrow Now

eBook | 368 pages | Random House Trade Paperbacks | Technology; Social Science - Sociology
978-0-307-49199-2 (0-307-49199-4)

December 10, 2008 | $18.95



“Nobody knows better than Bruce Sterling how thin the membrane between science fiction and real life has become, a state he correctly depicts as both thrilling and terrifying in this frisky, literate, clear-eyed sketch of the next half-century. Like all of the most interesting futurists, Sterling isn’t just talking about machines...

The God Machine

eBook | 368 pages | Bantam | History; Technology - Aeronautics & Astronautics; Transportation - Aviation - History
978-0-307-48548-9 (0-307-48548-X)

November 26, 2008 | $16.50




From transforming the ways of war to offering godlike views of inaccessible spots, revolutionizing rescues worldwide, and providing some of our most-watched TV moments—including the cloud of newscopters that trailed O. J. Simpson’s Bronco—the helicopter is far more capable than early inventors expected. Now James Chiles profiles the many helicoptrians who...

The Toothpick

eBook | 464 pages | Vintage | Art - Design - Product; Technology - Inventions; Technology - Industrial Design
978-0-307-49200-5 (0-307-49200-1)

November 26, 2008 | $18.95



A celebration culture and technology, as seen through the history of the humble yet ubiquitous toothpick, from the best-selling author of The Pencil.

From ancient Rome, where emperor Nero made his entrance into a banquet hall with a silver toothpick in his mouth, to nineteenth-century Boston, where Charles Forster, the father of...

The Toothpick

Trade Paperback | 464 pages | Vintage | Art - Design - Product; Technology - Inventions; Technology - Industrial Design
978-0-307-27943-9 (0-307-27943-X)

November 4, 2008 | $18.95



A celebration culture and technology, as seen through the history of the humble yet ubiquitous toothpick, from the best-selling author of The Pencil.

From ancient Rome, where emperor Nero made his entrance into a banquet hall with a silver toothpick in his mouth, to nineteenth-century Boston, where Charles Forster, the father of...