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Technology
Technology is a broad concept that deals with human as well as other animal species' usage and knowledge of tools and crafts, and how it affects a species' ability to control and adapt to its environment. Technology is a term with origins in the Greek technología (τεχνολογία) — téchnē (τέχνη), ...
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Tunnel in the Sky
Tunnel in the Sky is a science fiction book written by Robert A. Heinlein and published in 1955 by Scribner's as one of the Heinlein juveniles. The story describes a group of students sent on a survival test to an uninhabited planet. The themes of...
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- Robert A. Heinlein
- x Date of first publication:
- 1955
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Brave New World
Brave New World is a novel by Aldous Huxley, written in 1931 and published in 1932. Set in the London of AD 2540 (632 A.F. in the book), the novel anticipates developments in reproductive technology and sleep-learning that combine to change society....
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- Aldous Huxley
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The Art of War
The Art of War (Chinese: 孫子兵法; pinyin: Sūn Zǐ Bīng Fǎ) is a Chinese military treatise that was written by Sun Tzu in the 6th century BC, during the Spring and Autumn period. Composed of 13 chapters, each of which is devoted to one aspect of warfare,...
- x Date of first publication:
- 1913
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Silent Spring
Silent Spring is a book written by Rachel Carson and published by Houghton Mifflin in September 1962. The book is widely credited with helping launch the environmental movement.
When Silent Spring was published, Rachel Carson was already a well...
- x Author:
- Rachel Carson
- x Date of first publication:
- Sep 1962
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Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal (2001) is a book by investigative journalist Eric Schlosser that examines the local and global influence of the United States fast food industry. First serialized by Rolling Stone in 1999, the...
- x Author:
- Eric Schlosser
- x Date of first publication:
- Jan 17, 2001
- x Editor:
The City of the Sun
The City of the Sun (Italian: La città del Sole; Latin: Civitas Solis) is a philosophical work by the Italian Dominican philosopher Tommaso Campanella. It is an important early utopian work.
The work was written in Italian in 1602, shortly after...
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- Tommaso Campanella
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Ecotopia
Ecotopia: The Notebooks and Reports of William Weston is the title of a seminal novel by Ernest Callenbach, published in 1975. The society described in the book is one of the first ecological utopias and was influential on the counterculture, and...
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- Ernest Callenbach
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- x Editor:
Google Hacks
Google Hacks: Tips & Tools for Smarter Searching (ISBN 0-596-00447-8) is a book of tips about Google, a popular Internet search engine, by Tara Calishain and Rael Dornfest. The book was published by O'Reilly in February 2002 (3rd edition 2006). It...
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- Rael Dornfest
- x Date of first publication:
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Engines of Creation
Engines of Creation is a molecular nanotechnology book written by K. Eric Drexler in 1986. The foreword is by Marvin Minsky of MIT. Engines of Creation has been translated into Japanese, French, Spanish, Italian, Russian, and Chinese.
Topics include...
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- x Date of first publication:
- 1986
- x Editor:
The Spike
The Spike is a 1997 book by Damien Broderick exploring the future of technology, and in particular the concept of the technological singularity.
A revised and updated edition was published in 2001 as The Spike: How Our Lives Are Being Transformed by...
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Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution
Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution is a 2002 non-fiction book by Francis Fukuyama. In it, he discusses the potential threat to liberal democracy that use of new and emerging biotechnologies for transhumanist ends...
- x Author:
- Francis Fukuyama
- x Date of first publication:
- Apr 2002
- x Editor:
The Vegan Sourcebook
The Vegan Sourcebook is a guide to veganism written by Joanne Stepaniak and first published in November 1998 by Lowell House. The book is intended for both existing vegans and those who are considering becoming vegans, and provides information on a...
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- Joanne Stepaniak
- x Date of first publication:
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The Human Factor: Revolutionizing the Way People Live with Technology
The Human Factor: Revolutionizing the Way People Live with Technology (ISBN 0-415-97064-4) is the title of a book by Kim Vicente that Routledge published in 2004. Vicente asserts (as cited in the Optimize article listed in the "References" section)...
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- Kim Vicente
- x Date of first publication:
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Raw Spirit
Raw Spirit: In Search of the Perfect Dram is a nonfiction book by Iain Banks, first published in 2003. It is his first nonfiction book.
The book is about whisky, or finding the perfect dram while travelling in Scotland. Other recurring themes in the...
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- Iain Banks
- x Date of first publication:
- 2003
- x Editor:
Nanomedicine
Nanomedicine is a technical book series by Robert Freitas. It is the first thorough analysis of possible applications of molecular nanotechnology to nanomedicine and analyzes a wide range of possible nanotechnology-based medical devices, and...
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The Soul of a New Machine
The Soul of a New Machine is a non-fiction book, written by Tracy Kidder. It was published in 1981 and won a Pulitzer Prize and an American Book Award. It chronicles the true story of a computer design team racing to complete a next generation...
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- Tracy Kidder
- x Date of first publication:
- Jul 1981
- x Editor:
The Age of Intelligent Machines
The Age Of Intelligent Machines is the title of an artificial intelligence documentary (1987) and book (1990, ISBN 0-262-11121-7 / ISBN 0-262-61079-5) by futurist Ray Kurzweil; this was his first book and it won the Most Outstanding Computer Science...
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- Raymond Kurzweil
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De la pirotechnia
De la Pirotechnia is considered to be the first printed book on metallurgy to have been published in Europe. It was written in Italian and published in Venice in 1540. The author was Vannoccio Biringuccio, a citizen of Siena, Italy.
(The second book...
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- x Date of first publication:
- 1540
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One Good Turn
One Good Turn: A Natural History of the Screwdriver and the Screw is a book published in 2000 by Canadian architect, professor and writer Witold Rybczynski.
One Good Turn was a surprise bestseller, given its prosaic subject matter: the screwdriver...
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- Witold Rybczynski
- x Date of first publication:
- x Editor:
The Way Things Work
The Way Things Work is a book by David Macaulay. It is intended to serve as an entertaining introduction to everyday machines. It covers machines as simple as levers and gears and as complicated as radio telescopes and automatic transmissions. Its...
- x Author:
- David Macaulay
- x Date of first publication:
- 1988
- x Editor:
Prime Obsession
Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics (2003) is a historical book on mathematics by John Derbyshire, detailing the history of the Riemann hypothesis and some of its applications. It is written for a...
- x Author:
- John Derbyshire
- x Date of first publication:
- x Editor:
The Peace War
The Peace War is a science fiction novel by Vernor Vinge about authoritarianism and technological progress. It was first published as a serial in Analog in 1984, and then appeared in book form shortly afterward. It was nominated for the Hugo Award...
- x Author:
- Vernor Vinge
- x Date of first publication:
- 1984
- x Editor:
The Hype about Hydrogen
The Hype about Hydrogen: Fact and Fiction in the Race to Save the Climate is a book by Joseph J. Romm, published in 2004 by Island Press and updated in 2005. The book has been translated into German as Der Wasserstoff-Boom. Romm is "one of the world...
- x Author:
- Joseph J. Romm
- x Date of first publication:
- 2004
- x Editor:
User Unfriendly
User Unfriendly is a novel by American author Vivian Vande Velde.
The story is about a teenager by the name of Arvin Rizalli who, along with his friends, hacks an advanced virtual reality game by Rasmussem, Inc. to avoid what they believe to be...
- x Author:
- Vivian Vande Velde
- x Date of first publication:
- 1991
- x Editor:
How Images Think
How Images Think is a book by Ron Burnett published by MIT Press in 2004 and reprinted in 2005 which deals with New Media and many changes that digital technologies have made possible both in modern western culture and in society as a whole.
Digital...
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- Ron Burnett
- x Date of first publication:
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On Photography
On Photography is a 1977 collection of essays by Susan Sontag. It originally appeared as a series of essays in the New York Review of Books between 1973 and 1977.
In the book, Sontag expresses her views on the history and present-day role of...
- x Author:
- Susan Sontag
- x Date of first publication:
- 1977
- x Editor:
Rocket Boys
Rocket Boys (also known as October Sky) is the first memoir in a series of three, by Homer Hickam, Jr. It is a story of growing up in a mining town, and a boy's pursuit of amateur rocketry in a coal mining town. It won the W.D. Weatherford Award in...
- x Author:
- Homer Hickam
- x Date of first publication:
- Sep 15, 1998
- x Editor:
Mastering the Art of French Cooking
Mastering the Art of French Cooking is a two-volume French cookbook written by American Julia Child, and Simone Beck and Louisette Bertholle both of France. The book was written for the American market and published by Knopf in 1961 (Volume 1) and...
- x Author:
- Julia Child,
- Louisette Bertholle,
- Simone Beck
- Louisette Bertholle,
- x Date of first publication:
- x Editor:
- Judith Jones
Moosewood Cookbook
The Moosewood Cookbook is a recipe book written by Mollie Katzen when she was a member of the Moosewood collective in Ithaca, New York. The original edition, published in 1978 by the then-fledgeling Ten Speed Press in California, was hand-lettered...
- x Author:
- Mollie Katzen
- x Date of first publication:
- x Editor:
Smart Mobs
Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution is a book by Howard Rheingold that deals with the social, economic and political changes implicated by developing technology. The book covers subjects from text-messaging culture to wireless internet...
- x Author:
- Howard Rheingold
- x Date of first publication:
- Oct 14, 2003
- x Editor:
The Virtual Community
The Virtual Community is a 1993 book about virtual communities by Howard Rheingold, a member of the early network system The Well. A second edition, with a new concluding chapter was published in 2000 by MIT Press.
- x Author:
- Howard Rheingold
- x Date of first publication:
- x Editor:
The Auberge of the Flowering Hearth
The Auberge of the Flowering Hearth by Roy Andries De Groot, was published in 1973, in which de Groot writes about the time he spent at a French inn by that name (L'Auberge de l'Atre Fleuri in St-Pierre-de-Chartreuse, Savoy) and the good meals he...
- x Author:
- Roy Andries De Groot
- x Date of first publication:
- x Editor:
Literature and Science
Literature and Science is a 1963 essay by Aldous Huxley.
In these reflections on the relations between art and science, Aldous Huxley attempts to discern the similarities and differences implicit in scientific and literary language, and he offers...
- x Author:
- Aldous Huxley
- x Date of first publication:
- x Editor:
The Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of Paul Erdos and the Search for Mathematical Truth
The Man Who Loved Only Numbers {ISBN 1-85702-829-5} is a biography of the famous mathematician Paul Erdős written by Paul Hoffman. It was first published in 1998 as a hardcover edition. A paperback edition appeared in 1999. The book is, in the words...
- x Author:
- Paul Hoffman
- x Date of first publication:
- 1998
- x Editor:
Computer Power and Human Reason
Joseph Weizenbaum's influential 1976 book Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgment To Calculation (San Francisco: W. H. Freeman, 1976; ISBN 0-7167-0463-3) displays his ambivalence towards computer technology and lays out his case: while...
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Infernal Devices
Infernal Devices is the third of four novels in Philip Reeve's children's series, the Mortal Engines Quartet.
The story continues sixteen years after the events of Predator's Gold. The peaceful city of Anchorage is now a static settlement called ...
- x Author:
- Philip Reeve
- x Date of first publication:
- 2005
- x Editor:
A Darkling Plain
A Darkling Plain is the fourth and final novel in the Mortal Engines Quartet series written by author Philip Reeve.
The novel won the 2006 Guardian Award and the 2007 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Young Adult Fiction.
The book is set six months...
- x Author:
- Philip Reeve
- x Date of first publication:
- Mar 20, 2006
- x Editor:
West With the Night
West With the Night is a 1942 memoir by Beryl Markham, chronicling her experiences growing up in Kenya (then British East Africa), in the early 1900s, leading to a career as a bush pilot there. It is considered a classic of outdoor literature, in...
- x Author:
- Beryl Markham
- x Date of first publication:
- x Editor:
Topothesie : Der Mensch in artgerechter Haltung
Topothesie is the third book of the German trilogy Meaning of life (1. Omnisophie, 2. Supramanie, 3. Topothesie) written by Gunter Dueck. The author is chief technologist at IBM in Mannheim, Germany and has written a number of books on management...
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Nightmares in the Sky
Nightmares in the Sky: Gargoyles and Grotesques is a coffee table book about architectural gargoyles, photographed by f-stop Fitzgerald with accompanying text by Stephen King, and published in 1988.
- x Author:
- Stephen King,
- f-stop Fitzgerald
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Science in Action
Science in Action: How to Follow Scientists and Engineers through Society (ISBN 0-674-79291-2) is an influential book by Bruno Latour. The English edition was published in 1987 by Harvard University Press. It is written in a text-book style, and...
- x Author:
- Bruno Latour
- x Date of first publication:
- 1987
- x Editor:
Murphy
The novel Murphy (1938) was Samuel Beckett's third work of prose fiction, and second published, after the short-story collection More Pricks than Kicks (1934) and his unpublished (until 1992) first novel Dream of Fair to Middling Women. It was...
- x Author:
- Samuel Beckett
- x Date of first publication:
- 1938
- x Editor:
Open Skies, Closed Minds
Open Skies, Closed Minds, a book on ufology, expresses the views of Nick Pope, a former UFO-investigator with the British Ministry of Defence (MOD).
The book provides an overview of the UFO phenomenon, with the emphasis on Pope's three-year tour of...
- x Date of first publication:
- 1999
- x Editor:
Orb of Chatham
The Orb of Chatham is a 2005 graphic novel, by Bob Staake. This is the first book to document the Cape Cod's 'Orb of Chatham' legend. The entire story is told with only 215 words and 13 eerie black and white illustrations. What is unusual about the...
- x Author:
- Bob Staake
- x Date of first publication:
- x Editor:
Air pollution dispersion modeling books
Each of the books listed in this Bibliography of atmospheric dispersion modeling includes the author(s), the publication date, the title, the edition, by whom published, and the ISBN or ISSN where available. The list is organized into two categories...
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Pocket Ref
Pocket Ref is a notedly comprehensive, all-purpose pocket-sized reference book/handbook and how-to guide containing various tips, tables, maps, formulas, constants and conversions by Thomas J. Glover. It is published by Sequoia Publishing Inc. and...
- x Author:
- Thomas J. Glover
- x Date of first publication:
- x Editor:
The Redwall Cookbook
The Redwall Cookbook is a cookbook based on food from the Redwall series. It contains recipes mentioned in the books, from Deeper'n'Ever Pie and Summer Strawberry Fizz to Abbey Trifle and Great Hall Gooseberry Fool.
This book features numerous...
- x Author:
- Brian Jacques
- x Date of first publication:
- 2005
- x Editor:
What the Dormouse Said
What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry, is a 2005 non-fiction book by John Markoff. The book details the history of the personal computer, closely tying the ideologies of the collaboratively...
- x Author:
- John Markoff
- x Date of first publication:
- 2005
- x Editor:
A Method of Reaching Extreme Altitudes
A Method of Reaching Extreme Altitudes is a book written by Robert Goddard describing his theories of rocket flight. The book was published in 1919 by the Smithsonian Institution.
The book is considered one of the most significant works of the...
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Book of Ingenious Devices
The Book of Ingenious Devices ( كتاب الحيل Kitab al-Hiyal) was a large illustrated work on mechanical devices including automata published in 850 by the three Persian brothers Ahmad, Muhammad and Hasan bin Musa ibn Shakir (the three together known...
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Energy and Power
Energy and Power is a 1962 science book for children by L. Sprague de Camp, illustrated by Weimer Pursell and Fred Eng, published by Golden Press as part of The Golden Library of Knowledge Series.
- x Author:
- L. Sprague de Camp
- x Date of first publication:
- 1962
- x Editor:
Engines
Engines is a 1959 science book for children by L. Sprague de Camp, illustrated by Jack Coggins, published by Golden Press. A revised edition issued as part of the publisher's Golden Library of Knowledge Series was published in 1961.
As stated on the...
- x Author:
- L. Sprague de Camp
- x Date of first publication:
- 1959
- x Editor:
Man And Power
Man and Power is a 1961 science book for children by L. Sprague de Camp, illustrated with documents and photographs, and with paintings by Alton S. Tobey, published by Golden Press.
As stated on the cover, the work is a survey of "the story of power...
- x Author:
- L. Sprague de Camp
- x Date of first publication:
- 1961
- x Editor:
The Heroic Age of American Invention
The Heroic Age of American Invention is a 1961 science book for children by L. Sprague de Camp, published by Doubleday. It was reprinted in 1993 by Barnes & Noble under the title Heroes of American Invention.
By "heroic age" the author means the era...
- x Author:
- L. Sprague de Camp
- x Date of first publication:
- 1961
- x Editor:
The Ancient Engineers
The Ancient Engineers is a 1963 science book by L. Sprague de Camp, one of his most popular works. It was first published by Doubleday and has been reprinted numerous times by other publishers. Translations into German and Polish have also appeared....
- x Author:
- L. Sprague de Camp
- x Date of first publication:
- 1963
- x Editor:
The Fringe of the Unknown
The Fringe of the Unknown is a 1983 science book by L. Sprague de Camp, published by Prometheus Books.
The book is a collection of articles that constitute a "study ... of controversial and often little-known happenings in science and technology,...
- x Author:
- L. Sprague de Camp
- x Date of first publication:
- 1983
- x Editor:
The Wild Blue: The Men and Boys Who Flew the B-24s Over Germany 1944-45
The Wild Blue, by historian Stephen Ambrose, was published in 2001. The book details the lives and WWII experiences of pilots, bombardier, navigators, radio operators and gunners flying B-24s of the U.S. Army Air Forces against Germany, with a...
- x Author:
- Stephen Ambrose
- x Date of first publication:
- 2001
- x Editor:
Ken Uston's Guide to Buying and Beating the Home Video Games
Ken Uston's Guide to Buying and Beating the Home Video Games was published in May 1982. The book, published by Signet in New York, was a brief guide to strategy for console video games in existence at the time. The book was divided into chapters by...
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- x Date of first publication:
- May 1982
- x Editor:
Fundamentals Of Stack Gas Dispersion
Fundamentals of Stack Gas Dispersion is a book devoted to the basic fundamentals of air pollution dispersion modeling of continuous, buoyant pollution plumes from stationary point sources. The first edition was published in 1979. The current fourth...
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Perry's Chemical Engineers' Handbook
Perry's Chemical Engineers' Handbook (also known as Perry's Handbook or Perry's) was first published in 1934 and the most current eighth edition was published in October 2007. It has been a source of chemical engineering knowledge for chemical...
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