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The Flying Book
Everything You've Ever Wondered About Flying On Airplanes
David Blatner
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Whether you fear, thrill at, or, like many, have never bothered to stop and think about the wonder of commercial flight, The Flying Book will inform, surprise,...
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The Civilized Engineer
Samuel C. Florman
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Civil engineer Samuel Forman's The Civilized Engineer is aimed at both those observing and commenting externally on engineering, and the practicing...
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The Existential Pleasures of Engineering
Samuel C. Florman
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Humans have always sought to change their environment—building houses, monuments, temples, and roads. In the process, they have remade the fabric of the...
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American Ground
Unbuilding the World Trade Center
William Langewiesche; With a New Afterword by the Author
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Selected as one of the best books of 2002 by The New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, and Chicago Sun-Times Within...
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Astro Turf
The Private Life of Rocket Science
M.G. Lord
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Cradle to Cradle
Remaking the Way We Make Things
William McDonough and Michael Braungart
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"Our planet is alive and the wondrous web of biodiversity provides us with all we need—clean air, water, soil, and energy, as well as food, medicine, resources. Whatever we do, that's what should be the highest priority for protection and we have to adapt everything else to that end. With this book, McDonough and Braungart open our eyes to the way to genuine sustainability by the study of nature and mimicking her ways. This is a groundbreaking book that should be the Bible for the Second Industrial Revolution."—
Dr. David Suzuki, Professor Emeritus, University of British Columbia, and author of
Good News for a Change: Hope for a Troubled Planet
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The Sacred Balance: Rediscovering Our Place in Nature
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The Control of Nature
John McPhee
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The Control of Nature is John McPhee's bestselling account of places where people are locked in combat with nature. Taking us deep into these contested...
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The Deltoid Pumpkin Seed
John McPhee
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This is the fascinating story of the dream of a completely new aircraft, a hybrid of the plane and the rigid airship - huge, wingless, moving slowly through...
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Dowsing
A Journey Beyond Our Five Senses
Wooden Books
Hamish Miller
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Dowsing is an art used for millennia to find water, minerals and metals, and today employed by builders, plumbers, and electricians the world over. Although it...
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