Technology & Industrial Arts
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Lives of Weeds: Opportunism, Resistance, Folly
$24.95 Add to cartLives of Weeds explores the tangled history of weeds and their relationship to humans. Through eight interwoven stories, John Cardina offers a fresh perspective on how these tenacious plants came abou
- Author: Cardina, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: September 15 2021
- ISBN10: 1501758985
- Language: English
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What I Stand On: The Collected Essays of Wendell Berry 1969-2017: (A Library of America Boxed Set)
$75.00 Add to cartThe indispensable writings of our foremost voice on the current ecological and cultural crisis, more relevant now than ever, in a special two-volume edition prepared in consultation with the author.
W- Author: Berry, Wendell
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1702
- Publish Date: May 21 2019
- ISBN10: 1598536109
- Language: English
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Satellite Basics for Everyone: An Illustrated Guide to Satellites for Non-Technical and Technical People
$24.95 Add to cartSatellite Basics for Everyone intends to stimulate a wide interest in engineering and science sorely needed to overcome our educational deficiencies to compete in the global economy. It offers a laype
- Author: Welti, C. Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 148
- Publish Date: June 04 2012
- ISBN10: 1475925948
- Language: English
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Troublemakers: Silicon Valley’s Coming of Age
$21.99 Add to cartAcclaimed historian Leslie Berlin’s “deeply researched and dramatic narrative of Silicon Valley’s early years…is a meticulously told…compelling history” (The New York Times) of the men and women w… [more below]
- Author: Berlin, Leslie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: November 20 2018
- ISBN10: 1451651511
- Language: English
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The Organic Grain Grower: Small-Scale, Holistic Grain Production for the Home and Market Producer
$45.00 Read more“The Organic Grain Grower is the best resource we’ve seen for small-scale grain growers everywhere. . . . [Lazor’s] passion comes alive in this fine guidebook’s depth of detail.”–Mother Earth News
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- Author: Lazor, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: February 16 2023
- ISBN10: 1645022013
- Language: English
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Near Vertical Incidence Skywave Communication
$20.00 Add to cartRevised, third edition of Fiedler and Famer’s classical handbook of High Frequency (HF) radio communications by the Near Vertical Incidence Skywave mode, enabling region-wide communication at lower HF
- Author: Fiedler, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 166
- Publish Date: October 20 2023
- ISBN10: 0960085904
- Language: English
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3D Printing
$18.95 Read moreAn accessible introduction to 3D printing that outlines the additive manufacturing process, industrial and household markets, and emerging uses.
The use of 3D printing–digitally controlled additive ma
- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Jordan, John M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 12 2019
- ISBN10: 0262536684
- Language: English
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The Future of the Professions: How Technology Will Transform the Work of Human Experts, Updated Edition
$14.99 Add to cartThis book predicts the decline of today’s professions and introduces the people and systems that will replace them. In an internet-enhanced society, according to Richard Susskind and Daniel Susskind, … [more below]
- Author: Susskind, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: June 23 2022
- ISBN10: 0198841892
- Language: English
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The Beginner’s Guide to Raising Chickens: How to Raise a Happy Backyard Flock
$24.99 Add to cartA beginner’s guide to ruling the roost and raising happy backyard chickens
The Beginner’s Guide to Raising Chickens makes it easy to start keeping these surprisingly smart birds right in your own back
- Author: Kuo, Anne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 07 2021
- ISBN10: 1638079978
- Language: English
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Elon Musk: Elon Musk’s Best Lessons for Life, Business, Success and Entrepreneurship
$14.99 Add to cartELON MUSK
Elon Musk has been busy improving humanity’s chance of long term survival for nearly 20 years. After helping to form PayPal, Musk went on to form a company whose work has since replaced the s
- Author: Knight, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 110
- Publish Date: July 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1925989488
- Language: English
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The Great American Turquoise Rush, 1890-1910, Hardcover
$40.00 Add to cartThe Great American Turquoise Rush was the period of the largest concerted effort to mine, process and market turquoise in the history of the United States. It started when traditional markets for the
- Author: Chambless, Philip
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 246
- Publish Date: December 15 2016
- ISBN10: 1632931664
- Language: English
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Humane Livestock Handling: Understanding Livestock Behavior and Building Facilities for Healthier Animals
$24.99 Add to cartDiscover how humanely handling your livestock can improve the day-to-day operation and profitability of your farm. Stressing the importance of understanding livestock behavior, Temple Grandin shows yo… [more below]
- Author: Grandin, Temple
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 227
- Publish Date: July 01 2008
- ISBN10: 1603420282
- Language: English
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King Sequoia: The Tree That Inspired a Nation, Created Our National Park System, and Changed the Way We Think about Nature
$27.00 Add to cartFrom a towering tree, one of California’s preeminent naturalists unspools a history that echoes across generations and continents. Former park ranger William C. Tweed takes readers on a tour of the Bi… [more below]
- Author: Tweed, William C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 01 2016
- ISBN10: 1597143510
- Language: English
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AgriHood Baltimore: Community Collaboration and Cleaner, Greener Foods: Community Collaboration
$14.99 Add to cartAgriHood Baltimore: Community Collaboration and Cleaner, Greener Foods includes the first-person stories of seventeen junior farmers, volunteers, elders, and leaders revolutionizing urban farming in B
- Author: Alvarado, Santana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 114
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 9798986096179
- Language: English
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Volt Rush: The Winners and Losers in the Race to Go Green
$18.95 Read moreIn the twentieth century, wealth and power was dictated by access to oil. This century will have different kingmakers, perhaps different wars.
‘A remarkably hopeful and useful book…The climate crisi- Author: Sanderson, Henry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 0861546199
- Language: English
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Success Through Failure: The Paradox of Design
$19.95 Add to cartFrom the acclaimed author and engineer, an engaging and lively account of the surprising secret of great design
Design pervades our lives. Everything from drafting a PowerPoint presentation to plannin- Series: Princeton Science Library #92
- Author: Petroski, Henry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 29 2018
- ISBN10: 0691180997
- Language: English
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Make: Fire: The Art and Science of Working with Propane
$29.99 Add to cartLearn how to safely build projects that burn, poof, “boosh,” and flare! This complete reference and hands-on guide to working with propane explains how to create a variety of flame effects projects th… [more below]
- Author: Deagan, Tim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 366
- Publish Date: May 10 2016
- ISBN10: 1680450875
- Language: English
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The Complicated Roof – a cut and stack workbook: Companion Guide to A Roof Cutters Secrets
$24.95 Add to cartIncrease your roof framing knowledge and understanding as you follow veteran roof cutter Will Holladay through the real life process of calculating, cutting and stacking two tricky custom home roofs.
- Author: Holladay, Will
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 110
- Publish Date: March 12 2009
- ISBN10: 0945186010
- Language: English
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Truth, Lies, and O-Rings: Inside the Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster
$32.00 Add to cartWhat they didn’t want you to know
“We all watched in shock and disbelief when Challenger was lost. Probably no one felt more disappointment and regret than Allan McDonald, who had warned us not to laun
- Author: McDonald, Allan J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 648
- Publish Date: April 01 2012
- ISBN10: 0813041937
- Language: English
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Spaceflight: A Concise History
$19.95 Add to cartA concise history of spaceflight, from military rocketry through Sputnik, Apollo, robots in space, space culture, and human spaceflight today.
Spaceflight is one of the greatest human achievements of t
- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Neufeld, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: October 16 2018
- ISBN10: 0262536331
- Language: English
