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Autonomy: the quest to build the driverless car-and how it will reshape our world
By Christopher Shulgan, Lawrence D Burns. 2018
With the first driverless car likely to hit markets in less than five years, former GM executive and current advisor…
to the Google self-driving car project Lawrence Burns offers a sweeping history of the race to make the driverless car a reality and looks toward the future, explaining how this new technology will impact our lives. 2018.Recreates an era of excitement and innovation, when the future of the free world was at stake and American ingenuity…
took the world into the space age. It celebrates the brave adventurers pursing the final frontier in aviation--breaking the sound barrier. 2018.Television's favorite female science geek takes the stereotypes and stigma around being a woman on TV and in science and--quite…
literally--blows them up. Using a combination of methodical experimentation and unconventional creativity, you will come to the most important conclusion of all: In life, sometimes you crash and burn, but you can always crash and learn. 2018.Atom land: a guided tour through the strange (and impossibly small) world of particle physics
By Jon Butterworth. 2018
From a top physicist at CERN comes the first guide to the fundamental units of matter and the forces that…
act on them--particle physics--since the discovery of the Higgs boson, the missing piece of the Standard Model, leading the listener from basic concepts to the cutting edge. 2018.Experience on demand: what virtual reality is, how it works, and what it can do
By Jeremy Bailenson. 2018
With clear explanations of some of the most complex scientific endeavors in history, this book looks back at the atom's…
wild, secretive past and then toward its potentially bright future. Mahaffey unearths lost reactors on far flung Pacific islands and trees that were exposed to active fission that changed gender or bloomed in the dead of winter. He explains why we have nuclear submarines but not nuclear aircraft and why cold fusion doesn't exist. 2017.Astrophysics for people in a hurry
By Neil DeGrasse Tyson. 2017
What is the nature of space and time? How do we fit within the universe? How does the universe fit…
within us? Few of us have time to contemplate the cosmos, so Tyson brings the universe down to Earth succinctly and clearly, with sparkling wit, in digestible chapters consumable anytime and anywhere in your busy day. While waiting for your morning coffee to brew, or while waiting for the bus, the train, or the plane to arrive, "Astrophysics for people in a hurry" will reveal just what you need to be fluent and ready for the next cosmic headlines: from the Big Bang to black holes, from quarks to quantum mechanics, and from the search for planets to the search for life in the universe. Bestseller. 2017.Exoplanets
By James Trefil, Michael E Summers. 2017
The past few years have seen an incredible explosion in our knowledge of the universe. Since its 2009 launch, the…
Kepler satellite has discovered more than two thousand exoplanets, or planets outside our solar system. More exoplanets are being discovered all the time, and even more remarkable than the sheer number of exoplanets is their variety. Astronomer Michael Summers and physicist James Trefil explore these remarkable recent discoveries: planets revolving around pulsars, planets made of diamond, planets that are mostly water, and numerous rogue planets wandering through the emptiness of space. 2017.Cyberspies: the secret history of surveillance, hacking, and digital espionage
By Gordon Corera. 2016
Reveals the history of espionage and its use of and dependency on technology, beginning with the Second World War and…
continuing through the Cold War and into the present Internet age where hackers and surveillance are commonplace. 2016.Dark territory: the secret history of cyber war
By Fred M Kaplan. 2016
Probes the inner corridors of the National Security Agency, the beyond-top-secret cyber units in the Pentagon, the "information warfare" squads…
of the military services, and the national security debates in the White House to tell this never-before-told story of the officers, policymakers, scientists, and spies who devised this new form of warfare and who have been planning - and, more often than people know, fighting - these wars for decades. From the 1991 Gulf War to conflicts in Haiti, Serbia, Syria, the former Soviet republics, Iraq, and Iran, where cyber warfare played a significant role, the book chronicles, in fascinating detail, a little-known past that shines an unsettling light on our future. 2016.Ask an astronaut: my guide to life in space
By Tim Peake. 2017
What happens when you sneeze in space? Were you ever scared? In this guide, astronaut Tim Peake answers thousands of…
questions he has been asked since his return to Earth, with explanations ranging from the mundane to the profound. From training for the mission to launch, to his historic spacewalk, to re-entry, he reveals for listeners of all ages the cutting-edge science behind his groundbreaking experiments and the wonders of daily life on board the International Space Station. 2017.Caesar's last breath: decoding the secrets of the air around us
By Sam Kean. 2017
Author Sam Kean takes us on a journey through the periodic table, around the globe, and across time to tell…
the story of the air we breathe, which is also the story of earth and our existence on it. 2017.Deep thinking: where machine intelligence ends and human creativity begins
By G. K Kasparov. 2017
In May 1997, the world watched as Garry Kasparov, the greatest chess player in the world, was defeated by the…
IBM supercomputer Deep Blue. Now Kasparov tells his side of the story. 2017.Heavens above: stars, constellations, and the sky (The modern scholar)
By James B Kaler. 2007
In this course, University of Illinois Professor Emeritus James B. Kaler guides listeners through the sights of the naked- eye…
sky, wherein we directly witness the effects of the turning and revolving of the Earth, the artistry painted by the human mind using the sky and stars, and how the view changes with time and with our place on the planet. 2007.When Cremo's book "Forbidden Archaeology" was published in 1993, the scientific world was shocked by its extensive evidence for extreme…
human antiquity - pushing the origin of the human race back tens of millions of years. "Forbidden Archeology's Impact" documents the explosive reactions to his controversial book. 1998.Fueling the future: how the battle over energy is changing everything
By Evan Solomon, Andrew Heintzman. 2003
From trips to the store to lighting entire cities, power is pivotal for the simplest of everyday necessities, but are…
we capable of shifting to cleaner, safer, more reliable sources of energy? The experts predict what a world without oil, which is estimated to run out in 50 years, would be like. New energy alternatives, such as hydrogen and fuel cells, are examined, with surprising conclusions. 2003.Growing resistance: Canadian farmers and the politics of genetically modified wheat
By Emily Eaton. 2013
The story of how Canadian farmers led an international coalition to a major victory for the anti-GM movement by defeating…
the introduction of Monsanto’s genetically modified wheat. Through interviews with producers, industry organizations, and biochemical companies, the author demonstrates how the inclusion of producer interests was integral to the coalition’s success in voicing concerns about environmental implications, international market opposition to genetically modified organisms, and the lack of transparency and democracy in Canadian biotech policy and regulation. 2013.How did we find out about the speed of light? (How did we find out--series.)
By Isaac Asimov. 1986
Graveyards of the dinosaurs: what it's like to discover prehistoric creatures (I Was There Ser.)
By Shelley Tanaka, Philip J Currie, Mark Norell, Paul C Sereno. 1998
Describes paleontologists' discovery of dinosaur fossils at major sites in Mongolia, Canada, and Argentina. Presents information on the Oviraptor, Centrosaurus,…
and Herrerasaurus, among others. Discusses scientific evidence linking birds and carnivorous dinosaurs. Grades 4-7. 1998.How the world was one: beyond the global village
By Arthur C Clarke. 1992