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The Battery - Henry Schlesinger
In the tradition of Mark Kurlansky's Cod and David Bodanis's E=MC2, The Battery is the first popular history of the technology that harnessed electricity and powered the greatest s... -
Slow Decay - Andy Lane
Product Description Separate from the government; outside the police, beyond the United Nations; Torchwood sets its own rules. A team of investigators, using alien technology to ... -
Shock Wave - Clive Cussler
SUMMARY: A Mysterious Plague in the Antarctic...A Diamond Empire Run by an Evil Genius...A Devastating New Technology...NUMA agent DIRK PITT® is investigating the baffling deaths o... -
RX for Chaos - Anvil, Christopher_ Flint, Eric
EDITORIAL REVIEW: Science and technology have made our lives easier, cured diseases, with achievements that an earlier age would have considered impossible. But once in a while, th... -
Proust Was a Neuroscientist - Jonah Lehrer
In this technology-driven age, it's tempting to believe that science can solve every mystery. After all, science has cured countless diseases and even sent humans into space. But a... -
Halo_ Cryptum - Greg Bear
Product Description_100,000 years ago, the galaxy was populated by a great variety of beings. But one species--eons beyond all others in both technology and knowledge--a... -
Forging the Darksword - Margaret Weis; Tracy Hickman
From Library JournalOutlawed by the mage-priests of Thimhallen since the Iron Wars, the Ninth Mystery, called Technology, has survived only among society's outcasts until a young m... -
Final Days - Gary Gibson
Product DescriptionIt's 2235 and through the advent of wormhole technology more than a dozen interstellar colonies have been linked to Earth. But this new mode of transportatio... -
Failsafe - David MacK
When a cultural observation probe malfunctions and crash-lands on a pre-warp world, the S.C.E. is sent in to destroy it before the technology falls into the hands of a civilization... -
Dream Called Time_ A Stardoc No - S. L. Viehl
EDITORIAL REVIEW: Dispatched to investigate an unidentified ship that has emerged from a mysterious rift in space, Cherijo discovers technology far more advanced than anything she'...