Science and Technics

Designing the Urban Future

by Scientific American & Coleen Marlo – Blackstone Publishing (January 19, 2021)

After smartphones, smart TVs, smart windows, and other smart products on the horizon, smart cities were the next logical step in trying to create a better, brighter, more sustainable, and economically sound...

The I-35W Bridge Collapse

by Kimberly J. Brown – Potomac Books (July 01, 2018)

“A bridge shouldn’t just fall down,” Senator Amy Klobuchar said after the August 1, 2007, collapse of the Minneapolis I-35W eight-lane steel truss bridge, which killed 13 motorists, injured 145, and left...

Safety is No Accident - From 'V' Bombers to Concorde

by John R W Smith – Air World (July 30, 2020)

Flying, as everyone knows, is generally regarded as the safest means of transportation. Yet for that to be the case an enormous amount of testing is undertaken. Central to this, of course, are the test pilots,...

Transporter Bridges

by John Hannavy – Pen and Sword Transport (February 28, 2020)

Transporter Bridges are a legacy of the closing years of the 19th century and the early years of the 20th, and served a brief but important need. The huge increase in road transport, however, quickly rendered...

Yearbook of Astronomy 2021

by Brian Jones – White Owl (October 31, 2020)

Maintaining its appealing style and presentation, the Yearbook of Astronomy 2021 contains comprehensive jargon-free monthly sky notes and an authoritative set of sky charts to enable backyard astronomers and...

Becoming Human

by Scientific American & Kevin Kenerly – Blackstone Publishing (January 12, 2021)

We humans are a strange bunch. We have self-awareness and yet often act on impulses that remain hidden. How did we get here? What is to become of us? To these age-old questions, science has in recent years brought...

Understanding Vector Calculus

by Jerrold Franklin – Dover Publications (January 13, 2021)

This concise text was created as a workbook for learning to use vector calculus in practical calculations and derivations.  Its only prerequisite is a familiarity with one-dimensional differential and integral...

The Puzzle Solver

by Tracie White & Ronald W. Davis – Hachette Books (January 04, 2021)

A Father, His Son, and an Unrelenting Quest for a Cure

At the age of twenty-seven, Whitney Dafoe was forced to give up his life as a photographer who traveled the world. Bit by bit a mysterious illness stole...

Spacefarers

by Christopher Wanjek & Donald Corren – Blackstone Publishing (January 05, 2021)

A wry and compelling take on the who, how, and why of near-future colonies in space. From bone-whittling microgravity to eye-popping profits, the risks and rewards of space settlement have never been so close...

Ask the Experts: The Human Body and Mind

by Scientific American & Graham Halstead – Blackstone Publishing (January 05, 2021)

For going on two decades, Scientific American?s ?Ask the Experts? column has been answering reader questions on all fields of science. We?ve taken your questions from the basic to the esoteric and reached out...

The Affordable City

by Shane Phillips – Island Press (September 15, 2020)

From Los Angeles to Boston and Chicago to Miami, US cities are struggling to address the twin crises of high housing costs and household instability. Debates over the appropriate course of action have been defined...