Technology & Engineering
Discover a wide selection of technology and engineering books, including top-rated mechanical and software engineering textbooks,
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Where To?: A Trip Around the NeighborhoodEmbark on a city adventure as eight kids navigate urban life, exploring essential places, learning about community helpers, and fostering confidence and independence in young readers.In Where To? A Trip Around the Neighborhood, join eight adventurous friends as they embark on a journey through...
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Watchdogs: Inspectors General and the Battle for Honest and Accountable GovernmentThe last line of defense for our institutions, and our democracy Inspectors general may be the most important public servants you've never heard of. In Watchdogs, Glenn Fine--who served as the inspector general of the Department of Justice from 2000 to 2011 and the...
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Waiting for Robots: The Hired Hands of AutomationAn essential investigation that pulls back the curtain on automation, like AI, to show human workers' hidden labor. Artificial Intelligence fuels both enthusiasm and panic. Technologists are inclined to give their creations leeway, pretend they're animated beings, and consider them efficient. As users, we...
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Vera the AstronautWhen Vera is admitted to the Great Space Academy she is ecstatic! But out of all the children selected, there is only one other girl... Do only boys want to be astronauts?At the Great Space Academy, where future astronauts are trained, there are very...
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Veg-Table: Recipes, Techniques, and Plant Science for Big-Flavored, Vegetable-Focused MealsNamed a Best Cookbook of the Year by NPR, The Los Angeles Times, Epicurious, Vice, Food Network, Good Housekeeping, and more, and a Best Cookbook of Fall 2023 by Bon Appetit, Food & Wine, Eater, The Strategist, and more. From the bestselling author of...
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US Army Survival Manual: FM 21-76Army Survival Manual is the finest single source for self-reliance for all extreme circumstances. A must for anyone who wants to know how to survive in primitive conditions. The book is very straightforward with many pictures and user-friendly illustrations, written in easy to understand...
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U.S. Army Special Forces Guide to Unconventional Warfare: Devices and Techniques for IncendiariesThe official manual from the United States, meant for novices and experienced soldiers. Describes ways to use tannerite, aluminum powder, thermite, fuse cords, fuse igniters, and more in unconventional warfare--and much more. U.S. Army Special Forces Guide to Unconventional Warfare contains incredibly detailed information...
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Unraveling: What I Learned about Life While Shearing Sheep, Dyeing Wool, and Making the World's Ugliest Sweater"Orenstein is such a breezy, funny writer, it's easy to forget she's an important thinker too."--PeopleIn this lively, funny memoir, Peggy Orenstein sets out to make a sweater from scratch--shearing, spinning, dyeing wool--and in the process discovers how we find our deepest selves through...
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Trucks (National Geographic Kids Readers, Level 1)Who can resist trucks? They're loud. They're complicated. They have wheels twice as tall as your dad. Trucks! has many cool images of the trucks we know and love. There are also curiosities like the $3 million mining truck that's "like driving a house."...
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Tractor and Equipment EncyclopediaThis title lets readers discover information about many kinds of farm equipment. Along with the development of tractors, readers will learn about major tractor brands as well as a variety of types of equipment and their uses. Features include a glossary, additional resources, and...
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The Warrior's Garden: Tools for Guarding Your Mind Against Big TechIn a world dominated by screens and algorithms, who is truly in control?Every time you pick up the phone, you're being manipulated. With every site you visit and post you make, your behavior is being tracked. Your habits are sold to the highest bidder-and...
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The Regenerative Grower's Guide to Garden Amendments: Using Locally Sourced Materials to Make Mineral and Biological Extracts and FermentsRevitalize your garden--and go beyond compost--by making your own biologically diverse inoculants and mineral-rich amendments using leaf mold, weeds, eggshells, bones, and other materials available for little or no cost! In The Regenerative Grower's Guide to Garden Amendments, experimental gardener and author Nigel Palmer...
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The Quiet ZoneIn this riveting account of an area of Appalachia known as the Quiet Zone where cell phones and WiFi are banned, journalist Stephen Kurczy explores the pervasive role of technology in our lives and the innate human need for quiet."Captures the complex beauty of...
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The Princess in Black and the Science Fair ScareIt's mayhem at the science fair! A squishy goo monster is a challenge for the Princess in Black -- but luckily some science-loving princesses are on hand to help. Princess Magnolia is excited. Excited and nervous. She's going to the Interkingdom Science Fair today...
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The (Mostly) True Story of Cleopatra's NeedleFrom the author of the My Weird School books, an adventure story that spans centuries and continents. In Central Park, New York, stands Cleopatra's Needle. But what do you know about? Did you know that thousands of people worked in 1461 BCE to build...
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The Magnificent Makers #9: Rolling Through the Rock CycleBoom! Snap! Whiz! Zap! The Magnificent Makers is a fiction chapter book series filled with real science, adventure, and characters kids will love! Every book includes two science activities kids can do at home. A modern-day Magic School Bus for today's kids! A normal...
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The Heart of Science: Engineering Fine PrintConnect with the insights of an award-winning engineer to navigate a world recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic. Dr. Jayshree Seth zooms in on the issues of science and leadership through the lens of personal and professional transitions, reflections, and actions. The second book in...
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The Green Glass SeaA heartfelt story of a budding friendship in the thick of the war--winner of the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction It's 1943, and eleven-year-old Dewey Kerrigan is en route to New Mexico to live with her mathematician father. Soon she arrives at a...
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The Fact-Finders Universe: Blast Off on a Space Adventure!Explore the wonders of the Universe in this fun, non-fiction graphic novel packed with fun facts and engaging characters. Learn about the Asteroid and Kuiper Belts, which exist between planets and even contain objects, in this comic book for children aged 6-8. Filled with...
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The Eye of the Master: A Social History of Artificial IntelligenceA social history of AI that finally reveals its roots in the spatial computation of industrial factories and the surveillance of collective behaviour. What is AI? A dominant view describes it as the quest "to solve intelligence," a solution supposedly to be found in...
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