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  • The New Lunar Society

    An Enlightenment Guide to the Next Industrial Revolution

    by David A. Mindell ...
    How to create our industrial future with inspiration and lessons from the originators of the industrial revolution.Climate change, global disruption, and labor scarcity are forcing us to rethink the underlying principles of industrial society. In The New Lunar Society, David Mindell envisions this new industrialism from the fundamentals, drawing on the eighteenth century when first principles were ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Digital Apollo

    Human and Machine in Spaceflight

    by David A. Mindell ...
    The incredible story of how human pilots and automated systems worked together to achieve the ultimate achievement in flight—the lunar landings of NASA’s Apollo programAs Apollo 11’s Lunar Module descended toward the moon under automatic control, a program alarm in the guidance computer’s software nearly caused a mission abort. Neil Armstrong responded by switching off the automatic mode and ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Our Robots, Ourselves

    Robotics and the Myths of Autonomy

    by David A. Mindell ...
    **“[An] essential book… it is required reading as we seriously engage one of the most important debates of our time.”—Sherry Turkle, author of Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital AgeFrom drones to Mars rovers—an exploration of the most innovative use of robots today and a provocative argument for the crucial role of humans in our increasingly technological future.**In Our ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Work of the Future

    Building Better Jobs in an Age of Intelligent Machines

    by Elisabeth Reynolds, David H. Autor, David A. Mindell ...
    Why the United States lags behind other industrialized countries in sharing the benefits of innovation with workers and how we can remedy the problem.The United States has too many low-quality, low-wage jobs. Every country has its share, but those in the United States are especially poorly paid and often without benefits. Meanwhile, overall productivity increases steadily and new technology has ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Between Human and Machine

    Feedback, Control, and Computing before Cybernetics

    by David A. Mindell ...
    Series series Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology
    Today, we associate the relationship between feedback, control, and computing with Norbert Wiener's 1948 formulation of cybernetics. But the theoretical and practical foundations for cybernetics, control engineering, and digital computing were laid earlier, between the two world wars. In Between Human and Machine: Feedback, Control, and Computing before Cybernetics, David A. Mindell shows how the ... Read more

    $31.19 USD

  • Iron Coffin

    War, Technology, and Experience aboard the USS Monitor

    by David A. Mindell ...
    Series series Johns Hopkins Introductory Studies in the History of Technology
    The USS Monitor famously battled the CSS Virginia (the armored and refitted USS Merrimack) at Hampton Roads in March 1862. This updated edition of David A. Mindell's classic account of the ironclad warships and the human dimension of modern warfare commemorates the 150th anniversary of this historic encounter.Mindell explores how mariners—fighting "blindly," below the waterline—lived in and coped ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

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    Digital Apollo

    Human and Machine in Spaceflight

    by David A. Mindell ...
    Narrated by Kyle Tait ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 36 min

    As Apollo 11's Lunar Module descended toward the moon under automatic control, a program alarm in the guidance computer's software nearly caused a mission abort. Neil Armstrong responded by switching off the automatic mode and taking direct control. He stopped monitoring the computer and began flying the spacecraft, relying on skill to land it and earning praise for a triumph of human over machine ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Our Robots, Ourselves

    Robotics and the Myths of Autonomy

    by David A. Mindell ...
    Narrated by David Chandler ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 32 min

    From drones to Mars rovers-an exploration of the most innovative use of robots today and a provocative argument for the crucial role of humans in our increasingly technological future In Our Robots, Ourselves, David Mindell offers a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at the cutting edge of robotics today, debunking commonly held myths and exploring the rapidly changing relationships between humans ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    The Shape of a Life

    One Mathematician’s Search for the Universe’s Hidden Geometry

    by Shing-Tung Yau, Steve Nadis ...
    Narrated by Arthur Morey ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 59 min

    A Fields medalist recounts his lifelong transnational effort to uncover the geometric shape—the Calabi-Yau manifold—that may store the hidden dimensions of our universe.Harvard geometer and Fields medalist Shing-Tung Yau has provided a mathematical foundation for string theory, offered new insights into black holes, and mathematically demonstrated the stability of our universe. In this ... Read more

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    Darkness at Dawn

    The Rise of the Russian Criminal State

    by David Satter ...
    Narrated by Paul Brion ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 42 min

    "The Russia that Satter depicts in this brave, engaging book cannot be ignored . . . Required reading for anyone interested in the post-Soviet state" (Newsweek).Anticipating a new dawn of freedom after the disintegration of the Soviet Union, Russians could hardly have foreseen the reality of their future a decade later: a country impoverished and controlled at every level by organized crime. This ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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    Hot Protestants

    A History of Puritanism in England and America

    by Michael P. Winship ...
    Narrated by Paul Boehmer ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 37 min

    On fire for God—a sweeping history of puritanism in England and America.Begun in the mid–sixteenth century by Protestant nonconformists keen to reform England's church and society while saving their own souls, the puritan movement was a major catalyst in the great cultural changes that transformed the early modern world. Providing a uniquely broad transatlantic perspective, this groundbreaking ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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    All These Worlds Are Yours

    The Scientific Search for Alien Life

    by Jon Willis ...
    Narrated by Eric Jason Martin ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 3 min

    Long before space travel was possible, the idea of life beyond Earth transfixed humans. In this fascinating book, astronomer Jon Willis explores the science of astrobiology and the possibility of locating other life in our own galaxy.Describing the most recent discoveries by space exploration missions, including the Kepler space telescope, the Mars Curiosity rover, and the New Horizons probe, ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

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