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BLAME! Vol. 1
Tsutomu Nihei In a future version of Earth, there is a city grown so chaotically massive that its inhabitants no longer recall what "land" is. Within this megastructure the silent, stoic Kyrii is on a mission to find the Net Terminal Gene—a genetic mutation that once allowed humans to access t viac

BLAME! Vol. 2
Tsutomu Nihei The Administration contacts Kyrii and Cibo, encouraging them to keep searching for the Net Terminal Gene which will stop the City from its intractable, chaotic growth. The Admin also warns them of the autonomous Safeguards, vicious entities that attempt to kill off any humans who viac

Brave New World (shortened version)
Aldous Huxley This is a shortened version of worldwide known novel by Aldous Huxley. Brave New World is a novel written in 1931 by Aldous Huxley and published in 1932. Set in London in the year AD 2540 (632 A.F.—"After Ford"—in the book), the novel anticipates developments in reproductive tec viac

Coders: Who They Are, What They Think and How They Are Changing Our World
Clive Thompson Masterful . . . [Thompson] illuminates both the fascinating coders and the bewildering technological forces that are transforming the world in which we live.' - David Grann, author of The Lost City of Z. Facebook’s algorithms shaping the news. Uber’s cars flocking the streets. viac

Everything to Play For
Marijam Did The inside story of video games, and how they can be used to to change the worldToday over 3 billion people play video games regularly. By 2027 this will create an economy of $0.5 trillion a year, larger than films and music combined. More people are watching the competitive fina viac

Good Data
Sam Gilbert Digital technology is now so pervasive that it's very hard to escape its influence, and with that growth comes fear. But whatever the news has told you about data and technology, think again. Data expert and tech insider Sam Gilbert shows that, actually, this data revolution coul viac

He 162 Volksjäger Units
Robert Forsyth With the Third Reich on the brink of defeat Hitler's instructions to his designers were clear. He wanted a Volksjäger - a People's Fighter that was quick to produce and used minimal quantities of strategic materials. Heinkel rose to the challenge with the He 162, a fighter constr viac

Is Technology Making Us Sick?
Matthew Taylor   Ian Douglas Modern technology has enhanced our lives in numerous ways we can now communicate in real time with friends and colleagues around the world, and do our shopping and banking without leaving home. But, as technology crowds further into our personal lives, is it doing us more harm th viac

Junkers Ju52
Robert Forsyth As with the other recent books in this series, this Classic study of the Ju 52 offers the most definitive account published in recent years of this bulwark of the Luftwaffe, which first saw military service in the 1930s and was then engaged in operations in the Spanish Civil War viac

Mechanical bride: Folkore of Industrial Man
Marshall McLuhan This book details how sex was first used to sell industrial hardware, how Orphan Annie still keeps the world on track, and how an Arabian Nights wonderland of mass entertainment and suggestion makes information irrelevant, and sends us to bed at night too dazed to question whethe viac

Messerschmitt Me 264 Amerika Bomber
Robert Forsyth As Europe plunged into World War II, Hitler ordered the development of a hi-tech secret weapon capable of taking the war across the Atlantic - the Messerschmitt Me 264. Chosen from designs for an 'Amerika Bomber' tendered by Messerschmitt, Junkers and Focke-Wulf, this ultra-long- viac

Mother of Invention
Katrine Marçal It all starts with a rolling suitcase. Though the wheel was invented some five thousand years ago, and the suitcase in the nineteenth century, it wasn’t until the 1970s that someone successfully married the two. What was the hold up? For writer and journalist Katrine Marçal, the viac

My Inventions - The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla
Nikola Tesla Serbian inventor NIKOLA TESLA (1857-1943) was a revolutionary scientist who forever changed the scientific fields of electricity and magnetism. Tesla's greatest invention, A/C current, powers almost all of the technological wonders in the world today, from home heating to compute viac

Star Trek DS9: Demons of Air and Darkness
Keith R.A. DeCandido Once they moved from world to world in a single step, through innumerable doors that spanned the galaxy. They were masters of space, and to those who feared them, they were demons of air and darkness. But long ago they left their empire and their miraculous technology behind. Now viac

Star Trek: Enterprise: Last Full Measure
Michael A. Martin   Andy Mangels Without warning or provocation an alien weapon appears above Earth and unleashes a blast that kills millions across two continents. A second such weapon could destroy the entire planet. In a desperate bid to save Earth and its people, Starfleet must change its mission from one of viac

Star Trek: Enterprise: Rosetta
Dave Stern On the edge of uncharted space . . . Captain Jonathan Archer and the crew of the Starship Enterprise find their way forward blocked by a mysterious alien vessel, piloted by a race they will soon come to know as the Antianna. Unable to decipher the alien ship's transmissions, unwi viac

Star Trek: Starfleet Year One
Michael Jan Friedman Earth Command defeated the Romulans with the help of other races across the galaxy, and the Neutral Zone was established. Out of that necessary and uneasy collaboration came the United Federation of Planets and its combined forces, Starfleet. But the close quarters of a starship viac

Start Us Up
Lexi Blake From New York Times bestselling author Lexi Blake, discover The Park Avenue Promise Series... Three young women make a pact in high school— to always be friends and to one day make it big in Manhattan. She’s a high-tech boss who lost it all… Ivy Jensen was the darling o viac

Surveilance Valley
Yasha Levine The internet is the most effective weapon the government has ever built. In this fascinating book, investigative reporter Yasha Levine uncovers the secret origins of the internet, tracing it back to a Pentagon counterinsurgency surveillance project. A visionary intelligence off viac

Talk to Me
James Vlahos The next great technological disruption is coming. The titans of Silicon Valley are racing to build the last, best computer that the world will ever need. Whoever successfully creates it will revolutionise our relationship with technology – and make billions of dollars in the viac

The Every
Dave Eggers When the world's largest search engine/social media company, the Circle, merges with the planet's dominant ecommerce site, it creates the richest and most dangerous--and, oddly enough, most beloved--monopoly ever known: the Every. Delaney Wells is an unlikely new hire at the E viac

The Invisible Rainbow
Arthur Firstenberg The most misunderstood force driving health and disease The story of the invention and use of electricity has often been told before, but never from an environmental point of view. The assumption of safety, and the conviction that electricity has nothing to do with life, are b viac

The Precipice
Toby Ord If all goes well, human history is just beginning. But this vast future is under threat. Oxford philosopher Toby Ord explores the risks to humanity, from climate change and nuclear war, to the arguably greater threats on the horizon, including engineered pandemics and unaligned a viac