The Book Company: New Products - History

Disasters by Design (How Engineering Failures Shaped the Modern World)

Thu, 20 Aug 2026 07:26:27 +0000

How history’s most infamous disasters shaped the field of engineering, from the creator of the popular YouTube channel Practical Engineering

When a giant bridge collapses, a gas explosion blows up a building, or a major dam bursts, it’s hard not to wonder how things could have gone s..

Price: $37.00

Wizards of Sound (How Electricity Changed the Course of Music)

Tue, 18 Aug 2026 22:41:38 +0000

An exuberant, erudite and completely fresh telling of how science and sound collided as inventors, from Edison to Moog, shaped electronic music.

Sound. Music. Electricity. The extraordinary collision of these elements lies at the heart of modern music.

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Price: $28.95

Social Media Archeology and Poetics

Thu, 13 Aug 2026 07:58:43 +0000

First person accounts by pioneers in the field, classic essays, and new scholarship document the collaborative and creative practices of early social media.

Focusing on early social media in the arts and humanities and on the core role of creative computer scientists, artists, and scholar..

Price: $45.00

Shifts (Nine Big Ideas That Revolutionized Computing)

Sat, 08 Aug 2026 04:19:49 +0000

An engaging account of some of the most important shifts in computing and how they have changed how we design, build, program, analyze, connect, and use computers.

From a pioneer in computing and programming languages, and a best-selling author.

We live in a world with far mo..

Price: $40.00

Everything Is Material (An Archaeologist's History of Humankind)

Tue, 28 Jul 2026 04:41:26 +0000

A groundbreaking archeologist offers a bottom-up perspective on humankind through the essential materials that have shaped our lives—from the wood and soil that built civilization to the plastic and concrete that threaten to destroy it.

“What we think and say may turn out to be less tell..
Price: $35.00

Noise from Below (What Hurricanes, Robot Turtles, and Communist Newspapers Tell Us About Self-Organization)

Fri, 24 Jul 2026 01:36:44 +0000

A lively and rigorous historical exploration of how a scientific idea from the cybernetic prehistory of AI has informed radical politics—and vice versa.

Politically, “self-organization” is all about bottom-up, spontaneously democratic processes. It’s the term we re..
Price: $22.95

Reinventing the Wristwatch (From Dick Tracy to the Smartwatch)

Tue, 21 Jul 2026 04:37:39 +0000

The little-known history of the wristwatch—and how it was a proving ground for consumer products in the shift from a mechanical to a microelectronic world.

A beautifully illustrated volume from a former curator at the Smithsonian, perfect for young and old fans of wristwatches.
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Price: $44.95

California Disasters 1800-1900 (Firsthand Accounts of Fires, Shipwrecks, Floods, Earthquakes, and Other Historic California Tragedies)

Wed, 01 Jul 2026 17:59:30 +0000

It was another time. Deadly earthquakes, steamboat explosions, floods, train wrecks, and other tragedies were a part of everyday life in nineteenth-century California. Yet, the men and women of the day licked their wounds, mourned their dead, picked up the pieces, and plunged ahead to build a grea..
Price: $18.95

English Historic Carpentry

Wed, 01 Jul 2026 16:47:56 +0000

Documents the structure of the world's greatest timber buildings, and shows how the framer's craft has evolved over the past 1,000 years.

English Historic Carpentry describes and illustrates all of the classes of structural carpentry known to the author in England, ..
Price: $26.95

El libro de la tecnología (The Technology Book) (Big Ideas Simply Explained) (Spanish Edition)

Wed, 01 Jul 2026 05:19:12 +0000
¿Te has preguntado cuánta tecnología utilizas cada día sin apenas darte cuenta?
La tecnología está presente en todos los aspectos de nuestra vida. Desde las energías renovables y las plataformas de streaming hasta los vehículos eléctricos y la edición genética, los avances tecnológico..
Price: $34.99