"From science fiction visionary Annalee Newitz comes The Terraformers, a sweeping, uplifting, and illuminating exploration of the future. Destry's life is dedicated to terraforming Sask-E. As part of the Environmental Rescue Team, she cares for the planet and its burgeoning eco-systems as her parents and their parents did before her. But the bright, clean future they're building comes under threat when Destry discovers a city full of people that shouldn't...

"Maximum Ride and her broken flock roam a postapocalyptic world, searching for answers to what happened.".

When Max and the Flock discover an unscrupulous scientist who is experimenting on humans in an effort to "improve" the human race, they decide that they must try to stop him, in spite of Angel's prediction about Fang dying.

"How Technology Works demystifies the machinery that keeps the modern world going, from simple objects such as zip fasteners and can openers to the latest, most sophisticated devices of the information age, including smartwatches, personal digital assistants, and driverless cars. It includes inventions that have changed the course of history, like the internal combustion engine, as well as technologies that might hold the key to our future survival,...

Silas Williams is the brilliant geneticist in charge of preparing the U.S. entry into the Olympic Gladiator competition, an internationally sanctioned bloodsport with a rule that no human DNA is permitted in the design of the entrants. Desperate for an edge in the upcoming Games, Silas's boss engages an experimental supercomputer to design the genetic code for a gladiator that cannot be beaten. The result is a highly specialized killing machine, its...

What do robotics engineers do? How do you become an electrical engineer? Would marine engineering be a good career for you? This book answers these questions and more as it provides readers with a path from classroom to the career of their dreams. Readers will find plenty of information about different careers in the field of engineering through exciting fact boxes, sidebars, and photographs of a day in the life of an engineer. This book is an excellent...

"From skyscrapers to bridges, meet the extraordinary people who helped build some of the world's architectural marvels"--

After his software engineer wife is murdered, Tucker is determined to find the killers and accepts a job as a consultant at his old company, discovering that the suspects are sabotaging the company's critical computer project.