technology

Provides an overview of how the entertainment industry is being revolutionized by new developments in electronics such as digital wide-screen television, laser disc players, computer movies, and interactive CD-ROM.

Explains in layman's terms how many of the technological amenities of modern life work, including television set, Xerox machine, escalator, microwave oven, submarine, laser, and hovercraft.

An introduction to the achievements of ancient China.

A computer-age visionary argues that the Internet has failed to live up to its early promises, sharing cautionary perspectives on the Web 2.0 design concept while optimistically evaluating the Internet as a positive cultural vehicle.

Applying their unique inventing talents to the creation of highly technological economic systems, Perry and Lester transform the country only to suffer a bust from which they recover by inventing interactive rides throughout the nation's Wal-Marts.

Includes: Tower of Babel, Pyramids, Great Wall of China, Roman Roads, Palace of Versailles, Transatlantic Cable, Transcontinental Railway, Eiffel Tower and Panama Canal.

A collection of scientific ideas, facts, and fantasy from twenty-six classic episodes of "The Simpsons.".

Argues that humanity is facing a profound transition into an era of extremes of wealth and poverty, extremes in technology, extremes in weapons, and extremes of globalism that will test man's survival and stamina and examines the challenges these extremes present for global society.

An introduction to the field of nanotechnology that distinguishes hype and speculation from reality and describes what is possible through nanotechnology in the immediate future.

A reference encyclopedia that includes activities, key vocabulary, and web links related to numbers, energy and matter, materials, living things, and space.