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Technology

2012
Presents descriptions, photographs, and diagrams of innovative new technologies and the history behind these inventions.

Gaming technology

2012
"Describes the technology used for creating and playing video games. Includes information on how different platforms work and the direction video game technology may be going"--provided by publisher.

Are cell phones dangerous?

2012
Provides information on the possible effects of electromagnetic radiation called radiofrequency (RF) energy, which may increase the risk of brain cell damage leading to tumors.

Were early computers really the size of a school bus?

and other questions about inventions
2011
Investigates the facts behind seventeen commonly held beliefs about inventions.

The Romans

2011
Examines how the people of ancient Rome designed and used technology, covering concrete, arches, waterwheels, calendars, roads, sewers, heating, domes, and other topics.

In the Renaissance

2011
Looks at how knowledge and inventions were discovered and how they spread to other parts of the world from Europe during the Renaissance, 1485 to 1714, discussing firearms, clocks, navigation, oil paint, arithmetic, distilled alcohol, and other topics.

The Greeks

2011
Examines how the people of ancient Greece designed and used technology, covering money, pulleys, screw thread, city planning, mining, and other topics.

The Egyptians

2011
Examines how the people of ancient Egypt designed and used technology, covering pyramids, sailing ships, paper and ink, embalming, irrigation, measurement, and other topics.

Medieval science, 500-1500

2010
Readers will enjoy the enlightenment that this narrative provides, never to view the Dark Ages in the same way again.

Fever Crumb

2010
Foundling Fever Crumb has been raised as an engineer although females in the future London, England, are not believed capable of rational thought, but at age fourteen she leaves her sheltered world and begins to learn startling truths about her past while facing danger in the present.

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