Jonathan Todd Ross
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Discover the secret method used to build the world...
For millennia, humans have used one simple method to solve problems. Whether it's planting crops, building skyscrapers, developing photographs, or designing the first microchip, all creators follow the same steps to engineer progress. But this powerful method, the "engineering method", is an all but hidden process that few of us have heard of-let alone understand-but that influences every aspect...
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This taut, true thriller dives into a dark world that touches us all, as seen through the brilliant, breakneck career of an extraordinary hacker -- a woman known only as Alien. When she arrived at MIT in the 1990s, Alien was quickly drawn to the school’s tradition of high-risk physical trespassing: the original “hacking.” Within a year, one of her hallmates was dead and two others were arraigned. Alien’s adventures were only just beginning....
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This flight will take them somewhere they never expected to go Jack Buchanan knows the woman sitting next to him on his business flight to Denver -- he just can't figure out how he knows her. Clara Stowe isn't in Jake's line of work and didn't go to college with him. They have nearly nothing in common apart from a deep and shared certainty that they've met before. As their airplane conversation deepens, both struggle to figure out what circumstances...
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"From the Periphery consists of more than 30 first-person narratives of everyday people who describe what it's like to be treated differently by society because of their disabilities. The stories are raw and painful, but also surprisingly funny and deeply inspiring. The oral histories describe anger, independence, bigotry, solidarity and love--in the family, at school and at the workplace. Inspired by the oral historians Studs Terkel and Svetlana...
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Jack and the Geniuses volume 3
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IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
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Famed inventor Henry "Hank" Witherspoon has gone missing, and it's up to Jack and his brilliant siblings, Ava and Matt, to find him.
At Hank's ransacked lab, the siblings discover clues to the project he's been working on-a new way to generate and store electricity, inspired by the electric eels of the Amazon.
The kids travel deep into the Amazon jungle, following a series of clues Hank has left. Relying on genius, cunning, and new technology,...