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62) The innovation delusion: how our obsession with the new has disrupted the work that matters most
Author
Publisher
Currency
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
260 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"For forty years, innovation has been the hottest buzzword in business. But what if the benefits of innovation have been exaggerated, and our obsession with the new has distracted us from the work that matters most? It's hard to avoid innovation these days. Nearly every product gets marketed as being disruptive, whether it's a new technology or a new toothbrush. But in this manifesto on the state of American work, historians of technology Lee Vinsel...
Author
Publisher
Coffee House Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
Charli and Nico's wedding blog has an uninvited guest: a commenter convinced the bride is being romanced by the brother of the groom. To save her from a terrible mistake he adopts multiple identities on multiple message boards, sharing his fears for Charli, his outrage at being thwarted, and the romance, years ago in his analog past, that first attracted his meddlesome care. Cranky, hilarious, and incisive, The More You Ignore Me takes on Internet...
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
[2016]
Lexile measure
980L
Physical Desc
vii, 72 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
Provides a look at sports and nanotechnology, and discusses how this science, which manipulates objects at the atomic level, is being used to create high-tech swimsuits, tennis rackets, golf clubs, running shoes, and other sporting equipment.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
534 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The definitive report on the disruption of the news media over the last decade. With the expert guidance of former Executive Editor of The New York Times Jill Abramson, we follow two legacy (The New York Times and The Washington Post) and two upstart (BuzzFeed and VICE) companies as they plow through a revolution in technology, economics, standards, commitment, and endurance that pits old vs. new media"--
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"'Grunt' tackles the science behind some of a soldier's most challenging adversaries -- panic, exhaustion, heat, noise -- and introduces us to the scientists who seek to conquer them. Mary Roach dodges hostile fire with the US Marine Corps Paintball Team as part of a study on hearing loss and survivability in combat. She visits the fashion design studio of US Army Natick Labs and learns why a zipper is a problem for a sniper. She visits a repurposed...
Author
Publisher
Aladdin ; Hillsboro, Oregon : Beyond Words
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
Beyond Words/Aladdin edition.
Lexile measure
890L
Physical Desc
224 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Would you like to know the future? And, will it be what we think it will be, or will today's predictions be laughably wrong? In Hello from 2030, middle graders get a peek at what's coming just around the corner. In the year 2030, today's kids will be grappling with issues adults are just starting to address now. No, not flying cars: real world conundrums like, what will 8 billion people eat? How can humans produce less trash? Which cool technologies...
68) Human.4
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011
Lexile measure
770L
Physical Desc
231 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Twenty-first century fourteen-year-old Kyle was hypnotized when humanity was upgraded to 1.0 and he, incompatible with the new technology, exposes its terrifying impact in a tape-recording found by the superhumans of the future.
Author
Publisher
Cherry Lake Publishing
Pub. Date
[2014]
Lexile measure
930L
Physical Desc
1 online resource (32 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color).
Language
English
Description
Describes how scientists mimicked the termite's den in order to regulate temperature and humidity in buildings. Includes color photographs, a glossary, and further resources.
Author
Publisher
Teaching Company
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (720 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (vi, 224 pages ; 19 cm).
Language
English
Description
An introduction to basic engineering principles and the science behind them. The course gives a new perspective on one of the most productive periods in the history of civilization. In case after case, you will find that engineering solutions reached during this era would not be surpassed for another thousand years or more.
Author
Series
Publisher
Teacher Created Materials
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (48 pages) : color illustrations.
Language
English
Description
Highlights the terminology and pictures associated with social media from "likes" and "friending" someone to our increased communication through emojis. Includes a text-related activity, a glossary, and color photographs.
Author
Series
Publisher
Cherry Lake Pub
Pub. Date
c2013
Lexile measure
1120L
Physical Desc
1 online resource (32 p.) : ill. (some col.).
Language
English
Description
Describes how fashion designers have used the skin of a shark to create swimming suits that help swimmers move through the water with less drag.
Author
Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
334 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The president's new cybersecurity team, Net Force, is up and running. But a political deadlock in Washington makes the young agency dangerously vulnerable to the criminals, terror groups and hostile governments who would use the digital space to advance their destructive goals. In Central Europe, an unknown enemy mounts a crippling high-tech assault against the organization's military threat-response unit on its home base. The strike casts suspicion...
Author
Series
Publisher
Creative Education
Pub. Date
c2013
Lexile measure
1160L
Physical Desc
1 online resource (48 p.) : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
Describes the history of warfare, detailing major developments and inventions. Discusses how warfare will further evolve in years to come with the use of robots, smart bombs, and GPS technology. Includes color photographs, a glossary, and further reading sources.
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
318 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The director of MIT's Media Lab and a contributor to "Wired" present a set of working principles for adapting and thriving in the face of the twenty-first century's rapidly changing and unpredictable digital environments.
79) Don't look back
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Twelve years ago, forensic anthropologist Jamie Cash survived a brutal kidnapping, torture, and rape. After years of therapy, she has made a life for herself--though one that is haunted by memories of her terrifying past. She finally lets herself get close to a man, FBI agent Dakota Richards, when signs start appearing that point to one frightening fact--her attacker is back and ready to finish the job he started all those year ago. Can she escape...
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (120 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
From the perspective of space, this program traces mankind's journey from hunter-gatherer to dominant global species. With mind-bending data and CGI, the program shows how we have transformed our planet and produced a world of extraordinary complexity.