The Space Race, AI, and How Roboprocesses Shape Our World in Engineering Academic Best Sellers

An exploration of how energy has transformed societies of the past; a vivid and enthralling chronicle of one of the most thrilling, hopeful, and turbulent eras in the nation’s history; and a rich and wide-ranging volume on automatic processes top the list of best-selling engineering and technology books, as compiled by GOBI Library Solutions from EBSCO.

An exploration of how energy has transformed societies of the past; a vivid and enthralling chronicle of one of the most thrilling, hopeful, and turbulent eras in the nation’s history; and a rich and wide-ranging volume on automatic processes top the list of best-selling engineering and technology books, as compiled by GOBI Library Solutions from EBSCO.
 

1. Power Trip: The Story of Energy.
Webber, Michael E.
Basic Books. 2019. ISBN 9781541644397. $30.
 

2. American Moonshot: John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race
Brinkley, Douglas
HarperCollins. 2019. ISBN 9780062655066. $35.
 

3. Life by Algorithms: How Roboprocesses Are Remaking Our World
Besteman, Catherine
University of Chicago Press. 2019. ISBN 9780226627427. $82.50.
 

4. Age of Living Machines: How Biology Will Build the Next Technology Revolution
Hockfield, Susan,
W. W. Norton. 2019. ISBN 9780393634747. $26.95.
 

5. Bored, Lonely, Angry, Stupid: Changing Feelings About Technology, From the Telegraph to Twitter
Fernandez, Luke
Harvard University Press. 2019. ISBN 9780674983700. $35.
 

6. Apollo's Legacy: Perspectives on the Moon Landings
Launius, Roger D.
Smithsonian Books. 2019. ISBN 9781588346490. $27.95.
 

7. Speech Police: The Global Struggle To Govern the Internet
Kaye, David
Columbia Global Reports. 2019. ISBN 9780999745489. $15.99.
 

8. Social Photo: On Photography and Social Media
Jurgenson, Nathan
Verso. 2019. ISBN 9781788730914. $19.95.
 

9. Cyber Security: Threats and Responses for Government and Business
Caravelli, Jack
Praeger. 2019. ISBN 9781440861734. $60.
 

10. Wright Brothers, Wrong Story: How Wilbur Wright Solved the Problem of Manned Flight
Hazelgrove, William Elliott
Prometheus. 2018. ISBN 9781633884588. $24.
 

11. Shoot for the Moon: The Space Race and the Extraordinary Voyage of Apollo 11
Donovan, Jim
Little, Brown. 2019. ISBN 9780316341783. $30.
 

12. One Giant Leap: The Impossible Mission That Flew Us to The Moon
Fishman, Charles
Simon & Schuster. 2019. ISBN 9781501106293. $29.99.
 

13. Reaching for the Moon: A Short History of the Space Race
Launius, Roger D.
Yale University Press. 2019. ISBN 9780300230468. $30.
 

14. Will AI Replace Us? A Primer for the 21st Century
Fan, Shelly
Thames & Hudson. 2019. ISBN 9780500294574. $18.95.
 

15. How Knowledge Moves: Writing the Transnational History of Science and Technology
Krige, John
University of Chicago Press. 2019. ISBN 9780226605852. $120.
 

16. Apollo Chronicles: Engineering America's First Moon Missions
Brown, Brandon R.
Oxford University Press. 2019. ISBN 9780190681340. $29.95.
 

17. Interplanetary Robots: True Stories of Space Exploration
Pyle, Rod
Prometheus. 2019. ISBN 9781633885028. $18.
 

18. Engineering Rules: Global Standard Setting Since 1880
Yates, Joanne
Johns Hopkins University Press. 2019. ISBN 9781421428895. $64.95.
 

19. Beyond the Valley: How Innovators Around the World Are Overcoming Inequality and Creating the Technologies of Tomorrow
Srinivasan, Ramesh
MIT Press. 2019. ISBN 9780262043137. $29.95.
 

20. Make, Think, Imagine: Engineering the Future of Civilization
Browne, John
Pegasus Books. 2019. ISBN 9781643132129. $29.95.

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