The Airplane

by Jay Spenser

Spenser vividly re-creates the conception and birth of the earliest flying machines, and addressed in turn the evolution of the airplane’s fuselage, wings, flight controls, flight deck, propulsion, landing gear and more. HC. 320pp. 2008.

The Annotated Turing

by Charles Petzold

With the help of extensive annotations and background insights, Petzold presents Alan Turing’s landmark 1936 paper in which the computing pioneer introduced the Turing Machine and defined the limits of computability. SC. 300pp. 2008.

Atomic Awakening

by James Mahaffey

In his incisive history of nuclear science, Mahaffey offers an essential look at the development of this technology in the 20th century and how it will overcome its negative connotations to shape the 21st. HC. 368pp. 2009.