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In the Skin of a Lion
by Michael Ondaatje
Bristling with intelligence and shimmering with romance, this novel tests the boundary between history and myth. Patrick Lewis arrives in Toronto in the 1920s and earns his living searching for a vanished millionaire and tunneling beneath Lake Ontario. In the course of his adventures, Patrick's life intersects with those of characters who reappear in Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning The English Patient. 256 pp.
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OVERLOAD
by Arthur Hailey
Since 1974 the rate at chich new electrical generating capacity has been built in California has fallen to less than half of the 1970-74 level. As a result the threat of an economically ruinous power crunch is very real...
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The Atrocity Exhibition
by J. G. Ballard
The Atrocity Exhibition is J.G. Ballard's most complex, disturbing work, with fabulous photos by Ana Barrado and artwork by Phoebe Gloeckner.
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Go Ask Ogre
Letters from a Deathrock Cutter
by Jolene Siana
Teenage hell has never been captured with such intense honesty as these actual letters sent in the late 80s from a desperate girl to the singer of her favorite band. Go Ask Ogre peers into the world of a misfit "cutter" who lives with an abusive mother in the rust belt. A tailspin of suicidal depression and self-injury leads her to write Ogre, front man for the industrial rock band Skinny Puppy. Soon he... (more)
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Nine Inch Nails
by Martin Huxley
Sound, throb, and a long low wail of pure, hard pain...Nine Inch Nails. The world's most disturbing rock band is in effect one man singer and songwriter Trent Reznor. Since stealing the show during the original Lollapalooza tour in 1991, NIN has limned the hard edge of the techno revolution. In Reznor's desperate, combative persona and disarrayed melodies the musical community has finally found a band that... (more)
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Steampunk!
An Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories
by Gavin J. Grant, Kelly Link
Imagine an altrnate universe where romance and technology reign. Where tinkerers and dreamers craft and re-craft a world of automatons, clockworks, calculating machines, and other marvels that never were. Where scientists and schoolgirls, fair folk and Romans, intergalactic bandits, utopian revolutionaries, and intrepid orphans solve crimes, escape from monstrous predicaments, consult oracles, and hover over... (more)
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Where Angels Fear to Tread: One man's journey in starting his small business
The author’s main reason for writing this story is to explain how a small manufacturing business succeeded in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries’ competitive world market. His research for this book came from the notes and diary he kept as he ventured through the launch and then growth of his small machining and fabricating company in the period from 1972 into 2006. The principles he used to start... (more)
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The Pirates of Aireon
The Airmen (Part One: The Pirates of Aireon)
by R. J. Ashby
A grand swashbuckling adventure filled with pirates and airships. On a world covered in water, battles to rule the skies and control airship's dominate daily life. Trouble comes in many shapes and forms and follows the two lead characters where ever they go.
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The Moneychangers
by Arthur Hailey
Nobody does it like Hailey-the godfather of the hugely popular, phenomenally successful, blockbuster bestsellers of the rich and famous. "Absolutely delicious." ( Business Week ) "Hailey at his best." ( Publishers Weekly )
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Wreckers of Civilisation
The Story of COUM Transmissions and Throbbing Gristle
by Simon Ford
Performance artists Coum Transmissions and the music group Throbbing Gristle are subjects of the first major book by critic and art historian Simon Ford. The four key members of the groups, led by Genesis P-Orridge and Cosey Fanni Tutti, were shocking and controversial, exposing the physical and emotional truths that were at the core of the political and social makeup of England in the 1970s. Paving the way for... (more)
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I Am Plastic: The Designer Toy Explosion
by Paul Budnitz
In barely a decade, the designer toy craze, which originated in Hong Kong, has taken the world by storm. Children and adults, celebrities and design aficionados now line up to pay anywhere from five dollars to thousands of dollars for these highly inventive designer creations. I Am Plastic provides a colorful visual history of the phenomenon, which has energized not only the toy world but the global art... (more)
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REsearch: Book 6
Industrial Culture Handbook
by Andrea Juno
Essential library reference guide to the deviant performance artists and musicians of the industrial culture movement. Features Survival Research Laboratories, Throbbing Gristle, Cabaret Voltaire, SPK, Non, Monte Cazazza, Johanna Went, Sordide Sentimental, R&N, and Z'ev. Some topics discussed: new brain research, forbidden medical texts & films, creative crime and interesting criminals, modern... (more)
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Infrastructure
A Field Guide to the Industrial Landscape
by Brian Hayes
“Original, highly readable. . . . An extraordinary book.”—Anne Eisenberg, Scientific American
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Mechanisms and Mechanical Devices Sourcebook
by Neil Sclater
2,501 mechanisms and mechanical devices – at your fingertips! A one-of-a-kind pictorial directory, Mechanisms and Mechanical Devices Sourcebook, Third Edition, gives you drawings and descriptions of time-tested components, mechanisms, and devices. A carefully compiled index lets you quickly find a specific component which may very well be the exact problem-solving answer you've been seeking. You can count on... (more)
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Mechatronics: An Integrated Approach
by Clarence W. De Silva
The study of mechatronics requires a good foundation of such core subjects as electrical components and analysis, mechanical components and analysis, sensors and instrumentation, drives and actuators, control (including intelligent control), digital processing and hardware, communication and interfacing, software engineering, modeling and design. Mechatronics: An Integrated Approach introduces practical... (more)
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Product Design Now
by Cristian Campos
Product designers are faced with the challenge of designing merchandise, which is not only functional and easy to use, but attractive and eye-catching to the consumer. Product Design Now showcases the best products designed in recent years -- with a special focus on electronics -- categorized by size: small, medium, large, and extra large. Emphasizing the design process step-by-step, this book shows all of the... (more)
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Modern Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology
by Nduka Okafor
This book is directed towards undergraduates and beginning graduate students in microbiology, food science and chemical engineering. Those studying pharmacy, biochemistry and general biology will find it of interest. The section on waste disposal will be of interest to civil engineering and public health students and practitioners. For the benefit of those students who may be unfamiliar with the basic biological... (more)
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Farmer and the Obstetrician
by Michel Odent
In his new book Michel Odent shows how farming and childbirth have been industrialized side by side during the 20th century — with dramatic and disturbing consequences. The similarities are striking. In both cases innovations have been presented as the long awaited solution to an old problem: the advent of powerful synthetic insecticides has, overnight, dramatically reduced the costs and increased agricultural... (more)
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Less and More: The Design Ethos of Dieter Rams
In the more than 40 years that he spent working at Braun, Dieter Rams established himself as one of the most influential designers of the twentieth century. His elegantly clear visual language not only defined product design for decades, but also our fundamental understanding of what design is and what it can and should do. Dieter Rams created ten rules of design more than twenty years ago. Sometimes referred to... (more)
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The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls
by Emilie Autumn
Presenting Emilie Autumn's long awaited autobiographical, reality-bending thriller, "The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls." This beautifully bound hardcover volume measures 8" x 11.5" and clocks in at a massive 274 fully illustrated pages. Positively packed with hand-written memoirs, photos, and paintings, this profoundly empowering epic not only deserves a place on your tea table, it is also one of the most... (more)

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