Ben Gross Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Our Solar System: Mars: The Red Planet
World BookBen Gross“The #Mars I am interested in is Mars as we have known it, as we have described it & as we have defined its importance to our world and our lives.” Looking forward to reading more of @matthewshindell’s new book, For the Love of Mars! https://t.co/vGxvDglkEv #histSTM #histastro https://t.co/lL45py1rkP
Paperback, 2020
$18.99Member price:$18.99 + Free shipping0% off(Limited Discount Book)
Mining Language: Racial Thinking, Indigenous Knowledge, and Colonial Metallurgy in the Early Modern Iberian World
Allison Margaret BigelowBen GrossThis year's Pauly Prize, recognizing the best 1st book on #histSTM in the Americas, goes to Allison Margaret Bigelow for her book, Mining Language, which explores the cross-cultural origins of mining knowledge in the 16th & 17th c. Iberian world. https://t.co/VUaHH8Rwe8 #HSS22 https://t.co/2KGCBh5RkT
Hardcover, 2020
$42.50Member price:$40.38 + Free shipping5% off
Micrographia Restaurata: Or, the Copper-plates of Dr. Hooke's Wonderful Discoveries by the Microscope, Reprinted and Fully Explained
Robert HookeBen GrossPatrick grew up in #KCMO and donated a collection of #RareBooks to @LindaHall_org following her death in 2013. Highlights included a 1472 edition of Appianus' De bellis civilibus romanis and Robert Hooke's Micrographia restaurata (1745). Further details: https://t.co/I0CsjA5Iro https://t.co/2g8n3ZHLdq
Hardcover, 2018
$30.95Member price:$27.85 + Free shipping10% off
The Suez Canal: Letters And Documents Descriptive Of Its Rise And Progress In 1854-1856
Ferdinand De LessepsBen GrossFerdinand de Lesseps, the French diplomat who oversaw the creation of the Suez Canal (which he discussed in this 1855 pamphlet), is one of the few people that #Nemo praises in the novel. Fun fact: De Lesseps knew Verne and would later nominate him for the Legion of Honor. (26/n) https://t.co/sGrAMLVI7O
Paperback, 2010
$32.95Member price:$29.66 + Free shipping10% off
Cybernetics: Second Edition: Or the Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine
Norbert WienerBen GrossAddemir: Cybernetics has many overlapping meanings and draws upon a variety of different disciplines. These layered meanings build upon Norbert Wiener’s initial use of the “steersman” metaphor… (This diagram is a strong contender for the best #infographic of #Junto23!) https://t.co/rlmklT6XsV
Hardcover, 2021
$18.50Member price:$18.50 + Free shipping0% off(Limited Discount Book)
The Wind's Twelve Quarters: Stories
Ursula K. Le GuinBen GrossUrsula K. Le Guin, the award-winning science fiction author who explored gender, morality, and the social sciences in dozens of novels, essays, and short stories, is @LindaHall_org's #ScientistOfTheDay. https://t.co/leViFio49Y #histSTM #scifi https://t.co/mwOlI8iU10
Paperback, 2013
$15.99Member price:$7.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Sun
Leon GolubBen Gross“We are umbraphiles: having once stood in the umbra, the Moon’s shadow, during a solar eclipse, we are driven to do so again and again, whenever the Moon moves between the Earth and the Sun.” #RIP, Jay Pasachoff https://t.co/5AMEhN94MD #histSTM #astronomy #eclipses
Hardcover, 2017
$40.00Member price:$20.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Poor Richard
Charles VellaBen Gross#ICYMI-@LindaHall_org's new rare book exhibition (Promoting Useful Knowledge: @AmPhilSociety and Science in Early America) is now open. Come & see the 1753 edition of Poor Richard's Almanack, which APS loaned us following the @Chiefs' #SuperBowl victory! #LibraryBowl23 #histSTM https://t.co/5TvuZ7UEtz
Paperback, 2013
$5.48Member price:$2.74 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Micrographia
Robert HookeBen GrossPatrick grew up in #KCMO and donated a collection of #RareBooks to @LindaHall_org following her death in 2013. Highlights included a 1472 edition of Appianus' De bellis civilibus romanis and Robert Hooke's Micrographia restaurata (1745). Further details: https://t.co/I0CsjA5Iro https://t.co/2g8n3ZHLdq
Paperback, 2018
$8.99Member price:$4.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Disenchanted Night: The Industrialization of Light in the Nineteenth Century
Wolfgang SchivelbuschBen Gross"Every lighted image is experienced as the light at the end of the tunnel--the visual tunnel, in this case--and as a liberation from the dark." -Wolfgang Schivelbusch (1941-2023), Disenchanted Night https://t.co/ZkPSINWl9O #histSTM #RIP
Paperback, 1995
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