1. Pocket Ref
Manufacturer: Sequoia

All the reference information anyone needs on virtually any subject is right at the fingertips in this handy pocket-sized guide. Its tables, charts, drawings, lists, and formulas will be especially useful for contractors, students, travelers, electronics hobbyists, craftspeople, and engineers and more..

2. The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914
Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Truman, here is the national bestselling epic chronicle of the creation of the Panama Canal. In The Path Between the Seas, acclaimed historian David McCullough delivers a first-rate drama of the sweeping human undertaking that led to the more..

3. The Numerati
Manufacturer: Blackstone Audiobooks, Inc.

Every day, we produce loads of data about ourselves just by living in the modern world. Now, a group of mathematicians is sifting through this data to profile us and manipulate our behavior without our even realizing it. more..

4. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
Manufacturer: Harper Perennial

Fast food has hastened the malling of our landscape, widened the chasm between rich and poor, fueled an epidemic of obesity, and propelled American cultural imperialism abroad. That's a lengthy list of charges, but here Eric Schlosser makes them stick with an artful mix of first-rate reportage, wry more..

5. Alcohol Can Be a Gas!: Fueling an Ethanol Revolution for the 21st Century
Manufacturer: International Institute for Ecological Agriculture

Alcohol Can Be a Gas! is the only comprehensive book ever written on alcohol fuel production and use for home and farm. Until now, it has been very difficult for farmers, contractors, alternative energy aficionados, those concerned about Peak Oil, and small-scale entrepreneurs to obtain more..

6. The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century
Manufacturer: Doubleday

“Conventional analysis suffers from a profound failure of imagination. It imagines passing clouds to be permanent and is blind to powerful, long-term shifts taking place in full view of the world.” —George Friedman

In his long-awaited and provocative new book, George Friedman more..

7. Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay Less: A Handbook for Slashing Gas Prices and Solving Our Energy Crisis
Manufacturer: Regnery Publishing

New York Times bestselling author, former Speaker of the House, and Fox News political analyst Newt Gingrich has a plan for slashing gas prices and reducing our long-term dependence on foreign oil.

Gingrich is famous for taking big, visionary ideas and boiling them down into more..

8. The Art of War
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press

Written in China more than 2,000 years ago, Sun Tzu's classic The Art of War is the first known study of the planning and conduct of military operations. These terse, aphoristic essays are unsurpassed in comprehensiveness and depth of understanding, examining not only battlefield maneuvers, but more..

9. Extraordinary Uses For Ordinary Things
Manufacturer: Reader's Digest Association

Save the day with over 2,300 clever, ingenious, smart ways to use everyday household products—all guaranteed to save you time and money!

Did you know that tea can hide gray hair? Or that aspirin can revive a dead car battery? How about the power of table salt to make panty more..

10. Spycraft: The Secret History of the CIA's Spytechs, from Communism to Al-Qaeda
Manufacturer: Plume

From two men who know better than anyone how espionage really works, an unprecedented history—heavily illustrated with neverbefore- seen images—of the CIA’s most secretive operations and the gadgets that made them possible.

It is a world where the intrigue of reality exceeds more..