With all the advances in Internet technology, it’s virtually impossible to take advantage of everything that’s available online, particularly free tools and applications. That’s why a book like Upgrade to FREE is so useful. Beth... Read More

Pardu S. Ponnapalli, an IT specialist with a doctorate in physics, has devised ingenious and potentially world-changing ways to improve such things as dishwashers, the next Star Trek movie, laptops, and cat-litter disposal, to name a few... Read More

“For all the romantic talk about the joys of ‘making something with your hands,’ building is done principally with the mind,” David Gerstel writes. In his fourth book, "Crafting the Considerate House", Gerstel takes the reader on... Read More

With wireless hotspots in cafes and bookstores, cell phones that browse the Web and eBooks that download bestsellers with the touch of a button at our disposal, we may think that we are living in a wireless world already. In Web... Read More

In the early 1600s, in the beginning of the Edo period in Japan, nearly all suitable land had been opened to cultivation; soils were beginning to exhaust and forests were showing substantial signs of degradation. The population was 12... Read More

In the 1940s Chicago Union Station handled more than 300 trains and 100,000 passengers a day, writes journalism and nature writing teacher at Northern Michigan University James McCommons. He discusses railroading in America, and, while... Read More

“Sometimes I think should have listened to my parents and become a doctor or a lawyer-but you know, I don’t think I could take the pay cut.” So begins Wiswell’s helpful manual on the business end of farming. Wiswell himself... Read More

“The Airflow had a lumbering, stupid look, a rhinoceros ugliness,” wrote styling historian Paul Wilson. The “streamlined” 1934 Chrysler Airflow was the company’s biggest design mistake—the Airflop, as acerbic pundits called... Read More