Incorporating a balance of cutaway diagrams, hardware and test equipment images, facilities and delivery systems, and tracing their evolution over the past 70 years, prepare for an apolitical description of nuclear weapons, how they are designed, how they work and how they are assigned to different targets in the event of conflict.  Meer

Unofficially named the ‘Peacemaker’, the Convair B-36 is a legend of the Cold War. With six powerful radial engines and four turbojets paired in pods, the B-36 was America’s ‘Big Stick’ that could subdue would-be aggressors with unrestrained nuclear retribution at a level unmatched by any other aircraft or air force of the time.  Meer

This book, extensively illustrated with technical drawings and photographs, tracks the story of each of the successful post-Apollo 11 Moon-landing missions, majoring on the hardware and instruments developed, in addition to the engineering modifications made to the Lunar Module and the Apollo spacecraft for this greatly expanded scientific role.  Meer

An expanded special new edition of the Apollo 13 Manual, published to coincide with the 50th Anniversary of the mission launched in April 1970, which nearly turned into a catastrophe.  Meer

Small Luxuries: Watches is a gift book for the aspiring or experienced watch collector. The book features some of the most renowned watches and celebrity collectors and also focuses on the functional aspects of watches as well as their design, craft, and remarkable history as fun and functional casual and luxury accessories.  Meer

Sialic Acids, Volume 76, the most recent release in the Advances in Carbohydrate Chemistry and Biochemistry series, is the second volume of a two-volume set devoted to the sialic acids.  Meer

Advances in Carbohydrate Chemistry and Biochemistry, Volume 77, the latest release in this ongoing series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters on Temporary Ether Protecting Groups at the Anomeric Center in Complex Carbohydrate Synthesis and Mucopolysaccharidosis Type II (Hunter Syndrome): Clinical and Biochemical Aspects of the Disease and Approaches to its Diagnosis and Treatment.  Meer

Although the highly anticipated petascale computers of the near future will perform at an order of magnitude faster than today’s quickest supercomputer, the scaling up of algorithms and applications for this class of computers remains a tough challenge.  Meer