Applied Science & Technology

Technology is a broad concept that deals with the use and knowledge of tools and crafts.A strict definition is elusive: "technology" can refer to material objects such as machines, hardware or utensils, but can also encompass broader themes, including systems, methods of organization, and techniques. The use of technology (whether peaceful or not) affects the environment of the user, an important consideration in the development of innovative systems and tools.

 

Philosophical debates have arisen over the present and future use of technology in society, with disagreements over whether technology improves the human condition or worsens it. Neo-Luddism, anarcho-primitivism, and similar movements criticize the pervasiveness of technology in the modern world, claiming that it harms the environment and alienates people; proponents of ideologies such as transhumanism and techno-progressivism view continued technological progress as beneficial to society and the human condition.

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Accidents May Happen
by Charlotte Foltz Jones, illustrated by John O'Brien
from Delacorte Press
for 4th-6th grade
in Inventions & Discoveries (Location: SCI-INV)
$5.00 (1 in stock)
Adventures of Munford: Munford Meets Robert Fulton
by Jamie Aramini
Fir from Geography Matters
for 2nd-4th grade
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$5.00 (1 in stock)
Alexander Graham Bell
by Elizabeth MacLeod
from Kids Can Press
Biography for 3rd-6th grade
in Biographies (Location: BIO)
Amazing Impossible Erie Canal
by Cheryl Harness
from Aladdin Paperbacks
Historical Non-Fiction for 3rd-6th grade
in Western Expansion (1800-1898) (Location: HISA-19WES)
$7.99
Amazing Leonardo da Vinci Inventions You Can Build Yourself
by Maxine Anderson
from Nomad Press
for 4th-6th grade
in Inventions & Discoveries (Location: SCI-INV)
$7.50 (1 in stock)
Basher Science: Engineering
by Simon Basher, Tom Jackson
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for 2nd-6th grade
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Basher Science: Engineering
by Simon Basher, Tom Jackson
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Basher Science: Technology
Basher Science
by Simon Basher, Dan Green
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Bell and the Science of the Telephone
by Brian Williams
from Barron's
for 4th-6th grade
in Inventions & Discoveries (Location: SCI-INV)
$3.50 (2 in stock)
Caboose Who Got Loose
by Bill Peet
from Sandpiper Books
Personification Stories for Preschool-4th grade
in Picture Books (Location: PICTURE)
$9.99
Champions of Invention
Champions of Discovery
by John Hudson Tiner
from Master Books
for 4th-8th grade
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Crime Busters
Dorling Kindersley Readers - Level 4 Proficient Readers
by Andrew Donkin
from DK Publishing
for 2nd-4th grade
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$2.50 (1 in stock)
Crime Lab 101
by Robert Gardiner
from Dover Publications
for 4th-6th grade
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Cross-Section Trains
Look Inside Cross-Sections
by DK Publishing
from DK Children
for 3rd-6th grade
in Things That Go (Location: SCI-TTGO)
Cut and Make Space Shuttles
by David Kawami
from Dover Publications
for 4th-9th grade
in How Things Work (Location: SCIREF-HOW)
$2.00 (1 in stock)
DK Eyewitness: Forensic Science
by Chris Cooper
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Do It Yourself: Simple Machines
by Buffy Silverman
from William Heinemann
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Draw 50 Boats, Ships, Trucks, and Trains
by Lee Ames
from Watson-Guptill Publications
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Draw 50 Cars, Trucks, and Motorcycles
by Lee Ames
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Draw 50 Vehicles
by Lee Ames
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Draw the Draw 50 Way
by Lee Ames
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Erie Canal
by Peter Spier
from Doubleday & Company
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Eureka! It's Television!
by Jeanne Bendick
from Millbrook Press
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$4.00 (1 in stock)
Famous Ships
by Leon Baxter
for 3rd-7th grade
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$4.00 (1 in stock)
Forensic Casebook
by Ngaire E. Genge
1st edition from Ballantine Books
for 4th-6th grade
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Girls Think of Everything
by Catherine Thimmesh
from Houghton Mifflin
for 3rd-4th grade
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$4.00 (1 in stock)
Great Wheel
by Robert Lawson
from Walker and Company
Realistic fiction for 4th-8th grade
1958 Newbery Honor Book
in Historical Fiction (Location: FIC-HIF)
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I Can Draw Cars & Trucks
I Can Draw
by Terry Longhurst
from Parragon Publishing
for 4th-6th grade
in Drawing for Beginners (Location: ELE-ARTDRAW)
$3.50 (1 in stock)
Industrial Revolution
by Carla Mooney
from Nomad Press
for 2nd-8th grade
in Industrialization & Organized Labor (Location: HISA-19IND)
$15.95
Inventors
by Martin W. Sandler
from HarperCollins
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$4.00 (1 in stock)
Lego Technic Idea Book: Fantastic Contraptions
by Yoshihito Isogawa
1st edition from No Starch Press
for 4th-9th grade
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Lego Technic Idea Book: Simple Machines
by Yoshihito Isogawa
1st edition from No Starch Press
for 4th-9th grade
in LEGO Sets (Location: SCIREF-HOW)
Lego Technic Idea Book: Wheeled Wonders
by Yoshihito Isogawa
1st edition from No Starch Press
for 4th-9th grade
in LEGO Sets (Location: SCIREF-HOW)
Making It Go: The Life and Work of Robert Fulton
by Don Herweck
from Teacher Created Materials, Inc.
for 4th-6th grade
in Biographies (Location: BIO)
$7.00
Mistakes That Worked
by Charlotte Foltz Jones
from Delacorte Press
for 4th-6th grade
in Inventions & Discoveries (Location: SCI-INV)
$5.50 (1 in stock)
Picture History of Great Inventors
by Gillian Clements
from Beautiful Feet Books
for 2nd-6th grade
in Inventions & Discoveries (Location: SCI-INV)
$17.95
Railroad
Inventions That Shaped the World
by John Matthews
from Franklin Watts
for 4th-9th grade
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$6.50 (1 in stock)
Robotics
by Tony Potter, Ivor Guild
Revised from Usborne
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in How Things Work (Location: SCIREF-HOW)
$3.50 (1 in stock)
Sailors, Whalers, Fantastic Sea Voyages
by Valerie Petrillo
1st edition from Chicago Review Press
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Samuel Morse and the Telegraph
by David Seidman; illustrated by Rod Whigham, Keith Williams, and Charles Barnett
from Capstone Press
for 3rd-6th grade
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Seabird
by Holling C. Holling
from Houghton Mifflin
Realistic fiction for 3rd-8th grade
1949 Newbery Honor Book
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Story of the Golden Spike
Cornerstones of Freedom
by R. Conrad Stein
from Sonlight Curriculum, Ltd.
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Tall Ships of the World
by C. Keith Wilbur
from The Globe Pequot Press
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Teaching Technology Through Interest Projects
by Jennifer Katherine Brooks
from Critical Thinking Books
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$14.99
Ten Mile Day
by Mary Ann Fraser
from Henry Holt and Company
Historical Non-Fiction for 3rd-6th grade
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$10.99
Thomas Edison for Kids
by Laurie Carlson
from Chicago Review Press
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in Inventions & Discoveries (Location: SCI-INV)
$19.99
Underground
by David Macaulay
from Houghton Mifflin
for 4th-8th grade
in Architecture and Sculpture (Location: ELE-ARC)
$12.99
We'll Race You, Henry
by Barbara Mitchell
from Carolrhoda Books, Inc.
for 3rd-5th grade
in Biographies (Location: BIO)
$4.00 (1 in stock)
What Is the Panama Canal? (What Was...?)
What Was?
by Janet Pascal
1st edition from Grosset & Dunlap
for 3rd-6th grade
in Gilded Age & Progressive Era (1877-1918) (Location: HISA-19GI)
$5.99 $4.00 (2 in stock)
What Was the Titanic?
What Was?...Series
by Stephanie Sabol, Illustrated by Gregory Copeland
from Grosset & Dunlap
for 3rd-6th grade
in Titanic & 20th Century Disasters (Location: HISW-20DIS)
$3.00 (1 in stock)
Who Was Alexander Graham Bell?
Who Was?...Series
by Bonnie Bader
from Grosset & Dunlap
for 3rd-6th grade
in Who Was? biographies (Location: BIO-WHO)
$6.99
Who Was Ernest Shackleton?
by James Buckley
from Grosset & Dunlap
for 3rd-6th grade
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$5.99
Who Was Nikola Tesla?
Who Was?...Series
by Jim Gigliotti, illustrate by John Hinderliter
from Grosset & Dunlap
for 3rd-6th grade
in Who Was? biographies (Location: BIO-WHO)