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Invention by Design

ISBN	Authors	Year	Pages	Description	URL
0674463684	Henry Petroski	1998	252	This book explores the nature of engineering and technology through case studies of familiar objects, from paper clips and aluminum cans to airplanes and modern high-rise buildings. These real-world artifacts (some of which I have written about before) are approached here from a perspective designed to illuminate different facets of the engineering enterprise – design, analysis, failure, economics, aesthetics, communications, politics, and quality control, to name but a few. The case studies also touch on a variety of engineering fields, including aeronautical, civil, computer, electrical, environmental, manufacturing, mechanical, and structural engineering. - Preface.	https://openlibrary.org/books/OL29218219M/Invention_by_Design

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Ancillary Mercy

ISBN	Authors	Year	Pages	Description	URL
9780316565189	Ann Leckie	2023	368		https://openlibrary.org/books/OL42774696M/Ancillary_Mercy

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The lord of the rings

ISBN	Authors	Year	Pages	Description	URL
0345339738	J.R.R. Tolkien	1994	3 v. :	Originally published from 1954 through 1956, J.R.R. Tolkien’s richly complex series ushered in a new age of epic adventure storytelling. A philologist and illustrator who took inspiration from his work, Tolkien invented the modern heroic quest novel from the ground up, creating not just a world, but a domain, not just a lexicon, but a language, that would spawn countless imitators and lead to the inception of the epic fantasy genre. Today, THE LORD OF THE RINGS is considered “the most influential fantasy novel ever written.” (THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF FANTASY)During his travels across Middle-earth, the hobbit Bilbo Baggins had found the Ring. But the simple band of gold was far from ordinary; it was in fact the One Ring - the greatest of the ancient Rings of Power. Sauron, the Dark Lord, had infused it with his own evil magic, and when it was lost, he was forced to flee into hiding.But now Sauron’s exile has ended and his power is spreading anew, fueled by the knowledge that his treasure has been found. He has gathered all the Great Rings to him, and will stop at nothing to reclaim the One that will complete his dominion. The only way to stop him is to cast the Ruling Ring deep into the Fire-Mountain at the heart of the land of Mordor–Sauron’s dark realm.Fate has placed the burden in the hands of Frodo Baggins, Bilbo’s heir…and he is resolved to bear it to its end. Or his own.Contains	https://openlibrary.org/books/OL21171006M/The_lord_of_the_rings

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Spies, Lies, and Algorithms

ISBN	Authors	Year	Pages	Description	URL
9780691223070	Amy B. Zegart	2023	424		https://openlibrary.org/books/OL39556182M/Spies_Lies_and_Algorithms

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The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, Part 2)

ISBN	Authors	Year	Pages	Description	URL
0345339711	J.R.R. Tolkien	August 12, 1986	416	The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien’s three-volume epic, is set in the imaginary world of Middle-earth – home to many strange beings, and most notably hobbits, a peace-loving “little people,” cheerful and shy. Since its original British publication in 1954-55, the saga has entranced readers of all ages. It is at once a classic myth and a modern fairy tale. Critic Michael Straight has hailed it as one of the “very few works of genius in recent literature.” Middle-earth is a world receptive to poets, scholars, children, and all other people of good will. Donald Barr has described it as “a scrubbed morning world, and a ringing nightmare world…especially sunlit, and shadowed by perils very fundamental, of a peculiarly uncompounded darkness.” The story of this world is one of high and heroic adventure. Barr compared it to Beowulf, C.S. Lewis to Orlando Furioso, W.H. Auden to The Thirty-nine Steps. In fact the saga is sui generis – a triumph of imagination which springs to life within its own framework and on its own terms. - Jacket flap.Frodo and the Companions of the Ring have been beset by danger during their quest to prevent the Ruling Ring from falling into the hands of the Dark Lord by destroying it in the Cracks of Doom. They have lost the wizard, Gandalf, in the battle with an evil spirit in the Mines of Moria; and at the Falls of Rauros, Boromir, seduced by the power of the Ring, tried to seize it by force. While Frodo and Sam made their escape the rest of the company were attacked by Orcs. Now they continue their journey alone down the great River Anduin - alone, that is, save for the mysterious creeping figure that follows wherever they go. J.R.R. Tolkien’s great work of imaginative fiction has been labelled both a heroic romance and a classic fantasy fiction. By turns comic and homely, epic and diabolic, the narrative moves through countless changes of scene and character in an imaginary world which is totally convincing in its detail.	https://openlibrary.org/books/OL9817745M/The_Two_Towers_(The_Lord_of_the_Rings_Part_2)

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Weaponisation of Everything

ISBN	Authors	Year	Pages	Description	URL
9780300270419	Mark Galeotti	2023	248		https://openlibrary.org/books/OL39566165M/Weaponisation_of_Everything

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The Fellowship Of The Ring

ISBN	Authors	Year	Pages	URL
0345339703	J.R.R. Tolkien	2001	458	https://openlibrary.org/books/OL45506127M/The_Fellowship_of_the_Ring

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One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.“A unique, wholly realized other world, evoked from deep in the well of Time, massively detailed, absorbingly entertaining, profound in meaning.”–The New York TimesIn ancient times the Rings of Power were crafted by the Elven-smiths, and Sauron, the Dark Lord, forged the One Ring, filling it with his own power so that he could rule all others. But the One Ring was taken from him, and though he sought it throughout Middle-earth, it remained lost to him. After many ages it fell into the hands of Bilbo Baggins, as told in The Hobbit. In a sleepy village in the Shire, young Frodo Baggins finds himself faced with an immense task, as his elderly cousin Bilbo entrusts the Ring to his care. Frodo must leave his home and make a perilous journey across Middle-earth to the Cracks of Doom, there to destroy the Ring and foil the Dark Lord in his evil purpose.

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