For the curious and the creators, Ingenious Patents tells the fascinating history of the inventors and their creations that have changed our world. Discover some of the most innovative of the 6.5 million patents that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted since Thomas Jefferson issued the first one in 1790. Revised and reformatted from the original 2004 edition, Ingenious Patents presents each device along with background about the inventor, interesting sidebars and history, and an excerpt from the original patent application. Author Jay Bennet has also written 15 new entries, everything from iPhones to 3G wireless to CRISPR gene editing. Liberally sprinkled throughout are patent diagrams created by the inventors annotated to show exactly how each item works. Entries include creative commercial successes in fields as diverse as medicine, aeronautics, computing, agriculture, and consumer goods. Readers are certain to find a topic of interest here, whether it is the history behind the patent for a Pez dispenser, cathode ray tube, kitty litter, DNA fingerprinting, or the design of a Fender Stratocaster guitar.

Ingenious Patents: Bubble Wrap, Barbed Wire, Bionic Eyes, and Other Pioneering Inventions

Science & Math

Bennett, Jay

Ikenson, Ben

Technology

Black Dog Leventhal

Responding to his former girlfriend's plea for help, 17-year-old Brian goes to her Greenwich Village apartment only to find her dead and himself framed for her murder. He vows to findher killers and the reason for her death.

The Pigeon

Children's Books

Avon/Books

The Executioner

Three survivors of an automobile crash, in which the driver was killed, are threatened by an executioner who believes they too should die.

Teen & Young Adult

Literature & Fiction

HarperTeen

Two weeks before he is due to receive his inheritance on his eighteenth birthday, Chris receives an anonymous letter informing him that his mother did not die a natural death and that he himself is in danger from the murderer.

Slowly, Slowly I Raise the Gun (Flare Original Mystery)

Gil goes to the city to look for his brother Gareth, who has just sent him half a lottery ticket worth six million dollars, and finds him in the center of a potentially deadly scheme

Death Ticket

Flare

Attempts to project the patterns that crime and crime-fighting techniques will follow in the next 20 to 50 years through a study of the nation's current demographic trends and shifts in economics, religion, technology, education, and the legal system

Crimewarps

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

DOUBLEDAY

. . . a smart and energetic collection of essays on baseball statistics. Curve Ball doesn't play misty-eyed homage to baseball's traditions and conventional wisdoms. . . . This is great stuff. . . . Curve Ball makes clear how pleasurable [stats] can be, and arguably how important, to view the great American game with real precision" - The Wall Street Journal "Rating: 4.5 out of 5. Must own" - Baseballnotebook.com "In [Curve Ball] Albert &amp; Bennett explain the game in ways the conventional press - even titans such as Bill James - cannot" - Baseball America [The book] illustrates how statistical reasoning can be useful in teasing out the role of chance from performance in baseball to better assess ability. . . . Curve Ball represents another advance in the genre of baseball and statistics books" - Journal of the American Statistical Association There is a fascination among baseball fans and the media to collect data on every imaginable event during a baseball game and to use these data to try to understand characteristics of the game. But patterns in baseball data are difficult to detect due to the inherent chance variation that is present. This book addresses a number of questions that are of interest to many baseball fans - including how to rate players, predict the outcome of a game or the attainment of an attainment, make sense of situational data, and decide the most valuable players in the World Series. Curve Ball is directed to a general audience and does not assume that the reader has any prior background in probability or statistics, although knowledge of high school algebra will be helpful.

Curve Ball: Baseball, Statistics, and the Role of Chance in the Game

Albert, Jim

Biological Sciences

Copernicus

A look at baseball data from a statistical modeling perspective! There is a fascination among baseball fans and the media to collect data on every imaginable event during a baseball game and this book addresses a number of questions that are of interest to many baseball fans. These include how to rate players, predict the outcome of a game or the attainment of an achievement, making sense of situational data, and deciding the most valuable players in the World Series. Aimed at a general audience, the text does not assume any prior background in probability or statistics, although a knowledge of high school abgebra will be helpful.

Copernicus/Springer-Verlag

Responding to his former girlfriend's plea for help, 17-year-old Brian goes to her Greenwich Village apartment only to find her dead and himself framed for her murder. He vows to findher killers and the reason for her death.

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Thrillers & Suspense

Routledge& Kegan Paul

A psychological thriller by a master mystery writer offers a portrait of a tortured young man searching for his past in order that he may live to see the future

The Birthday Murderer: A Mystery

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Books by Bennett, Jay

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Ingenious Patents: Bubble Wrap, Barbed Wire, Bionic Eyes, and Other Pioneering Inventions

The Pigeon

The Executioner

Slowly, Slowly I Raise the Gun (Flare Original Mystery)

Death Ticket

Crimewarps

Curve Ball: Baseball, Statistics, and the Role of Chance in the Game

Curve Ball: Baseball, Statistics, and the Role of Chance in the Game

The Pigeon

The Birthday Murderer: A Mystery