9781626713338
Pub Date: 9/15/2026
Ship Date: 8/15/2026
$32.99
Discount Code: t Hardcover
336 Pages 23 BW and color photographs Technology & Engineering / Automotive TEC009090
9 in H | 6 in W Status: FORTHCOMING
The EV Guys
How Caltech Engineers Reinvented the Electric Car
Charles J. Murray
Key Selling Points:
A story of underdogs, this is the largely unknown tale of the development of the modern EV powertrain by a group of independent outsiders from California. Corrects the popular notion that the electric car's technology was the exclusive product of Tesla Motors. It was not. The technology was invented and developed by a small group of engineers at a company called AC Propulsion. Interestingly, Elon Musk has repeatedly acknowledged the importance of AC Propulsion's role. Vividly demonstrates that technical breakthroughs must sometimes come from outside the prescribed boundaries of a discipline. In this case, the auto industry had already experienced more than a century of electric car failures and had built an impenetrable wall of prejudice around it. AC Propulsion had no such prejudices, and so succeeded.
Summary
The EV Guys: How Caltech Engineers Reinvented the Electric Car is the true account of the auto industry outsiders whose electric drivetrain revolutionized the automobile. Starting from their early years at Caltech, the book chronicles their development of an electric car faster than any Ferrari or Corvette. It then recounts how the founders of Tesla Motors stumbled onto their technology, adopted it, and used it as a foundation for the birth of what would become one of the world’s most valuable companies. The EV Guys breaks new ground in its depiction of the electric car’s history, and is the first book to explain how a small group of engineers in a California garage reinvented the EV and forever changed the auto industry.
Contributor Bio
Charles J. Murray has written about science and engineering for over forty years, during which he has published more than five hundred articles about batteries and electric cars. His work has appeared in engineering journals such as IEEE Spectrum, Design News, EE Times, and Semiconductor International, and in many consumer publications, including the Chicago Tribune, Boston Globe, and Popular Scie...
9781626711648
Pub Date: 9/15/2026
Ship Date: 8/15/2026
$34.99
Discount Code: t Paperback
294 Pages
10 Illustration(s)
Education / Schools
EDU015000
Series: Navigating Careers in Higher Education
9 in H | 6 in W
Status: FORTHCOMING
Ivory Towers Have Glass Ceilings
Institutional Responsibility in Promotion to Full Professor
Chardie L. Baird, Mangala Subramaniam
Key Selling Points:
Highly personal experiences shared by faculty offer real-world challenges and lessons when it comes to academic promotion within higher education. Focus on women and underrepresented minorities and the responsibilities of the institution-policies, procedures, and practices. The book will appeal to higher education administrators, faculty, practitioners, women, gender diverse professionals, and faculty of color at all stages of their careers in academia.
Summary
A must-read for higher education leaders committed to equity, Ivory Towers Have Glass Ceilings examines faculty members’ experiences in promotion to full professorship. This volume discusses how structures, practices, processes, and policies pertaining to promotion from associate professor to full professor both presume and reproduce racialized and gendered inequity.
Women’s teaching and service loads are often quantitatively and qualitatively different from white and some Asian men’s experiences, which only serves to reinforce the status quo. This also extends beyond teaching and service to the types of intellectual contributions that are considered important, which often excludes the hands-on, engaged work that underrepresented faculty are more likely to perform. Contributors point out the unwritten rules that serve as hidden hurdles for promotion for women and underrepresented minorities. Additionally, what counts as professionalism is typically in favor of white, cisgender men. Ine...
Contributor Bio
Chardie L. Baird is Professor and Spainhour Family Chair and executive director of the Kansas State University Office for the Advancement of Women in Science and Engineering (KAWSE) since 2012. Her publications focus on how inequity is reproduced in US workplaces, educational systems, and homes. At KAWSE, Baird puts her expertise into practice by developing faculty support and professional develop...
9781626713475
Pub Date: 10/15/2026
Ship Date: 9/15/2026
$20.99
Discount Code: t Paperback
222 Pages
10 Illustration(s) History / Modern HIS043000
8.5 in H | 5.5 in W Status: FORTHCOMING
Mining Memory
A Granddaughter's Reckoning With Holocaust History
Denise Handlarski
Key Selling Points:
Unique, compelling story, complete with discovering a family's criminal past, learning about how Holocaust victims lived, as well as died, and investigating a historian as a historical subject himself as the Polish government works to silence him to pursue a nationalist narrative.
Written to capture the interest of a variety of audiences including general public, academic researchers, and classroom communities.
This text models how we talk about the past and what it means when we do.
Summary
In 2020, in the midst of COVID-19 lockdowns, Denise Handlarski learned of testimony given by her grandfather, a Holocaust survivor who she never knew. In his testimony, Jakub Handlarski accuses a Polish police officer of murdering his brother and sister prior to the Siedlce Ghetto liquidation. The author had never heard this story. She had no idea her grandfather had ever given this testimony. In fact, she knew very little about her grandparents’ experience during the Holocaust.
Despite Jakub’s testimony, the police officer was acquitted. Why? And why had no one in the author’s family ever mentioned this story? What does it mean when family history intersects with one of the greatest travesties of human history? The author sets off on a search through family stories, archives, and Holocaust history to try to uncover the truth of what happened to Jakub and his family.
Mining Memory is as much about the search—the process of “doing” history and the people who do it, and what we can learn a...
Contributor Bio
Denise Handlarski, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the School of Education at Trent University. She teaches history curriculum and other courses in social justice education. She is also an ordained rabbi in the Secular Humanistic Jewish movement, the spiritual leader of the online community Secular Synagogue, and a Jewish doula (birthworker). She is the author of The A-Z of Intermarriage and is ...
9781626713369
Pub Date: 11/15/2026
Ship Date: 10/15/2026
$32.99
Discount Code: t Hardcover
330 Pages
50 Illustration(s)
Biography & Autobiography / Science & Technology
BIO015000
Series: Purdue Studies in Aeronautics and Astronautics
9 in H | 6 in W
Status: FORTHCOMING
Inside Mission Control
My Time During NASA’s Shuttle Era
Wayne Hale
Key Selling Points:
Rare behind-the-scenes, intimate stories from an insider who spent more than thirty years at NASA during the Space Shuttle era.
Focus on the personalities of the participants: very much a human story wrapped up in a technology story.
Readers include not just space enthusiasts, but anyone interested in the interactions of human beings in high pressure, life-or-death situations.
Summary
NASA’s Space Shuttle era lasted from 1972 to 2011, a nearly forty-year window that coincided with Wayne Hale’s thirty-two-year career with NASA. During that time, he was a flight controller, flight director, and finally head of the Space Shuttle program. Hale held a role in every aspect of the Space Shuttle program’s operations, and collected here are a range of personal stories and reflections experienced during his tenure: from the lighthearted and comical account of the first and only ice cream social in Mission Control during a Space Shuttle flight to the technological marvel of servicing the Hubble Telescope and building the International Space Station. Also covered are some of the darkest moments in NASA history—the Challenger and Columbia disasters, and the management decisions that serve as a caution to anyone involved in high-risk activities.
While video and audio from Mission Control presented calm and calculating professionals performing their duties, these were also everyday...
Contributor Bio
Wayne Hale joined NASA at the Johnson Space Center in June 1978, where he served as a Space Shuttle systems flight controller for fifteen early Space Shuttle flights. From 1988 to 2003, he was a Space Shuttle flight director assigned to a record forty flights. In 2003 following the Columbia accident, Hale joined the senior leadership of the Space Shuttle program office and later became Space Shutt...