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Quick Quirk Quiz - Science & Technology    by Janet Spencer - Trivia Queen
Price: $0.99 USD. 8140 words. Published on November 12, 2009. .

Test your knowledge of the things that make our lives easier in these 28 true tales behind researchers and their discoveries. Can you match the inventors to their inventions after hearing the story behind their development?
The Wind-Sphere Ship    by Steven R. Southard
Price: $2.99 USD. 6470 words. Published by Gypsy Shadow Publishing  on August 23, 2010. .

Heron of Alexandria, in the 1st Century A.D., invented a primitive steam engine he called an aeolipile, or “wind-sphere.” Persuaded by his friend Praxiteles, he used this engine to propel a ship. If his steam-ship could beat a man-rowed galley in a race, could Heron bring about the Industrial Revolution 1700 years early?
Looking Back - And Sharing a Wondrous Life with You -    by Sheldon Feinberg M.D.
Price: $2.95 USD. 19670 words. Published on September 26, 2010. .

Suggest that this book be read: - By parents and physicians who wish to share in Doctor Feinberg's fascinating, funny, and previously undisclosed secrets and memoirs; - By other doctors who cannot stop doctoring, even in later life; - By those who have proudly served in our country's armed forces. - By all who love life and love to laugh;
The Freel of Streel: Part One in the Narrative of John of Origin    by Ian Kraft
Price: $2.50 USD. 65650 words. Published on November 19, 2010. .

It is always advisable, when you are a conman, to make sure that the town that you're about to try to con does not have a land such as Streel hidden within it. For if it does, you may find yourself trying to escape your mind in an incomprehensible land with a left-handed scribe, being forced to deal with lexically picky ants, Kweengs, and the Freel on your journey through your fears, God and love.
Creativity and Commonsense    by Abiodun Quadri
Price: $2.99 USD. 17520 words. Published by WSIC EBooks Ltd.  on November 20, 2010. .

In his quest to become an inventor, Abiodun had to overcome many pitfalls and learn many hard lessons. His goal with this self-help ebook is to help others skirt these pitfalls and the errors he had to learn the hard way. He shows you how to start your adventure as an inventor, what you need to know and resources you may be able to access to get your invention designed, patented, and noticed.
Claustrum: Part Two in the Narrative of John of Origin    by Ian Kraft
Price: $2.50 USD. 61290 words. Published on January 16, 2011. .

Claustrum, a superhero with a strange power, the ability to control people with strange, elegiac mixtures of words, seemingly randomly shows up in the city of Dioma, not knowing where he came from or why he is there. The city is then beleaguered by the cruel villain Sine Animus, who is immune to Claustrum's powers over words. Claustrum flees the city and is forced to seek his own personal truth.
The Polyglot's Nightmares: Part X½ in the Narrative of John of Origin    by Ian Kraft
Price: $2.50 USD. 60080 words. Published on January 16, 2011. .

Fleeing a war and in search of himself, Ion finds himself residing in a number of strange caves, on the walls of which are written a strange language. He meets a woman who guides him through his state of being a refugee and is troubled by strange dreams that seem to incorporate the existence of the war, his love for the woman he has met and a sense of the divine.
The Quite Possibly Near Death of Hurol Davelrish: Part Three in the Narrative of John of Origin    by Ian Kraft
Price: $2.50 USD. 61010 words. Published on January 16, 2011. .

When an arrogant stuntman, Hurol Davelrish, has a seizure during a stunt, he finds himself in the kingdom of Scalter, a land in which he is king, but which is strangely ruled by a phantasmic man named Viscount Vaunt. Hurol meets a strangely kind friend, Grib, in the malevolent world, who tries to pull him back from the ledge of his pride - what will become of the much-admired stuntman?
21st Century Essential Guide to DARPA - Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Doing Business with DARPA, Overview of Mission, Management, Projects, DoD Future Military Technologies and Science    by Progressive Management
Price: $9.99 USD. 42360 words. Published on February 19, 2011. .

This ebook presents a magnificent compilation of authoritative Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) documents providing an excellent, up-to-date overview of the research work of this famed agency, along with information on doing business with DARPA.
Mastering Inventions & Patents; Markets & Money    by Steven Overholt
Price: $9.99 USD. 119400 words. Published on March 20, 2011. .

KNOWLEDGE IS POWER. Don’t be the one without it! This holistic guide brims with proven tools and strategies you can use to forge your idea into a business or licensing deal that creates great wealth. Surely this is the most complete "How-to" on this topic ever available to the public. Coverage is so complete, it would comprise 425 printed pages, with 375 topics in its table of contents.