Technology History – Bücher, CDs, LPs und mehr, Seite 4

Steve Oney
On Air

An "engrossing and entertaining...major work of media history" (The New York Times Book Review) that reveals the unlikely story of one of America's most celebrated but least understood media emp…

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A unique and compelling adventure through the history of rope and its impact on civilization, in the vein of single-subject bestsellers like Salt and CodTim Queeney is a sailor who knows more about rope a…

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Tristan G Brown
Laws of the Land

"A groundbreaking history of Fengshui's roles in public life and law during China's last imperial dynastyToday the term Fengshui, which literally means "wind and water," is recognized aroun…

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William Conlogue
Working Watersheds

"The Lackawanna Valley's history reveals how energy production and water circulation created positive feedback loops of technological and environmental change. To cope with climate change, which is w…

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William Conlogue
Working Watersheds

"The Lackawanna Valley's history reveals how energy production and water circulation created positive feedback loops of technological and environmental change. To cope with climate change, which is w…

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Tom Wolfe
The Right Stuff

"What does it take to be an astronaut? First published in 1979, Tom Wolfe's astounding book The Right Stuff answers this question and more, exploring both the mental and the physical sacrifices that …

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Olga Dubrovina
The Soviet Space Program and International Collaboration during Perestroika, 1985-1991

Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology

This book explores the evolution of the Soviet space sector during the period of perestroika, presenting it as a revealing mirror of the broader political, economic, and social transformations that reshap…

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Agricultural Science as International Development

"For more than fifty years, international aid for agricultural research has been shaped by an ad-hoc consortium known as CGIAR. Drawing on the best of recent historical scholarship, this book present…

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Mark Coeckelbergh
Artificial Religion

How AI is shaped by Western religious culture and universal existential aspirations---and why we think we need it in the first place.Artificial Religion argues that to fully understand our puzzling relati…

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Dk
Knowledge a Visual Compendium

"Leaf through the pages of this ... book and you'll find out how lists, codes, systems, and collections make sense of our world. With its combination of attractive, timeless images and ... text, this…

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Jen White
The Chemistry Between Art and Science

An inspiring look at how observation, patience, and creativity fuel our discoveries in art and science.Art and science are often treated as two completely different fields, but if we look closer we might …

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Golnaz Sarkar-Farshi,
The New-Wave Cinema

This book introduces a novel conceptualization of "new-wave cinema" films as a ubiquitous phenomenon, akin to a "wave" that crashes upon established film aesthetics within a society. U…

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Anna Claybourne
The History of Everything in 32 Pages

In the beginning, about 13.8 billion years ago, the Universe started with a bang. Travel through time and space to learn how the world has evolved from the Big Bang onwards!From the creation of the stars,…

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Alexandra Roginski
Science and Power in the Nineteenth-Century Tasman World

"A compelling history of how popular phrenology featured in the fates of people living in, and moving through, the settler-colonial world of nineteenth-century Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand. Inn…

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William F Willingham
Oregon Gold

Based on exhaustive research and a wealth of sources--federal census and mining records, newspapers, mining periodicals, county land records, maps, and federal government reports--Oregon Gold offers a com…

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Nicola Twilley
Frostbite

Penguin Publishing Group

Winner of the James Beard Award for Literary Writing Named one of the best books of the year by Smithsonian Magazine and New Scientist "Engrossing . . . hard to put down." --- The New York Times…

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Collins Big Cat, David Macphail,
Collins Big Cat - Big Moments in Space

Collins Big Cat supports every primary child on their reading journey from phonics to fluency. Top authors and illustrators have created fiction and non-fiction books that children love to read. Levelled …

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Peter Thompson
The Gas Mask in Interwar Germany

"Exploring the history of the gas mask in Germany from 1915 to the eve of World War II, Peter Thompson traces how chemical weapons and protective technologies such as the gas mask produced new relati…

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Kate Messner
History Smashers

Random House Children's Books

Myths! Lies! Recycling scams? Discover the real story behind the first Earth Day celebration and some of the biggest US climate catastrophes--and their solutions! Don't miss the award-winning History Smas…

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Jennifer R Vail
Friction

Friction, the force that resists motion, has shaped technological progress for millennia. Jennifer Vail shows how the quest to master friction has driven innovation, culture, and even human evolution. Now…

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