History

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781596291713Author Timothy StarrFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 263gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Dynamos and Virgins Revisited: Women and Technological Change in History, first published by Scarecrow Press in 1979, was one of the first books published on the history of women and technology and laid the groundwork for decades of impressive and...

In this bold reconsideration of the human sciences, an interdisciplinary team employ an expanded theoretical and geographical critical lens centering the notion of the encounter. Drawing insights from Indigenous and Latin American Studies, nine case...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781627951654Author Tom JacksonFormat HardbackPage Count 168Imprint Shelter Harbor PressPublisher Shelter Harbor Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501123634Author Rowland WhiteFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Atria BooksPublisher Atria BooksWeight(grams) 544gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 152mm * 33mm

An in-depth examination of the oldest engineering process, The History of Grinding begins at the start of agriculture and outlines how size reduction developed over the centuries (without completely immersing the reader in technical detail). Great...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780231088008Author Lynn ThorndikeFormat HardbackPage Count 695Imprint Columbia University PressPublisher Columbia University Press

Guns have existed in various forms for hundreds of years, and few objects have had such an immense impact on world history. Firearms traces their evolution-from the hand-held weapons of ancient humans to the medieval guns of China to modern assault...

A fun and fascinating exploration of modern technology, Sex, Bombs, and Burgers reveals how these three billion-dollar industries have shaped our everyday lives. It's also a chronicle of popular culture, chock-full of surprising revelations. Take a look...

Technology demands uniformity from human beings who encounter it. People encountering technology, however, differ from one another. Thinkers in the early twentieth century, observing the awful consequences of interactions between humans and machines -...

From Aztec accounts of hibernating hummingbirds to contemporary television spectaculars, human encounters with nature have long sparked wonder, curiosity and delight. Written by leading scholars, this richly illustrated volume offers a lively...

A hidden history of the twentieth century's brilliant innovations-as seen through art and images of electronics that fed the dreams of millions. A rich historical account of electronic technology in the twentieth century, Inside the Machine journeys from...

This is a new release of the original 1923 edition.Book InformationISBN 9780231087988Author Lynn ThorndikeFormat HardbackPage Count 766Imprint Columbia University PressPublisher Columbia University Press

Patrick M. Malone demonstrates how innovative engineering helped make Lowell, Massachusetts, a potent symbol of American industrial prowess in the 19th century. Waterpower spurred the industrialization of the early United States and was the principal...

Before the hydrogen bomb indelibly associated radioactivity with death, many chemists, physicians, botanists, and geneticists believed that radium might hold the secret to life. Physicists and chemists early on described the wondrous new element in...

This book is the first substantial study in any language of one of revolutionary Russia's most distinguished and controversial engineers - Iurii Vladimirovich Lomonosov (1876-1952). Not only does it provide an outline of his remarkable life and career,...

Agusti Nieto-Galan argues that chemistry in the twentieth century was deeply and profoundly political. Far from existing in a distinct public sphere, chemical knowledge was applied in ways that created strong links with industrial and military projects,...

The industrial gases industry originated in 1886, when a London-based company began producing high-purity oxygen. Initially, purified oxygen was a solution in search of a problem, but demand for it soared early in the twentieth century with the emergence...

The Royal Society is one of the world's oldest and most prestigious scientific bodies, but what has it done in recent decades? Increasingly marginalised by postwar developments and the reforms of civil science in the 1960s, the Society was at risk of...

In this major study, the history of the French and British trading empires in the early modern Mediterranean is used as a setting to test a new approach to the history of ignorance: how can we understand the very act of ignoring - in political, economic,...

An international community of specialists reinvented the propeller during the Aeronautical Revolution, a vibrant period of innovation in North America and Europe from World War I to the end of World War II. They experienced both success and failure as...

Now in its third edition, The Rise of Early Modern Science argues that to understand why modern science arose in the West it is essential to study not only the technical aspects of scientific thought but also the religious, legal and institutional...

In this innovative and engaging history of homicide investigation in Republican Beijing, Daniel Asen explores the transformation of ideas about death in China in the first half of the twentieth century. In this period, those who died violently or under...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781926592176Author Derek WebberFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Apogee BooksPublisher Collector's Guide PublishingWeight(grams) 290g

Was it coincidence that the modern state and modern science arose at the same time? This overview of the relations of science and state from the Scientific Revolution to World War II explores this issue, synthesising a range of approaches from history...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781894959728Author Gordon ShepherdFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Apogee BooksPublisher Collector's Guide PublishingWeight(grams) 514g

Lighting performs essential functions in Hollywood films, enhancing the glamour, clarifying the action, and intensifying the mood. Examining every facet of this understated art form, from the glowing backlights of the silent period to the shaded alleys...

Recasting the Machine Age recounts the history of Henry Ford's efforts to shift the production of Ford cars and trucks from the large-scale factories he had pioneered in the Detroit area to nineteen decentralized, small-scale plants within sixty miles of...

Tungsten is a rare ferrous metal whose ability to form molecular compounds with other elements has made it one of the essential elements in steelmaking, electronics, and various military technologies. This is the first comprehensive study of the use of...

It may sound simple. Fashion a set of blades, attach them to a generator, set the machine on top of a tower, and let the wind do the work of creating electricity. Not so. Most of these attempts fail, even with the availability of the latest technologies...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783838212449Author Nina SelbstFormat PaperbackPage Count 420Imprint ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian SchonPublisher ibidem-Verlag, Jessica...

Communications: An international history of the formative years traces the evolution of communications from 500 BC, when fire beacons were used for signalling, to the 1940s, when high definition television systems were developed for the entertainment,...

Sir Clifford Paterson, OBE FRS, was Director of the GEC Research Laboratories at Wembley from their foundation in 1919 until his death in 1948. This book contains the daily diary which he kept from the beginning of September 1939 until May 1945. ...

In the early 1970s, a German study estimated that women expended as many calories cleaning their coal-mining husbands' work clothes as their husbands did working below ground, arguably making the home as much a site of industrialized work as factories...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262542586Author Eric S. HintzFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Beautiful Data is both a history of big data and interactivity, and a sophisticated meditation on ideas about vision and cognition in the second half of the twentieth century. Contending that our forms of attention, observation, and truth are contingent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262693264Author Bruce SterlingFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 191mm * 140mm * 6mm

When technology reinforces inequality, it's not just a glitch-it's a signal that we need to redesign our systems to create a more equitable world.The word "glitch" implies an incidental error, as easy to patch up as it is to identify. But what if racism,...

Humans have been preserving food for millennia, but the refrigerator is a relatively new addition to our homes. Just before the Second World War, only 3 per cent of British households had one. In the interim years the fridge has become accepted as a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781393924012Author Russell McGuireFormat PaperbackPage Count 86Imprint Sdg Strategy, LLCPublisher Sdg Strategy, LLCWeight(grams) 118gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...