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For more than fifty years, international aid for agricultural research has been shaped by an unusual partnership: an ad-hoc consortium of national governments, foreign aid agencies, philanthropies, United Nations agencies, and international financial...

Charles Darwin's theory of evolution was one of the most significant revolutions in the history of science. Widely debated after the publication of the Origin of Species in 1859, it continues to be controversial. In this volume, Michael Ruse offers the...

This book refers to the classics of a number of standard theories, introduces a number of standards and its theoretical content, and combines the industrial observation experience and typical cases accumulated by the author to put forward opinions on...

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In this exploration of the colonial political economy of science through the East India Company's library and museum in Britain, Ratcliff shows how 'Company science' became part of the cultural fabric of Britain. This title is part of the Flip it Open...

This book tells the story of the birth of the computing industry via the origins of 25 influential computers built between 1939 and 1960Starting with a short, sharp history of how we got to where we were on the eve of the second world war, this book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262548892Author Erin MaloneFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

The Repair Shop's Dominic Chinea takes you on an exploration of 100 essential machines found in the workshops and studios of the world's finest artisans and heritage craftspeople. Filled with stunning illustrations and lively, engaging text, The Repair...

The military's focus on innovation and problem-solving has led to the creation of numerous items and technologies that have transcended the battlefield and become commonplace in our daily lives. This accessible reference volume explores 46 of these...

How the internet's memory infrastructure developed-averting a "digital dark age"-and introduced a golden age of historical memory.In early 1996, the web was ephemeral. But by 2001, the internet was forever. How did websites transform from having a brief...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262551014Author Vaclav SmilFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

For more than fifty years, international aid for agricultural research has been shaped by an unusual partnership: an ad-hoc consortium of national governments, foreign aid agencies, philanthropies, United Nations agencies, and international financial...

Throughout history, technological revolutions have been driven by the invention of machines. But today, the power of the technology transforming our world lies in an intangible and impenetrable cosmos of software: algorithmic code. In a world...