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  • Wings for the Rising Sun: A Transnational History of Japanese Aviation by Ju rgen P. Melzer 9780674244429

    Wings for the Rising Sun: A Transnational History of Japanese Aviation by Ju rgen P. Melzer 9780674244429

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    The history of Japanese aviation offers countless stories of heroic achievements and dismal failures, passionate enthusiasm and sheer terror, brilliant ideas and fatally flawed strategies.In Wings for the Rising Sun, scholar and former airline pilot...
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  • Engines: The Inner Workings of Machines That Move the World by Theodore Gray

    Engines: The Inner Workings of Machines That Move the World by Theodore Gray

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    In Engines, the always entertaining and informative Theodore Gray explores the glorious guts and intricate innards of dozens of impressive machines. Through his engaging and unexpected stories and Nick Mann's trademark gorgeous photography, Gray takes us...
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  • Victorian Engineering by L. T. C. Rolt

    Victorian Engineering by L. T. C. Rolt

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    L T C Rolt was an engineer and pioneer of industrial history; in this book he combined these two passions to give us a fascinating account of the men who 'made' Britain. From Brunel to Telford, he takes us on a journey from the first railway tracks being...
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  • Technology is Not the Problem by Timandra Harkness 9780008503604

    Technology is Not the Problem by Timandra Harkness 9780008503604

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    We already know how much of our data is collected and used to profile and target us. The real question is why, knowing all this, do we keep going back for more? “Great book” – Matt Ridley, author of How Innovation Works “Essential reading” – Pete...
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  • A History of Fireworks from Their Origins to the Present Day John Withington 9781789149357

    A History of Fireworks from Their Origins to the Present Day John Withington 9781789149357

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    This book illuminates the glittering history of fireworks, from their enigmatic origins tied to the pursuit of eternal life to the dazzling centrepieces of global celebrations today. It describes the invention of fireworks, how they became popular in...
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  • I Know You Got Soul by Jeremy Clarkson

    I Know You Got Soul by Jeremy Clarkson

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    In I Know You Got Soul, Jeremy Clarkson writes about the machines that he believes have 'soul'. It will come as no surprise to anyone that Jeremy Clarkson loves machines. But it's not just any old bucket of blots, cogs and bearings that rings his bell...
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  • Apollo 8: The Thrilling Story of the First Mission to the Moon by Jeffrey Kluger 9781250182517

    Apollo 8: The Thrilling Story of the First Mission to the Moon by Jeffrey Kluger 9781250182517

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    In August 1968, NASA made a bold decision: in just sixteen weeks, the United States would launch humankind's first flight to the moon. Only the year before, three astronauts had burned to death in their spacecraft, and since then the Apollo program had...
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  • The Tetris Effect: The Cold War Battle for the World's Most Addictive Game by Dan Ackerman 9780861547814

    The Tetris Effect: The Cold War Battle for the World's Most Addictive Game by Dan Ackerman 9780861547814

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    21 February 1989. Three men fly into Moscow, representing software giants from Britain, America, and Japan. Each of them is determined to undercut the others in order to secure a technology so powerfully addictive it has brought the government department...
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  • The Agricultural Revolution in Prehistory: Why did Foragers become Farmers? by Graeme Barker 9780199559954

    The Agricultural Revolution in Prehistory: Why did Foragers become Farmers? by Graeme Barker 9780199559954

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    The Agricultural Revolution in Prehistory addresses one of the most debated and least understood revolutions in the history of our species, the change from hunting and gathering to farming. Graeme Barker takes a global view, and integrates a massive...
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  • Cold War Kitchen: Americanization, Technology, and European Users by Ruth Oldenziel 9780262516136

    Cold War Kitchen: Americanization, Technology, and European Users by Ruth Oldenziel 9780262516136

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    Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262516136Author Ruth OldenzielFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 635gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 178mm * 17mm
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  • Autonomous Maintenance in Seven Steps: Implementing TPM on the Shop Floor Fumio Gotoh 9781563272196

    Autonomous Maintenance in Seven Steps: Implementing TPM on the Shop Floor Fumio Gotoh 9781563272196

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    Autonomous maintenance is an especially important pillar of Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) because it enlists the intelligence and skills of the people who are most familiar with factory machines-- equipment operators. Operators learn the maintenance...
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  • Always On: Hope and Fear in the Social Smartphone Era by Rory Cellan-Jones

    Always On: Hope and Fear in the Social Smartphone Era by Rory Cellan-Jones

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    'Delightfully insightful and intensely readable [...] There is an energy and drama to Rory's writing which nonetheless leaves space for us, the reader, to make up our minds' - Stephen Fry The inside story of how tech became personal and pernicious,...
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  • James May's Magnificent Machines: How men in sheds have changed our lives by James May

    James May's Magnificent Machines: How men in sheds have changed our lives by James May

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    Our world has been transformed beyond recognition, particularly in the twentieth century, and so were our lives and our aspirations. Throughout James May's Magnificent Machines, our Top Gear guide explores the iconic themes of the past hundred years:...
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  • Underground: The Secret Life of Videocassettes in Iran by Blake Atwood

    Underground: The Secret Life of Videocassettes in Iran by Blake Atwood

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    Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262542845Author Blake AtwoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd
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  • John Dee's Conversations with Angels: Cabala, Alchemy, and the End of Nature by Deborah E. Harkness 9780521027489

    John Dee's Conversations with Angels: Cabala, Alchemy, and the End of Nature by Deborah E. Harkness 9780521027489

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    John Dee's angel conversations have been an enigmatic facet of Elizabethan England's most famous natural philosopher's life and work. Professor Harkness contextualizes Dee's angel conversations within the natural philosophical, religious and social...
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  • The Machine Age: An Idea, a History, a Warning Robert Skidelsky 9780141982519

    The Machine Age: An Idea, a History, a Warning Robert Skidelsky 9780141982519

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    A sweeping history of and meditation on humanity's relationship with machines, showing how we got here and what happens nextFaith in technological fixes for our problems is waning. Automation, which promised relief from toil, has reactivated the...
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  • Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart by Nicholas Carr 9781324064619

    Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart by Nicholas Carr 9781324064619

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    From the telegraph and telephone in the 1800s to the internet and social media in our own day, the public has welcomed new communication systems. Whenever people gain more power to share information, the assumption goes, society prospers. Superbloom...
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  • Fatal Flight: The True Story of Britain's Last Great Airship by Bill Hammack 9781945441035

    Fatal Flight: The True Story of Britain's Last Great Airship by Bill Hammack 9781945441035

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    Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945441035Author Bill HammackFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Articulate Noise BooksPublisher Articulate Noise Books
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  • The Coming of the Railway: A New Global History, 1750-1850 by David Gwyn

    The Coming of the Railway: A New Global History, 1750-1850 by David Gwyn

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    The first global history of the epic early days of the iron railway Railways, in simple wooden or stone form, have existed since prehistory. But from the 1750s onward the introduction of iron rails led to a dramatic technological evolution-one that...
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  • Jensen Cars: A Guide to Jensen C-V8, 541 and Interceptor Models by Colin Pitt

    Jensen Cars: A Guide to Jensen C-V8, 541 and Interceptor Models by Colin Pitt

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    Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739845094Author Colin PittFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint CP PressPublisher CP PressWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 246mm * 201mm * 10mm
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  • The Red Atlas: How the Soviet Union Secretly Mapped the World by John Davies

    The Red Atlas: How the Soviet Union Secretly Mapped the World by John Davies

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    Nearly thirty years after the end of the Cold War, its legacy and the accompanying Russian-American tension continues to loom large. Russia's access to detailed information on the United States and its allies may not seem so shocking in this day of data...
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  • Your Face Belongs to Us: The Secretive Startup Dismantling Your Privacy by Kashmir Hill 9781398509207

    Your Face Belongs to Us: The Secretive Startup Dismantling Your Privacy by Kashmir Hill 9781398509207

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    *SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2024**LONGLISTED FOR THE FINANCIAL TIMES BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2023* 'A parable for our times' FINANCIAL TIMES, Best Books of 2023'Gripping' THE TIMES, Best Technology Books of 2023...
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  • Magic, Science, and Religion in Early Modern Europe by Mark A. Waddell 9781108441650

    Magic, Science, and Religion in Early Modern Europe by Mark A. Waddell 9781108441650

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    From the recovery of ancient ritual magic at the height of the Renaissance to the ignominious demise of alchemy at the dawn of the Enlightenment, Mark A. Waddell explores the rich and complex ways that premodern people made sense of their world. He...
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  • Human Race: 10 Centuries of Change on Earth by Ian Mortimer

    Human Race: 10 Centuries of Change on Earth by Ian Mortimer

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    We are an astonishing species. Over the past millennium of plagues and exploration, revolution and scientific discovery, woman's rights and technological advances, human society has changed beyond recognition.Sweeping through the last thousand years of...
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  • Programming Language Cultures: Automating Automation Brian Lennon 9781503639874

    Programming Language Cultures: Automating Automation Brian Lennon 9781503639874

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    In this book, Brian Lennon demonstrates the power of a philological approach to the history of programming languages and their usage cultures. In chapters focused on specific programming languages such as SNOBOL and JavaScript, as well as on code...
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  • From Gutenberg to Zuckerberg: What You Really Need to Know About the Internet John Naughton 9780857384263

    From Gutenberg to Zuckerberg: What You Really Need to Know About the Internet John Naughton 9780857384263

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    Our society has gone through a weird, unremarked transition: once a novelty, the Net is now something that we take for granted, like mains electricity or running water. In the process we've been surprisingly incurious about its significance or cultural...
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  • Voices from Chernobyl by Svetlana Alexievich 9781564784018

    Voices from Chernobyl by Svetlana Alexievich 9781564784018

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    Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of National Book Critics Circle Award (Nonfiction) 2005 and ALA Notable Books (Nonfiction) 2006.Book InformationISBN 9781564784018Author Svetlana AlexievichFormat...
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  • Los Alamos Rolodex: Doing Business with the National Lab 1967-1978 by Center for Land Use Interpretation 9780922233458

    Los Alamos Rolodex: Doing Business with the National Lab 1967-1978 by Center for Land Use Interpretation 9780922233458

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    In 2012 the Center for Land Use Interpretation acquired a set of seven rolodexes from the dispersed collection of former Los Alamos National Laboratory employee Ed Grothus, who operated a salvage company of lab cast-offs, known as The Black Hole. Now...
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  • The Wright Brothers by David McCullough 9781476728742

    The Wright Brothers by David McCullough 9781476728742

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    Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of ALA Notable Books (Nonfiction) 2016.Book InformationISBN 9781476728742Author David McCulloughFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon...
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  • Iron, Stone and Steam: Brunel's Railway Empire by Tim Bryan 9781398112698

    Iron, Stone and Steam: Brunel's Railway Empire by Tim Bryan 9781398112698

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    Isambard Kingdom Brunel: Victorian icon, engineer, artist, architect, designer and visionary, entrepreneur and celebrity. His astounding feats changed the British landscape, and this new book tells the story of his awe-inspiring achievements and...
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  • The Story Behind: The Extraordinary History Behind Ordinary Objects Emily Prokop 9781633538283

    The Story Behind: The Extraordinary History Behind Ordinary Objects Emily Prokop 9781633538283

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    Discover the Surprising History of Ordinary Things"Emily magically weaves a vibrant history of simple everyday objects we often take for granted. The Story Behind will surprise and delight..." Deana Marie, Creator & Host of the Twisted Philly podcast#1...
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  • The Nature of Technology: What It Is and How It Evolves by W.Brian Arthur

    The Nature of Technology: What It Is and How It Evolves by W.Brian Arthur

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    In The Nature of Technology, ground-breaking economist W. Brian Arthur explores the extraordinary way in which the technology that surrounds us and allows us to live our modern lives has actually been developed. Rather than coming from a series of...
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  • The Victorian Internet by Tom Standage

    The Victorian Internet by Tom Standage

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    The history of the telegraph - the men and women who made it - and its relevance to the current Internet debateBeginning with the Abbe Nollet's famous experiment of 1746, when he successfully demonstrated that electricity could pass from one end to the...
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  • My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla by Nikola Tesla

    My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla by Nikola Tesla

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    Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781603868143Author Nikola TeslaFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint Merchant BooksPublisher Merchant BooksWeight(grams) 91gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 3mm
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  • The Observatory Experiment: Meteorology in Britain and Its Empire by Simon Naylor 9781009207232

    The Observatory Experiment: Meteorology in Britain and Its Empire by Simon Naylor 9781009207232

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    In this innovative history of the science of meteorology, Simon Naylor focuses our attention on the spaces in which it was pursued: meteorological observatories. During the nineteenth century, meteorologists established or converted sites where observers...
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  • The Governor: Controlling the Power of Steam Machines by Hannavy, John 9781399090889

    The Governor: Controlling the Power of Steam Machines by Hannavy, John 9781399090889

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    Power without control is unusable power, and long after the invention of the steam engine, finding ways of applying that power to tasks where consistency was of paramount importance was the 'Holy Grail' which many steam engineers sought to find. It was...
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  • The Friendly Orange Glow: The Untold Story of the PLATO System and the Dawn of Cyberculture by Brian Dear

    The Friendly Orange Glow: The Untold Story of the PLATO System and the Dawn of Cyberculture by Brian Dear

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    Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781101973639Author Brian DearFormat PaperbackPage Count 640Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA Inc
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  • The Metaverse: Fully Revised and Updated Edition: Building the Spatial Internet Matthew Ball 9781324095286

    The Metaverse: Fully Revised and Updated Edition: Building the Spatial Internet Matthew Ball 9781324095286

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    "The term "Metaverse" is thirty years old, yet only recently entered mainstream conversation, attracting both fascinating and skepticism. While some have promised its imminent arrival, in fact it will take a series of technological and societal leaps to...
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  • Radio Broadcasting: A History of the Airwaves by Gordon Bathgate

    Radio Broadcasting: A History of the Airwaves by Gordon Bathgate

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    2020 marks the centenary of Marconi's experimental transmissions and this book seeks to commemorate this anniversary. The book examines the history of radio and traces its development from theories advanced by James Clerk Maxwell and Heinrich Hertz to...
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  • How We Got to Now: Six Innovations that Made the Modern World by Steven Johnson 9781846148552

    How We Got to Now: Six Innovations that Made the Modern World by Steven Johnson 9781846148552

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    From Steven Johnson, the bestselling author of Where Good Ideas Come From, comes How We Got to Now, the companion book to his six-part BBC One television series exploring the power and the legacy of great ideas.How did photography bring about social...
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