History

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781645581246Author Publications International LtdFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Publications International, Ltd.Publisher Publications International,...

A monumental history of the nineteenth century, The Transformation of the World offers a panoramic and multifaceted portrait of a world in transition. Jurgen Osterhammel, an eminent scholar who has been called the Braudel of the nineteenth century, moves...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840370218Author Alex HenshawFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Airlife Publishing LtdPublisher The Crowood Press LtdWeight(grams) 735gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781803693828Author Paul M. HawkinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint New Generation PublishingPublisher New Generation PublishingWeight(grams) 244g

'A must read for anyone interested in the emerging ethics of robotics' Irene M. PepperbergA bold, optimistic exploration of the relationship between robots and humans based on our history with animals, from a renowned MIT researcherThe robots are here...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806539966Author Marc J. SeiferFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint Citadel Press Inc.,U.S.Publisher Citadel Press Inc.,U.S.

The 1963 Lola Mk VI GT was the car that inspired the Ford GT40 and then the Lola T70, both of which today are seen as true classic racecars. This book describes how all that happened, concentrating particularly on Allen Grant's Lola Mk VI, one of just...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262529310Author Elting E. MorisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 162mm * 106mm * 14mm

The airline business is a hundred years old. In that time uncountable airliners have been conceived, designed and built but, for all their diversity, less than a hundred types have ever sold in large numbers and, unlike military aircraft, only a handful...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143128328Author Steve LevineFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 274g

Offering a compelling look inside the Space Shuttle missions that helped lay the groundwork for the Space Age from the perspective of those tasked with making them happen, Shuttle, Houston explores the determined personalities, technological miracles,...

A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020How did we end up in a world where humans coexist with technologies we can no longer fully control or understand?George Dyson plots an unexpected course through the past 300 years to reveal the hidden connections...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912685431Author Kat JungnickelFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Goldsmiths, University of LondonPublisher Goldsmiths, University of London

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486434643Author Frank D. PragerFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800350281Author David BakerFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint Crecy PublishingPublisher Crecy Publishing

Constructing the Subject traces the history of psychological research methodology from the nineteenth century to the emergence of currently favored styles of research in the second quarter of the twentieth century. Kurt Danziger considers methodology to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910809914Author J. C. CarbonelFormat HardbackPage Count 312Imprint Crecy PublishingPublisher Crecy Publishing

The Other World examines the public fascination with spiritualism and psychical research in Britain from the mid-nineteenth to the early twentieth century. It explores the variety of social background, education, and professional expertise that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780981854915Author Andrew A. MarinoFormat PaperbackPage Count 462Imprint CassandraPublisher CassandraWeight(grams) 674gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 26mm

In the whirlwind of the modern digital electronic revolution the days of analogue electronics, when international telecommunications was conducted without satellites or fibre optic cables, are often forgotten if not unimagined. Yet for a substantial part...

On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first people ever to set foot on the Moon, their iconic "small steps" captured forever by the camera the astronauts carried with them: the Hasselblad 500EL. This book looks at the history of the...

Coal, gas and oil have been capitalism's main fuels since the industrial revolution. And yet, of all the fossil fuels ever consumed, more than half were burned in the last 50 years. Most alarming of all, fossil fuel consumption has grown fastest in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262547574Author Michael BattyFormat PaperbackPage Count 536Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

In 1710 an obscure Devon ironmonger Thomas Newcomen invented a machine with a pump driven by coal, used to extract water from mines. Over the next two hundred years the steam engine would be at the heart of the industrial revolution that changed the...

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...

The Adjustable Spanner is the product of thirty years' collecting and original research, fired by Ron Geesin's acquisition of the SLIK adjustable spanner that hung in his father's garage. At the core of this book is a concise history of this...

Our world is filled with pernicious problems: how, for example, did novice pilots learn to fly without taking to the air and risking their lives? We have generated solutions over time but challenges like these-wicked problems that tangle personal, public...

Foreword by Dr. Roger D. Launius, Former NASA Chief Historian For the past 75 years, the U.S. government has invested significant time and money into advanced aerospace research, as evidenced by its many experimental X-plane aircraft and rockets. NASA's...

An illuminating look at how human vulnerability led to advances in aviation technology.As aircraft flew higher, faster, and farther in the early days of flight, pilots were exposed as vulnerable, inefficient, and dangerous. They asphyxiated or got the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781603863117Author Henry T BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint Watchmaker PublishingPublisher Watchmaker PublishingWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm)...

This book provides a history of Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI), a large Britain- based chemical firm which was a major industrial player in the twentieth century. Once a model for Britain's industrial reach and dominance, ICI collapsed in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262537407Author Julie A CohnFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 14mm

The Oxford Illustrated History of Science is the first ever fully illustrated global history of science, from Aristotle to the atom bomb - and beyond. The first part of the book tells the story of science in both East and West from antiquity to the...

Millions of people have listened to John H. Lienhard's radio program "The Engines of Our Ingenuity." In this fascinating book, Lienhard gathers his reflections on the nature of technology, culture, and human inventiveness. The book brims with insightful...

What is innovation? How is innovation used in business? How can we use it to succeed? Innovation, the ways ideas are made valuable, plays an essential role in economic and social development, and is an increasingly topical issue. Over the last 150...

The evolution of the American fishing schooner from the 18th century to the last working and racing schooners of the mid-1930s is recounted in this book. The designers, builders and crews are discussed, and 137 plans of schooners show graphically the...

Joseph Needham's Science and Civilisation in China is a monumental piece of scholarship which breaks new ground in presenting to the Western reader a detailed and coherent account of the development of science, technology and medicine in China from the...

Originally published in 1948, this book contains one man's story of working for the Telecommunications Research Establishment from 1934 until 1945. During this period, Rowe worked on many projects relating to air defence, particularly the development of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781603861717Author James PartonFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Merchant BooksPublisher Merchant BooksWeight(grams) 100gDimensions(mm) 235mm * 191mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307588692Author Kevin PoulsenFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 236gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...