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Assembling the Architect explores the origins and history of architectural practice. It unravels the competing interests that historically have structured the field and cultivates a deeper understanding of the contemporary profession. Focusing on the...

Since the discovery of electromagnetic waves less than 150 years ago, the application of wireless communications technology has not only revolutionized our daily lives, but also fundamentally changed the course of world history.A Brief History of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400080670Author Erik LarsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Crown Publishing Group (NY)Publisher Crown Publishing Group (NY)Weight(grams)...

Why do aircraft fly? How do their wings support them? In the early years of aviation, there was an intense dispute between British and German experts over the question of why and how an aircraft wing provides lift. The British, under the leadership of...

Inventing Our Selves proposes a radical new approach to the analysis of our current regime of the self, and the values of autonomy, identity, individuality, liberty, and choice that animate it. It argues that psychology, psychiatry, psychotherapy and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156623414Author Lewis MumfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 342Imprint Houghton MifflinPublisher Houghton MifflinWeight(grams) 431g

Sir Richard Fairey was one of the great aviation innovators of the twentieth century. His career as a plane maker stretched from the Edwardian period to the jet age - he lived long enough to see one of his aircraft be the first to break the 1000mph...

A tribute to one of the top fighter aces of the World War II, this new full length biography appears here in its first edition. Marseilles' wartime exploits are legendary with the 158 aerial victories, including 17 in one day. He was, and still is,...

This book describes in an easily accessible way how artificial intelligence (AI) will help us to overcome the ongoing rise in complexity and thus shape our lives and work in a not-too-distant future. AI has proven to be the latest tool for resolving...

The diesel locomotive sent shock waves through rigid corporate cultures and staid government regulators. For some, the new technology promised to be a source of enormous profits; for others, the railroad industry seemed a threat to their very livelihoods...

In the 1970s, while their contemporaries were protesting the computer as a tool of dehumanization and oppression, a motley collection of college dropouts, hippies, and electronics fanatics were engaged in something much more subversive. Obsessed with the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486457437Author Gardner Dexter HiscoxFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint 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 9780679739388Author Thomas P. HughesFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 312gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525575689Author Lee VinselFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint CurrencyPublisher Crown Publishing Group, Division of Random House Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780874744910Author Clarence L. JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Smithsonian BooksPublisher Smithsonian BooksWeight(grams) 312gDimensions(mm)...

By focusing on the conceptual issues faced by nineteenth century physicists, this book clarifies the status of field theory, the ether, and thermodynamics in the work of the period. A remarkably synthetic account of a difficult and fragmentary period in...

Contrary to prevailing opinion, the roots of modern science were planted in the ancient and medieval worlds long before the Scientific Revolution of the seventeenth century. Indeed, that revolution would have been inconceivable without the cumulative...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781603868174Author Nikola TeslaFormat HardbackPage Count 52Imprint Watchmaker PublishingPublisher Watchmaker PublishingWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400032945Author Henry PetroskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 279gDimensions(mm)...

'Women have won their political independence. Now is the time for them to achieve their economic freedom too.'This was the great rallying cry of the pioneers who, in 1919, created the Women's Engineering Society. Spearheaded by Katharine and Rachel...

Mr. Faulkner's masterpiece is recognized as the most important challenge to agricultural orthodoxy that has been advanced in this century. Its new philosophy of the soil, based on proven principles and completely opposed to age-old concepts, has had a...

Original published in 1926, this book presents a detailed account of quantum theory from its beginnings onwards. The text opens with a historical account of the quantum theory from its inception by Planck, and is followed by a full treatment of the...

An important study for understanding the complex interconnections between basic science and its sources of economic support in the period between the two world wars. The focus of the study is on the Institute for Theoretical Physics (later renamed the...

First published in 1879, this book has been identified as a lost publication by Peter Waterman, who is writing the introduction to the reprint.The book, which was published in the year of the Tay Bridge Disaster and the Zulu War in South Africa, looks in...

At the start of the 18th century there were no maps, anywhere in the world. No one knew, with any certainty, the shape of the earth or what lay beneath its surface. Was it hollow or solid? Were the Andes the highest mountains on the Earth or was it the...

A compelling biography of Mark Weiser, a pioneering innovator whose legacy looms over the tech industry's quest to connect everything-and who hoped for something better. When developers and critics trace the roots of today's Internet of Things-our smart...

The transition from roll to codex as the standard format of the book is one of the most culturally significant innovations of Late Antiquity. The Codex and Crafts in Late Antiquity examines surviving evidence in order to better understand how this...

In modern life, technology is everywhere. Yet as a concept, technology is a mess. In popular discourse, technology is little more than the latest digital innovations. Scholars do little better, offering up competing definitions that include everything...

Crosbie Smith explores the trials and tribulations of first-generation Victorian mail steamship lines, their passengers, proprietors and the public. Eyewitness accounts show in rich detail how these enterprises engineered their ships, constructed...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385199735Author Eric DrexlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing GroupPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group...

First published in 1948, Mechanization Takes Command is an examination of mechanization and its effects on everyday life. A monumental figure in the field of architectural history, Sigfried Giedion traces the evolution and resulting philosophical...

The first book to detail the global impact of copper production in Swansea, Wales, and how a major technological shift transformed the British Isles into the world's most dynamic center of copper smelting.Eighteenth-century Swansea, Wales, was to copper...

Conquering the Electron offers readers a true and engaging history of the world of electronics, beginning with the discoveries of static electricity and magnetism and ending with the creation of the smartphone and the iPad. This book shows the...

Men's Tailoring: Bespoke, Theatrical and Historical Tailoring 1830-1950 introduces the reader to English tailoring and covers the drafting of patterns, cutting out in cloth, and the complete traditional construction techniques in sequence for the...

As lives offline and online merge even more, it's easy to forget how we got here. Rise of the Machines reclaims the spectacular story of cybernetics, a control theory of man and machine. In a history that unpacks one of the twentieth century's pivotal...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262047906Author Chris GunnFormat HardbackPage Count 188Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 1432gDimensions(mm) 286mm * 260mm * 22mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262046510Author Robert BuderiFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451651515Author Leslie BerlinFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 499gDimensions(mm) 226mm *...

This handbook provides both an overview of state-of-the-art scholarship in philosophy of science, as well as a guide to new directions in the discipline. Section I contains broad overviews of the main lines of research and the state of established...

Stenciled on many of the deactivated facilities at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, the evocative phrase "abandoned in place" indicates the structures that have been deserted. Some structures, too solid for any known method of demolition, stand empty...