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Penguin Random House LLC Inventing the Internet Inside Technology
£35.73
MIT Press Cold War Kitchen Americanization Technology and European Users Inside Technology Series
Book SynopsisThe kitchen as political symbol and material reality in the cold war years. Richard Nixon and Nikita Khrushchev's famous “kitchen debate” in 1958 involved more than the virtues of American appliances. Both Nixon and Khrushchev recognized the political symbolism of the modern kitchen; the kind of technological innovation represented in this everyday context spoke to the political system that produced it. The kitchen connects the “big” politics of politicians and statesmen to the “small” politics of users and interest groups. Cold War Kitchen looks at the kitchen as material object and symbol, considering the politics and the practices of one of the most famous technological icons of the twentieth century. Defining the kitchen as a complex technological artifact as important as computers, cars, and nuclear missiles, the book examines the ways in which a range of social actors in Europe shaped the kitchen as both ideological construct a
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Penguin Random House LLC The Social Construction of Technological Systems anniversary edition New Directions in the Sociology and History of Technology
£38.78
Penguin Random House LLC Memory Practices in the Sciences
Book SynopsisHow the way we hold knowledge about the past—in books, in file folders, in databases—affects the kind of stories we tell about the past.The way we record knowledge, and the web of technical, formal, and social practices that surrounds it, inevitably affects the knowledge that we record. The ways we hold knowledge about the past—in handwritten manuscripts, in printed books, in file folders, in databases—shape the kind of stories we tell about that past. In this lively and erudite look at the relation of our information infrastructures to our information, Geoffrey Bowker examines how, over the past two hundred years, information technology has converged with the nature and production of scientific knowledge. His story weaves a path between the social and political work of creating an explicit, indexical memory for science—the making of infrastructures—and the variety of ways we continually reconfigure, lose, and regain the past.At a ti
£31.17
MIT Press Science and Technology in the Global Cold War
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Penguin Random House LLC Moving Innovation A History of Computer Animation The MIT Press
£38.78
MIT Press Ltd The Sound of Innovation
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MIT Press Ltd Paper Machines
£38.80
MIT Press Ltd Debugging Game History
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Penguin Random House LLC Always Already New Media History and the Data of Culture The MIT Press
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MIT Press Ltd Making Silicon Valley
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Penguin Random House LLC Electrifying America Social Meanings of a New Technology 18801940
£56.30
Penguin Random House LLC Making Parents The Ontological Choreography of Reproductive Technologies
£38.78
Penguin Random House LLC Retooling A Historian Confronts Technological Change MIT Press
£31.17
Yale University Press The Woman Who Discovered Printing
£27.10
ABC-CLIO Urban Mass Transit
Book SynopsisThis volume in the Greenwood Technographies series covers urban mass transit - that is, the technologies that allow cities to move large numbers of people around.Trade Review"Post offers Urban Mass Transit--The Life Story of Technology, a well-written book that traces the development of the trolley and streetcar to today's light rail transit (LRT). The book includes material on urbanization and transit via horsepower; introduction of mechanical means to run cable railways; electrification and the rise of the trolley; motor vehicle developments and trolley use decline; and rapid transit expansion and the revival of mass transit. The book includes a time line, glossary, and list of resources. Post has done an excellent job, using stories, photographs, sketches, and facts to construct a fascinating historical account of innovation. An appealing work for the general public as well as students and others with interests in public transit. Recommended. General readers; lower-division undergraduates through professionals." - Choice"Narrating the life story of urban mass transit in the United States, Post focuses on streetcars, trolleys, light rail, and similar transport and pays significantly less attention to buses and subways. His primary theme as he explores the mass transit developments in the 20th century concerns the ways public and decision makers evaluated the costs and benefits of various transit choices, both in strictly economic terms and in terms of wider societal concerns, including noise, pollution, and even aesthetics." - SciTech Book News
£40.00
Little, Brown & Company Shoot for the Moon
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Lulu.com James Clerk Maxwell and Modern Physics
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£13.48
W. W. Norton & Company Crystal Fire The Invention of the Transistor and the Birth of the Information Age Sloan Technology Series
Book Synopsis"Without the invention of the transistor, I'm quite sure that the PC would not exist as we know it today."—Bill Gates
£19.95
iUniverse The First Decade of the Twentieth Century The Burgess Shale of Modern Technology
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iUniverse From T2 to Supertanker Development of the Oil Tanker 19402000 Development of the Oil Tanker 19402000
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iUniverse Race to the Sea The Autobiography of a Marine Biologist
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iUniverse The First Decade of the Twentieth Century The Burgess Shale of Modern Technology
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iUniverse From T2 to Supertanker Development of the Oil Tanker 19402000
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Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp Westinghouse J46 Axial Turbojet Family
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DK Flight
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DK Classic Car
Book SynopsisFrom the Chevrolet Bel Air to the Ferrari Testarossa, this stunning book showcases the most iconic and important classic cars from every decade since the 1940s.Few things ignite such reverence as a classic car. With more than 250 iconic models from the 1940s to the early 1990s, photographed from every angle, this title is a glorious celebration of the stars in the classic car firmament.Classic Car brings you the story of more than 20 great marques, including household names Bentley, Mercedes, Ferrari, Cadillac and Aston Martin. Its lavish photography reveals every detail in close-up of models that range from the 1940s giant two-ton Daimler DE36, which ferried royals about in style, through to sleek Ferraris from the 1980s capable of smashing the 200mph barrier. It puts you in the driving seat of such icons as the Chevrolet Corvette, the Ford Thunderbird, and the Mercedes 300SL, and brings you the designers of these amazing machines and the story of their mTrade Review"[T]his is a book to savor, to be pored over time and again." — Booklist (Starred Review)
£36.00
New Generation Publishing 2mt Writtle The Birth of British Broadcasting
£24.46
AuthorHouse Vertical Challenge The Hiller Aircraft Story
£15.49
AuthorHouse Halfway to the Stars Memoirs of a Cable Car Gripman
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AuthorHouse They Broke the Mold
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Johns Hopkins University Press Apprentice to Genius The Making of a Scientific
Book SynopsisRobert Kanigel takes us into the heady world of a remarkable group of scientists working at the National Institutes of Health and the Johns Hopkins University: a dynasty of American researchers who for over forty years have made Nobel Prize- and Lasker Award-winning breakthroughs in biomedical science.Trade ReviewA beguiling combination of sociological and scientific scholarship, straight reporting and titillating voyeurism. Isis Making extensive use of interviews and anecdote, Kanigel depicts how, in a mentor-to-protege chain starting with James Shannon and moving to Bernard Brodie and then to Julius Axelrod, the legacy of creativity and empirical style has passed to Snyder and then to Pert. Science As compelling as a Jackie Collins novel, though with bigger words. Chicago TribuneTable of ContentsIntroduction1. Nobel Laureate2. A Wartime Urgency3. Steve Brodie, Methyl Orange, and the New Pharmacology4. Brodie and Axelrod: "Let's Take a Flier on It"5. Building 3: "All He Had to Do Was Whistle"6. Separate Ways7. Julie's Lab8. The Golden Era9. Johns Hopkins10. The Opiate Receptor: "Just Get Hysterical and Do It"11. The Lasker Flap12. The Mentor Chain13. 198514. Epilogue: 1993AcknowledgmentsIndex
£28.00
Hopkins Fulfillment Service NASA and the Space Industry
Book SynopsisShe explains why NASA sometimes encouraged and sometimes thwarted the privatization of space projects and describes the agency's role in the rise of such new space industries as launch vehicles and communications satellites.Trade ReviewAs well as being an interesting read, NASA and the Space Industry demonstrates the effect that lack of clarity in space policy can have on the development of private sector space capability. Spaceflight A much-needed overview of a subject of great importance. -- Erik P. Rau Enterprise and SocietyTable of ContentsPrefaceChapter 1. Partners in SpaceChapter 2. LegaciesChapter 3. A Tale of Two CompaniesChapter 4. The Space ShuttleChapter 5. Space and the MarketplaceChapter 6. In the Wake of the ChallengerChapter 7. Trends in NASA-Industry RelationsNotesBibliographyIndex
£26.50
Stanford University Press Bootstrapping
Book SynopsisThis tells the story of Douglas Engelbart's revolutionary vision, reaching beyond conventional histories of Silicon Valley to probe the ideology that shaped some of the basic ingredients of contemporary life.Trade Review"Bootstrapping fills an important gap in the story of personal computing." -- Technology and Culture"Thierry Bardini particularly explores the theoretical and conceptual underpinnings of Engelbart's book. . . . Indeed, the breadth of Engelbart's contributions and influence, documented in meticulous detail, are astonishing. . . ." -- Enterprise & Society"Anyone who has worked in computer-human interface or in and around Silicon Valley institutions such as SRI, Xerox PARC, IBM Almaden Research Center or Apple Computer will certainly relish this book. Moreover, those in a private, government or non-profit office filled with the fruits of contemporary productivity technology will appreciate Bardini's tales of politics, committees, funding and grants, demos to funders and skeptical management, and all those fascinating projects at PARC and SRI." -- Leonardo ReviewsTable of ContentsPart I. Premises: 1. A problematic picture of the personal interface 2. Social change and networks Part II. The Prehistory of the Laboratory: 3. Douglas C. Engelbart and the ARPA community 4. The augmentation framework and the relativist tradition Part III. Kinaesthetics and the Hypertextual Piano: Feeling the Code: 5. From physico-motor skills to kinaesthetic communication 6. The mouse is more than a pointing device Part IV. The Social Construction of the Personal Interface: 7. The beginnings of the hypermedium 8. The genesis of the graphic interface 9. The (inter)personal interface Part V. Coda: 10. When hand and memory meet again.
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Endres and Hobster Italian Icon The History of Alitalia
£31.50
Extensional Publishing Korzybski
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Extensional Publishing Korzybski
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Reed Media Services The Daemon the Gnu and the Penguin
£19.88
Cassandra Going Somewhere
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Nawcc The Clock Book
£24.00
Semper Publishing Aerial Nurse Corps of America
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£31.99
Mediatech Publishing Televisionaries Inside the Chaos and Innovation of the Digital Revolution
£13.00
Matt Publishing When Computing Got Personal A history of the desktop computer
£14.24
Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp Motorcycle Club Protocol 101
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£42.46
Lulu Press Valor Untold
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Legare Street Press Annual Report of the Scientific and Industrial Research Council of Alberta 1
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