An Encyclopedia of the History of Technology
ISBN: 9780415013062 / Angielski / Twarda / 1084 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Around 22 sections cover the entire field of the history of technology, and have been contributed by a team of international experts. Each section has been designed to summarize the development of its subject from the earliest times to the present day, and is written so as to stand as an independent section, while also forming an integral part of the story of Man's efforts to harness the forces of Nature to his own ends. The text of each section forms a continuous narrative, with major inventions and developments being introduced and explained in sub-sections. The authors have throughout laid...
Around 22 sections cover the entire field of the history of technology, and have been contributed by a team of international experts. Each section has...
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1900,24 zł |
The Landscape of Industry : Patterns of Change in the Ironbridge Gorge
ISBN: 9780415033190 / Angielski / Twarda / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Landscape of Industry is an integrated study which establishes a method for the analysis of complex industrial landscapes. Based on a study of the Ironbridge Gorge, the authors consider a range of material evidence, combining archaeological appraisal of the landscape with analysis of its characteristic settlement patterns and built forms. The authors consider the shifting relationship between landscape and industry. Industrialization is itself shaped and constrained by the landscape in which it occurs, and the authors consider the interaction of environment and industry as the...
The Landscape of Industry is an integrated study which establishes a method for the analysis of complex industrial landscapes. Based on a study of the...
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658,75 zł |
The Changing Geography of Africa and the Middle East
ISBN: 9780415057103 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. CROSS REF DEV STUDIES Both Africa and the Middle East have sought alternatives to Western models of development. The last twenty-five years have seen political independence for the states of Africa and increased economic dependence on external aid. The Middle East, resource rich and water poor, continues economically robust but politically unstable. In both regions, widespread poverty continues as does the involvement of the West.
Clearly illustrated with basic maps of the countries discussed, The Changing Geography of Africa and the Middle East presents a systematic review of... CROSS REF DEV STUDIES Both Africa and the Middle East have sought alternatives to Western models of development. The last twenty-five years have seen ...
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162,10 zł |
The Industrial Heritage: Managing Resources and Uses
ISBN: 9780415070430 / Angielski / Miękka / 327 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Industrial Heritage: Managing Resources and Uses is an integrated approach to the assessment, conservation, interpretation, financing and management for the complex heritage of industrial cultures. The authors (both active workers in the field) suggest that concepts of heritage defined to deal with pre-industrial cultures are of limited use in dealing with the very different demands presented by industrial objects and the societies which produced them. At the same time, because the impact of industrialization changes over time and within different societies, the authors have produced a...
The Industrial Heritage: Managing Resources and Uses is an integrated approach to the assessment, conservation, interpretation, financing and manageme...
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278,65 zł |
Living in a Technological Culture: Human Tools and Human Values
ISBN: 9780415071000 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Technology is no longer confined to the laboratory but has become an established part of our daily lives. Its sophistication offers us power beyond our human capacity which can either dazzle or threaten; it depends who is in control.
Living in a Technological Culture challenges traditionally held assumptions about the relationship between man-and-machine'. It argues that contemporary science does not shape technology but is shaped by it. Neither discipline exists in a moral vacuum, both are determined by politics rather than scientific inquiry. By questioning our existing... Technology is no longer confined to the laboratory but has become an established part of our daily lives. Its sophistication offers us power beyond ou...
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608,08 zł |
Technopoles of the World: The Making of 21st Century Industrial Complexes
ISBN: 9780415100151 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Technopoles - planned centres for the promotion for high- technology industry - have become a key feature of national economic development worldwide. Created out of a technological revolution, the formation of the global economy and the emergence of a new form of economic production and management, they constitute the mines and foundries of the information age, redefining the conditions and processes of local and regional development. This book is the first systematic survey of technopoles in all manifestations: science parks, science cities, national technopoles and technobelt programmes....
Technopoles - planned centres for the promotion for high- technology industry - have become a key feature of national economic development worldwide. ...
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263,45 zł |
Teaching Technology
ISBN: 9780415102544 / Angielski / Miękka / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Technology is a new and rapidly changing area of the curriculum. For experienced teachers in school as well as for students and novices, it has involved the need for a whole new range of knowledge and skills in teaching.
This reader draws together already published articles and newly commissioned material from leading authors in the field to help teachers at all stages of their professional development to understand the principles which need to be considered whatever the detail of the National Curriculum in this subject. It looks at the development of technology as a school subject, at... Technology is a new and rapidly changing area of the curriculum. For experienced teachers in school as well as for students and novices, it has involv...
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126,63 zł |
Industry in the Landscape, 1700-1900
ISBN: 9780415112062 / Angielski / Twarda / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Two hundred years of industry have transformed the British landscape. This volume enables the reader to reconstruct the landscape of past industry. The authors are industrial archaeologists of national standing whose concern is to use surviving material evidence and contemporary sources in order to study the former working conditions of men and women.
Two hundred years of industry have transformed the British landscape. This volume enables the reader to reconstruct the landscape of past industry. Th...
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658,75 zł |
An Introduction to Digital Media
ISBN: 9780415151085 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this clear and highly accessible book, Tony Feldman provides an account of the evolution and application of digital media. Clarifying its underlying technologies, he identifies its immense commercial and human potential. Using as a starting point a simplification which considers new media in two distinct sectors; packaged 'off-line' media such as CD-ROMs; and the world of transmitted media which includes digital broadcasting and interactive online services, Feldman provides a comprehensive overview of the digital media landscape. Focusing on multimedia and the entertainment media he...
In this clear and highly accessible book, Tony Feldman provides an account of the evolution and application of digital media. Clarifying its underlyin...
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658,75 zł |
Industrial Archaeology: Principles and Practice
ISBN: 9780415166263 / Angielski / Twarda / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Industrial Archaeology uses the techniques of mainstream archaeological excavation, analysis and interpretation to present an enlightening picture of industrial society.
Technology and heritage have, until recently, been the focal points of study in industrialization. Industrial Archaeology sets out a coherent methodology for the discipline which expands on and extends beyond the purely functional analysis of industrial landscapes, structures and artefacts to a broader consideration of their cultural meaning and value. The authors examine, for example, the social context... Industrial Archaeology uses the techniques of mainstream archaeological excavation, analysis and interpretation to present an enlightening pi...
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658,75 zł |
Experimenting for Sustainable Transport : The Approach of Strategic Niche Management
ISBN: 9780415271165 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text offers guidance on one of the big problems of today: how to change unsustainable travel patterns based on the use of cars. The book is about user experiments with alternative means and modes of land-based passenger transport - electric vehicles, on-demand public transport services, organised car sharing, self-serviced public vehicles. It describes eight experiments with sustainable transport options which are analyzed in the context of established travel practice and car ownership and the problems they pose, and the trends in transport technology and policy that are shaping the...
This text offers guidance on one of the big problems of today: how to change unsustainable travel patterns based on the use of cars. The book is about...
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861,44 zł |
Planning Latin America's Capital Cities 1850-1950
ISBN: 9780415272650 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This title describes the development of the capital cities of Latin America in the post-colonial period - their planning, urban morphology and social evolution. These cities provide a unique example of the influence of urban planning and design ideas of one continent on another. The well-illustrated case studies of Buenos Aires, Caracas, Mexico City, Havana, Lima, Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, Santiago, and San Jose de Costa Rica, are each written by an authority on thecity concerned.
This title describes the development of the capital cities of Latin America in the post-colonial period - their planning, urban morphology and social ...
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760,10 zł |
Genetic Engineering: A Primer
ISBN: 9780415300070 / Angielski / Twarda / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Genetic Engineering: A Primer presents the growing field of biotechnology to non-science majors and other general interest readers. The author examines the natural forces that change genetic information and the ways in which scientists have learned to engineer these genetic changes. With a wealth of information flooding the popular press, including news and controversy surrounding cloning, Genetic Engineering is a timely volume that provides background information to the reader intent on understanding this fascinating development.
Genetic Engineering: A Primer presents the growing field of biotechnology to non-science majors and other general interest readers. The author examine...
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861,44 zł |
Technology, Time, and the Conversations of Modernity
ISBN: 9780415907712 / Angielski / Twarda / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Technology, Time, and the Conversations of Modernity takes as its impetus the idea that technology is an embodiment of our uneasiness with finitude. Lorenzo Simpson argues that technology has succeeded in granting our wish to domesticate time. He shows how this attitude affects our understanding of the meaning of action and our ability to discern meaning in our lives.
Technology, Time, and the Conversations of Modernity takes as its impetus the idea that technology is an em...
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658,75 zł |
Technology, Time, and the Conversations of Modernity
ISBN: 9780415907729 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Technology, Time, and the Conversations of Modernity takes as its impetus the idea that technology is an embodiment of our uneasiness with finitude. Lorenzo Simpson argues that technology has succeeded in granting our wish to domesticate time. He shows how this attitude affects our understanding of the meaning of action and our ability to discern meaning in our lives.
Technology, Time, and the Conversations of Modernity takes as its impetus the idea that technology is an em...
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187,44 zł |
A Liberal Vocationalism
ISBN: 9780416092622 / Angielski / Miękka / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Aims to rescue a usable interpretation of the vocational theory in higher education by describing the historical and policy frameworks of the debate.
Aims to rescue a usable interpretation of the vocational theory in higher education by describing the historical and policy frameworks of the debate.
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Countryside Management
ISBN: 9780419151401 / Angielski / Miękka / 365 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This management handbook explains the skills and systems needed by all those involved in managing the countryside. It deals with the process of management, national trends, establishing local policies and priorities, implementing schemes, as well as the legislation which surrounds countryside management.
This management handbook explains the skills and systems needed by all those involved in managing the countryside. It deals with the process of manage...
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314,12 zł |
Crime Prevention Through Housing Design
ISBN: 9780419153702 / Angielski / Miękka / 108 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book provides specific guidance for architects, planners, and housing managers on designing to deter crime. While every estate and neighbourhood has different problems which require unique solutions, the process which leads to the solutions will be the same. This book provides specific guidance for architects, planners, and housing managers on designing to deter crime. While every estate and neighbourhood has different problems which require unique solutions, the process which leads to the solutions will be the same. This book provides specific guidance for architects, planners, and housing managers on designing to deter crime. While every estate and neighbourho... |
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430,67 zł |
Unhealthy Housing : Research, remedies and reform
ISBN: 9780419154105 / Angielski / Twarda / 443 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The importance of housing and the health of occupiers has been of concern to the architecture, construction, medical, legal and environmental health professions. A wide range of experts are approaching the various risks and dangers inherent in housing design and construction, and often do so without recourse to the advances in knowledge from related professions. A source book of the current progress in different disciplines should be of value to both those engaged in the provision of housing and also as a focus for the direction of future research.
The importance of housing and the health of occupiers has been of concern to the architecture, construction, medical, legal and environmental health p...
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557,40 zł |
From Garden Cities to New Towns : Campaigning for Town and Country Planning 1899-1946
ISBN: 9780419155706 / Angielski / Twarda / 340 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book traces the history of a campaign that took place over nearly half a century, from the last years of the Victorian era to the new world of post-World War II Britain. It was a campaign that started with the simple aim of spreading the idea of the garden city - a concept dating from the 1890s -, and of encouraging others to build these settlements as a humane response to the slum housing of the industrial cities. Within a few years of the start of the campaign, the first garden city was built at Letchworth.
This book traces the history of a campaign that took place over nearly half a century, from the last years of the Victorian era to the new world of po...
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734,76 zł |