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Engineers for Korea
ISBN: 9783031010002 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book follows the fraught attempts of engineers to identify with Korea as a whole. It is for engineers, both Korean and non-Korean, who seek to become better critical analysts of their own expertise, identities, and commitments. It is for non-engineers who encounter or are affected by Korean engineers and engineering, and want to understand and engage them. It is for researchers who serve as critical participants in the making of engineers and puzzle over the contents and effects of techno-national formation.
This book follows the fraught attempts of engineers to identify with Korea as a whole. It is for engineers, both Korean and non-Korean, who seek to be...
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132,80 |
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Scientific Analysis of Cultural Heritage Objects
ISBN: 9783031009594 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The characterization of cultural heritage objects becomes increasingly important for conservation, restoration, dating, and authentication purposes. The use of scientific methods in archaeometry and conservation science has led to a significant broadening of the field. Scientific analysis of these objects is a challenging task due to their complex composition, artistic and historical values requiring the use of minimally invasive and nondestructive analytical procedures. This textbook summarizes scientific methods that are currently used to characterize objects of cultural heritage and...
The characterization of cultural heritage objects becomes increasingly important for conservation, restoration, dating, and authentication purposes. T...
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281,76 |
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The Lightning Tamers: True Stories of the Dreamers and Schemers Who Harnessed Electricity and Transformed Our World
ISBN: 9798985981308 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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68,38 |
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The Development of Nuclear Propulsion in the Royal Navy, 1946-1975
ISBN: 9783031051289 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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442,79 |
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The Formation of the Swiss Hospital System (1840-1960): An Analysis of Surgeon-Modernisers in the Canton of Vaud
ISBN: 9789811939105 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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603,81 |
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Making Machines of Animals: The International Livestock Exposition
ISBN: 9781421446554 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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308,12 |
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The Psychology of Evolving Technology: How Social Media, Influencer Culture and New Technologies are Altering Society
ISBN: 9781484286852 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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228,02 |
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Accelerating Economic Growth: Lessons from 200,000 Years of Technological Progress and Human Development
ISBN: 9783031071942 / Angielski / Twarda / 164 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What made it possible for the human species to conquer the world, build a global digital economy, and still want more? What drives technological progress and economic growth in the long run and on a global scale? And how will technological progress, economic growth, and the overall prosperity of human civilization unfold in the future? This book sheds new light on these big questions by incorporating findings from physics, anthropology, psychology, history, philosophy, and computer science in a brand-new theory of economic growth. Looking back across the millennia, it identifies five...
What made it possible for the human species to conquer the world, build a global digital economy, and still want more? What drives technological progr...
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201,24 |
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Invention and Innovation: A Brief History of Hype and Failure
ISBN: 9780262048057 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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137,32 |
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The Coming of the Railway: A New Global History, 1750-1850
ISBN: 9780300267891 / Angielski / Twarda / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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127,84 |
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The Apple II Age: How the Computer Became Personal
ISBN: 9780226816524 / Angielski / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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102,27 |
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A Technological History of Cold-War India, 1947-1969: Autarky and Foreign Aid
ISBN: 9783030787691 / Angielski / Miękka / 282 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book provides a technological history of modern India, in particular the Nehruvian development in the context of the Cold War. Through a series of case studies about military modernization, transportation infrastructure, and electric power, it examines how the ideals of autarky and technological indigenization conflicted with the economic and political realities of the Cold War world. Where other studies tend to focus on the political leaders and economists who oversaw development, this book demonstrates how the perspective of the engineers, government bureaucrats, and aid workers...
This book provides a technological history of modern India, in particular the Nehruvian development in the context of the Cold War. Through a series o...
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483,04 |
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Engineering, Social Sciences, and the Humanities: Have Their Conversations Come of Age?
ISBN: 9783031116001 / Angielski / Twarda / 427 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book presents a critical examination of conversations between engineering, social sciences, and the humanities asking whether their conversations have come of age. These conversations are important because ultimately their outcome have real world consequences in engineering education and practice, and for the social and material world we inhabit. Taken together the 21 chapters provide scholarly-argued responses to the following questions.Why are these conversations important for engineering, for social sciences, and for the humanities?Are there key places in practice, in the curriculum,...
This book presents a critical examination of conversations between engineering, social sciences, and the humanities asking whether their conversations...
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563,56 |
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Portuguese Philosophy of Technology: Legacies and Contemporary Work from the Portuguese-Speaking Community
ISBN: 9783031146299 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume is a collection of essays of a philosophical nature on the subject of technology, introducing authors from the Portuguese-speaking community, namely from Portugal itself, Africa and Brazil. Their contributions detail a unique perspective on technology, placing this important topic within the historical, ideological and social contexts of their countries, all of which share a common language. The shared history of these countries and the cultural and economic specificities of each one have stimulated singular insights into these thinkers’ reflections.The essays are thematically...
This volume is a collection of essays of a philosophical nature on the subject of technology, introducing authors from the Portuguese-speaking communi...
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442,79 |
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The Untold Stories of the Space Shuttle Program: Unfulfilled Dreams and Missions that Never Flew
ISBN: 9783031196522 / Angielski / Miękka / 343 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In September 1969, several months after the Apollo 11 lunar landing, President Richard M. Nixon established the Space Task Force to chart NASA’s path for the decades to come. This imaginative vision was shattered less than six months later when, on January 13, 1970, NASA Administrator Dr. Thomas Paine announced that, owing to funding cuts, only the reusable Space Shuttle could be afforded -- there would be no space station, no return to the Moon, and no missions to Mars.This is a story never before told about the missions and technologies that NASA had begun to plan but never fully...
In September 1969, several months after the Apollo 11 lunar landing, President Richard M. Nixon established the Space Task Force to chart NASA’s pat...
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181,11 |
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Technologies of Mind and Body in the Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc
ISBN: 9781350271265 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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412,91 |
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World Brain
ISBN: 9781528771269 / Angielski / Twarda / 146 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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114,90 |
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Radio Astronomy in Canada: Young Science in a Young Country
ISBN: 9783031129339 / Angielski / Twarda / 340 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Here is the tale of Canada’s intriguing development of the science of Radio Astronomy. In 1946 the lone figure of Arthur Covington started monitoring the radio emission of the Sun, a programme that continues to this day. By the 1960s Canada had progressed to constructing two radio observatories at either ends of the country (the DRAO and the ARO), and universities were coming onboard. The story continues through the dire times for these and follows their fortunes and fates right up to the present, with Canada now playing key roles in billion-dollar international telescope projects. It...
Here is the tale of Canada’s intriguing development of the science of Radio Astronomy. In 1946 the lone figure of Arthur Covington started monitorin...
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603,81 |
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Distinguished Figures in Mechanism and Machine Science: Legacy and Contribution of the IFToMM Community, Part 5
ISBN: 9783031182877 / Angielski / Twarda / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book discusses the technological developments achieved by distinguished figures in the history of mechanism and machine science (MMS). This is the fifth volume of a series of books which gathered contributions on the leading scientists in the field. This book focuses specifically on the IFToMM community and its activities over the last 50 years, showcases who-is-who in MMS, and emphasizes—together with the previous books of the series—the significance of MMS through time. Each chapter recognizes persons whose scientific work resulted in relevant technical developments in the...
This book discusses the technological developments achieved by distinguished figures in the history of mechanism and machine science (MMS). This is th...
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644,07 |
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Technozan: Eine Einfuhrung in Die Evolutionare Technikphilosophie
ISBN: 9783465045861 / Niemiecki / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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93,00 |
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