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Rough Notes Taken During Some Rapid Journeys Across the Pampas and Among the Andes
ISBN: 9781108001618 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sir Francis Bond Head (1793 1875) known as 'Galloping Head', was a soldier who later served as lieutenant-governor of Upper Canada, but who was dismissed from his post when rebellion broke out there in 1837. Before this, he had tried unsuccessfully to set up a mining company in Argentina. It is from this period of his life that the characteristically entitled Rough Notes Taken During Some Rapid Journeys Across the Pampas and Among the Andes (published in 1826) were written, in a headlong and jocular style which belies the actual hardships of his journey. Part of the interest of the account...
Sir Francis Bond Head (1793 1875) known as 'Galloping Head', was a soldier who later served as lieutenant-governor of Upper Canada, but who was dismis...
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Archaeological Approaches to Technology
ISBN: 9781598744736 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is designed for upper-division undergraduate and graduate level archaeology students taking courses in ancient technologies, archaeological craft production, material culture, the history of technology, archaeometry, and field methods. This text can also serve as a general introduction and a reference for archaeologists, material culture specialists in socio-cultural disciplines, and engineers/scientists interested in the backgrounds and histories of their disciplines. The study of ancient technologies, that is, the ways in which objects and materials were made and used can reveal...
This book is designed for upper-division undergraduate and graduate level archaeology students taking courses in ancient technologies, archaeological ...
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Decoding the Heavens: A 2,000-Year-Old Computer--and the Century-long Search to Discover Its Secrets
ISBN: 9780306818615 / Angielski / Miękka / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Decoding the Heavens, Jo Marchant tells for the first time the full story of the hundred-year quest to decipher the ancient Greek computer known as the Antikythera Mechanism. Along the way she unearths a diverse cast of remarkable characters and explores the deep roots of modern technology in ancient Greece and the medieval European and Islamic worlds. At its heart, this is an epic adventure and mystery, a book that challenges our assumptions about technology through the ages.
In Decoding the Heavens, Jo Marchant tells for the first time the full story of the hundred-year quest to decipher the ancient Greek computer k...
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Moon Lander: How We Developed the Apollo Lunar Module
ISBN: 9781588342737 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Chief engineer Thomas J. Kelly gives a firsthand account of designing, building, testing, and flying the Apollo lunar module. It was, he writes, "an aerospace engineer's dream job of the century." Kelly's account begins with the imaginative process of sketching solutions to a host of technical challenges with an emphasis on safety, reliability, and maintainability. He catalogs numerous test failures, including propulsion-system leaks, ascent-engine instability, stress corrosion of the aluminum alloy parts, and battery problems, as well as their fixes under the ever-present constraints of...
Chief engineer Thomas J. Kelly gives a firsthand account of designing, building, testing, and flying the Apollo lunar module. It was, he writes, "an a...
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Men of Invention and Industry
ISBN: 9781438523538 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Samuel Smiles was a 19th century Scottish author and reformer. In 1838 he became the editor for the Leeds Times and in 1840 he became secretary to the Leeds Parliamentary Reform Association. Smiles advocated causes ranging from women's suffrage, free trade, and parliamentary reform. Today Smiles is known as the writer of books on self-help, and biographies about the achievements of heroic engineers. The Table of Contents includes, Phineas Pett: beginnings of English shipbuilding -- Francis Pettit Smith, practical introducer of the screw propeller -- John Harrison, inventor of the marine...
Samuel Smiles was a 19th century Scottish author and reformer. In 1838 he became the editor for the Leeds Times and in 1840 he became secretary to the...
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Autos and Progress: The Brazilian Search for Modernity
ISBN: 9780195174571 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Autos and Progress reinterprets twentieth-century Brazilian history through automobiles, using them as a window for understanding the nation's struggle for modernity in the face of its massive geographical size, weak central government, and dependence on agricultural exports. Among the topics Wolfe touches upon are the first sports cars and elite consumerism; intellectuals' embrace of cars as the key for transformation and unification of Brazil; Henry Ford's building of a company town in the Brazilian jungle; the creation of a transportation infrastructure; democratization and...
Autos and Progress reinterprets twentieth-century Brazilian history through automobiles, using them as a window for understanding the nation'...
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307,90 |
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Autos and Progress: The Brazilian Search for Modernity
ISBN: 9780195174564 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Autos and Progress reinterprets twentieth-century Brazilian history through automobiles, using them as a window for understanding the nation's struggle for modernity in the face of its massive geographical size, weak central government, and dependence on agricultural exports. Among the topics Wolfe touches upon are the first sports cars and elite consumerism; intellectuals' embrace of cars as the key for transformation and unification of Brazil; Henry Ford's building of a company town in the Brazilian jungle; the creation of a transportation infrastructure; democratization and...
Autos and Progress reinterprets twentieth-century Brazilian history through automobiles, using them as a window for understanding the nation'...
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Encyclopedia of Adaptations in the Natural World
ISBN: 9780313355561 / Angielski / Twarda / 202 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Welcome to the amazing world of adaptations, where species including humans develop fascinating new capabilities to ensure a competitive edge in their environment, or in some cases, survival itself. Encyclopedia of Adaptations in the Natural World is a wide-ranging catalog of the most important of those adaptations from photosynthesis to the the peculiar "vampire"-like behavior of the tiny life form called the prion. The seven chapters in the Encyclopedia cover the key survival challenges all organisms face. Entries within those chapters cover specific... Welcome to the amazing world of adaptations, where species including humans develop fascinating new capabilities to ensure a competitive edge in th... |
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Barbed Wire: An Ecology of Modernity
ISBN: 9780819569592 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this original and controversial book, historian and philosopher Reviel Netz explores the development of a controlling and pain-inducing technology--barbed wire. Surveying its development from 1874 to 1954, Netz describes its use to control cattle during the colonization of the American West and to control people in Nazi concentration camps and the Russian Gulag. Physical control over space was no longer symbolic after 1874. This is a history told from the perspective of its victims. With vivid examples of the interconnectedness of humans, animals, and the environment, this dramatic...
In this original and controversial book, historian and philosopher Reviel Netz explores the development of a controlling and pain-inducing technology-...
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Materials and Expertise in Early Modern Europe: Between Market and Laboratory
ISBN: 9780226439686 / Angielski / Twarda / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It is often assumed that natural philosophy was the forerunner of early modern natural sciences. But where did these sciences systematic observation and experimentation get their starts? In "Materials and Expertise in Early Modern Europe," the laboratories, workshops, and marketplaces emerge as arenas where hands-on experience united with higher learning. In an age when chemistry, mineralogy, geology, and botany intersected with mining, metallurgy, pharmacy, and gardening, materials were objects that crossed disciplines. Here, the contributors tell the stories of metals, clay, gunpowder,... It is often assumed that natural philosophy was the forerunner of early modern natural sciences. But where did these sciences systematic observatio... |
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Forbidden Fuel: A History of Power Alcohol
ISBN: 9780803228085 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Forbidden Fuel is the definitive history of alcohol fuel, describing in colorful detail the emergence of alcohol fuel in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and the political and economic forces behind its popularity, opposition, and eventual growth. In 1982, when The Forbidden Fuel was first published, approximately 350 million gallons of ethanol were produced in the United States for transport fuel. In 2008 that number had grown to 9 billion gallons an approximate average annual growth rate of 98.9 percent. Similar dramatic growth has occurred all over the world,...
The Forbidden Fuel is the definitive history of alcohol fuel, describing in colorful detail the emergence of alcohol fuel in the nineteenth and...
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Scientific Culture and the Making of the Industrial West
ISBN: 9780195082197 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book seeks to explain the historical process by which in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries scientific knowledge became an integral part of the culture of Europe and how this in turn led to the Industrial Revolution. Comparative in structure, Jacob explains why England was so much more successful at this transition than its continental counterparts.
This book seeks to explain the historical process by which in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries scientific knowledge became an integral part of...
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The Realities of Nuclear Power: International Economic and Regulatory Experience
ISBN: 9780521126038 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Originally published in 1988, this book analyses the position of nuclear power. Much of public concern about nuclear power is focused on issues of safety. Whilst clearly of great important, the related questions of economic and technological performance of nuclear power also need to be addressed. This book sets out to explore the realities of nuclear power using as its basis the detailed and exhaustive evaluation of the programmes in the USA, Canada, France and the Federal Republic of Germany. Earlier international comparative analyses identified large, consistent differences between...
Originally published in 1988, this book analyses the position of nuclear power. Much of public concern about nuclear power is focused on issues of saf...
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Fear of Farming
ISBN: 9781905119325 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The environmental crisis is one of the most pressing concerns to face the population of the world today. The debate centres on the way in which our current problems are of recent making and how we might fix them. But in reality the issue is far more fundamental and stretches back further in time than many of us might think. This book traces the origins of our present situation to the changes that came about with the introduction of farming to Britain 6000 years ago, and the inexorable course of human development since then. This is a course which has set us on the path to catastrophe....
The environmental crisis is one of the most pressing concerns to face the population of the world today. The debate centres on the way in which our cu...
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American Science and Modern China, 1876-1936
ISBN: 9780521135382 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. American Science and Modern China is an essay in comparative history, originally published in 1980. It focuses on the transmission of scientific ideas and organizations from the United States to China, a topic interesting primarily for what it reveals about the social history of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American science. The main themes concern how scientific traditions and institutions that were developed in one setting served as models for the creation of new ones elsewhere, what modifications were induced by this change of environment, and what these modifications imply...
American Science and Modern China is an essay in comparative history, originally published in 1980. It focuses on the transmission of scientific ideas...
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The Department of Mad Scientists: How DARPA Is Remaking Our World, from the Internet to Artificial Limbs
ISBN: 9780062000651 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From Smithsonian Books, The Department of Mad Scientists is the first trade book ever on DARPA--the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency--the maverick and controversial agency whose futuristic work has had amazing military and civilian application, from the Internet to GPS to driverless cars. Michael Belfiore, author of Rocketeers, visited science research sites across the country to provide this unprecedented look at the people who shape our country's future technology.
From Smithsonian Books, The Department of Mad Scientists is the first trade book ever on DARPA--the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency...
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Science and Technology in World History, Volume 2: Early Christianity, the Rise of Islam and the Middle Ages
ISBN: 9780786458394 / Angielski / Miękka / 237 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Explores the evolution of science from the advents of Christianity and Islam to the Middle Ages, focusing especially on the historical relationship between science and religion.
Explores the evolution of science from the advents of Christianity and Islam to the Middle Ages, focusing especially on the historical relationship be...
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Science and Technology in World History, Volume 1: The Ancient World and Classical Civilization
ISBN: 9780786439324 / Angielski / Miękka / 275 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In an accurate historical treatment, it is impossible to pinpoint a definition of science that applies to multiple moments in time. This book explores the origins and nature of scientific methodology from ancient history to the decline of classical civilizations in roughly 300 AD.
In an accurate historical treatment, it is impossible to pinpoint a definition of science that applies to multiple moments in time. This book explores...
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The Fourth Part of the World: An Astonishing Epic of Global Discovery, Imperial Ambition, and the Birth of America
ISBN: 9781416535348 / Angielski / Miękka / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Old maps lead you to strange and unexpected places, and none does so more ineluctably than the subject of this book: the giant, beguiling Waldseemuller world map of 1507." So begins this remarkable story of the map that gave America its name. For millennia Europeans believed that the world consisted of three parts: Europe, Africa, and Asia. They drew the three continents in countless shapes and sizes on their maps, but occasionally they hinted at the existence of a "fourth part of the world," a mysterious, inaccessible place, separated from the rest by a vast expanse of ocean. It was a...
"Old maps lead you to strange and unexpected places, and none does so more ineluctably than the subject of this book: the giant, beguiling Waldseemull...
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507 Mechanical Movements: Mechanisms and Devices
ISBN: 9781603863117 / Angielski / Miękka / 124 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Five Hundred and Seven Mechanical Movements - An unabridged printing of the 18th Edition (1906) to include all illustrations and text -
Five Hundred and Seven Mechanical Movements - An unabridged printing of the 18th Edition (1906) to include all illustrations and text -
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