Telegraph Railway Codes
1905-1946
ISBN: PB: 9781851246724,
Bodleian Library Publishing,
April 2026
96 pp., 17,0x11,0 cm, 21 black&white illus.
96 pp., 17,0x11,0 cm, 21 black&white illus.
This quirky book, drawn from code books published in the UK, America, Australia and the former British Empire, provides a fascinating insight into the running of railways in the first half of the twentieth century.
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Weath...
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9.99 GBP
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Every Journey Matters
Moving London into the 21st Century
ISBN: HB: 9781917976022,
Yale University Press,
Paul Holberton Publishing,
November 2025
464 pp., 24,1x16,8 cm, 75 colour and black&white illus.
464 pp., 24,1x16,8 cm, 75 colour and black&white illus.
Published to mark the first 25 years of Transport for London, this fascinating book is the first comprehensive history of the organisation since its creation.
This volume gives readers a ringside seat at the TfL table during moments of crisis, press...
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30.00 GBP
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Coming of the Railway
A New Global History, 1750-1850
ISBN: PB: 9780300284300,
ISBN: HB: 9780300267891,
Yale University Press,
October 2025
416 pp., 19,6x12,7 cm, 32 colour illus., 30 black&white, 6 maps
416 pp., 19,6x12,7 cm, 32 colour illus., 30 black&white, 6 maps
The first global history of the epic early days of the iron railway.
Railways, in simple wooden or stone form, have existed since prehistory. But from the 1750s onward the introduction of iron rails led to a dramatic technological evolution - one t...
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11.99 GBP
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25.00 GBP
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Engineering Ethics
Contemporary and Enduring Debates
ISBN: PB: 9780300209242,
Yale University Press,
July 2020
216 pp., 20,9x13,9 cm
216 pp., 20,9x13,9 cm
The first engineering ethics textbook to use debates as the framework for presenting engineering ethics topics, this engaging, accessible survey explores the most difficult and controversial issues that engineers face in daily practice. Written by a...
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18.99 GBP
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Detroit Style
Car Design in the Motor City, 1950-2020
ISBN: HB: 9780300247084,
Yale University Press,
June 2020
150 pp., 29,2x29,2 cm, 100 colour illus.
150 pp., 29,2x29,2 cm, 100 colour illus.
Detroit, nicknamed Motor City, has always been a leader in car design. As the city became the center of the American automobile industry in the early 20th century, its studios became incubators for new ideas and new styles. This volume highlights the...
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30.00 GBP
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Goddess: La Deesse
Investigations on the Legendary Citroen DS.
ISBN: HB: 9783037786260,
Lars Muller Publishers,
June 2020
240 pp., 24,0x16,5 cm, 200 illus.
240 pp., 24,0x16,5 cm, 200 illus.
At its presentation in 1955, the Citroen DS was a sensation and a magnet for designers, philosophers, and politicians alike. No other automobile was able to combine form and technology so coherently and seemingly effortlessly. Radical in its implemen...
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36.00 GBP
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Fiber
The Coming Tech Revolution - and Why America Might Miss It
ISBN: PB: 9780300251777,
Yale University Press,
May 2020
264 pp., 21,6x14,0 cm
264 pp., 21,6x14,0 cm
An illuminating vision of the next information revolution, centered on a fiber-optic infrastructure The world of 5G, the next generation of telecommunication technology, will be as different from what came before as the world after the advent of elec...
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16.99 GBP
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Great Indian Phone Book
How Cheap Mobile Phones Change Business, Politics and Daily Life
ISBN: PB: 9781849043137,
Hurst Publishers,
June 2013
320 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
320 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
The cheap mobile phone is arguably the most significant personal communications device in history. In India, where caste hierarchy has reinforced power for generations, the disruptive potential of the mobile phone is even more striking than elsewhere...
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14.99 GBP
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Into the Black
JPL and the American Space Program, 1976-2004
ISBN: PB: 9780300184198,
Yale University Press,
November 2011
414 pp., 22,9x15,2 cm, black&white illus.
414 pp., 22,9x15,2 cm, black&white illus.
In the decades since the mid-1970s, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, has led the quest to explore the farthest reaches of the solar system. JPL spacecraft-Voyager, Magellan, Galileo, the Mars rovers, and others-have brought the...
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34.00 GBP
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