Coming of the Railway A New Global History, 1750-1850
ISBN: HB: 9780300267891, Yale University Press, June 2023
416 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 32 colour illus., 30 black&white illus., 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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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
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.
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.
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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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
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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Sailplane Design A Guide for Students and Designers, from Drafting to Flight Test
ISBN: PB: 9788875650926, Bookport, IBN Editore, June 2018
480 pp., 24,0x17,0 cm, 200 colour illus.
The book, enterely in English, gives constructors and designers all the necessary notions for building a sailplane. The volume starts with a project phase, passing then to aerodynamic and stability. The Author explains it all with a series of formula...
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42.50 GBP
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New Water Anthropology
ISBN: PB: 9788895623528, Bookport, ListLab, August 2016
160 pp., 20,3x14,0 cm, colour illus.
Once, water defined the layout and structure of many cities and their architecture. These cities existed in symbiosis with water itself: depending on it and developing alongside it. Over time however, scientific techniques and progresses introduced s...
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17.95 GBP
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Sailplane Design Example Design - Calculation Example - Structural Dimensioning
ISBN: PB: 9788875652579, Bookport, IBN Editore, June 2016
316 pp., 24,0x17,0 cm, illus.
A book nearly all photographic with an English text, dealing with military fighting aircrafts this time, also analyzing the use of fighters in the immediate after war. Each photo has a technical and descriptional dossier. A review of 406 photos of ma...
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30.00 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
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 elsewhe...
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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.
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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