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
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
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Aircraft
Next Nature
ISBN: HB: 9783037786345,
Lars Muller Publishers,
October 2020
120 pp., 26,0x19,0 cm, 60 illus.
120 pp., 26,0x19,0 cm, 60 illus.
Aircraft is a project combining the field of the aviation industry as well as the conventions of the photography medium. Maxime Guyon meticulously dissects various "techno-species" with distinct aerial machinery fragments, leading us to an anthropolo...
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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
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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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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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£32.00
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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
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Robots are Here
Learning to Live With Them
ISBN: PB: 9781789550917,
Legend Times Group,
University of Buckingham Press,
November 2019
256 pp., 23,0x15,1 cm
256 pp., 23,0x15,1 cm
Technology is redefining what it means to live in society and be human.
This book assembles research and practice on educational robotics (intelligent machines) with a particular focus on the practices in Britain and Italy, the latter of which is a...
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Overcoming the Robotic Mind
Why Humanity Must Come Through
The dangers of humans slipping into a state of obeisance to mechanistic inventions has been a pressing issue ever since the industrial revolution. But in 2019, and in the midst of an electromagnetic era and the promise of robots taking-over human wor...
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£19.99
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Sailplane Design
A Guide for Students and Designers, from Drafting to Flight Test
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
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Eureka
How Invention Happens
ISBN: PB: 9780300228854,
Yale University Press,
August 2017
280 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm, 12 black&white illus.
280 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm, 12 black&white illus.
Tracing the long pre-history of five twentieth-century inventions which have transformed our lives, Gavin Weightman reveals a fantastic cast of scientists and inspired amateurs whose ingenuity has given us the airplane, television, bar code, personal...
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£11.99
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