A lively and engaging introduction to the progress of science over the ages“In Mr. Bynum’s telling, a little history goes a long way.”—Alan Hirshfeld, Wall Street Journal Science is key to understanding t...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Sep-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691233079)
How 1,000 years of global history show why technological and economic progress is often followed by stagnation and even collapseIn How Progress Ends, Carl Benedikt Frey challenges the conventional belief that economic and technological progress is i...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 03-Jun-2025, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526171764)
This book focuses upon the activities of a group of Midland intellectuals who strove to promote social, political and urban improvements which had national and international consequences. It examines a turbulent period of British history, an age of p...Loe edasi...
Oliver H. Creighton, Robert Liddiard, Alan K. Outram, Carly Ameen, Kate Kanne
(Ilmumisaeg: 08-May-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Liverpool University Press, ISBN-13: 9781836243359)
The image of the armoured knight mounted on his charging warhorse is one of the most evocative of the Middle Ages. As distinctive symbols of social status, horses were central to the medieval aristocratic image and closely bound up with concepts of...Loe edasi...
A Sunday Times, Times Literary Supplement, and The Times Book of the Year Robert Darnton is one of the worlds greatest historians, and this is an exceptional book: a huge social and cultural portrait of Paris in the build-up to the French...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-May-2025, Other book format, Kirjastus: Algora Publishing, ISBN-13: 9781628945430)
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Humans have always tried to overcome the burden of biological limits by developing science, technology-and communities. Canceling the link between biological or fitness and differences in reproductive success, humans have defeated the logic that gui...Loe edasi...
The book is a study of the evolving history of knowledge in the arts and sciences in the modern era – from 1648 through the present. Modernism is treated as an epoch with evolving disciplines whose articulated problems of a time and the inquiry me...Loe edasi...
Sarka Hoskova-Mayerova, Cristina Flaut, Daniel Flaut, Pavlina Rackova
Sari: Studies in Systems, Decision and Control
(Ilmumisaeg: 12-Apr-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Springer International Publishing AG, ISBN-13: 9783031435058)
This book presents challenges and innovations in social problems over the centuries. By their nature, human beings are innovative and continuously adapted to appeared changes over the time. From this point of view, human history can be considered...Loe edasi...
A lively and engaging introduction to the progress of science over the ages“In Mr. Bynum’s telling, a little history goes a long way.”—Alan Hirshfeld, Wall Street Journal Science is key to understanding t...Loe edasi...
This book studies a striking example of intensely negotiated colonial scientific practice: the case of botanical practice in Korea during the Japanese colonization from 1910 to 1945.The shared aim of botanists who encountered one another in...Loe edasi...
John Matherson steps in to negotiate with a hidden military power in what remains of the world after receiving word that the President is dying from an assassination attempt, in the fourth novel of the series following The Final Day. Original....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 18-Feb-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Yale University Press, ISBN-13: 9780300275704)
An expansive look at the contemporary artists confronting, challenging, and reimagining R. Buckminster Fuller’s techno-utopianism to envision sustainable futures...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 04-Feb-2025, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Penguin USA, ISBN-13: 9780593297087)
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“A new masterpiece from one of my favorite authors… ( How The World Really Works) is a compelling and highly readable book that leaves readers with the fundamental grounding needed to he...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 28-Jan-2025, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Duke University Press, ISBN-13: 9781478031383)
Family and home are commonly equated with women and children. Men at Home changes this visual by situating men firmly in the domestic world. It underlines mens dependence on the family and home, although men (and societies more broadly) tend to tre...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 28-Jan-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Duke University Press, ISBN-13: 9781478028154)
Gyanendra Pandey explores the complex and varied ways in which men in colonial and postcolonial India navigate their domestic lives across stratified castes and classes. In Men at Home, Gyanendra Pandey offers a detailed exploration of...Loe edasi...
One of the BBCs most anticipated books for 2024 An i-D non-fiction book of 2024 A Stylist non-fiction book of 2024 An essential book i-D What happens when our cultural and artistic lives are dictated to us by an algorithm?...Loe edasi...
