(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Castle Point Books, ISBN-13: 9781250282675)
From Pulitzer prize-winning journalist Eric Moskowitz comes the riveting story of the first true coast-to-coast automobile race in U.S. history, a fast-paced tale of the gritty and determined drivers who braved hostile terrain, mechanical failu...Loe edasi...
This book in a single contribution for the first time examines the historical development of the concepts of vortex, vorticity, knot, chirality, and helicity between 1517 and 1969. It considers their origins in early pictorial and conceptual studies...Loe edasi...
In 1492, Columbus stumbled across the Americas while looking for an eastern route to Asia. Thirty years later, Magellan succeeded where Columbus had failed. The three-year voyage was gruelling, as the lives of Magellan and two-thirds of the crew were...Loe edasi...
This open access book examines how Piedmont, in early modern Italy, developed silk production into a distinctive system of technological and social innovation. It explores the ways in which this fragile yet economically significant material shaped r...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 25-May-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: America Through Time, ISBN-13: 9781625451699)
Northwest Ohio played a vital role in the rise of America’s railroad age. This book explores the region stretching from Tiffin to the Indiana state line and from Toledo to Lima, examining how railroads shaped the communities, industries, and growth o...Loe edasi...
This book employs an intersectional feminist lens to examine how U.S. national, social, and cultural ideologies surrounding health and intelligence have been shaped and sustained through ra...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 21-May-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226847658)
Argues that engineers influenced by French Enlightenment science built much of the machinery of Americas military state while redrawing the line between the federal government and society. In The Scientific-Military State, Sveinn M. Jóhannesson ch...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 21-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226847634)
Argues that engineers influenced by French Enlightenment science built much of the machinery of Americas military state while redrawing the line between the federal government and society. In The Scientific-Military State, Sveinn M. Jóhannesson ch...Loe edasi...
This work explores the landmark legal cases that have shaped the modern automotive industry, including a wide range of pivotal issues, from product liability and antitrust to corporate governance and employment law. Among the cases pre...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 14-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Laurence King Publishing, ISBN-13: 9780857829047)
We live in a world where many aspects of late twentieth century science fiction have become technological reality. As gadgets and technology in general have become more miniaturised, sleek and capable, so too has an appetite for the sort of quirky...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 07-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009728416)
In this new history of the development of American air power, Phillip Meilinger dispels the notion that young air zealots pushed for a bomber-heavy force, revealing instead the technological, economic and bureaucratic forces which shaped the air for...Loe edasi...
Arcade Adventures tells the story of video game arcades, from the pioneering technology of the 1970s and the golden age of the 1980s, to the modern experiences of today....Loe edasi...
The Bestselling Philosophy Book of All Time“Profoundly important. . . . Full of insights into our most perplexing contemporary dilemmas.” —New York Times In celebration of the 250th...Loe edasi...
SuperbloomA celebrated commentator on the human consequences of technology, Nicholas Carr reorients the conversation around modern communication, challenging some of our most cherished beliefs about self-expression, free speech, and media democratiza...Loe edasi...
