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Suryakanthie Chetty
Science and Technology in South Africa, 1939-1946

Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology

This book addresses the ways in which science and technology were employed in South Africa during the Second World War. A key theme underlying the chapters is the human mind: in Chapter One, which address…

lieferbar ab 31.12.2025.

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Keith Houston
Empire of the Sum

Starting with hands, abacus and slide rule, humans have always reached for tools to simplify math. Pocket-sized calculators ushered in modern mathematics, helped build the atomic bomb, took us to the bott…

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Roberta J Magnusson
Urban Infrastructure in Medieval England

How medieval English towns built, sustained, and reimagined the lifelines of urban life.In the bustling market towns and growing cities of medieval England between 1200 and 1600, public works were the lif…

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John Heywood
In Search of Technological Excellence

Using a plethora of previously unpublished sources, this book analyses the policymaking and policy implementation in the education of British engineers and technologists between 1944-1994.

lieferbar ab 14.11.2025.

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Under The Volcano (2021) (Blu-ray) (UK Import)

On a remote Caribbean island in the 1980s, in the shadow of a volcano, the world's biggest recording artists were drawn to one special place, to escape and to forge the music that defined an era. Built by…

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Tish Davidson, Scott Davidson
From War Room to Living Room

"Discover the military origins of more than 45 everyday items and technologies, from duct tape and Kleenex to microwaves and the internet"--

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Marc Landry
Mountain Battery

"By the end of the nineteenth century, Europeans had come to see the Alps as the ideal place to fashion an alternative to the era's dominant energy source: coal. After 1850, Alpine water increasingly…

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Simon Winchester
The Breath of the Gods

New York Times bestselling author Simon Winchester returns with a thought-provoking history of the wind, written in his edifying and entertaining style.What is going on with our atmosphere? The headlines …

lieferbar ab 18.11.2025.

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Roma Agrawal
Nuts and Bolts

Some of humanity's mightiest engineering achievements are small in scale-and, without them, the complex machinery on which our modern world runs would not exist. In Nuts and Bolts, structural engineer Rom…

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Tim Queeney
Rope

A unique and compelling adventure through the history of rope and its impact on civilization, in the vein of single-subject bestsellers like Salt and CodTim Queeney is a sailor who knows more about rope a…

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Dominic Chinea
Machines a Visual History

"Filled with stunning illustrations and lively, engaging text, The Repair Shop's Dom Chinea guides readers through this celebration of the history and uses of 100 machines that have allowed artisans …

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Thomas Morel
Underground Mathematics

Morel tells the story of subterranean geometry, a forgotten discipline that developed in the silver mines of early modern Europe where mining and metallurgy were of great significance. Through vivid case …

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Jeffrey Womack
Radiation Evangelists

Radiation Evangelists explores X-ray and radium therapy in the United States and Great Britain during a crucial period of its development, from 1896 to 1925. It focuses on the pioneering work of early adv…

lieferbar ab 17.3.2026.

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Tristan G Brown
Laws of the Land

"A groundbreaking history of Fengshui's roles in public life and law during China's last imperial dynastyToday the term Fengshui, which literally means "wind and water," is recognized aroun…

lieferbar ab 9.12.2025.

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Mark Coeckelbergh
Artificial Religion

How AI is shaped by Western religious culture and universal existential aspirations---and why we think we need it in the first place.Artificial Religion argues that to fully understand our puzzling relati…

lieferbar ab 7.4.2026.

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Agricultural Science as International Development

"For more than fifty years, international aid for agricultural research has been shaped by an ad-hoc consortium known as CGIAR. Drawing on the best of recent historical scholarship, this book present…

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Agricultural Science as International Development

"For more than fifty years, international aid for agricultural research has been shaped by an ad-hoc consortium known as CGIAR. Drawing on the best of recent historical scholarship, this book present…

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Tom Wolfe
The Right Stuff

"What does it take to be an astronaut? First published in 1979, Tom Wolfe's astounding book The Right Stuff answers this question and more, exploring both the mental and the physical sacrifices that …

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James M Tabor
Lightning Beneath the Sea

In 1854, the American entrepreneur Cyrus Field set out to lay a 2,000-mile telegraph cable across the Atlantic. Nothing like it had ever been attempted, and Field knew nothing about electricity, telegraph…

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Alexandra Roginski
Science and Power in the Nineteenth-Century Tasman World

"A compelling history of how popular phrenology featured in the fates of people living in, and moving through, the settler-colonial world of nineteenth-century Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand. Inn…

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