Technology History – Bücher, CDs, Blu-ray Discs und mehr, Seite 6

Fynn Holm
The Gods of the Sea

"Challenging common portrayals of Japan as a centuries-old whaling nation, Fynn Holm shows that many coastal communities in early modern Northeast Japan believed whales to be the incarnation of the g…

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The Body of the Combatant in the Ancient Mediterranean

This volume explores a broad range of perceptions, receptions and constructions of the soldierly body in the ancient world, putting the notion of embodiment at the forefront of its engagement with ancient…

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Rebecca Heisman
Flight Paths

"Illuminating. . . . Flight Paths does what only the best science books do: It adds to our knowledge of the world without diminishing its wonder."---Wall Street JournalThe captivating, little-kn…

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Julia Tischler
Cultivating Race

Cultivating Race explores the rise of scientific knowledge in farming in South Africa and ways in which it informed - or was informed by - questions of race in the first half of the twentieth century.

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Waiwai

For over a century, business interests and political insiders controlled waters across the Hawaiian Islands to benefit a privileged few at the expense of stream ecology, taro farmers, and our islands' fut…

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Waiwai

For over a century, business interests and political insiders controlled waters across the Hawaiian Islands to benefit a privileged few at the expense of stream ecology, taro farmers, and our islands' fut…

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Christen E Civiletto
Thundering Waters

How corporate kingpins built their empires by poisoning a treasured natural wonderFew images from the natural world conjure the same awe, power, and amazement as Niagara Falls. Each year, millions flock f…

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Techno-Orientalism 2.0

Techno-Orientalism 2.0 addresses the impact of a volatile post-COVID present on speculative futures by and about Asians. The volume engages with techno-Orientalist inflections in recent high-profile and l…

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Kathryn Gibbs Davis,
Mr. Ferris and His Wheel

Science, history, and engineering combine in this uplifting nonfiction picture book about the invention of the world's most iconic amusement park ride, the Ferris wheel. Now available in paperback!Capturi…

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Techno-Orientalism 2.0

Techno-Orientalism 2.0 addresses the impact of a volatile post-COVID present on speculative futures by and about Asians. The volume engages with techno-Orientalist inflections in recent high-profile and l…

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Tom Harper, Nick Dykes, Magdalena Peszko
Secret Maps

An illustrated story of the relationship between mapping and secrecy, charting the role maps played in concealing and revealing knowledge across centuries.Is there anything more intriguing than a secret m…

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Anto Mohsin
Electrifying Indonesia

Electrifying Indonesia tells the story of the entanglement of politics and technology during Indonesia's rapid post--World War II development. As a central part of its nation-building project, the Indones…

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Adam Higginbotham
Challenger

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Nonfiction • Winner of the Kirkus Nonfiction Prize • Shortlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction • A New York TimesNotable Bo…

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Guru Madhavan
The Blue Box

After the Wright brothers helped America "find her wings", the early days of aviation were fraught with disaster. That is, until 1929, when Ed Link invented the flight simulator, which allowed p…

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A Companion to Greek Warfare

"The first part of the book, a "Historical Survey," focuses on changing issues in strategy and grand strategy-on Greek motives, goals, and responses to military success and failure, the Mac…

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Peter S Soppelsa
Paris After Haussmann

Modern Paris is often hailed as a capital of urban infrastructure. Baron Georges-Eugène Haussmann's rebuilding of Paris in 1853-1870, branded "Haussmannization," helped define urban modernity fo…

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Donna Campbell
Talisman

TALISMAN (tal'is men) [Fr.

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Joyce E Chaplin
The Franklin Stove

A Washington PostNoteworthy Book One of The New Yorker 's Best Books of the Year So Far "[A] richly textured history . . . This story holds numerous lessons for our era." -The New Yorker "F…

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Matthew Ford
War in the Smartphone Age

Thanks to smartphones, war is everywhere, all the time. Anyone can view, analyse and comment on photos, videos or other warzone media. Where did this technology come from? And what does it mean for the fu…

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Great American Marine Corps Stories

On November 10, 1775, the Continental Congress approved a resolution for the organization of the Corps, creating what would become the Marines, a heroic group of men and women who put their lives on the l…

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