Technology History – Bücher, CDs, Blu-ray Discs und mehr, Seite 8

Campbell Books,
Inventors

A novelty board book for preschoolers, introducing them to the inventors who changed the world.

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Body and Machine in Classical Antiquity

"Explores the ways in which the human body and the world of machines and technological artefacts intersected in the ancient world. Traces the origins of the body-machine interface from Homer's automa…

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Robert Shields Mevissen
The Danube Empire

In the nineteenth century, changes to the environment, driven by ideology, natural forces, and burgeoning fossil fuel power, shifted the course of the Habsburg Empire. Along the Danube--Europe's second lo…

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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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Rebel Girls
Rebel Girls Stem Stars: 25 Tales of Women in Science

TRUE STORIES OF DETERMINATION AND DISCOVERYThis collection of short stories about trailblazing women in STEM features 25 inspiring tales of professionals in science, technology, engineering, and math. Rea…

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Ken Jennings,
Outer Space

"Now you can become a junior genius with Ken Jennings' first children's series! With this book you'll become an expert and wow your friends and teachers with out-of-this-world facts: Did you know tha…

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Larissa Theule,
Glass: Looking In, Looking Out

"As clear and colorful as its topic." ---Kirkus Reviews The author of Concrete: From the Ground Up brings her illuminating and often dry-humored approach to reflecting on another marvel of the e…

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Ken Jennings,
Outer Space

Blast off into outer space with this interactive trivia book from Jeopardy! host and champion and New York Times bestselling author Ken Jennings---featuring updated facts!Take one giant leap into space wi…

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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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David Rooney
The Big Hop

In 1919, in Newfoundland, four teams of aviators came from Britain to compete in "the Big Hop": an audacious race to be the first to fly, nonstop, across the Atlantic Ocean. One pair of competit…

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Hollywood Unions

Who makes films and television shows? How do those people make a living in Hollywood? Hollywood Unions tells the stories of the unions and guilds that have organized and negotiate on behalf of motion pict…

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Hollywood Unions

Who makes films and television shows? How do those people make a living in Hollywood? Hollywood Unions tells the stories of the unions and guilds that have organized and negotiate on behalf of motion pict…

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Adam Higginbotham
Challenger

Winner of the 2024 National Book Critics Circle Award in Nonfiction • Winner of the 2024 Kirkus Nonfiction Prize • Shortlisted for the 2025 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction • A New York …

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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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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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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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Alberto Maria Pollastrini
Helmets and Body Armour in New Kingdom Egypt

"This book examines the dynamics around the introduction and spread of helmets and body armour throughout Egypt during the 18th, 19th and 20th Dynasties, and argues that the word 'introduction' is th…

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Walter Brandmuller
The Case of Galileo and the Church

Throughout the modern era, Galileo Galilei has been presented as a victim of cruel torture of conscience, theological narrow-mindedness, and ecclesiastical harassment typical of a dark, closed-minded Chur…

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Kanani,
How to Be an Astronaut and Other Space Jobs

An engaging and comprehensive guide to many exciting space-related jobs, from astronauts and rocket engineers to space chefs and even extraterrestrial scouts.Do you have what it takes to become an astrona…

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Joel J Miller
The Idea Machine

Books are our first and most lasting form of information technology. Books preserve ideas, yes, but they also provoke new ones--- they are true tools for thinking. In The Idea Machine , Joel J. Miller sho…

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