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

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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Richard M Conway
Islands in the Lake

Now notorious for its aridity and air pollution, Mexico City was once part of a flourishing lake environment. In nearby Xochimilco, Native Americans modified the lakes to fashion a distinctive and remarka…

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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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H Glenn Penny
In Humboldt's Shadow

A compelling history of the German ethnologists who were inspired by Prussian polymath and explorer Alexander von HumboldtThe Berlin Ethnological Museum is one of the world's largest and most important an…

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Hermogenes and Hellenistic-Roman Temple Building

Recent major excavations at a variety of sites associated with Hermogenes have refreshed, invigorated, and refined our understanding of this important Hellenistic architect. Here, in the first volume dedi…

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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

"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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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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Campbell Books,
Inventors

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

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Yijun Wang
The Tin Centuries

Tin was everywhere in early modern China--lining tea chests, shaping religious vessels, alloyed into coins. Yet beneath this ordinary metal lies a story of migration, technology, and governance that paved…

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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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Marco Armiero
Vajont

The sobering political implications of a disaster---the Vajont landslide in Italy in 1963---and how it speaks directly to our present environmental crisis.On October 9, 1963, two thousand people perished …

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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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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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Nicholas Carr
Superbloom

With rich psychological insights and vivid examples drawn from history and science, Superbloom provides both a panoramic view of how media shapes society and an intimate examination of the fate of the sel…

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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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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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