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“john h lienhard”

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  • Inventing Modern

    Growing up with X-Rays, Skyscrapers, and Tailfins

    by John H. Lienhard ...
    Modern is a word much used, but hard to pin down. In Inventing Modern, John H. Lienhard uses that word to capture the furious rush of newness in the first half of 20th-century America. An unexpected world emerges from under the more familiar Modern. Beyond the airplanes, radios, art deco, skyscrapers, Fritz Lang's Metropolis, Buck Rogers, the culture of the open road--Burma Shave, Kerouac, and ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • How Invention Begins

    Echoes of Old Voices in the Rise of New Machines

    by John H. Lienhard ...
    In How Invention Begins, Lienhard reconciles the ends of invention with the individual leaps upon which they are built, illuminating the vast web of individual inspirations that lie behind whole technologies. He traces, for instance, the way in which thousands of people applied their combined inventive genius to airplanes, railroad engines, and automobiles. As he does so, it becomes clear that a ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • How Invention Begins

    Echoes of Old Voices in the Rise of New Machines

    by John H. Lienhard ...
    In How Invention Begins, Lienhard reconciles the ends of invention with the individual leaps upon which they are built, illuminating the vast web of individual inspirations that lie behind whole technologies. He traces, for instance, the way in which thousands of people applied their combined inventive genius to airplanes, railroad engines, and automobiles. As he does so, it becomes clear that a ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Modeling and Approximation in Heat Transfer

    by Leon R. Glicksman, John H. Lienhard V ...
    Engineers face many challenges in systems design and research. Modeling and Approximation in Heat Transfer describes the approach to engineering solutions through simplified modeling of the most important physical features and approximating their behavior. Systematic discussion of how modeling and associated synthesis can be carried out is included - in engineering practice, these steps very often ... Read more

    $128.99 CAD

  • Divine Promise and Human Freedom in Contemporary Catholic Thought

    by Kevin A. McMahon, John S. Grabowski, Montague Brown, Roger Duncan, Lawrence J. Welch, Richard A. Nicholas, Daniel C. Hauser, Robert P. George, Sister Sara Butler, Rev. Joseph T. Lienhard0, John M. McDermott1, Rev. David Meconi2, Rev. Earl Muller3 ...
    It has always been understood that the central claim of Christianity—that Jesus born of Mary is the Son of God—is as much a declaration of the mystery of the human as it is the mystery of God; just as the claim that in virtue of this identity he is the Christ who restores, and more, transforms, the created order, intensifies the mystery of the human even further. When the age of revolution was ... Read more

    $158.99 CAD

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  • Fatigue Design of Marine Structures

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  • James May's Magnificent Machines

    How men in sheds have changed our lives

    by James May, Phil Dolling ...
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  • Statistical Thermodynamics and Stochastic Kinetics

    An Introduction for Engineers

    by Yiannis N. Kaznessis ...
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  • What Is Mathematics?

    An Elementary Approach to Ideas and Methods

    by the late Richard Courant, Herbert Robbins, Ian Stewart ...
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