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  • Engineers in Western Europe: Ascent—and Decline?

    A Profession Torn Between Technology and Economy, 1850–1990, with Outlooks to the Present

    by Rolf Torstendahl ...
    Series series History (R0)
    In his book, pending between history and sociology, on engineers in thirteen countries of the western part of Europe, Professor Rolf Torstendahl approaches the development from around 1850 up to the present situation from different angles.- One examines the educational patterns and the author shows how widely different types of formation of engineers existed in Britain, France and Germany in the ... Read more

    $154.99 CAD

  • The Rise and Propagation of Historical Professionalism

    by Rolf Torstendahl ...
    Series series Routledge Approaches to History
    This book examines the evolution of historical professionalism, with the development of an international community that shares a set of values regarding both methodological minimum demands and what constitutes new results. Historical professionalism is not a fixed set of skills, but a concept with varying import and meaning at different times depending on changing norms. Torstendahl covers the ... Read more

    $104.99 CAD

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    Science Communication between News and Public Relations

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    How to Connect Planning, Design and Transport

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