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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “william gosling”
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  • Culture’s Engine

    Inside Science and Technology

    by William Gosling ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Culture’s Engine offers an insightful and penetrating analysis of the enduring relationship between technology and society. William Gosling explores in absorbing historical detail how humans have experienced change through a sequence of technological revolutions, each giving rise to new social organisation, which in turn influences the shape and timing of the next such revolution. Gosling argues ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Quaternary Vegetation Dynamics

    The African Pollen Database

    Edited by Jürgen Runge, Anne-Marie Lézine, Louis Scott, William Gosling ...
    Series series Palaeoecology of Africa
    This book celebrates the relaunch of the African Pollen Database, presents state-of-the-art of modern and ancient pollen data from sub-Saharan Africa, and promotes Open Access science. Pollen grains are powerful tools for the study of past vegetation dynamics because they preserve well within sedimentary deposits and have a huge diversity in ornamentation that allows different taxa to be ... Read more

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  • The Most Powerful Idea in the World

    A Story of Steam, Industry, and Invention

    by William Rosen ...
    The sweeping true story of how the steam engine changed the world, from the acclaimed author of Miracle CureIf all measures of human advancement in the last hundred centuries were plotted on a graph, they would show an almost perfectly flat line—until the eighteenth century, when the Industrial Revolution would cause the line to shoot straight up, beginning an almost uninterrupted march of ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • Alan Turing and Enigma Machine

    by Alan Moon ...
    Read the amazing life of this English mathematician and logician, Alan Turing, who helps crack the Enigma code during World War II. Now in theaters with "The imitation Game" film. ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • New Dark Age

    Technology and the End of the Future

    by James Bridle ...
    “New Dark Age is among the most unsettling and illuminating books I’ve read about the Internet, which is to say that it is among the most unsettling and illuminating books I’ve read about contemporary life.” – New YorkerAs the world around us increases in technological complexity, our understanding of it diminishes. Underlying this trend is a single idea: the belief that our existence is ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • Engineering

    A Very Short Introduction

    by David Blockley ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Engineering is part of almost everything we do - from the water we drink and the food we eat, to the buildings we live in and the roads and railways we travel on. In this Very Short Introduction, David Blockley explores the nature and practice of engineering, its history, its scope, and its relationship with art, craft, science, and technology. He considers the role of engineering in the modern ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Nature of Technology

    What It Is and How It Evolves

    by W. Brian Arthur ...
    “More than anything else technology creates our world. It creates our wealth, our economy, our very way of being,” says W. Brian Arthur. Yet despite technology’s irrefutable importance in our daily lives, until now its major questions have gone unanswered. Where do new technologies come from? What constitutes innovation, and how is it achieved? Does technology, like biological life, evolve? In ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • TRIZ for Engineers: Enabling Inventive Problem Solving

    by Karen Gadd ...
    TRIZ is a brilliant toolkit for nurturing engineering creativity and innovation. This accessible, colourful and practical guide has been developed from problem-solving workshops run by Oxford Creativity, one of the world's top TRIZ training organizations started by Gadd in 1998. Gadd has successfully introduced TRIZ to many major organisations such as Airbus, Sellafield Sites, Saint-Gobain, DCA, ... Read more

    $72.00 USD

  • Backroom Boys

    The Secret Return of the British Boffin

    by Francis Spufford ...
    ORDER NONESUCH, THE NEW NOVEL FROM FRANCIS SPUFFORD, NOWA brilliant, beautiful account of how British boffins triumphed across the decades in creating everything from computer games to Martian landers.Backroom Boys is a vivid love-letter to quiet men in pullovers, to those whose imaginings take shape not in words but in mild steel and carbon fibre and lines of code. Above all, it is a celebration ... Read more

    $11.89 USD

  • Alan Turing and his Contemporaries

    Building the world's first computers

    by Simon Lavington, Chris Burton, Martin Campbell-Kelly, Roger Johnson ...
    Secret wartime projects in code-breaking, radar and ballistics produced a wealth of ideas and technologies that kick-started the development of digital computers. This is the story of the people and projects that flourished in the post-war period. By 1955 computers had begun to appear in the market-place. The Information Age was dawning and Alan Turing and his contemporaries held centre stage. ... Read more

    $30.59 USD

  • Engineering

    A Beginner's Guide

    by Natasha McCarthy ...
    Series series Beginner's Guides
    Discover the human side to the discipline that is profoundly more than nuts and boltsFocusing on the impact of engineering on society and the world, McCarthy details the development of the discipline, explains what makes an engineering mind, and shows how every aspect of our lives has been engineered: from gadgets to our national infrastructure. Long considered tinkerers, problem solvers, and ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • You Belong to the Universe

    Buckminster Fuller and the Future

    by Jonathon Keats ...
    A compelling call to apply Buckminster Fuller's creative problem-solving to present-day problems A self-professed "comprehensive anticipatory design scientist," the inventor Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983) was undoubtedly a visionary. Fuller's creations often bordered on the realm of science fiction, ranging from the freestanding geodesic dome to the three-wheel Dymaxion car to a bathroom requiring ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

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