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  • Science and Religion

    Some Historical Perspectives

    de John Hedley Brooke ...
    Series series Canto Classics
    John Hedley Brooke offers an introduction and critical guide to one of the most fascinating and enduring issues in the development of the modern world: the relationship between scientific thought and religious belief. It is common knowledge that in western societies there have been periods of crisis when new science has threatened established authority. The trial of Galileo in 1633 and the uproar ... Leer más

    $22.99 USD

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  • Rust

    The Longest War

    de Jonathan Waldman ...
    Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize ** A Wall Street Journal Best Book of the YearRust has been called “the great destroyer,” the “pervasive menace,” and “the evil.” “This look at corrosion—its causes, its consequences, and especially the people devoted to combating it—is wide-ranging and consistently engrossing” (The New York Times).It is the hidden enemy, the one that challenges the ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

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  • Small Things Considered

    Why There Is No Perfect Design

    de Henry Petroski ...
    Why has the durable paper shopping bag been largely replaced by its flimsy plastic counterpart? What circuitous chain of improvements led to such innovations as the automobile cup holder and the swiveling vegetable peeler? With the same relentless curiosity and lucid, witty prose he brought to his earlier books, Henry Petroski looks at some of our most familiar objects and reveals that they are, ... Leer más

    $5.99 USD

  • The Idealist

    Aaron Swartz and the Rise of Free Culture on the Internet

    de Justin Peters ...
    This smart, “riveting” (Los Angeles Times) history of the Internet free culture movement and its larger effects on society—and the life and shocking suicide of Aaron Swartz, a founding developer of Reddit and Creative Commons—written by Slate correspondent Justin Peters “captures Swartz flawlessly” (The New York Times Book Review).Aaron Swartz was a zealous young advocate for the free exchange of ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD

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    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • Friends, Followers and the Future

    How Social Media are Changing Politics, Threatening Big Brands, and Killing Traditional Media

    de Rory O'Connor ...
    There’s a revolution going on, as ever-accelerating developments in digital information technologies change nearly every aspect of how we live, work, play, do business and engage in politics. Share and share alike—the numbers say it all as billions of people worldwide flock to online media and use social networks to discover and spread news and information.In the process, ever-growing networks of ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Audible Past

    Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction

    de Jonathan Sterne ...
    The Audible Past explores the cultural origins of sound reproduction. It describes a distinctive sound culture that gave birth to the sound recording and the transmission devices so ubiquitous in modern life. With an ear for the unexpected, scholar and musician Jonathan Sterne uses the technological and cultural precursors of telephony, phonography, and radio as an entry point into a history of ... Leer más

    $23.99 USD

  • Rise of the Machines

    de Thomas Rid ...
    "Dazzling.” —Financial TimesAs lives offline and online merge even more, it is easy to forget how we got here. Rise of the Machines reclaims the spectacular story of cybernetics, one of the twentieth century’s pivotal ideas.Springing from the mind of mathematician Norbert Wiener amid the devastation of World War II, the cybernetic vision underpinned a host of seductive myths about the future of ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • The Canada Company and the Huron Tract, 1826-1853

    Personalities, Profits and Politics

    de Robert C. Lee ...
    The Canada Company was responsible for the opening and settling of over two million acres of land in Upper Canada. Author Robert C. Lee focuses his attention on the extensive parcel of land on the shores of Lake Huron that became known as the Huron Tract. His comprehensive research explores the underlying forces leading to the formation of the Company, the intriguing mix of people charged with ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Future of the Gun

    de Frank Miniter ...
    The history of the American gun is intricately entwined with the history of America itself. Promising developments in gun technology could change not only America's future, but the future of the world. Unfortunately, the radical anti-gun lobby is standing between innovation and the American people. Bestselling author Frank Miniter details the amazing breakthroughs waiting to happen in gun ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

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  • The Religion of Technology

    The Divinity of Man and the Spirit of Invention

    de David F. Noble ...
    Arguing against the widely held belief that technology and religion are at war with each other, David F. Noble's groundbreaking book reveals the religious roots and spirit of Western technology.It links the technological enthusiasms of the present day with the ancient and enduring Christian expectation of recovering humankind's lost divinity. Covering a period of a thousand years, Noble traces the ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Worlds without End

    The Many Lives of the Multiverse

    de Mary-Jane Rubenstein ...
    A religion professor elucidates the theory of the multiverse, its history, and its reception in science, philosophy, religion, and literature.Multiverse cosmologies imagine our universe as just one of a vast number of others. Beginning with ancient Atomist and Stoic philosophies, Mary-Jane Rubenstein links contemporary models of the multiverse to their forerunners and explores the reasons for ... Leer más

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  • Engineers of Dreams

    Great Bridge Builders and the Spanning of America

    de Henry Petroski ...
    Petroski reveals the science and engineering--not to mention the politics, egotism, and sheer magic--behind America's great bridges, particularly those constructed during the great bridge-building era starting in the 1870s and continuing through the 1930s. It is the story of the men and women who built the St. Louis, the George Washington, and the Golden Gate bridges, drawing not only on their ... Leer más

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