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  • Party Sweets
    Mary Blake
    Party Sweets by Mary Blake has been regarded as significant work throughout human history, and in order to ensure that this work is never lost, we have taken steps to ensure its preservation by republishing this book in a contemporary format for both current and future generations. This entire book has been retyped, redesigned, and reformatted. Since these books are not made fr...
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    19,52 €

  • The partnership of paint
    Eda A. Oliver
    The partnership of paint by Eda A. Oliver has been regarded as significant work throughout human history, and in order to ensure that this work is never lost, we have taken steps to ensure its preservation by republishing this book in a contemporary format for both current and future generations. This entire book has been retyped, redesigned, and reformatted. Since these books ...
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    19,36 €

  • Replayed
    Henry Lowood
    A leading voice in technology studies shares a collection of essential essays on the preservation of software and history of games.Since the early 2000s, Henry Lowood has led or had a key role in numerous initiatives devoted to the preservation and documentation of virtual worlds, digital games, and interactive simulations, establishing himself as a major scholar in the field o...
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    62,48 €

  • An archaeology of innovation
    Catherine J. Frieman
    This monograph takes a unique archaeological approach to the investigation of innovation and the innovation process. Case studies span the breadth of human history, from our earliest hominin ancestors to the contemporary world. The emphasis is on the social context and temporality of invention, adoption, creativity and resistance. ...
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    35,67 €

  • Making Machines of Animals
    Neal A Knapp
    How the Chicago International Livestock Exposition leveraged the eugenics movement to transform animals into machines and industrialize American agriculture.In 1900, the Chicago International Livestock Exposition became the epicenter of agricultural reform that focused on reinventing animals’ bodies to fit a modern, industrial design. Chicago meatpackers partnered with land-gra...
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    76,21 €

  • The Ghost Racetracks of Portland, Oregon
    Bob Kehoe / Ralph Hunt
    The Portland Speedway, dating back to 1924, stood as the anchor for automobile racing in Portland, Oregon, principally from 1936 until its demise in 2001. Two more racing venues - Jantzen Beach Arena and, for a few years, the horse racing track at Portland Meadows were added. These facilities were located within a one-mile radius of the Speedway. Northwest racing history was ma...
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    29,92 €

  • Technological Internationalism and World Order
    Waqar H. Zaidi
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    57,34 €

  • It Looked Good on Paper
    Bill Fawcett
    A remarkable compendium of wild schemes, mad plans, crazy inventions, and truly glorious disastersEvery phenomenally bad idea seemed like a good idea to someone. How else can you explain the Ford Edsel or the sword pistol--absolutely absurd creations that should have never made it off the drawing board? It Looked Good on Paper gathers together the most flawed plans, half-baked ...
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    14,22 €

  • Age of Auto Electric
    Matthew N. Eisler
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    53,47 €

  • American Illuminations
    David E. Nye
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    27,09 €

  • The Politics of Chemistry
    Agustí Nieto-Galan
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    41,67 €

  • Building the French empire, 1600-1800
    Benjamin Steiner
    How did the French rule their colonial overseas possessions dispersed all over the world? This book focuses on local populations and workers in the colonies. Indigenous experts, slaves or indentured servants as well as French engineers and naval officers contributed to the building of the foundation of the French empire. ...
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    35,79 €

  • The Lightning Tamers
    Kathy Joseph
    Science and History Collide: True Stories of the People Who Powered Our WorldIn this physics and engineering chronicle disguised as an electric time-travel adventure, Kathy Joseph, physicist, educator, and creator of the popular Kathy Loves Physics documentary channel on YouTube, shares over 400 years of the history of electricity through the linked breakthroughs of men and wom...
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    13,97 €

  • The Lightning Tamers
    Kathy Joseph
    Science and History Collide: True Stories of the People Who Powered Our WorldIn this physics and engineering chronicle disguised as an electric time-travel adventure, Kathy Joseph, physicist, educator, and creator of the popular Kathy Loves Physics documentary channel on YouTube, shares over 400 years of the history of electricity through the linked breakthroughs of men and wom...
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    19,39 €

  • Consuming Landscapes
    Thomas Zeller
    What we see through our windshields reflects ideas about our national identity, consumerism, and infrastructure.For better or worse, windshields have become a major frame for viewing the nonhuman world. The view from the road is one of the main ways in which we experience our environments. These vistas are the result of deliberate historical forces, and humans have shaped them ...
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    43,36 €

  • The Handy Engineering Answer Book
    Aishwary Pawar / DeLean Tolbert Smith / Nicole P Pitterson / Nicole P. Pitterson
    A handy resource on the fundamental facts about engineering for both engineers and non-engineers alike, whether you are exploring engineering for the first time, already have a strong background, or fall anywhere in between. Engineering impacts every aspect of our lives. Bridges,buildings, buses, electrical grids, computers, televisions, refrigerators, vacuum cleaners, and virt...
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    59,86 €

  • The Computer
    David Ferro / Eric Swedin
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    87,33 €

  • Marconi’s Wireless Telegraph Stations in Essex
    Paul G. Reyland / Paul M. Hawkins
    Marconi’s Wireless Telegraph Stations in Essex The Centenary of Brentwood and Ongar Radio Stations A hundred years ago Guglielmo Marconi was busy setting up telegraph links between the UK and countries across the world and was operating wireless stations in the west of Ireland and in Wales. After WW1 new advances in valves and electronic technology enabled wireless stations to ...
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    15,86 €

  • Coprolite in the News
    Bernard O’Connor
    Between 1843 and 1918, tens of thousands of acres of Britain were dug over in the search for fossils. Pits were dug to excavate a fossil bone bed, some reaching forty feet deep, in cliffs, river banks and fields in Yorkshire, Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire, Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Kent. Called ’coprolites’ and thought by many to be fossilised prehist...
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    33,90 €

  • Radio History
    Spurgeon G. 'Spud' Roscoe
    In this sweeping history, author Spurgeon G. Roscoe takes a look at the world of amateur radio in North America and the special role the Halifax Amateur Radio Club (HARC), of which he is a member, played in it, from the time of the World Wars all the way to the present day. Roscoe presents an account that is at once intimate and wide-ranging, covering topics from amateur radio’...
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    53,68 €

  • Between Nature and Society
    Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent
    This volume opens the readers’ eyes to the central role of materials in human societies and in the environment by telling the life stories of fifteen materials. In this rich collection of stories, materials are found at the complex interface between nature and society. They are not just atomic structures with a set of properties and behaviors. They capture the attention of nati...
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    120,19 €

  • A History of Street Networks
    Laurence Aurbach
    Roadway networks are the basic frameworks of cities. They endure for centuries, influencing the ways that cities operate and their residents’ quality of life. A History of Street Networks explores the origins and institutionalization of modern roadway networks, particularly the networks of urban sprawl. The book surveys an international history of these powerful yet unheralded ...
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    34,83 €

  • Historia de los Lenguajes de Programación
    Manuel Angel Rubio Jimenez
    Los lenguajes de programación surgieron para facilitar la forma de interactuar con los ordenadores y crear programas. Hoy en día todos empleamos mucho software en todos los dispositivos electrónicos que empleamos. En nuestro móvil, en nuestras televisiones, videoconsolas y sobre todo en nuestros ordenadores.Este libro te ofrece una visión de cómo surgieron los primeros lenguaje...
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    20,80 €

  • Beyond the Saga of Rocket Science
    Walter Sierra
    Avoiding Armageddon describes the herculean efforts expended by the United States and the Soviet Union to best each other in rocketry during the Cold War years, interspersed with attention-grabbing accounts of the engaging personalities involved. Both countries stood on a precarious knife-edge as each sought supremacy in nuclear weapons, waiting for the other to strike before m...
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    58,47 €

  • 20 West
    Steve Ford
    Discover the evolution of aviation through six transformative decades in ’20 West,’ a captivating book where aerospace engineering and human emotion converge. Immerse yourself in the rich tapestry of aviation history, pilot experiences, and aircraft development that transcends mere memoir.Dive into a riveting journey that covers everything from propeller-driven transport planes...
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    21,28 €

  • 20 West
    Steve Ford
    Discover the evolution of aviation through six transformative decades in ’20 West,’ a captivating book where aerospace engineering and human emotion converge. Immerse yourself in the rich tapestry of aviation history, pilot experiences, and aircraft development that transcends mere memoir.Dive into a riveting journey that covers everything from propeller-driven transport planes...
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    15,87 €

  • The Philadelphia Monthly Journal of Medicine and Surgery; v.2 (1828)
    Anonymous
    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work....
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    23,90 €

  • Official Catalogue & Guide of the India and Ceylon Exhibition
    Imre 1845-1919 Kiralfy / Empire of India and Ceylon exhibition...
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    19,81 €

  • Central Agricultural Society [microform]
    Central Agricultural Society (Walters...
    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work....
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    14,70 €

  • Official Catalogue and Guide Book to the Pan-American Exposition
    Pan-American Exposition (1901 : Buffa...
    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work....
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    20,82 €