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The Draining Of The Fens - Projectors, Popular Politics, And State Building In Early Modern England

by Eric H. (Professor And Director Of Graduate Studies) Ash

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 This is compelling reading for British historians, environmental scholars, historians of technology, and anyone interested in state formation in early modern Europe.
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Faxed - The Rise And Fall Of The Fax Machine

by Jonathan (Associate Professor Of History, Texas A&M University) Coopersmith

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 Tells the history of the facsimile machine. The author recounts the multigenerational, multinational history of that device from its origins to its workplace glory days, in the process revealing how it helped create the accelerated communications, information flow, and vibrant visual culture that characterize our contemporary world.
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Engineering War And Peace In Modern Japan, 1868â€“1964

by Takashi (Assistant Professor, State University Of New York, Brockport) Nishiyama

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 Nishiyama's work offers lessons to policymakers interested in how a country can recover successfully after defeat.
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Luciano Rigolini: An Other Image

by Nicoletta Ossanna Cavadini

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 Alongside his work in cinema and documentary, Luciano Rigolini has also carried out intense and rigorous research in the field of photography. This title deals with his works.
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Civil War Ironclads - The U.S. Navy And Industrial Mobilization

by William H. Roberts

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 Contrary to widespread belief, Roberts concludes, the ironclad program set Navy shipbuilding back a generation.
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What Engineers Know And How They Know It - Analytical Studies From Aeronautical History

by Walter G. Vincenti

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 To solve their design problems, engineers draw on a vast body of knowledge about how things work. Examining previously unstudied historical cases, this author shows how engineering knowledge is obtained and presents a model to help explain the growth of such knowledge.
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Leonardo To The Internet - Technology And Culture From The Renaissance To The Present

by Thomas J. (University Of Minnesota) Misa

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The Landscape Of Waste

by Sara Marini

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The Technology Of Orgasm - "Hysteria," The Vibrator, And Women'S Sexual Satisfaction

by Rachel P. (Cornell University) Maines

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 In The Technology of Orgasm, Rachel Maines offers readers a stimulating, surprising, and often humorous account of hysteria and its treatment throughout the ages, focusing on the development, use, and fall into disrepute of the vibrator as a legitimate medical device.
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The Business Of Civil War - Military Mobilization And The State, 1861â€“1865

by Mark R. (Associate Professor, University Of North Carolina At Charlotte) Wilson

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 Students of the American Civil War will welcome this fresh study of military-industrial production and procurement on the home front-long an obscure topic.
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Between Human And Machine - Feedback, Control, And Computing Before Cybernetics

by David A. (Massachusetts Institute Of Technology) Mindell

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 As a new way to conceptualize the history of computing, this book will be of great interest to historians of science, technology, and culture, as well as computer scientists and theorists. Between Human and Machine: Feedback, Control, and Computing before Cybernetics
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Leonardo To The Internet - Technology And Culture From The Renaissance To The Present

by Thomas J. (University Of Minnesota) Misa

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 A masterful analysis of how technology and culture have influenced each other over five centuries, Leonardo to the Internet frames a history that illuminates modern-day problems and prospects faced by our technology-dependent world.
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Technological Change And The United States Navy, 1865â€“1945

by William M. (U.S. Naval Academy) Mcbride

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 The evolution and persistence of the "battleship navy,he argues, offer direct insight into the dominance of the aircraft-carrier paradigm after 1945 and into the twenty-first century.
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Making Tobacco Bright - Creating An American Commodity, 1617â€“1937

by Barbara M. (Texas Tech University) Hahn

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 Combining economic theory with the history of technology, Making Tobacco Bright revises several narratives in American history, from colonial staple-crop agriculture to the origins of the tobacco industry to the rise of identity politics in the twentieth century.
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Engineering Victory - How Technology Won The Civil War

by Thomas F., Jr. Army

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 He reveals massive logistical operations as critical in determining the war's outcome.
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The Draining Of The Fens - Projectors, Popular Politics, And State Building In Early Modern England

by Eric H. (Professor And Director Of Graduate Studies) Ash

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 This is compelling reading for British historians, environmental scholars, historians of technology, and anyone interested in state formation in early modern Europe.
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Aluminum Upcycled - Sustainable Design In Historical Perspective

by Carl A. (Associate Professor, Pratt Institute) Zimring

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 Raising fascinating questions of consumption, environment, and desire, Upcycling Aluminum is for anyone interested in industrial and environmental history, discard studies, engineering, product design, music history, or antiques.
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Loving My Lgbt Neighbor

by Glenn T. Stanton

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The Moody Handbook Of Theology

by Paul P Enns

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The Telegraph In America, 1832-1920

by David (University At Albany, Suny) Hochfelder

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 With this book, Hochfelder supplies us with an introduction to the early stirrings of the information age.
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Faxed - The Rise And Fall Of The Fax Machine

by Jonathan (Associate Professor Of History, Texas A&M University) Coopersmith

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 Written in accessible language that should appeal to engineers and policymakers as well as historians, Faxed explores themes of technology push and market pull, user-based innovation, and "blackboxing" (the packaging of complex skills and technologies into packages designed for novices) while revealing the inventions inspired by the fax, how the demand for fax machines eventually caught up with their availability, and why subsequent shifts in user preferences rendered them mostly passe.
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Engineering Victory - How Technology Won The Civil War

by Thomas F., Jr. Army

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 He reveals massive logistical operations as critical in determining the war's outcome.
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Fastlane - Managing Science In The Internet World

by Jeffrey R. (Associate Director, Charles Babbage Institute And Faculty, University Of Minnesota) Yost e Thomas J. (University Of Minnesota) Misa

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 Why did the NSF create FastLane, and how did it anticipate the development of web-based e-commerce? What technical challenges did the glitch-prone early system present? Did the switch to electronic grant proposals disadvantage universities with fewer resources? And how did the scientific community help shape FastLane? Foregrounding the experience of computer users, the book draws on hundreds of interviews with scientific researchers, sponsored project administrators, NSF staff, and software designers, developers, and managers.
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The Artisan Of Ipswich - Craftsmanship And Community In Colonial New England

by Robert Tarule

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 Thomas Dennis emigrated to America from England in 1663, settling in Ipswich. He had apprenticed in joinery, the most common method of making furniture in 16th- and 17th-century Britain, and he became Ipswich's second joiner. This work recreates Dennis' world in recounting how he created a single oak chest.
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