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Evaluation of Scientific Sources in Mechanics - Heiberg's Prolegomena to the Works of Archimedes and Hellinger's... Evaluation of Scientific Sources in Mechanics - Heiberg's Prolegomena to the Works of Archimedes and Hellinger's Encyclopedia Article on Continuum Mechanics (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
Francesco Dell'Isola, Simon R. Eugster, Mario Spagnuolo, Emilio Barchiesi
R4,942 Discovery Miles 49 420 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book evaluates the importance of various historical sources and discusses their role in the creation and transmission of scientific knowledge. It presents an annotated translation of the introductory words given by Johan Ludvig Heiberg to his translation of the works of Archimedes. Further, it offers English translations of and commentaries on selected fundamental works by Ernst Hellinger and Gabrio Piola, which lay the groundwork for the modern theory of advanced materials, and also examines the criteria used to evaluate scientific works.

Illustrated Catalogue - Theo. A. Kochs Barber Supplies. (Hardcover): Theo a Kochs Illustrated Catalogue - Theo. A. Kochs Barber Supplies. (Hardcover)
Theo a Kochs
R797 Discovery Miles 7 970 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Airplane Stories and Histories (Hardcover): Norman Currey Airplane Stories and Histories (Hardcover)
Norman Currey
R523 Discovery Miles 5 230 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
A Prometheus on a Human Scale - Ignacy Lukasiewicz (Hardcover, New edition): Piotr Franaszek, Pawel Grata, Kozicka-Kolaczkowska... A Prometheus on a Human Scale - Ignacy Lukasiewicz (Hardcover, New edition)
Piotr Franaszek, Pawel Grata, Kozicka-Kolaczkowska Anna, Mariusz Ruszel, Grzegorz Zamoyski
R1,671 Discovery Miles 16 710 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book is dedicated to the life and work of Ignacy Lukasiewicz, Polish pharmacist whose world-renowned achievements include construction of the world's first oil refinery and invention of the modern kerosene lamp. The authors also portray the history of the Galician oil industry and set it in the context of political, social and technological changes taking place in the 19th-century Central and Eastern Europe. "The work adds substantially to existing scholarship in English. As the author of the only English-language academic monograph devoted to a general history of the Galician oil industry, I can attest that this manuscript adds significant and important information, details, depth of investigation that is not provided in my book or any other book. It therefore makes a novel contribution that will be very valuable to anyone looking for a truly detailed account of Ignacy Lukasiewicz's contribution within the context of the Galician oil industry in general." Alison Frank Johnson Professor of History and of Germanic Languages and Literatures Harvard University, Center for European Studies "The authors sketch the profiles of two outstanding Poles, pioneers of the oil industry - Ignacy Lukasiewicz, MSc. in Pharmacy, and mining engineer and geologist Witold Zglenicki, called the Polish Nobel (...) This scientific work is an interesting and captivating read. It can be used not only by scientists and students, but also by everyone who is interested in industrial cultural heritage (...)." Krzysztof Bronski Professor and Head of Department of Economic and Social History Economic University in Krakow

Glen Canyon Dam (Hardcover): Timothy L Parks Glen Canyon Dam (Hardcover)
Timothy L Parks
R781 R686 Discovery Miles 6 860 Save R95 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Starflight - How the PC and DOS Exploded Computer Gaming 1987-1994 (Hardcover): Jamie Lendino Starflight - How the PC and DOS Exploded Computer Gaming 1987-1994 (Hardcover)
Jamie Lendino
R1,064 Discovery Miles 10 640 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Vera Rubin - A Life (Hardcover): Jacqueline Mitton, Simon Mitton Vera Rubin - A Life (Hardcover)
Jacqueline Mitton, Simon Mitton; Foreword by Jocelyn Bell Burnell
R905 R708 Discovery Miles 7 080 Save R197 (22%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The first biography of a pioneering scientist who made significant contributions to our understanding of dark matter and championed the advancement of women in science. One of the great lingering mysteries of the universe is dark matter. Scientists are not sure what it is, but most believe it's out there, and in abundance. The astronomer who finally convinced many of them was Vera Rubin. When Rubin died in 2016, she was regarded as one of the most influential astronomers of her era. Her research on the rotation of spiral galaxies was groundbreaking, and her observations contributed significantly to the confirmation of dark matter, a most notable achievement. In Vera Rubin: A Life, prolific science writers Jacqueline Mitton and Simon Mitton provide a detailed, accessible overview of Rubin's work, showing how she leveraged immense curiosity, profound intelligence, and novel technologies to help transform our understanding of the cosmos. But Rubin's impact was not limited to her contributions to scientific knowledge. She also helped to transform scientific practice by promoting the careers of women researchers. Not content to be an inspiration, Rubin was a mentor and a champion. She advocated for hiring women faculty, inviting women speakers to major conferences, and honoring women with awards that were historically the exclusive province of men. Rubin's papers and correspondence yield vivid insights into her life and work, as she faced down gender discrimination and met the demands of family and research throughout a long and influential career. Deftly written, with both scientific experts and general readers in mind, Vera Rubin is a portrait of a woman with insatiable curiosity about the universe who never stopped asking questions and encouraging other women to do the same.

Standard History of Essex County, Massachusetts, Embracing a History of the County From Its First Settlement to the Present... Standard History of Essex County, Massachusetts, Embracing a History of the County From Its First Settlement to the Present Time, With a History and Description of Its Towns and Cities. The Most Historic County of America.; N/A (Hardcover)
Cyrus M (Cyrus Mason) 1824-1 Tracy
R914 Discovery Miles 9 140 Ships in 9 - 17 working days
Instrumental Intimacy - EEG Wearables and Neuroscientific Control (Hardcover): Melissa M Littlefield Instrumental Intimacy - EEG Wearables and Neuroscientific Control (Hardcover)
Melissa M Littlefield
R1,112 Discovery Miles 11 120 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

A critical examination of the rise of wearable EEG monitors. From Fitbits to GPS trackers, wearables promise to help us understand and improve ourselves in quantified ways. We count our steps, track our location, and even monitor our brain waves as we strive to achieve better fitness, clearer direction, or a more focused mind. But why do we rely on wearables to learn about ourselves? In Instrumental Intimacy, Melissa M. Littlefield questions our desire for mechanistic guidance by examining brain-based EEG wearables that promise to improve sleep, relationships, self-knowledge, and learning. Littlefield focuses specifically on EEGs' transition out of the laboratory and into the hands of consumers. While other brain-imaging technologies (such as MRI, PET, and MEG) are used only in specialized laboratories, human electroencephalography (a.k.a. EEG) is embedded in portable, user-friendly devices. These direct-to-consumer wearables visualize brain activity as accessible data, and many offer the promise of self-optimization. Littlefield's illuminating book brings the histories of EEG to bear on the contemporary development of EEG wearables via case studies of EEG-based sleep aids, bio-mapping instruments, fashionable surveillance tools, and athletic training devices. The author argues that, over the past century, applied uses of EEG helped to create new states of mind to be monitored and manipulated, as well as discourses about the existence of brain waves and their viability as a tool for brain optimization. By contextualizing and analyzing EEG wearables, Instrumental Intimacy provides a crucial intervention in an emergent consumer market and in the scholarly fields of STS, critical neuroscience, and the history of technology.

Game Changer - The Technoscientific Revolution in Sports (Hardcover): Rayvon Fouche Game Changer - The Technoscientific Revolution in Sports (Hardcover)
Rayvon Fouche
R802 Discovery Miles 8 020 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

We like to think of sports as elemental: strong bodies trained to overcome height, weight, distance; the thrill of earned victory or the agony of defeat in a contest decided on a level playing field. But in Game Changer, Rayvon Fouche argues that sports have been radically shaped by an explosion of scientific and technological advances in materials, training, nutrition, and medicine dedicated to making athletes stronger and faster. Technoscience, as Fouche dubs it, increasingly gives the edge (however slight) to the athlete with the latest gear, the most advanced training equipment, or the performance-enhancing drugs that are hardest to detect. In this revealing book, Fouche examines a variety of sports paraphernalia and enhancements, from fast suits, athletic shoes, and racing bicycles to basketballs and prosthetic limbs. He also takes a hard look at gender verification testing, direct drug testing, and the athlete biological passport in an attempt to understand the evolving place of technoscience across sport. In this book, Fouche: * Examines the relationship among sport, science, and technology* Considers what is at stake in defining sporting culture by its scientific knowledge and technology* Provides readers and students with an informative and engagingly written study Focusing on well-known athletes, including Michael Phelps, Oscar Pistorius, Caster Semenya, Usain Bolt, and Lance Armstrong, Fouche argues that technoscience calls into question the integrity of games, records, and our bodies themselves. He also touches on attempts by sporting communities to regulate the use of technology, from elite soccer's initial reluctance to utilize goal-line technology to automobile racing's endless tweaking of regulatory formulas in an attempt to blur engineering potency and reclaim driver skill and ability. Game Changer will change the way you look at sports-and the outsized impact technoscience has on them.

Car (Hardcover): Dk Car (Hardcover)
Dk
R1,184 R1,045 Discovery Miles 10 450 Save R139 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Evolution of the Chinese Internet - Creative Visibility in the Digital Public (Hardcover): Shaohua Guo The Evolution of the Chinese Internet - Creative Visibility in the Digital Public (Hardcover)
Shaohua Guo
R2,953 Discovery Miles 29 530 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Despite widespread consensus that China's digital revolution was sure to bring about massive democratic reforms, such changes have not come to pass. While scholars and policy makers alternate between predicting change and disparaging a stubbornly authoritarian regime, in this book Shaohua Guo demonstrates how this dichotomy misses the far more complex reality. The Evolution of the Chinese Internet traces the emergence and maturation of one of the most creative digital cultures in the world through four major technological platforms: the bulletin board system, the blog, the microblog, and WeChat. Guo transcends typical binaries of freedom and control, to argue that Chinese Internet culture displays a uniquely sophisticated interplay between multiple extremes, and that its vibrancy is dependent on these complex negotiations. In contrast to the flourishing of research findings on what is made invisible online, this book examines the driving mechanisms that grant visibility to particular kinds of user-generated content. Offering a systematic account of how and why an ingenious Internet culture has been able to thrive, Guo highlights the pivotal roles that media institutions, technological platforms, and creative practices of Chinese netizens have played in shaping culture on- and offline.

The Second Kind of Impossible - The Extraordinary Quest for a New Form of Matter (Paperback): Paul Steinhardt The Second Kind of Impossible - The Extraordinary Quest for a New Form of Matter (Paperback)
Paul Steinhardt
R509 R479 Discovery Miles 4 790 Save R30 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Stuka Pilot Hans-ulrich Rudel (Hardcover): Gunther Just Stuka Pilot Hans-ulrich Rudel (Hardcover)
Gunther Just
R1,802 R1,394 Discovery Miles 13 940 Save R408 (23%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The life story of the highest decorated soldier of the Wehrmacht. Many photos of Rudels aircraft.

CoCo - The Colorful History of Tandy's Underdog Computer (Paperback): Boisy G Pitre, Bill Loguidice CoCo - The Colorful History of Tandy's Underdog Computer (Paperback)
Boisy G Pitre, Bill Loguidice
R1,493 Discovery Miles 14 930 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

CoCo: The Colorful History of Tandy's Underdog Computer is the first book to document the complete history of the Tandy Color Computer (CoCo), a popular 8-bit PC series from the 1980s that competed against the era's biggest names, including the Apple II, IBM PC, and Commodore 64. The book takes you inside the interesting stories and people behind this unique, underdog computer. Both noted computer science and technology advocates, authors Pitre and Loguidice reveal the story of a pivotal period in the home computing revolution from the perspective of Tandy's CoCo. As these computers were sold in Radio Shack stores throughout the United States and other countries, they provide a critical point of reference for key events in the unprecedented evolutionary period for the PC industry in the 1980s. The book also features first-hand accounts from the people who created and promoted the CoCo, from the original Tandy executives and engineers to today's active product creators and information keepers. The CoCo impacted many lives, and this book leaves no stone unturned in recounting this fascinating slice of the PC revolution that is still in play today. From early telecommunications experiments to engineering and budgetary challenges, it covers all the aspects that made the CoCo a truly personal, useful computing experience in as small and inexpensive a package as possible.

Report of Sir Charles Tupper, G.C.M.G., C.B., Executive Commissioner, on the Canadian Section of the Colonial and Indian... Report of Sir Charles Tupper, G.C.M.G., C.B., Executive Commissioner, on the Canadian Section of the Colonial and Indian Exhibition at South Kensington, 1886 [microform] (Hardcover)
Charles Tupper, Canada Dept of Agriculture
R793 Discovery Miles 7 930 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Portuguese Philosophy of Technology - Legacies and contemporary work from the Portuguese-Speaking Community (Hardcover, 1st ed.... Portuguese Philosophy of Technology - Legacies and contemporary work from the Portuguese-Speaking Community (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2023)
Helena Mateus Jeronimo
R3,164 Discovery Miles 31 640 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This volume is a collection of essays of a philosophical nature on the subject of technology, introducing authors from the Portuguese-speaking community, namely from Portugal itself, Africa and Brazil. Their contributions detail a unique perspective on technology, placing this important topic within the historical, ideological and social contexts of their countries, all of which share a common language. The shared history of these countries and the cultural and economic specificities of each one have stimulated singular insights into these thinkers' reflections. The essays are thematically diverse. Among the topics covered are technogenic knowledge, visions of technology, risks and uncertainties, mediatization, digitalization, and datafication, engineering practice and ethics, alternative technoscientific strategies, ontotechnologies of the body, virtual and archive. The contributions also explore other themes that are more closely related to the semi-peripheral world, such as technological dependence and the incorporation of Western technology into the social structure of ancestral communities. This book appeals to students and researchers and provides a voice to authors whose work are not usually available in English-language publications. It serves as an ideal guide for all those who seek rigorous and geographically widespread knowledge regarding thinking on technology in several Portuguese-speaking countries.

The Man Who Caught the Storm - The Life of Legendary Tornado Chaser Tim Samaras (Paperback): Brantley Hargrove The Man Who Caught the Storm - The Life of Legendary Tornado Chaser Tim Samaras (Paperback)
Brantley Hargrove 1
R486 R452 Discovery Miles 4 520 Save R34 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
London's Sewers (Paperback): Paul Dobraszczyk London's Sewers (Paperback)
Paul Dobraszczyk
R251 Discovery Miles 2 510 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

London's sewers could be called the city's forgotten underground: mostly unseen subterranean spaces that are of absolutely vital importance, the capital's sewers nonetheless rarely get the same degree of attention as the Tube. Paul Dobraszczyk here outlines the fascinating history of London's sewers from the nineteenth century onwards, using a rich variety of colour illustrations, photographs and newspaper engravings to show their development from medieval spaces to the complex, citywide network, largely constructed in the 1860s, that is still in place today. This book explores London's sewers in history, fiction and film, including how they entice intrepid explorers into their depths, from the Victorian period to the present day.

The History of Science and Technology in the North West (Paperback): John V Pickstone The History of Science and Technology in the North West (Paperback)
John V Pickstone
R354 Discovery Miles 3 540 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Perhaps better than any other city, Manchester illustrates the historical relationship between the growth of science and the growth of industry - a relationship which is topical now, as it has been for two centuries. This introduction provides a sketch map and some references for those who would like to explore this local and regional history.

The Automobile - A Chronology of Its Antecedents, Development, and Impact (Hardcover, New Ed): Clay McShane The Automobile - A Chronology of Its Antecedents, Development, and Impact (Hardcover, New Ed)
Clay McShane
R2,098 Discovery Miles 20 980 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This comprehensive chronology of the automobile covers its engineering as well as the social, cultural, and political impact of the car from the invention of the wheel to the O.J. Simpson car chase. It examines the auto industry, the road and roadside, the car in popular culture, gasoline/fuel history, the spatial transformation of cities, air pollution, critics of car culture, traffic accidents, the globalization of car culture, and much more. This is a reference guide for students and scholars of transportation history as well as anyone who has ever asked When did Japan export the first car to the U.S.? or When and how was smog discovered? or What make of car did Chuck Berry drive?

India's Forgotten Rocket Pioneer - Stephen H Smith From Pigeon Mail to Rocket Mail (Hardcover): Gurbir Singh India's Forgotten Rocket Pioneer - Stephen H Smith From Pigeon Mail to Rocket Mail (Hardcover)
Gurbir Singh
R812 R701 Discovery Miles 7 010 Save R111 (14%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Development of Nuclear Propulsion in the Royal Navy, 1946-1975 (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022): Gareth Michael Jones The Development of Nuclear Propulsion in the Royal Navy, 1946-1975 (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
Gareth Michael Jones
R3,136 Discovery Miles 31 360 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book examines the development of nuclear propulsion in the Royal Navy from the first proposal in 1946 to the start-up of the last core improvement for the first submarine reactor power plant PWR 1 in December 1974. Drawing from unreleased records and archives, the book answers questions around three main themes. Political: what problems were encountered in transferring nuclear knowledge from the USA to the UK in the post-war period, and how much support was there for the development of nuclear propulsion? Military: why was there a requirement to develop nuclear propulsion, and in particular, why submarines? Technical: were the problems associated with nuclear energy fully appreciated, and did the UK have the technical and engineering capability to develop nuclear propulsion? Aside from the political considerations and military motives for developing nuclear propulsion in the Royal Navy, the author focuses on the technical problems that had to be overcome by all participants in the Royal Navy's development of nuclear propulsion, adding significantly to naval historiography. Providing a critical analysis of the political, technological, operational and industrial issues of introducing nuclear propulsion into the Royal Navy, the author situates his research in the context of the evolving Cold War, changing Anglo-American relations, the end of Empire and the relative decline of British power.

Media and the Government of Populations - Communication, Technology, Power (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018): Philip Dearman, Cathy... Media and the Government of Populations - Communication, Technology, Power (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
Philip Dearman, Cathy Greenfield, Peter Williams
R2,873 Discovery Miles 28 730 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book deals with the social, cultural and especially political significance of media by shifting from the usual focus on the public sphere and publics and paying attention to populations. It describes key moments where populations of different sorts have been subject to formative and diverse projects of governing, in which communication has been key. It brings together governmentality studies with the study of media practices and communication technologies. Chapters consider print culture and the new political technology of individuals; digital economies as places where populations are formed, known and managed as productive resources; workplaces, schools, clinics and homes as sites of governmental objectives; and how to appropriately link communication technologies and practices with politics. Through these chapters Philip Dearman, Cathy Greenfield and Peter Williams demonstrate the value of considering communication in terms of the government of populations.

Knowledge Production in Mao-Era China - Learning from the Masses (Hardcover): Rui Kunze, Marc Andre Matten Knowledge Production in Mao-Era China - Learning from the Masses (Hardcover)
Rui Kunze, Marc Andre Matten
R2,292 Discovery Miles 22 920 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book traces and analyzes the transformation of the public discourse of science and technology in Mao-era China. Based on extensive primary sources such as science dissemination materials and technical handbooks, as well as mass media products of the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution periods, this book delineates the emergence of a pragmatic approach to knowledge in society. To achieve the goal of fast modernization with limited financial, human, and material resources, the party-state accommodated Western and local, "modern" and "traditional" knowledges in the fields of agricultural mechanization, steel production and Chinese veterinary medicine. The case studies demonstrate that scientific knowledge production in the Mao-era included various social groups and was entangled with political and cultural issues. This reveals and explains the continuity of scientific thinking across the historical divides of 1949 and 1978, which has hitherto been underestimated.

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