History of Engineering & Technology
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The Green Library: A Comprehensive Guide to Sustainable Literature
Helen FoxCurrent price €15.83Original price €17.99Current price €15.83Original price €17.99Save 12% -
Jet Web: CONNECTIONS in the Development History of Turbojet Engines 1920 - 1950
Dietrich EckardtCurrent price €49.83Original price €55.99The present book describes the development history of turbojet engines, mainly in the web-type triangle Great Britain (USA) - Germany - Switzerland...
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Metallurgy: 1863-1963
W.H. DennisCurrent price €54.12Original price €61.50The world's output of metals during the 100 year period of 1863-1963 was greater than in all the previous years of man's history. In the nineteenth...
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The New Breed: How to Think About Robots
Kate DarlingCurrent price €15.75Original price €17.50'A must read for anyone interested in the emerging ethics of robotics' Irene M. PepperbergA bold, optimistic exploration of the relationship betwe...
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New Kingmakers
Clive WhichelowCurrent price €10.55Original price €11.99The New Kingmakers documents the rise of the developer class, and provides strategies for companies to adapt to the new technology landscape. From ...
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The Story of the Car: The Definitive History of Automobiles
Giles ChapmanCurrent price €22.53Original price €26.50A stunning visual celebration of cars over a century of progress!Introducing The Story of the Car - a historical and visual exploration of awe-insp...
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Sopwith Triplane
Nico BraasCurrent price €26.99Original price €29.99The Sopwith Triplane was a British single seat fighter aircraft designed and manufactured by the Sopwith Aviation Company during the First World Wa...
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The Story Behind
Emily ProkopCurrent price €36.11Original price €42.99Discover the Surprising History of Ordinary ThingsEmily magically weaves a vibrant history of simple everyday objects we often take for granted. Th...
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Highway under the Hudson: A History of the Holland Tunnel
Robert W. JacksonCurrent price €44.61Original price €45.99Choice's Outstanding Academic Title list for 2013 There is no comparable book on this tunnel. Highly recommended.Choice Reviews Every year, more...
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Engineering Rules: Global Standard Setting since 1880
Craig N. MurphyCurrent price €40.49Original price €44.99The first global history of voluntary consensus standard setting.Finalist, Hagley Prize in Business History, The Hagley Museum and Library / The Bu...
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Let there be Light: Engineering, Entrepreneurship and Electricity in Colonial Bengal, 18801945
Suvobrata SarkarCurrent price €78.31Original price €88.99Social and economic history of science and technology has emerged as a major theme of interdisciplinary research in South Asian history since the l...
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Uncomputable: Play and Politics In the Long Digital Age
Alexander GallowayCurrent price €20.45Original price €21.99Narrating some lesser known episodes from the deep history of digital machines, Alexander R. Galloway explains the technology that drives the world...
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Broadcasting Britain: 100 Years of the BBC
Robert SeatterCurrent price €28.28Original price €32.50Explore 10 years of British History through key broadcasting moments illuminated by images from the BBC archive. Created 100 years ago, on 18 Octob...
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A Bridge to the Sky: The Arts of Science in the Age of ''Abbas Ibn Firnas
Glaire D. AndersonCurrent price €63.50Original price €72.99In times of widespread Islamophobia, there is an understandable motivation for constructing scientific achievement as a counternarrative in popular...
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The Bishop Method: The life and achievements of Professor Alan Bishop, soil mechanics pioneer
Laurie WesleyCurrent price €42.74Original price €44.99Bishop is undoubtedly one of the most widely-known names in the soil mechanics, or geotechnical engineering, community today, alongside the `foundi...
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The Dutch Paper Industry from 1580 to the Present: The Survival of a Long-Established Industry
Martha Emilie EhrichCurrent price €49.27Original price €55.99This open access book is the first to provide an analysis of the Dutch paper industry over a period encompassing six centuries. Responding to a tre...
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Viewing Norfolk Southern Railway
Beth Anne KeatesCurrent price €27.29Original price €34.99Viewing Norfolk Southern Railway covers the history of this railroad, beginning with the South Carolina Canal & Rail Road Company, which in 183...
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A Portable Cosmos: Revealing the Antikythera Mechanism, Scientific Wonder of the Ancient World
Alexander JonesCurrent price €62.09Original price €68.99In 1901 divers salvaging antiquities from a Hellenistic shipwreck serendipitously recovered the shattered and corroded remains of an ancient Greek ...
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The Bomber Mafia: A Tale of Innovation and Obsession
Malcolm GladwellCurrent price €14.53Original price €17.50THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'A parable written for the age of technological disruption . . . brilliantly told' Sunday TimesThe international bests...
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The Great Divide
Cristina HenriquezCurrent price €17.59Original price €21.99A gorgeous, sweeping epic ANN NAPOLITANO 'A master of prose' WASHINGTON POST O...
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AI Needs You: How We Can Change AI''s Future and Save Our Own
Verity HardingCurrent price €23.85Original price €26.50A humanist manifesto for the age of AIArtificial intelligence may be the most transformative technology of our time. As AIs power grows, so does th...
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