Technology: General Issues

Explores how games actively influence the ways people interpret and relate to American life.In 1975, design engineer Dave Nutting completed work on...

Home Fires tells the fascinating story of how changes in home heating over the nineteenth century spurred the growth of networks that helped remake...

How landowners, drainage projectors, and investors worked with the Crown to transform England's waterlogged Fens.2017 Choice Outstanding Academic T...

Engineering Victory brings a fresh approach to the question of why the North prevailed in the Civil War. Historian Thomas F. Army, Jr., identifies ...

The conventional understanding of Japanese wartime ideology has for years been summed up by just a few words: anti-modern, spiritualist, and irrati...

Who would have guessed that the first sports bra was made out of two jockstraps sewn together or that it succeeded because of federal anti-discrimi...

Telegraphy in the nineteenth century approximated the internet in our own day. Historian and electrical engineer David Hochfelder offers readers a ...

Resources designed to support learners of the new next generation BTEC First in Engineering specification*. Covers three core units and a range o...

This wide-ranging, original account of the politics and economics of the giant military supply project in the North reconstructs an important but l...

Before 1930, the domestic market for electrical appliances was segmented, but New Deal policies and programs created a true mass market, reshaping ...

This book is a comprehensive collection of the most influential papers on thermoelectricity published in the last two centuries. Starting with the ...

Over the past thirty years, the worlds patent systems have experienced pressure from civil society like never before. From farmers to patient advoc...

Nanotechnology is about small things and medicine usually deals with bigger things - with patients and their diseases. The ultimate goal of all med...

This book contains eight selected chapters on advances in engineering research. Chapter One examines a new dielectric barrier discharge plasma actu...

This volume contains eight selected chapters discussing recent advances in nanotechnology research and development. Chapter One discusses the diele...

**Available now: Whistleblower Frances Haugen's searing exposé of the internal workings of Facebook revealing the company's struggles to regain con...

Written by Chitram Lutchman, a project management professional with more than 20 years of field and business experience, Project Execution: A Pract...

Bridge Maintenance, Safety, Management and Life-Cycle Optimization contains the lectures and papers presented at IABMAS 2010, the Fifth Internation...

The concept of nanoarchitechtonics was introduced to describe the correct manipulation of nanoscale materials in the creation of nano-devices and a...