Technology: General Issues

Discover the latest developments in ergonomics and human factors with the newest edition of this market leading reference In the newly revised Fift...

How the internet's memory infrastructure developed—averting a "digital dark age"—and introduced a golden age of historical memory.In early 1996, th...

The purpose of this book is to introduce and study numerical methods basic and advanced ones for scientific   computing. This last refers to the im...

American Genesis is the book that helped earn Thomas Hughes his reputation as one of the foremost historians of technology of our age. A finalist f...

From Teflon to Velcro, from bandwidths to base pairs, the artifacts of engineering and technology reflect the broad scope—and frustrating limitatio...

Since ancient times, men and women have dreamed of soaring among the stars, but only in this century has that dream been realized. In Rockets into ...

The expansion of the Paris sewer system during the Second Empire and Third Republic was both a technological and political triumph. The sewers them...

Along with the political and economic reforms that have characterized the post-Mao era in China there has been a potentially revolutionary change i...

In his classic book, J. G. Landels describes the technological advances of the Greeks and Romans with erudition and enthusiasm. He provides an impo...

Stalin ordered his execution, but here Peter Palchinsky has the last word. As if rising from an uneasy grave, Palchinsky’s ghost leads us through t...

Technological advance is the key driving force behind economic growth, argues Richard Nelson. Investments in physical and human capital contribute ...

Lie group analysis, based on symmetry and invariance principles, is the only systematic method for solving nonlinear differential equations analyti...

California is the nation's great vineyard, supplying grapes for most of the wine produced in the United States. The state is home to more than 700 ...

In 1633 the Roman Inquisition concluded the trial of Galileo Galilei with a condemnation for heresy. The trial was itself the climax of a series of...

Risks seem to abound in our everyday lives, especially the risks flowing from the explosion of our modern technology, with its pesticides, pollutio...

On December 16, 1947, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain, physicists at Bell Laboratories, jabbed two electrodes into a sliver of germanium. The powe...

An essential tool for students and professionals, this book explicates the step-by-step depiction of reality through perspective, shadow-casting, a...

Tiny machines = giant profits –– the first–ever investor′s guide to the burgeoning field of nanotechnology Combined government and private inves...

Five odd women—women without husbands—are the subject of this powerful novel, set in Victorian London, by a writer whose perceptions about people, ...

Brilliant, self-trained engineers, the Wright brothers had a unique blend of native talent, character, and family experience that perfectly suited ...

Still Missing is a fascinating biography of one of the most intriguing women of modern history. In it, Susan Ware recovers the parts of Earhart's l...

This book presents a comprehensive treatment of necessary conditions for general optimization problems. The presentation is carried out in the cont...

The successful laying of a transatlantic cable in 1866 remade world communications. A message could travel across the ocean in minutes, shrinking t...

In the late nineteenth century, Mexican citizens quickly adopted new technologies imported from abroad to sew cloth, manufacture glass bottles, ref...