Search results for “[subject: inventions]”

• Author(s): Arthur P. Molella | Joyce Bedi • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Environmental ScienceEssays by historians and practioners on how invention can benefit the environment.This ambitious book describes the ma...

• Author(s): Norbert Wiener | Steve Joshua Heims • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: GeneralInternationally honored for brilliant achievements throughout his career, author of Cybernetics, ExProdigy, and the essay God a...

• Author(s): Stanislas Dehaene • Publisher: Penguin Books • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books • BISAC: Neuropsychology"Brings together the cognitive, the cultural, and the neurological in an elegant, compelling narrative. A revelatory work."--Oliv...

• Author(s): Karsten Lohr • Publisher: Walter de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: Walter de Gruyter • BISAC: Engineering (General)This book offers a comprehensive approach to innovation management. Based on a solid scientifi c basis, it provides conc...

• Author(s): Nikola Tesla • Publisher: Digireads.com • Publisher Imprint: Digireads.com • BISAC: Science & Technology"My Inventions" is a candid and illuminating autobiography of Nikola Tesla, one of the most important technological innovator...

• Author(s): Connie Kirchberg • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Basketball In an age where teenage hoop stars sign multimillion-dollar endorsement deals before their first professional tip-...

• Author(s): Steven Johnson • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: HistoryFrom the bestselling author of How We Got To Now, The Ghost Map and Farsighted, a new national bestseller: the "exhila...

• Author(s): Nikola Tesla • Publisher: Dover Publications • Publisher Imprint: Dover Publications • BISAC: Science & TechnologyThis volume presents one of the richest and most comprehensive collections of writings by Nikola Tesla, a founding ...

• Author(s): Lewis Coe • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - General On March 7, 1876, the U.S. Patent Office issued to a young inventor named Alexander Graham Bell what is argu...

• Author(s): Carl W. Battle • Publisher: Allworth • Publisher Imprint: Allworth • BISAC: Intellectual Property - Patent"Recommended." --Library JournalComing up with a million-dollar idea is only the first step in what might seem like a long and ...

• Author(s): Jon Gertner • Publisher: Penguin Books • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books • BISAC: HistoryThe definitive history of America's greatest incubator of innovation and the birthplace of some of the 20th century's most influential technolo...

• Author(s): Lewis Coe • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Civil War Samuel F.B. Morse's invention of the telegraph marked a new era in communication. For the first time, peop...

• Author(s): Julia Keller • Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • BISAC: Science & TechnologyA provocative look at the life and times of the man who created the original weapon of mass destruction Drawing o...

• Author(s): Carey Wallace • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Historical - GeneralAn enchantingly imagined romance inspired by the true story of the typewriter's invention. Carolina Fant...

• Author(s): Carroll Gantz • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Inventions House cleaning has been an innate human activity forever but only since the early 19th century have mechanical device...

• Author(s): Andy Riley • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Topic - Marriage & FamilyDeranged devices and comic contraptions from the highly inventive and hilarious genius behind The Bo...

• Author(s): A. Edward Evenson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - General The invention of the telephone is a subject of great controversy, central is which is the patent iss...

• Author(s): Valtteri Arstila | Dan Lloyd • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: MetaphysicsInterdisciplinary perspectives on the feature of conscious life that scaffolds every act of cognition: subjective time. Our awaren...

• Author(s): Rayna Kalas • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Europe - RenaissanceIn a book that draws attention to some of our most familiar and unquestioned habits of thought--from "framin...

• Author(s): Georges Didi-Huberman | Alisa Hartz • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Psychopathology - GeneralThe first English-language publication of a classic French book on the relationship between the development o...

• Author(s): James Rodger Fleming • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Earth Sciences - Meteorology & ClimatologyHow scientists used transformative new technologies to understand the complexities of weather and the a...

• Author(s): Sherman Cochran • Publisher: Cornell East Asia Series • Publisher Imprint: Cornell East Asia Series • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialThe contributors to this collection of seven essays (plus an editor's introduction and a...

• Author(s): Jane S. Smith • Publisher: Penguin Books • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books • BISAC: Life Sciences - Horticulture The wide-ranging and delightful history of celebrated plant breeder Luther Burbank and the business of farm and garden ...

• Author(s): Warren G. Bennis • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Structural Adjustment

• Author(s): Albert Abramson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television & Video No other technological innovation can be cited whose impact on the fabric of daily living has been as p...

• Author(s): Sanford Berman • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Library & Information Science - General First published in 1971 (by Scarecrow Press), Prejudices and Antipathies marked the...

• Author(s): Suzanne Braun Levine • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Women's StudiesNew brain research is proving it: Women at midlife really do start to see the world differently. Some 37...

• Author(s): Lorenzo Chiesa • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: CriticismThe evolution of the concept of subjectivity in the works of Jacques Lacan.Countering the call by some "pro-Lacanians" for an end to the exegesis ...

• Author(s): Harold J. Abrahams | Marion B. Savin • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: HistoryElihu Thomson (1853-1937) was one of the most inventive scientists of his time and one of the few truly scientific inventors. ...

• Author(s): Alexi Kukuljevic • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: History - Contemporary (1945- )An examination of the disoriented subject of modernity: a dissolute figure who makes an makes an object of its absence; fr...

• Author(s): Maurizio Lazzarato • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: Semiotext(e) • BISAC: Political Ideologies - RadicalismAn analysis of how capitalism today produces subjectivity like any other “good,” and what would allow us to esc...

• Author(s): Edward Diener | Eunkook M. Suh • Publisher: Bradford Book • Publisher Imprint: Bradford Book • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialThe question of what constitutes the good life has been pondered for millennia. Yet only in the...

• Author(s): Joan Copjec • Publisher: Verso • Publisher Imprint: Verso • BISAC: Mind & BodyA collection of essays by theorists in culture and politics. Experts from a variety of fields re-examine the origins of the subject as understood by De...

• Author(s): Joseph Harris • Publisher: Utah State University Press • Publisher Imprint: Utah State University Press • BISAC: Composition & Creative Writing - GeneralIn this classic text, Joseph Harris traces the evolution of college writing ...

• Author(s): Tom Huhn | Lambert Zuidervaart • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: AestheticsTheodor W. Adorno died in 1969 and his last major work, Ästhetische Theorie, was published posthumously a year later. Few philoso...

• Author(s): E. Natalie Rothman • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Europe - RenaissanceIn Brokering Empire, E. Natalie Rothman explores the intersecting worlds of those who regularly trave...