Search results for “[subject: technology-inventions]”

• 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): 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): 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): Joan Lisa Bromberg • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Lasers & PhotonicsIn this book Joan Lisa Bromberg brings a historian's broad perspective to bear on the formative years of laser research in the Un...

• 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): 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): Vaclav Smil • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: InventionsThe story of how diesel engines and gas turbines, used to power cargo ships and jet airplanes, made today's globally integrated economy possible.The...

• Author(s): Kevin Desmond • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General In the latter half of the 19th century, Gustave Pierre Trouve, a modest but brilliant Parisian electrical engineer, conc...

• Author(s): Nancy Forbes • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Computer ScienceHow scientists are using nature as model and metaphor to reinvent computing: a survey of an emerging field.As computers and the tasks they pe...

• 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): Paul W. Clark | Laurence A. Lyons • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Historical - General During the 1920s and '30s, Major General George Owen Squier was one of the most famous ...

• 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): Siegfried Zielinski | Gloria Custance • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Media StudiesA quest to find something new by excavating the "deep time" of media's development--not by simply looking at new media'...

• 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): 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): Gerald M. Carbone | Rhode Island Historical Society • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - General Joseph Brown, founder of Brown & Sharpe, was a skilled clockma...

• 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): Kenneth B. Lifshitz • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Science & Technology The single-wire telegraph revolutionized long distance communication but it was not the brainchil...

• 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): Charles B. Osburn • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Emotions, feelings and morality play a critical role in our daily decision-making. With the rapid advance of industr...

• 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...

• 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): Luce Irigaray | Luce Irigaray | Sylvere Lotringer • Publisher: Semiotext(e) • Publisher Imprint: Semiotext(e) • BISAC: Gender StudiesA collection of interviews that deal explicitly with the relationship between daughter and mother, t...

• Author(s): John Stuart Mill • Publisher: Penguin Books • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books • BISAC: History & Surveys - GeneralTwo cornerstones of liberalism from the great social radical of English philosophy John Stuart Mill was a prodigi...

• Author(s): James Meese • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Public Policy - Science & Technology PolicyAn examination of subjectivity in copyright law, analyzing authors, users, and pirates through a relational fra...

• Author(s): Steven Johnson • Publisher: Riverhead Books • Publisher Imprint: Riverhead Books • BISAC: Research & DevelopmentFrom the New York Times bestselling author of How We Got To Now and Farsighted Steven Johnson, author of Where Good I...

• Author(s): Paul E. Ceruzzi • Publisher: Mit Press • Publisher Imprint: Mit Press • BISAC: HistoryDiscover the history of computing through 4 major threads of development in this compact, accessible history covering punch cards, Silicon Valley, ...

• Author(s): Sylvere Lotringer • Publisher: Semiotext(e) • Publisher Imprint: Semiotext(e) • BISAC: History - GeneralThere is a catastrophe within contemporary art. What I call the "optically correct" is at stake. The vision machine and the motor...