Technology & Engineering

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Environments, Natures and Social Theory: Towards a Critical Hybridity - Paperback

$98.91

by Damian White (Author), Alan Rudy (Author), Brian Gareau (Author)From climate change to fossil fuel dependency, from the uneven effects of natural disasters to the loss of biodiversity: complex socio-environmental problems indicate the urgency for cross-disciplinary research into the ways in which the social, the natural and the technological are ever more entangled. This ground breaking text moves between environmental sociology and environmental geography, political and social ecology and...

Medieval Weapons: An Illustrated History of Their Impact - Hardcover

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by Robert D. Smith (Author), Kelly DeVries (Author)This fascinating reference covers the weapons and armor used by warriors from the 4th to the 15th century and discusses how and why they changed over time. In the Middle Ages, the lack of standardized weapons meant that one warrior's arms were often quite different from another's, even when they were fighting on the same side. And with few major technological advances in that period, the evolution of those weapons over the centuries was incre...

How To Write and Present Technical Information - Hardcover

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by Charles Sides (Author)Thoroughly updated to discuss the use of tools such as Skype and social media, this concise volume shows how effective communication--via written text and spoken presentations--can positively impact project management in professional environments. Professional communications are the "information product" of all organizations and businesses. Based on that premise, this book offers communications strategies that will benefit any organization that disseminates technical ...

Environmental Science in Building - Paperback

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by Randall McMullan (Author)This popular textbook covers how the built environment and the management of energy relate to the quality of human living-conditions and the environmental performance of buildings. It is the key introductory text for understanding the principles and theories of the environmental science behind construction, and the only text on the market to provide the basic scientific principles of such a broad range of topics. The text covers a range of areas in the field, inclu...

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by Bruce Catton (Author) Number of Pages: 313 Dimensions: 0.75 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: December 11, 1969

Science and Technology in Colonial America - Hardcover

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by William E. Burns (Author)Science and technology are central to history of the United States, and this is true of the Colonial period as well. Although considered by Europeans as a backwater, the people living in the American colonies had advanced notions of agriculture, surveying, architecture, and other technologies. In areas of natural philosophy--what we call science--such figures as Benjamin Franklin were admired and respected in the scientific capitals of Europe. This book covers all ...

Science and Technology in Medieval European Life - Hardcover

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by Jeffrey R. Wigelsworth (Author)Despite the popular view of medieval Europe as a Dark Age of intellectual stagnation, scientific and technological achievement thrived during this time. As any vacationer to Europe knows, churches and castles remain lasting testaments to the ingenuity of that period in history. Through carefully chosen examples which are presented in easily accessible thematic chapters, Science and Technology in Medieval European Life demonstrates how these two aspects of hum...

Medieval Science and Technology - Hardcover

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by Elspeth Whitney (Author)Medieval science and technology was firmly rooted in Aristotelian explanations of the physical world. This book begins by introducing the basic concepts of the classical tradition, and explains how these ideas were promulgated by the ancient Greeks, preserved and commented on by the great Muslim scholars of the early middle ages, and finally transmitted to western Europe as that region began to grow and expand around 1100 C.E. Specific avenues of inquiry such as ast...

Russian Imperial Military Doctrine and Education, 1832-1914 - Hardcover

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by Carl Van Dyke (Author)This work examines the evolution of military-scientific research and theory as it was taught to student-officers at the Nicholas Academy. It is the only work (in English or Russian) to focus on this intellectual-institutional dialogue in the context of evolving professional responsibilities of the Russian Imperial General Staff during the 19th and early 20th centuries. The book contains five portraits of influential Russian military theorists and educational administr...

The Quest for Victory: The History of the Principles of War - Hardcover

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by John Alger (Author), Jay Luvaas (Author) Number of Pages: 318 Dimensions: 0.81 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: July 28, 1982

Creating the Entangling Alliance: The Origins of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization - Hardcover

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by Timothy P. Ireland (Author)Author Biographyeland /f Timothy /i P. Number of Pages: 258 Dimensions: 1.03 x 8.5 x 5.54 IN Publication Date: February 10, 1981

Sherman: Soldier, Realist, American - Hardcover

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by Hart Basil H. Liddell (Author), Basil Henry Liddell Hart (Author), Unknown (Author)Author Biographyddell Hart /f Basil /i Henry /t Sir Number of Pages: 482 Dimensions: 1.06 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: August 23, 1978

Transforming Communication: Technology, Sustainability, and Future Generations - Paperback

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by Susan Leggett (Editor), Sohail Inayatullah (Editor)Thus far, the communications revolution has been largely limited to the merely technological feat of converging telecommunications with personal computing. But does it hold a truly higher promise--to transform communication as a human act of sharing meaning about values, attitudes, and experiences? Or will it simply allow capitalism to pursue ever-greater economic efficiencies among the wealthy nations of the world, while ignoring the pers...

All American Boys: Draft Dodgers in Canada from the Vietnam War - Hardcover

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by Frank Kusch (Author)This unique study argues that the draft dodgers who went to Canada during the Vietnam War were not always the anti-war radicals portrayed in popular culture. Many were the products of stable, conservative, middle class homes who were more interested in furthering their education and careers than in fighting in Southeast Asia. The conflict in Vietnam was just one cause among many for their deep sense of disaffection from the land of their birth. These expatriates remaine...

Public Access Television: America's Electronic Soapbox - Paperback

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by Laura Linder (Author)As Laura Linder asserts, increased concentration of media ownership has resulted in the homogenization of public discourse. Packaged, commercialized messages have replaced the personalized and localized opinions necessary for the uninhibited marketplace of ideas envisioned in the First Amendment. Narrowcast outlets such as talk radio give vent to individual voices, but only to a limited, predefined audience. The media have led a social shift toward splintering and comp...

Water Resource Management: A Comparative Perspective - Hardcover

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by Dhirendra Vajpeyi (Editor)According to available estimates, only .3% of the total fresh water is usable for the world's entire human and animal populations. Some experts have observed that in the near future, the earth will face severe scarcity of water, resulting in an insufficient amount of water to sustain our ever increasing future needs. Others believe that such pessimistic estimates are unwarranted. Due to conflicting opinions and data-interpretations, the future levels of scarcity a...

Send Guns and Money: Security Assistance and U.S. Foreign Policy - Paperback

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by Duncan L. Clarke (Author), Daniel O'Connor (Author), Jason D. Ellis (Author)American foreign policy since 1947 cannot be understood apart from the U.S. security assistance program. Beginning with Truman, every president has considered security assistance programs important means for furthering U.S. national interests. Security assistance has been used to support a wide variety of policies, including the Truman Doctrine and containment, the underwriting of the Camp David Accords, and the ch...

Breaking the Phalanx: A New Design for Landpower in the 21st Century - Paperback

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by Douglas A. MacGregor (Author), Center for Strategic & International Stu (Author), Center for Strategic & International St (Author)This work proposes the reorganization of America's ground forces on the strategic, operational and tactical levels. Central to the proposal is the simple thesis that the U.S. Army must take control of its future by exploiting the emerging revolution in military affairs. The analysis argues that a new Army warfighting organization will not only be more de...

The End of the Future: The Waning of the High-Tech World - Paperback

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by Jean Gimpel (Author), Helen McPhail (Translator)Represents the first calm, detailed, and rational description of the imminent end of western industrial civilization as we know it.Author BiographyJEAN GIMPEL is a historian of technology and the cycles of civilization. He is the author of several works devoted to the scientific culture of the Middle Ages, including two bestselling books, The Cathedral Builders and The Mediaeval Machine: The Industrial Revolution of the Middle Ages. Number of...

Military Heretics: The Unorthodox in Policy and Strategy - Hardcover

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by Roch Legault (Author)This collection uses a series of case studies to assess the impact of heretical military leaders who developed policy and strategy during war and peace in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The issue for each contributor is not necessarily to show whether the endeavors of individuals and their unorthodoxy were successful or unsuccessful--though this important consideration is not ignored. Rather, each chapter offers differing points of view on accomplishments and ...

Scouts and Raiders: The Navy's First Special Warfare Commandos - Hardcover

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by John B. Dwyer (Author)The history of the Scouts & Raiders of World War II is the story of the original ancestors of today's elite SEAL teams. As the Navy's first special warfare commandos these highly trained and skilled officer/enlisted boat crews conducted pre-assault recons of landing beaches, hydrographic recons, marked assault beaches, and guided in assault waves from 36-foot Scout boats, rubber boats, and kayaks at North Africa, Sicily, Salerno, Anzio, Southern France, and Norman...

Encyclopedia of Military Technology and Innovation - Hardcover

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by Stephen Bull (Author)From the Abrams M1 tank to the zeppelin, this essential reference details the invention and evolution of nearly 600 of the most important advances in military technology from prehistory to the present. International in scope, it covers weapons, ammunition, defenses, land vehicles, aircraft, ships, detection, stealth, gear, supplies, weapons of mass destruction, and much more. Whether researching such cutting-edge technologies as the B-2 Stealth Bomber, Patriot Missile,...

How to Write and Publish a Scientific Paper - Hardcover

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by Barbara Gastel (Author), Robert Day (Author)Thoroughly updated throughout, this classic, practical text on how to write and publish a scientific paper takes its own advice to be "as clear and simple as possible." "The purpose of scientific writing," according to Barbara Gastel and Robert A. Day, "is to communicate new scientific findings. Science is simply too important to be communicated in anything other than words of certain meaning." This clear, beautifully written, and often funny tex...

Debating Your Plate: The Most Controversial Foods and Ingredients - Hardcover

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by Randi Minetor (Author)This book examines the most controversial foods and ingredients, providing an objective, well-balanced look at the health benefits and risks of each. It equips readers with the information they need to make their own informed decisions about what they eat. Most people aspire to eat healthy, but what exactly does that mean? While some foods are universally acknowledged as beneficial, such as many vegetables, and others are widely condemned, such as added sugar, many fo...

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by Michael Lynch (Author)Is the earth's oil supply starting to run out, or is there far more oil than some experts believe? This book points out flaws in the research used to warn of an oil shortfall and predicts that large new reserves of oil are soon to be tapped. In the last decade, oil experts, geologists, and policy makers alike have warned that a peak in oil production around the world was about to be reached and that global economic distress would result when this occurred. But it didn...

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by David Isaac (Author), John O'Leary (Author), Mark Daley (Author)The fully revised and updated third edition of this textbook provides a comprehensive guide to the property development process, taking readers from initial project evaluation to planning, funding, construction and disposal. The last ten years have seen regional planning apparatus swept away and replaced by new neighbourhood plans and more prominence is now given to financial viability in planning policy and decision making. T...

The Fall of the U.S. Consumer Electronics Industry: An American Trade Tragedy - Hardcover

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by Phillip J. Curtis (Author)This work traces the history and background of the once great American consumer electronics manufacturing industry, an industry that was plagued and finally destroyed by an American-Japanese cartel subverting enforcement of our traditional trade laws. The work is not a Japan-bashing diatribe, but a call for changes in Washington, and a return to free trade in our domestic and foreign commerce.Author BiographyPHILIP J. CURTIS is a semi-retired Corporate and Civil L...

The Elements of Information Gathering: A Guide for Technical Communicators, Scientists, and Engineers - Paperback

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by Michel Muraski (Author), Donald Zimmerman (Author)There are many how-to books on scientific and technical writing, and most of them devote a chapter or two to the subject of gathering information. The Elements of Information Gathering is the first to describe in detail the necessary steps in gathering scientific and technical information.Created as a working reference for scientific and technical professionals, as well as a textbook for technical communication courses, the book is organize...

Glued to Games: How Video Games Draw Us in and Hold Us Spellbound - Hardcover

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by Scott Rigby (Author), Richard M. Ryan (Author)This book offers a practical yet powerful way to understand the psychological appeal and strong motivation to play video games. With video game sales in the billions and anxious concerns about their long-term effects growing louder, Glued to Games: How Video Games Draw Us In and Hold Us Spellbound brings something new to the discussion. It is the first truly balanced research-based analysis on the games and gamers, addressing both the positive ...

Science and Technology in Nineteenth-Century America - Hardcover

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by Todd Timmons (Author)The 19th Century was a period of tremendous change in the daily lives of the average Americans. Never before had such change occurred so rapidly or and had affected such a broad range of people. And these changes were primarily a result of tremendous advances in science and technology. Many of the technologies that play such an central role in our daily life today were first invented during this great period of innovation--everything from the railroad to the telephone....

Cars and Culture: The Life Story of a Technology - Hardcover

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by Rudi Volti (Author)More than any other artifact of modern technology, the automobile has shaped our physical, social, and cultural environment. At the same time, the history of the automobile demonstrates how decisions made by governments, entrepreneurs, and the general public have strongly affected the automobile's evolution. Cars and Cultures provides a succinct yet comprehensive history of the automobile. While the book highlights the technical changes that altered the appearance and pe...

Encyclopedia of Modern Everyday Inventions - Hardcover

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by David J. Cole (Author), Browning (Author), Eve Browning (Author)The 20th century saw radical changes to the pulse and quality of its everyday life, thanks to a wave of astonishing inventions that improved virtually every aspect of daily existence. Some inventions became essential household products we continue to use today. Others were replaced by new and improved inventions. This invaluable reference presents more than 40 alphabetical categories of everyday inventions for the home and dom...