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  • Science and Religion

    Some Historical Perspectives

    de John Hedley Brooke ...
    Series series Canto Classics
    John Hedley Brooke offers an introduction and critical guide to one of the most fascinating and enduring issues in the development of the modern world: the relationship between scientific thought and religious belief. It is common knowledge that in western societies there have been periods of crisis when new science has threatened established authority. The trial of Galileo in 1633 and the uproar ... Leer más

    $381 MXN

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  • Small Things Considered

    Why There Is No Perfect Design

    de Henry Petroski ...
    Why has the durable paper shopping bag been largely replaced by its flimsy plastic counterpart? What circuitous chain of improvements led to such innovations as the automobile cup holder and the swiveling vegetable peeler? With the same relentless curiosity and lucid, witty prose he brought to his earlier books, Henry Petroski looks at some of our most familiar objects and reveals that they are, ... Leer más

    $109 MXN

  • Concorde

    The Rise and Fall of the Supersonic Airliner

    de Jonathan Glancey ...
    In Concorde, Jonathan Glancey tells the story of this magnificent and hugely popular aircraft anew, taking the reader from the moment Captain Chuck Yeager first broke the sound barrier in 1947 through to the last commercial flight of the supersonic airliner in 2003. It is a tale of national rivalries, technological leaps, daring prototypes, tightrope politics, and a dream of a Dan Dare future ... Leer más

    $202 MXN

  • Friends, Followers and the Future

    How Social Media are Changing Politics, Threatening Big Brands, and Killing Traditional Media

    de Rory O'Connor ...
    There’s a revolution going on, as ever-accelerating developments in digital information technologies change nearly every aspect of how we live, work, play, do business and engage in politics. Share and share alike—the numbers say it all as billions of people worldwide flock to online media and use social networks to discover and spread news and information.In the process, ever-growing networks of ... Leer más

    $211 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Audible Past

    Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction

    de Jonathan Sterne ...
    The Audible Past explores the cultural origins of sound reproduction. It describes a distinctive sound culture that gave birth to the sound recording and the transmission devices so ubiquitous in modern life. With an ear for the unexpected, scholar and musician Jonathan Sterne uses the technological and cultural precursors of telephony, phonography, and radio as an entry point into a history of ... Leer más

    $408 MXN

  • Rise of the Machines

    de Thomas Rid ...
    "Dazzling.” —Financial TimesAs lives offline and online merge even more, it is easy to forget how we got here. Rise of the Machines reclaims the spectacular story of cybernetics, one of the twentieth century’s pivotal ideas.Springing from the mind of mathematician Norbert Wiener amid the devastation of World War II, the cybernetic vision underpinned a host of seductive myths about the future of ... Leer más

    $223 MXN

  • The Canada Company and the Huron Tract, 1826-1853

    Personalities, Profits and Politics

    de Robert C. Lee ...
    The Canada Company was responsible for the opening and settling of over two million acres of land in Upper Canada. Author Robert C. Lee focuses his attention on the extensive parcel of land on the shores of Lake Huron that became known as the Huron Tract. His comprehensive research explores the underlying forces leading to the formation of the Company, the intriguing mix of people charged with ... Leer más

    $199 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Religion of Technology

    The Divinity of Man and the Spirit of Invention

    de David F. Noble ...
    Arguing against the widely held belief that technology and religion are at war with each other, David F. Noble's groundbreaking book reveals the religious roots and spirit of Western technology.It links the technological enthusiasms of the present day with the ancient and enduring Christian expectation of recovering humankind's lost divinity. Covering a period of a thousand years, Noble traces the ... Leer más

    $202 MXN

  • Worlds without End

    The Many Lives of the Multiverse

    de Mary-Jane Rubenstein ...
    A religion professor elucidates the theory of the multiverse, its history, and its reception in science, philosophy, religion, and literature.Multiverse cosmologies imagine our universe as just one of a vast number of others. Beginning with ancient Atomist and Stoic philosophies, Mary-Jane Rubenstein links contemporary models of the multiverse to their forerunners and explores the reasons for ... Leer más

    $193 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Engineers of Dreams

    Great Bridge Builders and the Spanning of America

    de Henry Petroski ...
    Petroski reveals the science and engineering--not to mention the politics, egotism, and sheer magic--behind America's great bridges, particularly those constructed during the great bridge-building era starting in the 1870s and continuing through the 1930s. It is the story of the men and women who built the St. Louis, the George Washington, and the Golden Gate bridges, drawing not only on their ... Leer más

    $158 MXN

  • Aluminum Upcycled

    Sustainable Design in Historical Perspective

    de Carl A. Zimring ...
    Series series Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology
    Tracing the benefits—and limitations—of repurposing aluminum.Besides being the right thing to do for Mother Earth, recycling can also make money—particularly when it comes to upcycling, a zero waste practice where discarded materials are fashioned into goods of greater economic or cultural value. In Upcycling Aluminum, Carl A. Zimring explores how the metal’s abundance after World War II—coupled ... Leer más

    $606 MXN

  • The Chinese Typewriter

    A History

    de Thomas S. Mullaney ...
    How Chinese characters triumphed over the QWERTY keyboard and laid the foundation for China's information technology successes today.Chinese writing is character based, the one major world script that is neither alphabetic nor syllabic. Through the years, the Chinese written language encountered presumed alphabetic universalism in the form of Morse Code, Braille, stenography, Linotype, punch cards ... Leer más

    $495 MXN