History of engineering & technology
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History of engineering & technology
Paperback. The last decades of the Ming dynasty saw a significant increase in publications that examined advances in knowledge and technology. Among the numerous guides and reference books that appeared during this period was a series of texts by Song Yingxing. The author probes this text to focus on the development of scientific thinking in China. Num Pages: 352 pages, 24 halftones, 1 line drawing. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBJF; PDX; TBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 517.
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226272801
- ISBN
- 9780226272801
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 27.19
€ 34.99
€ 27.19
Hardback. The last decades of the Ming dynasty, though plagued by chaos and destruction, saw major advances in knowledge and technology. This title sheds light on the development of scientific thinking in China, the purpose of technical writing, and its role in and effects on Chinese history. Num Pages: 368 pages, 24 halftones, 1 line drawing. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JD; HBJF; HBLH; PDX; TBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 161 x 236 x 29. Weight in Grams: 676.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226735849
- ISBN
- 9780226735849
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 92.67€ 76.95
€ 92.67
€ 76.95
Hardcover. The Contractors charts the development of contracting from the early days of direct labour, through the canal building of the18th century when contractors began to emerge as a major force in construction, railway development, motorway construction, privatisation and two world wars, to the international companies of today. Num Pages: 300 pages, 600. BIC Classification: 1DBK; TBX; TN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 283 x 32. Weight in Grams: 1724.
- Publisher
- ICE Publishing United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780727758309
- ISBN
- 9780727758309
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Condition: New
€ 55.60€ 51.09
€ 55.60
€ 51.09
Hardcover. .
- Publisher
- MIT Press Ltd United States
- Number of pages
- 400
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780262017770
- ISBN
- 9780262017770
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 49.99€ 42.84
€ 49.99
€ 42.84
Hardcover. A fascinating and informative read for all those interested in the history of ICE and how it has grown as well as the civil engineering industry and its impact on the world in which we live Num Pages: 276 pages, 500 colour. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; 3JJ; 3JMC; TBX; TN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 278 x 29. Weight in Grams: 1592.
- Publisher
- ICE Publishing United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 276
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780727741431
- ISBN
- 9780727741431
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.60€ 60.63
€ 66.60
€ 60.63
Paperback. The volume includes a glossary of terms, a timeline of important events, and a selected bibliography of useful resources for further information. Num Pages: 192 pages, 21, 17 black & white halftones, 4 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFCX; TBX; TDPP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 153 x 12. Weight in Grams: 274.
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801893117
- ISBN
- 9780801893117
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 28.06
€ 32.99
€ 28.06
Hardback. Num Pages: 224 pages, over 600 color photos, line drawings. BIC Classification: JWG; JWMV; TBX; WGM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 286 x 225 x 24. Weight in Grams: 1520.
- Publisher
- Schiffer Publishing Ltd
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Edition
- F First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780764302862
- ISBN
- 9780764302862
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.27€ 38.58
€ 53.27
€ 38.58
Paperback. Capitalism likes us to believe in the steady, inevitable march of progress, from the abacus to the iPad. But the historical record tells of innumerable roads not taken, all of which could have led to better worlds, and still can. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: JFFS; JPVH; PDR; TBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 142 x 216 x 29. Weight in Grams: 482.
- Publisher
- New Internationalist Publications Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781780263298
- ISBN
- 9781780263298
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.60
€ 18.60
Hardback. Num Pages: 176 pages, over 200 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: TBX; TRP; WGM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 287 x 219 x 19. Weight in Grams: 1166.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Schiffer Publishing Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780764300646
- ISBN
- 9780764300646
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.99€ 34.74
€ 52.99
€ 34.74
Hardback. Num Pages: 128 pages, over 170 photos. BIC Classification: 3JJPL; JWG; TBX; WGM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 288 x 221 x 16. Weight in Grams: 890.
- Publisher
- Schiffer Publishing Ltd
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780887407987
- ISBN
- 9780887407987
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 24.72
€ 36.99
€ 24.72
Paperback. Num Pages: 520 pages, 75 halftones. BIC Classification: BGT; TBX; THR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 142 x 216 x 37. Weight in Grams: 526.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691165615
- ISBN
- 9780691165615
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 18.40
€ 23.99
€ 18.40
paperback. Based on the latest research, this crisply written, sometimes provocative survey includes a glossary, timeline, and bibliography for further reading. Num Pages: 232 pages, 15, 15 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: TBX; TJKV. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 385.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801890727
- ISBN
- 9780801890727
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.16
€ 40.16
Paperback. Series: New Oxford World History. Num Pages: 200 pages, 31 black and white half tone illustrations. BIC Classification: TBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 157 x 12. Weight in Grams: 306.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 191
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780195338218
- ISBN
- 9780195338218
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.54
€ 32.54
Paperback. This interpretative essay and extensive bibliography surveying the chronology and major characteristics of American technology before 1850 is the first available guide in this period to the rapidly developing field of the history of technology. Series: UNC Press Enduring Edition. Num Pages: 165 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; TBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1968
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press United States
- Number of pages
- 165
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780807840221
- ISBN
- 9780807840221
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 47.36
€ 47.36
Hardcover. This book investigates the technologies, the concepts, and the applications of analog computing. The book suggests a new interpretation of the history of analog computing, and argues that analog computing can be thought of as a modeling technology. Series: History of Computing. Num Pages: 221 pages, biography. BIC Classification: TBX; UK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 1100.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Springer
- Edition
- 2010th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781848829473
- ISBN
- 9781848829473
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 190.32
€ 190.32
Paperback. Drawing on three detailed case studies the sewing machine, a glass bottle blowing factory, and the cyanide process for gold and silver refining, this book explores a central paradox of economic growth in nineteenth-century Mexico. Num Pages: 360 pages, 6 line drawings, 18 b/w images, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; HBJK; HBTK; KCZ; TBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 229 x 23. Weight in Grams: 520.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520284906
- ISBN
- 9780520284906
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 28.50
€ 38.99
€ 28.50
Hardback. No nation in history has placed greater emphasis on the role of technology in planning and waging war than the United States. Drawing on six decades of debate on the subject of US military affairs, this book suggests how the armed forces might exploit the opportunities of the information revolution in the future. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; 3JM; JW; TBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- First Edition
- SKU
- V9780231123365
- ISBN
- 9780231123365
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 101.93€ 77.70
€ 101.93
€ 77.70
Paperback. * Examines technology from a social, cultural and phenomenological perspective. * Presents a new conceptual and methodological framework for studying technology. . Series: Social Archaeology. Num Pages: 320 pages, 0. BIC Classification: HBTB; HD; HPCF3; JHM; TBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 436.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781577181248
- ISBN
- 9781577181248
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 63.31
€ 63.31
Hardcover. * Examines technology from a social, cultural and phenomenological perspective. * Presents a new conceptual and methodological framework for studying technology. . Series: Social Archaeology. Num Pages: 320 pages, 0. BIC Classification: HBTB; HD; HPCF3; JHM; TBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 240 x 166 x 26. Weight in Grams: 608.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781577181231
- ISBN
- 9781577181231
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 139.49
€ 139.49
Hardback. Professor Joan Woodward, one of the founding figures of organization studies, died in 1971 at the age of 54 after a relatively brief but highly distinguished career as a management researcher and teacher, and just six years after the publication of her book "Industrial Organization". Editor(s): Phillips, Nelson X.; Griffiths, Dorothy; Sewell, Graham. Series Editor(s): Lounsbury, Michael. Series: Research in the Sociology of Organizations. Num Pages: 310 pages, Illustrations, + 1 map. BIC Classification: KJU; TBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 28. Weight in Grams: 599.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Emerald Publishing Limited United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 310
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781849509848
- ISBN
- 9781849509848
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 123.26
€ 123.26
Hardcover. Num Pages: 252 pages, biography. BIC Classification: KCM; TBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 254
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403920676
- ISBN
- 9781403920676
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 122.59
€ 122.59
paperback. Drawing upon art, science, philosophy, and the history of culture, this title explains the origin of the machine age and traces its social results, asserting that the development of modern technology had its roots in the Middle Ages rather than the Industrial Revolution. Num Pages: 522 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBTB; PDR; PDX; TBX. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 230 x 157 x 28. Weight in Grams: 708.
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Number of pages
- 522
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226550275
- ISBN
- 9780226550275
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 26.20
€ 32.99
€ 26.20
Num Pages: 240 pages, over 300 color photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JWG; JWM; TBX; WGM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 288 x 222 x 24. Weight in Grams: 1430.
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Schiffer Publishing Ltd United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780887405136
- ISBN
- 9780887405136
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 42.86
€ 46.99
€ 42.86
Paperback. Editor(s): Pickstone, John V. Series: Science, Technology and Medicine in Modern History. Num Pages: 349 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; MBX; PDX; TBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 349
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349431816
- ISBN
- 9781349431816
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 122.63
€ 122.63