History of engineering & technology
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History of engineering & technology
Paperback. Provides information on the origins and early development of textiles in Europe and the Near East. Using linguistic techniques, along with methods from palaeobiology and other fields, this book shows that spinning and pattern weaving began far earlier than has been supposed. It tells how it was more culturally significant to prehistoric cultures. Num Pages: 504 pages, 4 color plates, 217 b&w illustrations, 4 maps. BIC Classification: 1D; 1QDA; TBX; TDG; TDH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 242 x 185 x 34. Weight in Grams: 888.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 508
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691002248
- ISBN
- 9780691002248
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 74.57€ 58.22
€ 74.57
€ 58.22
Paperback. This biography of Thomas Edison (1847-1931) studies and evaluates his career as an inventor and explores in detail how he created inventions that shaped the 20th century, including the electric light, photography, and over 1000 other items. Num Pages: 560 pages, facsimiles, portraits. BIC Classification: 3JH; 3JJ; BG; PDX; TBX; TBY; THR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 158 x 235 x 31. Weight in Grams: 832.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United States
- Number of pages
- 560
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780471362708
- ISBN
- 9780471362708
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 24.35
€ 30.99
€ 24.35
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
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 55.06€ 51.09
€ 55.06
€ 51.09
Hardback. Num Pages: 208 pages, over 420 color and b/w photos. BIC Classification: JWG; JWMV; TBX; WGM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 288 x 218 x 19. Weight in Grams: 1144.
- Publisher
- SCHIFFER PUBLISHING LTD
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780887406614
- ISBN
- 9780887406614
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.99€ 34.78
€ 52.99
€ 34.78
Paperback. This unusual late-war tandem bomb was actually used by the Luftwaffe during World War II. Covered here are technical details of aircraft used, as well as operational information. Translator(s): Cox, Don. Num Pages: 48 pages, 100+ b/w images. BIC Classification: 1DFG; JWG; JWMV; TBX; WGM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 300 x 125 x 4. Weight in Grams: 196.
- Publisher
- Schiffer Publishing Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780887406683
- ISBN
- 9780887406683
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.85
€ 13.99
€ 10.85
Hardcover. Num Pages: 344 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: TBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 163 x 238 x 28. Weight in Grams: 608.
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226381039
- ISBN
- 9780226381039
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 31.73
€ 40.99
€ 31.73
Hardback. This major new book provides a concise history of optical media from Renaissance linear perspective to late twentieth-century computer graphics. Kittler begins by looking at European painting since the Renaissance in order to discern the principles according to which modern optical perception was organized. Num Pages: 332 pages. BIC Classification: JFD; TBX. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 236 x 160 x 24. Weight in Grams: 504.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 332
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745640907
- ISBN
- 9780745640907
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 70.81
€ 70.81
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Amberley Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781445618593
- ISBN
- 9781445618593
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 16.38
€ 20.99
€ 16.38
Hardback. First published in 1879, this book has been identified as a lost publication and provides rare insight into the thinking of Victorian Engineers, written as a contemporary text. Num Pages: 240 pages, 40 period photographs and drawings. BIC Classification: 3JH; TBX; WGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 164 x 241 x 18. Weight in Grams: 592.
- Publisher
- Pen & Sword Books Ltd
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781473823235
- ISBN
- 9781473823235
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 19.71
€ 25.99
€ 19.71
Paperback. Num Pages: 608 pages, 524 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: TBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 46. Weight in Grams: 1588.
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Number of pages
- 608
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816690435
- ISBN
- 9780816690435
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 35.36
€ 38.99
€ 35.36
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
€ 18.33
€ 18.33
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
Hardback. Game Changer will change the way you look at sports-and the outsized impact technoscience has on them. Num Pages: 272 pages, 12, 8 black & white halftones, 4 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: HBTB; KNSP; TBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. .
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421421797
- ISBN
- 9781421421797
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 29.62
€ 34.99
€ 29.62
Hardback. Series: Columbia Studies in International and Global History. Num Pages: 384 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, 2 figures, 5 graphs. BIC Classification: 3JH; TBX; TJK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231174329
- ISBN
- 9780231174329
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.10€ 49.51
€ 63.10
€ 49.51
Paperback. Num Pages: 176 pages, colour & b&w photographs. BIC Classification: JWMV; TBX; WGM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 199 x 269 x 12. Weight in Grams: 694. An Illustrated History. 176 pages, colour & b&w photographs. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: JWMV; TBX; WGM. Dimension: 199 x 269 x 12. Weight: 694.
- Publisher
- Crecy Publishing Ltd.
- Number of pages
- 176
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Edition
- Revised edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780947554767
- ISBN
- 9780947554767
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 17.19
€ 21.99
€ 17.19
Hardback. .
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Inc
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781498756303
- ISBN
- 9781498756303
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 69.30
€ 69.30
Hardback. .
- Publisher
- Union Square & Co.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781454908098
- ISBN
- 9781454908098
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 37.71
€ 37.71
Paperback. Num Pages: 144 pages, b/w illus. BIC Classification: HBT; TBX; TN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 252 x 179 x 10. Weight in Grams: 314.
- Publisher
- A Cappella Books United States
- Number of pages
- 144
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781556524196
- ISBN
- 9781556524196
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.06
€ 16.06
Paperback. The fight for the future of the city street between pedestrians, street railways, and promoters of the automobile between 1915 and 1930. Series: Inside Technology. Num Pages: 408 pages, 12 b&w photos, 28 b&w illus. BIC Classification: KNGR; PDR; TBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 149 x 20. Weight in Grams: 520.
- Publisher
- MIT Press Ltd United States
- Number of pages
- 408
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- SECOND PRINTING
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780262516129
- ISBN
- 9780262516129
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 33.55
€ 42.99
€ 33.55
Paperback. A history of the relationship between technology and society over the past 500 years. Spanning the preindustrial past, the age of scientific, political, and industrial revolutions, as well as the more recent eras of imperialism, modernism, and global security, it evaluates what the author calls "the question of technology". Series: Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology. Num Pages: 400 pages, 54, 54 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: PDX; TBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 154 x 22. Weight in Grams: 540.
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 400
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- 2nd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421401539
- ISBN
- 9781421401539
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 23.63
€ 26.99
€ 23.63