Technological Nature: Adaptation and the Future of Human Life

Why it matters that our relationship with nature is increasingly mediated and augmented by technology.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Engineers for Change: Competing Visions of Technology in 1960s America

An account of conflicts within engineering in the 1960s that helped shape our dominant contemporary understanding of technological change as the driver of history. In the late 1960s an eclectic group of engineers joined the antiwar and civil rights activists of the time in agitating for change. The engineers were fighting to remake their profession, challenging their fellow engineers to embrace…

The black rose and other poems

Introspection, carried too far, may wreck the soul of a man, but without it a poet is merely a versifier or an experimenter, dealing with the laboratory instead of with life. For him there must be no eternal verities except those he discovers and proves to himself. He can take nothing on trust. His life-work is to " stir the decent dust about the world " — his own world as well as that of oth…

Global networks : computers and international communication

Global Networks takes up the host of issues raised by the new networking technology that now links individuals, groups, and organizations in different countries and on different continents. The twenty-one contributions focus on the implementation, application, and impact of computer-mediated communication in a global context. Previously limited to scientific research, global networks now have a…

Global trade and conflicting national interests

Ralph Gomory and William Baumol adapt classical trade models to the modern world economy.In this book Ralph Gomory and William Baumol adapt classical trade models to the modern world economy. Trade today is dominated by manufactured goods, rapidly moving technology, and huge firms that benefit from economies of scale. This is very different from the largely agricultural world in which the class…

Globalization and History : the Evolution of a Nineteenth-Century Atlantic Ec…

Kevin O'Rourke and Jeffrey Williamson present a coherent picture of trade, migration, and international capital flows in the Atlantic economy in the century prior to 1914-the first great globalization boom, which anticipated the experience of the last fifty years.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

A Burglar's life; or, The stirring adventures of the great English burglar Ma…

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Quantified; Redefining Conservation For The Next Economy

Pendekatan konservasi yang inovatif dan berorientasi pada hasil, Disusun oleh pelopor restorasi sungai dan arsitek konservasi terukur, Strategi inovatif diambil dari perusahaan-perusahaan paling efisien, paham teknologi, dan sukses di dunia

Quality of Machined Wood Surfaces

1. Memberikan gambaran menyeluruh dan terperinci tentang kualitas permukaan kayu yang dikerjakan, 2. Meliputi banyak hasil dan representasi eksperimen baru, 3. Menawarkan konten yang berharga bagi para ahli dan praktisi penelitian ;;; Tujuan dari monograf ini adalah untuk mengkarakterisasi dan mendeskripsikan kualitas permukaan kayu yang dikerjakan, sedangkan perhatian khusus diberikan pada uti…

Creating Scientific Concepts

An account that analyzes the dynamic reasoning processes implicated in a fundamental problem of creativity in science: how does genuine novelty emerge from existing representations?How do novel scientific concepts arise? In Creating Scientific Concepts, Nancy Nersessian seeks to answer this central but virtually unasked question in the problem of conceptual change. She argues that the popular i…