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Anthropology

Excavating the Memory Palace Arts of Visualization from the Agora to the Computer

Long Seth David

ISBN: PB: 9780226695280, ISBN: HB: 9780226695143, University of Chicago Press, January 2021
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 halftones, 12 line drawings

With the prevalence of smartphones, massive data storage, and search engines, we might think of today as the height of the information age. In reality, every era has faced its own challenges of storing, organizing, and accessing information. While th...

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Philosophy

Engineering Ethics Contemporary and Enduring Debates

Johnson Deborah G.

ISBN: PB: 9780300209242, Yale University Press, July 2020
216 pp., 20.9x13.9 cm

The first engineering ethics textbook to use debates as the framework for presenting engineering ethics topics, this engaging, accessible survey explores the most difficult and controversial issues that engineers face in daily practice. Written by a...

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Popular Science

Eureka How Invention Happens

Weightman Gavin

ISBN: PB: 9780300228854, Yale University Press, August 2017
280 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 12 black&white illus.

Tracing the long pre-history of five twentieth-century inventions which have transformed our lives, Gavin Weightman reveals a fantastic cast of scientists and inspired amateurs whose ingenuity has given us the airplane, television, bar code, personal...

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Technology & Engineering

Engineering Book: From the Catapult to the Curiosity Rover 250 Milestones in the History of Engineering

Brain Marshall

ISBN: HB: 9781454908098, GMC Group, Sterling, April 2015
528 pp., 21.4x18.6 cm, illus.

Engineering is where human knowledge meets real-world problems and solves them. It's the source of some of our greatest inventions, from the wheel to the jet engine. Marshall Brain, creator of the How Stuff Works series and a professor at the Enginee...

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History

Technology & Engineering

Everyday Technology Machines and the Making of India's Modernity

Arnold David

ISBN: PB: 9780226269375, ISBN: HB: 9780226922027, University of Chicago Press, February 2015
224 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 4 tables, 22 halftones

In 1909 Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, on his way back to South Africa from London, wrote his now celebrated tract "Hind Swaraj", laying out his vision for the future of India and famously rejecting the technological innovations of Western civilization....

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History

Enigma of the Aerofoil Rival Theories in Aerodynamics, 1909-1930

Bloor David

ISBN: PB: 9780226060958, University of Chicago Press, November 2011
608 pp., 23x15 cm, 97 halftones

Why do aircraft fly? How do their wings support them? In the early years of aviation, there was an intense dispute between British and German experts over the question of why and how an aircraft wing provides lift. The British, under the leadership o...

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