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The Wheel: Inventions and Reinventions

The Wheel: Inventions and Reinventions

Author: Richard Bulliet
ISBN: 9780231173384
Format: Hardback
$45.95

A visually rich, analytical history of the key cycles in a revolutionary technology.  Read More >>

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

Author: Thomas S. Kuhn ,  Ian Hacking
ISBN: 9781511376723
Format: Audio
$39.57

Thomas S. Kuhn's work explaining the process of scientific discovery. This text is the third edition and incorporates...  Read More >>

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised: Protest Music After Fukushima

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised: Protest Music...

Author: Noriko Manabe (Assistant Professor, Assistant Professor, Princeton University)
ISBN: 9780199334698
Format: Paperback
$91.95

Since the Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster, antinuclear activism has swelled into one of the most popular...  Read More >>

The Glass Cage: Who Needs Humans Anyway

The Glass Cage: Who Needs Humans Anyway

Author: Nicholas Carr
ISBN: 9780099597452
Format: Paperback
$24.99

Reveals how automation is affecting our ability to solve problems, forge memories and acquire skills. This book...  Read More >>

Evolution der Ethik: Der menschliche Sinn für Moral im Licht der modernen Evolutionsbiologie

Evolution der Ethik: Der menschliche Sinn für Moral...

Author: Emerich Sumser
ISBN: 9783110408119
Format: Hardback
$111.45

There are conflicts in moral judgment between philosophies, between cultures, and even inside an individual conscience....  Read More >>

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised: Protest Music After Fukushima

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised: Protest Music...

Author: Noriko Manabe (Assistant Professor, Assistant Professor, Princeton University)
ISBN: 9780199334681
Format: Hardback
$381.00

Since the Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster, antinuclear activism has swelled into one of the most popular...  Read More >>

Ethical Ripples of Creativity and Innovation

Ethical Ripples of Creativity and Innovation

Author: Seana Moran
ISBN: 9781137505538
Format: Hardback
$181.95

If we are going to promote creativity as an ideal to strive toward, shouldn't we make sure we also instil ethical...  Read More >>

Applied Minds: How Engineers Think

Applied Minds: How Engineers Think

Author: Guru Madhavan ,  Sean Pratt
ISBN: 9781469095783
Format: Audio
$147.81

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Applied Minds: How Engineers Think

Applied Minds: How Engineers Think

Author: Guru Madhavan ,  Sean Pratt
ISBN: 9781469095790
Format: Audio
$79.17

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Applied Minds: How Engineers Think

Applied Minds: How Engineers Think

Author: Guru Madhavan ,  Sean Pratt
ISBN: 9781469095806
Format: Audio
$79.20

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Transformations of Electricity in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Science

Transformations of Electricity in Nineteenth-Century...

Author: Dr. Stella Pratt-Smith
ISBN: 9781472419422
Format: Electronic book text
$186.30

Throughout the nineteenth century, practitioners of science, writers of fiction and journalists wrote about electricity...  Read More >>

Transformations of Electricity in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Science

Transformations of Electricity in Nineteenth-Century...

Author: Dr. Stella Pratt-Smith
ISBN: 9781472419415
Format: Electronic book text
$186.30

Throughout the nineteenth century, practitioners of science, writers of fiction and journalists wrote about electricity...  Read More >>

Towards a Sustainable Information Society: People, Business and Public Administration Perspectives

Towards a Sustainable Information Society: People, Business...

Author: Ewa Ziemba
ISBN: 9781443886888
Format: Hardback
$261.23

This book represents an important voice in the scientific discourse on what constitutes a sustainable information...  Read More >>

The Eureka Factor: Creative Insights and the Brain

The Eureka Factor: Creative Insights and the Brain

Author: John Kounios ,  Mark Beeman
ISBN: 9780099537373
Format: Paperback
$29.99

Where do great ideas come from? What actually happens in your brain during a 'Eureka' moment? How can we have more...  Read More >>

Concussion

Concussion

Author: Jeanne Marie Laskas
ISBN: 9780241975916
Format: Paperback
$25.00

The brilliant young forensic pathologist had no idea that the body on the slab in front of him would change his...  Read More >>

The Problem with Education Technology (Hint: It's Not the Technology)

The Problem with Education Technology (Hint: It's Not...

Author: Ben Fink ,  Robin Brown
ISBN: 9781607324461
Format: Paperback
$18.35

"""Explains large-scale grading of student essays by automated scoring software, the technology and what it does...  Read More >>

Speaking Power to Truth: Digital Discourse and the Public Intellectual

Speaking Power to Truth: Digital Discourse and the Public...

Author: Michael Keren ,  Richard Hawkins
ISBN: 9781771990332
Format: Paperback
$56.90

Online discourse has created a new media environment forcontributions to public life, one that challenges the socialsignificance...  Read More >>

So You've Been Publicly Shamed

So You've Been Publicly Shamed

Author: Jon Ronson
ISBN: 9780330492294
Format: Paperback
$22.99

From the Sunday Times top-ten bestselling author of The Psychopath Test, a brilliant and hilarious new book exploring...  Read More >>

Revolutions in Communication: Media History from Gutenberg to the Digital Age

Revolutions in Communication: Media History from Gutenberg...

Author: PhD Bill Kovarik (Radford University, USA)
ISBN: 9781628924787
Format: Paperback
$61.99

Revolutions in Communication offers a new approach to media history, presenting an encyclopedic look at the way...  Read More >>

Work Sights: The Visual Culture of Industry in Nineteenth-Century America

Work Sights: The Visual Culture of Industry in Nineteenth-Century...

Author: Vanessa Meikle Schulman
ISBN: 9781625341952
Format: Paperback
$79.07

Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.--University of California, Irvine, 2010) under title: Managing vision, envisioning...  Read More >>

Social Issues: Perspectives in Science AND Technology

Social Issues: Perspectives in Science AND Technology...

Author: Jan Potter ,  Trina Queen
ISBN: 9781465293206
Format: Paperback
$102.97

eBook Version You will receive access to this electronic text via email after using the shopping cart above to complete...  Read More >>

The Road to the Stars is Paved

The Road to the Stars is Paved

Author: John David Hanna
ISBN: 9781523729432
Format: Paperback
$25.82

This solar system is rife with leftover equipment from previous civilizations millions maybe a billion years old....  Read More >>

The New Quantum Age: From Bell's Theorem to Quantum Computation and Teleportation

The New Quantum Age: From Bell's Theorem to Quantum...

Author: Andrew Whitaker (Professor of Physics, Professor of Physics, Queen's University, Belfast, Northern Ireland)
ISBN: 9780198754763
Format: Paperback
$72.95

A clear account of what has been discovered in recent years about quantum theory, its counter-intuitive features...  Read More >>

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