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Jony Ive: The Genius Behind Apple's Greatest Products
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Different and new is relativelyeasy. Doing something that sgenuinely better is very hard. Jony Ive In 1997, Steve Jobs returned to Apple as CEO with the unenviable task of turning...
NATOPS Flight Manual F-4J
A facsimile reprint of the original NATOPS flight manual for the F-4J. Illustrated
Curiosity: How Science Became Interested in Everything
With the recent landing of the Mars rover Curiosity, it seems safe to assume that the idea of being curious is alive and well in modern science--that it's not merely...
Bicycling Through Time: The Farren Collection
Paul Farren claims he and his wife Charlie have around 85 percent of the pre-1900 bicycles in Australia - all under one roof in a Melbourne warehouse-cum-museum. Thirty years of...
Curtiss Aerocar: 1928-1940
The first-ever history of an innovative recreational and commercial trailer designed and built by engineering and aviation pioneer and icon Glenn H. Curtiss The complete history of the Curtiss Aerocar,...
Brunel: pocket GIANTS: The Engineering Visionary
In a BBC poll in 2002, Isambard Kingdom Brunel was voted the second-greatest Briton of all time, only eclipsed by Churchill. It's often claimed that that through his ships, bridges,...
The London Underground: Diagrammatic History: Map
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The book titled The London Underground: Diagrammatic History: Map by the author Douglas Rose. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
The Color Revolution
A history of color and commerce from haute couture to automobile showrooms to interior design.When the fashion industry declares that lime green is the new black, or instructs us to...
Apollo 8: The Thrilling Story of the First Mission to the Moon
In August 1968, NASA made a bold decision: in just sixteen weeks, the United States would launch humankind's first flight to the moon. Only the year before, three astronauts had...
History of Technology
This is a history of technology, of the transformation of the discoveries and inventions of pure science into the useful applications that make everybody's lives easier. In this book, the...
The Seventy Great Inventions of the Ancient World
The Seventy Great Inventions of the Ancient World traces the course of human ingenuity and innovation from the first crude stone tools of our earliest ancestors two and a half...
Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and
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Awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Economics, Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson overturn conventional wisdom about how economies work--revealing the untold story of who wins and who loses the rewards...
The World of Minecraft
Uncover the history of one of the most influential video games of all time in The World of Minecraft . Explore how the critically acclaimed game evolved from a one-person...
Space: The Human Story
The first human history of space travel - from the Apollo missions to our journey to Mars - by Britain's beloved astronaut From bestselling author and British astronaut Tim Peake,...
The Pattern Seekers: A New Theory of Human Invention
'Celebrates human cognitive diversity, and is rich with empathy and psychological insight' Steven Pinker Why can humans alone invent? In this book, psychologist and world renowned autism expert Simon Baron-Cohen...
Hollywood Con Queen: The Hunt for an Evil Genius
Don't Miss the Apple TV+ Docuseries Streaming Now! "This book is as engrossing as anything by Agatha Christie, as unsettling as a novel by Stephen King, and reported with a...
World Without Mind: Why Google, Amazon, Facebook and Apple threaten
A timely and powerful must-read on how the big tech companies are damaging our culture - and what we can do to fight their influence A timely and powerful must-read...
Story of Inventions: From Antiquity to the Present
The series Compact Knowledge provides concise and relilable information on key cultural and historical topics. The Story of Inventions provides: . Chronological presentation of the most important themes . More...
Alexander Graham Bell: The Spirit of Innovation
In 1876, at only 29 years old, Alexander Graham Bell completed the invention that would turn him into a household name: the telephone. What began as a tool for his...
The Mysterious Mr Nakamoto: A Fifteen-Year Quest to Unmask the Secret
'The Mysterious Mr Nakamoto could be the best mystery story of the past twenty years.' James Patterson 'This is, by far, the deepest investigation into possibly the biggest mystery of...
British Aviation: The First Half Century
The first half of the 20th century saw the birth of the airplane and its development as an instrument of war and commerce. Within five decades, contraptions barely able to...
Brunel: The Man Who Built the World
Isambard Kingdom Brunel was one of the world's great engineering pioneers and this unique illustrated biography traces the life, times and monumental achievements of this celebrated Victorian showman. The son...
Tremors in the Blood: Murder, Obsession and the Birth of the Lie
Nominated for the CWA Dagger Award 2023 'A wonderful book' - Guardian Truth, murder and the birth of the lie detector Henry Wilkens burst through the doors of the emergency...
Wetwares: Experiments in Postvital Living
A dizzying tour of the ways technologies, both real and imagined, can transform humanity The mind of the machine, the body suspended in time, organs exchanged, thought computed, genes manipulated,...
The Console Chronicles
The Console Chronicles will take you on a unique journey through the history of gaming platforms. Fifty years ago, the home console was an anomaly that predated when everyone around...
Dawn of the New Everything
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Named one of the best books of 2017 by The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, & Vox The father of virtual reality explains its dazzling possibilities by reflecting on his...
Nobel Life: Conversations with 24 Nobel Laureates on their Life
Few people have changed the world like the Nobel Prize winners. Their breakthrough discoveries have revolutionised medicine, chemistry, physics and economics. Nobel Life consists of original interviews with twenty-four Nobel...
Rag, Sticks & Wire: Australians Taking to the Air
In this book Bunbury combines material from 2 ABC radio series giving wonderful insights into the days of barnstorming flights and the first pioneering mail and passenger services, highlighting heroism...
Analogia: The Entangled Destinies of Nature, Human Beings and Machines
A spellbinding exploration of the emergence of the digital age and an unsettling vision of what comes next In a world where humans coexist with technologies they no longer control...
Hollywood Con Queen: The Hunt for an Evil Genius
Don't Miss the Apple TV+ Docuseries Streaming Now! "This book is as engrossing as anything by Agatha Christie, as unsettling as a novel by Stephen King, and reported with a...
The Machine Age: An Idea, a History, a Warning
A sweeping history of and meditation on humanity's relationship with machines, showing how we got here and what happens next We live in a world made by machines; their development...
The Bomber Mafia: A Tale of Innovation and Obsession
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A riveting exploration of the unforeseen consequences of technological disruption, from the no.1 international bestselling author What is the price of progress? In this tale of innovation and obsession Gladwell...
The Machine Age: An Idea, a History, a Warning
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A sweeping history of and meditation on humanity's relationship with machines, showing how we got here and what happens next We live in a world made by machines; their development...
Who Built That: Awe-Inspiring Stories of American Tinkerpreneurs
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Lives of Boulton and Watt
James Watt transformed steam engine technology by inventing the condensing engine. He collaborated with Matthew Boulton to form a engineering firm in 1773, which went on to monopolise production of...
The Frontier Below: The Past, Present and Future of Our Quest to Go
Triumphs and disasters in the deep seaThis is a journey through time and water, to the bottom of the ocean and the future of our planet. We do not see...
The World of Minecraft
Uncover the history of one of the most influential video games of all time in The World of Minecraft. Explore how the critically acclaimed game evolved from a one-person project...
The Frontier Below: The Past, Present and Future of Our Quest to Go
Triumphs and disasters in the deep seaThis is a journey through time and water, to the bottom of the ocean and the future of our planet. We do not see...
The World of Minecraft
Uncover the history of one of the most influential video games of all time in The World of Minecraft. Explore how the critically acclaimed game evolved from a one-person project...
A Dominant Character: The Radical Science and Restless Politics of J. B. S. Haldane
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Nuts and Bolts: How Tiny Inventions Make Our World Work
*SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2023**AS HEARD ON RADIO 4 START THE WEEK, OFF AIR WITH FI AND JANE AND 99% INVISIBLE*'Delightful' TIM HARFORD, FINANCIAL TIMES'Appeals to...
Darwin's Backyard: How Small Experiments Led to a Big Theory
Author: James T. CostaFormat: Hardback, 165mm x 244mm, 800g, 464 pagesPublished: WW Norton & Co, United States, 2017How Darwin found universal evolutionary truths in simple yet ingenious home-spun experiments. James...
James May's Magnificent Machines: How men in sheds have changed our lives
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Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech
Author: Brian MerchantFormat: Hardback, 160mm x 236mm, 740g, 496 pagesPublished: Little, Brown & Company, United States, 2023Longlisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the YearThe most urgent story in...
The Greatest Adventure: A History of Human Space Exploration
Author: Colin Burgess Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 356 The space race was perhaps the greatest technological contest of the 20th century. It was a thrilling era of innovation, discovery...