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Charles Todd's Magnificent Obsession: The epic race to connect
It was the greatest feat of engineering in nineteenth-century Australia, but it very nearly collapsed in the face of monumental obstacles. The year was 1870, and mail took six weeks...
Human-Built World: How to Think about Technology and Culture
To most people, technology has been reduced to computers, consumer goods, and military weapons; we speak of "technological progress" in terms of RAM and CD-ROMs and the flatness of our...
Electric City: The Lost History of Ford and Edison's American Utopia
During the roaring twenties, two of the most revered and influential men in American business proposed to transform one of the country's poorest regions into a dream technological metropolis, a...
More and More and More: An All-Consuming History of Energy
A radical new history of energy and humanity's insatiable need for resources that will change the way we talk about climate change It has become habitual to think of our...
The Mercenary River: Private Greed, Public Good: A History of London's
Anyone interested in the real London needs to read this. - Andrew MarrNo city can survive without water, and lots of it. Today we take the stuff for granted: turn...
The Mercenary River: Private Greed, Public Good: A History of London's
Anyone interested in the real London needs to read this. - Andrew MarrNo city can survive without water, and lots of it. Today we take the stuff for granted: turn...
Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World
The true, unvarnished history of the town at the heart of Silicon Valley. Palo Alto is nice. The weather is temperate, the people are educated, rich, healthy, enterprising. Remnants of...
Counting: Humans, History and the Infinite Lives of Numbers
WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO COUNT? WHY ARE HUMANS THE ONLY SPECIES ON EARTH THAT CAN DO IT? WHERE DID COUNTING COME FROM? HOW HAS IT SHAPED SOCIETIES ALONG THE...
Born in Lode Lane
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The East Coast Main Line 1939-1959
The book takes an in-depth look at the East Coast Main Line-King's Cross to Edinburgh-between 1939 and 1959. This is carried out in a series of chapters. In the first...
Bacardi and the Long Fight for Cuba
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The Mercenary River: Private Greed, Public Good: A History of London's Water
Author: Nick Higham Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 Anyone interested in the real London needs to read this. - Andrew Marr No city can survive without water, and lots...
Smart Machines and Service Work: Automation in an Age of Stagnation
Author: Jason E. Smith Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 A trenchant expose of the effects of automation on worker's lives In recent decades digital devices have reshaped daily life,...