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Aircraft
Next Nature
ISBN: HB: 9783037786345,
Lars Muller Publishers,
October 2020
120 pp., 26x19 cm, 60 illus.
120 pp., 26x19 cm, 60 illus.
Aircraft is a project combining the field of the aviation industry as well as the conventions of the photography medium. Maxime Guyon meticulously dissects various "techno-species" with distinct aerial machinery fragments, leading us to an anthropolo...
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£25,00
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Engineering Ethics
Contemporary and Enduring Debates
ISBN: PB: 9780300209242,
Yale University Press,
July 2020
216 pp., 20.9x13.9 cm
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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£18,00
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Excavating the Memory Palace
Arts of Visualization from the Agora to the Computer
ISBN: PB: 9780226695280,
ISBN: HB: 9780226695143,
University of Chicago Press,
June 2020
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 halftones, 12 line drawings
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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£24,00
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£72,00
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Goddess: La Deesse
Investigations on the Legendary Citroen DS.
ISBN: HB: 9783037786260,
Lars Muller Publishers,
June 2020
240 pp., 24x16.5 cm, 200 illus.
240 pp., 24x16.5 cm, 200 illus.
At its presentation in 1955, the Citroen DS was a sensation and a magnet for designers, philosophers, and politicians alike. No other automobile was able to combine form and technology so coherently and seemingly effortlessly. Radical in its implemen...
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£32,00
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Detroit Style
Car Design in the Motor City, 1950-2020
ISBN: HB: 9780300247084,
Yale University Press,
June 2020
150 pp., 29.2x29.2 cm, 100 colour illus.
150 pp., 29.2x29.2 cm, 100 colour illus.
Detroit, nicknamed Motor City, has always been a leader in car design. As the city became the center of the American automobile industry in the early 20th century, its studios became incubators for new ideas and new styles. This volume highlights the...
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£30,00
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Fiber
The Coming Tech Revolution - and Why America Might Miss It
ISBN: PB: 9780300251777,
ISBN: HB: 9780300228502,
Yale University Press,
May 2020
264 pp., 21.6x14 cm
264 pp., 21.6x14 cm
An illuminating vision of the next information revolution, centered on a fiber-optic infrastructure The world of 5G, the next generation of telecommunication technology, will be as different from what came before as the world after the advent of elec...
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£15,00
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£20,00
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Whale and the Reactor
A Search for Limits in an Age of High Technology (Second Edition)
ISBN: PB: 9780226692548,
University of Chicago Press,
March 2020
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
"In an age in which the inexhaustible power of scientific technology makes all things possible, it remains to be seen where we will draw the line, where we will be able to say, here are possibilities that wisdom suggest we avoid".
First published to...
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£18,00
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American Robot
A Cultural History
ISBN: HB: 9780226692715,
University of Chicago Press,
March 2020
360 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 26 halftones
360 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 26 halftones
Although they entered the world as pure science fiction, robots are now very much a fact of everyday life. Whether a space-age cyborg, a chess-playing automaton, or simply the smartphone in our pocket, robots have long been a symbol of the fraught an...
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£28,00
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Natures of Data
A Discussion between Biologists, Artists and Science Scholars
Computer-based technologies for the production and analysis of data have been an integral part of biological research since the 1990s at the latest. This not only applies to genomics and its offshoots but also to less conspicuous subsections such as...
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£26,00
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Future of Transportation
SOM Thinkers Series
ISBN: PB: 9781942884453,
DAP,
Metropolis Books,
November 2019
124 pp., 17.8x10.8 cm, 7 colour illus.
124 pp., 17.8x10.8 cm, 7 colour illus.
Not for sale in Estonia!
With the promise of delivery drones, personal helicopters and groceries delivered right to your refrigerator, one might think we are living in the best of transportation times. However, most city commuters would be quick to...
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£15,99
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