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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.
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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None of Your Damn Business Privacy in the United States from the Gilded Age to the Digital Age
ISBN: HB: 9780226557748, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 halftones
You can hardly pass through customs at an airport today without having your picture taken and your fingertips scanned, that information then stored in an archive you'll never see. Nor can you use your home's smart technology without wondering what, e...
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£23,00
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Motorcycles and Motorcycling in the USSR from 1939 A Social and Technical History
ISBN: HB: 9781787113145, Bookport, Veloce Publishing, March 2019
128 pp., 25x20.7 cm
This book provides the first accessible English language account of motorcycles in the Soviet Union. Concentrating on the wartime and postwar period until 1990, prior to the dissolution of the USSR in 1991, it covers the motorcycles produced, and loo...
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£25,00
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Technology Critical History of a Concept
ISBN: PB: 9780226583976, University of Chicago Press, October 2018
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 line drawings
In modern life, technology is everywhere. Yet as a concept, technology is a mess. In popular discourse, technology is little more than the latest digital innovations. Scholars do little better, offering up competing definitions that include everythin...
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£27,00
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Sailplane Design A Guide for Students and Designers, from Drafting to Flight Test
ISBN: PB: 9788875650926, Bookport, IBN Editore, June 2018
480 pp., 24x17 cm, 200 colour illus.
The book, enterely in English, gives constructors and designers all the necessary notions for building a sailplane. The volume starts with a project phase, passing then to aerodynamic and stability. The Author explains it all with a series of formula...
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£42,50
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Spaceflight in the Shuttle Era and Beyond Redefining Humanity's Purpose in Space
ISBN: HB: 9780300206517, Yale University Press, August 2017
296 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 17 colour illus., 23 black&white illus.
An exploration of the changing conceptions of the iconic Space Shuttle and a call for a new vision of spaceflight. The thirty years of Space Shuttle flights saw contrary changes in American visions of space. Valerie Neal, who has spent much of her c...
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£30,00
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Eureka How Invention Happens
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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£10,99
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Aerial Crossroads of America St. Louis's Lambert Airport
ISBN: HB: 9781883982898, University of Chicago Press, Missouri Historical Society Press, February 2017
336 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 178 halftones
The history of Lambert-St. Louis International Airport is the story of American aviation. Everything that has taken place on the airport's footprint – from Lindbergh to American Airlines, jet airliners to space travel – constitutes a microcosm of the...
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£24,50
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New Water Anthropology
ISBN: PB: 9788895623528, Bookport, ListLab, August 2016
160 pp., 20.3x14 cm, colour illus.
Once, water defined the layout and structure of many cities and their architecture. These cities existed in symbiosis with water itself: depending on it and developing alongside it. Over time however, scientific techniques and progresses introduced s...
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£17,95
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Sailplane Design Example Design - Calculation Example - Structural Dimensioning
ISBN: PB: 9788875652579, Bookport, IBN Editore, June 2016
316 pp., 24x17 cm, illus.
A book nearly all photographic with an English text, dealing with military fighting aircrafts this time, also analyzing the use of fighters in the immediate after war. Each photo has a technical and descriptional dossier. A review of 406 photos of ma...
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£30,00
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