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Leonardo to the Internet : Technology and Culture from the Renaissance to the Present
Thomas J. Misa
Paperback - $48.95
The image of the lone inventor transforming society from the outside has a strong hold on the public's imagination. In reality, though, technologies are products of ongoing social and cultural processes. In "Leonardo to the Internet," historian Thoma ...
Steam Laundries : Gender, Technology, and Work in the United States and Great Britain, 1880--1940
Arwen P. Mohun
Paperback - $54.95
Laundries were once ubiquitous in British and American cities -- products of the same historical process that created steel mills and railroads. Unlike the more familiar examples of industrialization, these cleanliness factories remained powerfully i ...
A Cow's Life : The Surprising History of Cattle, and How the Black Angus Came to Be Home on the Range
M. R. Montgomery
Hardcover - $41.95
Montgomery traces the history of cows from the formidable, long-extinct Auroch to the ancient cattle roads and drives in England to the selective mixing practiced by British cattlemen well before Charles Darwin or Gregor Mendel.
Space : The First 50 Years
Patrick Moore
Hardcover - $39.95
A half-century ago, mankind's journey to the stars began with the launch of Sputnik 1. Sir Patrick Moore, the world's most famous amateur astronomer, and space photographer HJP Arnold have combined their talents to chronicle this entire exciting peri ...
Sound Recording : The Life Story of a Technology
Jr. Morton
Paperback - $44.95
How did one of the great inventions of the nineteenth century -- Thomas Edison's phonograph -- eventually lead to one of the most culturally and economically significant technologies of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries? Sound Recording traces ...
Greek and Roman Mechanical Water-Lifting Devices : The History of a Technology
John Peter Oleson
Hardcover - $1,260.95
The Victorian Eye : A Political History of Light and Vision in Britain, 1800-1910
Chris Otter
Paperback - $54.95