(Hardback)
By: Benot Godin
ISBN: 9780262035897
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Feb 2017
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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Benot Godin is a Professor at the Institut national de la recherche scientifique, Montreal.
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By: Meredith Broussard
ISBN: 9780262047654
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2023
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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"Broussard argues that the structural inequalities reproduced in algorithmic systems are no glitch. They are part of the system design. This book shows how everyday technologies embody racist, sexist, and ableist ideas; how they produce discriminatory and harmful outcomes; and how this can be challenged and changed."--
(Paperback)
By: Meredith Broussard
ISBN: 9780262548328
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2024
UK Publication Date: 21st March 2024
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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"Broussard argues that the structural inequalities reproduced in algorithmic systems are no glitch. They are part of the system design. This book shows how everyday technologies embody racist, sexist, and ableist ideas; how they produce discriminatory and harmful outcomes; and how this can be challenged and changed."--
(Hardback)
By: Mark Coeckelbergh
ISBN: 9780262035460
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Feb 2017
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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An account of the complex relationship between technology and romanticism that links nineteenth-century monsters, automata, and mesmerism with twenty-first-century technology's magic devices and romantic cyborgs.
(Paperback)
By: Bill Maurer
ISBN: 9780262535212
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Mar 2018
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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Stories about objects left in the wake of transactions, from cryptocurrencies to leaf-imprinted banknotes to records kept with knotted string.
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By: Michael J. Neufeld
ISBN: 9780262536332
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2018
UK Publication Date: 16th October 2018
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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A concise history of spaceflight, from military rocketry through Sputnik, Apollo, robots in space, space culture, and human spaceflight today.
(Paperback, third edition)
By: Carroll Pursell
ISBN: 9780262535779
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Nov 2018
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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The new edition of a popular collection that traces the history of American invention from the age of the artisan to the era of Silicon Valley.
(Paperback)
By: Meg Leta Jones
ISBN: 9780262547949
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2024
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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(Hardback)
By: Thomas S. Mullaney
ISBN: 9780262047517
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2024
UK Publication Date: 21st May 2024
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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"Exploration of the largely unknown history of Chinese-language computing systems, accessible to an audience unfamiliar with the Chinese language or the technical workings of personal computers"--
(Hardback)
By: Regina Lee Blaszczyk
ISBN: 9780262017770
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Aug 2012
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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A history of color and commerce from haute couture to automobile showrooms to interior design.
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By: Michael Batty
ISBN: 9780262547574
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2024
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Ben Collier
ISBN: 9780262548182
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2024
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Amit Katwala
ISBN: 9780008434106
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2023
UK Publication Date: 16th March 2023
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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A wonderful book - Guardian
Truth, murder and the birth of the lie detector
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By: Sarah A. Bell
ISBN: 9780262546355
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2024
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: John Nichols
ISBN: 9781571312532
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2001
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
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The author of "The Milagro Beanfield War" and "The Sterile Cuckoo" presents an impassioned memoir of his journey from child of privilege to author to activist, from self-satisfied to outward-seeking belief in "liberation ecology". Illustrations.
(Hardback)
By: Joel Martin
ISBN: 9781510718760
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2017
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
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(Hardback)
By: Chandra Mukerji
ISBN: 9780691140322
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2009
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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The Canal du Midi, which threads through southwestern France and links the Atlantic to the Mediterranean, was an astonishing feat of seventeenth-century engineering - in fact, it was technically impossible according to the standards of its day. This book looks at the mystery of its success as well as the canal's surprising political significance.
(Paperback)
By: DeLean Tolbert Smith
ISBN: 9781578597703
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2023
Publisher: Visible Ink Press
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(Paperback)
By: Jack Disbrow Gunther
ISBN: 9781632202765
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2015
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
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By: Rosanne Welch
ISBN: 9781610690935
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 2019
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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From the invention of eyeglasses to the Internet, this three-volume set examines the pivotal effects that inventions have had on society, providing a fascinating history of technology and innovations in the United States from the earliest colonization by Europeans to the present.
(Paperback)
By: Bryan Appleyard
ISBN: 9781474615402
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2022
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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The new book from the award-winning SUNDAY TIMES journalist Brian Appleyard. This is a spirited exploration of cars and their cultural impact throughout their petrol or diesel-driven 150 years
(Paperback)
By: David Westcott
ISBN: 9781586850982
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2001
Publisher: Gibbs M. Smith Inc
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(Hardback)
By: Bryan Appleyard
ISBN: 9781474615396
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2022
UK Publication Date: 17th March 2022
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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The new book from the award-winning SUNDAY TIMES journalist Brian Appleyard. This is a spirited exploration of cars and their cultural impact throughout their petrol or diesel-driven 150 years
(Hardback)
By: Ian Inkster
ISBN: 9781441140111
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2011
Publisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation
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Focuses on the development of four key issues in the development of modern Spain; knowledge, manufacturing, energy and telecommunications, and public works. These collected essays focus on topics ranging from studies of espionage and early links between craftsmen and savants, to the institutions of technology (from training systems).
