Vols. 1-69 include more or less complete patent reports of the U. S. Patent Office for years 1825-59. Cf. Index to v. 1-120 of the Journal, p. [415]

Presents instructions for creating and enhancing a variety of household electronic equipment, including a magnetic stripe card reader, a video camera stabilizer, and a glowstick.

In his provocative book Technocapitalism, Luis Suarez-Villa addresses this phenomenon from the perspective of radical political economy and social criticism.

Provides a comprehensive introduction to the human, social and economic aspects of science and technology.

From the foreword: Evans effectively unmasks the pretention of cognitive psychology to be at once scientific and humanistic that is, to represent both of these strands in modernist thought.

Studies of the co-construction of technology and modernity that lay the foundation for a new, interdisciplinary field.

This collection of essays and reviews represents the most significant and comprehensive writing on Shakespeare's A Comedy of Errors.

" "This book will be essential reading for students of sociology, politics and the media."--Résumé de l'éditeur.

Against the backdrop of the recent trend towards megaregional trade initiatives, this book addresses the most topical issues that lie at the intersection of law and technology.

After two volumes mainly introductory, Dr Needham now embarks upon his systematic study of the development of the natural sciences in China.

Les slogans sur "l'âge de l'information" et la "société de la connaissance" laissent croire que la matière ne compte plus.

Reflecting the trend to optimization through integrative approaches for engine, driveline and vehicle control, this valuable book enables control engineers to understand engine and vehicle models necessary for controller design and also ...

Three commonly used FACTS controllers: controllable series capacitors (CSCs) controllable phase shifters (CPSs) and static var compensators (SVCs) have been used in this book to control the inter-area oscillations.

This book examines the way complex systems affect interaction at work through video-based field studies.

In this book the authors examine how language has adapted to the rapid changes in communication technology. It is especially timely in the light of the internet and its effect upon human interaction.

Se analizan las aparentes diferencias entre técnica y arte: una, asociada con la previsión y el cálculo, el instrumento, la serie y la reproductibilidad; el otro, con la creatividad y la ausencia de fines, el don, la originalidad ...

"Translated from the second Chinese edition published by Peking University Press in Beijing, July 2010."--T.p. verso.

This book aims to identify the most important political, socio-economic, and technical determinants of Internet development in China, through a historical approach that combines political economy, cultural, and public studies.

In When old Technologies Were New, Carolyn Marvin explores how two of these new inventions--the telephone and the electric light--were publicly envisioned at the end of the nineteenth century, as seen in specialized engineering journals and ...

Shock of the Old is not one of those histories. Instead of asking when a technology came to be, David Edgerton asks when the average person started using it.