'It's rare for a book to make you see the world differently, but this ... does exactly that on almost every page' GuardianStandard histories of technology give tired accounts of the usual inventions, inventors, and dates, framing technology as the inevitable march of progress. They split history into ages - electrification, motorisation, and computerisation - and rarely ask whether anyone bothered to use these inventions at the time.

Shock of the Old is not one of those histories. I Letters e...

Teaches everything about industrial microbiology - from the fundamentals to the current state of the art to future prospects

This book brings together the insight and expertise of leading researchers and professionals from across the field of industrial microbiology to give students a handy, practice-oriented text that showcases the industry and the future potential of microbes for industrial processes. After a brief introduction to the technology of microbial processes, the twelve m...

Buckling of Ship Structures presents a comprehensive analysis of the buckling problem of ship structural members. A full analysis of the various types of loadings and stresses imposed on ship plating and primary and secondary structural members is given. The main causes and consequences of the buckling mode of failure of ship structure and the methods commonly used to control buckling failure are clarified.

This book contains the main equations required to determine the critical buckling stre...

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- Das Standardwerk zu den bedeutendsten Uhrenmarken der Welt

- Überarbeitete Neuausgabe: 2 Bücher in einem Band

- Ein Muss für alle Sammler und Liebhaber von Armbanduhren.

Für alle Chronofans, Sammler und Uhrenenthusiasten gibt es jetzt die fulminante und komplett überarbeitete Neuausgabe "The Watch Book". Das umfassende Coffee-Table-Book ersetzt das frühere The Watch Book Compendium und vereint The Watch Book I und II.

Wie gewohnt glänzt de...

The maritime industry still lacks a standardisation of the exact contents and methods how crews should be trained especially in Bridge Resource Management (BRM) and human factors. Obviously, the international committees are building on the shipping companies' own responsibility and safety culture.

The practice-oriented book Improving Bridge Resource Management contributes to closing this gap: It deals with the causes of accidents in the "safety industry" of shipping, presents sources of erro...

A manual providing up-to-date hardware information for the popular Arduino Uno, the easy to use open-source electronics platform used by hobbyists, makers, hackers, experimenters, educators and professionals.

Get all the information you need on the hardware and firmware found on Arduino Uno boards in this handy reference and user guide.

- Ideal for the workbench or desktop

- Contains all of the Arduino Uno hardware information in one place

- Covers Arduino / Genuino Uno revision 3 and earlier...

This book deals with the subject of fire safety and the design of fire resistant steel structures for buildings according to Eurocode 3.

• Chapter 1 describes the objectives of fire safety based on the behaviour of a fire and discusses the measures that a designer can take to meet the fire safety requirements found in building regulations.

• Chapter 2 deals with the calculation of the fire resistance of a steel structure. The simple calculation model is suitable for tension members, beams...

“Rejecting Technological Narcissism: Unraveling the Threat to Humanity and Nature”

Paolo Renati, PhD, presents a critical analysis of today’s rampant technological advancements, especially in synthetic biology, genetic manipulation, and the creation of bionic entities like androids and cyborgs. Renati questions the overlooked essence of Nature, highlighting the detrimental consequences of our obsession with technological progress, driven by capitalist motives.

The essay exposes how scie...

Instrumentation and Control Systems, Third Edition, addresses the basic principles of modern instrumentation and control systems, including examples of the latest devices, techniques and applications. The book provides a comprehensive introduction on the subject, with Laplace presented in a simple and easily accessible form and complemented by an outline of the mathematics that would be required to progress to more advanced levels of study. Taking a highly practical approach, the author combi...

Computer Vision: Principles, Algorithms, Applications, Learning (previously entitled Computer and Machine Vision) clearly and systematically presents the basic methodology of computer vision, covering the essential elements of the theory while emphasizing algorithmic and practical design constraints. This fully revised fifth edition has brought in more of the concepts and applications of computer vision, making it a very comprehensive and up-to-date text suitable for undergraduate and graduat...