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  • Fascist Pigs

    Technoscientific Organisms and the History of Fascism

    by Tiago Saraiva ...
    Series series Inside Technology
    How the breeding of new animals and plants was central to fascist regimes in Italy, Portugal, and Germany and to their imperial expansion.In the fascist regimes of Mussolini's Italy, Salazar's Portugal, and Hitler's Germany, the first mass mobilizations involved wheat engineered to take advantage of chemical fertilizers, potatoes resistant to late blight, and pigs that thrived on national produce. ... Read more

    $33.25 AUD

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  • Engineers of Victory

    The Problem Solvers who Turned the Tide in the Second World War

    by Paul Kennedy ...
    From Paul Kennedy, author of The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers, one of the most acclaimed history books of recent decades, Engineers of Victory is a new account of how the tide was turned against the Nazis by the Allies in the Second World War.In January 1943 Churchill and Roosevelt and the Combined Chiefs of Staff met in Casablanca to review the western Allies' war aims and strategy. They ... Read more

    $15.99 AUD

  • Explosives

    History with a Bang

    by G I Brown ...
    This entertaining and informative book tells the dramatic tale of explosives from gunpowder to the H-bomb. Laying the emphasis on the lives of the people involved, on the diverse uses of explosives and on their social and historical impact, the author relates a story of remarkable international and human endeavour. Many of those involved - Roger Bacon, Guy Fawkes, Alfred Nobel, Robert Oppenheimer ... Read more

    $8.90 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Hear That Lonesome Whistle Blow: The Epic Story of the Transcontinental Railroads

    The Epic Story of the Transcontinental Railroads

    by Dee Brown ...
    A fascinating and atmospheric history of the transcontinental railroad—the nineteenth century’s greatest and most relentless feat of national expansionHear that Lonesome Whistle Blow unspools the history of the beginnings of the American railroad system. By the mid-nineteenth century, settlers in Missouri and California were separated by a vast landscape that dwarfed and isolated them, conquerable ... Read more

    $18.80 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • John Dee's Conversations with Angels

    Cabala, Alchemy, and the End of Nature

    by Deborah E. Harkness ...
    John Dee's angel conversations have been an enigmatic facet of Elizabethan England's most famous natural philosopher's life and work. Professor Harkness contextualizes Dee's angel conversations within the natural philosophical, religious and social contexts of his time. She argues that they represent a continuing development of John Dee's earlier concerns and interests. These conversations include ... Read more

    $36.72 AUD

  • Down and Out in the New Economy

    How People Find (or Don't Find) Work Today

    by Ilana Gershon ...
    "Gershon explores the subtle violence that ensues when, in order to get a job, you have to apply branding and marketing techniques to your own personality." —David Graeber, international bestselling author of DebtToday, if you want to have a shot at a good job, you need to have a robust profile on LinkedIn. And an enticing personal brand. Or something like that—contemporary how-to books tend to ... Read more

    $25.93 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Intellectual Curiosity and the Scientific Revolution

    A Global Perspective

    by Toby E. Huff ...
    Seventeenth-century Europe witnessed an extraordinary flowering of discoveries and innovations. This study, beginning with the Dutch-invented telescope of 1608, casts Galileo's discoveries into a global framework. Although the telescope was soon transmitted to China, Mughal India, and the Ottoman Empire, those civilizations did not respond as Europeans did to the new instrument. In Europe, there ... Read more

    $42.86 AUD

  • Route 66

    The Mother Road

    by David Knudson ...
    Series Book 675 - Shire Library USA
    Begun in 1926 to connect Chicago to Los Angeles, Route 66 was the country's first major east-west thoroughfare. By 1930 it was an important route for both truckers and travellers alike, and in 1939 it became known as 'The Mother Road' thanks to John Steinbeck's classic The Grapes of Wrath. Over the years, hundreds of thousands of Americans travelled this great road from those heading west during ... Read more

    $21.47 AUD

  • Devices of the Soul

    Battling for Our Selves in an Age of Machines

    by Steve Talbott ...
    "Self-forgetfulness is the reigning temptation of the technological era. This is why we so readily give our assent to the absurd proposition that a computer can add two plus two, despite the obvious fact that it can do nothing of the sort--not if we have in mind anything remotely resembling what we do when we add numbers. In the computer's case, the mechanics of addition involve no motivation, no ... Read more

    $17.41 AUD

  • Beautiful Data

    A History of Vision and Reason since 1945

    by Orit Halpern ...
    Series series Experimental Futures
    Beautiful Data is both a history of big data and interactivity, and a sophisticated meditation on ideas about vision and cognition in the second half of the twentieth century. Contending that our forms of attention, observation, and truth are contingent and contested, Orit Halpern historicizes the ways that we are trained, and train ourselves, to observe and analyze the world. Tracing the postwar ... Read more

    $33.55 AUD

  • Engineering Victory

    How Technology Won the Civil War

    by Thomas F. Army Jr. ...
    Series series Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology
    Superior engineering skills among Union soldiers helped ensure victory in the Civil War.Engineering Victory brings a fresh approach to the question of why the North prevailed in the Civil War. Historian Thomas F. Army, Jr., identifies strength in engineering—not superior military strategy or industrial advantage—as the critical determining factor in the war’s outcome.Army finds that Union soldiers ... Read more

    $33.25 AUD

  • Shooting Star: The First Attempt by a Woman to Reach Hawaii by Air

    by Dick DuRose ...
    Nearly everyone is familiar with Amelia Earhart. But very few know the story of another woman aviator, who, until now has remained little more than than a footnote in aviation history - that is, until now.Shooting Star tells the story of Mildred Doran, who, in 1927 set her sights on becoming the first woman to fly from the West Coast of the United States to Hawaii, a distance of 2,400 miles. She ... Read more

    $3.30 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus