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  • Making Time

    Astronomical Time Measurement in Tokugawa Japan

    by Yulia Frumer ...
    Series series Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute
    What is time made of? We might balk at such a question, and reply that time is not made of anything—it is an abstract and universal phenomenon. In Making Time, Yulia Frumer upends this assumption, using changes in the conceptualization of time in Japan to show that humans perceive time as constructed and concrete.In the mid-sixteenth century, when the first mechanical clocks arrived in Japan from ... Read more

    $25.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • James May's Magnificent Machines

    How men in sheds have changed our lives

    by James May, Phil Dolling ...
    Our world has been transformed beyond recognition, particularly in the twentieth century, and so were our lives and our aspirations.Throughout James May's Magnificent Machines, our Top Gear guide explores the iconic themes of the past hundred years: flight, space travel, television, mechanised war, medicine, computers, electronic music, skyscrapers, electronic espionage and much more.But he also ... Read more

    $0.99 CAD

  • Rocket Men

    The Epic Story of the First Men on the Moon

    by Craig Nelson ...
    A New York Times Bestseller"Celebrates a bold era when voyaging beyond the Earth was deemed crucial to national security and pride."-The Wall Street JournalRestoring the drama, majesty, and sheer improbability of an American triumph, this is award-winning historian Craig Nelson's definitive and thrilling story of man's first trip to the moon. At 9:32 a.m. on July 16, 1969, the Apollo 11 rocket ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Connections

    by James Burke ...
    Connections is a brilliant examination of the ideas, inventions, and coincidences that have culminated in the major technological achievements of today.How did the popularity of underwear in the twelfth century lead to the invention of the printing press? How did the waterwheel evolve into the computer? How did the arrival of the cannon lead eventually to the development of movies?In this highly ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Samuel Colt: The Great Equalizer

    by Daniel Alef ...
    Although Samuel Colt died in 1862 at age 47, he had lived a remarkably full life, one filled with enough controversy, calamity, failure and success to fill several novels. And, at the time, he was America's wealthiest inventor. Colt's widow took over the reins of the Colt Armory, memorialized Colt's name in American mythology, sanitized his foibles and misdeeds, and oversaw the amazing growth of ... Read more

    $2.73 CAD

  • Steam Railways Explained

    by Stan Yorke ...
    Steam railways have always captured the public’s imagination. Even from the first stirrings of the mineral lines in the early 1800s through to the heyday of the Railway Age, steam engines kept and continue to keep their fascination. The delight is that around the British Isles is a wide range of working, restored steam railways. Every size and type is represented and it is these railways that ... Read more

    $8.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Turing

    Pioneer of the Information Age

    by B. Jack Copeland ...
    Alan Turing is regarded as one of the greatest scientists of the 20th century. But who was Turing, and what did he achieve during his tragically short life of 41 years? Best known as the genius who broke Germany's most secret codes during the war of 1939-45, Turing was also the father of the modern computer. Today, all who 'click-to-open' are familiar with the impact of Turing's ideas. Here, B. ... Read more

    $17.89 CAD

  • Dawn of the New Everything

    Encounters with Reality and Virtual Reality

    by Jaron Lanier ...
    The father of virtual reality explains its dazzling possibilities by reflecting on his own lifelong relationship with technology.Named one of the best books of 2017 by The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, & Vox"A deeply human, highly personal, and beautifully told story." —Dave EggersBridging the gap between tech mania and the experience of being inside the human body , Dawn of the Ne... ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

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  • Last Trains

    Dr Beeching and the death of rural England

    by Charles Loft ...
    "The debate about Dr Richard Beeching will rage until the Second Coming – and probably beyond. But in Charles Loft's careful examination of the Beeching Report, we have as fine a study as we are going to possess in the meantime." – Peter Hennessy"Loft's great strength is his judiciousness. He understands the political processes and assesses them fair-mindedly. And his verdict will, I suspect, hold ... Read more

    $7.69 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Enigma of the Aerofoil

    Rival Theories in Aerodynamics, 1909-1930

    by David Bloor ...
    Why do aircraft fly? How do their wings support them? In the early years of aviation, there was an intense dispute between British and German experts over the question of why and how an aircraft wing provides lift. The British, under the leadership of the great Cambridge mathematical physicist Lord Rayleigh, produced highly elaborate investigations of the nature of discontinuous flow, while the ... Read more

    $61.59 CAD

  • The Audible Past

    Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction

    by Jonathan Sterne ...
    The Audible Past explores the cultural origins of sound reproduction. It describes a distinctive sound culture that gave birth to the sound recording and the transmission devices so ubiquitous in modern life. With an ear for the unexpected, scholar and musician Jonathan Sterne uses the technological and cultural precursors of telephony, phonography, and radio as an entry point into a history of ... Read more

    $36.29 CAD

  • The Tinkerers

    The Amateurs, DIYers, and Inventors Who Make America Great

    by Alec Foege ...
    From its earliest years, the United States was a nation of tinkerers: men and women who looked at the world around them and were able to create something genuinely new from what they saw. Guided by their innate curiosity, a desire to know how things work, and a belief that anything can be improved, amateurs and professionals from Benjamin Franklin to Thomas Edison came up with the inventions that ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD