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Sketches of Church History, from AD 33 to the Reformation – New Century Edition with DirectLink Technology

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The ‘Pioneer’: Light Passenger Locomotive of 1851 in the Museum of History and Technology

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THE CUMBERLAND VALLEY RAILROAD
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The ‘Pioneer’: Light Passenger Locomotive of 1851 in the Museum of History and Technology

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The ‘Pioneer’: Light Passenger Locomotive of 1851 in the Museum of History and Technology

History of Engineering and Technology provides an illustrated history of engineered technology from the Stone Age to the Nuclear Age. Examining important areas of engineering and technology, this second edition contains:New contributions onoAirships and zeppelinsoHighways and economicsoEarly hydroelectricityoChemical engineeringoTechnology and historyoBrunel and the Royal NavyoStealth and the submarineoComputer historyoDeepwater engineeringoScience fiction and the evolution of modern engineeringoArt and engineeringoElectric motors, radio, and batteriesExpansion of these existing chaptersoMining and the Location of MineralsoWater Distribution: Qanots to AcequiasoBiomedical EngineeringoCommunication Engineering: Shannon to SatellitesoPersonalities and the Auto: Ford and FerrarioFailures in Engineering: Chernobyl, Titanic, Tacoma Narrows, ChallengeroCold Fusion, Electric Cars, and Other “Humbug”This introductory book presents the persons, concepts, and events that made salient contributio… More >>

History of Engineering and Technology: Artful Methods

Human societies have not always taken on new technology in appropriate ways. Innovations are double-edged swords that transform relationships among people, as well as between human societies and the natural world. Only through successful cultural appropriation can we manage to control the hubris that is fundamental to the innovative, enterprising human spirit; and only by becoming hybrids, combining the human and the technological, will we be able to make effective use of our scientific and technological achievements. This broad cultural history of technology and science provides a range of stories and reflections about the past, discussing areas such as film, industrial design, and alternative environmental technologies, and including not only European and North American, but also Asian examples, to help resolve the contradictions of contemporary high-tech civilization. Cover image and detail: Colin Clive, as Dr. Frankenstein, and Dwight Frye, as his assistant Fritz, prepare to … More >>

Hubris and Hybrids: A Cultural History of Technology and Science

Today technology has created a world of dazzling progress, growing disparities of wealth and poverty, and looming threats to the environment. Technology: A World History offers an illuminating backdrop to our present moment–a brilliant history of invention around the globe. Historian Daniel R. Headrick ranges from the Stone Age and the beginnings of agriculture to the Industrial Revolution and the electronic revolution of the recent past. In tracing the growing power of humans over nature through increasingly powerful innovations, he compares the evolution of technology in different parts of the world, providing a much broader account than is found in other histories of technology. We also discover how small changes sometimes have dramatic results–how, for instance, the stirrup revolutionized war and gave the Mongols a deadly advantage over the Chinese. And how the nailed horseshoe was a pivotal breakthrough for western farmers. Enlivened with many illustrations, Technology offers a … More >>

Technology: A World History

Best-selling author Andy Kessler ties up the loose ends from his provocative book, Running Money, with this history of breakthrough technology and the markets that funded them. Expanding on themes first raised in his tour de force, Running Money, Andy Kessler unpacks the entire history of Silicon Valley and Wall Street, from the Industrial Revolution to computers, communications, money, gold and stock markets. These stories cut (by an unscrupulous editor) from the original manuscript were intended as a primer on the ways in which new technologies develop from unprofitable curiosities to essential investments. Indeed, How We Got Here is the book Kessler wishes someone had handed him on his first day as a freshman engineering student at Cornell or on the day he started on Wall Street. This book connects the dots through history to how we got to where we are today…. More >>

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Much has been said and written about the failure of U.S. intelligence to prevent the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, and its overestimation of Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction under Saddam Hussein. This book focuses instead on the central role that intelligence-collection systems play in promoting arms control and disarmament. Ambassador Thomas Graham Jr. and Keith Hansen bring more than fifty combined years of experience to this discussion of the capabilities of technical systems, which are primarily based in space. Their history of the rapid advancement of surveillance technology is a window into a dramatic reconceptualization of Cold War strategies and policy planning. Graham and Hansen focus on the intelligence sucesses against Soviet strategic nuclear forces and the quality of the intelligence that has made possible accurate assessments of WMD programs in North Korea, Iran, and Libya. Their important insights shed a much-needed light on the process of verifying how th… More >>

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In this explosive and compelling book, author Brian Desborough explores the activities of the thirteen interconnected family bloodlines that collectively comprise the secret group known as the Illuminati. His years spent aiding survivors of Satanic ritual abuse and mind control has provided the author with an in-depth knowledge of Illuminati history and their future plans for the human race. The culmination of three decades of intensive research, this provocative book is designed to take readers out of their comfort zone and examine the historical and archaeological data, which reveal that: ¡¤ Israel was created not by illiterate pastoralists, as is claimed by biblical scholars, but by skilled Kenite copper smelters. ¡¤ The Dead Sea Scrolls were not written at Khirbat Qumran. ¡¤ The Temple Mount is not the site of the Temples of Solomon and Herod. Applying a synthesis of history, politics, science and covert intelligence sourcethe author explores such diverse su… More >>

They Cast No Shadows: A collection of essays on the Illuminati, revisionist history, and suppressed technologies.