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Reconnecting Culture, Technology and Nature

Routledge, 2000

This exciting new book uses case studies of mundane technologies such as the car and TV remote control to question some of the fundamental dichotomies thought which we make sense of the world.

This book uses case studies of mundane technologies such as the walking boot, the car and the TV remote control to question some of the fundamental...

Designing Educational Video and Multimedia for Open and Distance Learning (Open & Flexible Learning)

Routledge, 2006

In recent years there has been a resurgence in the use of video in teaching and training contexts, due to technological advances that enable good quality moving pictures through CD-Rom, DVD and broadband Internet. This book offers advice and assistance to a growing group of teachers and trainers, technical and support staff in the most effective...

Introduction to Cybernetics (University Paperbacks)

Routledge, 1964

Many workers in the biological sciences—physiologists, psychologists, sociologists—are interested in cybernetics and would like to apply its methods and techniques to their own speciality. Many have, however, been prevented from taking up the subject by an impression that its use must be preceded by a long study of electronics and...

Aluminium Design and Construction

Routledge, 1999

[Aluminium Design and Construction] is a good and concise book on aluminium...Even engineers outside of the construction industry will find many parts of the book very useful...it occupies a unique place in the world of technical publications.
–Prospect

This highly illustrated book is a...

Victorian Poetry: Poetry, Poetics and Politics (Routledge Critical History of Victorian Poetry)

Routledge, 1996

To my mind Armstrong's book makes its contribution to the study of Victorian Literature in two key ways. I expect I will return often to her very sophistocated consideration of that old chesnut, the Victorian crystallization of lyric subjectivity in a political-poetical dramaturgy of self-spectatorship. And I find an extraordinary resonance in her...

The Cold War (Questions and Analysis in History)

Routledge, 1999

Designed to aid undergraduate and advanced study, this invaluable reference work provides an up-to-date summary of the latest research on the origins, escalation, and end of the Cold War. The major phases of the war are clearly organized and presented in eight chapters--each consisting of a factual overview of events, a detailed analysis of key...

Reusing Online Resources: A Sustainable Approach to E-learning (Open and Flexible Learning Series)

Routledge, 2003

As the number of resources for networked learning continues to grow steadily, it becomes increasingly pressing that knowledge of those resources should be made widely available and the reuse of those resources by other groups should be facilitated.

This volume addresses these questions. It provides essential reading for all those...

Violence at Sea: Piracy in the Age of Global Terrorism

Routledge, 2006

Violence at Sea is an overview of maritime piracy, examining threats that piracy poses to global security and commerce, as well as measures and policies to mitigate the threat. The essays analyze piracy activities in key shipping lanes (including the African coast, the Arabian Sea, the Bay of Bengal, and the Straits of Malacca-South China...

Digital Matters: The Theory and Culture of the Matrix

Routledge, 2005

Digital Matters analyzes the complex interaction between the material and immaterial aspects of new digital technologies. It draws upon a mix of theoretical approaches including sociology, media theory and history, cultural studies, and the philosophy of technology to suggest that the matrix of science fiction and Hollywood is but an...

Encyclopedia of the Scientific Revolution: From Copernicus to Newton (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities, Vol. 1800)

Routledge, 2000

When Garland Publishing invited me several years ago to edit an encyclopedia of the Scientific Revolution, I welcomed the opportunity. Here was a means of providing a wider audience with the fruits of the most recent scholarly research on a fascinating complex of events that helped shape the modern world. The study of the origins of modern science...

Encyclopedia of 20th-Century Architecture

Routledge, 2003

Focusing on architecture from all regions of the world, this three-volume set profiles the twentieth century's vast chronicle of architectural achievements, both within and well beyond the theoretical confines of modernism. Unlike existing works, this encyclopedia examines the complexities of rapidly changing global conditions that have dispersed...

An Encyclopaedia of the History of Technology

Routledge, 1990

This one-of-a-kind encyclopedia presents the entire field of technology--from rudimentary agricultural tools to communication satellites--in this first-of-its-kind reference source.

Following an introduction that discusses basic tools, devices, and mechanisms, the chapters are grouped into five parts that provide detailed information...

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