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Author : Anonim
Publisher : American Philosophical Society
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1422370305
Author : Anonim
Publisher : American Philosophical Society
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0003049X
Author : Kaori O'Connor
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2011-04-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136818585
"The Anthropology of Stuff" is part of a new Series dedicated to innovative, unconventional ways to connect undergraduate students and their lived concerns about our social world to the power of social science ideas and evidence. Our goal with the project is to help spark social science imaginations and in doing so, new avenues for meaningful thought and action. Each "Stuff" title is a short (100 page) "mini text" illuminating for students the network of people and activities that create their material world. Lycra describes the development of a specific fabric, but in the process provides students with rare insights into U.S. corporate history, the changing image of women in America, and how a seemingly doomed product came to occupy a position never imagined by its inventors and contained in the wardrobe of virtually every American. And it will generate lively discussion of the story of the relationship between technology, science and society over the past half a century.
Author : Christophe Lecuyer,David C. Brock
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2010-09-03
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780262294324
The first years of the company that developed the microchip and created the model for a successful Silicon Valley start-up. In the first three and a half years of its existence, Fairchild Semiconductor developed, produced, and marketed the device that would become the fundamental building block of the digital world: the microchip. Founded in 1957 by eight former employees of the Schockley Semiconductor Laboratory, Fairchild created the model for a successful Silicon Valley start-up: intense activity with a common goal, close collaboration, and a quick path to the market (Fairchild's first device hit the market just ten months after the company's founding). Fairchild Semiconductor was one of the first companies financed by venture capital, and its success inspired the establishment of venture capital firms in the San Francisco Bay area. These firms would finance the explosive growth of Silicon Valley over the next several decades. This history of the early years of Fairchild Semiconductor examines the technological, business, and social dynamics behind its innovative products. The centerpiece of the book is a collection of documents, reproduced in facsimile, including the company's first prospectus; ideas, sketches, and plans for the company's products; and a notebook kept by cofounder Jay Last that records problems, schedules, and tasks discussed at weekly meetings. A historical overview, interpretive essays, and an introduction to semiconductor technology in the period accompany these primary documents.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : American Philosophical Society
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1422371905
Author : Anonim
Publisher : American Philosophical Society
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 142238182X
Author : Philip Parker
Publisher : Random House
Page : 690 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2010-12-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781409016328
The Roman Empire was the largest and most enduring of the ancient world. From its zenith under Augustus and Trajan in the first century AD to its decline and fall amidst the barbarian invasions of the fifth century, the Empire guarded and maintained a frontier that stretched for 5,000 kilometres, from Carlisle to Cologne, from Augsburg to Antioch, and from Aswan to the Atlantic. Far from being at the periphery of the Roman world, the frontier played a crucial role in making and breaking emperors, creating vibrant and astonishingly diverse societies along its course which pulsed with energy while the centre became enfeebled and sluggish. This remarkable new book traces the course of those frontiers, visiting all its astonishing sites, from Hadrian's Wall in the north of Britain to the desert cities of Palmyra and Leptis Magna. It tells the fascinating stories of the men and women who lived and fought along it, from Alaric the Goth, who descended from the Danube to sack Rome in 410, to Zenobia the desert queen, who almost snatched the entire eastern provinces from Rome in the third century. It is at their edges, in time and geographical extent, that societies reveal their true nature, constantly seeking to recreate and renew themselves. In this examination of the places that the mighty Roman Empire stopped expanding, Philip Parker reveals how and why the Empire endured for so long, as well as describing the rich and complex architectural and cultural legacy which it has bequeathed to us.
Author : Patricia Tyson Stroud
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780812249842
Through a retelling of Lewis's life, from his resourceful youth to the brilliance of his leadership and accomplishments as a man, Patricia Tyson Stroud shows that Jefferson's unsubstantiated claim of his protégé's suicide is the long-held bitter root at the heart of the Meriwether Lewis story.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : American Philosophical Society
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1422370194
Author : Jeffrey Orens
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781643137155
A prismatic look at the meeting of Marie Curie and Albert Einstein and the impact these two pillars of science had on the world of physics, which was in turmoil. In 1911, some of the greatest minds in science convened at the First Solvay Conference in Physics, a meeting like no other. Almost half of the attendees had won or would go on to win the Nobel Prize. Over the course of those few days, these minds began to realize that classical physics was about to give way to quantum theory, a seismic shift in our history and how we understand not just our world, but the universe. At the center of this meeting were Marie Curie and a young Albert Einstein. In the years preceding, Curie had faced the death of her husband and soul mate, Pierre. She was on the cusp of being awarded her second Nobel Prize, but scandal erupted all around her when the French press revealed that she was having an affair with a fellow scientist, Paul Langevin. The subject of vicious misogynist and xenophobic attacks in the French press, Curie found herself in a storm that threatened her scientific legacy. Albert Einstein proved an supporter in her travails. They had an instant connection at Solvay. He was young and already showing flourishes of his enormous genius. Curie had been responsible for one of the greatest discoveries in modern science (radioactivity) but still faced resistance and scorn. Einstein recognized this grave injustice, and their mutual admiration and respect, borne out of this, their first meeting, would go on to serve them in their paths forward to making history. Curie and Einstein come alive as the complex people they were in the pages of The Soul of Genius. Utilizing never before seen correspondance and notes, Jeffrey Orens reveals the human side of these brilliant scientists, one who pushed boundaries and demanded equality in a man’s world, no matter the cost, and the other, who was destined to become synonymous with genius.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : American Philosophical Society
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1422370127
Author : Chris Freeman,Luc Soete
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136611612
First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : American Philosophical Society
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1422381110
Author : Ryan Tucker Jones
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190670818
"Empire of Extinction examines the causes and consequences of environmental catastrophe resulting from Russia's imperial expansion into the North Pacific. Gathering a host of Siberian and Alaskan native peoples, from the early 1700s until 1867, the Russian empire organized a rapacious hunt for fur seals, sea otters, and other fur-bearing animals. The animals declined precipitously and Steller's sea cow went entirely extinct. This destruction, which took place in one of the most hotly-contested imperial arenas of the time, also drew the attention of natural historians, who played an important role in imperial expansion. Their observations of environmental change in the North Pacific caused Russians and other Europeans to recognize the threat of species extinction for the first time. Russians reacted by instituting some of the colonial world's most progressive conservationist policies. Empire of Extinction points to the importance of the North Pacific both for the Russian empire and for global environmental history"--
Author : William H. Stiebing Jr.
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781315511160
This introduction to the Ancient Near East includes coverage of Egypt and a balance of political, social, and cultural coverage. Organized by the periods, kingdoms, and empires generally used in Near Eastern political history, the text interlaces social and cultural history with the political narrative. This combination allows students to get a rounded introduction to the subject of Ancient Near Eastern history. An emphasis on problems and areas of uncertainty helps students understand how evidence is used to create interpretations and allows them to realize that several different interpretations of the same evidence are possible.This introduction to the Ancient Near East includes coverage of Egypt and a balance of political, social, and cultural coverage.