(Izdošanas datums: 16-Sep-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691233079)
How 1,000 years of global history show why technological and economic progress is often followed by stagnation and even collapseIn How Progress Ends, Carl Benedikt Frey challenges the conventional belief that economic and technological progress is i...Lasīt vairāk
This book investigates the ways that technological, and especially mechanical, strategies were integrated into ancient Greek religion. By analysing a range of evidence, from the tragic use of the deus ex machina to Hellenistic epigrams to ancient mec...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 24-Jul-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009331685)
For the first time investigates the ways that technological, and especially mechanical, strategies were integrated into ancient Greek religion. Presents in full the evidence from the fifth century BCE to the second century CE, thereby revealing the s...Lasīt vairāk
This innovative and wide-ranging volume is the first systematic exploration of the multifaceted relationship between human bodies and machines in classical antiquity. It examines the conception of the body and bodily processes in mechanical terms in...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 06-Feb-2025, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, ISBN-13: 9780802884091)
Why were people in the Victorian age fascinated with the archaeological mysteries of the Holy Land? In this engaging study, Allan Chapman shows how the Holy Land took on new meaning for Europeans during the Victorian era. Previously...Lasīt vairāk
A prominent historian spans the whole of human history, from the first humans to walk the earth to the radicaland sometimes devastatingbreakthroughs of the Cognitive, Agricultural, and Scientific Revolutions, integrating history and science to chal...Lasīt vairāk
REVISED AND UPDATED EDITIONEngineering: An Illustrated History from Ancient Craft to Modern Technology is an authoritative reference book and timeline about how technology has given shape to our civilization. A guide to each field...Lasīt vairāk
This third volume of the illustrated adaptation of the internationally bestselling phenomenon, Sapiens: A Graphic HistoryThe Masters of History, tackles the question of the driving force of humanitys fate: is it...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 22-Oct-2024, Hardback, Izdevniecība: University of Minnesota Press, ISBN-13: 9781517917388)
From medieval to modern, exploring instrumental attitudes toward physical gadgets, diagrams, concepts, methods, and disciplines Opening up the instrumental condition of the human for critical reflection and renewal, Instrume...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 01-Oct-2024, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: University of Minnesota Press, ISBN-13: 9781517917395)
From medieval to modern, exploring instrumental attitudes toward physical gadgets, diagrams, concepts, methods, and disciplines Opening up the instrumental condition of the human for critical reflection and renewal, Instrume...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 24-Sep-2024, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Routledge India, ISBN-13: 9780367366292)
This book traces the role of technology in shaping, curating, disseminating and archiving knowledge and life in South Asia. It focuses on empirical studies of transformative social processes unleashed by technological intervention in colonial and po...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 02-Aug-2024, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: State University of New York Press, ISBN-13: 9781438496627)
Argues that ancient yantra (robot) tales reveal how their Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain authors thought about the nature of humanity and our role in a cosmos filled with divine and natural forces. What does it mean to be human? I, Y...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 18-Jun-2024, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Verso Books, ISBN-13: 9781839765506)
The story of how risk, disasters and pollution were managed and made acceptable during the industrial revolutionWhy do we accept pollution in the name of progress? Why has the pursuit of modernity permitted increasing exposure to env...Lasīt vairāk
This book describes how our modern world came into being as a consequence of a series of accidental events unfolding in Europe from the 5th century onwards. The events that led to Europes success, such as a competitive state system, the rise of mod...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 01-Feb-2024, Hardback, Izdevniecība: State University of New York Press, ISBN-13: 9781438496610)
Argues that ancient yantra (robot) tales reveal how their Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain authors thought about the nature of humanity and our role in a cosmos filled with divine and natural forces. What does it mean to be human? I, Y...Lasīt vairāk
From one of the worlds leading experts on the history of energy, a rigorous examination of the transitions that structure our modern world--and the environmental reckoning that will mark its success or failure.What makes the...Lasīt vairāk
This third volume of the illustrated adaptation of the internationally bestselling phenomenon, Sapiens: A Graphic HistoryThe Masters of History, tackles the question of the driving force of humanitys fate: is it...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 04-Oct-2023, Hardback, Izdevniecība: De Gruyter, ISBN-13: 9783110777192)
In recent years we have become interested in the diffusion of small Western technologies in the countries of the Middle East during the 19th and 20th centuries, the era of Imperialism and first globalization. We postulated a contrast between small...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 27-Jul-2023, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781316514665)
Explores the ways in which the human body and the world of machines and technological artefacts intersected in the ancient world. Traces the origins of the body-machine interface from Homers automata down to the figural assimilation between body pa...Lasīt vairāk
