Business, Government, and Public Policy
Author : Reuben E. Slesinger
Publisher :
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 15,30 MB
Release : 1968
Category : Industrial policy
ISBN :
Author : Reuben E. Slesinger
Publisher :
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 15,30 MB
Release : 1968
Category : Industrial policy
ISBN :
Author : Martin Bridgstock
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 42,19 MB
Release : 1998-03-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780521587358
Provides a comprehensive introduction to the human, social and economic aspects of science and technology. It is broad, interdisciplinary and international, with a focus on Australia. The authors present complex issues in an accessible and engaging form. Invaluable for both students and teachers.
Author : Richard Lowe
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 33,63 MB
Release : 2008-07-17
Category : Education
ISBN : 038773337X
Professionals who use multimedia documents as a tool to communicate concepts will find this a hugely illuminating text. It provides a comprehensive and up to date account of relevant research issues, methodologies and results in the area of multimedia comprehension. More specifically, the book draws connections between cognitive research, instructional strategies and design methodologies. It includes theoretical reviews, discussions of research techniques, ad original experimental contributions. The book highlights essential aspects of current theories, and trends for future research on the use of multimedia documents.
Author : Simon Marginson
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 47,64 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781433105272
"Marginson, Murphy and Peters have created a tour de force on globalization. The authors perform a narrative high wire act for the readers, and we come away thrilled, wanting more."---Willam G. Tierney, Professor, University of Southern California, Los Angeles --Book Jacket.
Author : Henry Petroski
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 29,93 MB
Release : 1998-12-29
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0375700242
Science/Engineering "Petroski has an inquisitive mind, and he is a fine writer. . . . [He] takes us on a lively tour of engineers, their creations and their necessary turns of mind." --Los Angeles Times From the Ferris wheel to the integrated circuit, feats of engineering have changed our environment in countless ways, big and small. In Remaking the World: Adventures in Engineering, Duke University's Henry Petroski focuses on the big: Malaysia's 1,482-foot Petronas Towers as well as the Panama Canal, a cut through the continental divide that required the excavation of 311 million cubic yards of earth. Remaking the World tells the stories behind the man-made wonders of the world, from squabbles over the naming of the Hoover Dam to the effects the Titanic disaster had on the engineering community of 1912. Here, too, are the stories of the personalities behind the wonders, from the jaunty Isambard Kingdom Brunel, designer of nineteenth-century transatlantic steamships, to Charles Steinmetz, oddball genius of the General Electric Company, whose office of preference was a battered twelve-foot canoe. Spirited and absorbing, Remaking the World is a celebration of the creative instinct and of the men and women whose inspirations have immeasurably improved our world. "Petroski [is] America's poet laureate of technology. . . . Remaking the World is another fine book." --Houston Chronicle "Remaking the World really is an adventure in engineering." --San Diego Union-Tribune
Author : Casey Murrow
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Companies
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 28,26 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Education
ISBN :
Author : Robert M. Adams
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 16,17 MB
Release : 2012-09-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 140082222X
Technology, perhaps the most salient feature of our time, affects everything from jobs to international law yet ranks among the most unpredictable facets of human life. Here Robert McC. Adams, renowned anthropologist and Secretary Emeritus of the Smithsonian Institution, builds a new approach to understanding the circumstances that drive technological change, stressing its episodic, irregular nature. The result is nothing less than a sweeping history of technological transformation from ancient times until now. Rare in antiquity, the bursts of innovations that mark the advance of technology have gradually accelerated and now have become an almost continuous feature of our culture. Repeatedly shifting in direction, this path has been shaped by a host of interacting social, cultural, and scientific forces rather than any deterministic logic. Thus future technological developments, Adams maintains, are predictable only over the very short term. Adams's account highlights Britain and the United States from early modern times onward. Locating the roots of the Industrial Revolution in British economic and social institutions, he goes on to consider the new forms of enterprise in which it was embodied and its loss of momentum in the later nineteenth century. He then turns to the early United States, whose path toward industrialization initially involved considerable "technology transfer" from Britain. Propelled by the advent of mass production, world industrial leadership passed to the United States around the end of the nineteenth century. Government-supported research and development, guided partly by military interests, helped secure this leadership. Today, as Adams shows, we find ourselves in a profoundly changed era. The United States has led the way to a strikingly new multinational pattern of opportunity and risk, where technological primacy can no longer be credited to any single nation. This recent trend places even more responsibility on the state to establish policies that will keep markets open for its companies and make its industries more competitive. Adams concludes with an argument for active government support of science and technology research that should be read by anyone interested in America's ability to compete globally.
Author : Susan Butler
Publisher : Da Capo Press
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 16,33 MB
Release : 2009-08-11
Category : History
ISBN : 0786745797
Amelia Earhart captured the hearts of the nation after becoming the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic in 1928. And her disappearance on an around-the-world flight in 1937 is an enduring mystery. Based on ten years of research, East to the Dawn provides a richly textured portrait of Earhart in all her complexity. It's the perfect complement to the October 2009 movie Amelia, starring Hilary Swank, Richard Gere, and Ewan McGregor.
Author : Greg Hearn
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 18,85 MB
Release : 2008-03-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781782541912
Illustrates how the production of knowledge has become central to economic life, and that competitiveness in the 21st century market place is characterized by the ability to translate scientific and technological knowledge into innovation. This book explains what we actually mean by the term 'knowledge'.
Author : Ethan Carr
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 18,69 MB
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780803263833
Carr delves into the planning and motivations of the people who wanted to preserve America's scenic geography. He demonstrates that by drawing on historical antecedents, landscape architects and planners carefully crafted each addition to maintain maximum picturesque wonder. Tracing the history of landscape park design from British gardens up through the city park designs of Frederick Law Olmsted, Carr places national park landscape architecture within a larger historical context.