The Whale and the Reactor: A Search for Limits in an Age of High Technology, Second Edition, Paperback - Langdon Winner

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We live in an age saturated with surveillance. Our personal and public lives are increasingly on display for governments, merchants, employers, hac...

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I tore the arse of my pyjamas one morning, about a year before he died, and my father sewed it up perfect in a few minutes, just like that. How do ...

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In this updated edition, Neville explores what real life stories from neighbours on one street reveal about our recent constitutional crisis in an ...

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The complete story of the world's high-speed railways, from Japan's bullet trains to HS2 via France, Germany and ChinaIllustrations: 165 Illustrati...

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In Search of the Romans is a lively and informative introduction to ancient Rome. Making extensive use of ancient sources and copiously illustrated...

In Search of the Greeks offers an engaging introduction to the societies of Classical Greece. Making extensive use of ancient sources and illustrat...

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Features encounters with spectacular birds all over the world and birding adventures to remote, magical locations. About birding and birders, parti...

DescriptionFirst published in 1992, Medieval Military Technology has become the definitive book in its field, garnering much praise and a large rea...

When Michael J. Behe's first book, Darwin's Black Box, was published in 1996, it launched the intelligent design movement. Critics howled, yet hund...

This issue of AD posits that this re-examination and redeployment of postmodernist approaches is the architectural attempt to reflect, grapple with...

Amy is thirty-four and has just given up her glittering career in the big (Welsh) city to move back in with her grandfather, returning to work in t...

Publisher: Regnery PublishingAuthor(s): John StaddonNumber of pages: 256Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 160 x 236 x 32Cover type: HardbackRedesco...

Sex, Gender, and Episcopal Authority in an Age of Reform, 1000–1122 - Megan McLaughlin

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In this insightful and timely volume, Jane Perryman provides a definitive analysis of the crisis in teacher recruitment and retention through a cri...

This easy-to-read, informational text presents a current, impartial and comprehensive look at how Information Technology (IT) and Facility Manageme...

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DescriptionThis thoroughly updated edition of Global Security in the Twenty-First Century offers a balanced introduction to contemporary security d...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Neil (Florida International University, USA) LeachIllustration(s): 80 bw illusNumber of pages: 272Co...

A defense of the role of a humanities and liberal arts education in an era where these might be viewed as quaint or academic in relation to the urg...

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Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PlcNumber of pages: 304Collection: Cosmopolitan-Vernacular Dynamics in World LiteraturesPublication date: 2022Dime...

Publisher: 1517 MediaNumber of pages: 214Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 139 x 215 x 17Cover type: Paperback / softbackEditor(s): Stephen Pickard...

DescriptionIf you're a technical recruiter who wants to keep your skills up to date in the competitive field of technical resource placement, you n...

This Safety Guide provides recommendations on meeting the requirements of IAEA Safety Standards Series No. SSR-2/1 (Rev. 1) relevant to reactor con...

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