Author: Samuel SmilesPublisher:
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Category : Engineers
Languages : en
Pages : 558
Book Description
Lives of the Engineers, with an Account of Their Principal Works
Author: Samuel SmilesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Engineers
Languages : en
Pages : 558
Book Description
Lives of the Engineers, With an Account of Their Principal Works
Author: Samuel SmilesPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3375082428
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 546
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1865. Comprising also a History of Inland Communication in Britain.
Lives of the Engineers
Author: Samuel SmilesPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3382500531
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1874. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
Subject-index to the author-catalogue. 1908-10. 2 v
Author: Imperial Library, CalcuttaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 570
Book Description
Life of a Scotch Naturalist
Author: Samuel SmilesCatalogue of the Library of the Institution of Civil Engineers ...
Author: Institution of Civil Engineers (Great Britain). LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
Publisher and Bookseller
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1028
Book Description
Vols. for 1871-76, 1913-14 include an extra number, The Christmas bookseller, separately paged and not included in the consecutive numbering of the regular series.
Engineers for Change
Author: Matthew H. WisnioskiPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262018268
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
An account of conflicts within engineering in the 1960s that helped shape our dominant contemporary understanding of technological change as the driver of history. In the late 1960s an eclectic group of engineers joined the antiwar and civil rights activists of the time in agitating for change. The engineers were fighting to remake their profession, challenging their fellow engineers to embrace a more humane vision of technology. In Engineers for Change, Matthew Wisnioski offers an account of this conflict within engineering, linking it to deep-seated assumptions about technology and American life. The postwar period in America saw a near-utopian belief in technology's beneficence. Beginning in the mid-1960s, however, society—influenced by the antitechnology writings of such thinkers as Jacques Ellul and Lewis Mumford—began to view technology in a more negative light. Engineers themselves were seen as conformist organization men propping up the military-industrial complex. A dissident minority of engineers offered critiques of their profession that appropriated concepts from technology's critics. These dissidents were criticized in turn by conservatives who regarded them as countercultural Luddites. And yet, as Wisnioski shows, the radical minority spurred the professional elite to promote a new understanding of technology as a rapidly accelerating force that our institutions are ill-equipped to handle. The negative consequences of technology spring from its very nature—and not from engineering's failures. “Sociotechnologists” were recruited to help society adjust to its technology. Wisnioski argues that in responding to the challenges posed by critics within their profession, engineers in the 1960s helped shape our dominant contemporary understanding of technological change as the driver of history.
Books in Henry Ames Hall
Author: St. Louis Public Schools (Saint Louis, Mo.). LibraryPublisher:
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Category : School libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
Literary Doctors of Medicine
Author: James Henry DavenportPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description