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Social Media Archeology and Poetics

By Judy Malloy (editor)

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Hardcover:

9780262034654 | Mit Pr, August 12, 2016, cover price $45.00

Men, Machines, and Modern Times

By Leo Marx (contributor)

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9780262529310 | Anv edition (Mit Pr, August 12, 2016), cover price $19.95

Objects in Motion: Globalizing Technology

By Rian Manson (contributor)

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9781935623977 | Smithsonian Inst Scholarly Pr, August 9, 2016, cover price $44.99

The Ethics of Invention: Technology and the Human Future

By Sheila Jasanoff

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9780393078992 | W W Norton & Co Inc, August 30, 2016, cover price $26.95

Leveling the Playing Field: The Democratization of Technology

Product Description: Leveling the Playing Field explores the technologies that âtrickle downâ to the rest of us, those that were once the domain of the wealthy and powerful--and which therefore tended to make them even more wealthy and powerful. Now, though, these technologies--from books to computers to 3D printing and beyond--have become part of a common toolkit, one accessible to almost anyone, or at least to many more than had heretofore had access...read more

By Rod Scher

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9781442239265 | Lyons Pr, August 1, 2016, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: Leveling the Playing Field explores the technologies that âtrickle downâ to the rest of us, those that were once the domain of the wealthy and powerful--and which therefore tended to make them even more wealthy and powerful.

Death in Beijing: Murder and Forensic Science in Republican China

By Daniel Asen

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9781107126060 | Cambridge Univ Pr, July 31, 2016, cover price $49.99

Radium and the Secret of Life

Product Description: Before the hydrogen bomb indelibly associated radioactivity with death, many chemists, physicians, botanists, and geneticists believed that radium might hold the secret to life. Physicists and chemists early on described the wondrous new element in lifelike terms such as “decay” and “half-life,” and made frequent references to the “natural selection” and “evolution” of the elements...read more

By Luis A. Campos

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9780226238272 | Univ of Chicago Pr, April 3, 2015, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: Before the hydrogen bomb indelibly associated radioactivity with death, many chemists, physicians, botanists, and geneticists believed that radium might hold the secret to life.

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9780226418742 | Reprint edition (Univ of Chicago Pr, July 27, 2016), cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Before the hydrogen bomb indelibly associated radioactivity with death, many chemists, physicians, botanists, and geneticists believed that radium might hold the secret to life.

Sharing Knowledge, Shaping Europe: U.s. Technological Collaboration and Nonproliferation

Product Description: In the 1950s and the 1960s, U.S. administrations were determined to prevent Western European countries from developing independent national nuclear weapons programs. To do so, the United States attempted to use its technological pre-eminence as a tool of "soft power" to steer Western European technological choices toward the peaceful uses of the atom and of space, encouraging options that fostered collaboration, promoted nonproliferation, and defused challenges to U...read more

By John Krige

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9780262034777 | Mit Pr, July 22, 2016, cover price $33.00 | About this edition: In the 1950s and the 1960s, U.

Cyberspies: The Secret History of Surveillance, Hacking, and Digital Espionage

By Gordon Corera

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9781681771540 | Pegasus Books, July 5, 2016, cover price $29.95

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9781504724142, titled "Cyberspies: The Secret History of Surveillance, Hacking, and Digital-espionage" | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, July 5, 2016), cover price $39.95

9781504724135, titled "Cyberspies: The Secret History of Surveillance, Hacking, and Digital-espionage" | Mp3 una edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, July 5, 2016), cover price $29.95

The Life of John Metcalf: Commonly Called Blind Jack of Knaresborough

Product Description: Blinded by smallpox at the age of six, John Metcalf (1717-1810) led a life that might have featured in an eighteenth-century novel. Popularly known as 'Blind Jack of Knaresborough', Metcalf had many and varied careers, including musician, horse trader, fish supplier, textile merchant and stage-wagon operator...read more

By John Metcalf

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9781108079136 | Cambridge Univ Pr, October 31, 2015, cover price $25.99 | About this edition: Blinded by smallpox at the age of six, John Metcalf (1717-1810) led a life that might have featured in an eighteenth-century novel.

Ponga un robot en su vida

By Jorge Blaschke

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9788496746794 | Robinbook, July 1, 2016, cover price $22.95

Open: How Compaq Ended IBM's PC Domination and Helped Invent Modern Computing

By Paul Boehmer (narrator)

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9781522672623 | Mp3 una edition (Audible Studios on Brilliance audio, June 28, 2016), cover price $9.99

Rise of the Machines: A Cybernetic History

By Thomas Rid

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9780393286007 | W W Norton & Co Inc, June 28, 2016, cover price $27.95

Haydn's Sunrise, Beethoven's Shadow: Audiovisual Culture and the Emergence of Musical Romanticism

Product Description: The years between roughly 1760 and 1810, a period stretching from the rise of Joseph Haydnâs career to the height of Ludwig van Beethovenâs, are often viewed as a golden age for musical culture, when audiences started to revel in the sounds of the concert hall...read more

By Deirdre Loughridge

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9780226337098 | Univ of Chicago Pr, July 21, 2016, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: The years between roughly 1760 and 1810, a period stretching from the rise of Joseph Haydnâs career to the height of Ludwig van Beethovenâs, are often viewed as a golden age for musical culture, when audiences started to revel in the sounds of the concert hall.

Hotel Dreams: Luxury, Technology, and Urban Ambition in America, 1829Â1929

Product Description: Winner, 2012 Sally Hacker Prize, Society for the History of Technology Hotel Dreams is a deeply researched and entertaining account of how the hotel's material world of machines and marble integrated into and shaped the society it served...read more

By Molly W. Berger

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9781421419923, titled "Hotel Dreams: Luxury, Technology, and Urban Ambition in America, 1829â1929" | Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, July 3, 2016, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: Winner, 2012 Sally Hacker Prize, Society for the History of Technology Hotel Dreams is a deeply researched and entertaining account of how the hotel's material world of machines and marble integrated into and shaped the society it served.

The Birth of Nasa: The Work of the Space Task Group, America's First True Space Pioneers

By Dutch Von Ehrenfried

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9783319284262 | Springer Verlag, April 7, 2016, cover price $39.99

Pressed for Time: The Acceleration of Life in Digital Capitalism

Product Description: The technologically tethered, iPhone-addicted figure is an image we can easily conjure. Most of us complain that there aren't enough hours in the day and too many e-mails in our thumb-accessible inboxes. This widespread perception that life is faster than it used to be is now ingrained in our culture, and smartphones and the Internet are continually being blamed...read more

By Judy Wajcman

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9780226196473 | Univ of Chicago Pr, December 3, 2014, cover price $24.00

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9780226380841 | Reprint edition (Univ of Chicago Pr, June 21, 2016), cover price $17.00 | About this edition: The technologically tethered, iPhone-addicted figure is an image we can easily conjure.

Groovy Science: Knowledge, Innovation, and American Counterculture

Product Description: In his 1969 book The Making of a Counterculture, Theodore Roszak described the youth of the late 1960s as fleeing science “as if from a place inhabited by plague,” and even seeking “subversion of the scientific worldview” itself. Roszak’s view has come to be our own: when we think of the youth movement of the 1960s and early 1970s, we think of a movement that was explicitly anti-scientific in its embrace of alternative spiritualities and communal living...read more

By David Kaiser (editor) and W. Patrick McCray (editor)

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9780226372884 | Univ of Chicago Pr, June 3, 2016, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: In his 1969 book The Making of a Counterculture, Theodore Roszak described the youth of the late 1960s as fleeing science “as if from a place inhabited by plague,” and even seeking “subversion of the scientific worldview” itself.

Paperback:

9780226372914 | Univ of Chicago Pr, June 3, 2016, cover price $25.00

Debugging Game History: A Critical Lexicon

By Raiford Guins (editor)

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9780262034197 | Mit Pr, June 10, 2016, cover price $49.00

Marking Modern Times: A History of Clocks, Watches, and Other Timekeepers in American Life

Product Description: The public spaces and buildings of the United States are home to many thousands of timepiecesâbells, time balls, and clock facesâthat tower over urban streets, peek out from lobbies, and gleam in store windows. And in the streets and squares beneath them, men, women, and children wear wristwatches of all kinds...read more

By Alexis McCrossen

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9780226014869 | Univ of Chicago Pr, May 1, 2013, cover price $48.00

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9780226379685 | Reprint edition (Univ of Chicago Pr, June 15, 2016), cover price $27.00 | About this edition: The public spaces and buildings of the United States are home to many thousands of timepiecesâbells, time balls, and clock facesâthat tower over urban streets, peek out from lobbies, and gleam in store windows.

Paper: Paging Through History

By Mark Kurlansky

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9781410490070 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, May 18, 2016), cover price $33.99

9780393239614 | W W Norton & Co Inc, May 10, 2016, cover price $27.95

The Gun in Central Africa: A History of Technology and Politics

Product Description: Why did some central African peoples embrace gun technology in the nineteenth century, and others turn their backs on it? In answering this question, The Gun in Central Africa offers a thorough reassessment of the history of firearms in central Africa...read more

By Giacomo Macola

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9780821422113 | Ohio Univ Pr, April 20, 2016, cover price $80.00 | About this edition: Why did some central African peoples embrace gun technology in the nineteenth century, and others turn their backs on it?

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9780821422120 | Ohio Univ Pr, April 20, 2016, cover price $32.95 | About this edition: Why did some central African peoples embrace gun technology in the nineteenth century, and others turn their backs on it?

The European Edisons: Volta, Tesla, and Tigerstedt

By Anand Kumar Sethi

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9781137492203 | Palgrave Macmillan, June 23, 2016, cover price $115.00

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9781349696833 | Palgrave Macmillan, May 11, 2016, cover price $129.00

Challenges and Goals for Accelerators in the XXI Century

By Oliver Bruning (editor) and Stephen Myers (editor)

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9789814436397 | World Scientific Pub Co Inc, April 26, 2016, cover price $190.00

The General Theory of Dirichlet's Series

Product Description: From the PREFACE. THE publication of this tract has been delayed by a variety of causes, and I am now compelled to issue it without Dr Riesz's help in the final correction of the proofs. This has at any rate, one advantage, that it gives me the opportunity of saying how conscious I am that whatever value it possesses is due mainly to his contributions to it, and in particular to the fact, that it contains the first systematic, account of his beautiful theory of the summation of series by 'typical means'...read more

By G. H. Hardy and Marcel Riesz

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9780486446578 | Dover Pubns, November 14, 2005, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: This classic work explains the theory and formulas behind Dirichlet's series and offers the first systematic account of Riesz's theory of the summation of series by typical means.

Paperback:

9781532868757 | Createspace Independent Pub, April 21, 2016, cover price $6.99 | About this edition: From the PREFACE.

9781107493872 | Cambridge Univ Pr, March 26, 2015, cover price $19.99 | About this edition: Originally published in 1915 as number eighteen in the Cambridge Tracts in Mathematics and Mathematical Physics series, and here reissued in its 1952 reprinted form, this book contains a condensed account of Dirichlet's Series, which relates to number theory.

9781493709311 | Createspace Independent Pub, November 7, 2013, cover price $7.99 | About this edition: Book Jungle provides classic literature in a modern format.

9781438520667, titled "The General Theory of Dirichlets Series" | Book Jungle, June 30, 2009, cover price $8.46

9781438513942 | Book Jungle, March 31, 2009, cover price $14.46

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