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An examination of ophthalmology, including chapters covering how the eye sees and how to examine the eye, as well as on typical complaints such as the watering eye, cataract, glaucoma, the squint, retinal detachment and the effects of hypertension and diabetes on the eye.

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9780300192087 | Yale Univ Pr, September 22, 2015, cover price $30.00

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9780443047664, titled "Ophthalmology" | 2 sub edition (Churchill Livingstone, December 1, 1993), cover price $35.00 | also contains Ophthalmology | About this edition: An examination of ophthalmology, including chapters covering how the eye sees and how to examine the eye, as well as on typical complaints such as the watering eye, cataract, glaucoma, the squint, retinal detachment and the effects of hypertension and diabetes on the eye.

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Product Description: A fun and fascinating exploration of modern technology, Sex, Bombs, and Burgers reveals how these three billion-dollar industries have shaped our everyday lives. It’s also a chronicle of popular culture, chock-full of surprising revelations...read more

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9780762772742 | Reprint edition (Lyons Pr, December 20, 2011), cover price $26.95 | About this edition: A fun and fascinating exploration of modern technology, Sex, Bombs, and Burgers reveals how these three billion-dollar industries have shaped our everyday lives.

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By Timothy Ferris (foreword by) and National Geographic Society (other contributor)

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9781426208102 | Natl Geographic Society, September 6, 2011, cover price $35.00

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Product Description: The collection of articles, essays, and other presentations included in this volume summarize to some extent the author s thinking over the last several decades on a broad range of topics associated with the history and philosophy of science and technology and follow his passage from the academic world to the museum world to the positions he now concurrently holds as President of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and Marshal of the Realm to the King of Sweden...read more

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9780881354003 | Science History Pubns, February 28, 2011, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: The collection of articles, essays, and other presentations included in this volume summarize to some extent the author s thinking over the last several decades on a broad range of topics associated with the history and philosophy of science and technology and follow his passage from the academic world to the museum world to the positions he now concurrently holds as President of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and Marshal of the Realm to the King of Sweden.

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9780596527051 | 1 edition (Oreilly & Associates Inc, May 1, 2007), cover price $24.99

Paperback:

9780596521844 | Oreilly & Associates Inc, March 1, 2009, cover price $15.99

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Product Description: How technological change in the West has been driven by the pursuit of improvement: a history of technology, from plows and printing presses to penicillin, the atomic bomb, and the computer.Why does technology change over time, how does it change, and what difference does it make? In this sweeping, ambitious look at a thousand years of Western experience, Robert Friedel argues that technological change comes largely through the pursuit of improvement―the deep-rooted belief that things could be done in a better way...read more

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9780262062626 | Mit Pr, May 1, 2007, cover price $9.75

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9780262514019 | Mit Pr, April 30, 2010, cover price $44.95 | About this edition: How technological change in the West has been driven by the pursuit of improvement: a history of technology, from plows and printing presses to penicillin, the atomic bomb, and the computer.

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Product Description: Behavioral archaeology offers a way of examining the past by highlighting human engagement with the material culture of the time. 'Behavioral Archaeology: Principles and Practice' offers a broad overview of the methods and theories used in this approach to archaeology...read more
By Kacy L. Hollenback (contributor)

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9781845532871 | Acumen Pub Ltd, October 21, 2010, cover price $160.00 | About this edition: Behavioral archaeology offers a way of examining the past by highlighting human engagement with the material culture of the time.

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9781845532888 | Acumen Pub Ltd, October 21, 2010, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Behavioral archaeology offers a way of examining the past by highlighting human engagement with the material culture of the time.

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9781851775408 | Victoria & Albert Pubns, September 1, 2008, cover price $40.00

A multidisciplinary compilation of essays and other writings explores the antecedents of Internet technology in the works of Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Mary Shelley, William Gibson, and others. (Technology)
By Darren Tofts (editor)

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9780262201452 | Mit Pr, April 1, 2003, cover price $7.75 | About this edition: A multidisciplinary compilation of essays and other writings explores the antecedents of Internet technology in the works of Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Mary Shelley, William Gibson, and others.

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9780262701082 | Mit Pr, October 1, 2004, cover price $5.75

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For as long as people have developed new technologies, there has been debate over the purposes, shape and potential for their use. In this collection, a range of contributors discuss the visions that have shaped new technologies and the cultural implications of technological adaptation.
By Sandra J. Ball-Rokeach (editor), Marita Sturken (editor) and Douglas Thomas (editor)

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9781592132263 | Temple Univ Pr, May 1, 2004, cover price $79.50

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9781592132270 | Temple Univ Pr, May 1, 2004, cover price $30.95 | About this edition: For as long as people have developed new technologies, there has been debate over the purposes, shape and potential for their use.

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9780262681155 | 2 rev sub edition (Mit Pr, April 18, 2000), cover price $32.95
9780139251085 | Prentice Hall Computer Pub, December 1, 1986, cover price $9.95

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9780816632879 | Univ of Minnesota Pr, February 1, 2000, cover price $55.50

Paperback:

9780816632886 | Univ of Minnesota Pr, February 1, 2000, cover price $20.00

Product Description: In the 1940s, a British catering company identified the part that only a computer could play in running its business. Since no such computer existed or was in prospect, it set about designing and building a business computer of its own...read more
By David Caminer (editor)

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9780077092368 | McGraw-Hill Book Co Ltd, February 1, 1996, cover price $42.01 | About this edition: In the 1940s, a British catering company identified the part that only a computer could play in running its business.

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Product Description: The Economic History Society, in association with Blackwell Publishers, announces the publication in eleven volumes of a new collection of seminal articles on the industrial revolutions worldwide. Each volume includes twenty to twenty-five articles representing the most influential writing on the subject, accompanied by editorial introductions surveying the main strands of intellectual advancement and the important conceptual advances that have characterized research on the topics under consideration...read more
By Roy A. Church (editor) and E. A. Wrigley (editor)

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9780631174868 | Blackwell Pub, January 1, 1996, cover price $2645.00 | About this edition: The Economic History Society, in association with Blackwell Publishers, announces the publication in eleven volumes of a new collection of seminal articles on the industrial revolutions worldwide.

Examines the role of evolution in human-made entities, stressing that no one can be in control--and it is better that way--and attempting to define the world of distributed being. 15,000 first printing.

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9780201577938 | Perseus Books, May 1, 1994, cover price $28.00 | About this edition: Looks at a new approach to technology that follows the model of living organisms, and discusses complexity, closed systems, networks, e-money, prediction, and digital anonymity

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Product Description: An examination of ophthalmology, including chapters covering how the eye sees and how to examine the eye, as well as on typical complaints such as the watering eye, cataract, glaucoma, the squint, retinal detachment and the effects of hypertension and diabetes on the eye.

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9780443047664 | 2 sub edition (Churchill Livingstone, December 1, 1993), cover price $35.00 | also contains Eureka: How Invention Happens | About this edition: An examination of ophthalmology, including chapters covering how the eye sees and how to examine the eye, as well as on typical complaints such as the watering eye, cataract, glaucoma, the squint, retinal detachment and the effects of hypertension and diabetes on the eye.

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