Misa - History 1

The unique history and development of FastLane, the central nervous system of the National Science Foundation. Since 2000, the National Science Foundation has depended upon its pioneering FastLane e……続きを見る

Accounts of the early events of the computing industryーthe Turing machine, the massive Colossus, the ENIAC computerーare well-told tales, and equally well known is the later emergence of Silicon Va……続きを見る

Now updated ー A comprehensive, 500-year history of technology in society. Historian Thomas J. Misa's sweeping history of the relationship between technology and society over the past 500 years reve……続きを見る

Der Band beleuchtet die Hintergründe des libyschen Machtkampfes und versucht, Antworten auf die brennendsten Fragen zu geben: Wie kam es dazu, dass ein ursprünglich revolutionäres, antikolonialistis……続きを見る

When one thinks of Toronto's Canadian National Exhibition, memories of bright lights, cotton candy, the rush of people, and the excitement of rides spring to mind. But when the lights go down and th……続きを見る

A hard-hitting analysis of how the disparity between wealth and poverty undermines the common good. The growing gap between the most affluent Americans and the rest of society is changing the countr……続きを見る

The Green Movement protests that erupted in Iran in 2009 amid allegations of election fraud shook the Islamic Republic to its core. For the first time in decades, the adoption of serious liberal ref……続きを見る

Labor and Love in Guatemala re-envisions the histories of labor and ethnic formation in Spanish America. Taking cues from gender studies and the "new" cultural history, the book transforms perspecti……続きを見る

The career of Erasmus Darwin (1731-1802) affords an extraordinary glimpse into the intellectual ferment of late-eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century Britain. As a popular poet, practicing physic……続きを見る

A permanent political class has emerged on a scale unprecedented in our nation 's history. Its self-dealing, nepotism, and corruption contribute to rising inequality. Its reach extends from the gove……続きを見る

Bantu Holomisa is one of South Africa’s most respected and popular political figures. Born in the Transkei in 1955, he attended an elite school for the sons of chiefs and headmen. While other men hi……続きを見る

This is a true story. Under a communist philosophy, China labeled religion as an opium and started to go about eliminating it. In the 70 years since then, the number of religious people in China, es……続きを見る

We are witnessing a revolution in storytelling. Publications all over the world are increasingly using immersive storytellingーvirtual reality, augmented reality and mixed realityーto tell compellin……続きを見る

From the mid-1950s to the late 1970s, jazz was harnessed as America’s "sonic weapon" to promote an image to the world of a free and democratic America. Dizzy Gillespie, Dave Brubeck, Duke Ellington ……続きを見る

El 1 de septiembre de 1939 el mundo entraba en guerra y lo hacía a una escala y con una rotundidad desconocidas hasta entonces. Las cifras que arroja la Segunda Guerra Mundial son estremecedoras ーt……続きを見る

The Moving City is a rich and intimate account of urban transformation told through the story of Delhi's Metro, a massive infrastructure project that is reshaping the city's social and urban landsca……続きを見る

Vedas are the most ancient scriptures known to us today. They are not just religious texts but are storehouses of vast knowledge, both worldly as well as spiritual. However, these voluminous texts a……続きを見る

Gateway to Opportunity: How One Public School Helped Shape an Entire Nation is like a Who's Who in American history. Its chapters deliver lessons and anecdotes from the storied history of the Boston……続きを見る

This book sheds new light on the general equilibrium theory of Léon Walras (1834–1910) from a historical perspective. Walras's construction of general equilibrium theory marked the dawn of modern ec……続きを見る

Is Christianity compatible with the martial arts and the samurai code of Bushido? The Reverend Takemi Sasamori, Methodist minister and founding pastor of the Komaba Eden Church in Tokyo, Japan, and ……続きを見る

Desenterré esta historia en diciembre de 1984, cuando la dictadura militar me envió a la Cuarta Región en calidad de relegado político. Poco antes, había sido deportado a la ciudad de Vicuña, ……続きを見る

The immense outpouring of archaeological discoveries this past century has shed new light on ancient East Asia, and China in particular. Yet in concert with this development another, more troubling,……続きを見る

Robert Vipper (1859–1954) war vor dem Ersten Weltkrieg Professor für Universalgeschichte an der Moskauer Universität und hatte sich ebenfalls als Geschichtstheoretiker und Geschichtsdidaktiker einen……続きを見る

Mahabharata with 100,000 verses, and many prose passages, adding up to a phenomenal total of 1.8 million words is the biggest known Epic. Originally, based on a real story that took place 5000 years……続きを見る

The origin of these Studies dates from many years back. As a youth I was faced, as Others are, by the problem of sex. Living partly in an Australian city where the ways of life were plainly seen, pa……続きを見る

A Moszádot napjainkban a világ legjobb és egyben legrejtélyesebb titkosszolgálatai között tartják számon. Ez a könyv bemutatja az &uum……続きを見る

Perhaps the most spectacular reaction to court-ordered busing in the 1970s occurred in Boston, where there was intense and protracted protest. Ron Formisano explores the sources of white opposition ……続きを見る

For the People offers a new interpretation of populist political movements from the Revolution to the eve of the Civil War and roots them in the disconnect between the theory of rule by the people a……続きを見る

Albuquerque, founded by Spanish colonists in 1706, seems an unusual place for Jewish immigrants to settle. Yet long before New Mexico statehood in 1912, Jewish settlers had made their homes in the h……続きを見る

San Pedro was incorporated into the City of Los Angeles in 1909, and grew into one of the world�s strategic international ports. The dredging and backfilling of berths and canals have been mirrored ……続きを見る