Barbs, Prongs, Points, Prickers, & Stickers
Title | Barbs, Prongs, Points, Prickers, & Stickers PDF eBook |
Author | Robert T. Clifton |
Publisher | University of Oklahoma Press |
Pages | 444 |
Release | 1970 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780806108766 |
Contains a complete and illustrated catalogue of antique barbed wire.
Barbs, Prongs, Points, Prickers, & Stickers
Title | Barbs, Prongs, Points, Prickers, & Stickers PDF eBook |
Author | Robert T. Clifton |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 1974 |
Genre | Barbed wire |
ISBN |
Barbed Wire
Title | Barbed Wire PDF eBook |
Author | Reviel Netz |
Publisher | Wesleyan University Press |
Pages | 292 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780819567192 |
The history of animals and humans as seen through barbed wire.
Essential Cataloguing
Title | Essential Cataloguing PDF eBook |
Author | J. H. Bowman |
Publisher | Facet Publishing |
Pages | 225 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1856044564 |
This book is designed for library school students, beginning cataloguers, and any information professionals who find they have to be cataloguers and have forgotten how.
West of West
Title | West of West PDF eBook |
Author | Laura Barton |
Publisher | Unbound Publishing |
Pages | 154 |
Release | 2020-01-23 |
Genre | Photography |
ISBN | 1783527714 |
Swim out into the Pacific and look back to the shore. To the couple kissing in the hot afternoon, and the young girl rollerskating along the front, and the family setting up camp on the soft, warm sand. To the blues and yellows and pinks of fierce, determined revelry. Santa Monica, where the wooden pier juts out into the Pacific Ocean, marks the end of Route 66. The great American journey west culminates here, and it is on this short stretch of coast that Sarah Lee began shooting her photographic series in 2015. In West of West Sarah Lee and Laura Barton explore the idea of the West in shaping American identity, with its idealism and notions of the frontier, and what the American West means in an age of political turbulence, when the East is the rising global force and the frontier is shifting once more.
Surveying and Mapping
Title | Surveying and Mapping PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 402 |
Release | 1978 |
Genre | Cartography |
ISBN |
The Evolution of Technology
Title | The Evolution of Technology PDF eBook |
Author | George Basalla |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 262 |
Release | 1989-02-24 |
Genre | Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | 1316101584 |
This book presents an evolutionary theory of technological change based upon recent scholarship in the history of technology and upon relevant material drawn from economic history and anthropology. It challenges the popular notion that technology advances by the efforts of a few heroic individuals who produce a series of revolutionary inventions owing little or nothing to the technological past. Therefore, the book's argument is shaped by analogies taken selectively from the theory of organic evolution, and not from the theory and practice of political revolution. Three themes appear, and reappear with variations, throughout the study. The first is diversity: an acknowledgment of the vast numbers of different kinds of made things (artifacts) that have long been available to humanity; the second is necessity: the belief that humans are driven to invent new artifacts in order to meet basic biological requirements such as food, shelter, and defense; and the third is technological evolution: an organic analogy that explains both the emergence of novel artifacts and their subsequent selection by society for incorporation into its material life without invoking either biological necessity or technological progress. Although the book is not intended to provide a strict chronological account of the development of technology, historical examples - including many of the major achievements of Western technology: the waterwheel, the printing press, the steam engine, automobiles and trucks, and the transistor - are used extensively to support its theoretical framework. The Evolution of Techology will be of interest to all readers seeking to learn how and why technology changes, including both students and specialists in the history of technology and science.