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This text presents an historical examination of political fact-checking, highlighting how this is part of a larger phenomenon of online scrutiny that manifests itself in multiple forms. Reflecting the long history of “fake facts” in America, the book discusses important...
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Springer
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2019-08-12
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This book presents a systematic discussion of the history of Chinese printing technology, encompassing the origins and evolution of writing, the invention and refinement of papermaking techniques, and the emergence and progression of various printing techniques. It...
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Springer
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2026-01-01
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This book vividly captures China's remarkable achievements in the research and development of marine research vessels. Beginning with an exploration of research vessels, the book delves into the structural characteristics, developmental milestones, key technologies, and...
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Springer
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2025-10-19
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The notion that Britain was losing its international industrial competitiveness has preoccupied governments since the Second World War. Policymakers have sought to address this over the years, and yet Britain's relative industrial decline has appeared to continue,...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-10-15
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The notion that Britain was losing its international industrial competitiveness has preoccupied governments since the Second World War. Policymakers have sought to address this over the years, and yet Britain's relative industrial decline has appeared to continue,...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-09-15
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In Six Memos for the Next Millennium, Italo Calvino elaborated on six concepts or memos to offer insights on the ‘shapes of things to come’, which were lightness, rapidity, exactness, visibility, multiplicity and consistency. To do so, the Italian writer embraced an...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2024-06-06
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A witty, deeply researched history of the surprisingly ramshackle Soviet space program, and how its success was more spin than science. In the wake of World War II, with America ascendant and the Soviet Union devastated by the conflict, the Space Race should have been...
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PublicAffairs
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2024-06-04
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This book offers a unique glance into the process of globalisation of the architectural practice during the last three decades through the lenses of innovative methodologies in architectural history based on quantitative data. Focusing on the golden age of globalisation...
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Springer
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2023-05-22
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A General History of Horology describes instruments used for the finding and measurement of time from Antiquity to the 21st century. In geographical scope it ranges from East Asia to the Americas. The instruments described are set in their technical and social contexts,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-07-28
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This book tells the story of Agent Orange, its usage and the policies that surround it. Agent Orange contains a contaminant known as TCDD. It was the most widely used defoliant from 1965 – 1970 and became one of three major tactical herbicides used in Vietnam. More than...
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Springer
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2022-07-25
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In der zweiten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts bearbeiteten westliche Gesellschaften Digitales in vielfältigen Gestaltungsräumen und verlagerten das digitale Zeitalter immer wieder in neue Zukünfte. Der Sammelband verfolgt technik-, sozial- und kulturhistorische...
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Springer VS
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2022-03-21
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Das Erdöl ist der Lebenssaft der industriellen Gesellschaften und zugleich der am meisten politisierte Rohstoff. Europa hat sich in der Vergangenheit in eine gefährliche Abhängigkeit von Ölimporten manövriert. Die vorliegende Studie geht der Frage nach, wie es seit dem...
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Springer VS
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2021-07-21
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In his book, pending between history and sociology, on engineers in thirteen countries of the western part of Europe, Professor Rolf Torstendahl approaches the development from around 1850 up to the present situation from different angles.
- One examines the...
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Springer
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2021-01-15
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This book tells the story of government-sponsored wiretapping in Britain and the United States from the rise of telephony in the 1870s until the terrorist attacks of 9/11.It pays particular attention to the 1990s, which marked one of the most dramatic turns in the...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-12-18
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The book highlights women’s contributions to science, which have often been marginalized and overlooked throughout history.The book first provides an overview of the development of the various science professions over time - placed in socioeconomic and cultural contexts...
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Springer
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2020-07-30
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From the longest-serving Flight Director in NASA's history comes a revealing account of high-stakes Mission Control work and the Space Shuttle program that has redefined our relationship with the universe.A compelling look inside the Space Shuttle missions that helped...
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Grand Central Publishing
Parution :
2020-07-14
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Revisit your favorites, find something new, or play your way through this light-hearted guide to the most celebrated and iconic arcade, console, and computer games from the 1950s to the 2000s.An accessible, informative look at the history and evolution some of the most...
Editeur :
Running Press Adult
Parution :
2020-07-14
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The book tells the unique story of WEIZAC, an early computer built by a “new nation” in the early 1950s. It was created in Israel, even though the feasibility of this project was actually close to null when it was initially conceived, in 1946, and, unlike most of the...
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Springer
Parution :
2019-08-16
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This book foregrounds the pressures that three transformative technologies in the long sixteenth century—the printing press, gunpowder, and the magnetic compass—placed on long-held literary practices, as well as on cultural and social structures. Sheila J. Nayar...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-10-29
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This book explores the US patent system, which helped practical minded innovators establish intellectual property rights and fulfill the need for achievement that motivates inventors and scholars alike. In this sense, the patent system was a parallel literature: a...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-03-28
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