Böcker av David Morton

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This is a story of life in a large lake and of Morris the Mirror Carp who is now old, and happy to live out the rest of his days grazing on the gravel lake-bed, looking for cheese. His peace is disturbed when Queen Thea, a Tench, asks him to search the lake and find out what is happening to the fish, as the population is getting smaller.

Age of Concrete is about people building homes on tenuous ground in the outer neighborhoods of Maputo, Mozambique, places thought of simply as slums. But up close, they are an archive: houses of reeds, wood, zinc, and concrete embodying the ambitions of people who built their own largest investment and greatest bequest to the future.

A powerfully dramatic play about Charles Darwin's voyage on board HMS Beagle - an adventure that changed not only his own life, but also the history of the entire world.

Revised edition of: Gross anatomy: the big picture. 2011.

The author demonstrates how the history of the hardware of sound recording and the ways people use it helps in understanding how a particular technology became a fixture in everyday life. Each case study emphasizes a significant aspect of the culture of recording and its relationship to technology.

How did one of the great inventions of the 19th century - Thomas Edison's phonography - eventually lead to one of the most culturally and economically significant technologies of the 20th and 21st centuries? This text traces the history of the cultural revolution begun by Edison's invention.

Provides the first history of what engineers call electron devices--vacuum tubes, lasers, image displays, transistors, and computer chips--that form the hidden but increasingly important "guts" of modern technologies.