Presents an illustrated overview of the history of technology, providing information on how historical change impacts the development of new technology and technological innovation, from early modern Europe, to the Industrial Revolution and early industrial America. Includes timeline, maps and diagrams.

Presents an illustrated overview of the history of technology, providing information on how historical change impacts the development of new technology and technological innovation, incluing information on the United States from 1870 to 1970,the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany, and the world scince 1970. Includes timeline, maps and diagrams.

Presents an illustrated overview of the history of technology, providing information on how historical change impacts the development of new technology and technological innovation, from the Stone Age, to ancient Egypt and India. Includes timeline, maps and diagrams.

When rag doll 9 first comes to life, he finds himself in a post-apocalyptic world where all humans are gone. It is only by chance that he discovers a small community of others like him taking refuge from fearsome machines that roam the earth intent on their extinction. Despite being the newest member of the group, 9 convinces the others that hiding will do them no good. They must take the offensive if they are to survive and they will need to discover...

Out of Control chronicles the dawn of a new era in which the machines and systems that drive our economy are so complex and autonomous as to be indistinguishable from living things. Kevin Kelly is Executive Editor of Wired, the new bible of the techno-culture. Formerly Publisher and Editor of Whole Earth Review, he has been instrumental in helping launch a number of cultural innovations: The Hacker's Conference; Cyberthon; the first virtual-reality...

Berserkers are killer machines whose sole purpose is to destroy all living things. They sieze a floating laboratory full of human germ-plasm. Will the human pursurers manage to find the missing lab and defeat the Berserkers?

Examines the inventions, crafts and scientific achievements of different cultures through history. Includes pictorial timelines and step-by-step projects.

Smil takes readers from bacterial invasions through animal metabolisms to megacities and the global economy. He begins with organisms whose mature sizes range from microscopic to enormous, looking at disease-causing microbes, the cultivation of staple crops, and human growth from infancy to adulthood. He examines the growth of energy conversions and man-made objects that enable economic activities—developments that have been essential to civilization....

"An essential analysis of the modern science and technology that makes our twenty-first century lives possible--a scientist's investigation into what science really does, and does not, accomplish. We have never had so much information at our fingertips and yet most of us don't know how the world really works. This book explains seven of the most fundamental realities governing our survival and prosperity. From energy and food production, through our...