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In this eloquent guide to the meanings of the postmodern era, Albert Borgmann charts the options before us as we seek alternatives to the jo...

Scientific investigation into manned flight began early in the 19th Century at a time when steam power was the only transportable propulsion...

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A perspective study of our scientific consciousness and a cogent and forceful challenge to its supremacy. Focusing on the rise of the mechan...

A collection of Harvard Business Review articles, featuring examples of strategies used by successful companies worldwide in moving toward g...

Wilhelm Ropke's A Humane Economy offers perhaps the most understandable and compelling explanation of how economies operate which has appear...

Why do cities, regions and nations experience periods of pronounced growth and decline? Why have the world's centres of economic activity be...

A richly illustrated introduction to the engineering triumphs that made America modern Praise for The Tower and the Bridge "Fascinating an...

This ambitious and far-reaching book transforms the way we think about the production, distribution, and consumption of the benefits and bu...

Innovation is the major driving force in organisations today. With the rise of truly global markets and the intensifying competition for cus...

In 1910 young Loren Eiseley watched the passage of Halley’s Comet with his father. The boy who became a famous naturalist was never ag...