Culture’s Engine offers an insightful and penetrating analysis of the enduring relationship between technology and society. William Gosling explores in absorbing historical detail how humans have experienced change through a sequence of technological revolutions, each giving rise to new social organisation, which in turn influences the shape and timing of the next such revolution. Gosling argues that it is through this dialogue that successful technology sets the direction and pace of all cultural evolution. The state of technology at any time is the major influence on the world, and not just the material world. This book then is not a history of technology, still less of science. It fundamentally questions how technology and social forces interact, leading to these successive revolutions and their outcomes.
When Julia agrees to be Raouf's house guest at his palace in Ashuria she does not reckon on triggering a bloody family feud, with him as its first victim. Back in England, Caleb Burke makes his bid to take over Lord Cudworth's firm expecting an ordinary business battle which he must win. It is Cudworth's long friendship with Raouf's father Asur Mamun that locks the two conflicts together. Although the Bulgarian baby scandal and the fuss over the Breton onion sellers seem to play into Burke's hands by undermining a prime minister who is not his friend, it is the falling-out over Leveller armoured cars that turns Defence Secretary Eric Scuddock into his firm ally. Only Julia can unlock the situation. What will she do?
Use of the Radio Spectrum; Demand for the spectrum; Coexistence; Constructive use of a limited resource; Spatial separation; The time domain; The frequency domain; Exploiting time; Trunking and packets; Exploiting time and space; Cellular radio; Transmission orthogonality in the sequency domain (CDMA); The Radio Bands; Summary band by band; ELF, ULF, SLF, VLF, LF, MF, HF, VHF, UHF, SHF, EHF; Conclusion.
Why do we admire sportsmen and artists rather than salesmen and lawyers? Why are we attracted to strong political leaders, where flexible responsive leadership is demonstrably more effective? This book looks at the range of questions that can be examined via control theory. This is a layperson's introduction to control theory, explaining how control affects politics and economics as well as the more obvious fields of science and technology.
This updated and expanded second edition of a much lauded work provides a current overview of the impacts of climate change on tropical forests. The authors also investigate past, present and future climatic influences on the ecosystems with the highest biodiversity on the planet. Tropical Rainforest Responses to Climatic Change, Second Edition, looks at how tropical rain forest ecology is altered by climate change, rather than simply seeing how plant communities were altered. Shifting the emphasis on to ecological processes, e.g. how diversity is structured by climate and the subsequent impact on tropical forest ecology, provides the reader with a more comprehensive coverage. A major theme of the book is the interaction between humans, climate and forest ecology. The authors, all foremost experts in their fields, explore the long term occupation of tropical systems, the influence of fire and the future climatic effects of deforestation, together with anthropogenic emissions. Incorporating modelling of past and future systems paves the way for a discussion of conservation from a climatic perspective, rather than the usual plea to stop logging. This second edition provides an updated text in this rapidly evolving field. The existing chapters are revised and updated and two entirely new chapters deal with Central America and the effect of fire on wet forest systems. In the first new chapter, the paleoclimate and ecological record from Central America (Lozano, Correa, Bush) is discussed, while the other deals with the impact of fire on tropical ecosystems. It is hoped that Jonathon Overpeck, who has been centrally involved in the 2007 and 2010 IPCC reports, will provide a Foreword to the book.
Deep design' aims at a product, process or service which is feasible, works and looks well, is wanted, survives in use, can be scrapped when its life ends and fits our social and political aspirations. For designers and all who care about the use and abuse of technology, this book shows how it has to be done.
An alphabetical listing of more than ten thousand male and female first names details the origins and history, meaning, social significance, literary associations, influence, and popularity of each name
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