Basic books mai 2009 (3 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The landmark history of France and French culture in the eighteenth century, a winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. "Robert Darnton has the inquisitiveness of an investigative reporter, the thoroughness of a rigorous scholar, and the sensitivity of a novelist." New Republic When the apprentices of a Paris printing shop in the 1730s held a series of mock trials and then hanged all the cats they could lay their hands on, why did they find it so hilariously funny that they choked with laughter when they reenacted it in pantomime some twenty times Why in the eighteenth-century version of Little Red Riding Hood did the wolf eat the child at the end What did the anonymous townsman of Montpelier have in mind when he kept an exhaustive dossier on all the activities of his native city These are some of the provocative questions the distinguished Harvard historian Robert Darnton answers inThe Great Cat Massacre, a kaleidoscopic view of European culture during what we like to call "The Age of Enlightenment." A classic of European history, it is an essential starting point for understanding Enlightenment France.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The subject of this expertly crafted narrative is James Hutton, the gentleman farmer from Edinburgh who discovered that the earth is millions of years old, not six thousand, and paved the way for Darwin's theory of evolution. 8-page insert.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - An illuminatinglookat smart technology, by the legendary designer and author ofThe Design of Everyday Things. "Written with wit, authority and the pragmatic, everyman touch that probably made Norman so good at his job in the first place."BBC Focus Magazine InThe Design of Future Things,bestselling author Donald A. Norman presents a revealing examination of smarttechnology, from smooth-talking GPS units to cantankerous refrigerators.Exploring the links between design and psychology, he offers a consumer-oriented theory of natural human-machine interaction that can be put into practice by engineers and industrial designers of tomorrow's blinking machines. A fascinating lookat the perils and promise of the intelligent objects of the future,The Design of FutureThingsis a must-read for anyone interested in the dawn of a new era in technology.…