THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY Book

EBook Description: Welcome to a complicated book that I think will be easy to read and use. Most histories of science or technology present a highly selected story of the most important discoveries. The History of Science and Technology takes a different approach. While there are narrative accounts of more than a hundred different topics �� these are the short essays that have gray backgrounds to distinguish them from other elements of the book �� the main body of the book is a chronicle of virtually everything that has happened in science and technology, including false steps and ignored precursors. Cross references, labeled See also, direct the reader to the related material that begins, continues, or concludes a line of investigation.

The purpose of this book is to provide you, the reader, with the information you need to interpret what is behind all of the technology smoke and acronym mirrors surrounding digital video technology enabling you to better understand today�s new digital products. At last you will be able to answer puzzling questions about digital technology like how much storage space and bandwidth are necessary to handle digital video at specifi c quality levels and image rates.

Tobacco in Russian History and Culture: The Seventeenth Century to the Present (Routledge Studies in Cultural History) Book

Tobacco in Russian History and Culture: The Seventeenth Century to the Present explores tobacco�s role in Russian culture through a multidisciplinary approach starting with the growth of tobacco consumption from its first introduction in the seventeenth century until its pandemic status in the current post-Soviet health crisis.

Saving Darwin: How to Be a Christian and Believe in Evolution Book

Drawing on his fundamentalist upbringing and experience teaching physics at an evangelical college, Giberson has a native understanding of how conservative Christians feel and think about evolution. As a Christian evolutionist, he finds himself occupying a frequently misunderstood middle ground in the midst of a culture war, fought with culture-war weapons by culture warriors. Behind the culture war, Giberson sketches an engaging historical narrative including Darwin's background in intelligent design, what really happened at the Scopes monkey trial and how catastrophist geology derived from Seventh Day Adventism found an audience among the evangelical mainstream in the post-Sputnik era.

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