Cantitate/Preț
Produs

Born in Cambridge: 400 Years of Ideas and Innovators

Autor Karen Weintraub, Michael Kuchta
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 3 mai 2022
"Born in Cambridge is both a history book and a story of contemporary events. It provides several dozen vignettes of innovative people who did formative work in Cambridge, such as African American social critic and early Civil Rights leader W.E.B. Du Bois and television chef Julia Child. It also describes inventions made here, such as the sewing machine, the instant camera and modern radar. The stories are broken down into eight chapters, focused on: literature, social reform, 19th century science, industrial development, war-time innovations, digital advances, pop culture and 21st century biology. A final chapter sums up the lessons of four centuries of innovation and reinvention, explaining why Cambridge has managed to thrive, despite deindustrialization and other challenges"--
Citește tot Restrânge

Preț: 25461 lei

Nou

Puncte Express: 382

Preț estimativ în valută:
4873 5061$ 4047£

Carte disponibilă

Livrare economică 13-27 ianuarie 25
Livrare express 28 decembrie 24 - 03 ianuarie 25 pentru 6945 lei

Preluare comenzi: 021 569.72.76

Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780262046800
ISBN-10: 0262046806
Pagini: 424
Ilustrații: 197 FIGURES
Dimensiuni: 205 x 232 x 30 mm
Greutate: 1.23 kg
Editura: PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE LLC

Cuprins

Preface and Acknowledgments xi
Introduction xvii
1 The Literary-Industrial Complex 1
2 Social Reform in the People's Republic 47
3 Industrial Cambridge 87
4 Origins of a Research Enterprise 137
5 Cambridge Goes to War 185
6 Digital Cambridge 225
7 Harnessing Biology 259
8 Our Fair City in Popular Culture 293
9 Re: Invention 335
Notes 343
Index 385

Notă biografică

Karen Weintraub is a journalist, now working as health reporter at USA Today. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Scientific American, and STAT, and she is the coauthor of The Autism Revolution and Fast Minds. Michael Kuchta is an architect and campus planner.