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Submitted by khenkes on Tue, 12/28/2021 - 17:07

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Submitted by khenkes on Tue, 12/28/2021 - 17:07

Tracking through 12,000 years of history in the Middle East, Europe, and the United States, James Burke shows how past events and technologies led to modern inventions, such as the atomic bomb, engines, electric lamps, telecommunications, the computer, refrigeration, the production line, jets, plastics, rocketry, and movies.Connections.

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Submitted by khenkes on Wed, 10/02/2019 - 15:46

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Submitted by khenkes on Wed, 10/02/2019 - 15:46

Tracking through 12,000 years of history in the Middle East, Europe, and the United States, James Burke shows how past events and technologies led to modern inventions, such as the atomic bomb, engines, electric lamps, telecommunications, the computer, refrigeration, the production line, jets, plastics, rocketry, and movies.Connections.

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  • Burke, James
1995
Examines the ideas, inventions, and coincidences that have culminated in the major technological achievements of the modern world.

Circles

50 round trips through history, technology, science, culture
  • Burke, James
2000

The Axemaker's gift

a double-edged history of human culture
  • Burke, James
1995

The pinball effect

how Renaissance water gardens made the carburetor possible, and other journeys through knowledge
  • Burke, James
1997
Explores what the author calls the web of change, looking at how discoveries from the past connect to knowledge and inventions of the present.

The axemaker's gift

technology's capture and control of our minds and culture
  • Burke, James
1997
Argues that the cumulative effects of technology have reshaped our world and the way we think and have resulted in our valuing innovation and analysis and ignoring older kinds of knowledge born of intuition, this ancient knowledge must be rediscovered for our survival in the future.

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