Author: Laurence F. Whittemore
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
Keywords: ingenuity, yankee
Number of Pages: 48
Published: 2006-07-25
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 1428660585
ISBN-13: 9781428660588

Delivered At Montpelier, Vermont During The 1946 American Pilgrimage Of The Newcomen Society.

Author: Frank Parker Stockbridge
Publisher: University Press of the Pacific
Keywords: war, ingenuity, yankee
Number of Pages: 396
Published: 2002-12-21
List price: $17.99
ISBN-10: 1410203557
ISBN-13: 9781410203557

This 1920 book by Frank Parker Stockbridge is a fascinating pictorial account of the scientific, industrial, and technical efforts to mobilize and equip the nation for World War I. The 170 old pictures are fascinating and include: a horse in a gas mask, women shipyard workers learning electro welding, the pouring of a "concrete" ship, pilots sitting in open air double wing planes using the new wireless telephony, the Browning aircraft machine rifle, and much more.

Authors:Maren Leed, David Sokotow,
Publisher: Center for Strategic and International Studies
Keywords: gap, ingenuity
Number of Pages: 64
Published: 2010-01-19
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0892065966
ISBN-13: 9780892065967

The officer management system comprises the laws, policies, procedures, and practices that guide how officers enter service and are subsequently developed, promoted, and separated. The purpose of this study is to examine whether that system aligns with the demands officers are likely to face in the years ahead. The basic question is whether we can continue to count on success. The fundamental nature of war remains unchanged, and there is much that the U.S. military confronts that is not unique in its history. Our country has seen, however, a definite shift in the challenges it faces on the

Author: Gillian Darley
Publisher: Yale University Press
Keywords: ingenuity, living, evelyn, john
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2007-02-28
List price: $42.00
ISBN-10: 0300112270
ISBN-13: 9780300112276

This new biography of John Evelyn, diarist, scholar, and intellectual virtuoso (1620-1706), is the first account to make full use of his huge unpublished archive, deposited at the British Library in 1995. This crucial material permits a broader and richer picture of Evelyn, his life, and his friendships than permitted by his own celebrated diaries.Gillian Darley provides a rounded portrait of Evelyn’s eighty-five years--his family life, his exile in Paris, his interests, and his preoccupations. Evelyn lived through some of England’s most tumultuous history, through five reigns, the Civil W

Author: John H. Lienhard
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: technology, culture, looks, engineer, ingenuity, engines
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2003-12-04
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0195167317
ISBN-13: 9780195167313

Technology is not just a byword to refer to the sum of designs and applications that enable us to do things like open cans--or make cans in the first place. It is, writes engineer John Lienhard in this imaginative survey, an instrument by which we become more human, a means of interacting with and learning from the world. Technology mirrors humans, and humans mirror technology, and the question that remains is "whether we are to be lifted up or dragged down in the process." Although he is quick to acknowledge the harmful applications of technology over the years, especially in producing ever m

Author: Bernd Heinrich
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Keywords: survival, ingenuity, world, winter
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2004-01-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0060957379
ISBN-13: 9780060957377

The animal kingdom relies on staggering evolutionary innovations to survive winter. Unlike their human counterparts, who alter the environment to accommodate physical limitations, most animals are adapted to an amazing range ofconditions. In Winter World: The Ingenuity of Animal Survival, biologist, illustrator, and award-winning author Bernd Heinrich explores his local woods, where he delights in the seemingly infinite feats of animal inventiveness he discovers there.Because winter drastically affects the most elemental component of all life -- water -- radical changes in a creature’s p

Author: Anne Macdonald
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Keywords: changed, america, inventors, women, ingenuity, feminine
Number of Pages: 540
Published: 1994-02-08
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0345383141
ISBN-13: 9780345383143

"Written with clarity and a lively eye both for detail and for the progress of feminism in the United States."SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLEIn this fascinating study of American women inventors, historian Anne Macdonald shows how creative, resourceful, and entrepreneurial women helped to shatter the ancient stereotypes of mechanically inept womanhood. In presenting their stories, Anne Macdonald’s thorough research in patent archives and her engaging use of period magazine, journals, lectures, records from major fairs and expositions, and interviews, have made her book nothing less than an overa