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What makes information feel true or compelling in our contemporary digital societies? This book brings together different disciplinary understandings of "authenticity" in order to find alternative ways to approach mis- and disinformation that go beyond contemporary fact-checking and its search for the "authentic" truth. Patterned under the algorithmic flows of digital capitalism, authenticity itself is subject to variation, iteration, and outs...

The Victorian and Edwardian periods saw the development of the steam locomotive in Britain from a comparatively simple machine to a powerful main line express capable of speeds of a hundred miles an hour. The book starts with an introduction dealing with the main lines of development in the north of Britain and that is followed by a picture section with over a hundred photographs. Each illustration has an extended caption giving details of the...

The Victorian and Edwardian periods saw the development of the steam locomotive in Britain from a comparatively simple machine to a powerful main line express capable of speeds of a hundred miles an hour. The book starts with an introduction dealing with the main line of development and that is followed by a picture section with over 190 photographs. Each illustration has an extended caption giving details of the engine and its history. The ma...

There has always been a romance around ocean liners, but this book looks behind the romance to show the reality of travelling the oceans of the world. The book starts with the first scheduled transatlantic crossings in the age of sail, then moves on through the development of the steamers and ends in the present day, when ocean liners have given way to airliners. All aspects of the subject are discussed. The experience of travelling by sea var...

This book is about technology and how it has changed the lives of people on three continents over the last three hundred years. The development of the cotton industry was the starting point for one of the great turning points in history - the industrial revolution. It began with the importation of cloth into Britain from India and that created a new fashion. As the demand for cotton cloth grew, British inventors began to find ways of making th...

The book traces the history of the various craft that have been used for transport on Britain's rivers and canals from the earliest times to the present day.

This is the story of how for more than a hundred years steam power played a vital role in the development of road transport.

This is a review of the campaigns for museums undertaken by the Society of Arts in Victorian Britain

The definitive history of the great engineers who were responsible for the industrial revolution

Thomas Telford's life was extraordinary: born in the Lowlands of Scotland, where his father worked as a shepherd, he ended his days as the most revered engineer in the world, known punningly as The Colossus of Roads.

This is the first book to tell the story of London's transport system from the earliest times to the present day.

The book gives a new perspective on the life of Isambard Brunel.

This book tells the story of London's maritime history from the the establishment of Roman Londinium to the present day.

Veterinary disease refer to an impairment that leads to a modification in the vital functions of animals. These diseases are an important area of study as they affect the economy and may transmit the causative agents to the humans. There are several reasons which have been cited for the spread of diseases, like poor sanitation, nutritional defects, pathogenic defects, improper management, etc. Pathogenic defects include certain organisms that ...

A Comprehensive History of the Industry, New Factual Information, Interesting Narrative, Useful Selection of Illustrations

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Canal Builders is a classic history book for anyone interested in the development of Britain's canal system. The book, which was first published in the 1970s, is now republished here in a new fifth edition. It takes the reader from the middle of the eighteenth century, to the start of the railway age in the early nineteenth century.

In un castello in cima alla collina vive Edward, geniale creazione di uno scienziato che, morendo, lo ha lasciato in balia della solitudine e imperfetto: al posto delle mani ha infatti delle enormi e taglienti forbici. A far uscire Edward dall'oscurità è una signora dall'animo gentile, capitata per caso al castello, che lo porta a vivere in casa sua con la famiglia e cerca di farlo entrare in società come abilissimo parrucchiere'. Per Edward t...

In un castello in cima alla collina vive Edward, geniale creazione di uno scienziato che, morendo, lo ha lasciato in balia della solitudine e imperfetto: al posto delle mani ha infatti delle enormi e taglienti forbici. A far uscire Edward dall'oscurità è una signora dall'animo gentile, capitata per caso al castello, che lo porta a vivere in casa sua con la famiglia e cerca di farlo entrare in società come abilissimo parrucchiere'. Per Edward t...

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