David Noble: 18 books
Forces of Production
A Social History of Industrial Automation
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Focusing on the design and implementation of computer-based automatic machine tools, David F. Noble challenges the idea that technology has a life of its own. Technology has been both a convenient scapegoat and a universal solution, serving to disarm critics, divert attention, depoliticize debate,...
Church Conflict by the Book
Discover Inner Healing, Renewed Hope and Powerful Fellowship for Challenging Times
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Break free from the bonds of destructive church conflict and discover how God’s Word brings inner healing, renewed hope and powerful fellowship for challenging times. Thoroughly biblical and exceedingly practical, Church Conflict by the Book enables you to understand and extinguish the flames of conflict...
by Taro IGARASHI, David NOBLE
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2017
Architects play an essential role in contemporary society, helping to shape the environment in which we live and work. This book explores how architects in Japan have responded to the demands of their times and how they continue to engage with new economic realities and the shifting global order._x000D_...
Debating the End of History
The Marketplace, Utopia, and the Fragmentation of Intellectual Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2012
Why do modern people assume that there will be perpetual economic growth? Because, David W. Noble tells us in this provocative study of cultural criticism, such a utopian conviction is the necessary foundation for bourgeois culture. One can imagine the existence of modern middle classes only as long...
The Religion of Technology
The Divinity of Man and the Spirit of Invention
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
Arguing against the widely held belief that technology and religion are at war with each other, David F. Noble's groundbreaking book reveals the religious roots and spirit of Western technology.
It links the technological enthusiasms of the present day with the ancient and enduring Christian...
Beyond the Promised Land
The Movement and the Myth
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2005
Iconoclast David F. Noble traces the evolution and eclipse of the biblical mythology of the Promised Land, the foundational story of Western Culture. Part impassioned manifesto, part masterful survey of opposed philosophical and economic schools, Beyond the Promised Land brings into focus the twisted...
A World Without Women
The Christian Clerical Culture of Western Science
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
In this groundbreaking work of history, David Noble examines the origins and implications of the masculine culture of Western science and technology. He begins by asking why women have figure so little in the development of science, and then proceeds—in a fascinating and radical analysis—to trace...
by David F Noble
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
Hailed a “significant contribution” by The New York Times, David Noble’s book America by Design describes the factors that have shaped the history of scientific technology in the United States. Since the beginning, technology and industry have been undeniably intertwined, and Noble demonstrates...
by David F Noble
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
Focusing on the design and implementation of an important new production technology—computer-based automatic machine tools—David F. Noble challenges the idea that technology has a life of its own which proceeds along a singular path. Such as seen, technology has been both a convenient scapegoat...
Ancient Ruins and Rock Art of the Southwest
An Archaeological Guide
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2015
This fourth edition of David Grant Noble's indispensable guide to archaeological ruins of the American Southwest includes updated text and many newly opened archaeological sites. From Alibates Flint Quarries in Texas to the Zuni-Acoma Trail in New Mexico, readers are provided with such favorites as...
Good Faith and Truthful Ignorance
A Case of Transatlantic Bigamy
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 1991
Good Faith and Truthful Ignorance uncovers from history the fascinating and strange story of Spanish explorer Francisco Noguerol de Ulloa. in 1556, accompanied by his second wife, Francisco returned to his home in Spain after a profitable twenty-year sojourn in the new world of Peru. However, unlike...
People of the Volcano
Andean Counterpoint in the Colca Valley of Peru
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2007
While it now attracts many tourists, the Colca Valley of Peru’s southern Andes was largely isolated from the outside world until the 1970s, when a passable road was built linking the valley—and its colonial churches, terraced hillsides, and deep canyon—to the city of Arequipa and its airport,...
The Plague Files
Crisis Management in Sixteenth-Century Seville
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
In the first half of the 1580s, Seville, Spain, confronted a series of potentially devastating crises. In three years, the city faced a brush with deadly contagion, including the plague; the billeting of troops in preparation for Philip II's invasion of Portugal; crop failure and famine following...
Treme: The Cookbook
In The Kitchen with the Stars of the Award-Winning HBO Series
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2013
Inspired by David Simon's award-winning HBO series Treme, this celebration of the culinary spirit of post-Katrina New Orleans features recipes and tributes from the characters, real and fictional, who highlight the Crescent City's rich foodways. From chef Janette Desautel's own Crawfish Ravioli and...
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