Jon Agar: 3 books
Constant Touch
A Global History of the Mobile Phone
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2013
Mobile phones are a ubiquitous technology with a fascinating history. There are now as many mobile phones in the world as there are people. We carry them around with us wherever we go. And while we used to just speak into them, now mobiles are used to do all kinds of tasks, from talking to twittering,...
by Jon Agar
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2013
A compelling history of science from 1900 to the present day, this is the first book to survey modern developments in science during a century of unprecedented change, conflict and uncertainty. The scope is global.
Science's claim to access universal truths about the natural world made it an...
Turing and the Universal Machine (Icon Science)
The Making of the Modern Computer
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
The history of the computer is entwined with that of the modern world and most famously with the life of one man, Alan Turing. How did this device, which first appeared a mere 50 years ago, come to structure and dominate our lives so totally? An enlightening mini-biography of a brilliant but troubled man.