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List Price: $45.00 Price: $21.77 You Save: $23.23 (52%) "From Ripples to Waves" - By Daphine
Historians might argue that the most important development to happen in recent centuries is the Industrial Revolution. That is certainly the argument made by Peter Stearns in The Industrial Revolution in World History. Nothing continues to shape the world more the way this revolution has. The way we seek entertainment, the homes we live in, and even the things we think about have all been refocused. In this book, Stearns explores the global impact of such a major revolution and how it "continues to shape the contemporary world."
The fourth edition of Stearns' book is one that offers unparalleled access to information about non-Western industrialization. He takes readers to the Middle East and Asia to discover information many of us never had access to. According to Stearns, the Industrial Revolution "was the most important single development in human history over the past three centuries." Concisely, he goes on to ... full review(5) -
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List Price: $8.95 Price: $6.72 You Save: $2.23 (25%) "Great photographs." - By M. Heiss (USA)
The sweeping arc of human ingenuity sped up dramatically during the Industrial Revolution, making for intensely interesting subject matter for kids. This is a good book for looking at the interconnectedness of machines and commerce and prosperity.
Beginning in England, the book looks at the laborious process of making cloth and then shows how that process was sytematically divided into steps and mechanized. The productivity improvements and quality of life improvements were immediate and far-reaching.
Readers get to look at water-driven mills and steam-driven power plants, and the industrialization of cotton mills, flour mills, and mining.
Industrialization led to urbanization, as prospects opened up for higher wages and better opportunities in the cities. Eventually, it led to American westward expansion: a growing population that could inexpensively clothe and feed itself could raise its sights to land ownership and greater prosperity. Transportation advances helped ... full review(2) -
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List Price: $16.95 Price: $12.19 You Save: $4.76 (28%) "Thorough Information" - By Talvi
The Industrial Revolution For Kids looks and reads very much like a textbook from the 1980s. It features a lot of great information, some photographs from the period, call outs of particular individuals and their lives, and then the hands on crafts. Although there was a bit of a disconnect between the presentation and text (the presentation was geared more for Junior High level students but the text read very much like elementary school), the book is informative enough to be a good teaching aid, especially for homeschooled children.
The book breaks down as follows: A Time of Sweeping Change, New Ways of Working, New Ways of Living, Kids at Work, Catastrophes, Unions, and Strikes, Helps and Hope For Better Lives, A New Culture Emerges, Epilogue, Resources, Notes, and Bibliography. I read this with my 11 year old on a Kindle cloud reader on my computer and a ... full review(8) -
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List Price: $21.95 Price: $19.75 You Save: $2.20 (10%) "Ironically Observed and Elegantly Written" - By Book Mark
E.J. Hobsbawn, noted by the New Republic as one of the "great historians of our century", explores new and familiar ground in Industry and Empire: The Birth of the Industrial Revolution. With more than a quarter of a million copies sold, Hobsbawn is the master of tackling those remaining historical questions. He speaks of the geography, the social issues, and government issues behind the revolution.
While some readers express some displeasure with Hobsbawn's bias towards communism, his exploration of the origins of the Industrial Revolution is thorough. It depicts Britain's rise to the top as a major industrial power, and then its sharp decline. The text does a fine job of incorporating political, economic, and historical perspectives to paint an accurate picture of the world as it existed hundreds of years ago. I would reserve praise regarding the time's ethnology to Andrew Lees who tackles this in [[ASIN:1626549281 Cities ... full review(14) -
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List Price: $54.95 Price: $42.21 You Save: $12.74 (23%) "A solid, no-nonsense book about an important subject" - By Bob Newman (Marblehead, Massachusetts USA)
First published in 1948, this book has gone through many editions, the latest, as we can see here, put out in 1998. I recently read the 1964 edition, picked up long ago at a booksale in Melbourne, Australia. Ashton's work is probably timeless. It is a down-to-earth, very well reasoned history of the various historical tendencies and phenomena that together are called "the industrial revolution". I cannot vouch for this volume being absolutely correct. The author does not have much time for those who dwell on the evils of industrialization, or who want to include class struggle in their analysis. Though I was not fully convinced of this, still I was willing to listen. Not being an expert in the field, I was looking for a decent explanation or summary of the whole process. I ... full review(10) -
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List Price: $16.95 Price: $12.83 You Save: $4.12 (24%) "excellent for what it is" - By Thomas A Gibson (Holmdel, NJ)
Not technical. Instead it focuses on the impact of technologies, and the players who created or deployed them. Two more words required? OK: foo bar.(24) -
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List Price: $28.00 Price: $14.13 You Save: $13.87 (50%) "excellent read. A must read for all wanna be ..." - By Amazon Customer
The book clearly and very precisely lists a short summary of the some of the emerging technologies that are happening today or coming soon in the years ahead. He argues that some of these emerging techs will play a key role in the formation and shaping of the 4th industrial revolution. excellent read. A must read for all wanna be industrial futurists and entrepreneurs !(95) -
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List Price: $16.00 Price: $12.03 You Save: $3.97 (25%) "Interesting from midway on" - By Constant Reader
If you've never heard of the maker movement then the first part of the book will be interesting for you. If you have you'll find the same topics that you've read many times before and you'll start to wonder, why am I reading this. I was just about to put the book down until I reached about 43% and the author started to describe his personal experience being and maker and how he formed a company. These experiences are what then give the book credence. From 43% to the end I enjoyed the book and learned a lot of new things. I almost wish the book could've been rearranged so the interesting parts were in the beginning and then followed by the maker movement descriptions.
I recommend the book to anyone contemplating where our economy is going and how they might be more involved.(205) -
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List Price: $19.00 Price: $11.02 You Save: $7.98 (42%) "A new lease on life" - By James Ferguson (Vilnius, Lithuania)
Paul Hawken and the Lovins have teamed up to provide one of the best overall books on "Natural Capitalism" which offers a whole new approach to the way in which we do business. For too long we have taken natural capital for granted, squandering our natural resources and unleashing an unhealthy array of by-products which have further contaminated our world. It is time to add natural capital to the ledger sheets, properly balancing our record books. But, far from being a screed the book is meticulously researched with extensive notes and references to help guide your own research into the subject.
Everything from the Toyota Production System, which offered a leaner, much less wasteful approach to auto manufacturing, to the Hypercar which offers a hybrid-electric propulsion engine which would result in much greater fuel effeciency are illustrated. It is this lean thinking which the authors think ... full review(123) -
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List Price: $18.99 Price: $12.37 You Save: $6.62 (35%) "A Road Map of the Future" - By rreader10
Although the writer is clearly sold on the idea of the Third Industrial Revolution, it is interesting to get an insiders look at the movement. And there is enough support from governments to believe that this book gives a very reasonable indication of what the future holds. These are interesting times ahead.(87) -
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Price: $7.96 "great mix of pictures and text" - By activelita
My students love doing book reports to this whole series. Top hats off to whoever dreamed up the concept. Just right for middle school classes.(1) -
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List Price: $16.99 Price: $10.67 You Save: $6.32 (37%) "Interesting vignettes of economic history" - By Alan F. Sewell
This book is written in two parts. The first 90% explores that remarkable period of economic growth in the 19th Century when the United States transformed itself from a nation of stone-fenced farms and backwoods log cabins into a continent-spanning urban/industrial economy almost as large as the rest of the world's economies combined. The final 10% is an analysis on how the lessons learned from our early economic rise might help us to manage our trading relations with China, which is currently in the same stage of explosive economic growth as we were then.
This book isn't an organized scholarly history of America's early economic growth (many books of that type have already been written). Rather it is a series of colorful vignettes exploring the development of various machine technologies intertwined with insights into the remarkable character of early Americans that expedited our rise as an economic powerhouse. Author ... full review(39) -
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List Price: $30.99 Price: $22.31 You Save: $8.68 (28%) "High wages and cheap coal." - By Luka
One of Allen's best works. You don't have to necessarily believe all of the arguments Allen presents as to why Britain got there first in the industrial revolution, but you can still learn a lot about working class life in Britain as well as a general economic history of Britain and to a lesser extent Western and Mediterranean Europe (those are the two places commonly used to compared to the UK). I was especially engrossed in learning about calorie intake in Europe and trying to match up what people wrote about common diets with reconstructed data on food output, prices, and wages. Otherwise, his basic theory is of course that high wages and cheap energy(coal) made it more lucrative for the British to invent and invest in labor saving technology. Coal was abundant in Britain, urbanization and commercialism were creating a more educated and skilled labor force.
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