We, the Navigators
We, the Navigators

Author: David Lewis

Publisher: University of Hawaii Press

Published: 1994-05-01

Total Pages: 472

ISBN-13: 9780824815820

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This new edition includes a discussion of theories about traditional methods of navigation developed during recent decades, the story of the renaissance of star navigation throughout the Pacific, and material about navigation systems in Indonesia, Siberia, and the Indian Ocean.

Cities and Their Vital Systems
Cities and Their Vital Systems

Author: Advisory Committee on Technology and Society

Publisher: National Academies Press

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 1298

ISBN-13: 9780309037860

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Cities and Their Vital Systems asks basic questions about the longevity, utility, and nature of urban infrastructures; analyzes how they grow, interact, and change; and asks how, when, and at what cost they should be replaced. Among the topics discussed are problems arising from increasing air travel and airport congestion; the adequacy of water supplies and waste treatment; the impact of new technologies on construction; urban real estate values; and the field of "telematics," the combination of computers and telecommunications that makes money machines and national newspapers possible.