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Donald Clarke Ordine dei libri (cronologico)

    The new Illustrated Science and Invention Encyclopedia 20
    The New Illustrated Science and Invention Encyclopedia 24
    The New Illustrated Science and Invention Encyclopedia 25
    The New Illustrated Science and Invention Encyclopedia 4
    The New Illustrated Science and Invention Encyclopedia 18
    The New Illustrated Science and Invention Encyclopedia 10

    • The Rise and Fall of Popular Music

      • 620pagine
      • 22 ore di lettura

      A history of popular music covers balladry, minstrelsy, ragtime, blues, jazz, swing, pop, r&b, folk, country, gospel, rock'n'roll, heavy metal, dance music, punk, New Wave, technopop, and rap

      The Rise and Fall of Popular Music1996
      3,1

    • Wishing on the Moon

      • 480pagine
      • 17 ore di lettura

      No singer has been more mythologized and more misunderstood than jazz legend Billie Holiday. This biography separates fact from fiction to reveal Lady Day in all stages of her short, tragic life.

      Wishing on the Moon1995
      3,9

    • The Encyclopedia of Inventions

      The Story of Technology Through the Ages

      • 152pagine
      • 6 ore di lettura

      An historical chronology of inventions, Ancient the wheel, tools, numerals, paper, the bow, printing, mapmaking, water wheels, windmills, nets and rope, looms, sailing, the rudder, pulleys and gears, glass, plate glass, the crane, balances and weights, boats, bricks, pumps, smelting and alloying, casting of metals, coinage, iron and steel, plumbing, pottery, salt mining, canals and locks. Middle Ages and clocks, crank handles, spectacles, magnetic compass, quadrant, knitting machinery, barometer, firing mechanisms, microscope, thermometers, telescopes, pendulums, gunpowder. Industrial flying shuttle, seed drill, chronometer, electrostatic generation, Volta's pile, machine tools, steam engines, steamboat, locomotive, cotton gin Modern internal combustion engine, telegraph and telephone, photography, generation of electricity, sound recording, flying machine, radio and television, radar, transistor, and nuclear power.

      The Encyclopedia of Inventions1977