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Union occupation of parts of the Confederacy during the Civil War forced federal officials to confront questions about the social order that would replace slavery. This volume of Freedom presents a documentary history of the emergence of free-labor relations in the large plantation areas of the Unio... More

This illustrated dictionary is a valuable reference for practicing  engineers, technicians, technical writers, secretaries, and students. The electronics explosion over the past decade has generated many new terms and brought a revival or revision of existing terms in electricity and electronic... More

Hailed as the Thomas Edison and Henry Ford of Silicon Valley, Robert Noyce was a brilliant inventor, a leading entrepreneur, and a daring risk taker who piloted his own jets and skied mountains accessible only by helicopter. Now, in The Man Behind the Microchip, Leslie Berlin captures not only this ... More

The American Trojan Horse is a historical and descriptive study of the United States/Canadian mass communications "border war." It centers on the millions of dollars spent annually by Canadian companies to advertise on U.S. border stations. Canada's measures to retain this money led to a protracted ... More