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A History of Technology and Environment
From stone tools to ecological crisis
by Edward L. Golding
<p>This book provides an accessible overview of the ways that key areas of technology have impacted global ecosystems and natural communities. It offers a new way of thinking about the overall origins of environmental problems. Combining ...
ISBN: 9781134867813
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eBookErasing the Boundaries between Science and Technology
by David F. Channell
<p>Are science and technology independent of one another? Is technology dependent upon science, and if so, how is it dependent? Is science dependent upon technology, and if so how is it dependent? Or, are science and technology becoming so ...
ISBN: 9781351977401
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eBookXerography, Art, and Activism in the Late Twentieth Century
by Kate Eichhorn
<p><strong>How xerography became a creative medium and political tool, arming artists and activists on the margins with an accessible means of making their messages public.</strong></p> <p>This is the story of how the xerographic copier, or ...
ISBN: 9780262334341
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eBookOceans, Airmen, and a Quest for Adventure
by Anthony J. Vallone
<p><em>Air Vagabonds</em> is the story of the amazing, true (mis)adventures of a band of rogues piloting aircraft alone into exotic and deadly destinations.</p> <p>In the late 1970s and through the 1980s the demand for light aircraft eclipsed ...
ISBN: 9781588344656
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eBookThe Emergence of Video Games in America
by Michael Z. Newman
<p><strong>The cultural contradictions of early video games: a medium for family fun (but mainly for middle-class boys), an improvement over pinball and television (but possibly harmful)</strong></p> <p>Beginning with the release of the ...
ISBN: 9780262338196
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eBookAtlantic Automobilism: Emergence and Persistence of the Car, 1895-1940
by Mom, Gijs
<p> Our continued use of the combustion engine car in the 21st century, despite many rational arguments against it, makes it more and more difficult to imagine that transport has a sustainable future. Offering a sweeping transatlantic ...
ISBN: 9781782383789
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eBookBreathing Race into the Machine
The Surprising Career of the Spirometer from Plantation to Genetics
by Lundy Braun
<DIV><p><BR>In the antebellum South, plantation physicians used a new medical device—the spirometer—to show that lung volume and therefore vital capacity were supposedly less in black slaves than in white citizens. At the end of the Civil War, a
ISBN: 9781452941004
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eBookA Search for the American Character
by Jack Hitt
<p><strong>WHAT IS IT THAT DRIVES THE SUCCESS OF AMERICA AND THE IDENTITY OF ITS PEOPLE? ACCLAIMED WRITER AND CONTRIBUTING EDITOR TO <em>THIS AMERICAN LIFE</em> JACK HITT THINKS IT’S BECAUSE WE’RE ALL A BUNCH OF ...
ISBN: 9780307955180
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eBookLarge Dams, Cold War Geopolitics, and the US Bureau of Reclamation
by Christopher Sneddon
<p>Water may seem innocuous, but as a universal necessity, it inevitably intersects with politics when it comes to acquisition, control, and associated technologies. While we know a great deal about the socioecological costs and benefits of ...
ISBN: 9780226284453
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eBookby John Barber
<p>The ongoing battle between free individuals and our moribund institutions for the control of information resources, information technology and information systems began with the sexual gods.</p> <p>The chief god Atum, controller of Cosmos, ...
ISBN: 9781450286091
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eBookA Critical Lexicon
by Mikael Jakobsson, Nick Montfort, Erkki Huhtamo & others
<p><strong>Essays discuss the terminology, etymology, and history of key terms, offering a foundation for critical historical studies of games.</strong></p> <p>Even as the field of game studies has flourished, critical historical studies of ...
ISBN: 9780262331951
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eBookThe Story of Minnesota's Computing Industry
by Thomas J. Misa
<DIV><P>Accounts of the early events of the computing industry—the Turing machine, the massive Colossus, the ENIAC computer—are well-told tales, and equally well known is the later emergence of Silicon Valley and the rise of the personal ...
ISBN: 9780816688364
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eBookAyurveda, Small Technologies, and Braided Sciences
by Projit Bihari Mukharji
<p>Like many of the traditional medicines of South Asia, Ayurvedic practice transformed dramatically in the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. With <em>Doctoring Tradition</em>, Projit Bihari Mukharji offers a close look at that ...
ISBN: 9780226381824
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eBookFilm, Photography, and the Scientific Record
by Gregg Mitman & Kelley Wilder
<p>Imagine the twentieth century without photography and film. Its history would be absent of images that define historical moments and generations: the death camps of Auschwitz, the assassination of John F. Kennedy, the Apollo lunar landing. It
ISBN: 9780226129259
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eBookSociotechnical Imaginaries and the Fabrication of Power
by Sheila Jasanoff & Sang-Hyun Kim
<p><em>Dreamscapes of Modernity</em> offers the first book-length treatment of sociotechnical imaginaries, a concept originated by Sheila Jasanoff and developed in close collaboration with Sang-Hyun Kim to describe how visions of scientific and ...
ISBN: 9780226276663
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eBookThen, Now, and Later
by Norman J. Medoff & Barbara Kaye
<p><em>Electronic Media: Then, Now, and Later</em> provides a synopsis of the beginnings of electronic media in broadcasting and the subsequent advancements into digital media. The <em>Then, Now, and Later</em> approach focuses on how past ...
ISBN: 9781317448624
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eBookEngineer of Revolutionary Russia
Iurii V. Lomonosov (1876–1952) and the Railways
by Anthony Heywood
<p>This book is the first substantial study in any language of one of revolutionary Russia's most distinguished and controversial engineers - Iurii Vladimirovich Lomonosov (1876-1952). Not only does it provide an outline of his remarkable life ...
ISBN: 9781317143314
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eBookConversations on the Human Traces of Science, Technology, and Sound
by Simone Tosoni & Trevor Pinch
<p><strong>Conversations with a founder of the influential Social Construction of Technology (SCOT) approach in science and technology studies offer an introduction to the field.</strong></p> <p>Science and technology studies (STS) is a ...
ISBN: 9780262336567
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eBookHow Invention Happens
by Gavin Weightman
<p>Tracing the long pre-history of five twentieth-century inventions which have transformed our lives, Gavin Weightman reveals a fantastic cast of scientists and inspired amateurs whose ingenuity has given us the airplane, television, bar code, ...
ISBN: 9780300216059
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eBookThe Story of the CORONA Spy Satellites
by Dwayne Day
<p>Presenting the full story of the CORONA spy satellites' origins, <em>Eye in the Sky</em> explores the Cold War technology and far-reaching effects of the satellites on foreign policy and national security. Arguing that satellite ...
ISBN: 9781588345189
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