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

Binding: Kobo eBook

$68.65

$61.81

A History of Technoscience

Erasing 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

Binding: Kobo eBook

$78.46

$70.61

Adjusted Margin

Xerography, 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

Binding: Kobo eBook

$40.09

$36.18

Air Vagabonds

Oceans, 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

Binding: Kobo eBook

$44.49

$35.63

Atari Age

The 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

Binding: Kobo eBook

$25.24

$23.97

Atlantic 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

Binding: Kobo eBook

$196.74

$157.39

Breathing 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

Binding: Kobo eBook

$37.06

$29.69

Bunch of Amateurs

A 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

Binding: Kobo eBook

$23.69

$19.02

Concrete Revolution

Large 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

Binding: Kobo eBook

$66.85

$53.56

Dear Jim: Our History of Itis

by 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

Binding: Kobo eBook

$15.39

$12.31

Debugging Game History

A 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

Binding: Kobo eBook

$72.77

$65.55

Digital State

The 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

Binding: Kobo eBook

$44.49

$35.63

Doctoring Traditions

Ayurveda, 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

Binding: Kobo eBook

$66.85

$53.56

Documenting the World

Film, 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

Binding: Kobo eBook

$51.99

$41.68

Dreamscapes of Modernity

Sociotechnical 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

Binding: Kobo eBook

$51.99

$41.68

Electronic Media

Then, 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

Binding: Kobo eBook

$94.15

$84.80

Engineer 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

Binding: Kobo eBook

$78.46

$70.61

Entanglements

Conversations 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

Binding: Kobo eBook

$51.98

$46.85

Eureka

How 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

Binding: Kobo eBook

$44.57

$35.74

Eye in the Sky

The 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

Binding: Kobo eBook

$26.66

$21.33