| David E. Nye - Technology & Engineering - 1999 - 358 pages
Nye uses energy as a touchstone to examine the lives of ordinary people engaged in normal activities. How did the United States become the world's largest consumer of energy ... | |
| Mikael Hard, Andrew Jamison - Technology & Engineering - 1998 - 308 pages
This book examines the broad range of social and intellectualresponses to technology in the first four decades of this century, andsuggests that these responses set the terms ... | |
| John N. Vardalas - Technology & Engineering - 2001 - 438 pages
The forces that shaped Canada's digital innovations in the postwar period. After World War II, other major industrialized nations responded to the technological and industrial ... | |
| Mi Gyung Kim - Technology & Engineering - 2008 - 634 pages
In the eighteenth century, chemistry was transformed from an art to a public science. Chemical affinity played an important role in this process as a metaphor, a theory domain ... | |
| Kathryn Henderson - Technology & Engineering - 1998 - 258 pages
The role of representation in the production of technoscientific knowledge has become a subject of great interest in recent years. In this book, sociologist and art critic ... | |
| Arnold Pacey - Science - 2001 - 276 pages
A thoughtful meditation on the role of meaning and purpose in the development of technology. | |
| Herbert Gottweis - Technology & Engineering - 1998 - 418 pages
Scientists, investors, policymakers, the media, and the general public have all displayed a continuing interest in the commercial promise and potential dangers of genetic ... | |
| Maggie Mort - Technology & Engineering - 2008 - 242 pages
In Building the Trident Network, Maggie Mort approaches the United Kingdom's Trident submarine and missile system as a sociotechnical network. Drawing on the sociology of ... | |
| Gerhard Sonnert - Technology & Engineering - 2002 - 250 pages
A study of two bridges between science and society: governmental science policy and scientists' voluntary public-interest associations. According to a widespread stereotype ... | |
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