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Consuming Power: A Social History of American Energies

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 ...
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The Intellectual Appropriation of Technology: Discourses on Modernity, 1900-1939

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 ...
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The Computer Revolution in Canada: Building National Technological Competence

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 ...
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Affinity, That Elusive Dream: A Genealogy of the Chemical Revolution

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 ...
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On Line and On Paper: Visual Representations, Visual Culture, and Computer ...

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 ...
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The Gordian Knot: Political Gridlock on the Information Highway

W. Russell Neuman, Richard Jay Solomon, Lee W. McKnight - Technology & Engineering - 1999 - 350 pages
Veterans of the high-definition TV wars of the 1980s, the authors, social scientists as well as technologists, came to see themselves as "chroniclers and students of an ...
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Meaning in Technology

Arnold Pacey - Science - 2001 - 276 pages
A thoughtful meditation on the role of meaning and purpose in the development of technology.
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Governing Molecules: The Discursive Politics of Genetic Engineering in ...

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 ...
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Building the Trident Network: A Study of the Enrollment of People, Knowledge ...

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 ...
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Ivory Bridges: Connecting Science and Society

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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