Technology: General Issues

'Superb' Sunday Times'Revolutionary' Alice Roberts'Hugely important' Jim Al-Khalili_______________A radical retelling of the history of science tha...

This book explores the evolution of the current U.S. research and development enterprise, asks whether this organization remains appropriate to the...

A sweeping history of and meditation on humanity's relationship with machines, showing how we got here and what happens nextFaith in technological ...

Do you want to learn how flavonoids have become an unsung hero in the health industry? Scientists have wavered unending commitment to proving the p...

During the 20th century dam-building became a truly global endeavour. Built around the world, they generated networks of actors, institutions and c...

How surveillance perpetuates long-standing injustices woven into the fabric of higher education.Higher education increasingly relies on digital sur...

Resource on the control and safety analysis of intensified chemical processes, ranging from general methods to specific applications Control and S...

The role of appropriate technology in developing the Third World is the focus of this volume. The use of such technology, research, selection, and ...

This sourcebook demonstrates the vigorous work being done in the field of technical and scientific communication. Collectively, the essays offer re...

This book begins with a brief account of matrices and matrix algebra, and derives the theory of determinants by the aid of matrix notation, in an o...

The book contains a systematic and reasoned appraisal of the extent and character of the nation's resources, the evolution of their use and misuse,...

For much of the postwar era, French society had a contradictory view of passenger trains, scorning them as quaint anachronisms on the one hand, yet...

Most contemporary accounts of the role of technology in world culture are alarmist and, at times, condemn many uses of technology without much effo...

Throughout the 19th century, women inventors developed significant technologies, yet, because of complex cultural barriers and the pervasive image ...

Krieger revisits the ideas of his now infamous article of some thirty years ago in Science magazine. His aim is to give an account of design, one t...

This book represents the first calm, detailed, and rational description of the imminent end of western industrial civilization as we know it. Despi...

This is a study of how policy ideas, first raised as definitions of specific problems and as solutions for those problems, get translated into form...

Although enormous industrial advances were made in the USSR, the country still lagged behind the West in the post-industrial age. What the Soviets ...

This book represents the first calm, detailed, and rational description of the imminent end of western industrial civilization as we know it. Despi...

This work describes the historical evolution of a critical aspect of aerospace technology—avionics and navigation systems. This history is importan...

This work analyzes the evolution of the U.S. strategic air force from 1945 to 1955. As commander of the Strategic Air Command (SAC) from 1948 throu...