Technology: General Issues

Keep an eye out for "MAKE Volume 14", which has a special section on optics. You'll learn how to make an inexpensive but powerful digital microscop...

A small revolution is remaking the world. The only problem is, we can’t see it. This book uses dazzling images and evocative descriptions to reveal...

"MAKE Volume 15" is the Aloft issue. Build things that float, sail, or fly from 1/4-inch to 30,000 feet above the ground.

Democratic or authoritarian, every society needs clean air and water; every state must manage its wildlife and natural resources. In this provocati...

Today, formal methods are widely recognized as an essential step in the design process of industrial safety-critical systems. In its more general d...

The bestselling introductory guide on nanotechnology?now revised and updated The world of nanotechnology is ever changing and evolving; this fun a...

A comprehensive and fascinating account of electrical and electronics history Much of the infrastructure of today's industrialized world arose in ...

Papers from The American Ceramic Society's 31st International Conference on Advanced Ceramics and Composites, held in Daytona Beach, Florida, Janua...

Centuries from now, when the Cold War is as remote as the War of Roses and the passions of our time have faded into footnotes, humanity will still ...

New breakthroughs in society, science, technology, and business keep upending our lives. This fascinating collection of articles explains how our w...

This book not only documents the valuable contributions of African American thinkers, inventors, and entrepreneurs past and present, but also puts ...

Explore the multiple issues that surround species declines and conservation efforts through the only reference source to examine the conflicting co...

There may be no more magnificent animal than the tiger. Yet, around the world, their populations are dwindling, and the Indian Bengal tiger is no e...

A unique chronology with entries describing the key events in the 3,000-year conflict between religion and science over the explanation and definit...

This book presents a comprehensive analysis of the contentious relationship between the White House and the scientific community from the FDR admin...

In this important study, former United States primary patent examiner Patricia Carter Sluby pays homage to the inventive spirit of African American...

What should the average person know about science? Because science is so central to life in the 21st century, science educators and other leaders o...

War is part of American history. This book examines how military technology both molded and reflected interactions between American military instit...

More than just a collection of factual entries, this rich resource explores the difference between scientific and pseudoscientific pursuits in a wa...

For better or worse, television has been the dominant medium of communication for 50 years. Almost all American households have a television set; m...

Since ancient times, technological advances have increased man's chances for survival. From the practicality of a Roman aqueduct to the art of the ...

This beguiling book asks a set of unusual and fascinating questions—why is early Chinese printing so little acknowledged, despite anticipating Gute...

This volume in the Greenwood Technographies series covers urban mass transit - that is, the technologies that allow cities to move large numbers of...

An enlightening history of 19th-century technology, focusing on the connections between invention and cultural values. Victorian Technology: Invent...

Although for much of the mid-20th century police departments across the U.S. had been reluctant to embrace new technology, depending instead on tra...

At the age of 17, Samuel L. Broadnax—enamored with flying—enlisted and trained as a pilot at the Tuskegee Army Air Base. Although he left the Air C...

The former Jewel in the Crown of the British Empire, India remains, by any measure, a major economic and political actor on the world scene. Withou...

In this important study, former United States primary patent examiner Patricia Carter Sluby pays homage to the inventive spirit of African American...

In December 2016, the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists moved their iconic "Doomsday Clock" thirty seconds forward to two and a half minutes to midnigh...

Carroll Pursell tells the story of the evolution of American technology since World War II. His fascinating and surprising history links pop cultur...

"Technics and Civilization" first presented its compelling history of the machine and critical study of its effects on civilization in 1934 - befor...

From Blaise Pascal in the 1600s to Charles Babbage in the first half of the nineteenth century, inventors struggled to create the first calculating...

No nation in recent history has placed greater emphasis on the role of technology in planning and waging war than the United States. In World War I...

The eighteenth century saw the creation of a number of remarkable mechanical androids: at least ten prominent automata were built between 1785 and ...

In Notebooks, English Virtuosi, and Early Modern Science, Richard Yeo interprets a relatively unexplored set of primary archival sources: the notes...

The advent of recombinant DNA technology in the 1970s was a key moment in the history of both biotechnology and the commercialization of academic r...

Observation is the most pervasive and fundamental practice of all the modern sciences, both natural and human. Its instruments include not only the...

Why do aircraft fly? How do their wings support them? In the early years of aviation, there was an intense dispute between British and German exper...

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Collecting a...

Exhibiting the full range of the Manuscripts and Rare Books Department of the Hispanic Society of America, Treasures from the Hispanic Society Libr...

NANOTECHNOLOGY IN FUNCTIONAL FOODS The broad applicability of bioactive delivery systems for improving food quality, safety, and human health will ...

Time capsules offer unexpected insights into how people view their own time, place, and culture, as well as their duties to future generations. Rem...

This is the story of a seductive idea. Over the past century, the potential of new technology to solve social dilemmas has captivated modern cultur...