- Aramis, or the Love of Technology
- Bruno Latour
- The story of the birth and death of Aramis--the guided-transportation system intended for Paris--is told in this thought-provoking and fictional account by several different parties: an engineer and his professor; company executives and elected officials; a sociologist; and finally Aramis itself, who delivers a passionate plea on behalf of technological innovations that risk being abandoned by their makers.
- Paperback 1996 / Hardcover 1996
- Avatars of the Word
- James J. O'Donnell
- In this penetrating book, James O'Donnell takes a reading on the promise and the threat of electronic technology for our literate future. He reinterprets today's communication revolution through a series of refracted comparisons with earlier revolutionary periods: the transition from oral to written culture, from the papyrus scroll to the codex, from copied manuscript to print.
- Hardcover 1998 / Paperback 2000
- Biobazaar
- Janet Hope
- Can the open source approach do for biotechnology what it has done for information technology? Hope's book is the first sustained and systematic inquiry into the application of open source principles to the life sciences. Traversing disciplinary boundaries, she presents a careful analysis of intellectual property-related challenges confronting the biotechnology industry and then paints a detailed picture of "open source biotechnology" as a possible solution.
- Hardcover 2008
- Clocks and Watches
- Hugh Tait
- Recording the passing of time has challenged mankind for thousands of years, but it was not until the Middle Ages that a fundamental advance was made when the first mechanical clocks harnessed the power of the falling weight and the unwinding spring. Hugh Tait traces the history of clocks and watches from the earliest medieval examples to modern times. From the grand long-case clocks to the most exquisite of watches, this book shows how invention and mechanical ingenuity have been matched with craftsmanship and artistry for more than five hundred years.
- Paperback
- A Computer Perspective
- Charles Eames
- Ray Eames
- Edited by Glen Fleck
- Robert Staples, Producer
- Introduction by I. Bernard Cohen
- A sequence of 20th century ideas, events, and artifacts from the history of the information machine.
- Hardcover 1973 / Paperback 1990
- The Conquest of the Microchip
- Hans Queisser
- Queisser tells the exciting story behind the birth of a new industry and a new knowledge that has resulted not only in a restructuring of science, technology, and industry but also in major rearrangements of political and economic power.
- Hardcover 1988 / Paperback 1990
- Corn
- Paul C. Mangelsdorf
- Corn is among the most familiar of grains; it is also one of the most mysterious. In this handsomely illustrated book, Mangelsdorf summarizes the work of a lifetime devoted to unraveling the enigma of corn.
- Hardcover 1974
- The Development of Cotton Textile Production in China
- Kang Chao
- Hardcover 1977
- Dominance by Design
- Michael Adas
- Long before the United States became a major force in global affairs, Americans believed in their superiority over others because of their inventiveness, productivity, and economic and social well-being. U.S. expansionists assumed a mandate to "civilize" non-Western peoples by demanding submission to American technological prowess and design. Michael Adas brilliantly pursues the history of this mission through America's foreign relations over nearly four centuries from North America to the Philippines, Vietnam, and the Persian Gulf.
- Hardcover 2006
- Driving Force
- James D. Livingston
- In a way that will delight and instruct even the nonmathematical among us, Livingston shows us how scientists today are creating magnets and superconductors that can levitate high-speed trains, produce images of our internal organs, steer high-energy particles in giant accelerators, and--last but not least--heat our morning coffee.
- Hardcover 1996 / Paperback 1997
- Engineering--An Endless Frontier
- Sunny Y. Auyang
- Auyang ranges widely in demonstrating that engineering today is not only a collaborator with science but its equal. In concise accounts of the emergence of industrial laboratories and chemical and electrical engineering, and in whirlwind histories of the machine tools and automobile industries and the rise of nuclear energy and information technology, her book presents a broad picture of modern engineering.
- Hardcover 2004 / Paperback 2006
- Environmental Health
- Dade W. Moeller
- Environmental Health has established itself as the most succinct and comprehensive textbook on the subject. This extensively revised and rewritten third edition continues this tradition by incorporating new developments and by adding timely coverage of topics such as environmental economics and terrorism.
- Hardcover 2004
- Flying Buttresses, Entropy, and O-Rings
- James L. Adams
- From Teflon to Velcro, from bandwidths to base pairs, the artifacts of engineering and technology reflect the broad scope--and frustrating limitations--of our imagination. Best-selling author James Adams takes readers on an enlightening tour of this exciting world, demystifying such endeavors as design, research, and manufacturing.
- Hardcover 1992 / Paperback 1993
- Genethics
- David Suzuki
- Peter Knudtson
- Genethics is the most lucid and authoritative guide for general readers to modern genetic technology and the myriad ethical issues it raises.
- Hardcover 1989 / Paperback 1990
- The Ghost of the Executed Engineer
- Loren Graham
- Stalin ordered his execution, but here Peter Palchinsky has the last word. Palchinsky tells of Soviet technology and industry, the mistakes he condemned in his lifetime, the corruption and collapse he predicted, the ultimate price paid for silencing those who were not afraid to speak out. The story of this visionary engineer's life and work, as Graham tells it, is also the story of the Soviet Union's industrial promise and failure.
- Paperback 1996 / Hardcover
- High-power Electromagnetic Radiators
- D. V. Giri
- Beginning with a brief survey of the history of warfare, Giri systematically examines various nonlethal weapons technologies, emphasizing those based on electromagnetics. This book is essential reading for researchers working with high-power microwave and electromagnetic pulse technologies as well as antenna engineers.
- Hardcover 2004
- The Hubble Wars
- Eric J. Chaisson
- The Hubble Space Telescope is the largest, most complex, and most powerful observatory ever deployed in space. Now Eric Chaisson, the senior scientist on the HST project, tells the inside story of the much heralded mission to fix the telescope.
- Paperback
- International High Technology Competition
- F. Scherer
- Hardcover
- The Internet Challenge to Television
- Bruce M. Owen
- Television technology has begun to change at the same dizzying pace as computer software. What this will mean--for television, for computers, and for the popular culture where these video media reign supreme--is the subject of this timely book. A noted communications economist, Bruce Owen looks at the economic history of the television industry and at the effects of technology and government regulation on its organization.
- Hardcover 1999 / Paperback 2000
- The Internet and Society
- O'Reilly & Associates
- H. T. Kung
- Mixed 1997 / Paperback 1997
- Invention by Design
- Henry Petroski
- This book offers an insider's look at the political and cultural dimensions of design, development, and production, and reaffirms Petroski as the master explicator of the principles and processes that turn thoughts into the many things that define our material world.
- Hardcover 1996 / Paperback 1998
- Made to Break
- Giles Slade
- Made to Break is a history of twentieth-century technology as seen through the prism of obsolescence. Giles Slade explains how disposability was a necessary condition for America's rejection of tradition and our acceptance of change and impermanence. This book gives us a detailed and harrowing picture of how, by choosing to support ever-shorter product lives, we may well be shortening the future of our way of life as well.
- Hardcover 2006 / Paperback 2007
- News over the Wires
- Menahem Blondheim
- Hardcover
- Nuclear Fear
- Spencer R. Weart
- Hardcover 1988 / Paperback
- Resources under Regimes
- Paul R. Josephson
- Democratic or authoritarian, every society needs clean air and water; every state must manage its wildlife and natural resources. In this provocative, comparative study, Josephson asks to what extent the form of a government and its economy--centrally planned or market, colonial or post-colonial--determines how politicians, bureaucrats, scientists, engineers, and industrialists address environmental and social problems presented by the transformation of nature into a humanized landscape.
- Hardcover 2005 / Paperback 2006
- Revolution in Time
- David S. Landes
- More than a decade after the publication of his dazzling book on the cultural, technological, and manufacturing aspects of measuring time and making clocks, David Landes has significantly expanded Revolution in Time. In a new preface and scores of updated passages, he explores new findings about medieval and early-modern time keeping, as well as contemporary hi-tech uses of the watch as mini-computer, cellular phone, and even radio receiver or television screen.
- Paperback 2000
- Science and Technology in Post-Mao China
- Denis Fred Simon, Editor
- Merle Goldman, Editor
- Paperback 1988
- Science and the Soviet Social Order
- Loren Graham, Editor
- Hardcover
- Science at the Bar
- Sheila Jasanoff
- Issues spawned by the headlong pace of developments in science and technology fill the courts. The realm of the law is sometimes at a loss--constrained by its own assumptions and practices, Sheila Jasanoff suggests. This book exposes American law's long-standing involvement in constructing, propagating, and perpetuating a variety of myths about science and technology.
- Paperback 1997 / Hardcover
- Technology and Investment
- Barbara Molony
- This study analyzes the nature of prewar Japanese entrepreneurship, the links between technology and investment, the emergence of a class of scientific managers, and the relationship of business strategy to imperialism in the years leading up to World War II.
- Hardcover 1990
- Travels in the Genetically Modified Zone
- Mark L. Winston
- With genetically modified crops we have entered uncharted territory--where visions of the triumph of biotechnology in agriculture vie with dire views of medical and environmental disaster. As he seeks a middle ground where concerns about genetic engineering can be rationally discussed and resolved, Winston gives us a full and balanced view of the forces at play in the chaotic debate over agricultural biotechnology.
- Hardcover 2002 / Paperback 2005
- The Ultimate Terrorists
- Jessica Stern
- A former member of the National Security Council staff, Jessica Stern guides us expertly through a post-Cold War world in which the threat of all-out nuclear war is being replaced by the threat of terrorist attacks with weapons of mass destruction. The Ultimate Terrorists depicts a not-very-distant future in which both independent and state-sponsored terrorism using biological, chemical, and nuclear weapons could actually occur.
- Hardcover 1999 / Paperback 2000
- Under the Wire
- David Paull Nickles
- David Paull Nickles examines the critical impact of the telegraph on the diplomacy of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Case studies in crisis diplomacy--the War of 1812, the Trent affair during the U.S. Civil War, and the famous 1917 Zimmermann telegram--introduce wide-ranging thematic discussions on the autonomy of diplomats; the effects of increased speed on decision making and public opinion; the neglected role of clerks in diplomacy; and the issues of expense, garbled text, espionage, and technophobia that initially made foreign ministries wary of telegraphy.
- Hardcover 2003
- Video Economics
- Bruce Owen
- Steven Wildman
- Video Economics is a rigorous yet accessible analysis of the economics and business strategies of the television industry. Owen and Wildman identify the complex chain of program producers, distributors, and retailers whose objectives are to obtain viewers in order to sell them to advertisers, to charge them an admission fee, or both. They address the major issues affecting competitive advantage in the industry as well as such concepts as public good, economics of scale, and price discrimination. With each topic they present the economic tools required to analyze the industry.
- Hardcover 1992