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Into the Black JPL and the American Space Program, 1976-2004
ISBN: PB: 9780300184198, Yale University Press, November 2011
414 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, black&white illus.
In the decades since the mid-1970s, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, has led the quest to explore the farthest reaches of the solar system. JPL spacecraft-Voyager, Magellan, Galileo, the Mars rovers, and others-have brought the...
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£28,00
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Autophobia Love and Hate in the Automotive Age
ISBN: PB: 9780226467290, ISBN: HB: 9780226467412, University of Chicago Press, November 2011
236 pp., 23x15 cm
Cars are the scourge of civilization, responsible for everything from suburban sprawl and urban decay to environmental devastation and rampant climate change – not to mention our slavish dependence on foreign oil from dubious sources abroad. Add the...
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Enigma of the Aerofoil Rival Theories in Aerodynamics, 1909-1930
ISBN: PB: 9780226060958, University of Chicago Press, November 2011
608 pp., 23x15 cm, 97 halftones
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 experts over the question of why and how an aircraft wing provides lift. The British, under the leadership o...
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£37,00
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Cybernetic Brain Sketches of Another Future
ISBN: PB: 9780226667904, ISBN: HB: 9780226667898, University of Chicago Press, October 2011
536 pp., 23x15 cm, 60 halftones, 28 line illus.
Cybernetics is often thought of as a grim military or industrial science of control. But as Andrew Pickering reveals in this beguiling book, a much more lively and experimental strain of cybernetics can be traced from the 1940s to the present. "The...
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£28,00
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£61,00
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Tenth of a Second A History
ISBN: PB: 9780226093192, ISBN: HB: 9780226093185, University of Chicago Press, September 2011
288 pp., 23x15 cm, 33 halftones
In the late fifteenth century, clocks acquired minute hands. A century later, second hands appeared. But it wasn't until the 1850s that instruments could recognize a tenth of a second, and, once they did, the impact on modern science and society was...
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£25,00
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£36,00
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Fermilab Physics, the Frontier, and Megascience
ISBN: PB: 9780226346243, University of Chicago Press, April 2011
520 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 65 halftones, 12 line illus.
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, located in the western suburbs of Chicago, has stood at the frontier of high-energy physics for forty years".Fermilab" is the first history of this laboratory and of its powerful accelerators told from the point...
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£28,00
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Nucleus and Nation Scientists, International Networks, and Power in India
ISBN: HB: 9780226019758, University of Chicago Press, June 2010
736 pp., 23x15 cm, 1 map, 9 tables, 16 halftones
In 1974 India joined the elite roster of nuclear world powers when it exploded its first nuclear bomb. But the technological progress that facilitated that feat was set in motion many decades before, as India sought both independence from the British...
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