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Rethinking America's Highways A 21st-Century Vision for Better Infrastructure
ISBN: PB: 9780226759302, ISBN: HB: 9780226557571, University of Chicago Press, January 2021
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 halftones, 2 line drawings, 14 tables
Americans spend hours every day sitting in traffic. And the roads they idle on are often rough and potholed, their exits, tunnels, guardrails, and bridges in terrible disrepair. According to transportation expert Robert Poole, this congestion and det...
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Excavating the Memory Palace Arts of Visualization from the Agora to the Computer
ISBN: PB: 9780226695280, ISBN: HB: 9780226695143, University of Chicago Press, January 2021
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 halftones, 12 line drawings
With the prevalence of smartphones, massive data storage, and search engines, we might think of today as the height of the information age. In reality, every era has faced its own challenges of storing, organizing, and accessing information. While th...
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Whale and the Reactor A Search for Limits in an Age of High Technology (Second Edition)
ISBN: PB: 9780226692548, University of Chicago Press, March 2020
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
"In an age in which the inexhaustible power of scientific technology makes all things possible, it remains to be seen where we will draw the line, where we will be able to say, here are possibilities that wisdom suggest we avoid". First published to...
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American Robot A Cultural History
ISBN: HB: 9780226692715, University of Chicago Press, March 2020
360 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 26 halftones
Although they entered the world as pure science fiction, robots are now very much a fact of everyday life. Whether a space-age cyborg, a chess-playing automaton, or simply the smartphone in our pocket, robots have long been a symbol of the fraught an...
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Natures of Data A Discussion between Biologists, Artists and Science Scholars
ISBN: PB: 9783035802245, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, February 2020
192 pp., 21.5x13.3 cm
Computer-based technologies for the production and analysis of data have been an integral part of biological research since the 1990s at the latest. This not only applies to genomics and its offshoots but also to less conspicuous subsections such as...
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None of Your Damn Business Privacy in the United States from the Gilded Age to the Digital Age
ISBN: HB: 9780226557748, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 halftones
You can hardly pass through customs at an airport today without having your picture taken and your fingertips scanned, that information then stored in an archive you'll never see. Nor can you use your home's smart technology without wondering what, e...
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Technology Critical History of a Concept
ISBN: PB: 9780226583976, University of Chicago Press, October 2018
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 line drawings
In modern life, technology is everywhere. Yet as a concept, technology is a mess. In popular discourse, technology is little more than the latest digital innovations. Scholars do little better, offering up competing definitions that include everythin...
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Aerial Crossroads of America St. Louis's Lambert Airport
ISBN: HB: 9781883982898, University of Chicago Press, Missouri Historical Society Press, February 2017
336 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 178 halftones
The history of Lambert-St. Louis International Airport is the story of American aviation. Everything that has taken place on the airport's footprint – from Lindbergh to American Airlines, jet airliners to space travel – constitutes a microcosm of the...
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Challenger Launch Decision Risky Technology, Culture, and Deviance at NASA
ISBN: PB: 9780226346823, University of Chicago Press, December 2015
620 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 54 line drawings, 2 tables
When the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded on January 28, 1986, millions of Americans became bound together in a single, historic moment. Many still vividly remember exactly where they were and what they were doing when they heard about the tragedy....
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Connecting Alaskans Telecommunications in Alaska from Telegraph to Broadband
ISBN: HB: 9781602232686, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, September 2015
380 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 halftones
"Alaska is now open to civilization". With those six words in 1900, the northernmost territory finally had a connection with the rest of the country. The telegraph system put in place by the US Army Signal Corps heralded  the start of Alaska's commun...
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