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Challenger Launch Decision Risky Technology, Culture, and Deviance at NASA

Vaughan Diane

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

Hudson Heather E.

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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Physics

Probing the Sky with Radio Waves From Wireless Technology to the Development of Atmospheric Science

Yeang Chen-Pang

ISBN: PB: 9780226274393, ISBN: HB: 9780226015194, University of Chicago Press, May 2015
360 pp., 23x15 cm, 3 halftones, 68 line illus.

By the late nineteenth century, engineers and experimental scientists generally knew how radio waves behaved, and by 1901 scientists were able to manipulate them to transmit messages across long distances. What no one could understand, however, was w...

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Astronomy

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Seeing Like a Rover How Robots, Teams, and Images Craft Knowledge of Mars

Vertesi Janet

ISBN: HB: 9780226155968, University of Chicago Press, April 2015
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 52 colour plates, 29 halftones, 4 line drawings

In the years since the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit and Rover first began transmitting images from the surface of Mars, we have become familiar with the harsh, rocky, rusty-red Martian landscape. But those images are much less straightforward than t...

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Popular Science

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Engineering Book: From the Catapult to the Curiosity Rover 250 Milestones in the History of Engineering

Brain Marshall

ISBN: HB: 9781454908098, GMC Group, Sterling, April 2015
528 pp., 21.4x18.6 cm, illus.

Engineering is where human knowledge meets real-world problems and solves them. It's the source of some of our greatest inventions, from the wheel to the jet engine. Marshall Brain, creator of the How Stuff Works series and a professor at the Enginee...

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History

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Everyday Technology Machines and the Making of India's Modernity

Arnold David

ISBN: PB: 9780226269375, ISBN: HB: 9780226922027, University of Chicago Press, February 2015
224 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 4 tables, 22 halftones

In 1909 Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, on his way back to South Africa from London, wrote his now celebrated tract "Hind Swaraj", laying out his vision for the future of India and famously rejecting the technological innovations of Western civilization....

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Culture Studies

Great Indian Phone Book How Cheap Mobile Phones Change Business, Politics and Daily Life

Jeffrey Robin, Doron Assa

ISBN: PB: 9781849043137, Hurst Publishers, June 2013
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! The cheap mobile phone is arguably the most significant personal communications device in history. In India, where caste hierarchy has reinforced power for generations, the disruptive potential of the mobile phone is even more...

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Genetics

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Genentech The Beginnings of Biotech

Smith Hughes Sally

ISBN: PB: 9780226045511, ISBN: HB: 9780226359182, University of Chicago Press, Synthesis, April 2013
232 pp., 23x15 cm, 19 halftones

In the fall of 1980, Genentech, Inc., a little-known California genetic engineering company, became the overnight darling of Wall Street, raising over $38 million in its initial public stock offering. Lacking marketed products or substantial profit,...

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America

Iron Way Railroads, the Civil War, and the Making of Modern America

Thomas William G.

ISBN: PB: 9780300187465, Yale University Press, January 2013
352 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 56 black&white illus.

Beginning with Frederick Douglass' escape from slavery in 1838 on the railroad, and ending with the driving of the golden spike to link the transcontinental railroad in 1869, this book charts a critical period of American expansion and national forma...

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Philosophy

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Moralizing Technology Understanding and Designing the Morality of Things

Verbeek Peter-Paul

ISBN: PB: 9780226852935, ISBN: HB: 9780226852911, University of Chicago Press, January 2012
200 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 tables, 1 line illus.

Technology permeates nearly every aspect of our daily lives. Cars enable us to travel long distances, mobile phones help us to communicate, and medical devices make it possible to detect and cure diseases. But these aids to existence are not simply n...

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