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Book Pages: 420 - Publish Date: 2005 - Publisher: MIT Press
Description: Essays analyze the connections between science and technology and military power in the late medieval, Renaissance, and Enlightenment periods. The integration of scientific knowledge and military power began long before the Manhattan Project. In the third century BC, Archimedes was renowned for his research in mechanics and mathematics as well as for his design and coordination of defensive siegec...
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Author(s): Ulrich Beck
Book Pages: 270 - Publish Date: 1992-09-03 - Publisher: SAGE
Description: An analysis of the condition of Western societies that will take its place as a core text of contemporary sociology alongside earlier typifications of society as postindustrial, and current debates about the social dimensions of the postmodern
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Author(s): Charles Perrow
Book Pages: 466 - Publish Date: 1999 - Publisher: Princeton University Press
Description: This text analyzes the social side of technological risk. It argues that the conventional engineering approach to ensuring safety fails because systems complexity makes failures inevitable. It provides a framework for analyzing risks and the complex systems which often engender them.
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Author(s): Hannah Arendt
Book Pages: 348 - Publish Date: 1958 - Publisher: [Chicago] : University of Chicago Press
Description: A work of striking originality bursting with unexpected insights, The Human condition is in many respects more relevant now than when it first appeared in 1958. In her study of the state of modern humanity, Hannah Arendt considers humankind from the perspective of the actions of which it is capable. The problems Arendt identified then--diminishing human agency and political freedom, the paradox th...
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Book Pages: 199 - Publish Date: 2013-11-09 - Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Description: J. Robert Oppenheimer, a leading physicist in the Manhattan Project, recognized that scientific inquiry and discovery could no longer be separated from their effect on political decision-making, social responsibility, and human endeavor in general. He openly addressed issues of common concern and as a scientist accepted the responsibility brought about by nuclear physics and the atom bomb. In this...
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Book Pages: 388 - Publish Date: 1997 - Publisher: Psychology Press
Description: Haraway explores the world of contemporary technoscience through the role of stories, figures, dreams, theories, advertising, scientific advances and politics. Kinship relations among the many cyborg creatures of the 20th century are also discussed.
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Author(s): Jennifer Egan
Book Pages: Unknown - Publish Date: 2022-04-27 - Publisher: Unknown
Description: From one of the most celebrated writers of our time, a literary figure with cult status, a "sibling novel" to her Pulitzer Prize- and NBCC Award-winning A Visit from the Goon Squad--an electrifying, deeply moving novel about the quest for authenticity and meaning in a world where memories and identities are no longer private. The Candy House opens with the staggeringly brilliant Bix Bouton, whose ...
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Author(s): Mitchel Resnick
Book Pages: 203 - Publish Date: 2017-08-25 - Publisher: MIT Press
Description: Creative learning -- Projects -- Passion -- Peers -- Play -- Creative society
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Author(s): Quentin R. Skrabec
Book Pages: 274 - Publish Date: 2007 - Publisher: Algora Publishing
Description: This is a biography of Westinghouse, genius inventor from railroad and gas distribution equipment to the corporate model of invention and research. He surpassed Edison in electricity pioneering and in managing workers too; but they both lost their companies in the panic of 1907. The bank always wins.
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Author(s): Richard Rhodes
Book Pages: 404 - Publish Date: 2000-12-07 - Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Description: A collection of writings that discuss how technology has changed society and whether or not those changes have been beneficial.
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