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Groovy Science
Knowledge, Innovation, and American Counterculture
Av David Kaiser, W. Patrick McCray
Inbunden, 2016
848 kr
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In his 1969 book The Making of a Counterculture, Theodore Roszak described the youth of the late 1960s as fleeing science “as if from a place inhabited by plague,” and even seeking “subversion of the scientific worldview” itself. Roszak’s view has come to be our own: when we think of the youth …
Groovy Science
Knowledge, Innovation, and American Counterculture
Av David Kaiser, W. Patrick McCray
Häftad, 2016
254 kr
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In his 1969 book The Making of a Counterculture, Theodore Roszak described the youth of the late 1960s as fleeing science “as if from a place inhabited by plague,” and even seeking “subversion of the scientific worldview” itself. Roszak’s view has come to be our own: when we think of the youth …
README
A Bookish History of Computing from Electronic Brains to Everything Machines
Häftad, 2025
431 kr
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The essential role that the oldest literary technology—books—played in making computers popular and pervasive. In README , historian Patrick McCray argues that in order for computers to become ubiquitous, people first had to become interested in them, learn about them, and take the machines …
Giant Telescopes
Astronomical Ambition and the Promise of Technology
Häftad, 2006
326 kr
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Every night, astronomers use a new generation of giant telescopes at observatories around the world to study phenomena at the forefront of science. By focusing on the history of the Gemini Observatory—twin 8-meter telescopes located on mountain peaks in Hawaii and Chile—Giant Telescopes tells the …
Keep Watching the Skies!
The Story of Operation Moonwatch and the Dawn of the Space Age
Inbunden, 2008
474 kr
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When the Soviets launched Sputnik in 1957, thousands of ordinary people across the globe seized the opportunity to participate in the start of the Space Age. Known as the "Moonwatchers," these largely forgotten citizen-scientists helped professional astronomers by providing critical and otherwise …
Visioneers
How a Group of Elite Scientists Pursued Space Colonies, Nanotechnologies, and a Limitless Future
Inbunden, 2012
262 kr
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In 1969, Princeton physicist Gerard O'Neill began looking outward to space colonies as the new frontier for humanity's expansion. A decade later, Eric Drexler, an MIT-trained engineer, turned his attention to the molecular world as the place where society's future needs could be met using …
Visioneers
How a Group of Elite Scientists Pursued Space Colonies, Nanotechnologies, and a Limitless Future
Häftad, 2017
287 kr
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In 1969, Princeton physicist Gerard O'Neill began looking outward to space colonies as the new frontier for humanity's expansion. A decade later, Eric Drexler, an MIT-trained engineer, turned his attention to the molecular world as the place where society's future needs could be met using …
Glassmaking in Renaissance Venice
The Fragile Craft
Inbunden, 1999
2588 kr
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The transformation of the Venetian glass industry during the Renaissance was not only a technical phenomenon, but also a social one. In this volume, Patrick McCray examines the demand, production and distribution of glass and glassmaking technology during this period and evaluates several key …
Glassmaking in Renaissance Venice
The Fragile Craft
E-bok, 2017
838 kr
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The transformation of the Venetian glass industry during the Renaissance was not only a technical phenomenon, but also a social one. In this volume, Patrick McCray examines the demand, production and distribution of glass and glassmaking technology during this period and evaluates several key …
Glassmaking in Renaissance Venice
The Fragile Craft
E-bok, 2017
856 kr
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The transformation of the Venetian glass industry during the Renaissance was not only a technical phenomenon, but also a social one. In this volume, Patrick McCray examines the demand, production and distribution of glass and glassmaking technology during this period and evaluates several key …
Keep Watching the Skies!
The Story of Operation Moonwatch and the Dawn of the Space Age
E-bok, 2021
661 kr
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When the Soviets launched Sputnik in 1957, thousands of ordinary people across the globe seized the opportunity to participate in the start of the Space Age. Known as the "Moonwatchers," these largely forgotten citizen-scientists helped professional astronomers by providing critical and otherwise …
Visioneers
How a Group of Elite Scientists Pursued Space Colonies, Nanotechnologies, and a Limitless Future
E-bok, 2012
387 kr
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The story of the visionary scientists who invented the future In 1969, Princeton physicist Gerard O''Neill began looking outward to space colonies as the new frontier for humanity''s expansion. A decade later, Eric Drexler, an MIT-trained engineer, turned his attention to the molecular world as the …
Greedy Science
Creating Knowledge, Making Money, and Being Famous in the 1980s
Av Michael D. Gordin, W. Patrick McCray
Inbunden, 2025
1253 kr
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On the transformative role of greed in global science and technology during the 1980s.In the 1980s, a transformative era emerged where profit-driven motives and an entrepreneurial spirit dominated scientific research and technological innovation. This collection of essays, edited by Michael D. …
Greedy Science
Creating Knowledge, Making Money, and Being Famous in the 1980s
Av Michael D. Gordin, Michael D Gordin m. fl.
Häftad, 2025
573 kr
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On the transformative role of greed in global science and technology during the 1980s.In the 1980s, a transformative era emerged where profit-driven motives and an entrepreneurial spirit dominated scientific research and technological innovation. This collection of essays, edited by Michael D. …
