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Inside Technology eBook Series

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  • The Unreliable Nation

    Hostile Nature and Technological Failure in the Cold War

    by Edward Jones-Imhotep ...
    Series series Inside Technology
    An examination of how technological failures defined nature and national identity in Cold War Canada.Throughout the modern period, nations defined themselves through the relationship between nature and machines. Many cast themselves as a triumph of technology over the forces of climate, geography, and environment. Some, however, crafted a powerful alternative identity: they defined themselves not ... Read more

    $38.70 AUD

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    Series series Volume 2

    $4.18 AUD

  • Conspiracy - HAARP

    Good Or Evil

    by Grant Boyden ...
    Series series Conspiracy
    Is it one of the worlds most controversial tools of science or just another weapon of mass destruction? The High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program, AKA HAARP, is an ionospheric research program designed to advance our understanding of Earth Science.But, HAARP is not only capable of helping mankind, it can destroy it too. This book will make you stop and think because the difference with ... Read more

    $3.59 AUD

  • Normal Accidents

    Living with High Risk Technologies

    by Charles Perrow ...
    Normal Accidents analyzes the social side of technological risk. Charles Perrow argues that the conventional engineering approach to ensuring safety--building in more warnings and safeguards--fails because systems complexity makes failures inevitable. He asserts that typical precautions, by adding to complexity, may help create new categories of accidents. (At Chernobyl, tests of a new safety ... Read more

    $57.01 AUD

  • The Essential Engineer

    by Henry Petroski ...
    From the acclaimed author of The Pencil and To Engineer Is Human, The Essential Engineer is an eye-opening exploration of the ways in which science and engineering must work together to address our world’s most pressing issues, from dealing with climate change and the prevention of natural disasters to the development of efficient automobiles and the search for renewable energy sources. While the ... Read more

    $7.91 AUD

  • The Enigma of the Aerofoil

    Rival Theories in Aerodynamics, 1909-1930

    by David Bloor ...
    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 of the great Cambridge mathematical physicist Lord Rayleigh, produced highly elaborate investigations of the nature of discontinuous flow, while the ... Read more

    $62.66 AUD

  • Rescuing Prometheus

    Four Monumental Projects that Changed Our World

    by Thomas P. Hughes ...
    "A rare insight into industrial planning on a huge scale...Excellent." --The EconomistRescuing Prometheus is an eye-opening and marvelously informative look at some of the technological projects that helped shape the modern world. Thomas P. Hughes focuses on four postwar projects whose vastness and complexity inspired new technology, new organizations, and new management styles. The first use of ... Read more

    $19.79 AUD

  • The Visioneers

    How a Group of Elite Scientists Pursued Space Colonies, Nanotechnologies, and a Limitless Future

    by W. Patrick McCray ...
    The story of the visionary scientists who invented the futureIn 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 self-replicating nanoscale machines. These modern ... Read more

    $45.13 AUD

  • Weather Warfare

    by Jerry E. Smith ...
    In April 1997, United States Secretary of Defense William Cohen declared that there are terrorists at work who “... are engaging even in an eco-type of terrorism whereby they can alter the climate, set off earthquakes, volcanoes remotely through the use of electromagnetic waves...“ Weather modification in the form of cloud seeding to increase snow packs in the Sierras or suppress hail over Kansas ... Read more

    $19.49 AUD

  • Science In Public

    Communication, Culture, And Credibility

    by Jane Gregory, Steven Miller ...
    Does the general public need to understand science? And if so, is it scientists' responsibility to communicate? Critics have argued that, despite the huge strides made in technology, we live in a "scientifically illiterate" society--one that thinks about the world and makes important decisions without taking scientific knowledge into account. But is the solution to this "illiteracy" to deluge the ... Read more

    $27.99 AUD

  • Fixing the Sky

    The Checkered History of Weather and Climate Control

    by James Fleming ...
    Series series Columbia Studies in International and Global History
    As alarm over global warming spreads, a radical idea is gaining momentum. Forget cuts in greenhouse gas emissions, some scientists argue. Instead, bounce sunlight back into space by pumping reflective nanoparticles into the atmosphere. Launch mirrors into orbit around the Earth. Make clouds thicker and brighter to create a "planetary thermostat."These ideas might sound like science fiction, but in ... Read more

    $42.56 AUD

  • The Golem

    What You Should Know About Science

    by Harry M. Collins, Trevor Pinch ...
    Series series Canto Classics
    Harry Collins and Trevor Pinch liken science to the Golem, a creature from Jewish mythology, powerful yet potentially dangerous, a gentle, helpful creature that may yet run amok at any moment. Through a series of intriguing case studies the authors debunk the traditional view that science is the straightforward result of competent theorisation, observation and experimentation. The very well ... Read more

    $22.96 AUD