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Inside Technology eBook Series

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  • The Long Arm of Moore's Law

    Microelectronics and American Science

    by Cyrus C. M. Mody ...
    Series series Inside Technology
    How, beginning in the mid 1960s, the US semiconductor industry helped shape changes in American science, including a new orientation to the short-term and the commercial.Since the mid 1960s, American science has undergone significant changes in the way it is organized, funded, and practiced. These changes include the decline of basic research by corporations; a new orientation toward the short ... Read more

    £19.34

  • The Squares

    US Physical and Engineering Scientists in the Long 1970s

    by Cyrus C. M. Mody ...
    Series series Inside Technology
    When ungroovy scientists did groovy science: how non-activist scientists and engineers adapted their work to a rapidly changing social and political landscape.In The Squares, Cyrus Mody shows how, between the late 1960s and the early 1980s, some scientists and engineers who did not consider themselves activists, New Leftists, or members of the counterculture accommodated their work to the rapidly ... Read more

    £28.52

  • Instrumental Community

    Probe Microscopy and the Path to Nanotechnology

    by Cyrus C. M. Mody ...
    Series series Inside Technology
    How networked structures of collaboration and competition within a community of researchers led to the invention, spread, and commercialization of scanning probe microscopy.The scanning tunneling microscope (STM) has been hailed as the “key enabling discovery for nanotechnology,” the catalyst for a scientific field that attracts nearly $20 billion in funding each year. In Instrumental Community, ... Read more

    £16.46

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  • The Idea Factory

    Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation

    by Jon Gertner ...
    **The definitive history of America’s greatest incubator of innovation and the birthplace of some of the 20th century’s most influential technologies“Filled with colorful characters and inspiring lessons . . . The Idea Factory explores one of the most critical issues of our time: What causes innovation?” —Walter Isaacson, The New York Times Book Review“Compelling . . . Gertner's book offers ... Read more

    £4.94

  • Linked

    How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means for Business, Science, and Everyday Life

    by Albert-László Barabási ...
    The best-selling guide to network science, the revolutionary field that reveals the deep links between all forms of human social lifeA cocktail party. A terrorist cell. Ancient bacteria. An international conglomerate. All are networks, and all are a part of a surprising scientific revolution. In Linked, Albert-László Barabási, the nation's foremost expert in the new science of networks, takes us ... Read more

    £8.49

  • The Great Global Warming Blunder

    How Mother Nature Fooled the Worlds Top Climate Scientists

    by Roy W Spencer ...
    The Great Global Warming Blunder unveils new evidence from major scientific findings that explode the conventional wisdom on climate change and reshape the global warming debate as we know it. Roy W. Spencer, a former senior NASA climatologist, reveals how climate researchers have mistaken cause and effect when analyzing cloud behavior and have been duped by Mother Nature into believing the Earth ... Read more

    £5.30

  • Radical Abundance

    How a Revolution in Nanotechnology Will Change Civilization

    by K. Eric Drexler ...
    K. Eric Drexler is the founding father of nanotechnology -- the science of engineering on a molecular level. In Radical Abundance, he shows how rapid scientific progress is about to change our world. Thanks to atomically precise manufacturing, we will soon have the power to produce radically more of what people want, and at a lower cost. The result will shake the very foundations of our economy ... Read more

    £9.99

  • 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

    £3.05

  • What's the Worst That Could Happen?

    A Rational Response to the Climate Change Debate

    by Greg Craven ...
    7.2 million YouTube viewers can't be wrong: A provocative new way to look at the global warming debate.Based on a series of viral videos that have garnered more than 7.2 million views, this visually appealing book gives readers-be they global warming activists, soccer moms, or NASCAR dads-a way to decide on the best course of action, by asking them to consider, "What's the worst that could happen? ... Read more

    £7.19

  • Ursula Franklin Speaks

    Thoughts and Afterthoughts

    by Sarah Jane Freeman, Ursula Franklin ...
    As a distinguished scientist, pacifist, and feminist, Ursula Franklin has been regularly invited by diverse groups to share her insights into the social and political impacts of science and technology.This collection contains twenty-two of Franklin's speeches and five interviews from 1986 to 2012 that have been retrieved and restored from audio and visual recordings with the help of her ... Read more

    £17.09

  • 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

    £18.17

  • The New ABCs of Research

    Achieving Breakthrough Collaborations

    by Ben Shneiderman ...
    The problems we face in the 21st century require innovative thinking from all of us. Be it students, academics, business researchers of government policy makers. Hopes for improving our healthcare, food supply, community safety and environmental sustainability depend on the pervasive application of research solutions. The research heroes who take on the immense problems of our time face bigger ... Read more

    £11.51