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Breathing Race into the Machine: The Surprising Career of the Spirometer from Plantation to Genetics
Lundy Braun (Author)
University of Minnesota Press
Hardcover
9780816683574
2014
$25.00
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The Making of a Cybertariat: Virtual Work in a Real World
Ursula Huws
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Uncanny Networks : Dialogues with the Virtual Intelligentsia (Leonardo Books)
Geert Lovink
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Scientific Colonialism: A Cross-Cultural Comparison : Papers at Conference in Melbourne, May 25-30, 1981
Nathan Reingold and Marc Rothenberg
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The Invention of Modern Science (Theory Out of Bounds)
Isabelle Stengers and Daniel W. Smith
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Cars for Comrades: The Life of the Soviet Automobile
Lewis H. Siegelbaum
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The Socialist Car: Automobility in the Eastern Bloc
Lewis H. Siegelbaum
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The Souls of Cyberfolk: Posthumanism as Vernacular Theory
Thomas Foster
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Lynn Margulis: The Life and Legacy of a Scientific Rebel
Dorion Sagan
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Astounding Wonder: Imagining Science and Science Fiction In America
John Cheng
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Computing: A Concise History
Paul E. Ceruzzi
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Aluminum Dreams: The Making of Light Modernity
Mimi Sheller
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Genentech: The Beginnings of Biotech
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Ada's Algorithm: How Lord Byron's Daughter Ada Lovelace Launched the Digital Age
James Essinger
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Eat, Cook, Grow: Mixing Human-Computer Interactions with Human-Food Interactions
Jaz Hee-jeong Choi, Marcus Foth, and Greg Hearn
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The Logician and the Engineer: How George Boole and Claude Shannon Created the Information Age
Paul J. Nahin
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Alan Turing's Systems of Logic: The Princeton Thesis
Alan Mathison Turing
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Inside the Machine: Art and Invention in the Electronic Age
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Spam: A Shadow History of the Internet
Finn Brunton
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Computability: Turing, Gödel, Church, and Beyond
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Relativity: The Special and the General Theory
Albert Einstein
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The Road to Relativity: The History and Meaning of Einstein's "The Foundation of General Relativity" Featuring the Original Manuscript of Einstein's Masterpiece
Hanoch Gutfreund and Jürgen Renn
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When Gadgets Betray Us: The Dark Side of Our Infatuation with New Technologies
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Potentiality: Metaphysical and Bioethical Dimensions
John P. Lizza
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Punched-Card Systems and the Early Information Explosion, 1880–1945
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The Scientist in the Early Roman Empire
Richard Carrier
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Marxism and the Philosophy of Science
Helena Sheehan
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Internet Daemons: Digital Communications Possessed
Fenwick McKelvey
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The Eye of War: Military Perception from the Telescope to the Drone
Antoine Bousquet
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Politics and technology in the Soviet Union
Bruce Parrott
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The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women
Kate Moore
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Magnificent Women and Their Revolutionary Machines
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Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars
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Bioinformation
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Global Transformations in the Life Sciences, 1945-1980
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Stalin and the Scientists: A History of Triumph and Tragedy, 1905-1953
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Anti/Vax: Reframing the Vaccination Controversy
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Nature's Body: Gender in the Making of Modern Science
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Between Human And Machine: Feedback, Control, and Computing before Cybernetics (Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology)
David A. Mindell
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Dark Fiber : Tracking Critical Internet Culture (Electronic Culture: History, Theory, and Practice)
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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Thomas S. Kuhn
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Technology and the African-American Experience: Needs and Opportunities for Study
Bruce Sinclair
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A History of World Agriculture: From the Neolithic Age to the Current Crisis
Marcel Mazoyer and Laurence Roudart
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The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man
Marshall McLuhan
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Control and Freedom: Power and Paranoia in the Age of Fiber Optics
Wendy Hui Kyong Chun
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The Computer Boys Take Over: Computers, Programmers, and the Politics of Technical Expertise (History of Computing)
Nathan L. Ensmenger
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Radical Technologies: The Design of Everyday Life
Adam Greenfield
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A People's History of Science : Miners, Midwives, and "Low Mechanicks"
Clifford D. Conner
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Click Here to Kill Everybody
Bruce Schneier
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Hidden Figures: The Story of the African-American Women Who Helped Win the Space Race
Margot Lee Shetterly
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ADA Lovelace: The Making of a Computer Scientist
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The Inner History of Devices
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Order Out of Chaos
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The Fantastic Laboratory of Dr. Weigl: How Two Brave Scientists Battled Typhus and Sabotaged the Nazis
Arthur Allen
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Cybernetic Revolutionaries: Technology and Politics in Allende's Chile
Eden Medina
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Personal Stereo
Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow (Author)
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The World, the Flesh and the Devil: An Enquiry Into the Future of the Three Enemies of the Rational Soul
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Space Forces: A Critical History of Life in Outer Space
Fred Scharmen
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Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City (Inside Technology)
Peter D. Norton
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Medicine and Science Against the People
The Mismeasure of Man
Stephen Jay Gould
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Poisoned for Profit: How Toxins are Making Our Children Chronically Ill
Philip Shabecoff and Alice Shabecoff
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From Hiroshima to Fukushima to You: A Primer on Radiation and Health
Dale Dewar and Florian Oelck
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Native American DNA: Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic Science
Kim TallBear
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Clinical Labor: Tissue Donors and Research Subjects in the Global Bioeconomy
Melinda Cooper and Catherine Waldby
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Lead Wars: The Politics of Science and the Fate of America's Children
Gerald Markowitz and David Rosner
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Against Their Will: The Secret History of Medical Experimentation on Children in Cold War America
Allen Hornblum
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Critical Condition : How Health Care in America Became Big Business--and Bad Medicine
Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele
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Subjected to Science: Human Experimentation in America Before the Second World War (Henry E. Sigerist Series in the History of Medicine)
Susan E. Lederer
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Bioterror : Manufacturing Wars The American Way
William H. Schaap and Ellen Ray
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Biotechnology : Corporate Power versus the Public Interest
Steven P. McGiffen
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Acres of Skin
Allen M. Hornblum
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The Demon in the Freezer
Richard Preston
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Body Hunters: How the Drug Industry Tests Its Products On the World's Poorest Patients
Sonia Shah
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Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming
Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway
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Breeding Contempt: The History of Coerced Sterilization in the United States
Mark A. Largent
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Germs Gone Wild: How the Unchecked Development of Domestic Bio-Defense Threatens America
Kenneth King
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Rebecca Skloot
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Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
Harriet A. Washington
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