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 | Alternative Pathways in Science and Industry Activism, Innovation, and the Environment in an Era of Globalizaztion By David Hess Combines theoretical discussion and case studies to demonstrate how social movements and related activism have affected innovation in science, technology, and industry in the United States. May 2007 ISBN 978-0-262-58272-8 $25.00/£16.95 (PAPER) Sample Chapters/Table of Contents Available |
 | American Hegemony and the Postwar Reconstruction of Science in Europe By John Krige How the United States used its position as the world's leading scientific and technological power to rebuild European scientific practices and institutions and align them with American interests during the first two decades of the Cold War. November 2006 ISBN 978-0-262-11297-0 $40.00/£25.95 (CLOTH) Sample Chapters/Table of Contents Available |
 | A Culture of Improvement Technology and the Western Millennium By Robert Friedel How technological change in the West has been driven by the pursuit of improvement: a history of technology, from plows and printing presses to penicillin, the atomic bomb, and the computer. May 2007 ISBN 978-0-262-06262-6 $39.95/£25.95 (CLOTH) Sample Chapters/Table of Contents Available |
 | The Internet Imaginaire By Patrice Flichy The collective vision that shaped the emergence of the Internet: what led software designers, managers, employees, politicians, and individuals to develop and adopt one particular technology. April 2007 ISBN 978-0-262-06261-9 $29.95/£19.95 (CLOTH) Sample Chapters/Table of Contents Available |
 | Making Parents The Ontological Choreography of Reproductive Technologies By Charis Thompson The intertwining of biological reproduction and the personal, political, legal, and technological meanings of reproduction, explored through ethnographic studies and analyzed in the context of science and technology studies and feminist theory. March 2007 ISBN 978-0-262-70119-8 $23.00/£14.95 (PAPER) Sample Chapters/Table of Contents Available |
 | Privacy on the Line The Politics of Wiretapping and Encryption, Updated and Expanded Edition By Whitfield Diffie and Susan Landau A penetrating and insightful study of privacy and security in telecommunications for a post-9/11, post-Patriot Act world. May 2007 ISBN 978-0-262-04240-6 $27.95/£18.95 (CLOTH) |
 | Structures of Scientific Collaboration By Wesley Shrum, Joel Genuth and Ivan Chompalov How technology and bureaucracy shape collaborative scientific research projects: an empirical study of multiorganizational collaboration in the physical sciences. August 2007 ISBN 978-0-262-19559-1 $35.00/£22.95 (CLOTH) Sample Chapters/Table of Contents Available |
 | Theorizing Digital Cultural Heritage A Critical Discourse Edited by Fiona Cameron and Sarah Kenderdine Theoretical and practical perspectives from a range of disciplines on the challenges of using digital media in interpretation and representation of cultural heritage. April 2007 ISBN 978-0-262-03353-4 $40.00/£25.95 (CLOTH) Sample Chapters/Table of Contents Available |
 | Wired for Speech How Voice Activates and Advances the Human-Computer Relationship By Clifford Nass and Scott Brave How interactive voice-based technology can tap into the automatic and powerful responses all speech--whether from human or machine--evokes. April 2007 ISBN 978-0-262-64065-7 $17.95/£11.95 (PAPER) Sample Chapters/Table of Contents Available |
 | Wired Shut Copyright and the Shape of Digital Culture By Tarleton Gillespie How the shift toward "technical copy protection" in the battle over digital copyright depends on changing political and commercial alignments that are profoundly shaping the future of cultural expression in a digital age. June 2007 ISBN 978-0-262-07282-3 $29.95/£19.95 (CLOTH) Sample Chap |
