Book interviews tagged Technology
The Toothpick: Technology and Culture
- ISBN: 978 0 307 27943 9
- featured in: The story of the toothpick industry is the story of American industryJanuary 2, 2009
Picturing American Modernity: Traffic, Technology, and Silent Cinema
- ISBN: 978 0 8223 4201 4 paper
- featured in: Silent cinema makes visible the ambivalence around modern technologies and traffic in early twentieth century AmericaJanuary 9, 2009
Six-Legged Soldiers: Using Insects as Weapons of War
- ISBN: 978 0 19 533305 3
- featured in: The story of entomological warfare that has never been toldJanuary 16, 2009
Sustainability by Design: A Subversive Strategy for Transforming our Consumer Culture
- ISBN: 978 0 300 13749 1
- featured in: Creating sustainability is categorically different from reducing unsustainabilityFebruary 3, 2009
Control and Freedom: Power and Paranoia in the Age of Fiber Optics
- ISBN: 978 0 262 53306 5 pb
- featured in: Freedom makes control possible, necessary, and never enoughMarch 17, 2009
Fresh: A Perishable History
- ISBN: 978 0 674 03291 0
- featured in: The farther we get from our food, the more we want to know that it’s really freshApril 17, 2009
The American 1930s: A Literary History
- ISBN: 978 0521734318
- featured in: Against the simplification of history
June 12, 2009
Andean Cocaine: The Making of a Global Drug
- ISBN: 978 0807859056 pb
- featured in: Cocaine’s first full-length biography
June 26, 2009
Cars for Comrades: The Life of the Soviet Automobile
- ISBN: 978 0801446382
- featured in: The Soviet automobile adapted to Soviet circumstances as much as it provoked adaptationAugust 3, 2009
Why We Disagree About Climate Change: Understanding Controversy, Inaction and Opportunity
- ISBN: 978 0521727327
- featured in: Climate change in a more creative and less pejorative discourseOctober 9, 2009
Accident Prone: A History of Technology, Psychology, and Misfits of the Machine Age
- ISBN: 978 0226081175
- featured in: Pioneering the field of the history of accidentsNovember 18, 2009
Living Weapons: Biological Warfare and International Security
- ISBN: 978 0801447686
- featured in: A comprehensive analysis of the unique security challenges of biological weaponsNovember 23, 2009
The Urban Spectator: American Concept Cities from Kodak to Google
- ISBN: 978 1584658030
- featured in: Media affect the nature of experience in and the physical layout of citiesMarch 8, 2010
The Essential Engineer: Why Science Alone Will Not Solve Our Global Problems
- ISBN: 978 0307272454
- featured in: About the similarities and differences between science and engineeringMarch 26, 2010
Europe’s Promise: Why the European Way Is the Best Hope in an Insecure Age
- ISBN: 978 0520261372
- featured in: Europe is the new world, not the old
March 31, 2010
The Speed Handbook: Velocity, Pleasure, Modernism
- ISBN: 978 0822344421
- featured in: To understand modernity, you need to understand speedMay 24, 2010
