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This collection explores how technologies become forms of power, how people embed their authority in technological systems, and how the machines and the knowledge that make up technical systems strengthen or reshape social, political, and cultural power.

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This book examines the management of high technology from the dual perspectives of the commercial markets and military national-interest missions. He studies thirty real-life applications of technology management and, using these examples, develops strategies for success both in commercial and governmental areas.

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How the history of technology emerged as a coherent intellectual discipline.

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Practitioners will be interested in the sections on universal service, technology convergence, and the implications for reducing costs and improving the quality of both basic telephone services and IT-enabled services.

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Part of a series that tells the "life story" of the objects and technologies that have become so vital to our daily lives. This volume combines a discussion of technical developments with a description of the effect the technology has on the fabric of society and culture. It traces the history of Television from its beginning.

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The 1,000 Hour War was a unique case of military action in that it owed both its prosecution and its coverage specifically to satellites, computers, cellular telephones, microwave relay stations, and a myriad of similar technologies.

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From Napster to Total Information Awareness to flash mobs, the debate over information technology in our lives has revolved around a single question: How closely do we want cyberspace to resemble the real world

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This study analyzes anti-nuclear power organizations claims regarding public financing for new nuclear construction, issues associated with the management of high-level radioactive waste, and other campaigns to increase the safety of nuclear facilities. This leads the author to the identification of general principals of energy justice.

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Our appreciation of the network of canals through Britain is greatly enhanced by the structures that dot their course - bridges, locks, tunnels, aqueducts, cottages, pubs and workshops. This book looks at the variety of structures that made the canals work in their commercial heyday.

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This book examines the history and development of nuclear power from the perspective of the US Army's nuclear power programme, telling its story from the creation of the Office of Research and Development through the programme's days of growth, and on to its eventual decline.

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Included in this topical bibliography are 1,060 citations of books, theses, articles, and library, exhibit, and sales catalogs in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, and other languages. Additional annotations for certain entries provide information on editions, special features, and other sources of information.

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A brief history review of how dicing microelectronic substrates started. The book covers both the dicing machines used, the blades used for the many different applications and the application side.

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An introduction to the physics and chemistry of Earth's atmosphere, this book explains the science behind some of the critical environmental controversies. It covers both the chemistry and physics of the atmosphere with an account of relevant aspects of ocean science and treats atmospheric science and the climate as an integrated whole.

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A revolutionary advance rooted in ancient practices, biochar is an effective carbon capture, a carbon-negative energy source and a potent soil-builder. The Biochar Solutioncombines a detailed examination of carbon farming with a practical guide to biochar production and soil biology.

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"An interdisciplinary overview of the variety of sonic methodologies used by sound scholars and artists based on contemporary theories and empirical analyses"--