Takes a multicultural, interdisciplinary approach to the rhetoric of science to expand our
toolkit for the collective management of global risks like climate change and pandemics.

How New Yorkers transformed the world!

This critical reader brings together both essential as well as under-recognized writings from the work of Don Ihde, one of the most important contemporary thinkers on technology and human experience.

Unique interdisciplinary analysis of gendered and racialized economies of care in South Asia and the Americas.

Proposes an innovative, holistic understanding of technology.

A comprehensive history of the first three decades of underwater exploration in antebellum America.

Analyzes contemporary technological society through the lens of Greek tragedy.

Highlights the most recent developments in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI), and advocates a diverse range of approaches to make SETI increasingly more powerful and effective in the years to come.

Explores what can be known within quantum theory, with special emphasis on the difference between prediction and explanation.

Considers the ethics and challenges of biotechnology.

Maps the future of phenomenological thought, accounting for how technology expands our means of experiencing the world.

Traces the rhetorical work of the gene in scientific and nonscientific discourse throughout the twentieth century.

Looks at the social implications of having constant access to others through cell phones, wireless computers, and other electronic devices.

Essays and poems explore the contemporary relevance of Emerson’s work and thought.

Recounts the fake news stories, written from 1830 to 1880, about scientific and technological discoveries, and the effect these hoaxes had on readers and their trust in science.

Critically engages the work of the philosopher Don Ihde.

Examines the politics behind the funding of NASA.

Interviews with scientific leaders focus on the challenges, promises, and perils of science and technology.

Analyzing the power of metaphor in the rhetoric of science, this book examines the use of words to express complex scientific concepts.

Maps interconnections between science, technology, and society in order to understand both benefits and costs.

Offers a narrative history of technical writing as a cultural practice and the system of scientific knowledge it controls.

The first comparative analysis of the development and practice of technology assessment in different national settings.

Presents a theoretical model for examining technology through a user perspective.

With a focus on educational computing, this book examines how technological practices align with or subvert existing forms of dominance. Examines the important question: Is the enormous financial investment school districts are making in computing technology a good idea?

The population and technology explosions are shrinking the world to a system in which everything is interactive, forcing us to transcend traditional modes of thinking. In this book, the authors set forth ...

This book examines the structure and operation of peer review as a family of quality control mechanisms and looks at the burdens placed on the various forms of peer review. Assuming that peer review is ...

Schumacher has written a provocative work in the philosophy of science. In presenting posture as the most important aspect of life, Schumacher examines how the terms of posture encompass all the major ...

A Conspiracy of Cells presents the first full account of one of medical science's more bizarre and costly mistakes. On October 4, 1951, a young black woman named Henrietta Lacks died of cervical cancer. ...