Plants and Politics in Padua During the Age of Revolution, 1820-1848

Ariane Dröscher

• Paperback | Engels | Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology
• 1. Introduction.- 2. Paduan Networks.- 3. Plants and the Social Climb of the Meneghini Family.- 4. Garden Policies.- 5. Growing Up in A Progessive Env... Lees meer

NASA and the Politics of Climate Research

W Henry Lambright

• Hardcover | Engels | Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology
• Today, there exists an integrated, large-scale satellite system to track sea-level rise, its speed, causes, and impacts. Building it was a struggle ev... Lees meer

Innovation in Science and Organizational Renewal

• Paperback | Engels | Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology
• This book looks at the types of new research organizations that drive scientific innovation and how ground-breaking science transforms research fields... Lees meer

NASA in the World

John Krige, Ashok Maharaj, Angela Long Callahan

• Hardcover | Engels | Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology
• Since its inception, NASA has participated in over 4,000 international projects, yet historians have almost entirely neglected this remarkable aspect ... Lees meer

Vaccination in America

Richard J Altenbaugh

• Paperback | Engels | Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology
• The success of the polio vaccine was a remarkable breakthrough for medical science, effectively eradicating a dreaded childhood disease. It was also t... Lees meer

Exploring the Solar System

• Hardcover | Engels | Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology
• From the beginning of the Space Age the United States, followed soon by other nations, began an impressive effort to learn about the planets of the so... Lees meer

Searching for Sasquatch

B Regal

• Paperback | Engels | Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology
• Bigfoot hunters and their brethren are often depicted as outcasts, misfits, or passionate amateurs toiling in solitude. But has this always been the c... Lees meer

The Radio Hobby, Private Associations, and the Challenge of Modernity in Germany

Bruce B Campbell

• Hardcover | Engels | Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology
• In the early twentieth century, the magic of radio was new, revolutionary, and poorly understood. A powerful symbol of modernity, radio was a site whe... Lees meer

The Nuclear Age in Popular Media

• Paperback | Engels | Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology
• The atomic age was described as one that might soon end in the destruction of human civilization, but from the beginning, utopian images were attached... Lees meer

Eugenics and the Nature-Nurture Debate in the Twentieth Century

A Gillette

• Hardcover | Engels | Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology
• Gillette shows that the sciences of sociobiology and evolutionary psychology were undergoing rapid development in the early twentieth century. However... Lees meer

Confronting the Climate

V Jankovic

• Hardcover | Engels | Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology
• Presidential candidates' names such as Lewis Cass, Samuel Tilden, Alton Parker and James Cox may not be familiar to many, but what about Barry Goldwat... Lees meer

Microhistories of Technology

Mikael Hård

• Paperback | Engels | Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology
• In this open access book, Mikael Hård tells a story of how people around the world challenged the production techniques and products brought by global... Lees meer

Frontiers for the American Century

James Spiller

• Hardcover | Engels | Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology
• This book compares the cultural politics of the U.S. space and Antarctic programs during the Cold War. It analyzes how culturally salient terms, espec... Lees meer

The Scientific World of Karl-Friedrich Bonhoeffer

Kathleen L Housley

• Hardcover | Engels | Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology
• In twentieth-century Germany, Karl-Friedrich Bonhoeffer rose to prominence as a brilliant physical chemist, even as several of his relatives-Dietrich ... Lees meer

Histories of Dreams and Dreaming

• Hardcover | Engels | Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology
• In the late nineteenth century, dreams became the subject of scientific study for the first time, after thousands of years of being considered a prima... Lees meer

John F. Kennedy and the Race to the Moon

J Logsdon

• Hardcover | Engels | Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology
• While there are many biographies of JFK and accounts of the early years of US space efforts, this book uses primary source material and interviews wit... Lees meer

Exploring Greenland

• Hardcover | Engels | Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology
• Using newly declassified documents, this book explores why U.S. military leaders after World War II sought to monitor the far north and understand the... Lees meer

A Vision of Modern Science

U DeYoung

• Hardcover | Engels | Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology
• An examination of a pivotal moment in the history of science through the career and cultural impact of the historically neglected Victorian physicist ... Lees meer

The Epochal Event

Zoltán Boldizsár Simon

• Paperback | Engels | Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology
• This book is a unique attempt to capture the growing societal experience of living in an age unlike anything the world has ever seen. Fueled by the pe... Lees meer

Airports, Cities, and the Jet Age

Janet R Bednarek

• Hardcover | Engels | Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology
• This book explores the relationship between cities and their commercial airports. These vital transportation facilities are locally owned and managed ... Lees meer

The Lysenko Controversy as a Global Phenomenon, Volume 2

• Paperback | Engels | Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology
• This volume examines the international impact of Lysenkoism in its namesake's heyday and the reasons behind Lysenko's rehabilitation in Russia today. ... Lees meer

Expeditions as Experiments

• Hardcover | Engels | Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology
• This collection focuses on different expeditions and their role in the process of knowledge acquisition from the eighteenth century onwards. It invest... Lees meer

Continental Defense in the Eisenhower Era

C Bright

• Hardcover | Engels | Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology
• Thousands of nuclear antiaircraft arms were designed, tested and deployed in the United States during Dwight D. Eisenhower's presidency. These Army "N... Lees meer

Chinese Market Gardening in Australia and New Zealand

Joanna Boileau

• Paperback | Engels | Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology
• This book offers a fresh perspective on the Chinese diaspora. It is about the mobilisation of knowledge across time and space, exploring the history o... Lees meer