Improvising Planned Development on the Gezira Plain, Sudan, 1900-1980

Maurits W Ertsen

• Hardcover | Engels | Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology
• The typical image of the Gezira Scheme, the large-scale irrigation scheme started under British colonial rule in Sudan, is of a centrally planned effo... Lees meer

Visualizing Nuclear Power in Japan

Morris Low

• Paperback | Engels | Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology
• This book explores how Japanese views of nuclear power were influenced not only by Hiroshima and Nagasaki but by government, business and media effort... Lees meer

Women and the Natural Sciences in Edwardian Britain

Peter Ayres

• Hardcover | Engels | Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology
• This book tells the story of how women first fought for inclusion among scientific societies in Edwardian Britain. Though educational opportunities in... Lees meer

Inventing the American Astronaut

Matthew H Hersch

• Paperback | Engels | Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology
• Who were the men who led America's first expeditions into space? Soldiers? Daredevils? The public sometimes imagined them that way: heroic military me... 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

Exploring the Solar System

• Hardcover | Engels | Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology
• Beginning in the early days of the Space Age - well before the advent of manned spaceflight - the United States, followed soon by other nations, under... Lees meer

Limiting Outer Space

• Paperback | Engels | Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology
• Propels the historicization of outer space by focusing on the 1970s, the Post-Apollo era of crisis and reconfiguration Utiliises an international and ... 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

Empire and Science in the Making

• Paperback | Engels | Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology
• Drawing on extensive new research, and bringing much new scholarship before English readers for the first time, this wide-ranging volume examines how ... Lees meer

NASA Spaceflight

• Paperback | Engels | Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology
• Provides the first-ever comprehensive history of NASA innovation Features leading experts on aerospace history, the history of technology, and space p... Lees meer

Women and the Natural Sciences in Edwardian Britain

Peter Ayres

• Paperback | Engels | Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology
• This book tells the story of how women first fought for inclusion among scientific societies in Edwardian Britain. Though educational opportunities in... 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

Voices of the Soviet Space Program

S Gerovitch

• Paperback | Engels | Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology
• In this remarkable oral history, Slava Gerovitch presents interviews with the men and women who witnessed Soviet space efforts firsthand. Rather than ... Lees meer

Ronald Reagan and the Space Frontier

John M Logsdon

• Hardcover | Engels | Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology
• When Ronald Reagan was elected in 1980, limits on NASA funding and the lack of direction under the Nixon and Carter administrations had left the U.S. ... Lees meer

The Rise of the Commercial Space Industry

• Hardcover | Engels | Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology
• This collection explores the evolution of the commercial space industry from the beginning of the space age through the early twenty-first century. To... Lees meer

Innovation in Science and Organizational Renewal

• Hardcover | 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

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

Searching for Sasquatch

B Regal

• Paperback | Engels | Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology
• The first academic study of this subject is an entertaining look at the search for Sasquatch which considers not just the nature of monsters and monst... Lees meer

Post-Industrial Landscape Scars

A Storm

• Hardcover | Engels | Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology
• Post-industrial landscape scars are traces of 20th century utopian visions of society; In this book, Anna Storm explores post-industrial landscape sca... Lees meer

Imagining Outer Space

• Paperback | Engels | Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology
• Imagining Outer Space makes a captivating advance into the cultural history of outer space and extraterrestrial life in the European imagination. How ... Lees meer

Searching for Sasquatch

B Regal

• Paperback | Engels | Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology
• The first academic study of this subject is an entertaining look at the search for Sasquatch which considers not just the nature of monsters and monst... Lees meer

After Apollo?

John M Logsdon

• Hardcover | Engels | Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology
• Once the United States landed on the moon in July 1969, it was up to President Nixon to decide what to do in space after Apollo. This book chronicles ... Lees meer

Ocean Science and the British Cold War State

Samuel A Robinson

• Paperback | Engels | Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology
• This book focuses on the activities of the scientific staff of the British National Institute of Oceanography during the Cold War. Revealing how issue... Lees meer

The Lysenko Controversy as a Global Phenomenon, Volume 1

• Hardcover | Engels | Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology
• This volume covers the global history of the Lysenko controversy, while exploring in greater depth the background of D. Lysenko's career and influence... Lees meer