Browse Items (80 total)

'Why the Green Revolution failed', London Review of Books

Tags: 1980; 1980-12-19; 1980s; Andrew Pearse; Biology; cabbage-white butterflies; Chemicals; Entomology; Francis Moore Moore Lapp�; Green revolution; Insecticides; Joseph Collins; Naughton, John; Pests; Zoology

'Pity the monsters', London Review of Books

Tags: 1980; 1980-12-18; 1980s; Altick, Richard; Exhibitions; freakshows; Medicine; Surgery

'Landau and his School', London Review of Books

Tags: 1980; 1980-12-18; 1980s; Andrei Sakharov; Anna Livanova; elementary particles; Ley Landau; liquid helium; magentism; Nuclear physics; Physics; Pyotr Kapitza; Quantum theory; superconductivity; Thermodynamics; Ziman, John

'Balancing the Bomb', Encounter

Tags: 1980; 1980-12-1; 1980s; Hartley, Anthony

'Heisenberg's Time of Decision', Encounter

Tags: 1980; 1980-12-1; 1980s; Heisenberg, Elisabeth

'II-THE IMPOSSIBLE PROFESSION', The New Yorker

Tags: 1980; 1980-12-1; 1980s; Freud; Heinz Kohut; Hysteria; Malcolm, Janet; Medicine; Psychoanalysis; Psychology, Psychiatry and Psychotherapy; Transference

'Cures that kill', Harpers

Tags: 1980; 1980-12-1; 1980s; Clinical trials; Evaluation; Hellerstein, David; Iatrogenic diseases; Medical research; Medicine; United States

'State vs. academe', Harpers

Tags: 1980; 1980-12-1; 1980s; Federal aid to higher education; Higher education and state; Institutions and Funding; Moynihan, Daniel P. (Daniel Patrick); STS; United States

'Rara avis', Harpers

Tags: 1980; 1980-12-1; 1980s; American Birding Association; Bangor; Biology; Bird watchers; Maine; Ornithology; Swanton, Harold; Zoology

'I-THE IMPOSSIBLE PROFESSION', The New Yorker

Tags: 1980; 1980-11-24; 1980s; Freud; Heinz Kohut; Malcolm, Janet; Medicine; Psychoanalysis; Psychology, Psychiatry and Psychotherapy; Transference

'Surviving a Protest', Encounter

Tags: 1980; 1980-11-1; 1980s; Howard, Michael

'Sidney Hook's Trumpet', Encounter

Tags: 1980; 1980-11-1; 1980s; FitzGibbon, Constantine

'The wreck of the auto industry', Harpers

Tags: 1980; 1980-11-1; 1980s; Automobile industry and trade; Energy policy; Engineering; Mechanical Engineering; Petroleum products; Prices; Social aspects; Tucker, William; United States

'Marriage', London Review of Books

Tags: 1980; 1980-10-16; 1980s; Ari�s, Philippe; Families; Illegitimacy; Karla Oosterveen; Medicine; Peter Laslett; Reproduction; Reproduction and Development; Richard Smith

'John Sturat Mill�s Forgotten Victory', London Review of Books

Tags: 1980; 1980-10-16; 1980s; Francis Bowen; Geroge Satayana; John Stuart Mill; MacIntyre, Alasdair; Philosophy; STS; William Hamilton

'Dr Chekhov's Faith in the Future', Encounter

Tags: 1980; 1980-10-1; 1980s; Hayman, Ronald

'The Syphilitic Shock"', Encounter

Tags: 1980; 1980-10-1; 1980s; Stanislaw Andreski

'Rescuing the ark', Harpers

Tags: 1980; 1980-10-1; 1980s; Alison Jolly; Biological diversity conservation; Biology; Book reviews; Ecology; Environmental conditions; History; Madagascar; Marnham, Patrick

'Unprofitable war', Harpers

Tags: 1980; 1980-10-1; 1980s; Appropriations and expenditures; Arms race; Inflation (Finance); Institutions and Funding; McGovern, George; STS; United States; United StatesDeptof Defense

'Fantastic voyage', Harpers

Tags: 1980; 1980-10-1; 1980s; Humor; Philosophy; STS; Thought and thinking; Tritten, Larry

'The counsel of the dead', Harpers

Tags: 1980; 1980-10-1; 1980s; Effect of inflation on; England; Labour; Other; Wages; Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

'Frege and Analytical Philosophy', London Review of Books

Tags: 1980; 1980-9-18; 1980s; Brian McGuinness; David Bell; Dummett, Michael; Gottlob Frege; Hans Sluga; Heinrich Scholz; Mathematics; max Black; Peter Feach; Philosophy; STS

'Tear gas is bad for the complexion', Harpers

Tags: 1980; 1980-9-1; 1980s; Alberto Moravia; Alice Colombo; Authors; Book reviews; Burke, Jeffrey; Italian; Italy; Other; Social life and customs; social movements; Technique

'The art of sunbathing', Harpers

Tags: 1980; 1980-9-1; 1980s; Authors; Bodies; English; English literature; Fussell, Paul; History and criticism; in literature; Journeys; Medicine; Mediterranean Region; Sun; Sunbathing; Travel in literature

'Charles Villiers on his experience of trade-union power', London Review of Books

Tags: 1980; 1980-8-21; 1980s; British Steel Corporation; Denis Barnes; Harold Macmillan; Other; Trade Unions; Villiers, Charles

'RIDING THE BOOM EXTENSION', The New Yorker

Tags: 1980; 1980-8-4; 1980s; Engineering; McPhee, John; Telecommunications; Telephones

'God�s own network', Harpers

Tags: 1960; 1980; 1980-8-1; 1980s; Christianity; Christianity and politics; Conservatism; Dabney, Dick; Engineering; Fundamentalism; Pat Robertson; Religion; Religious aspects; Telecommunications; Television in religion; United States

'Unhappy Mothers', London Review of Books

Tags: 1980; 1980-7-17; 1980s; Barbara Notkin White; Dunn, Judy; John Cobb; Martin Richards; Medical aspects of childhood; Medicine; Reproduction and Development; Sheldon White

'The Illness of a Therapy', Encounter

Tags: 1980; 1980-7-1; 1980s; Brewer, Colin

'Country wisdom', Harpers

Tags: 1980; 1980-7-1; 1980s; Agriculture; Biology; Book reviews; Burke, Jeffrey; Dorothy Hartley; Mark Kramer; Plant Sciences