Browse Items (90 total)

'THE STAFFS OF LIFE III-FIAT PANIS', The New Yorker

Tags: 1980s; 1984; 1984-12-17; Biology; Kahn, E. J.; Plant Sciences; Wheat

'Voltaire to Medawar', Encounter

Tags: 1980s; 1984; 1984-12-1; Weightman, John

'Trial by camera', Harpers

Tags: 1980s; 1984; 1984-12-1; Election; Engineering; Journalism; Lapham, Lewis H.; Political aspects; Presidents; Press and politics; Telecommunications; United States

'The reluctant naturalist', Harpers

Tags: 1980s; 1984; 1984-12-1; Biology; Entomology; Humor; Identification; Insects; Monagan, Charles A.; Zoology

'Accounting illustrated', Harpers

Tags: 1980s; 1984; 1984-12-1; Accounting; Communication in accounting; Economics; Pictorial works; Smith, Malcolm; Social sciences; Taffler, Richard J.; United States

'Architecture as salon painting', Harpers

Tags: 1980s; 1984; 1984-12-1; Architecture; Engineering; Forty-second Street (New York; N.Y.); New York; New York (State); Philip Johnson; Skyscrapers; Sorkin, Michael; Times Square (New York

'The world at night', Harpers

Tags: 1980s; 1984; 1984-12-1; Earth; Light sources; Other; Pictorial works; Remote-sensing images; Sullivan, Woodruff Turner; Waste and Pollution

'The neurotic corporation', Harpers

Tags: 1980s; 1984; 1984-12-1; Executives; Industrial; Medicine; Miller, Danny; Psychology; Psychology, Psychiatry and Psychotherapy; United States; Vries, Manfred F. R. Kets de

'NORTH OF THE C.P. LINE', The New Yorker

Tags: 1980s; 1984; 1984-11-26; Aeronautics and Aerospace; Aviation; Engineering; Flight; Game Warden; McPhee, John; skiing

'A loaf here, a fish there', London Review of Books

Tags: 1980s; 1984; 1984-11-15; Dorinda Outram; Georges Cuvier; John Lesch; Medicine; Michel Focuault; Physiology; Porter, Roy; Surgery

'THE STAFFS OF LIFE II-MAN IS WHAT HE EATS', The New Yorker

Tags: 1980s; 1984; 1984-11-12; Biology; Kahn, E. J.; Plant Sciences; Potato

'Metaphysics & Morality', Encounter

Tags: 1980s; 1984; 1984-11-1; Baldwin, Thomas

'Freud & Variations', Encounter

Tags: 1980s; 1984; 1984-11-1; Farrell, B. A.

'How long before you blank out?', Harpers

Tags: 1980s; 1984; 1984-11-1; Architecture; David Hockney; Engineering; Geng, Veronica; House furnishings; Interior decoration; Photographic criticism; Pictorial works

'McLuhan redux', Harpers

Tags: 1980s; 1984; 1984-11-1; Communication; Engineering; Kenner, Hugh; Marshall McLuhan; Mass media; Social aspects; Telecommunications

'The endorphin high', Harpers

Tags: 1980s; 1984; 1984-11-1; Bodies; Endorphins; Frederick W. Turner; Intellectual life; Lapham, Lewis H.; Medicine; United States

'A spreadsheet way of knowledge', Harpers

Tags: 1980s; 1984; 1984-11-1; Decision making; Electronic spreadsheets; Engineering; Industrial; Information Technology; Levy, Steven; Psychology; Social aspects; Technology; United States

'Is this the real message of pornography?', Harpers

Tags: 1980s; 1984; 1984-11-1; Crimes against; Gender and Sexuality; Hustler (American periodical); Other; Pictorial works; Pornography; Social aspects; United States; Women

'Escape from modernism', Harpers

Tags: 1970-; 1980s; 1984; 1984-11-1; Civilization; Critiques and Comments; History; Materialism; Science; Science and civilization; Social aspects; Social evolution; STS; Technology; Technology and civilization; Turner, Frederick W.; United States

'The presence of trees', Harpers

Tags: 1980s; 1984; 1984-10-1; Berger, John; Biology; Plant Sciences; Symbolic aspects; trees

'The computer and the professional', Harpers

Tags: 1980s; 1984; 1984-10-1; AI, Automation and Robotics; Automation; Charts; diagrams; Effect of automation on; Engineering; etc; Hayes-Roth, Frederick; Professional education; Professional employees; United States

'The gun that could not shoot straight', Harpers

Tags: 1980s; 1984; 1984-10-1; Defense contracts; Engineering; Klare, Michael T.; Mechanical Engineering; Sergeant York DIVAD (Weapons system); United States

'Animal census', Harpers

Tags: 1980s; 1984; 1984-10-1; Biology; Canada; East (U.S.); Eastern; Kansas; Mammal populations; Parker, Ronald B.; Zoology

'The import of animals', Harpers

Tags: 1980s; 1984; 1984-10-1; Biology; Galey, Matthieu; Goldhammer, Arthur; Human-animal relationships; Marguerite Yourcenar; Yourcenar, Marguerite; Zoology

'McClintock', London Review of Books

Tags: 1980s; 1984; 1984-9-20; Barbara McClintock; Biology; Evelyn Fox Keller; Other; S.E. Luria; Scientific Discovery; Wade, Nicholas

'Asphalt jungle', Harpers

Tags: 1980s; 1984; 1984-9-1; Brasilia; Brazil; Bureaucracy; civil engineering; Engineering; Indians of South America; Pictorial works

'The lives of penguins', Harpers

Tags: 1980s; 1984; 1984-9-1; Biology; Clampitt, Amy; Ornithology; Zoology

'With the Chinese at Disneyland', Harpers

Tags: 1980s; 1984; 1984-9-1; Anaheim; Anecdotes; Authors; California; Chinese; Dillard, Annie; Disneyland (Calif.); Fairs and Expositions; Other; Travel

'Only the fearful know television', Harpers

Tags: 1980s; 1984; 1984-9-1; Karp, Walter; Medicine; Psychology; Psychology, Psychiatry and Psychotherapy; Social aspects; Television broadcasting; Television viewers; United States

'The mind of winter', Harpers

Tags: 1980s; 1984; 1984-9-1; Authors; Edward W. Said; Exiled; Exiles; Medicine; Political; Psychology; Psychology, Psychiatry and Psychotherapy; refugees; Said, Edward W.; Social conditions