Browse Items (27 total)

'Disaster capitalism', Harpers

Tags: 2000s; 2001-; 2003-; 2005; 2007; 2007-10-1; 21st century; Capitalism; Civil Defence; Civil defense; Contracting out; Disasters; Economic aspects; Economic conditions; George W. (George Walker) Bush; Globalization; Hurricane Katrina; Iraq War; Klein, Naomi; Military; Privatization; S; Social aspects; Social conditions; Social sciences

'Terror alerts', Harpers

Tags: 2000s; 2001-; 2007; 2007-3-1; 21st century; Apocalypse in motion pictures; Art and Fiction; Economic aspects; Lapham, Lewis H.; Military policy; Military-industrial complex; Motion pictures and the war; movies; Other; United States; War and society; War on Terrorism

'The resurrection men', Harpers

Tags: 2000s; 2004; 2004-3-1; 21st century; Augie Perna; Cheney, Annie; Dead bodies (Law); Economic aspects; etc.; Medical Specialisms; Medicine; Operative; Pathology; Procurement of organs; Surgery; tissues; United States

'A hundred rivers run through it', Harpers

Tags: 1990s; 1998; 1998-6-1; California; civil engineering; Economic aspects; Engineering; Graham, Wade; Water; Water use; Water-supply

'The closing of the American mine', Harpers

Tags: 1990s; 1994; 1994-12-1; coal; Coal miners; Coal mines and mining; Earth Sciences; Economic aspects; Economic conditions; Rhodell; Rhodell (WVa.); Technological innovations; West Virginia; Yale, Andy

'Death of a giant', Harpers

Tags: 1990s; 1994; 1994-6-1; Biology; Bluefin tuna fisheries; Bluefin tuna fishing; Economic aspects; Environmental aspects; Maine; Marine biology; Seabrook, John

'Other people�s garbage', Harpers

Tags: 1990s; 1992; 1992-6-1; Earth Sciences; Economic aspects; McDowell County; Refuse disposal facilities; Refuse disposal industry; Royte, Elizabeth; West Virginia

'The new economics of high technology', Harpers

Tags: 1990s; 1992; 1992-3-1; Competition; Economic aspects; Engineering; International; Japan; manufacturing; Manufacturing processes; Production; Research and development contracts; Technological innovations; Thurow, Lester C.; United States

'Written in the Big Wind', Harpers

Tags: 1990s; 1991; 1991-9-1; Cyclone forecasting; Earth Sciences; Economic aspects; Hurricanes; Meteorology and Climate Science; Real estate development; Shacochis, Bob; United States

'Events in the skies', Harpers

Tags: 1980s; 1988; 1988-3-1; Aerial; Aeronautics and Aerospace; Afghanistan; Africa; Airplanes; bombing; Developing countries; Economic aspects; Engineering; Family; Lessing, Doris May; Poor children; Southern

'The abortion economy', Harpers

Tags: 1980s; 1986; 1986-6-1; Abortion; Economic aspects; Medicine; Population; Reproduction and Development; United States

'Supply-side economics goes to the zoo', Harpers

Tags: 1980s; 1982; 1982-9-1; Biology; Cairo; Economic aspects; Egypt; Suar�s, Jean-Claude; Supply-side economics; United States; Zoology; zoos

'A possibly practical utopia', Harpers

Tags: 1960s; 1966; 1966-7-1; Agricultural laws and legislation; Agricultural subsidies; Agriculture; Agriculture and politics; Cities and towns; Economic aspects; Farmers; Fischer, John; Growth; Law; New towns; Other; Rural poor; Rural-urban migration; Social conditions; United States

'Frontier for this century', Harpers

Tags: 1950s; 1952; 1952-3-1; Agriculture; Cold War; Developing countries; Drucker, Peter Ferdinand; Economic aspects; Economics; Foreign economic relations; Frontier thesis; Industrialization; Social sciences; United States

'Science and profits', Harpers

Tags: 1930s; 1936; 1936-4-1; Economic aspects; Finance; Gray, George W. (George William); Institutions and Funding; Patents; Research; Research institutes; Science; STS; United States

'Chemistry wrecks the farm', Harpers

Tags: 1930s; 1935; 1935-8-1; Agricultural chemistry; Agricultural innovations; Applied Chemistry; Chemistry; Clark, Harold F. (Harold Florian); Economic aspects; Parrish, Wayne W. (Wayne William); United StatesAgricultural Adjustment Administration

'The meat in the agricultural stew', Harpers

Tags: 1930s; 1935; 1935-7-1; Agricultural productivity; Economic aspects; Economics; Hambidge, Gove; Social sciences; United StatesAgricultural Adjustment Administration

'Birth control and the depression', Harpers

Tags: 1918-1945; 1930s; 1934; 1934-10-1; Birth control; Bromley, Dorothy Dunbar; Economic aspects; Economic conditions; Family size; Law and legislation; Medicine; Pregnancy; Religious aspects; Reproduction and Development; United States; Unwanted

'Why isn�t radio better?', Harpers

Tags: 1930s; 1934; 1934-4-1; Denison, Merrill; Economic aspects; Engineering; Law and legislation; Radio advertising; Radio broadcasting; Radio programs; Telecommunications; United States

'The wheat farmer�s dilemma', Harpers

Tags: 1930s; 1931; 1931-7-1; Biology; Carlson, Avis D.; Economic aspects; Economic conditions; Farm mechanization; Plant Sciences; Surplus agricultural commodities; United States; Wheat farmers; Wheat trade

'Is birth control the answer?', Harpers

Tags: 1930s; 1931; 1931-7-1; Birth control; Breckinridge, Mary; Economic aspects; Effect of birth control on; Kentucky; Medicine; Overpopulation; Reproduction and Development; Rural conditions; Rural poor; Social aspects

'America�s billion-dollar industry', Harpers

Tags: 1920s; 1922; 1922-6-1; Burton, Charles Pierce; civil engineering; Design and construction; Economic aspects; Engineering; Public works; Roads; United States

'America goes back to work', Harpers

Tags: 1918-1945; 1920; 1920-5-1; 1920s; Altoona; Baldwin Locomotive Works (Philadelphia; Bethlehem Steel Corporation (Bethlehem; Charles William Dabney; Cincinnati; Economic aspects; Economic conditions; Engineering; Herman Schneider; Hungerford, Edward; Industrial relations; Industries; Mechanical Engineering; Ohio; Pa.); Pennsylvan

'Conservation in the nursery', Harpers

Tags: 1910s; 1914-1918; 1918; 1918-10-1; Children and war; Economic aspects; Herbert Hoover; Humor; Medicine; Mythology; Reproduction and Development; Storks; Twins; United States; World War I

'Reducing the waste of war', Harpers

Tags: 1910s; 1914-1918; 1918; 1918-9-1; Economic aspects; Engineering; etc.); France; manufacturing; Production; Salvage (Waste; Supplies and stores; United StatesArmy; Wilhelm, Donald George; World War I

'Can democracy be efficient?', Harpers

Tags: 1910s; 1914-1918; 1917; 1917-5-1; Bru�re, Robert W. (Robert Walter); Democracy; Economic aspects; Employee participation; Great Britain; Industrial management; Management; Politicl Science; Social sciences; United States; World War I

'What is the matter with the American chemist?', Harpers

Tags: 1910s; 1914-1918; 1917; 1917-4-1; Baekeland, L. H. (Leo Hendrik); Chemistry; Chemists; Dependency on foreign countries; Dyes and dyeing; Economic aspects; Energy Engineering; Research; Technical; Textile fibers; Textile industry; United States; World War I