Browse Items (35 total)

'Monsanto�s feeding frenzy', Harpers

Tags: 2000; 2000-4-1; 2000s; Batchelor, Mike; Biology; Biotechnology; Corporations; England; Food service; Monsanto Company; Transgenic plants

'Landscape with cooling towers near Liverpool, England', Harpers

Tags: 1990s; 1997; 1997-9-1; Cooling towers; Energy Engineering; Engineering; England; Hower, Bob; Meadows; Nuclear power plants; Pictorial works

'Smog reduction', Harpers

Tags: 1990s; 1994; 1994-6-1; Automobiles; Aylwin, S. J. B.; Carbon monoxide; Engineering; England; London; Mechanical Engineering; Physiological effect; Pollution control devices; Suicidal behavior; Wagg, A. S.

'In praise of ferret leggers', Harpers

Tags: 1990s; 1992; 1992-11-1; Biology; England; Ferret-legging (Sport); Katz, Donald R.; Reg Mellor; Zoology

'Bad news for Britain', Harpers

Tags: 1980s; 1985; 1985-2-1; Atomic and Nuclear Physics; England; Environmental aspects; Health aspects; History; Law and legislation; Nuclear facilities; Physics; Plutonium industry; Radioactive pollution; Radioactive waste disposal; Reactor fuel reprocessing; Robinson, Marilynne; Sellafield; Waste disposal

'Tidings of comfort & joy', Harpers

Tags: 1980s; 1982; 1982-12-1; Alex Comfort; Biography; Bodies; Corkery, P. J.; England; Gerontologists; Medicine; Sex instruction literature; United States

'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)

'Kicking drugs', Harpers

Tags: 1960s; 1967; 1967-7-1; Apomorphine; Burroughs, William S.; Drugs and Pharmaceuticals; England; heroin; Heroin habit; John Yerbury Dent; Medicine; Narcotic habit; Treatment; United States; William S. Burroughs

'The case for building 350 new towns', Harpers

Tags: 1960s; 1965; 1965-12-1; Architecture; City planning; Columbia; Cumbernauld; Ebenezer Howard; Eckardt, Wolf von; Engineering; England; Finland; Garden cities; Heikki S. von Hertzen; Law and legislation; Letchworth; Maryland; Planned communities; Reston; Scotland; Tapiola; United States; Virginia

'The breath of life machine', Harpers

Tags: 1960s; 1962; 1962-11-1; Buckinghamshire; England; Equipment and supplies; Kitchin, C. Harcourt; Medical Technologies; Medicine; Paralytics; Respirator; Respiratory therapy; Self-help devices for the disabled

'Try a seat belt', Harpers

Tags: 1960s; 1962; 1962-7-1; Cycling; Engineering; England; Hammersmith; Humor; Law and legislation; Mechanical Engineering

'Our exiled airmen in England', Harpers

Tags: 1960; 1960-10-1; 1960s; Aeronautics and Aerospace; Airmen; Armed Forces; Biography; Engineering; England; Foreign service; North Atlantic Treaty Organization; Sigal, Clancy; Social conditions; United StatesAir Force; United StatesAir ForceStrategic Air Command

'The dark world of H.G. Wells', Harpers

Tags: 1950s; 1957; 1957-5-1; Critiques and Comments; England; English literature; H.G. (Herbert George) Wells; History and criticism; Literature and science; STS; Utopias in literature; West, Anthony

'Was Darwin wrong about the human brain?', Harpers

Tags: 1950s; 1955; 1955-11-1; Alfred Russel Wallace; Biology; Charles Darwin; Craniology; England; Evolution; Evolution (Biology); Fossil hominids; History; Human beings; Natural selection; Origin; Piltdown forgery

'The nature of the universe', Harpers

Tags: 1950s; 1951; 1951-4-1; Astrophysics; Cosmology; England; Evolution; Expanding universe; Future life; Galaxies; Hoyle, Fred Sir; Physics; Research

'The nature of the universe', Harpers

Tags: 1950s; 1951; 1951-1-1; Astrophysics; Constitution; Cosmology; England; Hoyle, Fred Sir; Hydrogen bomb; Internal structure; Mass loss (Astrophysics); Physics; Red giants; Research; Solar system; Stars; Sun

'Population and human destiny', Harpers

Tags: 1950; 1950-9-1; 1950s; Demography; England; Humanism; Huxley, Julian; International cooperation; Population; Population forecasting; Quality of life; Social sciences

'Experiment in health', Harpers

Tags: 1940s; 1947; 1947-5-1; Community health services; England; Medicine; Palmer, Mary B.; Peckham Health Center; Recreation centers; Staffing, Funding and Institutions

'Just like a factory', Harpers

Tags: 1940s; 1946; 1946-6-1; Agricultural laborers; Dairy farming; Engineering; England; manufacturing; Production; West, Rebecca Dame

'Combat over Coventry', Harpers

Tags: 1939-1945; 1940; 1940s; 1942; 1942-6-1; Aerial operations; Aeronautics and Aerospace; American; Berry, Graham; Bombardment; British; Coventry; Coventry (England); Engineering; England; Fighter plane combat; History; Kennerly, Byron; Personal narratives; World War II

'The blackest night', Harpers

Tags: 1930s; 1939; 1939-1-1; 1939-1945; Civil Defence; Civil defense; Diplomatic history; England; L�hrke, Arline; L�hrke, Eugene William; Military and Weapons; Other; Social aspects; Sussex; World War II

'A biologist looks at England', Harpers

Tags: 1930s; 1937; 1937-8-1; Biology; Civilization; Ecology; England; English; Haldane, J. B. S. (John Burdon Sanderson); National characteristics; Zoology

'My otter', Harpers

Tags: 1930s; 1937; 1937-5-1; Biology; England; Henry Williamson; Otters as pets; Williamson, Henry; Zoology

'The Enemy of Prosperity', Harpers

Tags: 1918-1945; 1929; 1930; 1930-11-1; 1930s; Chase, Stuart; Competition; Depressions; Economic conditions; Economic policy; Engineering; England; Free enterprise; Industrial revolution; manufacturing; Overproduction; Production; To 1933; United States

'Conan Doyle and the spirit-world', Harpers

Tags: 1901-1945; 1930; 1930-10-1; 1930s; Arthur Conan; Authors; Criminals; Death; England; English; Forteana; International relations; Martin, Edward Sandford; Oliver Wendell Holmes; Prohibition; Rehabilitation; Religion; Sir Doyle; Spiritualists; Survival After Death; United States

'Einstein gets us guessing', Harpers

Tags: 1920s; 1929; 1929-4-1; Albert Einstein; Books and reading; Discoveries in science; Drinking of alcoholic beverages; England; George V; Gravity; Great Britain; History; King of Great Britain; Martin, Edward Sandford; Physics; Prohibition; Relations; Relativity; United States

'The moods of mechanism', Harpers

Tags: 1920s; 1927; 1927-10-1; Engineering; England; Marine engineers; Marine engines; Marine machinery; McFee, William; Mechanical Engineering; Merchant marine; William McFee

'Two Americans and a whale', Harpers

Tags: 1920s; 1926; 1926-4-1; American; American books abroad; American literature; Americans; Authors; Biology; Books and reading; Criticism and interpretation; England; Henry David Thoreau; Herman Melville; History and criticism; London; Marine biology; Tomlinson, H. M. (Henry Major); Walt Whitman

'Through Sheffield smoke', Harpers

Tags: 1910s; 1919; 1919-5-1; Bernard Shaw; Description and travel; Earth Sciences; England; Geography; Industrial relations; Labor laws and legislation; Labour Party (Great Britain); Reconstruction (1914-1939); Sheffield; Sheffield (England); Social conditions; Vorse, Mary Heaton

'Cargoes from distant lands', Harpers

Tags: 1910s; 1914; 1914-4-1; Earth Sciences; England; Geography; London; Pictorial works; Potamology; Taylor, F. Walter (Frank Walter); Thames River (England); Waterfronts