Browse Items (14 total)

'From �Survival U', Harpers

Tags: 1970s; 1978; 1978-11-1; Biology; Ecology; Fischer, John; Human ecology; Study and teaching; United States

'Barbed wire', Harpers

Tags: 1970s; 1978; 1978-7-1; Barbed wire; De Kalb County; Engineering; Fence industry; Fischer, John; Illinois; Joseph F. Glidden; Mechanical Engineering; Oklahoma; Wire fencing

'Planning for the second America', Harpers

Tags: 1960s; 1969; 1969-11-1; Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations; Architecture; Building the American city (Book); City planning; Commission on Urban Problems; Engineering; Fischer, John; National Advisory Commission on Rural Poverty; National Committee on Urban Growth Policy; New towns; Population; The new ci

'Why our scientists are about to be dragged, moaning, into politics', Harpers

Tags: 1960s; 1966; 1966-9-1; Fischer, John; Government; Institutions and Funding; Research and development contracts; Science and state; Scientists; STS; United States

'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

'A �scientific� formula for disarmament?', Harpers

Tags: 1960s; 1963; 1963-1-1; Attitudes; British; Cold War; Fischer, John; Great Britain; Military and Weapons; National characteristics; Nuclear disarmament; Other; Scientists; Soviet Union; United States; weapons

'The death of Project Chariot', Harpers

Tags: 1960s; 1962; 1962-11-1; Alaska; Alaska : Nuclear excavation; Cape; Civil rights; Engineering; Eskimos; Fischer, John; Mining and Explosives; Point Hope; Production; Project Chariot (Thompson; proposed)

'How to cure bird-watchers', Harpers

Tags: 1950s; 1959; 1959-8-1; Biology; Bird watching; Birds; Crows; Fischer, John; Humor; Ornithology; United States; Zoology

'HOWL, or a Beatnik-type ode to our little feathered friends', Harpers

Tags: 1950s; 1959; 1959-8-1; Biology; Fischer, John; Ornithology; Zoology

'The new original science fiction', Harpers

Tags: 1950s; 1959; 1959-4-1; American; Art and Fiction; Fischer, John; History and criticism; Leonard Engel; Other; Reality in literature; Science fiction

'Borax, pig-ears, and modernism', Harpers

Tags: 1950s; 1953; 1953-12-1; Architecture; Chicago; Consumers� preferences; Engineering; Fischer, John; House furnishings industry and trade; Ill: Department store); Illinois; Merchandising; Sears Roebuck (Chicago; United States

'Odds against another war', Harpers

Tags: 1940s; 1945; 1945-8-1; Fischer, John; Forecasting; Great powers; International; International relations; Regionalism (International organization); Security; Social sciences; United Nations

'India�s insoluble hunger', Harpers

Tags: 1918-1947; 1940s; 1945; 1945-4-1; Economic conditions; Economic policy; Famine; Famines; Fischer, John; India; Medicine; Nutrition

'The future defense of the U.S.A.', Harpers

Tags: 1940s; 1945; 1945-1-1; Civil Defence; Defenses; Fischer, John; Military and Weapons; Military readiness; Operational readiness; Other; United States