Browse Items (175 total)

'At the pump', Harpers

Tags: 1975-; 1980s; 1986; 1986-8-1; Angola; Biology; Biotechnology; Civil War; etc; Gulf Oil; Handbooks; History; manuals; Political activists; Social responsibility of business; United States

'The glass age', Harpers

Tags: 1980s; 1986; 1986-6-1; Architecture; Architecture and society; Engineering; Glass construction; History; Human factors; Ludwig Mies van der Rohe; Modern; Sennett, Richard

'The golden age of how-to', Harpers

Tags: 1980s; 1986; 1986-5-1; 332 B.C.-640 A.D.; Betz, Hans Dieter; Egypt; Egyptian; Forteana; History; Magic; Sources

'Anthropology�s native problems', Harpers

Tags: 1980s; 1986; 1986-5-1; anthropologists; Anthropology; Ethnology; Field work; History; Methodology; Sass, Louis Arnorsson; Social sciences; United States

'IV. Keeping the faith', Harpers

Tags: 1980s; 1986; 1986-3-1; Benjamin Spock; Child Development; Child Rearing; Competition (Psychology) in children; History; Medicine; Reproduction and Development; Traub, James; United States

'Forbidden pleasures', Harpers

Tags: 1980s; 1986; 1986-3-1; Feminists; Gender and Sexuality; History; Men; Minneapolis; Minnesota; Obscenity (Law); Other; Political activity; Pornography; Social aspects; Social conditions; United States; Weiss, Philip; Women

'Tinker with gadgets, tailor the facts', Harpers

Tags: 1980s; 1985; 1985-4-1; Cockburn, Andrew; Engineering; Ernest Volkman; F.H. (Francis Harry) Hinsley; History; Intelligence service; James Bamford; Jeffrey Richelson; Mechanical Engineering; Melvin Beck; Nigel West; Ralph W. McGehee; Secret service; Spies; Waldyslaw Kozaczuk

'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

'The biggest knockover', Harpers

Tags: 1980s; 1985; 1985-1-1; chemical engineering; Chemistry; Davis, L. J. (Lawrence J. ); Gulf Oil; History; Industrialists; James E. Lee; Mesa Petroleum Co.; Petroleum industry and trade; T. Boone (Thomas Boone) Pickens; Texas; United States

'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

'Confounding Malthus', Harpers

Tags: 1980s; 1984; 1984-6-1; Charts; diagrams; etc; Food supply; Grigg, D.; History; Medicine; Nutrition; Population

'Mad about the bomb', Harpers

Tags: 1945; 1980s; 1983; 1983-12-1; Anniversaries; Bombardment; Edward Teller; Ernest Orlando Lawrence; etc; Herken, Gregg; Hiroshima-shi (Japan); History; I.I. (Isidor Isaac) Rabi; Los Alamos National Laboratory; Luis Alvarez; Military and Weapons; Military research; Moral and ethical aspects; nuclear weapons; Other; Research

'Warfare', Harpers

Tags: 1980s; 1982; 1982-1984; 1982-9-1; Engineering; Falkland Islands War; History; Israeli intervention; Lebanon; Lind, William S.; Mechanical Engineering; Military planning; Military policy; Technology; United States

'Waiting for interferon', Harpers

Tags: 1980s; 1982; 1982-9-1; Drugs; Drugs and Pharmaceuticals; Fox, Charles; History; Interferon; Medicine; Multiple sclerosis; Research; Testing; therapy; United States

'Faces of the People', London Review of Books

Tags: 1980s; 1982; 1982-8-19; Altick, Richard; History; Medicine; Physiognomy; Pseudoscience; Psychology, Psychiatry and Psychotherapy

'Bowling with Dr. Mengele', Harpers

Tags: 1980s; 1982; 1982-7-1; Bernhard Förster; Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche; Germans; Harmon, Jeff B.; History; Josef Mengele; Medicine; Nueva Germania; Nueva Germania (Paraguay); Paraguay; Staffing, Funding and Institutions; War criminals

'Invisible wars', Harpers

Tags: 1915; 1980s; 1981; 1981-12-1; 2nd Battle of; Amoretta M. Hoeber; Belgium; Biological warfare; Biological weapons; Biology; Cold War; History; Ieper; Lyons, Gene; Political aspects; United States; Ypres

'Ideas of Decline', London Review of Books

Tags: 1980s; 1981; 1981-6-8; Declinism; Engineering; History; Industrialisation; Martin Wiener; Production; Rothblatt, Sheldon; Sidney Pollard

'A sense of scale', Harpers

Tags: 1980s; 1981; 1981-6-1; Book reviews; Cartographers; Earth Sciences; Geography; History; John Noble Wilford; Taliaferro, Frances

'Water and power', Harpers

Tags: 1980s; 1981; 1981-3-1; Calif.); California; civil engineering; Engineering; Environmental aspects; History; Los Angeles (Calif.); Owens Lake (Inyo County; Owens River Valley (Calif.); Politics and government; Southern; Stegner, Page; Water; Water resources development; Water rights

'In search of the miraculous', Harpers

Tags: 1980s; 1981; 1981-1-1; Forteana; History; Parapsychology; Parapsychology and science; Religion and science; Roszak, Theodore; Science; Social aspects; United States

'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

'Growing with the times', Harpers

Tags: 1980; 1980-7-1; 1980s; Agriculture; Biology; History; Mueller, William; Plant Sciences; United States

'The fortunes of war', Harpers

Tags: 1980; 1980-4-1; 1980s; Aeronautics and Aerospace; Curricula; Engineering; Evaluation; History; Military; Military education; Military history; Record, Jeffrey; Study and teaching; United States; United States Air Force Academy; United States Military Academy; United States Naval Academy

'The sinking ark', Harpers

Tags: 1970s; 1979; 1979-1-1; Biology; Classification; Endangered species; Environmentalism; History; Law and legislation; Tucker, William; United States; Zoology

'Political technology', Harpers

Tags: 1970s; 1978; 1978-3-1; American; Boorstin, Daniel J. (Daniel Joseph); Civilization; Federal government; History; Institutions and Funding; National characteristics; STS; Technology and civilization; United States

'The desert empire', Harpers

Tags: 1970s; 1977; 1977-10-1; Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico); Droughts; Earth Sciences; Geography; History; regulation; Sibley, George; Water-supply; West (U.S.)

'Where does it all end? The debate about the edge of the universe', Harpers

Tags: 1970s; 1974; 1974-6-1; Astronomy; Astronomy and Astrophysics; Big bang theory; Cosmology; Expanding universe; Ferris, Timothy; History; Physics; Quasars

'Report', Harpers

Tags: 1970s; 1973; 1973-3-1; Communal living; History; Kanter, Rosabeth Moss; Other; social movements; United States; Utopias

'Planetary vistas', Harpers

Tags: 1970s; 1971; 1971-12-1; Civilization; Critiques and Comments; History; Philosophy; Science; Social evolution; STS; Technology and civilization; Thompson, William Irwin