Browse Items (54 total)

'A romance of rust', Harpers

Tags: 2000s; 2005; 2005-1-1; 21st century; Agricultural implements; Antique auctions; Engineering; Hardware; Hohn, Donovan; Mechanical Engineering; Social life and customs; Tools; United States

'Where the bee sucks', Harpers

Tags: 2000s; 2001; 2001-1-1; 21st century; British Columbia; Economic policy; Economics; Environmentalism; Hippies; Nickson, Elizabeth; Saltspring Island; Saltspring Island (B.C.); Social life and customs; Social sciences; Witches

'Let�s go', Harpers

Tags: 2000; 2000-7-1; 2000s; California; Cass, Dennis; Computer industry; Dennis Cass; Description and travel; Engineering; Information Technology; San Francisco Bay Area; San Francisco Bay Area (Calif.); Social life and customs

'Technology and me', Harpers

Tags: 1990s; 1996; 1996-9-1; AI, Automation and Robotics; American; Authors; Automation; Engineering; Kurt Vonnegut; Social life and customs; United States; Vonnegut, Kurt; Writing

'The gospel according to Prum', Harpers

Tags: 1990s; 1995; 1995-1-1; American influences; Anthropology; Bourne, Will; Cargo cults; Civilization; John Prum Movement (Vanuatu); Social life and customs; Social sciences; Tanna (Vanuatuan people); vanuatu

'Who won the West? Apologies to the water birds and ranch hands', Harpers

Tags: 1980s; 1988; 1988-4-1; Biography; Biology; Kittredge, William; Oregon; Ranch life; Ranchers; Rural families; Social life and customs; Zoology

'Those wild tuna guys', Harpers

Tags: 1980s; 1987; 1987-6-1; Biology; Fishers; Marine biology; Psychology; Seafaring life; Social life and customs; Tillett, Anthony; Tuna fishing; West (U.S.); Women scientists

'Endless summer of love. Goa', Harpers

Tags: 1980s; 1987; 1987-5-1; Black, David; Description and travel; Foreign; Hippies; India; Other; Social life and customs; social movements; Travel; Velha Goa; Velha Goa (India); Visitors

'Jockey club of the apocalypse', Harpers

Tags: 1980s; 1984; 1984-4-1; Actors; Art and Fiction; California; Haden-Guest, Anthony; Homes and haunts; Malibu; Malibu (Calif.); Motion picture producers and directors; Natural disasters; Other; Science fiction; Social life and customs

'Speedway', Harpers

Tags: 1980s; 1982; 1982-8-1; Automobile racing drivers; Automobile racing fans; Death; Engineering; Fussell, Paul; Indiana; Indianapolis; Indianapolis (Ind.); Indianapolis Speedway Race; Mechanical Engineering; Social life and customs

'Tear gas is bad for the complexion', Harpers

Tags: 1980; 1980-9-1; 1980s; Alberto Moravia; Alice Colombo; Authors; Book reviews; Burke, Jeffrey; Italian; Italy; Other; Social life and customs; social movements; Technique

'Why smaller refrigerators can preserve the human race', Harpers

Tags: 1970s; 1971-; 1975; 1975-1-1; Chemistry; Consumers; Farms; Food; Quality of life; Refrigerators; Rodden, Appletree; Small; Social life and customs; Storage; United States

'On being an object', Harpers

Tags: 1970s; 1971-; 1973; 1973-11-1; Celebrities; Interpersonal relations; Medicine; Psychology; Psychology, Psychiatry and Psychotherapy; Sisk, John P.; Social life and customs; United States

'Gary, Indiana', Harpers

Tags: 1960s; 1969; 1969-8-1; Engineering; Frady, Marshall; Gary; Gary (Ind.); Indiana; manufacturing; Middle class; Politics and government; Production; Race relations; Social life and customs; Social problems; Steel industry and trade; Steel-works

'Torment and therapy', Harpers

Tags: 1945-1970; 1960s; 1963-1969; 1968; 1968-7-1; Bertram Myron Gross; Book reviews; Cold War; Foreign relations; Howe, Irving; Political science; Richard Halworth Rovere; Social life and customs; Social problems; Social sciences; Stanley Hoffman; United States

'The packaged society', Harpers

Tags: 1945-1970; 1960s; 1966; 1966-8-1; Advertising; Lynes, Russell; Medicine; Packaging; Psychology; Psychology, Psychiatry and Psychotherapy; Social life and customs; United States

'How to preserve an unspoiled wilderness', Harpers

Tags: 1960s; 1966; 1966-3-1; Earth Sciences; Humor; Lapland; Social life and customs

'Venus observed', Harpers

Tags: 18th century; 1960s; 1966; 1966-3-1; Astronomy and Astrophysics; English; Explorers; First contact of aboriginal peoples with Westerners; French Polynesia; History; James Cook; Moorehead, Alan; Physics; Social life and customs; Tahiti; Tahiti (French Polynesia)

'The mathematics of polygamy', Harpers

Tags: 1960; 1960-10-1; 1960s; Anthropology; Nigeria; Passin, Herbert; Polygamy; Sex ratio; Social life and customs; Social sciences

'Men to match Japan�s mountains', Harpers

Tags: 1960; 1960-2-1; 1960s; Bodies; Bosworth, Allan R. (Allan Rucker); Japan; Medicine; Social life and customs; Sumo; training

'What are we coming to?', Harpers

Tags: 1865-1918; 1940s; 1948; 1948-12-1; Hall, William Whitty; Health attitudes; Housing and health; Medicine; Public health; Social life and customs; United States

'Russians like our planes', Harpers

Tags: 1940s; 1944; 1944-9-1; Aeronautical engineers; Aeronautics and Aerospace; Engineering; Leighton W. (Leighton William) Rogers; Rogers, Leighton W. (Leighton William); Social life and customs; Soviet Union; Travel; United States

'[The people at war', Harpers

Tags: 1939-1945; 1940s; 1943; 1943-10-1; Passos, John Dos; Social aspects; Social life and customs; Social sciences; Sociology; Washington (D.C.); World War II

'Lessons in living from the stone age', Harpers

Tags: 1930s; 1939; 1939-7-1; Civilization; Eskimos; Medicine; Northwest Territories; Nutrition; Social life and customs; Stefansson, Vilhjalmur; Vilhjalmur Stefansson

'Landscape with farmers', Harpers

Tags: 1930s; 1937; 1937-12-1; Charles Allen Smart; Country life; Farm life; Farmers; Landscape; Ohio; Smart, Charles Allen; Social life and customs; Social sciences; Sociology

'Tropic fever', Harpers

Tags: 1930s; 1936; 1936-11-1; Biology; Description and travel; Europeans; Indonesia; L. (László) Székely; Plant Sciences; Plantations; Social life and customs; Sumatra; Sumatra (Indonesia); Sz�kely, L. (L�szl�)

'The Tennessee Valley experiment', Harpers

Tags: 1930s; 1935; 1935-5-1; civil engineering; Cost and standard of living; Engineering; Social change; Social life and customs; Tennessee River Valley; Tennessee Valley Authority

'A close-up of polygamy', Harpers

Tags: 1930s; 1934; 1934-2-1; Anecdotes; Brooks, Juanita; History; Juanita Brooks; Mormons; Polygamy; Social life and customs; Social sciences; Sociology; West (U.S.)

'Coming events, including the millennium', Harpers

Tags: 1930s; 1932; 1932-12-1; A.D.; Forecasting; Forecasts; Martin, Edward Sandford; Millennialism; Moral conditions; Other; Social life and customs; Two thousand; United States

'Detroit', Harpers

Tags: 1930; 1930-12-1; 1930s; Automobile travel; Description and travel; Detroit; Detroit (Mich.); Duffus, R. L. (Robert Luther); Engineering; Mechanical Engineering; Michigan; Population; Social classes; Social life and customs