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  • - US Airports Since 1945
    af Janet R. Bednarek
    1.361,95 - 1.553,95 kr.

    However, other metropolitan residents have paid a high price for the expansion of air transportation, as battles over jet aircraft noise resulted not only in quieter jet engine technologies, but profound changes in the metropolitan landscape with the clearance of both urban and suburban neighborhoods.

  • - Historical and Sociological Perspectives
     
    561,95 kr.

    This book looks at the types of new research organizations that drive scientific innovation and how ground-breaking science transforms research fields and their organization.

  • af Maurits W. Ertsen
    565,95 kr.

    The typical image of the Gezira Scheme, the large-scale irrigation scheme started under British colonial rule in Sudan, is of a centrally planned effort by a central colonial power controlling tenants and cotton production.

  • - Outer Space, Antarctica, and Cold War Nationalism
    af James Spiller
    559,95 kr.

    This book compares the cultural politics of the U.S. space and Antarctic programs during the Cold War. It analyzes how culturally salient terms, especially the nationalist motif of the frontier, were used to garner public support for these strategic initiatives and, more generally, United States internationalism during this period.

  • - The Lab as Contact Zone
    af Yoshiyuki Kikuchi
    559,95 - 745,95 kr.

    This book offers a transnational look at the history of Japanese chemistry and its interactions with the West in the late nineteenth to early twentieth century.

  • - Astroculture After Apollo
     
    1.082,95 kr.

    Limiting Outer Space propels the historicization of outer space by focusing on the Post-Apollo period.

  • af Matthew H. Hersch
    553,95 kr.

    Who were the men who led America's first expeditions into space? From the early days of Project Mercury to the last moon landing, this lively history demystifies the American astronaut while revealing the warring personalities, raw ambition, and complex motives of the men who were the public face of the space program.

  • - Scientists, Radiations, and the American Public, 1895-1945
    af Matthew Lavine
    1.262,95 - 1.423,95 kr.

    At the close of the 19th century, strange new forms of energy arrested the American public's attention in ways that no scientific discovery ever had before. This groundbreaking cultural history tells the story of the first nuclear culture, one whose lasting effects would be seen in the familiar "atomic age" of the post-war twentieth century.

  • - The History and Science of Planetary Exploration
     
    1.269,95 kr.

    Beginning in the early days of the Space Age - well before the advent of manned spaceflight - the United States, followed soon by other nations, undertook an ambitious effort to study the planets of the solar system.

  • - A Transnational History, 1945-1965
     
    1.168,95 kr.

    The atomic age was described as one that might soon end in the destruction of human civilization, but from the beginning, utopian images were attached to it as well. This book compares representations of nuclear power in popular media from around the world to to trace divergences, convergences, and exchanges.

  • - Histories from Australia and New Zealand
    af Emily O'Gorman, James Beattie & Matthew Henry
    565,95 - 793,95 kr.

    Offering new historical understandings of human responses to climate and climate change, this cutting-edge volume explores the dynamic relationship between settlement, climate, and colonization, covering everything from the physical impact of climate on agriculture and land development to the development of "folk" and government meteorologies.

  • - The History and Science of Planetary Exploration
     
    1.276,95 kr.

    Beginning in the early days of the Space Age - well before the advent of manned spaceflight - the United States, followed soon by other nations, undertook an ambitious effort to study the planets of the solar system.

  • - Reconsidering the International Polar and Geophysical Years
     
    570,95 kr.

    The International Polar Years and the International Geophysical Year represented a remarkable international collaborative scientific effort that has been largely neglected by historians. This groundbreaking collection seeks to redress that neglect and illuminate critical aspects of the last 150 years of international scientific endeavour.

  • - Fifty Years of International Collaboration in Space
    af John Krige, A. Long, Angelina Long Callahan & mfl.
    1.081,95 - 1.415,95 kr.

    Since its inception, NASA has participated in over 4,000 international projects, yet historians have almost entirely neglected this remarkable aspect of the agency's work. This groundbreaking work is the first to trace NASA's history in a truly international context, drawing on unprecedented access to agency archives and personnel.