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Challenger Launch Decision Risky Technology, Culture, and Deviance at NASA
ISBN: PB: 9780226346823, University of Chicago Press, December 2015
620 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 54 line drawings, 2 tables
When the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded on January 28, 1986, millions of Americans became bound together in a single, historic moment. Many still vividly remember exactly where they were and what they were doing when they heard about the tragedy....
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£19,50
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Connecting Alaskans Telecommunications in Alaska from Telegraph to Broadband
ISBN: HB: 9781602232686, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, September 2015
380 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 halftones
"Alaska is now open to civilization". With those six words in 1900, the northernmost territory finally had a connection with the rest of the country. The telegraph system put in place by the US Army Signal Corps heralded  the start of Alaska's commun...
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£45,00
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Cybernetic Brain Sketches of Another Future
ISBN: PB: 9780226667904, ISBN: HB: 9780226667898, University of Chicago Press, October 2011
536 pp., 23x15 cm, 60 halftones, 28 line illus.
Cybernetics is often thought of as a grim military or industrial science of control. But as Andrew Pickering reveals in this beguiling book, a much more lively and experimental strain of cybernetics can be traced from the 1940s to the present. "The...
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£28,00
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£61,00
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