Product Description: The view of nature and technology inhabiting totally different, even opposite, spheres persists across time and cultures. Most people would consider an English countryside or a Louisiana bayou to be "natural," though each is to an extent the product of technology...read more

Product Description: Maps interconnections between science, technology, and society in order to understand both benefits and costs. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Maps interconnections between science, technology, and society in order to understand both benefits and costs. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Ideas, Machines, and Values is an introductory overview of the emergence of STS as a field of study, as well as a portrait of its current interests and concerns. The book examines the growth of STS from its birth inthe mid-1960's through its development as an interdisciplinary field to its present state...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This broad-ranging anthology provides a condensed overview of technology in Western civilization. Its twenty-one carefully selected articles and overview essays demonstrate the complex relationship between technological and social change from antiquity to the present...read more

Product Description: Technology and American History explores the technological dimension of American life from the birth of American industry in the late eighteenth century to the massive industrial systems of the late twentieth century. Emphasizing a societal context for technology, this carefully organized collection demonstrates both the manner in which cultural, political, and economic forces shape innovation, and the ways that technology has influenced society and shaped its values...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)