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McCurdy, H. E. (2019)
This Palgrave Pivot investigates the efforts of five aerospace companies—SpaceX, Blue Origin, Virgin Galactic, Orbital Sciences, and the Boeing Company—to launch their entry into …
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Campbell, B. B. (2019)
In the early twentieth century, the magic of radio was new, revolutionary, and poorly understood. A powerful symbol of modernity, radio was a site where individuals wrestled and …
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Morgese, G. (Ed), Pietro Lombardo, G. (Ed), Vande Kemp, H. (Ed) (2019)
In the late nineteenth century, dreams became the subject of scientific study for the first time, after thousands of years of being considered a primarily spiritual phenomenon. …
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Silva, B. K. (2019)
This Palgrave Pivot tells the transnational story of the astronomical observatory in the hills near Santiago, Chile, built in the early twentieth century through the efforts of …
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Housley, K. L. (2019)
In twentieth-century Germany, Karl-Friedrich Bonhoeffer rose to prominence as a brilliant physical chemist, even as several of his relatives—Dietrich Bonhoeffer among them—became …
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Logsdon, J. M. (2019)
When Ronald Reagan was elected in 1980, limits on NASA funding and the lack of direction under the Nixon and Carter administrations had left the U.S. space program at a …
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Altenbaugh, R. J. (2018)
The success of the polio vaccine was a remarkable breakthrough for medical science, effectively eradicating a dreaded childhood disease. It was also the largest medical experiment …
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Robinson, S. A. (2018)
This book focuses on the activities of the scientific staff of the British National Institute of Oceanography during the Cold War. Revealing how issues such as intelligence …
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Wormbs, N. (Ed) (2018)
This edited collection explores how narratives about the future of the Arctic have been produced historically up until the present day. The contemporary deterministic and …
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Launius, R. D. (Ed), McCurdy, H. E. (Ed) (2018)
This book presents the first comprehensive history of innovation at NASA, bringing together experts in the field to illuminate how public-private and international partnerships …
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Geppert, A. C. (Ed) (2018)
Imagining Outer Space makes a captivating advance into the cultural history of outer space and extraterrestrial life in the European imagination. How was outer space conceived and …
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Geppert, A. C. (Ed) (2018)
Limiting Outer Space propels the historicization of outer space by focusing on the Post-Apollo period. After the moon landings, disillusionment set in. Outer space, no longer …
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Boileau, J. (2017)
This book offers a fresh perspective on the Chinese diaspora. It is about the mobilisation of knowledge across time and space, exploring the history of Chinese market gardening in …
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deJong-Lambert, W. (Ed), Krementsov, N. (Ed) (2017)
This volume covers the global history of the Lysenko controversy, while exploring in greater depth the background of D. Lysenko’s career and influence in the USSR. By presenting …
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deJong-Lambert, W. (Ed), Krementsov, N. (Ed) (2017)
This volume examines the international impact of Lysenkoism in its namesake’s heyday and the reasons behind Lysenko’s rehabilitation in Russia today. By presenting the rise and …
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Monmonier, M. (2017)
This book explores the US patent system, which helped practical minded innovators establish intellectual property rights and fulfill the need for achievement that motivates …
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Klemun, M. (Ed), Spring, U. (Ed) (2016)
This collection focuses on different expeditions and their role in the process of knowledge acquisition from the eighteenth century onwards. It investigates various forms of …
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Heinze, T. (Ed), Münch, R. (Ed) (2016)
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. …
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Bednarek, J. R. (2016)
This book explores the relationship between cities and their commercial airports. These vital transportation facilities are locally owned and managed and civic leaders and …
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Peder, R. (Ed), van der Watt, L. (Ed), Howkins, A. (Ed) (2016)
The continent for science is also a continent for the humanities. Despite having no indigenous human population, Antarctica has been imagined in powerful, innovative, and …
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