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link to catalog page JACKSON, Rails across the Mississippi

Rails across the Mississippi

A History of the St. Louis Bridge

Author: Robert W. Jackson
Pub Date: Cloth: ; Paper: 2007

The story of the visionary drive that created an engineering marvel   learn more...

link to catalog page LIVINGSTON, Between Science and Literature

Between Science and Literature

An Introduction to Autopoetics

Author: Ira Livingston
Pub Date: November 2006

A shift in how we understand the world and ourselves, further displacing the nature/culture divide once so definitive for modernity   learn more...

link to catalog page EATON, Hardy Cross

Hardy Cross

American Engineer

Author: Leonard K. Eaton
Pub Date: November 2006

The first biography of one of America's most brilliant civil engineers   learn more...

link to catalog page WEAVER, Medical Revolutionaries

Medical Revolutionaries

The Enslaved Healers of Eighteenth-Century Saint Domingue

Author: Karol K. Weaver
Pub Date: September 2006

How slave healers inspired the Haitian Revolution, toppled the slave system in Saint Domingue, and led to the loss of France’s most productive New World colony   learn more...

link to catalog page RAMON Y CAJAL, Vacation Stories

Vacation Stories

Five Science Fiction Tales

Author: Santiago Ramón y Cajal
Pub Date: Cloth: ; Paper: 2006

Written by Nobel Prize-winning Ramón y Cajal and translated into English for the first time by MacArthur Fellow Laura Otis, these five ingenious, early science fiction tales take a politically subversive and wickedly microscopic look at the nature, allure, and danger of scientific curiosity. (Think Jules Verne!)   learn more...

link to catalog page BAILEY, The Enchantments of Technology Author: Lee Worth Bailey
Pub Date: October 2005

A rollicking romp through our hidden assumptions about modern, technological existence   learn more...

link to catalog page WARWICK, I, Cyborg Author: Kevin Warwick
Pub Date: 2004

An engaging personal account of human enthusiasm, robot science, and the future   learn more...

link to catalog page WARWICK, March of the Machines

March of the Machines

The Breakthrough in Artificial Intelligence

Author: Kevin Warwick
Pub Date: 2004

Dystopian warnings about machine threats from a leading expert on robotics   learn more...

link to catalog page GORDON, Heroes of Their Own Lives

Heroes of Their Own Lives

The Politics and History of Family Violence--Boston, 1880-1960

Author: Linda Gordon
Pub Date: 2002

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link to catalog page MACKINNON, Human Cloning

Human Cloning

Science, Ethics, and Public Policy

Author: Edited by Barbara MacKinnon
Pub Date: Cloth: 2000; Paper: 2002

As human cloning becomes even more probable, Human Cloning sets out to address the scientific, ethical, and public policy questions that will need to be addressed long before it becomes a reality.   learn more...

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