This book examines why high-tech development became so economically important late in the twentieth century, and why its magic formula of people, jobs, capital, and institutions has been so difficult to replicate.

Examines the repeated association of new electronic media with spiritual phenomena from the telegraph in the late 19th century to television. “Death, desire and distance are Jeffrey Sconce's companions in this truly spooky journey through ...

Creative learning -- Projects -- Passion -- Peers -- Play -- Creative society

This pathbreaking book argues that the roots of the degradation of labor, education, and the environment lie not in technology per se but in the cultural values embodied in its design.

And this book suggests what being digital will mean for our laws, education, politics, and amusements - in short, for the way we live.

"In debunking some of the myths, including financial success and race pride, Fouch humanizes them and examines the greater significance of their work in the context of American sociological and commercial history." -- Booklist

This book deals with the history of mining and smelting from the Renaissance to the present. Martin Lynch opens with the invention, sometime before 1453, of a revolutionary technique for separating silver from copper.

Leading universities that have adopted this book include: Harvard Purdue Rice University University of Chicago Sarah Lawrence College Notre Dame Wellesley Wesleyan University of Colorado Northwestern Washington University in St. Louis ...

Cross-cutting analytical chapters explore the emergence and positioning of foresight, approaches and methods, organisational issues, policy transfer and evaluation.

The book reviews developments in the following fields: RF power amplifiers, modulators and power transistors