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The Container Principle
A cultural history of the shipping container as a crucible of globalization and a cultural paradigm.We live in a world organized around the container. Standardized twenty- and …
Energy at the End of the World
Making local energy futures, from marine energy to hydrogen fuel, at the edge of the world.The islands of Orkney, off the northern coast of Scotland, are closer to the Arctic …
Gaming the Metrics
How the increasing reliance on metrics to evaluate scholarly publications has produced new forms of academic fraud and misconduct.The traditional academic imperative to "publish or …
The Charisma Machine
A fascinating examination of technological utopianism and its complicated consequences.In The Charisma Machine, Morgan Ames chronicles the life and legacy of the One Laptop per …
The Demonstration Society
Letters, Power Lines, and Other Dangerous Things
An examination of how post-9/11 security concerns have transformed the public view and governance of infrastructure.After September 11, 2001, infrastructures-the mundane systems …
A Vast Machine
The science behind global warming, and its history: how scientists learned to understand the atmosphere, to measure it, to trace its past, and to model its future.Global warming …
Beyond the Big Ditch
A historical and ethnographic study of the conflict between global transportation and rural development as the two intersect at the Panama Canal. In this innovative book, Ashley …