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The Soviet Farm Complex : industrial agriculture in a Socialist context, 1945-1965
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)
"The Soviet Farm Complex" is a history of food, farming and the environment in the postwar Soviet Union. It tells the story of how different technical and institutional authorities created an industrial Soviet countryside ...
Executive coaching : crafting a versatile self in corporate America
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)
In recent years, coaching has become a major form of personal and professional development service offered to executives to help develop leadership skills, enhance performance, and remediate patterns of problematic workplace ...
From enthusiasm to practice : users, systems, and technology in high-end audio
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)
This is a story about technology, users, and music. It is about an approach to the design, manipulation, and arrangement of technologies in small-scale systems to achieve particular aesthetic goals - goals that are at once ...
The promiscuity of freedom : development and governance in the age of neoliberal networks
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)
This study brings together science and technology studies, political anthropology, and Latin American studies, by studying the practices and political reasoning of neoliberal networks in Peru. It analyses the extension of ...
The rules of perception : American color science, 1831-1931
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)
Although vision was seldom studied in Antebellum America, color and color perception became a critical field of scientific inquiry in the United States during the Gilded Age and progressive era. Through a historical ...
Corporate bodies and chemical bonds : an STS analysis of natural gas development in the United States
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)
Natural gas extraction in the United States in the early 21st century has transformed social, physical, legal and biological landscapes. The technique of hydraulic fracturing, which entails the high-pressure injection into ...
The herds shot round the world : native breeds and the British Empire, 1800-1900
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)
This dissertation explores the relationship between types of livestock and place in the context of Great Britain's expanding agro-pastoral empire. Specifically, it examines how the distribution and circulation of breeds ...
The wired wilderness : electronic surveillance and environmental values in wildlife biology
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)
In the second half of the twentieth century, American wildlife biologists incorporated Cold War-era surveillance technologies into their practices in order to render wild animals and their habitats legible and manageable. ...
Propheteering : a cultural history of prediction in the Gilded Age
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)
This study of the changing practices and perceptions of prediction in the late nineteenth century reveals the process by which Americans came to rationalize economic and cultural uncertainty into modern life. Forecasts of ...
Planting improvement : the rhetoric and practice of scientific agriculture in northern British America, 1670-1820
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)
"Planting Improvement: The Rhetoric and Practice of Scientific Agriculture in Northern British America, 1670-1820," explores the history and cultural politics of environmental change in the British empire through a focus ...