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Book Reviews

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Pages 137-173 | Published online: 30 Jun 2008
 

Edward Tufte, Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative (Cheshire, Conn.: Graphics Press, 1997), pp. 158.

Pascal Griset, Entreprise, technologie et souveraineté: Les Télécommunications transatlantiques de la France. XIX‐XXe siècles. (Paris, Editions Rive Droite, 1996), pp. 740.

Robert Fox (ed.), Technological Change: Methods and Themes in the History of Technology (Amsterdam: Harwood Academic Publishers, 1996), pp. vii+271.

Michael J. Neufeld, The Rocket and the Reich. Peenemünde and the Coming of the Ballistic Missile Era (New York: The Free Press, 1995), pp. xiii + 368; E. Stuhlinger and F.I. Ordway III, Wernher von Braun. Crusader for Space. A Biographical Memoir and An Illustrated Memoir (Malabar, Fa: Krieger, 1994), pp. xvi + 375, pp. xx+147;

Y. Béon, Planet Dora. A memoir of the Holocaust and the Birth of the Space Age (Boulder: Westview Press, 1997), pp. xxviii+250.

Ruth L. Sime, Lise Meitner. A Life in Physics (Berkeley/Los Angeles/ London: University of California Press, 1996), pp. xiii+526.

Ronald C. Tobey. Technology as Freedom: the New Deal and the Electrical Modernization of the American Home (Berkeley/Los Angeles/ London: University of California Press, 1996), pp. xvii + 316.

Emmanuel Chadeau. (sous la direction de), Airbus, un succés industriel européen. Industrie française et coopération européenne, 1965–1972 (Paris: Institut d'Histoire de l'Industrie et Editions Rive Droite, 1995), pp. xv+182.

Paul Erker. Competition and Growth: A Contemporary History of the Continental AG. Trans. Frederick S. Gardiner. Dusseldorf: ECON, 1996. 320 pp., Tables, notes, bibliography, illustrations, and index. $40.00 (paper).

Palladino, Paolo. Entomology, Ecology, and Agriculture: The Making of Scientific Careers in North America 1885–1985. vii + 201 pp., index. Amsterdam: Harwood Academic Publishers, 1996.

Louis L. Bucciarelli. Designing Engineers (MIT Press, 1994), x+220.

Ilana Löwy. Between Bench and Bedside. Science, Healing and Interleukin‐2 in a Cancer Ward (Harvard University Press, 1996), 370 pp.

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