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A Matter of Honour
Years ago, Harry Nichols' family disintegrated when his brother-in-law was murdered outside the High Court of Australia, Before his sister Maggie and her family disappeared into witness protection Harry promised her he would forget the case. He's had no contact with her since. Now, as a famous investigative journalist, the family approach him to re-open the case. He agrees when he discovers someone is looking for them. But who, and why now? Harry persuades Maggie to reveal what she knows. Even with this knowledge Harry has to use every resource he has to find out who their adversaries are. He will have to fight for his life to save his family from the powerful forces who will stop at nothing to destroy them. But can he get to the bottom of it before it's too late?
The Victorian Palace of Science
Edward J. Gillin explores the extraordinary role of scientific knowledge in the building of the Houses of Parliament in Victorian Britain.
Technology
Technology: The Game Changer presents the case that technology should be seen as an essential feature of the human condition. Technology is defined as extending the capabilities of life processes, harnessing and regulating natural phenomena, enabling complex life-forms, such as humans, to build societies which step up through a series of gears. It is argued that humans are not only animals that make technology, but also animals made by technology. Nothing in history, it is proposed, makes sense except in the light of technology. It is contended that a technological perspective provides a satisfying and inclusive account of where we came from, who and what we are, and the various contingent futures that may face us. Taking a universal view, technology is presented as a basic feature of nature, necessarily central to the evolution and history of intelligent beings, whenever and wherever in the cosmos they might arise.
Greedy Science
On the transformative role of greed in global science and technology during the 1980s. In the 1980s, a transformative era emerged where profit-driven motives and an entrepreneurial spirit dominated scientific research and technological innovation. This collection of essays, edited by Michael D. Gordin and W. Patrick McCray, examines how greed reshaped the global scientific community through the relentless pursuit of money, fame, and celebrity. Profiting off science and technology was not a new phenomenon, nor were the soaring ambitions of some of its most fervent advocates. However, the global currents of knowledge production in the 1980s saw major cultural and scientific shifts: the increas...
End State
A GUARDIAN POLITICAL BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Insightful and revealing: a brilliant exploration of how ideas currently on the edge of politics could move into the mainstream' Danny Dorling, author of SLOWDOWN An ambitious, thrilling manifesto, setting out a new relationship between the individual and the state and how we can get there Can we reverse the mental health crisis by getting rid of Mondays? Is it time to stop poor people being poor by... giving them money? Can we quell the fires of populism by giving young people a say in the future? As the shockwaves of Covid 19 continue to spread, and as the smoke clears from a year of anger and unrest, many people feel forlorn about the future. In End ...
The Government Machine
An examination of technology and politics in the evolution of the British "government machine." In The Government Machine, Jon Agar traces the mechanization of government work in the United Kingdom from the nineteenth to the early twenty-first century. He argues that this transformation has been tied to the rise of "expert movements," groups whose authority has rested on their expertise. The deployment of machines was an attempt to gain control over state action—a revolutionary move. Agar shows how mechanization followed the popular depiction of government as machine-like, with British civil servants cast as components of a general purpose "government machine"; indeed, he argues that today...
