This section of the Newsletter is meant to guide readers to books or articles that someone recommended to me because they are useful, provocative, or enjoyable—at best, all three. Suggestions of other materials to be reviewed would be most welcome, with or without comments, but I hope you feel free to comment on my opinions as well.
Barrett Hazeltine, Division of Engineering, Brown University
Castells, Manuel. Jack Linchuan Qui, Mireia Fernández-Ardévol, Araba Sey. Mobile Communications and Society: A Global Perspective. Click here to see review
Coburn, Pip. The Change Function: Why Some Technologies Take Off and Others Crash and Burn. Click here to see review
Emanuel, Kerry. What We Know About Climate Change. Click here to see review
Hard, Mikael and Andrew Jamison. Hubris and Hybrids: A Cultural History of Technology and Science. Click here to see review
Hart, Steven. The Last Three Miles: Politics, Murder, and the Construction of America’s First Superhighway. Click here to see review
Mazur, Allan. True Warnings and False Alarms: Evaluating fears About Health Risks of Technology, 1948-1971. Click here to see review
Morton, David L. and Joseph Gabriel. Electronics: The Life Story of a Technology. Click here to see review
Polak, Paul. Out of Poverty: What Works When Traditional Approaches Fail. Click here to see review
Ruddiman, William. Plows, Plagues, and Petroleum: How Humans Took Control of Climate. Click here to see review
Turkle, Sherry, ed. Evocative Objects: Things We Think With. Click here to see review
