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In the very successful and widely discussed first volume in the Golem series, The Golem: What You Should Know about Science, Harry Collins and Trevor Pinch likened science to the Golem, a creature from Jewish mythology, a powerful creature which, while not evil, can be dangerous because it is clumsy. In this second volume, the authors now consider the Golem of technology. In a series of case studies they demonstrate that the imperfections in technology are related to the uncertainties in science described in the first volume. The case studies cover the role of the Patriot anti-missile missile in the Gulf War, the Challenger space shuttle explosion, tests of nuclear fuel flasks and of anti-misting kerosene as a fuel for airplanes, economic modeling, the question of the origins of oil, analysis of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, and the contribution of lay expertise to the analysis of treatments for AIDS.

What is Life?Erwin Schrodinger
Governing the CommonsElinor Ostrom
A Mathematician's ApologyG H Hardy
Mortal QuestionsThomas Nagel
The Discarded ImageC S Lewis
The Invention of TraditionEric Hobsbawm
On Growth and FormD'arcy Wentworth Thompson
The New KnighthoodMalcolm Barber
English as a Global LanguageDavid Crystal
The Two CulturesC P Snow
Something of Myself and Other Autobiographical WritingsRudyard Kipling
An Experiment in CriticismC S Lewis
Mr Tompkins in PaperbackGeorge Gamow
MoralityBernard Williams
Sites of Memory, Sites of MourningJay Winter
The Printing Revolution in Early Modern EuropeElizabeth L Eisenstein
Think on my WordsDavid Crystal
Nations and Nationalism since 1780E J Hobsbawm
AztecsInga Clendinnen
The GolemHarry M Collins
The Spanish LabyrinthGerald Brenan
The Decipherment of Linear BJohn Chadwick
The Trial of the TemplarsMalcolm Barber
'Nature and the Greeks' and 'Science and Humanism'Erwin Schrdinger
Studies in WordsC S Lewis
Why Life Speeds Up As You Get OlderDouwe Draaisma
Information and the Nature of RealityPaul Davies
Science and ReligionJohn Hedley Brooke
Language DeathDavid Crystal
The Allegory of LoveC S Lewis
The Life of Isaac NewtonRichard S Westfall
States and Social RevolutionsTheda Skocpol
Quantum PhysicsAlastair Rae
The Conquests of Alexander the GreatWaldemar Heckel
The Fall of Constantinople 1453Steven Runciman
Spenser's Images of LifeC S Lewis
The Sicilian VespersSteven Runciman
Medieval WomenEileen Power
The English LanguageCharles Barber
Ecological ImperialismAlfred W Crosby
On Space and TimeShahn Majid
The British IslesHugh Kearney
What Was History?Anthony Grafton
Selected Literary EssaysC S Lewis
The Theft of HistoryJack Goody
Beyond Smoke and MirrorsBurton Richter
When Things Fell ApartRobert H Bates

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