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    Heyday of the Boffins.Alex Roland - 2008 - Minerva 46 (1):159-163.
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    Theories and Models of Technological Change: Semantics and Substance.Alex Roland - 1992 - Science, Technology and Human Values 17 (1):79-100.
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    To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design. Henry Petroski.Alex Roland - 1986 - Isis 77 (3):562-563.
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    The First 25 Years in Space: A Symposium. Allan A. Needell.Alex Roland - 1984 - Isis 75 (3):626-627.
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    Technological Utopianism in American Culture. Howard P. Segal.Alex Roland - 1985 - Isis 76 (4):606-607.
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    Wild Blue Yonder: Money, Politics, and the B-1 Bomber. Nick Kotz.Alex Roland - 1988 - Isis 79 (4):744-745.
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    Alfred W. Crosby. Throwing Fire: Projectile Technology through History. xii + 206 pp., illus., index. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. [REVIEW]Alex Roland - 2004 - Isis 95 (3):471-472.
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    David Bloor. The Enigma of the Aerofoil: Rival Theories in Aerodynamics, 1909–1930. xiv + 547 pp., bibl., illus., index. Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press, 2011. $35. [REVIEW]Alex Roland - 2013 - Isis 104 (1):188-189.
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    Gordon R. Mitchell. Strategic Deception: Rhetoric, Science, and Politics in Missile Defense Advocacy. xx + 390 + [9] pp., illus., fig., bibl., index.East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2000. $55. [REVIEW]Alex Roland - 2002 - Isis 93 (1):159-160.
    Gordon Mitchell mixes scholarship and polemics in a deliberate attempt to intevene “in present‐day missile defense controversies” . His book operates on three levels. First, he presents three case studies of recent missile defense activities in which the United States government has misled the American public. The failed promise of President Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative, or “Star Wars,” has lured countless industry representatives and government officials into rigging tests, falsifying results, and withholding information. The government used secrecy and intimidation, trying (...)
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    Michael H. Gorn. Expanding the Envelope: Flight Research at NACA and NASA. 512 pp., illus., notes, index. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2001. $35. [REVIEW]Alex Roland - 2004 - Isis 95 (3):530-531.
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    (1 other version)Peter Paret. The Cognitive Challenge of War: Prussia, 1806. x + 164 pp., illus., bibl., index. Princeton, N.J./Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2009. $22.95. [REVIEW]Alex Roland - 2011 - Isis 102 (2):374-374.
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    Robert G. Ferguson. NASA's First A: Aeronautics from 1958 to 2008. viii + 293 pp., illus., apps., bibl., index. Washington, D.C.: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 2013. $20. [REVIEW]Alex Roland - 2014 - Isis 105 (4):866-867.
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    R OGER D. L AUNIUS and J ANET R. D ALEY B EDNAREK , Reconsidering a Century of Flight. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 2003. Pp. xii+300. ISBN 0-8078-5488-3. £14.95, $19.95. [REVIEW]Alex Roland - 2006 - British Journal for the History of Science 39 (1):145-146.
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    Rebecca Slayton. Arguments That Count: Physics, Computing, and Missile Defense, 1949–2012. xi + 325 pp., illus., bibl., index. Cambridge, Mass./London: MIT Press, 2013. $35. [REVIEW]Alex Roland - 2014 - Isis 105 (3):671-672.
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    Sean F. Johnston. The Neutron's Children: Nuclear Engineers and the Shaping of Identity. xi + 313 pp., illus., apps., bibl., index. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. $62.99. [REVIEW]Alex Roland - 2013 - Isis 104 (3):648-649.
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    The Winged Gospel: America's Romance with Aviation, 1900-1950Joseph CornWinged Wonders: The Story of the Flying WingsE. T. Wooldridge. [REVIEW]Alex Roland - 1984 - Isis 75 (4):783-784.