High-Speed Dreams : NASA and the Technopolitics of Supersonic Transportation, 1945--1999 (New Series in NASA History)

High-Speed Dreams : NASA and the Technopolitics of Supersonic Transportation, 1945--1999 (New Series in NASA History)

Editorial Reviews
Review

"Of interest to historians and social scientists concerned with the politics and economics of public policy... An important book on a fascinating topic." -- Choice

"High-Speed Dreams is a concise and thoroughly fascinating history of the train wreck that was the U.S. supersonic civil transport programs." -- Mark Huber, Air and Space Magazine

Review

"Impressive and thorough. An important contribution to our understanding of state-supported large-scale technological development in America. It will be of interest to aerospace enthusiasts, historians of technology, and students of public policy." -- Alex Roland, Duke University, former president of the Society for the History of Technology

High-Speed Dreams : NASA and the Technopolitics of Supersonic Transportation, 1945--1999 (New Series in NASA History)

High-Speed Dreams: NASA and the Technopolitics of Supersonic Transportation, 1945--1999 (New Series in NASA History),Erik M. Conway,The Johns Hopkins University Press,080188067X,20th century,Aeronautics & Astronautics,Aviation - General,Aviation - History,Earth Sciences - General,History,National Aeronautics and Space Administration,Political aspects,Research,Science,Science/Mathematics,Supersonic transport planes,Transportation,United States,United States.,Aerospace & aviation technology,USA

Books Review:

1. Holding Back the Sea : The Struggle on the Gulf Coast to Save America
2. Hydrology : An Introduction
3. Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology
4. Infrared Spectroscopy : Fundamentals and Applications (Analytical Techniques in the Sciences (AnTs) *)
5. Instrumentation in Earthquake Seismology (Modern Approaches in Geophysics)
6. Introduction to Geographic Information Systems for Public Health
7. Introduction to Geographic Information Systems with Data Set CD-ROM
8. Introduction to Groundwater Modeling : Finite Difference and Finite Element Methods
9. Introduction to Octonion and Other Non-Associative Algebras in Physics (Montroll Memorial Lecture Series in Mathematical Physics)
10. Introduction to Remote Sensing, Third Edition

Books Review

Recommended Books

1. Land & Light Workshop: Painting Mood & Atmosphere In Oils
2. Army Of Darkness Adaptation
3. Tolkien's the Lord of the Rings Postcard Book: Postcards
4. Tv Time: 150 Fun Family
5. The Second Informant
6. The Search for Extra-Solar Terrestrial Planets: Techniques and Technology
7. The Campanian-Maastrichtian Stage Boundary
8. Time-Resolved Vibrational Spectroscopy V: Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Time-Re
9. Twilight Hunger
10. Together on the Road: A Vision of Lived Communion for the Church and the Priesthood
11. Ty Plush Animals 2000 Collector's Value Guide
12. The Terracotta Designs of Alfred Waterhouse
13. Understanding Global Security
14. Water Conservation-Oriented Rates
15. The Mysteries of Abu Simbel: Ramesses II and the Temples of the Rising Sun