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The Murder Factory
Life and Work of H. H. Holmes, First American Serial Killer
ISBN: 9783956795435
Publisher: Sternberg Press
Pub Date: August 15, 2023
The simultaneous emergence of the serial killer and the assembly line as expressions of the rationality of modern production methods.
The Squares
US Physical and Engineering Scientists in the Long 1970s
ISBN: 9780262543613
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: July 12, 2022
When ungroovy scientists did groovy science: how non-activist scientists and engineers adapted their work to a rapidly changing social and political landscape.
WBCN and the American Revolution
How a Radio Station Defined Politics, Counterculture, and Rock and Roll
ISBN: 9780262046251
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: November 30, 2021
How Boston radio station WBCN became the hub of the rock-and-roll, antiwar, psychedelic solar system.
Homebrew Gaming and the Beginnings of Vernacular Digitality
ISBN: 9780262044776
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: August 17, 2021
The overlooked history of an early appropriation of digital technology: the creation of games though coding and hardware hacking by microcomputer users.
American Trip
Set, Setting, and the Psychedelic Experience in the Twentieth Century
ISBN: 9780262539142
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: July 14, 2020
How historical, social, and cultural forces shaped the psychedelic experience in midcentury America, from CIA LSD experiments the Harvard Psilocybin Project.
The Broadcast 41
Women and the Anti-Communist Blacklist
ISBN: 9781912685424
Publisher: Goldsmiths Press
Pub Date: April 14, 2020
How forty-one women—including Dorothy Parker, Gypsy Rose Lee, and Lena Horne—were forced out of American television and radio in the 1950s “Red Scare.”
Bring the World to the Child
Technologies of Global Citizenship in American Education
ISBN: 9780262538022
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: February 11, 2020
How, long before the advent of computers and the internet, educators used technology to help students become media-literate, future-ready, and world-minded citizens.
Activists Under Surveillance
The FBI Files
ISBN: 9780262517898
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: September 24, 2019
Selections from FBI files on political activists including Betty Friedan, Abbie Hoffman, Martin Luther King, Aaron Swartz, and Malcolm X.
The Black City
Glosses
ISBN: 9783956794452
Publisher: Sternberg Press
Pub Date: March 26, 2019
A portrait via interviews and essays of New York City at the end of the 1970s as the center of the African diaspora.
The Murder Factory
Life and Work of H. H. Holmes, First American Serial Killer
ISBN: 9783956795435
Publisher: Sternberg Press
Pub Date: August 15, 2023
The simultaneous emergence of the serial killer and the assembly line as expressions of the rationality of modern production methods.
The Squares
US Physical and Engineering Scientists in the Long 1970s
ISBN: 9780262543613
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: July 12, 2022
When ungroovy scientists did groovy science: how non-activist scientists and engineers adapted their work to a rapidly changing social and political landscape.
WBCN and the American Revolution
How a Radio Station Defined Politics, Counterculture, and Rock and Roll
ISBN: 9780262046251
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: November 30, 2021
How Boston radio station WBCN became the hub of the rock-and-roll, antiwar, psychedelic solar system.
Homebrew Gaming and the Beginnings of Vernacular Digitality
ISBN: 9780262044776
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: August 17, 2021
The overlooked history of an early appropriation of digital technology: the creation of games though coding and hardware hacking by microcomputer users.
American Trip
Set, Setting, and the Psychedelic Experience in the Twentieth Century
ISBN: 9780262539142
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: July 14, 2020
How historical, social, and cultural forces shaped the psychedelic experience in midcentury America, from CIA LSD experiments the Harvard Psilocybin Project.
The Broadcast 41
Women and the Anti-Communist Blacklist
ISBN: 9781912685424
Publisher: Goldsmiths Press
Pub Date: April 14, 2020
How forty-one women—including Dorothy Parker, Gypsy Rose Lee, and Lena Horne—were forced out of American television and radio in the 1950s “Red Scare.”
Bring the World to the Child
Technologies of Global Citizenship in American Education
ISBN: 9780262538022
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: February 11, 2020
How, long before the advent of computers and the internet, educators used technology to help students become media-literate, future-ready, and world-minded citizens.
Activists Under Surveillance
The FBI Files
ISBN: 9780262517898
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: September 24, 2019
Selections from FBI files on political activists including Betty Friedan, Abbie Hoffman, Martin Luther King, Aaron Swartz, and Malcolm X.
The Black City
Glosses
ISBN: 9783956794452
Publisher: Sternberg Press
Pub Date: March 26, 2019
A portrait via interviews and essays of New York City at the end of the 1970s as the center of the African diaspora.