Books written by Jon Agar

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  Science Policy Under Thatcher

  See, for a contemporary STS view, Kent D. Lee, 'The role of scientific advisers in the Strategic Defense Initiative', Technology in Society 8(4) (1986): 291–8. PREM 19/1188. Dawson to Alexander, 14 January 1981. PREM 19/1188.

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  Histories of Technology, the Environment and Modern Britain

  Environments investigated include bogs, cities, farms, places of natural beauty and pollution, land and sea. The book explores this diversity but also offers an integrated framework for understanding these intersections.

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  Making Space for Science: Territorial Themes in the Shaping of Knowledge

  There was in particular no dualistic gap to bridge between matter and mind (or spirit) since Poe had already concluded that the difference between matter and spirit was merely one of language. In a letter to Chivers he had written that ...

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  The Government Machine: A Revolutionary History of the Computer

  " In The Government Machine, Jon Agar traces the mechanization of government work in the United Kingdom from the nineteenth to the early twenty-first century.

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  Turing and the Universal Machine (Icon Science): The Making of the Modern Computer

  States nor France (whose codes were cracked by the Government Code and Cypher School from 1921 and 1935 respectively), which were targeted because they were economic competitors – but the ideological enemy, Soviet Russia.

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  Histories of Technology, the Environment and Modern Britain

  The book explores this diversity but also offers an integrated framework for understanding these intersections. This work was published by Saint Philip Street Press pursuant to a Creative Commons license permitting commercial use.

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  Science in the 20th Century and Beyond

  Surveying modern developments in science from 1900 to the present day, this fascinating volume explores Einstein's new physics, the Manhattan Project, eugenics, biotechnology, the Human Genome Project and much more.

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  Constant Touch: A Global History of the Mobile Phone

  A Global History of the Mobile Phone Jon Agar. JON AGAR TURING AND THE UNIVERSAL MACHINE The Making of the Modern Computer " Thought provoking yet highly readable ' New Scientist ICONSCIENCE Turing and the Universal Machine ( Icon Science ) ...

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  Sempre in contatto: Storia sociale del telefono cellulare

  Sempre in contatto: Storia sociale del telefono cellulare