The Whale and the Reactor: A Search for Limits in an Age of High Technology, Second Edition

Author/Contributor(s):	Winner, Langdon
Publisher:	University of Chicago Press
Date:	03/11/2020
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

"Langdon Winner is the Thomas Phelan Chair of Humanities and Social Sciences in the Department of Science and Technology Studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York. He has a blog and tweets liberally. First published in 1986, The Whale and the Reactor has been assigned for years. This edition includes a passionately argued new chapter entitled Beyond Techno-narcissism as well as a new Preface and a postscript describing the now planned decommissioning of the Diablo Canyon reactor in California"--