The Golem at Large: What You Should Know about Technology

by Harry Collins and Trevor Pinch

Book Overview

In the widely discussed first volume in the Golem series, The Golem: What You Should Know About Science, Harry Colllins and Trevor Pinch likened science to the Golem, a creature from Jewish mythology,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521012708
• ISBN13: 9780521012706
• Release Date: May 2002
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.4" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

Science isn't always a Super Hero

For some, science is a super hero. It helps to save lives with developments like incubators, surgeries, and medicines. Science brings tools like computers, cordless phones, and DVDs into existence. Others, however, view science as a monster that brings with it pollution, greed, and destruction. Science, as explained in this book, is a very human activity with the full range of problems and possibilities of which man himself is capable. Explained within this book, is the findings of science and exactly how science goes about making progress. This is a very interesting and insightful read. I highly recommend it to pracitioners of science and to students who are studying any type of science. I also recommend it to the layman who wishes to know more about how science really works.