Bücher der Reihe Hagley Perspectives on Business and Culture

The term "technological fix" should mean a fix provided by technology - a solution for all of our problems. Instead, technological fix has come to mean a cheap, quick fix using inappropriate technology that usually creates more problems than it

Leading historians explore how our ideas of what is attractive are influenced by a broad range of social and economic factors. They force us to reckon with the ways that beauty has been made, bought and sold in modern America.

Featuring the work of some of the most established scholars in the food studies field, Food Nations looks at the connections between food, culture, and commerce.

Leading historians explore how our ideas of what is attractive are influenced by a broad range of social and economic factors. They force us to reckon with the ways that beauty has been made, bought and sold in modern America.

Covering topics from the turn-of-the-century to the present, Boys and Their Toys reveals how masculine roles were and are made.

Everyone knows Darwin's theory of natural selection, but what about his idea of artificial selection - how humans, not nature, rework natural organisms to meet our needs? This volume brings us to the threshold of the new field of evolutionary history - from the mobilization of war horses in the 19th century to today's engineered plants and animals.