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Volume 85 - Winter 2011

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Hitting the Brakes: Engineering Design and the Production of Knowledge. ByAnn Johnson. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2009. xviii + 207 pp. Illustrations, tables, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $79.95. ISBN: 978-0-822-34541-1.

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Histories of Computing. ByMichael Sean Mahoney, edited byThomas Haigh. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2011. ix + 246 pp. Illustrations, table, notes, index. Cloth, $49.95. ISBN: 978-0-674-05568-1.

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The Big Ditch: How America Took, Built, Ran, and Ultimately Gave Away the Panama Canal. ByNoel Maurer and Carlos Yu. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011. xi + 419 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-691-14738-3.

Dictatorship, Democracy, and Globalization: Argentina and the Cost of Paralysis, 1973–2001. By Klaus Friedrich Veigel. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2009. xiv + 234 pp. Bibliography, index, notes. Cloth, $65.00. ISBN: 978-0-271-03464-5.

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Cold War Kitchen: Americanization, Technology and European Users. Edited by Ruth Oldenziel and Karin Zachmann. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2009. viii + 415 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $36.00. ISBN: 978-0-262-15119-1.

When the Lights Went Out: A History of Blackouts in America. By David E. Nye. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2010. x + 292 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth, $27.95. ISBN: 978-0-262-01374-1.

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