George O’Har

Dados Biográficos

ID7225874
NOMEGeorge O’Har
PRENOMESGeorge
SOBRENOMEO’Har
ASSINATURAO’HAR G
VERIFICADONão
TOTAL DE OBRAS13
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES1
TOTAL COMO AUTOR13
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO1996
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2010
ÍNDICE H1

  • The Yankee Yorkshireman

    George O''Har, George O'Har et al.ARTICLETechnology and Culture2010

  • Trying Leviathan

    George O’HarARTICLETechnology and Culture2009

  • The Worst Hard Time

    George O'Har, George O’HarARTICLETechnology and Culture2007

    Reviewed by: The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl by Timothy Egan George O’har The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl. By Timothy Egan. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2006. Pp. 340. $28.95. The Worst Hard Time was the winner of the 2006 National Book Award for nonfiction. And while the work is directed toward a popular rather than an academic audien…

  • Where the Buffalo Roam

    George O''Har, George O'Har et al.ARTICLETechnology and Culture2006

    Walter Prescott Webb's 1931 work, The Great Plains, remains a work of singular importance in the field of western history. Working almost entirely from secondary sources, Webb manages to produce an elegantly-written, expansive regional history that is brilliantly imaginative, and accurate in its conclusion: that the geographic-environmental character of the great plains forced settlers to modify successful eastern technologies and institutions in…

  • The Holodeck in the Garden

    George O'Har, George O’HarARTICLETechnology and Culture2005

    Reviewed by: The Holodeck in the Garden: Science and Technology in Contemporary American Fiction George O’Har (bio) The Holodeck in the Garden: Science and Technology in Contemporary American Fiction. Edited by Peter Freese and Charles B. Harris. Washington D.C.: Joseph Henry Press, 2004. Pp. xxviii+383. $19.95. The way in which contemporary American novelists and filmmakers employ concepts of science and technology in their art is a subject wort…

  • Technology and Its Discontents

    George O'Har, George O’HarARTICLETechnology and Culture2004Citada por: 1

    Samuel C. Florman, a civil engineer and author well known for his deep admiration of good engineering and for defending technology against its detractors in works like The Existential Pleasures of Engineering, Blaming Technology, and The Introspective Engineer, has produced what he calls a "survival" tale, but which is, in fact, a utopian novel of the old school. The story line of The Aftermath (New York: St. Martin's Press, 2001) is straightforw…

  • Veblen in Perspective

    George O'Har, George O’HarARTICLETechnology and Culture2003

    The economist and social theorist Thorstein Veblen (1857-1929) is familiar to American scholars and graduate students as a master of penetrating irony. That may be the extent of it. In the United States, Veblen's native land, the master's influence has been pushed aside in favor of a more quantitative, less psychological approach to sociology and economics. In Europe his star still shines, though not as brightly as it once did. Europeans have lon…

  • The Nuclear Muse

    George M O'Har, George O’HarARTICLETechnology and Culture2001

    In The Nuclear Muse, John Canaday, poet, teacher, tutor, and student of science, using techniques of literary analysis (close reading of texts with a touch of Derrida), tries to demonstrate that science (specifically physics) and literature share "crucial common ground" (p. xiii). In so doing, Canaday joins the ranks of sociologists, historians, and anthropologists (Bruno Latour, Sharon Traweek, Hugh Gusterson, among others) who have donned liter…

  • Time, Conflict, and Human Values (review)

    George M O'Har, George O’HarARTICLETechnology and Culture2001

    This is a dense, complicated, and at times illuminating book. J. T. Fraser, founder of the International Society for the Study of Time, has produced a study in which human efforts to escape the ravages of time provide an explanation for all that we accomplish in seeking truth, developing morals, and creating and discovering beauty. Ultimately, each of these endeavors is an attempt to outrun mortality. This is an ambitious undertaking, and Fraser …

  • Magic in the Machine Age

    George M O''Har, George M O'Har et al.ARTICLETechnology and Culture2000

    Before there was technology, there was magic. It was not so long ago, indeed, that the scientific and industrial revolutions pushed magic aside. For all the benefits undeniably conferred by those revolutions, something always gets lost in the move from one world to another. Change comes at a price; progress, it must be understood, always takes hostages

  • Aldous Huxley and the Mysticism of Science (review)

    George M O'Har, George O’HarARTICLETechnology and Culture1998

    Reviewed by: Aldous Huxley and the Mysticism of Science * George M. O’Har (bio) Aldous Huxley and the Mysticism of Science. By June Deery. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1996. Pp. xi+231; notes, bibliography, index. $49.95. The familiar story of the scientific revolution provides the backdrop for this tale of one writer’s attempt to bridge the gap between what C. P. Snow labeled the separate cultures of science and literature. Aldous Huxley believ…

  • Aldous Huxley and the Mysticism of Science

    George M O''Har, George M O'Har et al.ARTICLETechnology and Culture1998

  • Farmers and Fishermen

    George M O''Har, George M O'Har et al.ARTICLETechnology and Culture1996