From Engineering Science to Big Science

This collection of sixteen essays, plus an editor's introduction of sufficient value to constitute a seventeenth, is both an easy and a difficult assignment for a reviewer. It is easy because it is a model of what a scholarly collection of essays should be: it makes a coherent and cohesive statement with a clear theme, in contrast to the disjoint collections that all too often result from the need to publish conference proceedings. The difficulty is that almost all the essays in this book, none of which is less than good, deserve reviews of their own. Because that is not possible, a reviewer's individual interests and, forbid, biases cannot help but influence what is emphasized in a review

Engineering ethics · Library science · Operations research · Political science · Publication · Sociology · Statement (logic) · Theme (computing) · Trophy · Value (mathematics) · World Wide Web · Computer Science · Engineering · Law · Space exploration and regulation