Tunnel Visions - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Tunnel Visions write by Michael Riordan. This book was released on 2015-11-20. Tunnel Visions available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “A detailed and engaging account of the development of the superconducting supercollider, one of the largest scientific undertakings in the United States.” —Journal of American History Starting in the 1950s, US physicists dominated the search for elementary particles; aided by the association of this research with national security, they held this position for decades. In an effort to maintain their hegemony and track down the elusive Higgs boson, they convinced President Reagan and Congress to support construction of the multibillion-dollar Superconducting Super Collider project in Texas—the largest basic-science project ever attempted. But after the Cold War ended and the estimated SSC cost surpassed ten billion dollars, Congress terminated the project in October 1993. Drawing on extensive archival research, contemporaneous press accounts, and over one hundred interviews with scientists, engineers, government officials, and others involved, Tunnel Visions tells the riveting story of the aborted SSC project. The authors examine the complex, interrelated causes for its demise, including problems of large-project management, continuing cost overruns, and lack of foreign contributions. In doing so, they ask whether Big Science has become too large and expensive, including whether academic scientists and their government overseers can effectively manage such an enormous undertaking. “Focusing on the scientific, technical, and political conflicts that led to delays, ever rising costs, and eventually the SSC’s cancelation by Congress, Tunnel Visions is a true techno-thriller.” —Burton Richter, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics “Most good science stories are tales of discovery and success, but failure can be just as riveting. Here two historians and an archivist describe the greatest particle physics experiment that never was.” —Scientific American
Tunnel Vision
Tunnel Vision - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Tunnel Vision write by Susan Adrian. This book was released on 2015-01-20. Tunnel Vision available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. When Jake Lukin, eighteen, reveals his psychic ability, he's forced to become a government asset in order to keep his mother and sister safe, but Rachel, the girl he likes, tries to help him live his own life instead of tunneling through others.
Tunnel Vision
Tunnel Vision - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Tunnel Vision write by Keith Lowe. This book was released on 2001-10. Tunnel Vision available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Andy must travel through every tube station in London in a single day to retrieve the Eurostar tickets he needs to get to his wedding in Paris.
Tunnel Vision
Tunnel Vision - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Tunnel Vision write by Gary Braver. This book was released on 2012-05-22. Tunnel Vision available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Someone is killing the most alluring women of Boston. Someone whose keen eye for beauty masks a twisted mind. Someone who insinuates himself into his victims' lives and leaves them with nothing but an elegant black stocking knotted around their necks." "Homicide detective Lieutenant Steve Markarian must stop the killer before another vulnerable woman is sacrificed. And the stakes are only increased when he realizes his own wife has caught the attention of the killer." "Beset with loneliness and an addiction he can't shake, Steve pursues leads all over greater Boston - from the haunts of blue-blooded Brahmins to seedy strip joints, from mansions by the sea to the halls of prestigious universities and the offices of his own precinct. He is even forced to look into the recesses of his own heart, fearing that he himself may actually be the killer." "In this psychological thriller, bestselling author Gary Braver explores the nature of beauty, how some women strive to achieve it, and the forbidding yearnings that kill in its name."--BOOK JACKET.
Tunnel Vision
Tunnel Vision - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Tunnel Vision write by Fran Arrick. This book was released on 1980. Tunnel Vision available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. After 15-year-old Anthony hangs himself, his family, friends, girlfriend, and a teacher must deal with their feelings of guilt and bewilderment.
