Tunnel Visions

Download or read book Tunnel Visions written by Michael Riordan and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2015-11-20 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “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

Download or read book Tunnel Vision written by Susan Adrian and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-01-20 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Tunnel Vision written by Keith Lowe and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2001-10 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Tunnel Vision written by Gary Braver and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2012-05-22 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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.

Download or read book Tunnel Vision written by Fran Arrick and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After 15-year-old Anthony hangs himself, his family, friends, girlfriend, and a teacher must deal with their feelings of guilt and bewilderment.

Download or read book Tunnel Visions written by Christopher Ross and published by Fourth Estate (GB). This book was released on 2001 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christopherr Ross, philosopher and traveller, decided to cease his journeyings and go underground, quite literally. Seeking an antidote to incurable restlessness he chose to work for a year as a Station Assistant on Platform 6 (northbound Victoria Line) at Oxford Circus Station. After Training School, where he is taught how not to electrocute himself and always to look in the eye a member of the public as they are assaulting you, he faces up to his new duties with a mixture of curiosity and foreboding. What, exactly, will he find deep under the surface of London?

Download or read book Tunnel Vision written by Susan Shaw and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-08-16 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After witnessing her mother's murder, sixteen-year-old high school student Liza Wellington and her father go into the witness protection program.