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Intro -- Title Page -- Contents -- Preface -- The Argument -- Prelude: Stories Around the Cultural Fire -- Part 1: Of Axe-Heads and Axioms -- Chapter 1: Grok and the Rock -- Chapter 2: The Nature of Technology -- Chapter 3: Technology by Choice -- Interlude: Were the Luddites Right? -- Part 2: Of Soups and Systems -- Chapter 4: Reverse Engineering -- Chapter 5: A Problem of Design -- Chapter 6: System Ethics -- Postlude: The End of Progress -- Postscript -- Bookshelf.

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- The Argument -- Prelude -- Part 1 Mechanics, Methodists and Me -- 1. The Mechanical "I" -- 2. The Methodical Muse -- 3. The Metrical "Me" -- Interlude: Lessons from a Scrub Oak -- Part 2 Toward a Gift Ecology -- 4. What Is Given, What Is Gift -- 5. A Universe of Relations -- 6. Gift Ecology: Rebalancing Ecology and Economy -- Postlude: The Turtle's Gift -- Bookshelf -- Other Titles in this Series

"Global sustainability in the 21st century seems to be an elusive goal. There are too many issues, too many problems and, increasingly, too many people to make the major changes required in the time various experts tell us we have left."--

The modern world is filled with debate and controversy, and science and technology - the most characteristic features of the modern world - are not immune. Science and technology are implicated in many if not all of the issues, troubles, and problems students are likely to come across in their classes and in their everyday lives. Science and technology serve as a primary pathway to understanding front page headlines on everything from war to AIDS, and from oil exploration to global warming. Battleground: Science and Technology examines the most hot-button issues involving science and technolog