Atomic Age America
Atomic Age America (2016)
HistoryAtomic Age America looks at the broad influence of atomic energy¿focusing particularly on nuclear we…
Martin V. Melosi
Martin V. Melosi is represented on Book-Sharing with 8 books, especially in History, Science. Popular entries include Atomic Age America, Fresh Kills.
Fresh Kills
Fresh Kills (2020)
HistoryFresh Kills--a monumental 2,200-acre structure on Staten Island--was once the world's largest landfi…
Precious Commodity
Precious Commodity (2011)
Business & EconomicsAs an essential resource, water has been the object of warfare, political wrangling, and individual …
The Sanitary City
The Sanitary City (2008)
Technology & EngineeringImmersed in their on-demand, highly consumptive, and disposable lifestyles, most urban Americans tak…
Garbage In The Cities
Garbage In The Cities (2004)
ScienceAs recently as the 1880s, most American cities had no effective means of collecting and removing the…
Effluent America
Effluent America (2000)
ScienceGarbage, wastewater, hazardous waste: these are the lenses through which Melosi views nineteenth- an…
Thomas A. Edison and the
Thomas A. Edison and the Modernization of America (2008)
Biography & AutobiographyThis book chronicles America's most accomplished inventor and his contribution to the modern world. …
Urban Public Policy
Urban Public Policy (2004)
Social ScienceThe 1992 Los Angeles riots catapulted the problems of the city back onto the policy agenda. The caul…