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American game changers : invention, innovation & transformation / edited by D. Alan Dean.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social change--United States.
- Social change.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiii, 700 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Other Title:
- American Game Changers
- Place of Publication:
- Ipswich, Massachusetts : H.W. Wilson, [2020]
- Summary:
- Chronicles the people, ideas, and events that have changed the way the world works.
- Contents:
- Publisher's Note
- Introduction
- A Million Little Pieces
- Abu Ghraib Torture Scandal
- AIDS Blood Test
- Al-Qaeda
- Amazon.com
- American Idol
- American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
- Americans with Disabilities Act
- An Inconvenient Truth
- Anonymous
- Anthrax Attacks
- Apple Inc
- Automated Teller Machine (ATM)
- Auto-Tune
- Avatar
- Bar Codes
- Paul Baran
- John Perry Barlow
- Ben Bernanke
- Bernie Madoff Ponzi Scheme
- Birth Control Pill
- Black Lives Matter
- Blogging
- Brokeback Mountain
- Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc
- Bush v. Gore
- Cable New Network (CNN)
- Cable Television
- Cancer Research
- Catholic Sexual Abuse Scandal
- Cell Phone
- Charge-Coupled Device
- Children on the Internet
- Roy Choi
- Closed Captioning
- Cloud Computing
- Colony Collapse Disorder
- Columbia Disaster
- Compact Disc
- Computed Tomography
- Computer Worms and Viruses
- Craigslist
- Seymour Cray
- CrossFit Inc
- Cyberbullying
- Cybercrime
- DDT Ban
- Ellen DeGeneres
- Denim Jeans
- Department of Homeland Security
- Deregulation of Banks and Savings and Loans
- Dial-Up Service
- Diamond v. Chakrabarty
- Digital News Media
- Don't Ask, Don't Tell Repeal Act
- Doppler Radar
- Dot-com Bubble
- Drive-Through Services
- Drones
- DVDs
- eBay
- E-books
- E-commerce
- Eighth Amendment Interpretations
- Electronic Arts, Inc
- Electronic health records
- Embryonic Stem Cells
- Eminem
- Endangered Species Act
- Energy Crisis of the 2000s
- Energy Drinks
- Enron Collapse
- ESPN Inc
- Ethernet
- Executive Order 13491: Ensuring Lawful Interrogations
- Extraordinary Rendition
- Facebook. Faith-Based Organizations
- FedEx
- Fiber Optics
- Flavr Savr Tomato
- Floppy Disc Drives
- Fox Television Network
- Freakonomics
- Francis Fukuyama
- Gawker Media
- Genetic Engineering
- Genetically Engineered Insulin
- Genetically Modified Food
- Rudolph Giuliani
- Global Positioning System
- Global Warming
- Great Recession
- Green Business
- Green Technology
- Alan Greenspan
- Guantanamo Bay
- Hamdan v. Rumsfeld
- HIV/AIDS Treatment
- Home Shopping Network
- Homosexuality Delisted as a Mental Disorder
- Hubble Space Telescope
- Human Genome Project
- Hurricane Katrina
- Hybrid Automobiles
- Hydraulic Fracturing
- IMAX
- Implantable Pacemaker
- Indoor Smoking Bans
- Integrated Home Solar Energy System
- Intel
- International Space Station
- Internet and the World Wide Web
- Internet Marketing
- Internet Memes
- Internet Protocol Suite
- Michael Jackson
- Jarvik-7 Artificial Heart
- Jaws
- Caitlyn Jenner
- Magic Johnson
- Dean Kamen
- Kevlar
- Jack St. Clair Kilby
- Mary-Claire King
- Leonard Kleinrock
- Beyonce Knowles
- Lawrence v. Texas
- Ursula K. Le Guin
- Light-Emitting Diode (LED)
- Liquid Crystal Display (LCD)
- Liquid-Junction Solar Cells
- The Lord of the Rings Film Trilogy
- Low-Carb Diets
- Madonna
- Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)Machine
- Mandatory Seat-Belt Laws
- Marijuana Decriminalization and Legalization
- Mars Exploration Rovers
- Mars Global Surveyor
- The Matrix
- Meal Kit Delivery Services
- MeToo Movement
- Mexican Drug War
- Mexico-U.S. Border Security
- Microsoft
- Military Commissions Act of 2006
- Militia Movement
- Monsanto Company
- Monster.com. Moog Synthesizer
- Music Television (MTV)
- Elon Musk
- Myspace
- Nanotechnology
- Napster
- National Coming Out Day
- National Do Not Call Registry
- Netflix
- North American Free Trade Agreement
- Occupy Wall Street
- The Omnivore's Dilemma
- Online Gambling
- Online Misinformation
- Online Music Services
- Open Source Code
- Organic Farming
- Ozone Depletion
- Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act
- PayPal
- Pentagon Papers Case
- People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
- Pharmaceutical Industry
- Phishing
- John R. Pierce
- Pixar Animation Studios
- Plastic Soda Bottle
- Plyler v. Doe
- Pocket Calculator
- Poet Laureateship
- Pong
- Presidential Election of 2008
- Price Club
- Pride Parade
- Private Military Companies
- Prozac
- Jacob Rabinow
- Reality Television
- Recombinant DNA Technology
- V. Gene Robinson
- Roe v. Wade
- Roper v. Simmons
- Run-D.M.C
- Running Shoes
- Burt Rutan
- Same-Sex Marriage
- Bernie Sanders
- Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002
- Self-Publishing
- September 11 Terrorist Attacks
- Shanghai Communique
- The Simpsons
- Skylab
- Edward Snowden
- Social Media
- The Sopranos
- SpaceX
- Howard Stern
- Steroids in Baseball
- Jon Stewart
- Stonewall Riot
- Subprime Mortgage Crisis
- Super Bowl XXXVIII Halftime Show
- Super Size Me
- Supply-Side Economics
- Survivor
- Sustainable Food Movement
- Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education
- Talk Radio
- Tamper-Resistant Packaging
- Targeted Advertising
- Tea Party Movement
- Telecommuting
- Texting
- Transgender Athletes
- Transgender Portrayals in Film
- Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP)
- Uber. USA PATRIOT Act
- USA Today
- Video and Computer Games
- Virginia Tech Massacre
- Walkman
- Watergate Scandal
- Alice Waters
- Welfare Reform
- Tim Westergren
- Whole Foods Market
- WikiLeaks
- Wikipedia
- Wisconsin v. Yoder
- Women in Armed Services Academies Act
- World Trade Organization Riots
- General Bibliography
- Category Index
- Person Index
- Subject Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-64265-261-X
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