Groovy Science: Knowledge, Innovation, and American Counterculture

Did the Woodstock generation reject science—or re-create it? An "enthralling" study of a unique period in scientific history (New Scientist).

Our general image of the youth of the late 1960s and early 1970s is one of hostility to things like missiles and mainframes and plastics—and an enthusiasm for alternative spirituality and getting "back to nature." But this enlightening collection reveals that the stereotype is overly simplistic. In fact, there were diverse ways in which the era's ...