{"product_id":"groovy-science-david-kaiser-9780226372914","title":"Groovy Science: Knowledge, Innovation, and American Counterculture","description":"In his 1969 book \u003ci\u003eThe Making of a Counterculture\u003c\/i\u003e, Theodore Roszak described the youth of the late 1960s as fleeing science \"as if from a place inhabited by plague,\" and even seeking \"subversion of the scientific worldview\" itself. Roszak's view has come to be our own: when we think of the youth movement of the 1960s and early 1970s, we think of a movement that was explicitly anti-scientific in its embrace of alternative spiritualities and communal living. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Such a view is far too simple, ignoring the diverse ways in which the era's countercultures expressed enthusiasm for and involved themselves in science--of a certain type. Rejecting hulking, militarized technical projects like Cold War missiles and mainframes, Boomers and hippies sought a science that was both small-scale and big-picture, as exemplified by the annual workshops on quantum physics at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, or Timothy Leary's championing of space exploration as the ultimate \"high.\" \u003ci\u003eGroovy Science\u003c\/i\u003e explores the experimentation and eclecticism that marked countercultural science and technology during one of the most colorful periods of American history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e David Kaiser\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 022637291X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226372914\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/31\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 416\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2016","brand":"David Kaiser","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47452505276671,"sku":"9780226372914","price":29.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ff9ca4cc-6df0-4f10-ac24-ded4d4cb632d.jpg?v=1761928825","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/groovy-science-david-kaiser-9780226372914","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}