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Science and Technology in a Multicultural World: The Cultural Politics of Facts and Artifacts

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This was a required text for an engineering course entitled "International Dimensions of Technology and Culture" at my University that I took as an "international perspectives" core requirement. As the previous reviewer stated, the author's writing style is self-indulgent and he tends to use three or four words (instead of merely two) where just one word will do. Many redundancies are also noted and I found myself thinking that I was going nuts with reading about a matter, then three paragraphs later hearing it again. The author did not just stick with the facts and this text is largely the author's opinion and ramblings about several researcher's findings. I hope a college-level professor can locate a more relevant and well written text to teach from for this topic.

This is possibly the worst piece of self indulgent nonsense I have ever had the misfortune of reading. This book is good for one thing; recycling.