Describes the role of the Hurricane Hunters, crews that risk their lives by flying into a hurricane, in tracking and studying these lethal storms, focusing on Navy Lieutenant Commander Grover B. Windham and his crew, who, in September 1955, paid the ultimate price during their mission. Reprint. (view table of contents)

Tells the dramatic, uplifting story of two generations of female flyers who surpassed their male counterparts in courage and often in skill, the Women's Airforce Service Pilots of World War II and the aerospace test pilots of the early 1960s. Reprint. (view table of contents)

Integrating multidisciplinary perspectives on the relation of rhetoric, science, technology and public policy-making to the process and product of technical communication, this textbook reformulates the issues raised by science and technology studies (STS) within the context of technical communication. The first part of the book provides a summary, critique and alternative to recent theoretical perspectives developed in the rhetoric of science and the sociology of scientific knowledge. Part Two applies these critical alternatives to the traditional practices of scientific and technical communication. The final part demonstrates how these new practices can be applied to the communication vital in forming national and local science and technology policy. (view table of contents)