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With a focus on how nanotechnologies might affect equity/equality in global society, this book covers key societal issues in emerging technology. It includes advice for avoiding negative social consequences, and covers nanotechnology in emerging economies.

A major goal of the New Western History is to chronicle the vast diversity of western experience. In this pathbreaking anthology, coeditors Elizabeth Jameson and Susan Armitage-who brought us "The Women's West in 1987"-meet that challenge by bringing together twenty-nine essays that present women of all races as actors in their own lives and in the history of the American West and locate them in a framework that connects gender, race, and class.

In mythic sagas of the American West, the wide western range offered boundless opportunity to a limited cast of white men. Buffalo roamed,...

The American West looms large in popular imagination-a place where men were rugged and independent, violent and courageous. In this mythic West all the men were white, and the women were largely absent. The few female actors played supporting roles around the edges of the drama. Molded by the Victorian Cult of True Womanhood, they were passive, dependent, reluctant, and out of place. Men "won" the West. Women, against their better judgement, followed them to this "newly discovered" place and tried to re-create the amenities of the urban East.

Or so the myth goes. The Women's West...

Becca Travis might be an ex-cop on disability, but that doesn't mean she'll be benched on an investigation that involves her family. So, when her brother Joey turns up with a witness to a murder, Becca enlists the help of her fiance, FBI Agent Ryan Gibbs.

Ryan has learned the hard way that Becca's family, bonded by hardship and technology rather than blood, tends to attract trouble. But thankfully her family is also more than qualified to help resolve it.

As the puzzle pieces begin to expose a severe threat to national security, however, Becca and Ryan are forced to seek further...