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• What Do Science, Technology, and Innovation Mean from Africa? (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2017), ed. by Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga (PDF with commentary at MIT Press)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Citizen Science: Innovation in Open Science, Society and Policy (London: UCL Press, 2018), ed. by Susanne Hecker, Mordechai Haklay, Anne Bowser, Zen Makuch, Johannes Vogel, and Aletta Bonn (PDF with commentary at UCL Press)
• Perspectives on Science and Culture (West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, c2018), ed. by Kris Rutten, Stefaan Blancke, and Ronald Soetaert (PDF with commentary at Purdue)
• Hanging on to the Edges: Essays on Science, Society and the Academic Life (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2018), by Daniel Nettle (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• The Bias of Science (1979), by Brian Martin (HTML and PDF in Australia)
• Science as Social Existence: Heidegger and the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge (Cambridge, UK et al.: Open Book Publishers, c2017), by Jeff Kochan (PDF and HTML with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• Little Science, Big Science ...and Beyond (New York: Columbia University Press, 1986), by Derek J. de Solla Price (PDF with commentary at derekdesollaprice.org)
• Guarding the Eye in the Age of Show (2001 edition), by Ivan Illich (PDF at davidtinapple.com)
• Strip the Experts (1991), by Brian Martin (HTML and PDF in Australia)

• The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe (c2006), by Sarah Lowengard (illustrated HTML and PDF with commentary at gutenberg-e.org)

• Strange Science: Investigating the Limits of Knowledge in the Victorian Age (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2017), ed. by Lara Pauline Karpenko and Shalyn R. Claggett (PDF with commentary at Michigan and oapen.org)

• The Health of the Scientific and Technical Enterprise: An Advisory Panel Report to the Office of Technology Assessment (1978), by United States Office of Technology Assessment Health of the Scientific and Technical Enterprise Advisory Panel
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Princeton
• Headline News, Science Views II (1993), ed. by David Jarmul (page images with commentary at NAP)
• Headline News, Science Views (1991), ed. by David Jarmul (page images with commentary at NAP)
• The Cybernetics Group (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, c1991), by Steve J. Heims (PDF files with commentary at MIT Press)

• Social Sustainability, Past and Future: Undoing Unintended Consequences for the Earth's Survival (Cambridge, UK and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020), by Sander Ernst van der Leeuw (PDF and HTML at Cambridge University Press)
• Nerd Ecology: Defending the Earth with Unpopular Culture (London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, c2016), by Anthony Lioi (HTML with commentary at Bloomsbury)

• The Sociology of Science Fiction (PhD dissertation, 1978), by Brian M. Stableford (PDF at White Rose eTheses)

• Beitrag zur Flora Aethiopiens (only part published, in German; Berlin: G. Reimer, 1867), by Georg August Schweinfurth
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Nile in 1904 (London: E. and F. N. Spon; New York: Spon and Chamberlain, 1904), by William Willcocks, contrib. by H. J. L. Beadnell
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Through Unknown African Countries: The First Expedition from Somaliland to Lake Rudolf (London and New York: E. Arnold, 1897), by Arthur Donaldson Smith, contrib. by Albert C. L. G. Günther, Eugène Simon, R. I. Pocock, W. J. Holland, J. W. Gregory, G. C. Crick, Stewart Culin, and Karl Jordan (page images with commentary at wdl.org)
• Men and Creatures in Uganda (London: Hutchinson and Co., 1933), by John Bland-Sutton (page images with commentary at loc.gov)

• The Uganda Protectorate (2 volumes, possibly from different editions; 1902-1904), by Harry Johnston, illust. by J. G. Bartholomew (page images with commentary at wdl.org)

• Bulletin de la Société d'Histoire Naturelle de l'Afrique du Nord (partial serial archives)

• Annals of the Transvaal Museum (partial serial archives)

• Annals of the Eastern Cape Museums (partial serial archives)
• Annals of the Cape Provincial Museums: Natural History (full serial archives)
• Durban Museum Novitates (partial serial archives)
• Annals of the Natal Museum (partial serial archives)
• Annals of the Transvaal Museum (partial serial archives)

• Durban Museum Novitates (partial serial archives)

• Delagoa Bay: Its Natives and Natural History (London: G. Phillip and Son, 1891), by Rose Monteiro (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Portuguese East Africa: The History, Scenery, and Great Game of Manica and Sofala (New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., 1906), by R. C. F. Maugham (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Present State of the Cape of Good Hope (2 volumes; London: W. Innys, 1731), by Peter Kolb, trans. by Guido Medley (page images at HathiTrust)

• Restless Jungle (New York: R. M. McBride and Co., c1936), by Mary L. Jobe Akeley (page images at HathiTrust)

• Nauwkeurige Beschryving van de Guinese Goud- Tand- en Slave-Kust: Nevens Alle Desselfs Landen, Koningryken, en Gemenebesten, van de Zeeden der Inwoonders, hun Godsdienst, Regeering, Regtspleeging, Oorlogen, Trouwen, Begraven, enz. (in Dutch; Utrecht: A. Schouten, 1704), by Willem Bosman, contrib. by David van Nyendael and Jan Snoek
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• A New and Accurate Description of the Coast of Guinea, Divided into the Gold, the Slave, and the Ivory Coasts (London: Printed for J. Knapton et al., 1705), by Willem Bosman, contrib. by David van Nyendael and Jan Snoek (page images at HathiTrust)
• A New and Accurate Description of the Coast of Guinea, Divided into the Gold, the Slave, and the Ivory Coasts (reprint of the 1705 edition; London: Printed for Sir A. Jones by Ballantyne and Co., 1907), by Willem Bosman, contrib. by David van Nyendael and Jan Snoek (multiple formats at archive.org)

• New Directions in African Education: Challenges and Possibilities (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2007), ed. by S. Nombuso Dlamini, contrib. by Grace Khwaya Puja, Jacinta Muteshi, Selina Mushi, Zephania Matanga, Wanja Gitari, George J. Sefa Dei, Grace Bunyi, Uzo Anucha, and Eva Aboagye (PDF files at University of Calgary)