Impact of science & technology on society books

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Cursed Objects

Cursed Objects

Author: Jason Christie
ISBN: 9781552453841
Format: Paperback
$32.99

Now that we've sold ourselves to ourselves, shuffling letters and sounds around to hide the pain, how do we represent...  Read More >>

Organisms and Personal Identity: Individuation and the Work of David Wiggins

Organisms and Personal Identity: Individuation and the...

Author: A.M. Ferner (Universite Bordeaux Montaigne, France)
ISBN: 9780367358617
Format: Paperback
$83.99

David Wiggins’s contribution to metaphysics, logic and ethics has been widely recognized, but the connections between...  Read More >>

10 Things We've Learned about Space: Recent advances, from the Viking landings on Mars to chasing comets

10 Things We've Learned about Space: Recent advances,...

Author: Rhodri Evans
ISBN: 9781472137562
Format: Paperback
$25.85

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In the Beginning: A Catholic Scientist Explains How God Made Earth Our Home

In the Beginning: A Catholic Scientist Explains How...

Author: Gerard Verschuuren
ISBN: 9781622826728
Format: Paperback
$50.03

In this work of basic science written for nonspecialists, scientist Gerard Verschuuren shows how the latest findings...  Read More >>

The 9 Pitfalls of Data Science

The 9 Pitfalls of Data Science

Author: Gary Smith (Fletcher Jones Professor of Economics, Fletcher Jones Professor of Economics, Pomona College) ,  Jay Cordes (Data Scientist, Data Scientist)
ISBN: 9780198844396
Format: Hardback
$94.42

The 9 Pitfalls of Data Science is loaded with entertaining tales of both successful and misguided approaches to...  Read More >>

Human Dynamics Research in Smart and Connected Communities

Human Dynamics Research in Smart and Connected Communities...

Author: Shih-Lung Shaw ,  Daniel Sui
ISBN: 9783319892443
Format: Paperback
$206.97

Human Dynamics Research involves theoretical perspectives, space-time analytics, modeling human dynamics, urban...  Read More >>

Captivating Technology: Race, Carceral Technoscience, and Liberatory Imagination in Everyday Life

Captivating Technology: Race, Carceral Technoscience,...

Author: Ruha Benjamin
ISBN: 9781478003816
Format: Paperback
$81.71

The contributors to Captivating Technology examine how carceral technologies such as electronic ankle monitors and...  Read More >>

The Age of Living Machines: How Biology Will Build the Next Technology Revolution

The Age of Living Machines: How Biology Will Build the...

Author: Susan Hockfield
ISBN: 9780393634747
Format: Hardback
$44.95

From the former president of MIT, the story of the next technology revolution, and how it will change our lives....  Read More >>

Democracy Hacked: How Technology is Destabilising Global Politics

Democracy Hacked: How Technology is Destabilising Global...

Author: Martin Moore
ISBN: 9781786075758
Format: Paperback
$22.99

Democracy isn't dying. It's mutating.  Read More >>

Captivating Technology: Race, Carceral Technoscience, and Liberatory Imagination in Everyday Life

Captivating Technology: Race, Carceral Technoscience,...

Author: Ruha Benjamin
ISBN: 9781478003236
Format: Hardback
$303.47

The contributors to Captivating Technology examine how carceral technologies such as electronic ankle monitors and...  Read More >>

The Societal Impact of Technology

The Societal Impact of Technology

Author: Savvas A. Katsikides
ISBN: 9781138366930
Format: Hardback
$194.00

Published in 1998. This text is concerned with research issues within the context of the emerging information age....  Read More >>

Life by Algorithms: How Roboprocesses Are Remaking Our World

Life by Algorithms: How Roboprocesses Are Remaking Our...

Author: Catherine Besteman ,  Hugh Gusterson
ISBN: 9780226627427
Format: Hardback
$217.80

Computerized processes are everywhere in our society. They are the automated phone messaging systems that businesses...  Read More >>

Energy, Information, Feedback, Adaptation, and Self-organization: The Fundamental Elements of Life and Society

Energy, Information, Feedback, Adaptation, and Self-organization:...

Author: Spyros G Tzafestas
ISBN: 9783319883618
Format: Paperback
$413.97

This unique book offers a comprehensive and integrated introduction to the five fundamental elements of life and...  Read More >>

Driver in the Driverless Car: How Your Technology Choices Create the Future

Driver in the Driverless Car: How Your Technology Choices...

Author: Vivek Wadhwa ,  Alex Salkever
ISBN: 9781523085538
Format: Paperback
$39.99

""Tech experts Vivek Wadhwa and Alex Salkever have updated their bestseller to better help readers make choices...  Read More >>

Report on Chinese Social Opinion and Crisis Management

Report on Chinese Social Opinion and Crisis Management...

Author: Yungeng Xie
ISBN: 9789811040016
Format: Hardback
$232.85

This volume focuses on Chinese society in the environment created by new media. It offers insights into Chinese...  Read More >>

Webtopia: The world wide wreck of tech and how to make the net work

Webtopia: The world wide wreck of tech and how to make...

Author: Peter Lewis
ISBN: 9781742236353
Format: Paperback
$32.99

The web was supposed to transform our world. So why are things so messed up?  Read More >>

A Potted Grammar of Natural Dialectic

A Potted Grammar of Natural Dialectic

Author: Michael Pitman
ISBN: 9781999966485
Format: Paperback
$38.81

'Potted Grammar'? 'Natural Dialectic?' This book is a companion to 'Science and the Soul' whose subtitle reads 'facts...  Read More >>

A Sonnet to Science: Scientists and Their Poetry

A Sonnet to Science: Scientists and Their Poetry

Author: Sam Illingworth
ISBN: 9781526127983
Format: Hardback
$45.99

In A sonnet to science, leading science communicator Dr Sam Illingworth presents a selection of poetry written by...  Read More >>

Change Your World: The Science of Resilience and the True Path to Success

Change Your World: The Science of Resilience and the...

Author: Dr Michael Ungar
ISBN: 9781999439521
Format: Paperback
$32.99

Finally, a book that explains why self-help gurus and motivational speakers mostly fail to deliver, and what really...  Read More >>

Setting Health-Care Priorities: What Ethical Theories Tell Us

Setting Health-Care Priorities: What Ethical Theories...

Author: Torbjörn Tännsjö (Stockholm University)
ISBN: 9780190946913
Format: Undefined
$205.92

With much of the world's population facing restricted access to adequate medical care, how to allocate scarce health-care...  Read More >>

Break Up the Anthropocene

Break Up the Anthropocene

Author: Steve Mentz
ISBN: 9781517908621
Format: Paperback
$17.99

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