Impact of science & technology on society books

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The Poetry and Music of Science: Comparing Creativity in Science and Art

The Poetry and Music of Science: Comparing Creativity...

Author: Tom McLeish (University of York UK)
ISBN: 9780191839306
Format: Undefined
$92.27

What human qualities are needed to make scientific discoveries, and which to make great art? Many would point to...  Read More >>

Evolving Households: The Imprint of Technology on Life

Evolving Households: The Imprint of Technology on Life...

Author: Jeremy Greenwood (Professor of Economics, University of Pennsylvania)
ISBN: 9780262039239
Format: Hardback
$130.00

The transformative effect of technological change on households and culture, seen from a macroeconomic perspective...  Read More >>

Augmented Communication: The Effect of Digital Devices on Face-to-Face Interactions

Augmented Communication: The Effect of Digital Devices...

Author: Richard S. Pinner
ISBN: 9783030020798
Format: Hardback
$129.35

The author examines in depth how the addition of visual and multimodal input, access to online search engines and...  Read More >>

The Metric Society: On the Quantification of the Social

The Metric Society: On the Quantification of the Social...

Author: Steffen Mau
ISBN: 9781509530410
Format: Paperback
$32.95

Star ratings, scores and likes: today data is collected on almost every aspect of our lives. In this new book, Steffen...  Read More >>

Handbook on Resilience of Socio-Technical Systems

Handbook on Resilience of Socio-Technical Systems

Author: Matthias Ruth ,  Stefan Goessling-Reisemann
ISBN: 9781786439369
Format: Hardback
$499.75

Improving the resilience of social systems is a goal increasingly adopted in our modern world.  Read More >>

The Metric Society: On the Quantification of the Social

The Metric Society: On the Quantification of the Social...

Author: Steffen Mau
ISBN: 9781509530403
Format: Hardback
$103.95

Star ratings, scores and likes: today data is collected on almost every aspect of our lives. In this new book, Steffen...  Read More >>

The Death of Expertise: The Campaign against Established Knowledge and Why it Matters

The Death of Expertise: The Campaign against Established...

Author: Tom Nichols (Professor of National Security Affairs, Professor of National Security Affairs, US Naval War College)
ISBN: 9780190865979
Format: Paperback
$29.95

From the anti-vaccination movement to citizen blogging to uninformed attacks on GMOs, the nation has witnessed a...  Read More >>

No Point Talking.

No Point Talking.

Author: Yuvraj Goswami
ISBN: 9781644297308
Format: Paperback
$43.96

There is no point talking about it. In fact, there is nothing to talk about. So, what do we have? This is not...  Read More >>

Exploding Steamboats, Senate Debates, and Technical Reports: The Convergence of Technology, Politics, and Rhetoric in the Steamboat Bill of 1838

Exploding Steamboats, Senate Debates, and Technical...

Author: R. John Brockmann
ISBN: 9780415404112
Format: Paperback
$90.99

By 1838, over two thousand Americans had been killed and many hundreds injured by exploding steam engines on steamboats....  Read More >>

Technology, Violence, and War: Essays in Honor of Dr. John F. Guilmartin, Jr.

Technology, Violence, and War: Essays in Honor of Dr....

Author: Robert S. Ehlers, Jr. ,  Sarah K. Douglas
ISBN: 9789004383418
Format: Hardback
$459.36

This volume explores the importance of technology in war, and to the study of warfare, during the past millennium,...  Read More >>

Searching for Stars on an Island in Maine

Searching for Stars on an Island in Maine

Author: Alan Lightman
ISBN: 9780525432593
Format: Paperback
$44.88

An inspired, lyrical meditation on religion and science, with an exploration of the tension between our yearning...  Read More >>

The Religion of Physics

The Religion of Physics

Author: Philip C Groce
ISBN: 9781793998972
Format: Paperback
$42.11

Over 30 years ago and after several startling experiences, Dr. Groce created a conceptual framework that God can...  Read More >>

Calculated Surprises: A Philosophy of Computer Simulation

Calculated Surprises: A Philosophy of Computer Simulation...

Author: Johannes Lenhard (Bielefeld University)
ISBN: 9780190873318
Format: Undefined
$205.92

If all philosophy starts with wondering, then Calculated Surprises starts with wondering about how computers are...  Read More >>

Künstliche Intelligenz Werden Roboter mit KI in Zukunft Gefühle haben?: Band 2 - Vertiefungen und Erweiterungen

Künstliche Intelligenz Werden Roboter mit KI in Zukunft...

Author: Maria Cura
ISBN: 9783748174271
Format: Paperback
$91.86

Bis vor nicht allzu langer Zeit galt es als selbstverständlich, dass der menschliche Geist, und dass Gefühle ganz...  Read More >>

Darwin Devolves: The New Science about DNA That Challenges Evolution

Darwin Devolves: The New Science about DNA That Challenges...

Author: Michael J Behe ,  Tim Andres Pabon
ISBN: 9781982607241
Format: Audio
$105.57

"The scientist who has been dubbed the ""Father of Intelligent Design"" and author of the groundbreaking book Darwin's...  Read More >>

Information and Communications Technology as Potential Catalyst for Sustainable Urban Development: Experiences in Eindhoven, Helsinki, Manchester, Marseilles and The Hague

Information and Communications Technology as Potential...

Author: Leo van den Berg ,  Willem van Winden
ISBN: 9781138723504
Format: Paperback
$48.99

This title was first published in 2002: The information revolution has deeply influenced the development of Europe’s...  Read More >>

Reinventing Ourselves: How Technology is Rapidly and Radically Transforming Humanity

Reinventing Ourselves: How Technology is Rapidly and...

Author: Larry Bell
ISBN: 9781949267143
Format: Paperback
$51.62

Humans are experiencing a rapid and expansive information technology revolution, one promising transformational...  Read More >>

Newton’s Sensorium: Anatomy of a Concept

Newton’s Sensorium: Anatomy of a Concept

Author: Jamie C. Kassler
ISBN: 9783030101527
Format: Paperback
$232.85

These chapters analyze texts from Isaac Newton’s work to shed new light on scientific understanding at his time....  Read More >>

Most Wonderful Machine: Mechanization and Social Change in Berkshire Paper Making, 1801-1885

Most Wonderful Machine: Mechanization and Social Change...

Author: Judith A. McGaw
ISBN: 9780691655390
Format: Paperback
$125.00

"On a visit to a Berkshire paper mill, the narrator of Herman Melville's ""The Tartarus of Maids"" views the ""wonderful""...  Read More >>

Humankind: Solidarity with Non-Human People

Humankind: Solidarity with Non-Human People

Author: Timothy Morton
ISBN: 9781788731003
Format: Paperback
$19.99

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Youthquake 4.0: A Whole Generation and the New Industrial Revolution

Youthquake 4.0: A Whole Generation and the New Industrial...

Author: Rocky Scopelliti
ISBN: 9789814828611
Format: Paperback
$34.99

YOUTHQUAKE 4.0: A book which targets corporate boards, CEOs, executives and middle management from businesses, government...  Read More >>

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