Impact of science & technology on society books

8581 books were found.

An Anthropology of the Machine: Tokyo's Commuter Train Network

An Anthropology of the Machine: Tokyo's Commuter Train...

Author: Michael Fisch
ISBN: 9780226558554
Format: Paperback
$49.95

A technological analysis of the incredible complexity of the Tokyo subway system.  Read More >>

Emerging Dynamics: Science, Energy, Society and Values

Emerging Dynamics: Science, Energy, Society and Values...

Author: Loucas G. Christophorou
ISBN: 9783319907123
Format: Paperback
$64.66

Emerging Dynamics: Science, Energy, Society and Values focuses on the impact of science, science-based technology...  Read More >>

An Anthropology of the Machine: Tokyo's Commuter Train Network

An Anthropology of the Machine: Tokyo's Commuter Train...

Author: Michael Fisch
ISBN: 9780226558417
Format: Hardback
$163.95

A technological analysis of the incredible complexity of the Tokyo subway system.  Read More >>

Electronic Trading And Blockchain: Yesterday, Today And Tomorrow

Electronic Trading And Blockchain: Yesterday, Today...

Author: Richard L Sandor (American Financial Exchange, Usa & Joyce Foundation, Usa)
ISBN: 9789813233775
Format: Hardback
$194.06

Trading floors in the 60s and 70s involved hundreds of people shouting bids and offers in multi-coloured jackets...  Read More >>

How We Perceive Reality: Our Brain Defines Reality

How We Perceive Reality: Our Brain Defines Reality

Author: Allan Arnold
ISBN: 9781478798149
Format: Paperback
$25.75

The world around us appears solid and substantial-we can see, hear, touch, feel, and smell the objects and elements...  Read More >>

Cyberemotions: Collective Emotions in Cyberspace

Cyberemotions: Collective Emotions in Cyberspace

Author: Janusz A. Holyst
ISBN: 9783319828749
Format: Paperback
$212.18

This first monograph of its kind introduces the reader to fundamental definitions, key concepts and case studies...  Read More >>

Living in Information: Responsible Design for Digital Places

Living in Information: Responsible Design for Digital...

Author: Jorge Arango
ISBN: 9781933820651
Format: Paperback
$52.77

Websites and apps are places where critical parts of our lives happen. We shop, bank, learn, gossip, and select...  Read More >>

Technologies for Development: From Innovation to Social Impact

Technologies for Development: From Innovation to Social...

Author: Silvia Hostettler ,  Samira Najih Besson
ISBN: 9783319910673
Format: Hardback
$116.41

It illustrates the use of technologies for development in various fields of research, such as humanitarian action,...  Read More >>

A Crack in Creation: The New Power to Control Evolution

A Crack in Creation: The New Power to Control Evolution...

Author: Jennifer Doudna ,  Samuel Sternberg
ISBN: 9781784702762
Format: Paperback
$22.99

The author is the co-inventor of this technology, known as CRISPR, and a scientist of worldwide renown. In this...  Read More >>

Stealing Fire: How Silicon Valley, the Navy Seals, and Maverick Scientists are Revolutionizing the Way We Live and Work

Stealing Fire: How Silicon Valley, the Navy Seals, and...

Author: Steven Kotler ,  Jamie Wheal
ISBN: 9780062429667
Format: Paperback
$34.99

Originally published in hardcover in 2017 by Dey Street Books.  Read More >>

Social, Cultural, and Behavioral Modeling: 11th International Conference, SBP-BRiMS 2018, Washington, DC, USA, July 10-13, 2018, Proceedings

Social, Cultural, and Behavioral Modeling: 11th International...

Author: Robert Thomson ,  Christopher Dancy
ISBN: 9783319933719
Format: Paperback
$145.17

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Social, Cultural, and Behavioral Modeling,...  Read More >>

Ernest Sosa: Targeting His Philosophy

Ernest Sosa: Targeting His Philosophy

Author: Amrei Bahr ,  Markus Seidel
ISBN: 9783319813066
Format: Paperback
$232.85

This volume provides the reader with exclusive insights into Ernest Sosa’s latest ideas as well as main aspects...  Read More >>

The Quantum Gamble

The Quantum Gamble

Author: Jan C. A. Boeyens
ISBN: 9783319823997
Format: Paperback
$232.85

This volume, written by a highly cited author, presents the history of quantum theory together with open questions...  Read More >>

The Open Revolution: Rewriting the rules of the information age

The Open Revolution: Rewriting the rules of the information...

Author: Rufus Pollock
ISBN: 9781983033223
Format: Paperback
$26.37

Forget everything you think you know about the digital age. It's not about privacy, surveillance, AI or blockchain-it's...  Read More >>

Ursachen

Ursachen

Author: Andreas Hüttemann
ISBN: 9783110595253
Format: Paperback
$42.81

Dieses Buch gibt einen systematischer Überblick über die wesentlichen Theorien von Ursachen: die Regularitätstheorie,...  Read More >>

A Networked Self and Platforms, Stories, Connections

A Networked Self and Platforms, Stories, Connections...

Author: Zizi Papacharissi (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA)
ISBN: 9781138722682
Format: Paperback
$77.99

We tell stories about who we are. Through telling these stories, we connect with others and affirm our own sense...  Read More >>

A Village Goes Mobile: Telephony, Mediation, and Social Change in Rural India

A Village Goes Mobile: Telephony, Mediation, and Social...

Author: Sirpa Tenhunen (Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Helsinki)
ISBN: 9780190630287
Format: Paperback
$118.95

Drawing on ethnographic field work, A Village Goes Mobile examines how mobile telephony contributes to social change...  Read More >>

Survival under Uncertainty: An Introduction to Probability Models of Social Structure and Evolution

Survival under Uncertainty: An Introduction to Probability...

Author: Dimitri Volchenkov
ISBN: 9783319818832
Format: Paperback
$212.18

This book introduces and studies a number of stochastic models of subsistence, communication, social evolution and...  Read More >>

Technology and the Virtues: A Philosophical Guide to a Future Worth Wanting

Technology and the Virtues: A Philosophical Guide to...

Author: Shannon Vallor (S.J. Professor in the Department of Philosophy, S.J. Professor in the Department of Philosophy, Santa Clara University)
ISBN: 9780190905286
Format: Paperback
$61.95

New technologies from artificial intelligence to drones, and biomedical enhancement make the future of the human...  Read More >>

Model-Based Reasoning in Science and Technology: Logical, Epistemological, and Cognitive Issues

Model-Based Reasoning in Science and Technology: Logical,...

Author: Lorenzo Magnani ,  Claudia Casadio
ISBN: 9783319817842
Format: Paperback
$871.17

This book discusses how scientific and other types of cognition make use of models, abduction, and explanatory reasoning...  Read More >>

Science, Form, and the Problem of Induction in British Romanticism

Science, Form, and the Problem of Induction in British...

Author: Dahlia Porter (University of Glasgow)
ISBN: 9781108418942
Format: Hardback
$232.88

Exploring a topic at the intersection of science, philosophy and literature, this book traces the history of induction...  Read More >>

Cyberpsychology as Everyday Digital Experience across the Lifespan

Cyberpsychology as Everyday Digital Experience across...

Author: Dave Harley ,  Julie Morgan
ISBN: 9781137591999
Format: Hardback
$179.00

They discuss how people’s symbiotic relationship with digital technologies has started to redefine our childhoods,...  Read More >>

The Study of Science and Religion

The Study of Science and Religion

Author: Carl Reinhold Brakenhielm
ISBN: 9781532619687
Format: Paperback
$116.16

The main aim of this book is to contribute to the relationship between science and religion. This book aims to do...  Read More >>

Evolution und Leid als Herausforderung für den Glauben: Zu den erkenntnistheoretischen und formalen Voraussetzungen zeitgenössischer Argumente aus dem Übel

Evolution und Leid als Herausforderung für den Glauben:...

Author: Marco Benasso
ISBN: 9783658224332
Format: Paperback
$98.30

Marco Benasso behandelt in diesem Buch Fragen wie: Verschärft die Annahme der Evolutionstheorie das Problem des...  Read More >>

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