Impact of science & technology on society books

8581 books were found.

History of Artificial Cold, Scientific, Technological and Cultural Issues

History of Artificial Cold, Scientific, Technological...

Author: Kostas Gavroglu
ISBN: 9789402400168
Format: Paperback
$249.69

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The Tree of Knowledge: The Bright and the Dark Sides of Science

The Tree of Knowledge: The Bright and the Dark Sides...

Author: Claudio Ronchi
ISBN: 9783319346526
Format: Paperback
$59.49

Whether considered a divine gift or a Promethean conquest, science has indisputably and indelibly marked the course...  Read More >>

Science and Society: Understanding Scientific Methodology, Energy, Climate, and Sustainability

Science and Society: Understanding Scientific Methodology,...

Author: Eric S. Swanson
ISBN: 9783319368559
Format: Paperback
$142.29

It challenges readers to examine the problems we face (and their own beliefs) in light of the scientific method.With...  Read More >>

Manuel Cardona: Memories and Reminiscences

Manuel Cardona: Memories and Reminiscences

Author: Klaus Ensslin ,  Luis Viña
ISBN: 9783319369037
Format: Paperback
$155.22

This book pays tribute to an extraordinary researcher and personality, Manuel Cardona. The short contributions deal...  Read More >>

International Cooperation for Enhancing Nuclear Safety, Security, Safeguards and Non-proliferation: Proceedings of the XIX Edoardo Amaldi Conference, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Rome, Italy, March 30-31, 2015

International Cooperation for Enhancing Nuclear Safety,...

Author: Luciano Maiani ,  Said Abousahl
ISBN: 9783319370941
Format: Paperback
$258.72

This book, comprising contributions presented at the XIX Edoardo Amaldi Conference, examines important aspects of...  Read More >>

ReInhabiting the Village: CoCreating our Future

ReInhabiting the Village: CoCreating our Future

Author: Jamaica Stevens
ISBN: 9781944297015
Format: Paperback
$92.27

""ReInhabiting the Village: CoCreating our Future"" is a 352-page graphically rich, full-color, soft-cover book...  Read More >>

The Concept of Function in Molecular Biology: A Theoretical Framework and a Case Study

The Concept of Function in Molecular Biology: A Theoretical...

Author: Miguel Ramon Fuentes
ISBN: 9788878393431
Format: Paperback
$110.88

The question that probably emerges when the title of this work is read is if it is possible to establish any relation...  Read More >>

Technologieprognosen, Zielfindung Und Strategische Planung

Technologieprognosen, Zielfindung Und Strategische Planung...

Author: Uwe Wiemken
ISBN: 9783848732302
Format: Paperback
$134.64

Die Technik hat sich in unserer Zeit zu einem handlungsbestimmenden Aspekt der kulturellen und politischen Realitat...  Read More >>

Science, Technology And Innovation: For Sustainable Future in the Global South

Science, Technology And Innovation: For Sustainable...

Author: Mammo Muchie ,  Amare Desta
ISBN: 9781569024393
Format: Paperback
$135.30

This book is an edited collection of papers mainly but not exclusively focusing on how to harness science, technology...  Read More >>

Digital Leisure Cultures: Critical perspectives

Digital Leisure Cultures: Critical perspectives

Author: Sandro Carnicelli ,  David McGillivray
ISBN: 9781138955073
Format: Hardback
$284.00

The digital turn in leisure has opened up a vast array of new opportunities to play, learn, participate and be entertained...  Read More >>

How Should Humanity Steer the Future?

How Should Humanity Steer the Future?

Author: Anthony Aguirre ,  Brendan Foster
ISBN: 9783319373409
Format: Paperback
$155.22

The fourteen award-winning essays in this volume discuss a range of novel ideas and controversial topics that could...  Read More >>

Utopia Is Creepy: And Other Provocations

Utopia Is Creepy: And Other Provocations

Author: Nicholas Carr ,  Steven Menasche
ISBN: 9798200604272
Format: Audio
$79.15

"A freewheeling, sharp-shooting indictment of a tech-besotted culture. With a razor wit, Nicholas Carr cuts through...  Read More >>

Utopia Is Creepy: And Other Provocations

Utopia Is Creepy: And Other Provocations

Author: Nicholas Carr ,  Steven Menasche
ISBN: 9798200604289
Format: Audio
$79.15

"A freewheeling, sharp-shooting indictment of a tech-besotted culture. With a razor wit, Nicholas Carr cuts through...  Read More >>

Culture: Leading Scientists Explore Societies, Art, Power, and Technology

Culture: Leading Scientists Explore Societies, Art,...

Author: John Brockman
ISBN: 9780062023131
Format: Paperback
$24.99

""Theway Brockman interlaces essays about research on the frontiers of science withones on artistic vision, education,...  Read More >>

The Bleeding Edge: Why Capitalism Musn't Get its Hands on New Technologies Ever Again

The Bleeding Edge: Why Capitalism Musn't Get its Hands...

Author: Bob Hughes
ISBN: 9781780263298
Format: Paperback
$29.99

A big-hitting historical analysis of technology which uses the computer as a can-opener to expose the inequality...  Read More >>

Mobile Gaming in Asia: Politics, Culture and Emerging Technologies

Mobile Gaming in Asia: Politics, Culture and Emerging...

Author: Dal Yong Jin
ISBN: 9789402408249
Format: Hardback
$232.85

This book analyzes mobile gaming in the Asian context and looks into a hitherto neglected focus of inquiry – a localized...  Read More >>

The Only Woman in the Room: Why Science is Still a Boy’s Club

The Only Woman in the Room: Why Science is Still a Boy’s...

Author: Eileen Pollack ,  Gayle Hendrix
ISBN: 9781531871604
Format: Audio
$26.37

Named one of the notable nonfiction books of 2015 by The Washington Post. A bracingly honest exploration of why...  Read More >>

Social Networks, Innovation and the Knowledge Economy

Social Networks, Innovation and the Knowledge Economy...

Author: Isabel Salavisa (Lisbon University Institute, Portugal) ,  Margarida Fontes (National Laboratory for Energy and Geology, Portugal)
ISBN: 9781138205383
Format: Paperback
$46.99

In this book, the authors illustrate how social networks can play a very significant role in the technological catch...  Read More >>

Rhetoric and Ethics in the Cybernetic Age: The Transhuman Condition

Rhetoric and Ethics in the Cybernetic Age: The Transhuman...

Author: Jeff Pruchnic
ISBN: 9781138218741
Format: Paperback
$88.99

It has become increasingly difficult to ignore the ways that the centrality of new media and technologies — from...  Read More >>

Technology in the Country House

Technology in the Country House

Author: Marilyn Palmer ,  Ian West
ISBN: 9781848022805
Format: Hardback
$264.00

Many books have been devoted to the life of those in domestic service in such houses, but this book looks not so...  Read More >>

Leveling the Playing Field: The Democratization of Technology

Leveling the Playing Field: The Democratization of Technology...

Author: Rod Scher
ISBN: 9781442239265
Format: Hardback
$54.99

Leveling the Playing Field explores the technologies that ""trickle down"" to the rest of us, those that were once...  Read More >>

Nanotechnology: The Future is Tiny

Nanotechnology: The Future is Tiny

Author: Michael Berger (Nanowerk LLC, Germany)
ISBN: 9781782625261
Format: Hardback
$173.34

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Tales of Literacy for the 21st Century: The Literary Agenda

Tales of Literacy for the 21st Century: The Literary...

Author: Maryanne Wolf (Tufts University)
ISBN: 9780198724179
Format: Paperback
$53.95

Being Literate in the 21st Century tackles some of the most difficult questions for the next generation around literacy...  Read More >>

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