Impact of science & technology on society books

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Bioinsecurities: Disease Interventions, Empire, and the Government of Species

Bioinsecurities: Disease Interventions, Empire, and...

Author: Neel Ahuja
ISBN: 9780822360636
Format: Paperback
$73.79

In Bioinsecurities Neel Ahuja shows how twentieth-century U.S. imperial expansion was dependent on controlling the...  Read More >>

Politics of Eugenics: Productionism, Population, and National Welfare

Politics of Eugenics: Productionism, Population, and...

Author: Alberto Spektorowski ,  Liza Ireni-Saban
ISBN: 9781138676244
Format: Paperback
$105.00

This book traces the social and political history of eugenics throughout the 20th Century, and their possible return...  Read More >>

French-Brazilian Geography: The Influence of French Geography in Brazil

French-Brazilian Geography: The Influence of French...

Author: José Borzacchiello da Silva ,  Jose Borzacchiello Da Silva
ISBN: 9783319310220
Format: Paperback
$116.41

This book analyses the development of geography as a scientific discipline in Brazil, highlighting how the established...  Read More >>

Bioinsecurities: Disease Interventions, Empire, and the Government of Species

Bioinsecurities: Disease Interventions, Empire, and...

Author: Neel Ahuja
ISBN: 9780822360483
Format: Hardback
$271.79

In Bioinsecurities Neel Ahuja shows how twentieth-century U.S. imperial expansion was dependent on controlling the...  Read More >>

Human Sin or Social Sin: Evolutionary Psychology, Plato and the Christian Logic of Sociology

Human Sin or Social Sin: Evolutionary Psychology, Plato...

Author: Paul Dachslager
ISBN: 9781530322695
Format: Paperback
$102.96

"The book is the basic psycho-biological model for history, and which has restructured the liberal arts and sciences-including...  Read More >>

The Industries of the Future

The Industries of the Future

Author: Alec Ross
ISBN: 9789869317160
Format: Paperback
$121.97

"Traditional Chinese edition of the New York Times bestseller ""The Industries of the Future"" is about industry...  Read More >>

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Content

Author: Cory Doctorow
ISBN: 9781532806360
Format: Paperback
$31.65

Readers will discover how America chose Happy Meal toys over copyright, why Facebook is taking a faceplant, how...  Read More >>

The Politics of Technological Change in Prussia: Out of the Shadow of Antiquity, 1809-1848

The Politics of Technological Change in Prussia: Out...

Author: Eric Dorn Brose
ISBN: 9780691633800
Format: Hardback
$190.00

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Urban Elites and Mass Transportation: The Dialectics of Power

Urban Elites and Mass Transportation: The Dialectics...

Author: J. Allen Whitt
ISBN: 9780691641973
Format: Hardback
$155.00

In an unusually systematic approach to the study of urban politics, this study compares three different models of...  Read More >>

Frankenstein's Children: Electricity, Exhibition, and Experiment in Early-Nineteenth-Century London

Frankenstein's Children: Electricity, Exhibition, and...

Author: Iwan Rhys Morus
ISBN: 9780691634258
Format: Hardback
$270.00

During the second quarter of the nineteenth century, Londoners were enthralled by a strange fluid called electricity....  Read More >>

Ulysses' Sail: An Ethnographic Odyssey of Power, Knowledge, and Geographical Distance

Ulysses' Sail: An Ethnographic Odyssey of Power, Knowledge,...

Author: Mary W. Helms
ISBN: 9780691634654
Format: Hardback
$200.00

What do long-distance travelers gain from their voyages, especially when faraway lands are regarded as the source...  Read More >>

Refrigeration in America

Refrigeration in America

Author: Oscar Edward Anderson
ISBN: 9780691653266
Format: Hardback
$290.00

A comprehensive study of refrigeration from its beginnings in America up to 1950, which shows its relation to our...  Read More >>

The War on Science: Who's Waging It, Why It Matters, What We Can Do about It

The War on Science: Who's Waging It, Why It Matters,...

Author: Shawn Otto ,  Lawrence M Krauss
ISBN: 9781571313539
Format: Paperback
$52.80

"""Wherever the people are well informed,"" Thomas Jefferson wrote, ""they can be trusted with their own government.""...  Read More >>

The Great Acceleration: How the World Is Getting Faster, Faster

The Great Acceleration: How the World Is Getting Faster,...

Author: Robert Colvile
ISBN: 9781632864550
Format: Hardback
$73.92

The Great Acceleration is an energizing account from a brilliant new writer of how our society is speeding up--and...  Read More >>

The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World

The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform...

Author: David Deutsch (University of Alabama, USA) ,  Walter Dixon
ISBN: 9781520019796
Format: Audio
$79.17

A bold exploration of the nature and progress of knowledge from one of today's great thinkers.  Read More >>

The Post-Mobile Society: From the Smart/Mobile to Second Offline

The Post-Mobile Society: From the Smart/Mobile to Second...

Author: Hidenori Tomita (Kansai University, Osaka, Japan.)
ISBN: 9781138904590
Format: Hardback
$315.00

With the spread of mobile augmented reality, it has become very difficult to consider digital space and physical...  Read More >>

The Impact of Science on Society

The Impact of Science on Society

Author: Bertrand Russell ,  Tim Sluckin
ISBN: 9781138641150
Format: Paperback
$29.99

Many of the revolutionary effects of science and technology are obvious enough. Bertrand Russell saw in the 1950s...  Read More >>

The Scientific Attitude

The Scientific Attitude

Author: C. H. Waddington
ISBN: 9781138957022
Format: Hardback
$252.00

This book explores the relationship between science, culture, and society. It discusses biological assumptions made...  Read More >>

The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself

The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and...

Author: Sean Carroll
ISBN: 9780525954828
Format: Hardback
$73.92

The instant New York Times bestseller that went on to inspire Professor Brian Cox  Read More >>

La ciencia como integradora de la cultura

La ciencia como integradora de la cultura

Author: Dr Adalberto García de Mendoza
ISBN: 9781506513270
Format: Paperback
$33.51

Serie de conferencias que tratan del momento en que vivimos y se exige un resurgimiento de valores culturales. Un...  Read More >>

La ciencia como integradora de la cultura

La ciencia como integradora de la cultura

Author: Dr Adalberto García de Mendoza
ISBN: 9781506513263
Format: Hardback
$61.97

Serie de conferencias que tratan del momento en que vivimos y se exige un resurgimiento de valores culturales. Un...  Read More >>

The Quantum Exodus: Jewish Fugitives, the Atomic Bomb, and the Holocaust

The Quantum Exodus: Jewish Fugitives, the Atomic Bomb,...

Author: Gordon Fraser
ISBN: 9780198768005
Format: Paperback
$61.95

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Roberto Busa, S. J., and the Emergence of Humanities Computing: The Priest and the Punched Cards

Roberto Busa, S. J., and the Emergence of Humanities...

Author: Steven E. Jones (Loyola University Chicago, USA)
ISBN: 9781138186774
Format: Hardback
$326.00

It’s the founding myth of humanities computing and digital humanities: In 1949, the Italian Jesuit scholar, Roberto...  Read More >>

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