Impact of science & technology on society books

8581 books were found.

The Changing Frontier: Rethinking Science and Innovation Policy

The Changing Frontier: Rethinking Science and Innovation...

Author: Adam B. Jaffe ,  Benjamin F. Jones
ISBN: 9780226286723
Format: Hardback
$195.95

In 1945, Vannevar Bush, founder of Raytheon and one-time engineering dean at MIT, delivered a report to the president...  Read More >>

Starting the Dialogue: Perspectives on Technology and Society

Starting the Dialogue: Perspectives on Technology and...

Author: Marie Hoepfl ,  Brian Raichle
ISBN: 9781465274588
Format: Paperback
$161.00

Focuses on artifacts and processes that make up the human-made world and the societal implications of their use....  Read More >>

Hollyweird Science: From Quantum Quirks to the Multiverse

Hollyweird Science: From Quantum Quirks to the Multiverse...

Author: Kevin R. Grazier ,  Stephen Cass
ISBN: 9783319150710
Format: Paperback
$64.66

Including material from interviews with over two dozen writers, producers, and directors of acclaimed science-themed...  Read More >>

Communication Shock: The Rhetoric of New Technology

Communication Shock: The Rhetoric of New Technology...

Author: Ty Adams ,  Steve Smith
ISBN: 9781443876971
Format: Hardback
$216.35

In the spirit of Alvin Toffler’s acclaimed works peering into the future of the technological society, Communication...  Read More >>

Constructing East Asia: Technology, Ideology, and Empire in Japan’s Wartime Era, 1931-1945

Constructing East Asia: Technology, Ideology, and Empire...

Author: Aaron Stephen Moore ,  Moore Aaron
ISBN: 9780804797245
Format: Paperback
$55.95

Through an analysis of public discourse, national policies, and large-scale infrastructure projects, this book examines...  Read More >>

Beyond Broadband Access: Developing Data-Based Information Policy Strategies

Beyond Broadband Access: Developing Data-Based Information...

Author: Richard D Taylor (Pennsylvania State University) ,  Amit M Schejter (Ben Gurion University of the Negev)
ISBN: 9780823268955
Format: Undefined
$417.12

"After broadband access, what next? What role do metrics play in understanding ""information societies""? And, more...  Read More >>

Researching Biology and Evolution in the Gulf States: Networks of Science in the Middle East

Researching Biology and Evolution in the Gulf States:...

Author: Jorg Matthias Determann
ISBN: 9781784531560
Format: Hardback
$240.00

A unique analysis of the networks and perils at play in the Gulf when researching a controversial subject such as...  Read More >>

Social Issues: Perspectives in Science and Technology

Social Issues: Perspectives in Science and Technology...

Author: Jan Potter ,  Trina Queen
ISBN: 9781465280572
Format: Paperback
$51.00

eBook Version You will receive access to this electronic text via email after using the shopping cart above to complete...  Read More >>

Rethinking Human Enhancement: Social Enhancement and Emergent Technologies

Rethinking Human Enhancement: Social Enhancement and...

Author: Laura Y. Cabrera
ISBN: 9781137402233
Format: Hardback
$181.95

This book discusses three possible human enhancement paradigms and explores how each involves different values,...  Read More >>

Customer Value Generation in Banking: The Zurich Model of Customer-Centricity

Customer Value Generation in Banking: The Zurich Model...

Author: Stefanie Auge-Dickhut ,  Bernhard Koye
ISBN: 9783319199375
Format: Hardback
$139.70

The banking sector is undergoing a process of fundamental transformation – mainly due to the challenges of digitalization,...  Read More >>

The Glass Cage: Automation and Us

The Glass Cage: Automation and Us

Author: Nicholas Carr ,  Jeff Cummings
ISBN: 9781469292052
Format: Audio
$39.57

At once a celebration of technology and a warning about its misuse, The Glass Cage will change the way you think...  Read More >>

The Glass Cage: Automation and Us

The Glass Cage: Automation and Us

Author: Nicholas Carr ,  Jeff Cummings
ISBN: 9781469295404
Format: Audio
$34.29

At once a celebration of technology and a warning about its misuse, The Glass Cage will change the way you think...  Read More >>

Handbook of Research on Techno-Entrepreneurship, Second Edition: How Technology and Entrepreneurship are Shaping the Development of Industries and Companies

Handbook of Research on Techno-Entrepreneurship, Second...

Author: François Thérin
ISBN: 9781783472802
Format: Paperback
$136.75

Techno-entrepreneurship is broadly defined as the entrepreneurial and intrapreneurial activities of both existing...  Read More >>

Alien & Angela haben geheiratet

Alien & Angela haben geheiratet

Author: Tanja Feiler F
ISBN: 9781516944804
Format: Paperback
$34.32

Und sie hat auch Ja gesagt. Angela zu Alien. Die beiden sind untergetaucht und sind frisch ver- mählt zurückgekommen......  Read More >>

The $1,000 Genome: The Revolution in DNA Sequencing and the New Era of Personalized Medicine

The $1,000 Genome: The Revolution in DNA Sequencing...

Author: Kevin Davies ,  Kevin Davies
ISBN: 9781416569619
Format: Paperback
$47.52

The author of the critically acclaimed Cracking the Genome writes a lively and deeply researched account of the...  Read More >>

Bioethik in Einer Säkularisierten Gesellschaft: Ethische Probleme Der Pid

Bioethik in Einer Säkularisierten Gesellschaft: Ethische...

Author: Ralph Weimann
ISBN: 9783506782748
Format: Paperback
$137.28

In einer säkularisierten Gesellschaft sind Anfang und Ende des menschlichen Lebens mehr denn je zuvor den Möglichkeiten...  Read More >>

Machines of Loving Grace: The Quest for Common Ground Between Humans and Robots

Machines of Loving Grace: The Quest for Common Ground...

Author: Professor John Markoff ,  George Newbern
ISBN: 9781504614276
Format: Audio
$105.57

"""As robots are increasingly integrated into modern society--on the battlefield and the road, in business, education,...  Read More >>

Machines of Loving Grace: The Quest for Common Ground Between Humans and Robots

Machines of Loving Grace: The Quest for Common Ground...

Author: Professor John Markoff ,  George Newbern
ISBN: 9781504614269
Format: Audio
$158.37

"""As robots are increasingly integrated into modern society--on the battlefield and the road, in business, education,...  Read More >>

Joyfully Shattered: A Physician's Awakening at the Crossroads of Science and Spirituality

Joyfully Shattered: A Physician's Awakening at the Crossroads...

Author: Rick Sheff
ISBN: 9781495142093
Format: Hardback
$79.07

At the bedside of a dying child, Dr. Rick Sheff, a nationally respected physician, realizes that the easy answers...  Read More >>

A Bridge between Conceptual Frameworks: Sciences, Society and Technology Studies

A Bridge between Conceptual Frameworks: Sciences, Society...

Author: Raffaele Pisano
ISBN: 9789401796446
Format: Hardback
$362.22

This book analyzes scientific problems within the history of physics, engineering, chemistry, astronomy and medicine,...  Read More >>

C. S. Lewis and the Inklings: Reflections on Faith, Imagination, and Modern Technology

C. S. Lewis and the Inklings: Reflections on Faith,...

Author: Jason Fisher ,  Mark Hall
ISBN: 9781443876292
Format: Hardback
$240.11

This is a unique collection of two of the Inklings and their literary associates’ views on the negative impacts...  Read More >>

Introduction to a Future Way of Thought: On Marx and Heidegger

Introduction to a Future Way of Thought: On Marx and...

Author: Kostas Axelos ,  Professor Stuart Elden (Durham University)
ISBN: 9783957960054
Format: Paperback
$27.43

"""Technologists only change the world in various ways in generalized indifference; the point is to think the world...  Read More >>

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