Impact of science & technology on society books

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Life at the Speed of Light: From the Double Helix to the Dawn of Digital Life

Life at the Speed of Light: From the Double Helix to...

Author: J Craig Venter ,  Bob Souer
ISBN: 9798200058617
Format: Audio
$44.85

The renowned scientist and author of A Life Decoded examines the creation of life in the new field of synthetic...  Read More >>

Life at the Speed of Light: From the Double Helix to the Dawn of Digital Life

Life at the Speed of Light: From the Double Helix to...

Author: J Craig Venter ,  Bob Souer
ISBN: 9798200058594
Format: Audio
$44.85

The renowned scientist and author of A Life Decoded examines the creation of life in the new field of synthetic...  Read More >>

Technology and Cultural Tectonics: Shifting Values and Meanings

Technology and Cultural Tectonics: Shifting Values and...

Author: A. Hanson
ISBN: 9781137342010
Format: Hardback
$84.99

What impact has technology had on cultural meanings, values, and symbols? This anthropological exploration shows...  Read More >>

Too Much Magic: Wishful Thinking, Technology, and the Fate of the Nation

Too Much Magic: Wishful Thinking, Technology, and the...

Author: James Howard Kunstler
ISBN: 9780802121448
Format: Paperback
$47.52

James Howard Kunstler's critically acclaimed and best-selling The Long Emergency, originally published in 2005,...  Read More >>

The Robotics Divide: A New Frontier in the 21st Century?

The Robotics Divide: A New Frontier in the 21st Century?...

Author: Antonio López Peláez
ISBN: 9781447153573
Format: Hardback
$310.47

The Robotics Divide explores future developments in robotics technology and discusses the model of technological...  Read More >>

Make - Maker Projects Guide

Make - Maker Projects Guide

Author: Mark Frauenfelder
ISBN: 9781457182952
Format: Paperback
$26.37

MAKE Magazine's annual Maker Faires have become the engine that drives the diverse and ever-expanding maker movement....  Read More >>

Motivation – The Gender Perspective of Young People''s Images of Science, Engineering and Technology (SET): Proceedings of the Final Conference

Motivation – The Gender Perspective of Young People''s...

Author: apl. Prof. Dr. Felizitas Sagebiel
ISBN: 9783940755810
Format: Paperback
$85.26

The authors discuss individual and societal factors which influence the gender biased image of science, engineering...  Read More >>

The Distraction Addiction: Getting the Information You Need and the Communication You Want, Without Enraging Your Family, Annoying Your Colleagues, and Destroying Your Soul

The Distraction Addiction: Getting the Information You...

Author: Alex Pang
ISBN: 9780316208260
Format: Hardback
$49.00

The question of our time: can we reclaim our lives in an age that feels busier and more distracting by the day?...  Read More >>

Standards: Recipes for Reality

Standards: Recipes for Reality

Author: Lawrence Busch (University Distinguished Professor in the Center for the Study of Standards and Society, Michigan State University) ,  Geoffrey C. Bowker (Professor and Director, VID Laboratory, University of California, Irvine)
ISBN: 9780262525053
Format: Paperback
$79.99

An investigation into standards, the invisible infrastructures of our technical, moral, social, and physical worlds....  Read More >>

Smarter Than You Think: How Technology is Changing Our Minds for the Better

Smarter Than You Think: How Technology is Changing Our...

Author: Clive Thompson
ISBN: 9780007544165
Format: Paperback
$38.79

From the ‘Wired’ and ‘New York Times Magazine’ contributor, a brilliant examination into how the internet is profoundly...  Read More >>

An Appetite for Wonder

An Appetite for Wonder

Author: Richard Dawkins ,  Richard Dawkins
ISBN: 9781467662437
Format: Pre-recorded MP3 player
$158.37

In his first memoir, Richard Dawkins shares a rare view into his early life, his intellectual awakening at Oxford,...  Read More >>

Youth and Internet Addiction in China

Youth and Internet Addiction in China

Author: Trent Bax (Ewha Womans University, South Korea)
ISBN: 9780415656917
Format: Hardback
$210.00

A form of 'electronic opium' is how some people have characterised young people’s internet use in China. The problem...  Read More >>

Science Set Free: 10 Paths to New Discovery

Science Set Free: 10 Paths to New Discovery

Author: Rupert Sheldrake
ISBN: 9780770436728
Format: Paperback
$47.49

Originally published in hardcover in Great Britain as The science delusion and in hardcover in the United States...  Read More >>

Smarter Than You Think: How Technology is Changing Our Minds for the Better: Library Edition

Smarter Than You Think: How Technology is Changing Our...

Author: Clive Thompson ,  Jeff Cummings
ISBN: 9781480535282
Format: Audio
$184.72

How technology boosts our cognitive abilities--making us smarter, more productive, and more creative than ever before...  Read More >>

Doing Good with Technologies:: Taking Responsibility for the Social Role of Emerging Technologies

Doing Good with Technologies:: Taking Responsibility...

Author: Katinka Waelbers
ISBN: 9789400736689
Format: Paperback
$284.60

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Smarter Than You Think: How Technology Is Changing Our Minds for the Better

Smarter Than You Think: How Technology Is Changing Our...

Author: Sir Clive Thompson (Alcontrol Laboratories UK) ,  Jeff Cummings
ISBN: 9781480559363
Format: Pre-recorded MP3 player
$184.77

From the `Wired' and `New York Times Magazine' contributor, a brilliant examination into how the internet is profoundly...  Read More >>

New Media Influence on Social and Political Change in Africa

New Media Influence on Social and Political Change in...

Author: Anthony A. Olorunnisola ,  Aziz Douai
ISBN: 9781466641976
Format: Hardback
$373.95

Addresses the development of new mass media and communication tools and its influence on social and political change....  Read More >>

A Devil's Tale

A Devil's Tale

Author: Michael J Gutierrez
ISBN: 9781628393644
Format: Paperback
$33.51

Michael J Gutierrez born and raised on the north side of Kalamazoo, Mi. Father of five children, twelve grandchildren,...  Read More >>

Messaging for Engineering: From Research to Action

Messaging for Engineering: From Research to Action

Author: Committee on Implementing Engineering Messages ,  National Academy of Engineering
ISBN: 9780309261807
Format: Paperback
$76.56

Builds on the 2008 NAE publication, Changing the Conversation: Messages for Improving Public Understanding of Engineering...  Read More >>

Breakpoint: Why the Web Will Implode, Search Will be Obsolete, and Everything Else You Need to Know About Technology is in Your Brain

Breakpoint: Why the Web Will Implode, Search Will be...

Author: Jeffrey M. Stibel
ISBN: 9781137278784
Format: Hardback
$46.55

"Neuroscientist and entrepreneur Jeff Stibel shows how the brain can act as a guide to understanding the future...  Read More >>

The Half Life of Facts: Why Everything We Know Has an Expiration Date

The Half Life of Facts: Why Everything We Know Has an...

Author: Samuel Arbesman ,  Sean Pratt
ISBN: 9781482954449
Format: Pre-recorded MP3 player
$158.37

Facts change all the time. Smoking has gone from doctor recommended to deadly. We used to think the Earth was the...  Read More >>

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