Impact of science & technology on society books

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The Power of Scientific Knowledge: From Research to Public Policy

The Power of Scientific Knowledge: From Research to...

Author: Reiner Grundmann (Aston University) ,  Nico Stehr
ISBN: 9781139137003
Format: Undefined
$594.00

It is often said that knowledge is power, but what factors determine the success of scientific research in influencing...  Read More >>

Neoliberalism and Technoscience: Critical Assessments

Neoliberalism and Technoscience: Critical Assessments...

Author: Marja Ylönen ,  Luigi Pellizzoni
ISBN: 9781409435327
Format: Hardback
$305.00

With an exploration of the overall logic of technoscientific innovation within late capitalism, and the emergence...  Read More >>

The Revolution will be Digitised: Dispatches from the Information War

The Revolution will be Digitised: Dispatches from the...

Author: Heather Brooke
ISBN: 9780099538080
Format: Paperback
$32.99

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Biometrics: Bodies, Technologies, Biopolitics

Biometrics: Bodies, Technologies, Biopolitics

Author: Joseph Pugliese (Macquarie University, Australia)
ISBN: 9780415811040
Format: Paperback
$88.99

Biometric technologies, such as finger- or facial-scan, are being deployed across a variety of social contexts in...  Read More >>

Farewell Fear

Farewell Fear

Author: Theodore Dalrymple
ISBN: 9780985439477
Format: Paperback
$46.55

Farewell Fear is a collection of Theodore Dalrymple's finest essays written for New English Review between 2009...  Read More >>

Revelation Government: The Lord's Justice.

Revelation Government: The Lord's Justice.

Author: MR Aaron W Wemple
ISBN: 9780985156787
Format: Paperback
$52.77

The Lord's Justice. Backed up by science, psychology, truth, love, and honor, Author, engineer and theoretical physicist...  Read More >>

Technology, Pessimism and Postmodernism

Technology, Pessimism and Postmodernism

Author: Yaron Ezrahi ,  etc.
ISBN: 9780870239779
Format: Paperback
$60.59

This collection of essays from international scholars from various disciplines addresses the theme of technological...  Read More >>

Diving Into the Bitstream: Information Technology Meets Society in a Digital World

Diving Into the Bitstream: Information Technology Meets...

Author: Barry Dumas
ISBN: 9780415807142
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Nationwide, and indeed worldwide, there has been a growing awareness of the importance of access to information....  Read More >>

Diving Into the Bitstream: Information Technology Meets Society in a Digital World

Diving Into the Bitstream: Information Technology Meets...

Author: Barry Dumas
ISBN: 9780415807135
Format: Hardback
$147.00

Nationwide, and indeed worldwide, there has been a growing awareness of the importance of access to information....  Read More >>

Deleting Ur Ex: Getting Over a Breakup in a World of Tweets, Texts & Social Updates

Deleting Ur Ex: Getting Over a Breakup in a World of...

Author: Matt Borer
ISBN: 9781938178610
Format: Paperback
$39.47

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Big Disconnect: The Story of Technology and Loneliness

Big Disconnect: The Story of Technology and Loneliness...

Author: Giles Slade
ISBN: 9781616145958
Format: Paperback
$38.99

Offers a look at a world where intimacy with machines is increasingly replacing mutual human intimacy. This title...  Read More >>

Networked Publics

Networked Publics

Author: Kazys Varnelis (Director, Network Architecture Lab, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, Col, Columbia University) ,  Mizuko Ito (Professor in Residence at the University of California Humanities Research Institute)
ISBN: 9780262517928
Format: Paperback
$59.99

How maturing digital media and network technologies are transforming place, culture, politics, and infrastructure...  Read More >>

Sonic Warfare: Sound, Affect, and the Ecology of Fear

Sonic Warfare: Sound, Affect, and the Ecology of Fear...

Author: Steve Goodman ,  Brian Massumi
ISBN: 9780262517959
Format: Paperback
$65.00

An exploration of the production, transmission, and mutation of affective tonality—when sound helps produce a bad...  Read More >>

Mobile Communication: Bringing Us Together and Tearing Us Apart

Mobile Communication: Bringing Us Together and Tearing...

Author: Scott Campbell ,  Rich Ling
ISBN: 9781412849555
Format: Paperback
$92.99

Mobile Communication covers a wide range of topics  Read More >>

Bodies in Code

Bodies in Code

Author: Mark B N Hansen (Princeton University, New Jersey)
ISBN: 9786613955852
Format: Electronic book text
$415.01

Bodies in Code explores how our bodies experience and adapt to digital environments. Cyberculture theorists have...  Read More >>

The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True

The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True...

Author: Richard Dawkins ,  Dave McKean
ISBN: 9781451690217
Format: Paperback
$55.44

"An elegant, text-only paperback edition of the ""New York Times"" bestseller that's been hailed as the definitive...  Read More >>

The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True

The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True...

Author: Richard Dawkins ,  Dave McKean
ISBN: 9781451675047
Format: Paperback
$47.52

An elegant, text-only paperback edition of the ""New York Times"" bestseller that's been hailed as the definitive...  Read More >>

Innovative Strategies and Approaches for End-User Computing Advancements

Innovative Strategies and Approaches for End-User Computing...

Author: Ashish Dwivedi ,  Steve Clarke
ISBN: 9781283588607
Format: Electronic book text
$554.40

<p>As the use of internet applications with client server architecture and web browsers have increased the ability...  Read More >>

The Digital Rights Movement: The Role of Technology in Subverting Digital Copyright

The Digital Rights Movement: The Role of Technology...

Author: Hector Postigo
ISBN: 9786613942234
Format: Electronic book text
$101.38

The evolution of activism against the expansion of copyright in the digital domain, with case studies of resistance...  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: 9798200560394
Format: Audio
$79.15

Arbesman is an expert in scientometrics, literally the science of science--how society knows what it knows. Knowledge...  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: 9798200560387
Format: Audio
$79.15

Arbesman is an expert in scientometrics, literally the science of science--how society knows what it knows. Knowledge...  Read More >>

Would a Man Return

Would a Man Return

Author: Edward H. Weinel
ISBN: 9781908135094
Format: Paperback
$28.33

A detailed perception of wartime in Liverpool and later as an apprentice and aircraft engineer at Speke Airport,...  Read More >>

Brain Gain: Technology and the Quest for Digital Wisdom

Brain Gain: Technology and the Quest for Digital Wisdom...

Author: Marc Prensky
ISBN: 9780230338098
Format: Hardback
$43.96

Most people use technology to help them keep track of their daily lives. Yet, we're constantly questioning if this...  Read More >>

On Time, Being, and Hunger: Challenging the Traditional Way of Thinking Life

On Time, Being, and Hunger: Challenging the Traditional...

Author: Professor of Philosophy Juan Manuel Garrido (Universidad Diego Portales)
ISBN: 9780823239399
Format: Undefined
$264.00

"The traditional way of understanding life, as a self-appropriating and self-organizing process of not ceasing to...  Read More >>

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