Impact of science & technology on society books

8574 books were found.

New Technologies and the Media

New Technologies and the Media

Author: Gerard Goggin (University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia)
ISBN: 9780230282216
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Explaining the key theories of technology and media, this book cuts through the jargon and tech-speak to provide...  Read More >>

The First Science - and the Generic Code

The First Science - and the Generic Code

Author: Douglas J Huntington Moore
ISBN: 9780987316301
Format: Paperback
$56.93

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Digital Divide: Civic Engagement, Information Poverty, and the Internet Worldwide

Digital Divide: Civic Engagement, Information Poverty,...

Author: Pippa Norris (Harvard University, Massachusetts)
ISBN: 9781139164887
Format: Undefined
$594.00

There is widespread concern that the explosive growth of the Internet is exacerbating existing inequalities between...  Read More >>

The Honest Broker: Making Sense of Science in Policy and Politics

The Honest Broker: Making Sense of Science in Policy...

Author: Roger A. Pielke, Jr (University of Colorado, Boulder)
ISBN: 9780511818110
Format: Undefined
$594.00

Using examples from a range of scientific controversies, The Honest Broker challenges us all - scientists, politicians...  Read More >>

The Internet and Democratic Citizenship: Theory, Practice and Policy

The Internet and Democratic Citizenship: Theory, Practice...

Author: Stephen Coleman ,  Jay G. Blumler
ISBN: 9780511818271
Format: Undefined
$594.00

Relations between the public and political figures are in a period of flux. New expectations and meanings of citizenship...  Read More >>

Machine Dreams: Economics Becomes a Cyborg Science

Machine Dreams: Economics Becomes a Cyborg Science

Author: Philip Mirowski (University of Notre Dame, Indiana)
ISBN: 9780511613364
Format: Undefined
$594.00

Machine Dreams recounts the story of how the computer came to transform the very content of American economics,...  Read More >>

Paths of Innovation: Technological Change in 20th-Century America

Paths of Innovation: Technological Change in 20th-Century...

Author: David C. Mowery (University of California, Berkeley) ,  Nathan Rosenberg (Stanford University, California)
ISBN: 9780511611957
Format: Undefined
$594.00

In 1903 the Wright brothers' airplane travelled a couple of hundred yards. Today streamlined jets transport millions...  Read More >>

Bioethics: An Introduction

Bioethics: An Introduction

Author: Marianne Talbot (University of Oxford)
ISBN: 9781139047234
Format: Undefined
$1372.80

This accessible introduction clearly explains bioethical issues and their philosophical foundations to science students,...  Read More >>

The Cosmopolitanization of Science: Stem Cell Governance in China

The Cosmopolitanization of Science: Stem Cell Governance...

Author: J. Zhang
ISBN: 9780230302594
Format: Hardback
$84.99

Focussing on China's stem cell research, this book investigates how, over the last decade, Chinese scientists, ethicists...  Read More >>

Scientific Proof of Our Unalienable Rights. a Road to Utopia

Scientific Proof of Our Unalienable Rights. a Road to...

Author: Michael T Takac
ISBN: 9781611700794
Format: Paperback
$23.93

In 1776 Thomas Jefferson's philosophy of innate rights: unalienable Rights Life Liberty, and the pursuit...  Read More >>

Reality is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World

Reality is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How...

Author: Jane McGonigal
ISBN: 9780099540281
Format: Paperback
$29.99

The future belongs to those who play games. In this ground-breaking book, visionary game designer Jane McGonigaI...  Read More >>

Qu'est-Ce Que Le Creationnisme?

Qu'est-Ce Que Le Creationnisme?

Author: Paul Clavier
ISBN: 9782711624171
Format: Paperback
$34.32

Quand il date le monde de 6 a 10 000 ans et affirme que les fossiles apparemment plus anciens sont des leurres,...  Read More >>

New Connectivities in China: Virtual, Actual and Local Interactions

New Connectivities in China: Virtual, Actual and Local...

Author: Pui-lam Law
ISBN: 9789400739093
Format: Hardback
$306.62

The fast diffusion of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in China has brought forth new forms of...  Read More >>

Invisible Users: Youth in the Internet Cafes of Urban Ghana

Invisible Users: Youth in the Internet Cafes of Urban...

Author: Jenna Burrell
ISBN: 9786613594105
Format: Electronic book text
$95.04

An account of how young people in Ghana's capital city adopt and adapt digital technology in the margins of the...  Read More >>

Sacred Science?: On Science and Its Interrelations with Religious Worldviews

Sacred Science?: On Science and Its Interrelations with...

Author: Simen Andersen Øyen ,  Nora S. Vaage
ISBN: 9789086861965
Format: Paperback
$225.72

Published in conjunction with the celebration of the 25th anniversary of The Centre for the Study of the Sciences...  Read More >>

Power over Peoples: Technology, Environments, and Western Imperialism, 1400 to the Present

Power over Peoples: Technology, Environments, and Western...

Author: Daniel R. Headrick
ISBN: 9780691154329
Format: Paperback
$54.99

For six hundred years, the nations of Europe and North America have periodically attempted to coerce, invade, or...  Read More >>

The Good Life in a Technological Age

The Good Life in a Technological Age

Author: Tom Diamond ,  Mark Sanders
ISBN: 9780415891264
Format: Hardback
$315.00

Bringing together scholars from a cross-section of disciplines, this volume combines an empirical investigation...  Read More >>

How to Do Everything Google+

How to Do Everything Google+

Author: Matthew Miller ,  Matthew Miller
ISBN: 9780071791342
Format: Paperback
$41.37

This practical guide explains how to get the most out of Google+--the new social networking platform that gained...  Read More >>

Material Worlds: Intersections of Law, Science, Technology, and Society

Material Worlds: Intersections of Law, Science, Technology,...

Author: Christopher Lawless ,  Alex Faulkner
ISBN: 9781444361520
Format: Paperback
$42.95

A study of the existing and future research on the intersections between law and materiality, leading to the illumination...  Read More >>

The Art of Immersion: How the Digital Generation Is Remaking Hollywood, Madison Avenue, and the Way We Tell Stories

The Art of Immersion: How the Digital Generation Is...

Author: Frank Rose (Columbia University)
ISBN: 9780393341256
Format: Paperback
$31.95

"""A broad and deep look at how electronic media are changing storytelling…Completely fascinating."" —Booklist,...  Read More >>

Mobile Interfaces in Public Spaces: Locational Privacy, Control, and Urban Sociability

Mobile Interfaces in Public Spaces: Locational Privacy,...

Author: Adriana de Souza e Silva (North Carolina State University, USA) ,  Jordan Frith (North Carolina State University, USA)
ISBN: 9780415506007
Format: Paperback
$94.99

Mobile phones are no longer what they used to be. Not only can users connect to the Internet anywhere and anytime,...  Read More >>

Mobile Interfaces in Public Spaces: Locational Privacy, Control, and Urban Sociability

Mobile Interfaces in Public Spaces: Locational Privacy,...

Author: Adriana de Souza e Silva (North Carolina State University, USA) ,  Jordan Frith (North Carolina State University, USA)
ISBN: 9780415888233
Format: Hardback
$326.00

Mobile phones are no longer what they used to be. Not only can users connect to the Internet anywhere and anytime,...  Read More >>

The Republican Brain: The Science of Why They Deny Science--And Reality

The Republican Brain: The Science of Why They Deny Science--And...

Author: Chris Mooney ,  William Hughes (Professor of Gothic Studies at Bath Spa University)
ISBN: 9781470809478
Format: Audio
$79.07

Chris Mooney uses cutting-edge research to explain the psychology behind why today's Republicans reject mainstream...  Read More >>

The Republican Brain: The Science of Why They Deny Science--And Reality

The Republican Brain: The Science of Why They Deny Science--And...

Author: Chris Mooney ,  William Hughes (Professor of Gothic Studies at Bath Spa University)
ISBN: 9781470809461
Format: Audio
$237.60

Chris Mooney uses cutting-edge research to explain the psychology behind why today's Republicans reject mainstream...  Read More >>

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