Impact of science & technology on society books

8574 books were found.

Always on: How the iPhone Unlocked the Anything-Anytime-Anywhere Future - and Locked Us in

Always on: How the iPhone Unlocked the Anything-Anytime-Anywhere...

Author: Brian Chen
ISBN: 9780306819605
Format: Hardback
$66.00

"An intriguing, definitive analysis of technology's current ""all-in-one"" revolution, and a serious reflection...  Read More >>

The Smart Swarm: How to Work Efficiently, Communicate Effectively, and Make Better Decisions Usin g the Secrets of Flocks, Schools, and Colonies

The Smart Swarm: How to Work Efficiently, Communicate...

Author: Peter Miller
ISBN: 9781583334287
Format: Paperback
$42.24

What ants, bees, fish, and smart swarms can teach about communication, organization, and decision-making. The...  Read More >>

Yellow Dirt: A Poisoned Land and the Betrayal of the Navajos

Yellow Dirt: A Poisoned Land and the Betrayal of the...

Author: Judy Pasternak
ISBN: 9781416594833
Format: Paperback
$39.60

This investigative feat tells the shocking, heartbreaking story of uranium mining on the Navajo reservation and...  Read More >>

Alien Invasion: The Ultimate Survival Guide for the Ultimate Attack

Alien Invasion: The Ultimate Survival Guide for the...

Author: Diamond Comic Distributors, Inc. ,  Bob Boan
ISBN: 9781439134429
Format: Paperback
$42.24

What if there really are aliens and they do attack? Alien invasion. Unlikely? As unlikely as Pearl Harbor? The extinction...  Read More >>

Emerging Technology Issues for People with Disabilities

Emerging Technology Issues for People with Disabilities...

Author: Daniel B Bernardino
ISBN: 9781611225235
Format: Hardback
$234.96

There are 54.4 million Americans who have disabilities, and 35 million Americans who have a severe disability. This...  Read More >>

Notes for a Romantic Encyclopaedia: Das Allgemeine Brouillon

Notes for a Romantic Encyclopaedia: Das Allgemeine Brouillon...

Author: Novalis ,  David W. Wood
ISBN: 9780791469743
Format: Paperback
$71.15

A translation of Novalis' unfinished notes for a universal science.  Read More >>

Sex, Bombs and Burgers: How war, porn and fast food created technology as we know it

Sex, Bombs and Burgers: How war, porn and fast food...

Author: Peter Nowak
ISBN: 9781742377339
Format: Paperback
$29.99

From the unexpected origins of mobile phones, microwave ovens and plastic packaging to the links between Barbie...  Read More >>

Innovation and Nanotechnology: Converging Technologies and the End of Intellectual Property

Innovation and Nanotechnology: Converging Technologies...

Author: Prof. David Koepsell (Delft University of Technology)
ISBN: 9781849663434
Format: Hardback
$180.00

This title presents explores how emerging nanotechnologies demand a new approach to scientific discovery. It develops...  Read More >>

Switching Codes: Thinking Through Digital Technology in the Humanities and the Arts

Switching Codes: Thinking Through Digital Technology...

Author: Thomas Bartscherer ,  Roderick Coover
ISBN: 9780226038315
Format: Paperback
$65.95

The profound impact of information technology on intellectual and cultural life is universally acknowledged. This...  Read More >>

Switching Codes: Thinking Through Digital Technology in the Humanities and the Arts

Switching Codes: Thinking Through Digital Technology...

Author: Thomas Bartscherer ,  Roderick Coover
ISBN: 9780226038308
Format: Hardback
$187.95

The profound impact of information technology on intellectual and cultural life is universally acknowledged. This...  Read More >>

Uprising: The Internet's Unintended Consequences

Uprising: The Internet's Unintended Consequences

Author: Marcus Breen
ISBN: 9781863358668
Format: Paperback
$92.40

Utilizing a transdisciplinary approach, Uprising examines the way transgressive knowledge circulates in places...  Read More >>

Virtual Communities: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools and Applications

Virtual Communities: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools...

Author: Information Resources Management Association (USA)
ISBN: 9781282966024
Format: Electronic book text
$10296.00

Virtual communities have the potential to revolutionize all aspects of modern life, as individuals and groups conduct...  Read More >>

In-Game: From Immersion to Incorporation

In-Game: From Immersion to Incorporation

Author: Gordon Calleja
ISBN: 9780262015462
Format: Hardback
$85.00

An investigation of what makes digital games engaging to players and a reexamination of the concept of immersion....  Read More >>

Advanced Communication Protocol Technologies: Solutions, Methods, and Applications

Advanced Communication Protocol Technologies: Solutions,...

Author: Katalin Tarnay ,  Tibor Dulai
ISBN: 9781283153133
Format: Electronic book text
$617.76

<p>Advanced Communication Protocol Technologies: Solutions, Methods, and Applications explores the complications...  Read More >>

Geekonomics: The Real Cost of Insecure Software (paperback)

Geekonomics: The Real Cost of Insecure Software (paperback)...

Author: David Rice
ISBN: 9780321735973
Format: Paperback
$92.37

The Real Cost of Insecure Software   •   In 1996, software defects in a Boeing 757 caused a crash that killed...  Read More >>

Getting To: -): The Potential of Online Text-Based Communication to Support Interest-Based Dispute Resolution

Getting To: -): The Potential of Online Text-Based Communication...

Author: Jelle Van Veenen
ISBN: 9789046604373
Format: Paperback
$110.88

The potential of online communication to reduce the costs of dispute resolution has long been recognized. Apart...  Read More >>

Sex, Bombs and Burgers: How war, porn and fast food created technology as we know it

Sex, Bombs and Burgers: How war, porn and fast food...

Author: Peter Nowak
ISBN: 9781742376349
Format: Paperback
$23.26

A fascinating examination of how much of modern life can be directly traced to one of three dubious aspects of human...  Read More >>

Media Mediocrity - Waging War Against Science: How the Television Makes Us Stoopid!

Media Mediocrity - Waging War Against Science: How the...

Author: Richard Zurawski
ISBN: 9781552664001
Format: Paperback
$40.95

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Cognitive Surplus: How Technology Makes Consumers into Collaborators

Cognitive Surplus: How Technology Makes Consumers into...

Author: Clay Shirky
ISBN: 9780143119586
Format: Paperback
$42.24

"The author of the breakout hit, ""Here Comes Everybody"" reveals how new technology is changing people for the...  Read More >>

The Language of Genetics: An Introduction

The Language of Genetics: An Introduction

Author: Denis R. Alexander
ISBN: 9781599473437
Format: Paperback
$65.87

The Language of Genetics: An Introduction is the seventh title published in the Templeton Science and Religion Series,...  Read More >>

ICT Ethics and Security in the 21st Century: New Developments and Applications

ICT Ethics and Security in the 21st Century: New Developments...

Author: Marian Quigley
ISBN: 9781609605735
Format: Hardback
$384.95

"""This book examines a range of major issues concerning ICT ethics and security in the 21st century and provides...  Read More >>

Programmed Visions: Software and Memory

Programmed Visions: Software and Memory

Author: Wendy Hui Kyong Chun (Professor, Brown University) ,  Matthew Fuller (David Gee Reader in Digital Media, Goldsmiths College, University of London)
ISBN: 9780262015424
Format: Hardback
$84.48

A theoretical examination of the surprising emergence of software as a guiding metaphor for our neoliberal world....  Read More >>

The Sorcerers and Their Apprentices: How the Digital Magicians of the MIT Media Lab Are Creating the Innovative Technologies That Will Transform Our Lives

The Sorcerers and Their Apprentices: How the Digital...

Author: Frank Moss
ISBN: 9780307589101
Format: Hardback
$72.60

In this exhilarating tour of MIT's Media Lab, readers meet the professors and students--the Sorcerers and their...  Read More >>

The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains

The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains...

Author: Nicholas Carr
ISBN: 9780393339758
Format: Paperback
$42.11

Finalist for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction: “Nicholas Carr has written a Silent Spring for the literary...  Read More >>

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