Impact of science & technology on society books

8577 books were found.

Our Biometric Future: Facial Recognition Technology and the Culture of Surveillance

Our Biometric Future: Facial Recognition Technology...

Author: Kelly Gates
ISBN: 9780814732106
Format: Paperback
$64.99

Since the 1960s, a significant effort has been underway to program computers to see the human face and to develop...  Read More >>

Organizing Technologies

Organizing Technologies

Author: Ulla Eriksson-Zetterquist ,  Thomas Kalling
ISBN: 9788763002394
Format: Paperback
$145.20

Outlines an analytical model where a variety of technologies serve three broad functions within organizations: to...  Read More >>

Our Biometric Future: Facial Recognition Technology and the Culture of Surveillance

Our Biometric Future: Facial Recognition Technology...

Author: Kelly Gates
ISBN: 9780814732090
Format: Hardback
$184.00

Since the 1960s, a significant effort has been underway to program computers to see the human face to develop automated...  Read More >>

Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City

Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American...

Author: Peter D. Norton (Assistant Professor) ,  Wiebe E. Bijker (Professor of Technology and Society, Maastricht University)
ISBN: 9780262516129
Format: Paperback
$69.99

The fight for the future of the city street between pedestrians, street railways, and promoters of the automobile...  Read More >>

Acting in an Uncertain World: An Essay on Technical Democracy

Acting in an Uncertain World: An Essay on Technical...

Author: Michel Callon (CSI Ecole des mines de Paris) ,  Pierre Lascoumes (CEVIPOF)
ISBN: 9780262515962
Format: Paperback
$79.99

A call for a new form of democracy in which “hybrid forums” composed of experts and laypeople address such sociotechnical...  Read More >>

Expertise: Philosophical Reflections

Expertise: Philosophical Reflections

Author: Professor Evan Selinger
ISBN: 9788792130372
Format: Paperback
$64.69

"Problems related to expertise are amongst the most pressing issues of our time. Although philosophical reflection...  Read More >>

Science & Resources: Prospects and Implications of Technological Advance

Science & Resources: Prospects and Implications of Technological...

Author: Henry Jarrett ,  Henry Jarrett
ISBN: 9781617260667
Format: Hardback
$164.00

"""Science & Resources: Prospects and Implications of Technological Advance""."  Read More >>

Third World Citizens and the Information Technology Revolution

Third World Citizens and the Information Technology...

Author: N. Saleh
ISBN: 9780230103641
Format: Hardback
$84.99

This book challenges the widely-held view that the information technology (IT) revolution has empowered people in...  Read More >>

The Cybernetic Brain: Sketches of Another Future

The Cybernetic Brain: Sketches of Another Future

Author: Andrew Pickering
ISBN: 9780226667898
Format: Hardback
$163.95

Cybernetics is often thought of as a grim military or industrial science of control. This title follows the history...  Read More >>

Tyranny of E-mail: The Four-Thousand-Year Journey to Your Inbox

Tyranny of E-mail: The Four-Thousand-Year Journey to...

Author: John Freeman
ISBN: 9781416576747
Format: Paperback
$24.99

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Toys and Tools in Pink: Cultural Narratives of Gender, Science, and Technology

Toys and Tools in Pink: Cultural Narratives of Gender,...

Author: Carol Colatrella
ISBN: 9780814211472
Format: Hardback
$123.95

Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) programs work collaboratively to connect education and...  Read More >>

The Science of Liberty: Democracy, Reason, and the Laws of Nature

The Science of Liberty: Democracy, Reason, and the Laws...

Author: Timothy Ferris
ISBN: 9780060781514
Format: Paperback
$42.21

In this intellectual history, science writer Timothy Ferris makes a case for science as the inspiration behind the...  Read More >>

You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto

You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto

Author: Jaron Lanier
ISBN: 9780307389978
Format: Paperback
$39.60

Lanier, a Silicon Valley visionary, offers this provocative and cautionary look at the way technology is transforming...  Read More >>

An Optimist's Tour of the Future: "One Curious Man Sets Out to Answer ""What's Next?"""

An Optimist's Tour of the Future: "One Curious Man Sets...

Author: Mark Stevenson
ISBN: 9781583334140
Format: Hardback
$68.64

When unexpectedly confronted with his own mortality, writer and stand-up comedian Stevenson began to ponder what...  Read More >>

Is the Internet Changing the Way You Think?: the Net's Impact on Our Minds and Future

Is the Internet Changing the Way You Think?: the Net's...

Author: John Brockman
ISBN: 9780062020444
Format: Paperback
$23.09

Steven Pinker, Richard Dawkins, Nassim Taleb, Sam Harris, and 150 other intellectual rock stars reveal the how the...  Read More >>

Games and Gaming: An Introduction to New Media

Games and Gaming: An Introduction to New Media

Author: Larissa Hjorth
ISBN: 9781847884916
Format: Paperback
$66.99

Games and Gaming provides a comprehensive overview of this media and how it permeates global culture in the twenty-first...  Read More >>

Denialism: How Irrational Thinking Hinders Scientific Progress, Harms the Planet, and Threatens Our Lives

Denialism: How Irrational Thinking Hinders Scientific...

Author: Michael Specter
ISBN: 9780715639436
Format: Paperback
$29.99

Presents an examination of the irrationality at the heart of the scare mongering and pseudo-science that stand in...  Read More >>

Games and Gaming: An Introduction to New Media

Games and Gaming: An Introduction to New Media

Author: Larissa Hjorth
ISBN: 9781847884923
Format: Hardback
$250.67

Games and Gaming provides a comprehensive overview of this media and how it permeates global culture in the twenty-first...  Read More >>

Science, Technology and the Military

Science, Technology and the Military

Author: E. Mendelsohn ,  Merritt Roe Smith
ISBN: 9789048184552
Format: Paperback
$762.96

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Faster: The Acceleration of Just about Everything

Faster: The Acceleration of Just about Everything

Author: James Gleick
ISBN: 9780307915092
Format: Downloadable audio file
$125.40

From the bestselling author of Chaos and Genius comes a brilliantly reasoned and engaging study of the human...  Read More >>

Youth Culture and Net Culture: Online Social Practices

Youth Culture and Net Culture: Online Social Practices...

Author: Elza Dunkels ,  Gun-Marie Franberg
ISBN: 9781609602093
Format: Hardback
$384.95

Explores the complex relationship between technology and youth culture, while outlining the details of various online...  Read More >>

E-Collaboration Technologies and Organizational Performance: Current and Future Trends

E-Collaboration Technologies and Organizational Performance:...

Author: Ned Kock
ISBN: 9781609604660
Format: Hardback
$384.95

Reviews recent advances in the e-collaboration discipline with a focus on virtual teams, firm performance, social...  Read More >>

Under Wraps: A History of Menstrual Hygiene Technology

Under Wraps: A History of Menstrual Hygiene Technology...

Author: Sharra L. Vostral
ISBN: 9780739113868
Format: Paperback
$119.00

This book examines the social and technological history of sanitary napkins and tampons through the lens of passing,...  Read More >>

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