Impact of science & technology on society books

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Standards: Recipes for Reality

Standards: Recipes for Reality

Author: Lawrence Busch
ISBN: 9781283302821
Format: Electronic book text
$92.40

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Semantic Web Personalization and Context Awareness

Semantic Web Personalization and Context Awareness

Author: Miltiadis Lytras (CTI, Greece University of Patras, Greece University of Patras, Greece University of Patras, Greece University of Patras, Greece CTI, Greece) ,  Ernesto Damiani (University of Milan, Italy)
ISBN: 9781283059770
Format: Electronic book text
$475.20

The Semantic Web has evolved as a blueprint for a knowledge-based framework aimed at crossing the chasm from the...  Read More >>

In-Game: From Immersion to Incorporation

In-Game: From Immersion to Incorporation

Author: Gordon Calleja
ISBN: 9781283302708
Format: Electronic book text
$79.20

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Knowledge Development and Social Change Through Technology

Knowledge Development and Social Change Through Technology...

Author: Elayne Coakes, PH.D. (University of Westminster, UK)
ISBN: 9781283059725
Format: Electronic book text
$475.20

Sociotechnical theory, which focuses on the interplay between social and technical behaviors in a society or organization,...  Read More >>

Global Soul

Global Soul

Author: Pico Iyer
ISBN: 9781299031425
Format: Electronic book text
$126.72

Pico Iyer has for many years described with keen perception and exacting wit the shifting textures of faraway lands...  Read More >>

Context

Context

Author: Cory Doctorow
ISBN: 9781306061018
Format: Electronic book text
$31.52

One of the internet s most celebrated hi-tech culture mavens returns with this second collection of essays and polemics....  Read More >>

America Identified: Biometric Technology and Society

America Identified: Biometric Technology and Society...

Author: Lisa S. Nelson (Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh)
ISBN: 9780262014779
Format: Hardback
$84.48

An examination of the public's perceptions of biometric identification technology in the context of privacy, security,...  Read More >>

Virtual Words: Language from the Edge of Science and Technology

Virtual Words: Language from the Edge of Science and...

Author: Jonathon Keats (author of the Jargon Watch column for Wired magazi, author of the Jargon Watch column for Wired magazi)
ISBN: 9780195398540
Format: Hardback
$31.95

Technology provides an unusually active laboratory for the study of linguistic innovation. Virtual Words consists...  Read More >>

Nanotechnology: Societal Implications: I: Maximising Benefits for Humanity; II: Individual Perspectives

Nanotechnology: Societal Implications: I: Maximising...

Author: William S. Bainbridge ,  William S. Bainbridge
ISBN: 9789048171651
Format: Paperback
$525.36

The report outlines potential areas for research into societal implications of nanotechnology, as well as some preliminary...  Read More >>

National Systems of Innovation in Comparison: Structure and Performance Indicators for Knowledge Societies

National Systems of Innovation in Comparison: Structure...

Author: Ulrich Schmoch ,  Christian Rammer
ISBN: 9789048172269
Format: Paperback
$448.77

The concept of National Systems of Innovation was introduced as a method to describe the various elements which...  Read More >>

Asian Biotech: Ethics and Communities of Fate

Asian Biotech: Ethics and Communities of Fate

Author: Aihwa Ong ,  Nancy N. Chen
ISBN: 9780822348092
Format: Paperback
$63.23

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The Political Gene: How Darwin's Ideas Changed Politics

The Political Gene: How Darwin's Ideas Changed Politics...

Author: Dennis Sewell
ISBN: 9780330427456
Format: Paperback
$36.83

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Asian Biotech: Ethics and Communities of Fate

Asian Biotech: Ethics and Communities of Fate

Author: Aihwa Ong ,  Nancy N. Chen
ISBN: 9780822347934
Format: Hardback
$224.27

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The Impact of Electricity: Development, Desires and Dilemmas

The Impact of Electricity: Development, Desires and...

Author: Tanja Winther
ISBN: 9781845452926
Format: Paperback
$36.25

How does everyday life change when electricity becomes available to a group of people for the first time? Why do...  Read More >>

Technics and Civilization

Technics and Civilization

Author: Lewis Mumford ,  Langdon Winner
ISBN: 9780226550275
Format: Paperback
$51.95

Drawing upon art, science, philosophy, and the history of culture, this title explains the origin of the machine...  Read More >>

International Exploration of Technology Equity and the Digital Divide: Critical, Historical and Social Perspectives

International Exploration of Technology Equity and the...

Author: Patricia Randolph Leigh
ISBN: 9781615207930
Format: Hardback
$475.20

"""This book explores and presents research that centers on the historical, political, sociological, and economic...  Read More >>

ICT Acceptance, Investment and Organization: Cultural Practices and Values in the Arab World

ICT Acceptance, Investment and Organization: Cultural...

Author: Salam Abdallah ,  Fayez Albadri
ISBN: 9781609600488
Format: Hardback
$384.95

ICT Acceptance, Investment and Organization: Cultural Practices and Values in the Arab World is a unique source...  Read More >>

Past, Present and Future of Research in the Information Society

Past, Present and Future of Research in the Information...

Author: Wesley Shrum ,  Keith Benson
ISBN: 9781441940971
Format: Paperback
$419.76

This book examines the role of research and the production of knowledge in the information society, with special...  Read More >>

Living with Complexity

Living with Complexity

Author: Donald A. Norman
ISBN: 9780262014861
Format: Hardback
$65.87

Why we don't really want simplicity, and how we can learn to live with complexity.  Read More >>

Materializing Europe: Transnational Infrastructures and the Project of Europe

Materializing Europe: Transnational Infrastructures...

Author: A. Badenoch ,  A. Fickers
ISBN: 9780230232891
Format: Hardback
$182.00

This book explores the relationships between European integration and material infrastructures. Taking transnational...  Read More >>

Your Life, Uploaded: The Digital Way to Better Memory, Health, and Productivity

Your Life, Uploaded: The Digital Way to Better Memory,...

Author: Gordon Bell ,  Jim Gemmell
ISBN: 9780452296565
Format: Paperback
$49.99

"""A marvelous job of exploring first hand the implications of storing our entire lives digitally."" -Guy L. Tribble,...  Read More >>

Going Somewhere: Truth About a Life in Science

Going Somewhere: Truth About a Life in Science

Author: Andrew A. Marino
ISBN: 9780981854915
Format: Paperback
$73.92

Going Somewhere is a dynamic autobiographical narrative about Andrew Marino's career in science. With a depth and...  Read More >>

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