Impact of science & technology on society books

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Alien Technology: Coping with Modern Mysteries

Alien Technology: Coping with Modern Mysteries

Author: Ananda Mitra
ISBN: 9788132104667
Format: Paperback
$79.07

Explores the consequences of technological alienation on individuals and communities in the modern time. This book...  Read More >>

Zapped: Why Your Cell Phone Shouldn't Be Your Alarm Clock and 1,268 Ways to Outsmart the Hazards of Electronic Pollution

Zapped: Why Your Cell Phone Shouldn't Be Your Alarm...

Author: Ann Louise Gittleman
ISBN: 9780061864278
Format: Hardback
$68.61

All of us are constantly exposed to electromagnetic fields - the invisible force that surrounds all electrical devices....  Read More >>

Innovation and Technology in Korea: Challenges of a Newly Advanced Economy

Innovation and Technology in Korea: Challenges of a...

Author: Jörg Mahlich ,  Werner Pascha
ISBN: 9783790825312
Format: Paperback
$287.76

Only inadequately perceived by the Western public, Korea has transformed into an economic heavy weight during recent...  Read More >>

Future Minds: How the Digital Age is Changing Our Minds, Why This Matters and What We Can Do About it

Future Minds: How the Digital Age is Changing Our Minds,...

Author: Richard Watson
ISBN: 9781857884586
Format: Electronic book text
$52.67

This is for anyone who's curious about rethinking their thinking or unleashing the extraordinary potential of the...  Read More >>

Information and the Nature of Reality: From Physics to Metaphysics

Information and the Nature of Reality: From Physics...

Author: Paul Davies (Arizona State University) ,  Niels Henrik Gregersen (University of Copenhagen)
ISBN: 9780511778759
Format: Undefined
$435.60

Many scientists regard mass and energy as the primary currency of nature. In recent years, however, the concept...  Read More >>

The Public Nature of Science under Assault: Politics, Markets, Science and the Law

The Public Nature of Science under Assault: Politics,...

Author: Helga Nowotny ,  Dominique Pestre
ISBN: 9783642065170
Format: Paperback
$237.47

Science has development from a self-evident public good to being highly valued in other contexts for different reasons:...  Read More >>

Networked Neighbourhoods: The Connected Community in Context

Networked Neighbourhoods: The Connected Community in...

Author: Patrick Purcell
ISBN: 9781849965675
Format: Paperback
$314.16

The intricate relationship between information technologies, community, and social memory is critical to a fuller...  Read More >>

The International Journal of Technology, Knowledge and Society: Volume 6, Number 6

The International Journal of Technology, Knowledge and...

Author: Bill Cope ,  Mary Kalantzis
ISBN: 9781863358453
Format: Hardback
$528.00

** Contents available at http: //ijt.cgpublisher.com/product/pub.42/prod.720 **The International Journal of Technology,...  Read More >>

Future Minds: How the Digital Age Is Changing Our Minds, Why This Matters, and What We Can Do About It

Future Minds: How the Digital Age Is Changing Our Minds,...

Author: Richard Watson
ISBN: 9781857885491
Format: Paperback
$34.99

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Texture: Human Expression in the Age of Communications Overload

Texture: Human Expression in the Age of Communications...

Author: Richard H. R. Harper (Microsoft Research, Ltd.)
ISBN: 9780262083744
Format: Hardback
$79.07

Why we complain about communication overload even as we seek new ways to communicate.  Read More >>

Wirelessness: Radical Empiricism in Network Cultures

Wirelessness: Radical Empiricism in Network Cultures...

Author: Adrian Mackenzie (Professor, Lancaster University)
ISBN: 9780262014649
Format: Hardback
$84.48

An account of the sensations associated with being entangled with wireless technologies that draws on the philosophical...  Read More >>

Time and Space: Second Edition

Time and Space: Second Edition

Author: Barry Francis Dainton
ISBN: 9780773537477
Format: Paperback
$73.79

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Time and Space: Second Edition

Time and Space: Second Edition

Author: Barry Francis Dainton
ISBN: 9780773537460
Format: Hardback
$250.80

Surveying both historical debates and modern physics, Barry Dainton evaluates the central arguments in a clear and...  Read More >>

How to Teach Quantum Physics to Your Dog

How to Teach Quantum Physics to Your Dog

Author: Chad Orzel
ISBN: 9781851687794
Format: Paperback
$28.44

A witty and informative guide to the fundamental laws which govern the universe that's so simple that even a dog...  Read More >>

Icts and Sustainable Solutions for the Digital Divide: Theory and Perspectives

Icts and Sustainable Solutions for the Digital Divide:...

Author: Jacques Steyn ,  Graeme Johanson
ISBN: 9781615207992
Format: Hardback
$384.95

Focuses on Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICT4D), which includes any technology used...  Read More >>

Innovation and Economic Development: The Impact of Information and Communication Technologies in Latin America

Innovation and Economic Development: The Impact of Information...

Author: Mario Cimoli ,  André A. Hofman
ISBN: 9781849802413
Format: Hardback
$271.69

Here, analysts from the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) along with...  Read More >>

New Tech, New Ties: How Mobile Communication Is Reshaping Social Cohesion

New Tech, New Ties: How Mobile Communication Is Reshaping...

Author: Richard Ling
ISBN: 9780262515047
Format: Paperback
$59.99

How cell phones and mobile communication may in many cases strengthen social cohesion.  Read More >>

The Advancement of Learning (Large Print Edition)

The Advancement of Learning (Large Print Edition)

Author: Francis Bacon
ISBN: 9781604508253
Format: Paperback
$31.65

Special Large Print edition with easy-to-read text of Francis Bacon's classic text.  Read More >>

The Best Technology Writing, 2010 2010

The Best Technology Writing, 2010 2010

Author: Julian Dibbell
ISBN: 9780300165586
Format: Paperback
$47.39

Addresses the collective fascination with digital technologies. This title collects the essays that remind us that...  Read More >>

The Energy Glut: The Politics of Fatness in an Overheating World

The Energy Glut: The Politics of Fatness in an Overheating...

Author: Ian Roberts ,  Phil Edwards
ISBN: 9781848135185
Format: Paperback
$39.95

The Energy Glut tells the story of energy and how our abuse of fossil fuel energy links all of these public issues...  Read More >>

The Energy Glut: The Politics of Fatness in an Overheating World

The Energy Glut: The Politics of Fatness in an Overheating...

Author: Ian Roberts ,  Phil Edwards
ISBN: 9781848135178
Format: Hardback
$170.00

The Energy Glut tells the story of energy and how our abuse of fossil fuel energy links all of these public issues...  Read More >>

I Live in the Future and Here's How it Works: Why Your World, Work, and Brain are Being Creatively Disrupted

I Live in the Future and Here's How it Works: Why Your...

Author: Nick Bilton
ISBN: 9780307591111
Format: Hardback
$66.00

Exploring how the Internet is creating a new type of consumer, Bilton's book captures the zeitgeist of an emerging...  Read More >>

What Technology Wants

What Technology Wants

Author: Dr Kevin Kelly
ISBN: 9780670022151
Format: Hardback
$73.79

Kelly's provocative work introduces a brand-new view of technology and suggests that technology as a whole is not...  Read More >>

Bad Science: Quacks, Hacks, and Big Pharma Flacks

Bad Science: Quacks, Hacks, and Big Pharma Flacks

Author: Ben Goldacre
ISBN: 9780865479180
Format: Paperback
$39.60

Taking aim at quack doctors and nutritionists, bogus credentialing programs, and biased scientific studies, Goldacre...  Read More >>

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