Impact of science & technology on society books

8577 books were found.

When the Lights Went Out: A History of Blackouts in America

When the Lights Went Out: A History of Blackouts in...

Author: David E. Nye (Professor, University of Southern Denmark)
ISBN: 9780262013741
Format: Hardback
$73.79

Blackouts—whether they result from military planning, network failure, human error, or terrorism—offer snapshots...  Read More >>

Entangled: Technology and the Transformation of Performance

Entangled: Technology and the Transformation of Performance...

Author: Chris Salter (Artist, Director of the Hexagram-Concordia Centre for Research-Creation in Media Art and Technology;, Concordia University) ,  Peter Sellars
ISBN: 9780262195881
Format: Hardback
$105.60

How technologies, from the mechanical to the computational, have transformed artistic performance practices.  Read More >>

Would Trotsky Wear a Bluetooth?: Technological Utopianism under Socialism, 1917–1989

Would Trotsky Wear a Bluetooth?: Technological Utopianism...

Author: Paul R. Josephson (Colby College)
ISBN: 9780801894107
Format: Hardback
$152.00

Josephson's intriguing study of how technology both helped and hindered this effort asks new and important questions...  Read More >>

Information Worlds: Behavior, Technology, and Social Context in the Age of the Internet

Information Worlds: Behavior, Technology, and Social...

Author: Paul T. Jaeger ,  Gary Burnett
ISBN: 9780415997782
Format: Hardback
$152.00

 Read More >>

The Laws of Thermodynamics: A Very Short Introduction

The Laws of Thermodynamics: A Very Short Introduction...

Author: Peter Atkins (Fellow of Lincoln College, University of Oxford)
ISBN: 9780199572199
Format: Paperback
$21.95

Among the many laws of science, there are four laws that direct and constrain everything that happens in the Universe....  Read More >>

Always On: Language in an Online and Mobile World

Always On: Language in an Online and Mobile World

Author: Naomi Baron (Professor of Linguistics Emerita, Professor of Linguistics Emerita, American University, Washington,DC)
ISBN: 9780199735440
Format: Paperback
$46.95

Online and mobile technologies are profoundly influencing how we read and write, speak and listen, but not in the...  Read More >>

Beyond Good and Evil

Beyond Good and Evil

Author: Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
ISBN: 9781451591057
Format: Paperback
$20.99

If ever there was a thinker who swam against the social and ethical tide of his day, it was Nietzsche. Nineteenth-century...  Read More >>

Online Chinese Nationalism and China's Bilateral Relations

Online Chinese Nationalism and China's Bilateral Relations...

Author: Simon Shen ,  Shaun Breslin
ISBN: 9780739132470
Format: Hardback
$154.95

Online Chinese Nationalism and China's Bilateral Relations covers a new topic of interest to scholars and students...  Read More >>

The Urban Spectator

The Urban Spectator

Author: Eric Gordon
ISBN: 9781584658030
Format: Paperback
$92.40

How conceptions of the American city changed in response to new media technologies  Read More >>

End of Millennium

End of Millennium

Author: Manuel Castells (University of Southern California, USA)
ISBN: 9781405196888
Format: Paperback
$63.95

 Read More >>

Pautas Para Aproximarse Al Conocimiento Cientifico

Pautas Para Aproximarse Al Conocimiento Cientifico

Author: Hector Manuel Lopez Perez
ISBN: 9781597544924
Format: Paperback
$89.50

Las pautas que se establecen en este libro tienen que ver con la forma de prepararse para buscar la verdad. Los...  Read More >>

Toxic Bodies: Hormone Disruptors and the Legacy of DES

Toxic Bodies: Hormone Disruptors and the Legacy of DES...

Author: Nancy Langston
ISBN: 9780300136074
Format: Hardback
$79.20

Shows how diethylstilbestrol (DES), its residues, and those of other chemicals have since World War II penetrated...  Read More >>

Open Science: Sharing Knowledge in the Global Century

Open Science: Sharing Knowledge in the Global Century...

Author: Julian Cribb ,  Tjempaka Sari Hartomo
ISBN: 9780643097636
Format: Paperback
$44.95

Open Science  Read More >>

Data on Federal Research and Development Investments: A Pathway to Modernization

Data on Federal Research and Development Investments:...

Author: National Research Council ,  Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education
ISBN: 9780309145237
Format: Paperback
$81.84

Two surveys of the National Science Foundation's Division of Science Resources Statistics (SRS) provide some of...  Read More >>

Reinventing the Sacred: A New View of Science, Reason, and Religion

Reinventing the Sacred: A New View of Science, Reason,...

Author: Stuart Kauffman
ISBN: 9780465018888
Format: Paperback
$31.99

A compelling and sweeping argument that complexity theory can build a bridge between science and religion  Read More >>

Technology and the Changing Face of Humanity

Technology and the Changing Face of Humanity

Author: Richard Feist ,  Chantal Beauvais
ISBN: 9780776607160
Format: Paperback
$54.99

A philosophical examination of technology's influence. It explores the relationship between technology and free...  Read More >>

Science: A Four Thousand Year History

Science: A Four Thousand Year History

Author: Patricia Fara (, Senior Tutor, Clare College, Cambridge)
ISBN: 9780199580279
Format: Paperback
$38.95

A groundbreaking new history of science, from ancient Babylon right up to the latest hi-tech experiments in genetics...  Read More >>

Aladdin's Lamp: How Greek Science Came to Europe Through the Islamic World

Aladdin's Lamp: How Greek Science Came to Europe Through...

Author: John Freely
ISBN: 9780307277831
Format: Paperback
$42.24

Aladdin’s Lamp is the fascinating story of how ancient Greek philosophy and science began in the sixth century B.C....  Read More >>

Technology and Nationalism

Technology and Nationalism

Author: Marco Adria ,  Marco Adria
ISBN: 9780773536708
Format: Paperback
$79.07

 Read More >>

Guerra Di Hitler . Vol. 2: 1941-1945

Guerra Di Hitler . Vol. 2: 1941-1945

Author: David Irving
ISBN: 9788895720517
Format: Paperback
$87.12

Il lettore si troverà di fronte a discorsi in cui Hitler si scaglia, con assoluto convincimento non solo contro...  Read More >>

Life's Experiences Science & the Name of God

Life's Experiences Science & the Name of God

Author: Lawrence Eyo Ita
ISBN: 9781441593863
Format: Paperback
$55.41

 Read More >>

Technology and Nationalism

Technology and Nationalism

Author: Marco Adria ,  Marco Adria
ISBN: 9780773536692
Format: Hardback
$237.60

 Read More >>

Electronic Performance Support: Using Digital Technology to Enhance Human Ability

Electronic Performance Support: Using Digital Technology...

Author: Paul van Schaik ,  Philip Barker
ISBN: 9780566088841
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Philip Barker and Paul van Schaik bring together chapters to explain the psychology and technology behind performance...  Read More >>

Life's Experiences Science & the Name of God

Life's Experiences Science & the Name of God

Author: Lawrence Eyo Ita
ISBN: 9781441593870
Format: Hardback
$81.81

 Read More >>

Latest Reading Guide

Aorrng

Shopping Cart
Your cart is empty
Shopping cart
Mailing List