Impact of science & technology on society books

8577 books were found.

Revolutionizing the Sciences: European Knowledge and its Ambitions, 1500-1700 - Second Edition

Revolutionizing the Sciences: European Knowledge and...

Author: Peter Dear
ISBN: 9780691142067
Format: Paperback
$68.51

From Copernicus, who put the earth in orbit around the sun, to Isaac Newton, who gave the world universal gravitation,...  Read More >>

Impossible Engineering: Technology and Territoriality on the Canal du Midi

Impossible Engineering: Technology and Territoriality...

Author: Chandra Mukerji
ISBN: 9780691140322
Format: Hardback
$94.99

The Canal du Midi, which threads through southwestern France and links the Atlantic to the Mediterranean, was an...  Read More >>

Technology Psychological Well-Being

Technology Psychological Well-Being

Author: Yair Amichai-Hamburger
ISBN: 9786612336768
Format: Electronic book text
$491.04

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Technology Psychological Well-Being

Technology Psychological Well-Being

Author: Yair Amichai-Hamburger (Director, The Research Center for Internet Psychology, Israel)
ISBN: 9781282336766
Format: Electronic book text
$323.14

In the modern world we are surrounded by technology. Gadgets such as cell phones, portable computers, and electronic...  Read More >>

Body Toxic,The

Body Toxic,The

Author: Baker Nena
ISBN: 9780865477469
Format: Hardback
$39.60

We are running a collective chemical fever that we cannot break. Everyone everywhere now carries a dizzying array...  Read More >>

Tools of Their Tools: Communications Technologies and American Cultural Practice

Tools of Their Tools: Communications Technologies and...

Author: Grzesiek Kosc ,  Krzysztof Majer
ISBN: 9781443809788
Format: Hardback
$116.41

The book explores the role of communication technologies in American cultural practice over the last 150 years....  Read More >>

Digital Habitats: Stewarding Technology for Communities

Digital Habitats: Stewarding Technology for Communities...

Author: Etienne Wenger ,  Nancy White
ISBN: 9780982503607
Format: Paperback
$79.07

"Technology has changed what it means for communities to ""be together."" Digital tools are now part of most communities'...  Read More >>

Diaphysics

Diaphysics

Author: Troy Earl Camplin
ISBN: 9780761846482
Format: Paperback
$54.95

Diaphysics explains a theory that there are physical laws running through the different levels of reality, and which...  Read More >>

Virtual Social Networks: Mediated, Massive and Multiplayer Sites

Virtual Social Networks: Mediated, Massive and Multiplayer...

Author: N. Panteli
ISBN: 9780230229280
Format: Hardback
$168.00

As technology changes, so too have its applications and our uses and experiences with them have changed as well....  Read More >>

Science, Policy, and the Value-Free Ideal

Science, Policy, and the Value-Free Ideal

Author: Heather E. Douglas
ISBN: 9780822960263
Format: Paperback
$73.79

Douglas challenges the traditional value-free ideal, and proposes a new ideal for values in science. She argues...  Read More >>

The Nature of Technology: What It Is and How It Evolves

The Nature of Technology: What It Is and How It Evolves...

Author: W Brian Arthur
ISBN: 9781416544050
Format: Hardback
$71.28

Leading scientific theorist Arthur puts forth the first complete theory of the origins and evolution of technology,...  Read More >>

Generation Text: Raising Well-Adjusted Kids in an Age of Instant Everything

Generation Text: Raising Well-Adjusted Kids in an Age...

Author: Dr Michael Osit
ISBN: 9781281757906
Format: Electronic book text
$116.16

A teenage boy goes shopping on the Internet, sees something he likes, immediately reaches his mother via cell phone,...  Read More >>

Pr0nnovation?: Pornography and Technological Innovation

Pr0nnovation?: Pornography and Technological Innovation...

Author: Johannes Grenzfurthner ,  Gunther Friesinger
ISBN: 9781889307206
Format: Paperback
$65.97

"From the depiction of female genitalia in a cave painting to the latest Internet porn, technology, art, and sexuality...  Read More >>

Thomas Kuhn's Revolution

Thomas Kuhn's Revolution

Author: James A. Marcum (Baylor University, USA)
ISBN: 9780826434463
Format: Paperback
$76.99

This book presents a major study of one of the 20th century's key philosophers of science.  Read More >>

Emerging Technologies: From Hindsight to Foresight

Emerging Technologies: From Hindsight to Foresight

Author: Edna F. Einsiedel
ISBN: 9780774815499
Format: Paperback
$100.19

Addresses the ethical, legal, and social dimensions of emerging technologies and assesses their social and policy...  Read More >>

Friday on Our Minds

Friday on Our Minds

Author: Michelle Arrow
ISBN: 9780868406626
Format: Paperback
$86.99

From jitterbugging to 'Big Brother', from the introduction of television to the rise of file-sharing, this book...  Read More >>

Digimodernism: How New Technologies Dismantle the Pastmodern and Reconfigure Our Culture

Digimodernism: How New Technologies Dismantle the Pastmodern...

Author: Alan Kirby
ISBN: 9780826429513
Format: Hardback
$224.40

Beginning with the Internet, then taking into account television, cinema, computer games, music, and radio, this...  Read More >>

Unscientific America: How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens Our Future

Unscientific America: How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens...

Author: Chris Mooney ,  Sheril Kirshenbaum
ISBN: 9780465013050
Format: Hardback
$63.36

Describes how the scientific community has failed to exploit its importance. This book shows why science is losing...  Read More >>

The Boundaries of the New Frontier: Rhetoric and Communication at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

The Boundaries of the New Frontier: Rhetoric and Communication...

Author: Joanna S. Ploeger ,  Thomas W. Benson
ISBN: 9781570038082
Format: Hardback
$105.47

Presents a rhetorical case study in the evolving presentation of science to the public. This title examines the...  Read More >>

Science, Society and Sustainability: Education and Empowerment for an Uncertain World

Science, Society and Sustainability: Education and Empowerment...

Author: Donald Gray (University of Aberdeen, UK) ,  Laura Colucci-Gray (University of Aberdeen, UK)
ISBN: 9780415995955
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Drawing on experiences of interdisciplinary dialogue and practice in a higher education context, this book illustrates...  Read More >>

Science and Society in Southern Africa

Science and Society in Southern Africa

Author: Saul Dubow ,  Andrew Thompson
ISBN: 9780719080487
Format: Paperback
$38.99

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Un Universo comprensibile: Interazione tra Scienza e Teologia

Un Universo comprensibile: Interazione tra Scienza e...

Author: George V. Coyne ,  Michael Heller
ISBN: 9788847013711
Format: Paperback
$79.07

"Se non si tengono nel giusto conto i risultati del costruttivo e serrato confronto tra scienza e religione sul...  Read More >>

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