Impact of science & technology on society books

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THE UNABOMBER

THE UNABOMBER

Author: FC ,  Theodore John Kaczynski
ISBN: 9781595948151
Format: Book
$31.55

In 1971 Dr. Theodore Kaczynski rejected modern society and moved to a primitive cabin in the woods of Montana. There,...  Read More >>

The Myth of Digital Democracy

The Myth of Digital Democracy

Author: Matthew Hindman
ISBN: 9780691138688
Format: Paperback
$54.99

Is the Internet democratizing American politics? Do political Web sites and blogs mobilize inactive citizens and...  Read More >>

Eat My Dust: Early Women Motorists

Eat My Dust: Early Women Motorists

Author: Georgine Clarsen (University of Wollongong)
ISBN: 9780801884658
Format: Hardback
$124.00

More than new chapters in automobile history, these stories locate women motorists within twentieth-century debates...  Read More >>

Technological Turf Wars: A Case Study of the Antivirus Industry

Technological Turf Wars: A Case Study of the Antivirus...

Author: Jessica R. Johnston
ISBN: 9781592138814
Format: Hardback
$176.88

Analyzes the tensions and political dilemmas that coexist in the interrelationship among science, technology and...  Read More >>

Protocol Politics: The Globalization of Internet Governance

Protocol Politics: The Globalization of Internet Governance...

Author: Laura DeNardis
ISBN: 9781282694422
Format: Electronic book text
$92.40

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Breakcore: Identity and Interaction on Peer-To-Peer

Breakcore: Identity and Interaction on Peer-To-Peer...

Author: Andrew Whelan
ISBN: 9781282334250
Format: Electronic book text
$190.50

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Disrupting Science: Social Movements, American Scientists, and the Politics of the Military, 1945-1975

Disrupting Science: Social Movements, American Scientists,...

Author: Kelly Moore (Kelly Moore, Loyola University Chicago)
ISBN: 9781282158948
Format: Electronic book text
$165.00

In the decades following World War II, American scientists were celebrated for their contributions to social and...  Read More >>

Methods and Applications for Advancing Distance Education Technologies

Methods and Applications for Advancing Distance Education...

Author: Mahbubur Syed ,  Mahbubur Syed
ISBN: 9781282130609
Format: Electronic book text
$514.80

The emerging field of advanced distance education delivers academic courses across time and distance, allowing educators...  Read More >>

Intelligent Information Systems and Knowledge Management for Energy

Intelligent Information Systems and Knowledge Management...

Author: Kostas Metaxiotis (National Technical University of Athens, Greece University of Piraeus, Greece) ,  Kostas Metaxiotis (National Technical University of Athens, Greece University of Piraeus, Greece)
ISBN: 9781282308688
Format: Electronic book text
$475.20

More than ever before, energy is becoming one of the most crucial concerns in economical and industrial development....  Read More >>

Radiance of France, The: Nuclear Power and National Identity After World War II

Radiance of France, The: Nuclear Power and National...

Author: Gabrielle Hecht ,  Michel Callon (Ecole des Mines de Paris)
ISBN: 9781282694545
Format: Electronic book text
$71.28

How it happened that technological prowess and national glory (or radiance, which also means radiation in French)...  Read More >>

Readings in the Philosophy of Technology

Readings in the Philosophy of Technology

Author: David M Kaplan ,  David M Kaplan
ISBN: 9781282496767
Format: Electronic book text
$145.17

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Our Own Devices: How Technology Remakes Humanity

Our Own Devices: How Technology Remakes Humanity

Author: Edward Tenner
ISBN: 9781299213586
Format: Electronic book text
$142.56

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Digital Formations: It and New Architectures in the Global Realm

Digital Formations: It and New Architectures in the...

Author: Professor Robert Latham (New School for Social Research, New York) ,  Professor Robert Latham (New School for Social Research, New York)
ISBN: 9781282935853
Format: Electronic book text
$133.06

Computer-centered networks and technologies are reshaping social relations and constituting new social domains on...  Read More >>

The Numerati: How They'll Get My Number and Yours

The Numerati: How They'll Get My Number and Yours

Author: Stephen Baker
ISBN: 9780224080576
Format: Paperback
$35.00

Much in the same way as neuroscientists are mapping our brains, mathematicians are mapping our individual behaviour...  Read More >>

Living in a Material World: Economic Sociology Meets Science and Technology Studies

Living in a Material World: Economic Sociology Meets...

Author: Trevor Pinch (Professor of Science and Technology Studies and Professor of Sociology, Cornell University) ,  Richard Swedberg (Cornell University)
ISBN: 9780262662079
Format: Paperback
$84.48

Understanding the intersection of economic sociology and science and technology studies through the idea of materiality....  Read More >>

Living in a Material World: Economic Sociology Meets Science and Technology Studies

Living in a Material World: Economic Sociology Meets...

Author: Trevor Pinch (Professor of Science and Technology Studies and Professor of Sociology, Cornell University) ,  Richard Swedberg (Cornell University)
ISBN: 9780262162524
Format: Hardback
$198.00

Understanding the intersection of economic sociology and science and technology studies through the idea of materiality....  Read More >>

Battleground: Science and Technology [2 volumes]

Battleground: Science and Technology [2 volumes]

Author: Peter H. Denton ,  Sal Restivo
ISBN: 9780313341649
Format: Hardback
$462.00

Examines the most hot-button issues involving science and technology. This book covers topics in the brain sciences,...  Read More >>

The Problems of Philosophy

The Problems of Philosophy

Author: Bertrand Russell
ISBN: 9781604595130
Format: Paperback
$25.21

The Problems of Philosophy is a 1912 book by Bertrand Russell, in which Russell attempts to create a brief and accessible...  Read More >>

Science and Technology in Modern European Life

Science and Technology in Modern European Life

Author: Guillaume P. de Syon
ISBN: 9780313337680
Format: Hardback
$90.00

The last two centuries have seen unprecedented change in the everyday lives of Europeans. From the Napoleonic Wars...  Read More >>

Nanovision: Engineering the Future

Nanovision: Engineering the Future

Author: Colin Milburn
ISBN: 9780822342656
Format: Paperback
$63.23

Trekking across the technoscapes and the dreamscapes of nanotechnology, the author elaborates a theory of nanovision,...  Read More >>

Nanovision: Engineering the Future

Nanovision: Engineering the Future

Author: Colin Milburn
ISBN: 9780822342434
Format: Hardback
$237.47

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Desirable Future?: Consumer Electronics in Tomorrow's World

Desirable Future?: Consumer Electronics in Tomorrow's...

Author: Jack Challoner
ISBN: 9780470986608
Format: Paperback
$76.53

* Desirable Future? explains clearly the basis of existing and developing technology, rather than simply presenting...  Read More >>

Technology and Society: Building our Sociotechnical Future

Technology and Society: Building our Sociotechnical...

Author: Deborah G. Johnson (Anne Shirley Carter Olsson Professor of Applied Ethics Emerita, University of Virginia) ,  Jameson M. Wetmore (Associate Professor, Arizona State University)
ISBN: 9780262600736
Format: Paperback
$130.00

An anthology of writings by thinkers ranging from Freeman Dyson to Bruno Latour that focuses on the interconnections...  Read More >>

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