Impact of science & technology on society books

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Cyberpunks Cyberfreedom: Change Reality Screens

Cyberpunks Cyberfreedom: Change Reality Screens

Author: Timothy Leary
ISBN: 9781579510848
Format: Paperback
$22.99

"This timely book, Timothy Leary's ""cyberpunk manifesto,"" is his future-vision of the emergence of a new humanism...  Read More >>

Twitter Means Business: How Microblogging Can Help or Hurt Your Company

Twitter Means Business: How Microblogging Can Help or...

Author: Julio Ojeda-Zapata
ISBN: 9781600051180
Format: Paperback
$52.67

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The Engineering Handbook of Smart Technology for Aging, Disability, and Independence

The Engineering Handbook of Smart Technology for Aging,...

Author: Abdelsalam Helal (Computer and Information Science and Engineering Department, University of Florida) ,  Mounir Mokhtari (National Institute of Telecommunications (France))
ISBN: 9780471711551
Format: Hardback
$683.95

Provides a thorough analysis of the technologies promoting independence for older persons as they face age related...  Read More >>

Government Response to the Culture, Media and Sport Committee Report on Harmful Content on the Internet and in Video Games

Government Response to the Culture, Media and Sport...

Author: Great Britain: Department for Culture, Media and Sport
ISBN: 9780101747721
Format: Paperback
$14.23

A response to the Committee's 10th report, HC 353-I, session 2007-08.  Read More >>

Love and Sex with Robots: The Evolution of Human-Robot Relationships

Love and Sex with Robots: The Evolution of Human-Robot...

Author: David Levy
ISBN: 9780061359804
Format: Paperback
$39.47

From Pygmalion falling for his Galatea, to Dr Frankenstein marvelling at his monster, to the man-meets-machine fiction...  Read More >>

The Inner History of Devices

The Inner History of Devices

Author: Sherry Turkle ,  Sherry Turkle
ISBN: 9780262201766
Format: Hardback
$68.51

Memoir, clinical writings, and ethnography inform new perspectives on the experience of technology; personal stories...  Read More >>

Networked Publics

Networked Publics

Author: Kazys Varnelis ,  Walter Baer
ISBN: 9780262220859
Format: Hardback
$97.68

How maturing digital media and network technologies are transforming place, culture, politics, and infrastructure...  Read More >>

Cultivating Science, Harvesting Power: Science and Industrial Agriculture in California

Cultivating Science, Harvesting Power: Science and Industrial...

Author: Christopher R. Henke (Assistant Professor of Sociology, Colgate University)
ISBN: 9780262083737
Format: Hardback
$84.48

How agricultural scientists and growers in California have cooperated--and struggled--in shaping the state's multi-billion-dollar...  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: 9780262101240
Format: Hardback
$211.20

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

Did I Ever Tell You About the Whale?: Or Measuring Technology Maturity

Did I Ever Tell You About the Whale?: Or Measuring Technology...

Author: William L. Nolte ,  James W. Bilbro
ISBN: 9781593119645
Format: Hardback
$227.01

Examines the state of technology maturity measurement, pointing out strengths and weaknesses of available measures,...  Read More >>

The Internet Imaginaire

The Internet Imaginaire

Author: Patrice Flichy (Professor of Sociology, Université de Marne la Vallée )
ISBN: 9780262562386
Format: Paperback
$49.99

The collective vision that shaped the emergence of the Internet: what led software designers, managers, employees,...  Read More >>

The Information Society: Cyber Dreams and Digital Nightmares

The Information Society: Cyber Dreams and Digital Nightmares...

Author: Robert Hassan (University of Melbourne)
ISBN: 9780745641799
Format: Hardback
$113.95

What are we to make of the information society? Many prominent theorists have argued it to be the most profound...  Read More >>

Manual de la Antigua Cronologia Mexicana

Manual de la Antigua Cronologia Mexicana

Author: Hanns J Prem ,  Hanss J Prem
ISBN: 9789708191159
Format: Mixed media product
$97.65

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Press 1 for Pig Latin

Press 1 for Pig Latin

Author: Robert S Swiatek
ISBN: 9780981784328
Format: Paperback
$39.47

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Emmanuel Levinas on the Priority of Ethics: Putting Ethics First

Emmanuel Levinas on the Priority of Ethics: Putting...

Author: Joshua James Shaw
ISBN: 9781604975215
Format: Hardback
$277.07

"Emmanuel Levinas has come to be regarded as one of the most significant figures in twentieth-century European philosophy....  Read More >>

Beyond Good and Evil

Beyond Good and Evil

Author: Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
ISBN: 9781604505122
Format: Paperback
$23.73

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

Technology and Society

Technology and Society

Author: Jan L. Harrington
ISBN: 9780763750947
Format: Paperback
$330.50

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Content: Selected Essays on Technology, Creativity, Copyright, and the Future of the Future

Content: Selected Essays on Technology, Creativity,...

Author: Cory Doctorow
ISBN: 9781892391810
Format: Paperback
$39.47

Celebrates the Internet's favourite high-tech culture maven with a collection of articles, essays, and polemics....  Read More >>

Ironic Technics

Ironic Technics

Author: Don Ihde (University of Central Florida)
ISBN: 9788792130181
Format: Paperback
$31.68

Even before we humans became modern as homo sapiens we were busy inventing technologies. But our technologies also...  Read More >>

The Impact of Electricity: Development, Desires and Dilemmas

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

Author: Tanja Winther
ISBN: 9781845454951
Format: Hardback
$125.00

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

Insatiable Curiosity: Innovation in a Fragile Future

Insatiable Curiosity: Innovation in a Fragile Future...

Author: Helga Nowotny (President, European Research Council , Vienna Science and Technology Fund (WWTF)) ,  Mitch Cohen
ISBN: 9780262141031
Format: Hardback
$79.20

An influential scholar in science studies argues that innovation tames the insatiable and limitless curiosity driving...  Read More >>

Handbook of Research on Technoethics

Handbook of Research on Technoethics

Author: Rocci Luppicini ,  Rebecca Adell
ISBN: 9781605660226
Format: Hardback
$1057.95

Traces the emergence of the interdisciplinary field of technoethics by exploring its conceptual development, important...  Read More >>

The Art of Science

The Art of Science

Author: Boris Castel ,  Sergio Sismondo
ISBN: 9781442600980
Format: Paperback
$64.99

""Clearly analyzing the narratives, myths, and controversies at play in modern science, The Art of Science is an...  Read More >>

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