Impact of science & technology on society books

8577 books were found.

The Numerati

The Numerati

Author: Stephen Baker (Stephen Baker Associates, Inc., New York)
ISBN: 9780618784608
Format: Hardback
$68.64

Every day, we produce loads of data about ourselves just by living in the modern world. Now, a group of mathematicians...  Read More >>

Blacks and Technology Volume II

Blacks and Technology Volume II

Author: Raymond L Chukwu
ISBN: 9781436351911
Format: Paperback
$52.77

In this groundbreaking document, Raymond Chukwu takes an unblinking look at the substandard conditions of African-Americans...  Read More >>

Blacks and Technology Volume II

Blacks and Technology Volume II

Author: Raymond L Chukwu
ISBN: 9781436351928
Format: Hardback
$79.17

In this groundbreaking document, Raymond Chukwu takes an unblinking look at the substandard conditions of African-Americans...  Read More >>

Transparency and Accountability in Science and Politics: The Awareness Principle

Transparency and Accountability in Science and Politics:...

Author: K. Andersson
ISBN: 9780230542174
Format: Hardback
$168.00

This book challenges the role of scientists in policy making and the idea of deliberative democracy. The author...  Read More >>

Camgirls: Celebrity and Community in the Age of Social Networks

Camgirls: Celebrity and Community in the Age of Social...

Author: Steve Jones ,  Theresa M. Senft
ISBN: 9780820456942
Format: Paperback
$79.07

This book is a critical and ethnographic study of camgirls: women who broadcast themselves over the web for the...  Read More >>

Blown to Bits: Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness After the Digital Explosion

Blown to Bits: Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness After...

Author: Hal Abelson ,  Ken Ledeen
ISBN: 9780137135592
Format: Hardback
$44.95

“If you want to understand the future before it happens, you’ll love this book. If you want to change the future...  Read More >>

Information Revolutions in the History of the West

Information Revolutions in the History of the West

Author: Leonard Dudley
ISBN: 9781847207906
Format: Hardback
$313.50

With detailed case studies addressing the sources of innovation in information technology, along with a conceptual...  Read More >>

Trends in Mobile Technology and Business in the Asia-Pacific Region

Trends in Mobile Technology and Business in the Asia-Pacific...

Author: Youngjin Yoo (Temple University, USA) ,  Jae-Nam Lee (Korea University, Korea)
ISBN: 9781843342243
Format: Hardback
$290.40

This book introduces the latest trends and developments in the area of mobile technology and business in the Asia...  Read More >>

Up for Grabs: The Future of the Internet I

Up for Grabs: The Future of the Internet I

Author: Harrison Rainie ,  Lee Rainie
ISBN: 9781604975178
Format: Hardback
$343.07

Up for Grabs: The Future of the Internet, Volume 1 is the first volume of an exciting series by the Pew Internet...  Read More >>

The Aesthetic Body: Passion, Sensibility, and Corporeality in Seventeenth-Century France

The Aesthetic Body: Passion, Sensibility, and Corporeality...

Author: Erec R. Koch
ISBN: 9781611490800
Format: Hardback
$377.52

This interdisciplinary study traces the radical changes that occurred in the understanding of the biological body...  Read More >>

Science and its Publics

Science and its Publics

Author: Alice R. Bell. Sarah R. Davies ,  Felicity Mellor
ISBN: 9781847185884
Format: Hardback
$90.54

The relationship between science and its publics has concerned commentators since science itself began. Yet in recent...  Read More >>

The Politics of Cyberconflict

The Politics of Cyberconflict

Author: Athina Karatzogianni
ISBN: 9780415479806
Format: Paperback
$62.00

This new volume focuses on the implications that the phenomenon of cyberconflict (conflict in computer mediated...  Read More >>

How Invention Begins: Echoes of Old Voices in the Rise of New Machines

How Invention Begins: Echoes of Old Voices in the Rise...

Author: John H. Lienhard
ISBN: 9780195341201
Format: Paperback
$30.95

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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 ,  Dan John Miller
ISBN: 9781423364177
Format: Audio
$103.62

For today's kids, technology such as computers, the Internet, cell phones, and satellites is an assumed presence....  Read More >>

Technology's Promise: Expert Knowledge on the Transformation of Business and Society

Technology's Promise: Expert Knowledge on the Transformation...

Author: William E. Halal
ISBN: 9781349285662
Format: Paperback
$84.99

Today's modern nations are using increasingly high-tech information systems to power a 'technology revolution'....  Read More >>

Technology's Promise: Expert Knowledge on the Transformation of Business and Society

Technology's Promise: Expert Knowledge on the Transformation...

Author: William E. Halal
ISBN: 9780230019546
Format: Hardback
$55.00

Today's modern nations are using increasingly high-tech information systems to power a 'technology revolution'....  Read More >>

From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism

From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand,...

Author: Fred Turner
ISBN: 9780226817422
Format: Paperback
$44.88

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Virtual America: Sleepwalking through Paradise

Virtual America: Sleepwalking through Paradise

Author: John Opie
ISBN: 9780803235717
Format: Hardback
$65.87

Traces the complex relationship between Americans, technology, and their environment as it has unfolded over the...  Read More >>

Distracted: The Erosion of Attention and the Coming Dark Age

Distracted: The Erosion of Attention and the Coming...

Author: Maggie Jackson ,  Bill McKibben
ISBN: 9781591026235
Format: Hardback
$52.99

Explores the many ways in which we are eroding our capacity for deep, sustained attention - the building block of...  Read More >>

Heat, Power and Light: Revolutions in Energy Services

Heat, Power and Light: Revolutions in Energy Services...

Author: Roger Fouquet
ISBN: 9781845426606
Format: Hardback
$380.00

Heat, Power and Light is an invaluable and unique contribution to this profoundly important topic.  Read More >>

The New Boundaries between Bodies and Technologies

The New Boundaries between Bodies and Technologies

Author: Ivan Varga ,  Ivan Varga
ISBN: 9781847184993
Format: Hardback
$103.47

The new boundaries between bodies and technologies constitute one of the most important developments in the last...  Read More >>

Die Wiener Zeit: Aufsätze, Beiträge, Rezensionen 1926–1936

Die Wiener Zeit: Aufsätze, Beiträge, Rezensionen 1926–1936...

Author: Moritz Schlick ,  Johannes Friedl
ISBN: 9783211331149
Format: Hardback
$274.95

Gegenüber dem lange vorherrschenden Zerrbild des Wiener Kreises als einheitlicher und philosophisch naiver Schule...  Read More >>

Sexism and Science

Sexism and Science

Author: Evelyn Reed
ISBN: 9789647703178
Format: Paperback
$39.60

"Are human beings innately aggressive? Does biology condemn women to remain the ""second sex""? Taking up such biases...  Read More >>

Nanotechnology: Risk, Ethics and Law

Nanotechnology: Risk, Ethics and Law

Author: Geoffrey Hunt ,  Michael Mehta
ISBN: 9781844075836
Format: Paperback
$59.95

Offers a global overview of the state of nanotech and society in Europe, the USA, Japan and Canada, examining the...  Read More >>

Pulse: The Coming Age of Systems and Machines Inspired by Living Things

Pulse: The Coming Age of Systems and Machines Inspired...

Author: Robert Frenay
ISBN: 9780803217775
Format: Paperback
$65.87

Written in lively prose for lay readers, ""Pulse"" shows how ideas that have shaped Western science, industry, and...  Read More >>

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