Impact of science & technology on society books

8577 books were found.

Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder

Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital...

Author: David Weinberger
ISBN: 9780805088113
Format: Paperback
$23.00

Charts how as business, politics, science, and media move online, the rules of the physical world - in which everything...  Read More >>

Pure War

Pure War

Author: Paul Virilio ,  Sylvère Lotringer (Foreign Agents editor)
ISBN: 9781584350590
Format: Paperback
$39.99

Virilio and Lotringer revisit their prescient book on the invisible war waged by technology against humanity since...  Read More >>

The Edinburgh Lectures on Mental Science

The Edinburgh Lectures on Mental Science

Author: Thomas Troward
ISBN: 9781604593358
Format: Paperback
$18.45

This book contains the substance of a course of lectures recently given by the writer in the Queen Street Hall,...  Read More >>

Doubt is Their Product: How industry's assault on science threatens your health

Doubt is Their Product: How industry's assault on science...

Author: David Michaels
ISBN: 9780195300673
Format: Hardback
$41.95

In this eye-opening expos, Michaels reveals how the tobacco industry's duplicitous tactics spawned a multi-million...  Read More >>

Twilight of the Machines

Twilight of the Machines

Author: John Zerzan
ISBN: 9781932595314
Format: Paperback
$22.99

The leader of the green anarchist movement analyzes our technocratic collapse and offers transcendent alternatives....  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: 9780195313055
Format: Hardback
$107.95

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

Notes on the Underground: An Essay on Technology, Society, and the Imagination

Notes on the Underground: An Essay on Technology, Society,...

Author: Rosalind Williams (Bern Dibner Professor of the History of Science & Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
ISBN: 9780262731904
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Real and imagined undergrounds in the late nineteenth century viewed as offering a prophetic look at life in today's...  Read More >>

Beyond Good and Evil

Beyond Good and Evil

Author: Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
ISBN: 9781604593211
Format: Paperback
$18.35

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

Beyond Good and Evil

Beyond Good and Evil

Author: Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
ISBN: 9781604593228
Format: Hardback
$52.77

Originally published: New York: Macmillan, 1907.  Read More >>

Being Virtual: Who You Really Are Online

Being Virtual: Who You Really Are Online

Author: Davey Winder
ISBN: 9780470723623
Format: Paperback
$71.15

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Second Lives

Second Lives

Author: Tim Guest
ISBN: 9780099493778
Format: Paperback
$22.99

On websites like eBay, people sell virtual clothes and rent virtual property for real cash - for a total of £400...  Read More >>

Physics and Politics

Physics and Politics

Author: Walter Bagehot
ISBN: 9781437815573
Format: Paperback
$34.29

One of the great short masterpieces of nineteenth-century thought, Physics and Politics is in essence a brilliant...  Read More >>

Niche Envy: Marketing Discrimination in the Digital Age

Niche Envy: Marketing Discrimination in the Digital...

Author: Joseph Turow (Robert Lewis Shayne Professor and Associate Dean for Graduate Studies, University of Pennsylvania)
ISBN: 9780262701211
Format: Paperback
$39.47

The price we pay for the new strategies in database marketing that closely track desirable customers, offering them...  Read More >>

From Betamax to Blockbuster: Video Stores and the Invention of Movies on Video

From Betamax to Blockbuster: Video Stores and the Invention...

Author: Joshua M. Greenberg
ISBN: 9780262072908
Format: Hardback
$71.15

How the VCR was transformed from a machine that records television into a medium for movies.  Read More >>

The Coming Convergence: Surprising Ways Diverse Technologies Interact to Shape Our World and Change the Future

The Coming Convergence: Surprising Ways Diverse Technologies...

Author: Stanley Schmidt
ISBN: 9781591026136
Format: Hardback
$58.99

Shows how past convergences have led the world, then considers main currents in biotechnology, cognitive science,...  Read More >>

Technology and Social Power

Technology and Social Power

Author: Graeme Kirkpatrick
ISBN: 9781403947307
Format: Paperback
$102.96

Technology permeates almost every dimension of our lives. Technology and Social Power provides a fresh examination...  Read More >>

Technology and Social Power

Technology and Social Power

Author: Graeme Kirkpatrick
ISBN: 9781403947284
Format: Hardback
$277.20

This book clarifies the place of technology in critical social theory by exploring the relationship between technology...  Read More >>

Under Wraps: A History of Menstrual Hygiene Technology

Under Wraps: A History of Menstrual Hygiene Technology...

Author: Sharra L. Vostral
ISBN: 9780739113851
Format: Hardback
$129.95

This book examines the social and technological history of sanitary napkins and tampons through the lens of passing,...  Read More >>

The Wonderful Myth Called Science

The Wonderful Myth Called Science

Author: Frederick Bauer
ISBN: 9781893426979
Format: Paperback
$68.61

Bauer poses an exciting and, at times, an emotionally challenging explorationof science and living.  Read More >>

Pervasive Information Systems

Pervasive Information Systems

Author: Panos E Kourouthanassis ,  George M Giaglis
ISBN: 9780765616890
Format: Hardback
$221.00

Part of the ""Advances in Management Information Systems"" series, this volume provides a review of the practices...  Read More >>

Nanotechnology: Ethics and Society. Perspectives in Nanotechnology.

Nanotechnology: Ethics and Society. Perspectives in...

Author: Deb Bennett-Woods
ISBN: 9786611274382
Format: Electronic book text
$286.81

Nanotechnology promises to be the next great human technological revolution, but such change often comes at the...  Read More >>

The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Computing and Information

The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Computing and...

Author: Professor Luciano Floridi (University of Oxford, University of Hertfordshire)
ISBN: 9781281320834
Format: Electronic book text
$506.72

This Guide provides an ambitious state-of-the-art survey of the fundamental themes, problems, arguments and theories...  Read More >>

Il senso e la narrazione

Il senso e la narrazione

Author: Giuseppe O. Longo
ISBN: 9788847007789
Format: Paperback
$79.07

Viviamo tra una realtà soda e scabra, inconoscibile, una fornace enorme di perturbazioni e richiami e colori, e...  Read More >>

Rights, Regulation, and the Technological Revolution

Rights, Regulation, and the Technological Revolution...

Author: Roger Brownsword (Professor of Law, King's College London)
ISBN: 9780199276806
Format: Hardback
$248.00

This book provides the first panoramic commentary on the dynamics of regulation in the face of what is arguably...  Read More >>

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