Impact of science & technology on society books

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Digital Ego: Social and Legal Aspects of Virtual Identity

Digital Ego: Social and Legal Aspects of Virtual Identity...

Author: Jacob Van Kokswijk
ISBN: 9789059722163
Format: Paperback
$66.00

The possibilities of non-human virtual identities, popularized by digital worlds such as Second Life, are facing...  Read More >>

Darwin Day in America: How Our Politics and Culture Have Been Dehumanized in the Name of Science

Darwin Day in America: How Our Politics and Culture...

Author: John G. West
ISBN: 9781933859323
Format: Hardback
$73.92

Based on extensive research, Wests book tells the story of how American public policy has been corrupted by scientific...  Read More >>

From Pigeons to News Portals: Foreign Reporting and the Challenge of New Technology

From Pigeons to News Portals: Foreign Reporting and...

Author: David D. Perlmutter ,  John Maxwell Hamilton
ISBN: 9780807132821
Format: Paperback
$50.03

Now that live news coverage is possible from virtually anywhere, is foreign correspondence better? And what are...  Read More >>

Red Prometheus: Engineering and Dictatorship in East Germany, 1945-1990

Red Prometheus: Engineering and Dictatorship in East...

Author: Dolores L. Augustine (Associate Professor of History, St. John's University) ,  Jed Z. Buchwald (Doris and Henry Dreyfuss Professor of History, California Institute of Technology)
ISBN: 9780262012362
Format: Hardback
$113.52

This analysis of the relationship between science and totalitarian rule in one of the most technically advanced...  Read More >>

Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence

Author: Sylvia Louise Engdahl
ISBN: 9780737738902
Format: Hardback
$107.98

Essays discuss the advancing field of artificial intelligence and robotics, exploring the current technologies and...  Read More >>

Science and Empire in the Atlantic World

Science and Empire in the Atlantic World

Author: James Delbourgo ,  Nicholas Dew
ISBN: 9780415961271
Format: Paperback
$79.99

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The Global Brain: The Awakening Earth in a New Century

The Global Brain: The Awakening Earth in a New Century...

Author: Peter Russell
ISBN: 9780863156168
Format: Paperback
$62.99

Peter Russell argues that global communications and the internet are helping to link the minds of humanity together...  Read More >>

Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence

Author: Sylvia Louise Engdahl
ISBN: 9780737738919
Format: Paperback
$74.84

Essays discuss the advancing field of artificial intelligence and robotics, exploring the current technologies and...  Read More >>

Mobilities

Mobilities

Author: John Urry
ISBN: 9780745634197
Format: Paperback
$47.95

Issues of movement - of people, things, information and ideas - are central to people's lives and to most organisations....  Read More >>

Growing Up Online: Young People and Digital Technologies

Growing Up Online: Young People and Digital Technologies...

Author: S. Weber ,  S. Dixon
ISBN: 9781403978141
Format: Hardback
$112.00

In this cutting-edge anthology, contributors examine the diverse ways in which girls and young women across a variety...  Read More >>

Normative Ethics: 5 Questions

Normative Ethics: 5 Questions

Author: Thomas S Petersen ,  Jesper Ryberg (Roskilde University)
ISBN: 9788792130006
Format: Paperback
$68.64

Normative Ethics: 5 Questions is a collection of original contributions from a distinguished score of the world's...  Read More >>

Technology and Security: Governing Threats in the New Millennium

Technology and Security: Governing Threats in the New...

Author: Brian Rappert
ISBN: 9780230019706
Format: Hardback
$154.00

This book takes forward the existing state of academic understanding where security and technology intersect. It...  Read More >>

Genomics and Society: Legal, Ethical and Social Dimensions

Genomics and Society: Legal, Ethical and Social Dimensions...

Author: George Gaskell ,  Martin W Bauer
ISBN: 9781844071142
Format: Paperback
$79.95

Since the mid 1990s, agricultural biotechnology - GM crops and foods - has been the focus of debate and conflict...  Read More >>

Science and Certainty

Science and Certainty

Author: John T. Kirk
ISBN: 9780643093911
Format: Paperback
$34.95

Addresses the central issue of why certain areas of science cause concern to many people: in particular, those which...  Read More >>

User-Generated Content

User-Generated Content

Author: Roman Espejo
ISBN: 9780737738872
Format: Paperback
$62.96

Social networking, blogging, Wikipedia, viral videos, podcasting; users of the internet are becoming more active...  Read More >>

User-Generated Content

User-Generated Content

Author: Roman Espejo
ISBN: 9780737738865
Format: Hardback
$83.95

Social networking, blogging, Wikipedia, viral videos, podcasting; users of the internet are becoming more active...  Read More >>

The Handbook of Science and Technology Studies

The Handbook of Science and Technology Studies

Author: Edward J. Hackett (Professor, Arizona State University) ,  Olga Amsterdamska (University of Amsterdam)
ISBN: 9780262083645
Format: Hardback
$153.12

A comprehensive and authoritative overview of current research, major theoretical perspectives, and new research...  Read More >>

Rethinking Science, Technology, and Social Change

Rethinking Science, Technology, and Social Change

Author: Ralph Schroeder
ISBN: 9780804755887
Format: Hardback
$65.95

Rethinking Science, Technology, and Social Change challenges prevailing notions that science and technology are...  Read More >>

Democratizing Technology: Risk, Responsibility and the Regulation of Chemicals

Democratizing Technology: Risk, Responsibility and the...

Author: Anne Chapman
ISBN: 9781844074211
Format: Hardback
$156.00

What is technology? How do humans use it to build and modify the world? What are the relationships between technology,...  Read More >>

Impact of Science on African Agriculture and Food Security

Impact of Science on African Agriculture and Food Security...

Author: Ponniah Anandajayasekeram (International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), Ethiopia) ,  Mandivamba Rukani (W K Kellogg Foundation)
ISBN: 9781845932671
Format: Hardback
$245.81

This book, a joint effort from IFPRI, ILRI and the Kellogg Foundation, explores the importance of impact assessment...  Read More >>

The Law and the Word

The Law and the Word

Author: Thomas Troward
ISBN: 9781604590654
Format: Paperback
$15.55

This book explores the connection between thought energy, scientific reasoning, and creative power. Chapters include...  Read More >>

Biotechnology, Security and the Search for Limits: An Inquiry into Research and Methods

Biotechnology, Security and the Search for Limits: An...

Author: B. Rappert
ISBN: 9780230002487
Format: Hardback
$154.00

Biotechnology, Security and the Search for Limits examines the post 9/11 security implications for life science...  Read More >>

The Consequences of Information: Institutional Implications of Technological Change

The Consequences of Information: Institutional Implications...

Author: Jannis Kallinikos
ISBN: 9781847205001
Format: Paperback
$90.43

This important book addresses the organizational and economic implications of the new technologies of information...  Read More >>

When Computers Were Human

When Computers Were Human

Author: David Alan Grier
ISBN: 9780691133829
Format: Paperback
$79.99

Offers an introduction to the world of women and men who did the hard computational labor of science. This book...  Read More >>

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