Impact of science & technology on society books

8577 books were found.

The Original Accident

The Original Accident

Author: Paul Virilio (The European Graduate School) ,  Julie Rose
ISBN: 9780745636146
Format: Paperback
$30.95

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The Original Accident

The Original Accident

Author: Paul Virilio (The European Graduate School) ,  Julie Rose
ISBN: 9780745636139
Format: Hardback
$82.95

The future once promised the certainty of a better life for all but now it is full of uncertainty, danger and fear....  Read More >>

Navigating Technomedia

Navigating Technomedia

Author: Sam Han (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
ISBN: 9781299787063
Format: Electronic book text
$55.41

This is an introductory survey of what the author calls the 'technomedia', the generation of communication technologies...  Read More >>

Real Drugs in a Virtual World

Real Drugs in a Virtual World

Author: Edward Murguia ,  Melissa Tackett-Gibson
ISBN: 9781299806146
Format: Electronic book text
$92.37

Drug Abuse (NIDA) funded research project on drug information and online drug-related communities. The editors of...  Read More >>

Health Policy Developments: Focus on Continuity in Care, Evaluation Techniques, IT for Health

Health Policy Developments: Focus on Continuity in Care,...

Author: Reinhard Busse ,  Annette Zentner
ISBN: 9783892049012
Format: Paperback
$55.44

Examines how information technologies are radically changing health care and how health care systems are altering...  Read More >>

Defining Values for Research and Technology: The University's Changing Role

Defining Values for Research and Technology: The University's...

Author: William T. Greenough ,  Philip J. McConnaughay
ISBN: 9780742550261
Format: Paperback
$68.95

Since the end of the Cold War, federal funding for research at American universities has sharply decreased, while...  Read More >>

Communication Technology and Social Change: Theory and Implications

Communication Technology and Social Change: Theory and...

Author: Carolyn A. Lin ,  David J. Atkin
ISBN: 9780805856149
Format: Paperback
$64.00

Provides theoretical, empirical, and legal analyses for a broader understanding of the influences of communication...  Read More >>

Defining Values for Research and Technology: The University's Changing Role

Defining Values for Research and Technology: The University's...

Author: William T. Greenough ,  Philip J. McConnaughay
ISBN: 9780742550254
Format: Hardback
$173.95

Since the end of the Cold War, federal funding for research at American universities has sharply decreased, while...  Read More >>

Communication Technology and Social Change: Theory and Implications

Communication Technology and Social Change: Theory and...

Author: Carolyn A. Lin ,  David J. Atkin
ISBN: 9780805856132
Format: Hardback
$200.00

Provides theoretical, empirical, and legal analyses for a broader understanding of the influences of communication...  Read More >>

The Management of Technical Change: Automation in the UK and USA since1950

The Management of Technical Change: Automation in the...

Author: A. Booth
ISBN: 9781403991744
Format: Hardback
$182.00

This book examines the management of technical change in manufacturing and services through an explicit political-economic...  Read More >>

Shaping Science and Technology Policy

Shaping Science and Technology Policy

Author: David H Guston (Rutgers University, New Jersey) ,  Daniel Sarewitz
ISBN: 9781282270268
Format: Electronic book text
$52.67

With scientific progress occurring at a breathtaking pace, science and technology policy has never been more important...  Read More >>

Science and Society (A Longman Topics Reader)

Science and Society (A Longman Topics Reader)

Author: Richard M. Grinnell, Jr.
ISBN: 9780321318114
Format: Paperback
$59.66

Part of Longman’s successful Topic’s Reader series, Science and Society is a brief thematic reader that touches...  Read More >>

The Power Law of Information: Life in A Connected World

The Power Law of Information: Life in A Connected World...

Author: Srinath Srinivasa
ISBN: 9780761935124
Format: Paperback
$81.71

The Internet and other information tools like the television are becoming ever more central to our lives - we chat,...  Read More >>

Technologies Of Magic: A Cultural Study of Ghosts, Machines and the Uncanny

Technologies Of Magic: A Cultural Study of Ghosts, Machines...

Author: Edward Scheer ,  John Potts
ISBN: 9780909952358
Format: Paperback
$39.95

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The State of Play: Law, Games, and Virtual Worlds

The State of Play: Law, Games, and Virtual Worlds

Author: Jack M. Balkin ,  Beth Simone Noveck
ISBN: 9780814799727
Format: Paperback
$64.99

Presents an essential first step in understanding how new digital worlds will change the future of our universe....  Read More >>

Governing Technology for Sustainability

Governing Technology for Sustainability

Author: Joseph Murphy
ISBN: 9781844073450
Format: Hardback
$168.00

Examines the ways that people, technology and governance shape each other with implications for sustainability....  Read More >>

The State of Play: Law, Games, and Virtual Worlds

The State of Play: Law, Games, and Virtual Worlds

Author: Jack M. Balkin ,  Beth Simone Noveck
ISBN: 9780814799710
Format: Hardback
$184.00

Millions of people around the world inhabit virtual words: multiplayer online games where characters live, love,...  Read More >>

Marxism after Modernity: Politics, Technology and Social Transformation

Marxism after Modernity: Politics, Technology and Social...

Author: R. Abbinnett
ISBN: 9781403941244
Format: Hardback
$146.00

Marxism After Modernity is concerned with the ways in which Marxist theory has responded to the major social, economic...  Read More >>

Essays

Essays

Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
ISBN: 9781406833669
Format: Paperback
$31.42

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The Market Way to Riches: Behind the Myth

The Market Way to Riches: Behind the Myth

Author: Mario Amendola ,  Jean-Luc Gaffard
ISBN: 9781845429225
Format: Hardback
$241.35

Mario Amendola and Jean-Luc Gaffard argue that all too often, markets and technology are treated as two magic words...  Read More >>

Nanotechnology: Societal Implications: I: Maximising Benefits for Humanity; II: Individual Perspectives

Nanotechnology: Societal Implications: I: Maximising...

Author: William S. Bainbridge ,  William Sims Bainbridge
ISBN: 9781402046582
Format: Hardback
$525.36

The report outlines potential areas for research into societal implications of nanotechnology, as well as some preliminary...  Read More >>

The Rise of the Technocrats: A Social History

The Rise of the Technocrats: A Social History

Author: W.H.G. Armytage
ISBN: 9780415413053
Format: Hardback
$210.00

First Published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.  Read More >>

Performance and Technology: Practices of Virtual Embodiment and Interactivity

Performance and Technology: Practices of Virtual Embodiment...

Author: S. Broadhurst ,  J. Machon
ISBN: 9780230293656
Format: Paperback
$84.99

This collection interrogates the interaction between new technologies and performance practice, linking the sensuous...  Read More >>

Performance and Technology: Practices of Virtual Embodiment and Interactivity

Performance and Technology: Practices of Virtual Embodiment...

Author: S. Broadhurst ,  J. Machon
ISBN: 9781403999078
Format: Hardback
$140.00

This collection interrogates the interaction between new technologies and performance practice, linking the sensuous...  Read More >>

Annihilation from Within: The Ultimate Threat to Nations

Annihilation from Within: The Ultimate Threat to Nations...

Author: Fred Charles Iklé
ISBN: 9780231139526
Format: Hardback
$90.95

Technological progress and the evolving political order march to different drummers. Science advances at an accelerating...  Read More >>

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