Impact of science & technology on society books

8577 books were found.

Informing Digital Futures: Strategies for Citizen Engagement

Informing Digital Futures: Strategies for Citizen Engagement...

Author: Leela Damodaran ,  Wendy Olphert
ISBN: 9781402046407
Format: Hardback
$303.60

In the present digital revolution we often seem trapped in a Kafkaesque world of technological advances, some desired,...  Read More >>

National Systems of Innovation in Comparison: Structure and Performance Indicators for Knowledge Societies

National Systems of Innovation in Comparison: Structure...

Author: Ulrich Schmoch ,  Christian Rammer
ISBN: 9781402049170
Format: Hardback
$472.56

The concept of National Systems of Innovation was introduced as a method to describe the various elements which...  Read More >>

Genomics and Society: Legal, Ethical and Social Dimensions

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

Author: George Gaskell ,  Martin Bauer
ISBN: 9781844071135
Format: Hardback
$438.24

Presents a series of comparative perspectives on the social, ethical and legal implications of genomics. This book,...  Read More >>

The Fundamental Role of Science and Technology in International Development: An Imperative for the U.S. Agency for International Development

The Fundamental Role of Science and Technology in International...

Author: National Research Council ,  Policy and Global Affairs
ISBN: 9780309101455
Format: Paperback
$118.80

Explores specific programmatic, organizational, and personnel reforms that would increase the effective use of science...  Read More >>

Social and Community Informatics: Humans on the Net

Social and Community Informatics: Humans on the Net...

Author: Gunilla Bradley
ISBN: 9780415381840
Format: Hardback
$210.00

Providing a broad and deep analysis of the relationship between people, ICT, society and the environment, this key...  Read More >>

Science on the Texas Frontier

Science on the Texas Frontier

Author: Lincecum
ISBN: 9780890967904
Format: Hardback
$47.39

"Edward O. Wilson has described Dr. Gideon Lincecum as ""an American original, expansive passionate, and prone to...  Read More >>

Social and Community Informatics: Humans on the Net

Social and Community Informatics: Humans on the Net...

Author: Gunilla Bradley
ISBN: 9780415381857
Format: Paperback
$84.00

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Human Rights in the Global Information Society

Human Rights in the Global Information Society

Author: Rikke Frank Jørgensen (Senior Advisor, The Danish Institute for Human Rights)
ISBN: 9780262101158
Format: Hardback
$145.20

Does the information society help to advance human rights or does it threaten them? Interdisciplinary perspectives...  Read More >>

Meeting the Information Challenge: The Experience of Africa

Meeting the Information Challenge: The Experience of...

Author: Raj Bardouille ,  Royal Colle
ISBN: 9781847180100
Format: Hardback
$90.54

Africa faces serious challenges in the world of globalisation. One of the most serious and basic of these challenges...  Read More >>

Human Rights in the Global Information Society

Human Rights in the Global Information Society

Author: Rikke Frank Jørgensen (Senior Advisor, The Danish Institute for Human Rights)
ISBN: 9780262600675
Format: Paperback
$68.64

Does the information society help to advance human rights or does it threaten them? Interdisciplinary perspectives...  Read More >>

Southwestern Agriculture: Pre-Columbian to Modern

Southwestern Agriculture: Pre-Columbian to Modern

Author: Henry C. Dethloff ,  Irvin M. May
ISBN: 9780890961216
Format: Hardback
$105.47

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World Employment Report: Decent Work in the Information Society

World Employment Report: Decent Work in the Information...

Author: International Labour Office
ISBN: 9789220113738
Format: CD-ROM
$63.32

This report, available in book and CD-ROM versions, examines the employment challenges and opportunities emerging...  Read More >>

Defining Technological Literacy: Towards an Epistemological Framework

Defining Technological Literacy: Towards an Epistemological...

Author: J. Dakers
ISBN: 9781403970374
Format: Hardback
$84.99

Never before have we so needed a new literacy that will enable us to meaningfully participate in the rapidly evolving...  Read More >>

Über die Reflexion des Lichtes in einer inhomogenen Schicht / Raum und Zeit in der gegenwärtigen Physik: Abteilung I / Band 2

Über die Reflexion des Lichtes in einer inhomogenen...

Author: Moritz Schlick ,  Fynn Ole Engler
ISBN: 9783211297858
Format: Hardback
$163.95

"Moritz Schlicks 1904 verfasste Dissertation ""Reflexion des Lichtes"" und sein 13 Jahre später erschienenes Werk...  Read More >>

Insurgency Online: Web Activism and Global Conflict

Insurgency Online: Web Activism and Global Conflict...

Author: Michael Dartnell
ISBN: 9780802087478
Format: Hardback
$170.00

Insurgency Online shows that online activism is a ripe, new territory for non-governmental actors to raise awareness...  Read More >>

Challenging Nature: The Clash of Science and Spirituality at the New Frontiers of Life

Challenging Nature: The Clash of Science and Spirituality...

Author: Professor of Molecular Biology Lee M Silver, Professor Dr (Princeton University)
ISBN: 9780060582678
Format: Hardback
$71.15

"Biotechnology is the oldest and most widespread of inventions, providing sustenance for humankind since the beginning...  Read More >>

Transductions: Bodies and Machines at Speed. Technologies: Studies in Culture and Theory.

Transductions: Bodies and Machines at Speed. Technologies:...

Author: Adrian MacKenzie
ISBN: 9786611291983
Format: Electronic book text
$739.20

Transductions explores the nature of technological speed and how technology becomes part of living bodies. Drawing...  Read More >>

Understanding the Dynamics of a Knowledge Economy

Understanding the Dynamics of a Knowledge Economy

Author: Wilfred Dolfsma ,  Luc Soete
ISBN: 9781845423070
Format: Hardback
$275.50

The approaches adopted by historians, economists, systems theorists, management scholars and geographers which are...  Read More >>

Cybercultures: Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies

Cybercultures: Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural...

Author: David Bell
ISBN: 9780415343985
Format: Hardback
$3844.50

Reflecting the past, present and future developments of cyberculture studies, the selection of articles included...  Read More >>

Against Technology: From the Luddites to Neo-Luddism

Against Technology: From the Luddites to Neo-Luddism...

Author: Steven E. Jones
ISBN: 9780415978675
Format: Hardback
$200.00

"Against Technology addresses the question of what it might mean today to be a Luddite--that is, to take a stand...  Read More >>

Insurgency Online: Web Activism and Global Conflict

Insurgency Online: Web Activism and Global Conflict...

Author: Michael Dartnell
ISBN: 9780802085535
Format: Paperback
$74.99

Insurgency Online shows that online activism is a ripe, new territory for non-governmental actors to raise awareness...  Read More >>

Made to Break: Technology and Obsolescence in America

Made to Break: Technology and Obsolescence in America...

Author: Giles Slade
ISBN: 9780674022034
Format: Hardback
$73.79

If you've replaced a computer lately - or a cell phone, a camera, a television - chances are, the old one still...  Read More >>

To See a World in a Grain of Sand: Reconciling the Saints to Darwin and Einstein, Divorcing the Saints from Smith and Lincoln

To See a World in a Grain of Sand: Reconciling the Saints...

Author: Loyd L Fueston
ISBN: 9781498248129
Format: Hardback
$124.08

With some modifications, certain insights of St. Thomas Aquinas can be used to make good sense of this dynamic universe...  Read More >>

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