Impact of science & technology on society books

8577 books were found.

RFID Technology: What the Future Holds for Commerce, Security, and the Consumer

RFID Technology: What the Future Holds for Commerce,...

Author: Committee on Energy and Commerce ,  U S House of Representatives
ISBN: 9781410224361
Format: Paperback
$39.57

"Transcripts of the first congressional hearing on a very exciting and a complex new technology application. Radio...  Read More >>

The Future without a Past: The Humanities in a Technological Society

The Future without a Past: The Humanities in a Technological...

Author: John Russo
ISBN: 9780826215864
Format: Hardback
$118.67

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Living in the Labyrinth of Technology

Living in the Labyrinth of Technology

Author: Willem H. Vanderburg
ISBN: 9780802048790
Format: Paperback
$99.99

Living in the Labyrinth of Technology argues that the twenty-first century will be dominated by a pattern of re-creating...  Read More >>

Hubris and Hybrids: A Cultural History of Technology and Science

Author: Mikael Hård ,  Andrew Jamison (Aalborg University)
ISBN: 9780415949392
Format: Paperback
$53.00

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Hubris and Hybrids: A Cultural History of Technology and Science

Author: Mikael Hård ,  Andrew Jamison (Aalborg University)
ISBN: 9780415949385
Format: Hardback
$216.00

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Perspectives and Policies on ICT in Society: An IFIP TC9 (Computers and Society) Handbook

Perspectives and Policies on ICT in Society: An IFIP...

Author: Jacques Berleur ,  Chrisanthi Avgerou
ISBN: 9780387255873
Format: Hardback
$462.00

"Governments, the media, the information technology industry and scientists publicly argue that information and...  Read More >>

Surviving Armageddon: Solutions for a Threatened Planet

Surviving Armageddon: Solutions for a Threatened Planet...

Author: Bill McGuire
ISBN: 9780192805713
Format: Hardback
$79.07

What do earthquakes, magma, asteroid 1950DA, and global warming have in common? This book provides solutions rather...  Read More >>

Return of the Body Snatchers

Return of the Body Snatchers

Author: Cary Blair ,  Ron Watt
ISBN: 9780970963222
Format: Hardback
$52.67

Invasion of the Body Snatchers is a Hollywood cult film classic from the 1950s. It's a story about humans being...  Read More >>

Designs on Nature: Science and Democracy in Europe and the United States

Designs on Nature: Science and Democracy in Europe and...

Author: Sheila Jasanoff
ISBN: 9780691118116
Format: Hardback
$158.40

Biology and politics have converged across the industrialized world. Debates about genetically modified organisms,...  Read More >>

Future of Technology

Future of Technology

Author: Tom Standage ,  Tamzin Booth
ISBN: 9786611031855
Format: Electronic book text
$264.00

From the industrial revolution to the railway age, through the era of electrification, the advent of mass production...  Read More >>

The Evolutionary Mind: Conversations on Science, Imagination & Spirit

The Evolutionary Mind: Conversations on Science, Imagination...

Author: Rupert Sheldrake ,  Terence McKenna
ISBN: 9780974935973
Format: Paperback
$44.75

Three acclaimed authors engage in conversation blending scientific observation, mythical imagination, and visionary...  Read More >>

The Deepening Divide: Inequality in the Information Society

The Deepening Divide: Inequality in the Information...

Author: Professor Jan A. G. M. Van Dijk
ISBN: 9781412904032
Format: Paperback
$268.00

The Deepening Divide: Inequality in the Information Society explains why the digital divide is still widening and,...  Read More >>

The Deepening Divide: Inequality in the Information Society

The Deepening Divide: Inequality in the Information...

Author: Professor Jan A. G. M. Van Dijk
ISBN: 9781412904025
Format: Hardback
$371.00

The Deepening Divide: Inequality in the Information Society explains why the digital divide is still widening and,...  Read More >>

Celluloid Heroes & Mechanical Dragons

Celluloid Heroes & Mechanical Dragons

Author: John, David Ebert
ISBN: 9781877275746
Format: Paperback
$60.59

Examines how movies since the late 1960s have developed a myth of the machine . This book examines films such as...  Read More >>

The Future without a Past: The Humanities in a Technological Society

The Future without a Past: The Humanities in a Technological...

Author: John Russo
ISBN: 9780826264732
Format: Undefined
$132.00

John Paul Russo goes beyond currently given reasons for the decline of the humanities and searches out its root...  Read More >>

James Brindley: The First Canal Builder

James Brindley: The First Canal Builder

Author: Nick Corble
ISBN: 9780752432595
Format: Paperback
$51.75

Biography of James Brindley, the man who invented the canal in Britain  Read More >>

Society and Technologial Change

Society and Technologial Change

Author: Rudi R. Volti
ISBN: 9780716787327
Format: Paperback
$166.98

"Technology is a basic feature of all human societies. Virtually every aspect of our lives is affected by technology,...  Read More >>

Computers: The Life Story of a Technology

Computers: The Life Story of a Technology

Author: Eric G. Swedin ,  David L. Ferro
ISBN: 9780313331497
Format: Hardback
$79.00

Part of the Greenwood Technographies series Provides a worldwide examination of computing, and how such needs as...  Read More >>

The Environment and Science: Social Impact and Interaction

The Environment and Science: Social Impact and Interaction...

Author: Christian C. Young
ISBN: 9781576079638
Format: Hardback
$130.00

A fascinating look at the historical relationship between environmental issues and scientific study, social attitudes,...  Read More >>

Controversies in Science and Technology Volume 1: From Maize to Menopause

Controversies in Science and Technology Volume 1: From...

Author: Daniel Lee Kleinman ,  Jo Handelsman
ISBN: 9780299203900
Format: Hardback
$171.60

Written for general readers, teachers, journalists, and policymakers, this volume explores four controversial topics...  Read More >>

American CEOs Can Do Better, We Have the Technology?: The American High & Low Intellectual Property is at Risk for Terrorism from Abroad.

American CEOs Can Do Better, We Have the Technology?:...

Author: Wayne Holovacs
ISBN: 9780595351633
Format: Paperback
$47.39

Most CEOs are good, honest and good corporate citizens. But they can do better. Out-sourcing is good...if...it is...  Read More >>

The New Ruthless Economy: Work and Power in the Digital Age

The New Ruthless Economy: Work and Power in the Digital...

Author: Simon Head (Director of the Project on Technology and The Workplace, Director of the Project on Technology and The Workplace, The Century Foundation)
ISBN: 9780195179835
Format: Paperback
$48.95

Drawing upon ten years of research visiting work places across America, ranging from medical offices to machine...  Read More >>

American CEOs Can Do Better, We Have the Technology?: The American High & Low Intellectual Property is at Risk for Terrorism from Abroad.

American CEOs Can Do Better, We Have the Technology?:...

Author: Wayne Holovacs
ISBN: 9780595672080
Format: Hardback
$73.79

Most CEOs are good, honest and good corporate citizens. But they can do better. Out-sourcing is good...if...it is...  Read More >>

The Body Electric: How Strange Machines Built the Modern American

The Body Electric: How Strange Machines Built the Modern...

Author: Carolyn Thomas de la Pena
ISBN: 9780814719831
Format: Paperback
$64.99

Between the years 1850 and 1950, Americans became the leading energy consumers on the planet, expending tremendous...  Read More >>

Controversies in Science and Technology v. 1; From Maize to Menopause

Controversies in Science and Technology v. 1; From Maize...

Author: Daniel Lee Kleinman ,  Jo Handelsman
ISBN: 9780299203948
Format: Paperback
$65.87

Written for general readers, teachers, journalists, and policymakers, this volume explores four controversial topics...  Read More >>

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