Impact of science & technology on society books

8577 books were found.

Human-built World: How to Think About Technology and Culture

Human-built World: How to Think About Technology and...

Author: Thomas P. Hughes
ISBN: 9780226359335
Format: Hardback
$59.40

Thomas Hughes explores what technology has brought to society and culture and suggests how we might begin to develop...  Read More >>

Community Practice in the Network Society: Local Action / Global Interaction

Community Practice in the Network Society: Local Action...

Author: Peter Day ,  Doug Schuler
ISBN: 9780415301954
Format: Paperback
$87.00

This title presents case studies of local projects from around the world, and discusses community ICT research methodologies....  Read More >>

Community Practice in the Network Society: Local Action / Global Interaction

Community Practice in the Network Society: Local Action...

Author: Peter Day ,  Doug Schuler
ISBN: 9780415301947
Format: Hardback
$246.00

This title presents case studies of local projects from around the world, and discusses community ICT research methodologies....  Read More >>

Confronting Disaster: An Existential Approach  to Technoscience

Confronting Disaster: An Existential Approach to Technoscience...

Author: Raphael Sassower
ISBN: 9780739108376
Format: Hardback
$100.95

Contemporary society is rife with instability. Contemporary genetic research has raised and given life to the one-time...  Read More >>

What Animals Want: Expertise and Advocacy in Laboratory Animal Welfare Policy

What Animals Want: Expertise and Advocacy in Laboratory...

Author: Larry Carbone (Director of the Animal Welfare Assurance Program, Director of the Animal Welfare Assurance Program, University of California, San Francisco)
ISBN: 9780195161960
Format: Hardback
$85.95

Offers a scholarly history of the evolution of animal welfare public policy, and brings a sociological perspective...  Read More >>

Communications Satellites: Global Change Agents

Communications Satellites: Global Change Agents

Author: Joseph N. Pelton, Jr. ,  Robert J. Oslund
ISBN: 9780805849615
Format: Hardback
$185.00

Over the past 40 years, satellites have played a key role in creating a global culture, spreading worldwide entertainment,...  Read More >>

Islands in the Clickstream: Reflections on Life in a Virtual World

Islands in the Clickstream: Reflections on Life in a...

Author: Richard Thieme
ISBN: 9786611055929
Format: Electronic book text
$158.14

CNN called Richard Thieme a member of the cyber avant-garde. Digital Delirium named him one of the most creative...  Read More >>

New Medical Technologies and Society: Reordering Life

New Medical Technologies and Society: Reordering Life...

Author: Nik Brown (University of York) ,  Andrew Webster (University of York)
ISBN: 9780745627243
Format: Paperback
$36.95

New medical technologies are increasingly at the centre of novel transformations in the human and social body. Whilst...  Read More >>

New Medical Technologies and Society: Reordering Life

New Medical Technologies and Society: Reordering Life...

Author: Nik Brown (University of York) ,  Andrew Webster (University of York)
ISBN: 9780745627236
Format: Hardback
$113.95

New medical technologies are increasingly at the centre of novel transformations in the human and social body. Whilst...  Read More >>

Cyberprotest: New Media, Citizens and Social Movements

Cyberprotest: New Media, Citizens and Social Movements...

Author: Wim van de Donk (Tilburg University, The Netherlands) ,  Brian D. Loader
ISBN: 9780415297851
Format: Paperback
$98.99

Cyberprotest explores the effects of the synergy between ICTs and people power, analyzing the implications for politics...  Read More >>

Cyberprotest: New Media, Citizens and Social Movements

Cyberprotest: New Media, Citizens and Social Movements...

Author: Wim van de Donk (Tilburg University, The Netherlands) ,  Brian D. Loader
ISBN: 9780415297844
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Cyberprotest explores the effects of the synergy between ICTs and people power, analyzing the implications for politics...  Read More >>

Literate Lives in the Information Age: Narratives of Literacy From the United States

Literate Lives in the Information Age: Narratives of...

Author: Cynthia L. Selfe ,  Gail E. Hawisher
ISBN: 9780805843132
Format: Hardback
$160.00

This work reports the authors' research in electronic literacy, chronicling the development of electronic literacies...  Read More >>

Golems Among Us: How a Jewish Legend Can Help Us Navigate the Biotech Century

Golems Among Us: How a Jewish Legend Can Help Us Navigate...

Author: Byron L. Sherwin
ISBN: 9781566635684
Format: Hardback
$40.95

Imagine a world where the normal human life span is 150 years, where worn-out vital organs are routinely replaced...  Read More >>

Literate Lives in the Information Age: Narratives of Literacy From the United States

Literate Lives in the Information Age: Narratives of...

Author: Cynthia L. Selfe ,  Gail E. Hawisher
ISBN: 9780805843149
Format: Paperback
$64.00

This work reports the authors' research in electronic literacy, chronicling the development of electronic literacies...  Read More >>

Our Own Devices: How Technology Remakes Humanity

Our Own Devices: How Technology Remakes Humanity

Author: Edward Tenner
ISBN: 9780375707070
Format: Paperback
$42.11

This delightful and instructive history of invention shows why National Public Radio dubbed Tenner “the philosopher...  Read More >>

True Warnings and False Alarms: Evaluating Fears about the Health Risks of Technology, 1948-1971

True Warnings and False Alarms: Evaluating Fears about...

Author: Allan Mazur
ISBN: 9781891853562
Format: Paperback
$73.99

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Digital Communities in a Networked Society: e-Commerce, e-Business and e-Government

Digital Communities in a Networked Society: e-Commerce,...

Author: Manuel J. Mendes ,  Reima Suomi
ISBN: 9781402077951
Format: Hardback
$541.20

Deals with the evolution in the computerization of society. This book contains results of research and development...  Read More >>

Rediscovery of Awe: Splendor, Mystery, and the Fluid Center of Life

Rediscovery of Awe: Splendor, Mystery, and the Fluid...

Author: Kirk Schneider
ISBN: 9781557788344
Format: Paperback
$52.67

At a time when two dominant worldviews--nihilistic relativism and dogmatic fundamentalism--threaten to tear our...  Read More >>

Cellphone

Cellphone

Author: Paul Levinson
ISBN: 9781403960412
Format: Hardback
$48.00

A history of mobile communication traces technological advances in phones, cameras, laptops, and more, examining...  Read More >>

IT Experience in India: Bridging the Digital Divide

IT Experience in India: Bridging the Digital Divide...

Author: Kenneth Keniston ,  Deepak Kumar
ISBN: 9780761998303
Format: Hardback
$189.95

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True Warnings and False Alarms: Evaluating Fears about the Health Risks of Technology, 1948-1971

True Warnings and False Alarms: Evaluating Fears about...

Author: Allan Mazur
ISBN: 9781891853555
Format: Hardback
$211.20

Are manufactured chemicals in the environment distorting normal hormonal processes in our bodies? Are genetically...  Read More >>

The Paradox of God and the Science of Omniscience

The Paradox of God and the Science of Omniscience

Author: Clifford A. Pickover
ISBN: 9781403964571
Format: Book
$34.38

Playful and profound, bizarre and brilliant--Pickover blends science fiction with science, religion, and philosophy...  Read More >>

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