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The Second Information Revolution

The Second Information Revolution

Author: Gerald W. Brock
ISBN: 9780674011786
Format: Hardback
$134.95

Not since the advent of the telephone and telegraph in the 19th century has information technology changed daily...  Read More >>

London Calling

London Calling

Author: Helen McCarthy ,  Paul Miller
ISBN: 9781841801148
Format: Paperback
$25.88

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The Genesis Race: Our Extraterrestrial DNA and the True Origins of the Species

The Genesis Race: Our Extraterrestrial DNA and the True...

Author: Will Hart
ISBN: 9781591430186
Format: Paperback
$34.99

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Countering Design Exclusion: An Introduction to Inclusive Design

Countering Design Exclusion: An Introduction to Inclusive...

Author: Simeon L. Keates ,  P. John Clarkson
ISBN: 9781852337698
Format: Paperback
$232.85

Inclusive design, universal design and universal access are long standing, familiar terms with clear and laudable...  Read More >>

Communities and Technologies

Communities and Technologies

Author: M.H. Huysman ,  Etienne Wenger
ISBN: 9781402016110
Format: Hardback
$525.36

The papers treat subjects such as online communities, communities of practice, Community support systems, Digital...  Read More >>

The Personal Computer

The Personal Computer

Author: Sandra Weber
ISBN: 9780791074503
Format: Hardback
$79.20

Discusses the effects of the invention of the personal computer on society and everyday life.  Read More >>

Making Babies: Is there a right to have children?

Making Babies: Is there a right to have children?

Author: Mary Warnock
ISBN: 9780192805003
Format: Paperback
$31.95

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Science in the Private Interest: Has the Lure of Profits Corrupted Biomedical Research?

Science in the Private Interest: Has the Lure of Profits...

Author: Sheldon Krimsky ,  Ralph Nader
ISBN: 9780742514799
Format: Hardback
$68.95

University science is now entangled with entrepreneurship, and researchers with a commercial interest are caught...  Read More >>

Inside the Smart Home

Inside the Smart Home

Author: Richard Harper
ISBN: 9781852336882
Format: Paperback
$216.06

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Dark Fiber: Tracking Critical Internet Culture

Dark Fiber: Tracking Critical Internet Culture

Author: Geert Lovink ,  Timothy Druckrey
ISBN: 9780262621809
Format: Paperback
$52.67

Net criticism that establishes the principles and foundation for a collaborative, global new media culture.  Read More >>

Retooling: A Historian Confronts Technological Change

Retooling: A Historian Confronts Technological Change...

Author: Rosalind Williams (Bern Dibner Professor of the History of Science & Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
ISBN: 9780262731638
Format: Paperback
$59.99

A humanistic account of the changing role of technology in society, by a historian and a former Dean of Students...  Read More >>

Intro to MathCAD 11

Intro to MathCAD 11

Author: Ronald W. Larsen
ISBN: 9780130081773
Format: Paperback
$102.96

For freshman or introductory courses in engineering and computer science, ESource provides a customizable introductory...  Read More >>

Social and Economic Transformation in the Digital Era

Social and Economic Transformation in the Digital Era...

Author: Georgios Doukidis ,  et al
ISBN: 9781591401582
Format: Hardback
$161.95

To aid the examination of the cross-impacts of the information society, this text assembles thinking by researchers...  Read More >>

Trust in Knowledge Management and Systems in Organizations

Trust in Knowledge Management and Systems in Organizations...

Author: Maija Leena Huotari
ISBN: 9781591401261
Format: Hardback
$171.95

This work aims at tying trust to knowledge management (KM). It highlights the complexity of the invisible phenomenon...  Read More >>

Closing the Digital Divide: Transforming Regional Economies and Communities with Information Technology

Closing the Digital Divide: Transforming Regional Economies...

Author: Stewart Marshall ,  Wallace J. Taylor
ISBN: 9781567206029
Format: Hardback
$140.00

Successful strategies and principles for using information technology to transform regional and community economies...  Read More >>

Innovation, Competence Building and Social Cohesion in Europe: Towards a Learning Society

Innovation, Competence Building and Social Cohesion...

Author: Pedro Conceição ,  Manuel V. Heitor
ISBN: 9781840649802
Format: Hardback
$313.50

It is almost universally accepted that we are moving increasingly towards an information society, where knowledge...  Read More >>

Guiding Rights:Trademarks, Copyright and the Internet: Trademarks, Copyright and the Internet

Guiding Rights:Trademarks, Copyright and the Internet:...

Author: Mark V.B. Partridge
ISBN: 9780595659579
Format: Hardback
$65.87

The Internet Age has dramatically increased the importance of intellectual property rights. Disputes over domain...  Read More >>

Surgeons and the Scope

Surgeons and the Scope

Author: James R. Zetka, Jr.
ISBN: 9780801441592
Format: Hardback
$116.03

In Surgeons and the Scope, James R. Zetka Jr. describes the impact of the video laparoscope on the work lives of...  Read More >>

Wetwares: Experiments In Postvital Living

Wetwares: Experiments In Postvital Living

Author: Richard Doyle
ISBN: 9780816640089
Format: Hardback
$114.00

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Wetwares: Experiments In Postvital Living

Wetwares: Experiments In Postvital Living

Author: Richard Doyle
ISBN: 9780816640096
Format: Paperback
$42.95

A dizzying tour of the ways technologies, both real and imagined, can transform humanity The mind of the machine,...  Read More >>

Impact of New Technology on the Traditional Media: A Special Issue of trends in Communication

Impact of New Technology on the Traditional Media: A...

Author: David Ward
ISBN: 9780805895865
Format: Paperback
$97.55

This is a special edition of Trends in Communication , in which the impact of new technology on the traditional...  Read More >>

Comfort, Cleanliness and Convenience: The Social Organization of Normality

Comfort, Cleanliness and Convenience: The Social Organization...

Author: Elizabeth Shove
ISBN: 9781859736302
Format: Paperback
$69.99

Over the past few generations, expectations of comfort, cleanliness and convenience have altered radically, but...  Read More >>

Comfort, Cleanliness and Convenience: The Social Organization of Normality

Comfort, Cleanliness and Convenience: The Social Organization...

Author: Elizabeth Shove
ISBN: 9781859736258
Format: Hardback
$240.00

Over the past few generations, expectations of comfort, cleanliness and convenience have altered radically, but...  Read More >>

The Suffering Gene: Environmental Threats to Our Health

The Suffering Gene: Environmental Threats to Our Health...

Author: Roy Burdon
ISBN: 9781842772843
Format: Hardback
$146.00

Explains how our genes are adversely affected by the modern environment - and how they fight back.  Read More >>

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