Impact of science & technology on society books

8577 books were found.

French DNA: Trouble in Purgatory

French DNA: Trouble in Purgatory

Author: Paul Rabinow
ISBN: 9780226701516
Format: Paperback
$57.95

In 1993, an American biotechnology company and a French genetics lab developed a collaborative research plan to...  Read More >>

Science, Race, and Ethnicity: Readings from Isis and Osiris

Science, Race, and Ethnicity: Readings from Isis and...

Author: John P. Jackson, Jr.
ISBN: 9780226389349
Format: Hardback
$132.00

"How is it that science has been a factor for both the rise of racislist thinking and its demise? This volume of...  Read More >>

Technikethik und ihre Fundamente: Dargestellt in Auseinandersetzung mit den technikethischen Ansätzen von Günter Ropohl und Walter Christoph Zimmerli

Technikethik und ihre Fundamente: Dargestellt in Auseinandersetzung...

Author: Elisabeth Gräb-Schmidt
ISBN: 9783110175004
Format: Hardback
$257.31

Concerns the actual and potential ethical ramifications of technology. The study, undertaken from a Protestant perspective,...  Read More >>

Science and Social Science in Bram Stoker's Fiction

Science and Social Science in Bram Stoker's Fiction...

Author: Carol A. Senf
ISBN: 9780313312038
Format: Hardback
$131.00

Best known today as the author of Dracula, Bram Stoker also wrote several other works, including The Jewel of Seven...  Read More >>

Inventing Indigenous Knowledge: Archaeology, Rural Development and the Raised Field Rehabilitation Project in Bolivia

Inventing Indigenous Knowledge: Archaeology, Rural Development...

Author: Lynn Swartley
ISBN: 9780415935647
Format: Hardback
$205.00

This book investigates a development project, which introduced field agriculture, an example of applied archaeology...  Read More >>

The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World

The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected...

Author: Lawrence Lessig
ISBN: 9780375726446
Format: Paperback
$24.99

Explores the meaning of intellectual property in the new high-tech digital age, addressing the legal, social, and...  Read More >>

Human Services Technology: Innovations in Practice and Education

Human Services Technology: Innovations in Practice and...

Author: Hy Resnick ,  Phoebe Sade Anderson
ISBN: 9780789017017
Format: Paperback
$85.00

Make the most of your human services training or practice with these electronic tools! Human Services Technology:...  Read More >>

Off The Map: An Expedition Deep into Empire and the Global Economy

Off The Map: An Expedition Deep into Empire and the...

Author: Chellis Glendinning
ISBN: 9780865714632
Format: Paperback
$47.39

A powerful account of the way imperialism and the global economy shape and reshape our lives.--Tikkun  Read More >>

Making Genes, Making Waves: A Social Activist in Science

Making Genes, Making Waves: A Social Activist in Science...

Author: Jon Beckwith
ISBN: 9780674009288
Format: Hardback
$74.95

A thoroughly engrossing memoir recounting Beckwith's halting steps toward scientific triumphs—among them, the discovery...  Read More >>

Sport Technology: History, Philosophy and Policy

Sport Technology: History, Philosophy and Policy

Author: A. Maih ,  Simon Bruce Eassom
ISBN: 9780762308804
Format: Hardback
$311.95

The need for questioning the ways in which technology is used in sports is the subject of this volume. Much of the...  Read More >>

The Globalizing Learning Economy

The Globalizing Learning Economy

Author: Daniele Archibugi (, Technological Director, National Research Council, Rome) ,  Bengt-Åke Lundvall (, Department of Business Studies, Aalborg University)
ISBN: 9780199258178
Format: Paperback
$141.95

In a landscape characterized by globalization, the contributors to this volume offer a new perspective on the transformation...  Read More >>

Against the Machine: The Hidden Luddite Tradition in Literature, Art, and Individual Lives

Against the Machine: The Hidden Luddite Tradition in...

Author: Nicols Fox
ISBN: 9781559638609
Format: Hardback
$211.20

In this work, Nicols Fox examines contemporary resistance to technology and places it in a surprising historical...  Read More >>

The Circus Age: Culture and Society under the American Big Top

The Circus Age: Culture and Society under the American...

Author: Janet M. Davis
ISBN: 9780807853993
Format: Paperback
$73.79

This work explores the development of the early 20th-century circus against developments such as the rise of big...  Read More >>

Consumers in the Country: Technology and Social Change in Rural America

Consumers in the Country: Technology and Social Change...

Author: Ronald R. Kline (Bovay Professor in History and Ethics of Engineering, Cornell University)
ISBN: 9780801871153
Format: Paperback
$73.99

Kline, avoiding the trap of technological determinism, explores the changing relationships among the Country Life...  Read More >>

Communication in a Virtual Organization

Communication in a Virtual Organization

Author: James O'Rourke ,  Sandra Collins
ISBN: 9780324152562
Format: Paperback
$137.15

Exploring communication in a virtual organization, this book helps readers understand how time and distance compression...  Read More >>

Virtual Society?: Technology, Cyberbole, Reality

Virtual Society?: Technology, Cyberbole, Reality

Author: Steve Woolgar (, Chair of Marketing, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford)
ISBN: 9780199248766
Format: Paperback
$141.95

This book investigates the effects on society of the new and much vaunted electronic technologies (ICTs). Are fundamental...  Read More >>

Virtual Society?: Technology, Cyberbole, Reality

Virtual Society?: Technology, Cyberbole, Reality

Author: Steve Woolgar (, Chair of Marketing, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford)
ISBN: 9780199248759
Format: Hardback
$128.95

This book investigates the effects on society of the new and much vaunted electronic technologies (ICTs). Are fundamental...  Read More >>

Towards a Theology of Science

Towards a Theology of Science

Author: Donald Lococa
ISBN: 9782895072706
Format: Paperback
$23.95

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MEDIA, RISK AND SCIENCE

MEDIA, RISK AND SCIENCE

Author: Stuart Allan
ISBN: 9780335206629
Format: Paperback
$68.95

Explores an array of issues, providing a framework for understanding key debates on how the media represent science...  Read More >>

Strategic Computing: DARPA and the Quest for Machine Intelligence, 1983-1993

Strategic Computing: DARPA and the Quest for Machine...

Author: Alex Roland (Duke University) ,  Philip Shiman
ISBN: 9780262529266
Format: Paperback
$79.99

The story of the U.S. Department of Defense's extraordinary effort, in the period from 1983 to 1993, to achieve...  Read More >>

Missions for Science: U.S. Technology and Medicine in America's African World

Missions for Science: U.S. Technology and Medicine in...

Author: David McBride
ISBN: 9780813530673
Format: Hardback
$105.60

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Future Perfect: Confronting Decisions About Genetics

Future Perfect: Confronting Decisions About Genetics...

Author: Lori B. Andrews
ISBN: 9780231121637
Format: Paperback
$59.95

Andrews offers a new plan for making decisions as individuals and as a society based on emerging issues of ethics...  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: 9780262232234
Format: Hardback
$116.16

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

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