Impact of science & technology on society books

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Digital Futures: Living in a Networked World

Digital Futures: Living in a Networked World

Author: James Wilsdon
ISBN: 9781853838989
Format: Paperback
$65.87

This text is an exploration of the social and environmental opportunities of the new economy. It brings together...  Read More >>

The Self Wired: Technology and Subjectivity in Contemporary Narrative

The Self Wired: Technology and Subjectivity in Contemporary...

Author: Lisa Yaszek
ISBN: 9780415939645
Format: Hardback
$160.00

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Risk and Technological Culture: Towards a Sociology of Virulence

Risk and Technological Culture: Towards a Sociology...

Author: Joost Van Loon
ISBN: 9780415229012
Format: Paperback
$78.00

This text presents a critical overview of the main theories of risk - from Ulrich Beck's foundation work to that...  Read More >>

The Labyrinths of Information: Challenging the Wisdom of Systems

The Labyrinths of Information: Challenging the Wisdom...

Author: Claudio Ciborra
ISBN: 9780199241521
Format: Hardback
$246.00

"This work takes an unusual approach to the use of information and communication technologies. The author uses metaphors...  Read More >>

Risk and Technological Culture: Towards a Sociology of Virulence

Risk and Technological Culture: Towards a Sociology...

Author: Joost Van Loon
ISBN: 9780415229005
Format: Hardback
$252.00

The question as to whether we are now entering a risk society has become a key debate in social theory. This title...  Read More >>

Shaping Technology, Guiding Policy: Concepts, Spaces and Tools

Shaping Technology, Guiding Policy: Concepts, Spaces...

Author: Knut H. Sørensen ,  Robin Williams
ISBN: 9781840646498
Format: Hardback
$345.80

This book makes significant advances in analysing the relationship between technology and society. It highlights...  Read More >>

Technology, Growth and Competitiveness: Selected Essays

Technology, Growth and Competitiveness: Selected Essays...

Author: Jan Fagerberg
ISBN: 9781840648591
Format: Hardback
$294.98

This outstanding collection charts the work of Jan Fagerberg on the relationship between technology, growth and...  Read More >>

e-Business and e-Challenges: Emerging Communication

e-Business and e-Challenges: Emerging Communication...

Author: Veljko,M. Milutinovic ,  Frederic Patricelli
ISBN: 9781586032760
Format: Hardback
$191.48

A discussion of issues relating to the development of e-business and e-challenges. It demonstrates that innovation...  Read More >>

Visions of the Land: Science, Literature and the American Environment from the Era of Exploration to the Age of Ecology

Visions of the Land: Science, Literature and the American...

Author: Michael A. Bryson
ISBN: 9780813921075
Format: Paperback
$51.48

This title explores how our environmental attitudes have been influenced and shaped by various scientific perspectives...  Read More >>

Visions of the Land: Science, Literature and the American Environment from the Era of Exploration to the Age of Ecology

Visions of the Land: Science, Literature and the American...

Author: Michael A. Bryson
ISBN: 9780813921068
Format: Hardback
$145.20

This title explores how our environmental attitudes have been influenced and shaped by various scientific perspectives...  Read More >>

Lines in the Water: Nature and Culture at Lake Titicaca

Lines in the Water: Nature and Culture at Lake Titicaca...

Author: Ben Orlove
ISBN: 9780520229594
Format: Paperback
$52.95

Takes us to the remote indigenous villages on the shore of Lake Titicaca, high in the Peruvian Andes. This title...  Read More >>

Confronting Mass Democracy and Industrial Technology: Political and Social Theory from Nietzsche to Habermas

Confronting Mass Democracy and Industrial Technology:...

Author: John P. McCormick
ISBN: 9780822327783
Format: Hardback
$250.67

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The Senses of Modernism: Technology, Perception, and Aesthetics

The Senses of Modernism: Technology, Perception, and...

Author: Sara Danius
ISBN: 9780801488009
Format: Paperback
$68.51

In The Senses of Modernism, Sara Danius develops a radically new theoretical and historical understanding of high...  Read More >>

Man and Technics: A Contribution to a Philosophy of Life

Man and Technics: A Contribution to a Philosophy of...

Author: Oswald Spengler
ISBN: 9780898759839
Format: Paperback
$77.88

In this revised edition of Man and Technics, Oswald Spengler's predictions have proven remarkably accurate after...  Read More >>

Romanticism and Science: Subcultures and Subversions

Romanticism and Science: Subcultures and Subversions...

Author: Tim Fulford
ISBN: 9780415219525
Format: Mixed media product
$1840.00

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The Senses of Modernism: Technology, Perception, and Aesthetics

The Senses of Modernism: Technology, Perception, and...

Author: Sara Danius
ISBN: 9780801438998
Format: Hardback
$279.45

In The Senses of Modernism, Sara Danius develops a radically new theoretical and historical understanding of high...  Read More >>

Science in Popular Culture: A Reference Guide

Science in Popular Culture: A Reference Guide

Author: A. Bowdoin Van Riper
ISBN: 9780313318221
Format: Hardback
$120.00

Spaceships travel through time at lightspeed, piloted by human clones and talking animals. Serious injuries are...  Read More >>

Telegraph Messenger Boys: Labor, Communication and Technology, 1850-1950

Telegraph Messenger Boys: Labor, Communication and Technology,...

Author: Gregory J. Downey
ISBN: 9780415931083
Format: Hardback
$208.00

The telegraph system is a communications network that revolutionized human perceptions of time and space. Telegraph...  Read More >>

The Next Fifty Years: Science in the First Half of the Twenty-first Century

The Next Fifty Years: Science in the First Half of the...

Author: John Brockman ,  John Brockman
ISBN: 9780375713422
Format: Paperback
$42.24

This brilliant ensemble of the world's most visionary scientists provides--in 25 never-before-published essays--original...  Read More >>

Introducing Science

Introducing Science

Author: Ziauddin Sardar ,  Borin Van Loon
ISBN: 9781840463583
Format: Paperback
$31.55

A clear and incisively illustrated anatomy of science. Covers issues such as: How do we reconcile the advantages...  Read More >>

Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge

Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific...

Author: Karl Popper
ISBN: 9780415285940
Format: Paperback
$32.95

One of Karl Popper's most wide-ranging and popular works, it provides the clearest statement of the fundamental...  Read More >>

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