Impact of science & technology on society books

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Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge

Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific...

Author: Karl Popper
ISBN: 9780415285933
Format: Hardback
$189.00

As one of Karl Popper's most wide-ranging and popular works, Conjectures and Refutations provides the clearest statement...  Read More >>

Engineering the Farm: The Social and Ethical Aspects of Agricultural Biotechnology

Engineering the Farm: The Social and Ethical Aspects...

Author: Marc Lappe ,  Britt Bailey
ISBN: 9781559639477
Format: Paperback
$66.00

An examination of the wide-ranging social and ethical issues surrounding the production and consumption of genetically...  Read More >>

Genetics and Society: An Introduction

Genetics and Society: An Introduction

Author: Alison Plinick
ISBN: 9780335207367
Format: Hardback
$316.80

What impact do advances in genetic science have on the relationships between humans and the world in which they...  Read More >>

Engineering the Farm: The Social and Ethical Aspects of Agricultural Biotechnology

Engineering the Farm: The Social and Ethical Aspects...

Author: Marc Lappe ,  Britt Bailey
ISBN: 9781559639460
Format: Hardback
$105.60

An examination of the wide-ranging social and ethical issues surrounding the production and consumption of genetically...  Read More >>

The Information Society: A Sceptical View

The Information Society: A Sceptical View

Author: Christopher T. May (University of the West of England)
ISBN: 9780745626840
Format: Hardback
$184.67

In this timely new book, Christopher May surveys some of the most influential and important writings that declare...  Read More >>

Conceptualizing Technological Change: Theoretical and Empirical Explorations

Conceptualizing Technological Change: Theoretical and...

Author: Govindan Parayil, University of South Florida
ISBN: 9780742520042
Format: Paperback
$60.95

This work gathers scholarship from many disciplines as it seeks to develop a cohesive theory of technological change....  Read More >>

Fields of Discovery: Australia'S CSIRO

Fields of Discovery: Australia'S CSIRO

Author: Brad Collis
ISBN: 9781865086026
Format: Hardback
$79.07

This historical narrative focuses on the achievements and successes of the CSIRO and the people who contributed...  Read More >>

Science Studies: Probing the Dynamics of Scientific Knowledge

Science Studies: Probing the Dynamics of Scientific...

Author: Sabine Maasen ,  Matthias Winterhager
ISBN: 9783933127648
Format: Paperback
$105.47

How can we understand the intensifying interactions of science and society? The answers are found in part in the...  Read More >>

Politics in Wired Nations: Selected Writings of Ithiel De Sola Pool

Politics in Wired Nations: Selected Writings of Ithiel...

Author: Ithiel de Sola Pool ,  Lloyd S. Etheredge
ISBN: 9780765809414
Format: Paperback
$111.24

Ithiel de Sola Pool was a pioneering social scientist, a distinguished scholar of the political process, and one...  Read More >>

Virtual Organization: Toward a Theory of Societal Transformation Stimulated by Information Technology

Virtual Organization: Toward a Theory of Societal Transformation...

Author: Abbe L. Mowshowitz ,  Murray Turoff
ISBN: 9781567205015
Format: Hardback
$140.00

Computers mediate between individuals by providing channels of communication in the form of messaging systems; they...  Read More >>

Inventing Ourselves Out of Jobs?: America's Debate over Technological Unemployment, 1929–1981

Inventing Ourselves Out of Jobs?: America's Debate over...

Author: Amy Sue Bix (Iowa State University)
ISBN: 9780801869136
Format: Paperback
$77.99

In her concluding chapters and epilogue, Bix shows how the issue changed during World War II and in postwar America...  Read More >>

Silicon Literacies: Communication, Innovation and Education in the Electronic Age

Silicon Literacies: Communication, Innovation and Education...

Author: Ilana Snyder
ISBN: 9780415276689
Format: Paperback
$70.00

Written by international scholars from a range of disciplines, the essays in this collection examine the implications...  Read More >>

Silicon Literacies: Communication, Innovation and Education in the Electronic Age

Silicon Literacies: Communication, Innovation and Education...

Author: Ilana Snyder
ISBN: 9780415276672
Format: Hardback
$224.00

This book unravels the key features of the new communication order to explore the social, cultural and educational...  Read More >>

The Terrible Gift: The Brave New World of Genetic Medicine

The Terrible Gift: The Brave New World of Genetic Medicine...

Author: Rick J. Carlson ,  Gary Stimeling
ISBN: 9781891620652
Format: Hardback
$68.64

"An exploration of the onrushing revolution in health care: its science-fiction benefits, its hidden dangers and...  Read More >>

Abraham Lincoln's DNA and Other Adventures in Genetics

Abraham Lincoln's DNA and Other Adventures in Genetics...

Author: Philip R. Reilly
ISBN: 9780879696498
Format: Paperback
$34.95

Twenty-four true, wide-ranging tales of crime, history, human behavior, illness, and ethics, told from the personal...  Read More >>

Communication, Technology and Society

Communication, Technology and Society

Author: Lelia R Green
ISBN: 9780761947080
Format: Hardback
$369.60

In Communication, Technology and Society, Green focuses on the technologies of communication, from things we don′t...  Read More >>

Communication, Technology and Society

Communication, Technology and Society

Author: Lelia R Green
ISBN: 9780761947097
Format: Paperback
$158.27

In Communication, Technology and Society, Green focuses on the technologies of communication, from things we don′t...  Read More >>

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