Impact of science & technology on society books

8577 books were found.

Inside the Communication Revolution: Evolving Patterns of Social and Technical Interaction

Inside the Communication Revolution: Evolving Patterns...

Author: Robin Mansell (, Dixons Chair in New Media and the Internet, London School of Economics and Political Science)
ISBN: 9780198296553
Format: Hardback
$452.00

What does it mean to live and work inside the information and communication technology revolution? The nature and...  Read More >>

Biotechnology, Agriculture and the Developing World: The Distributional Implications of Technological Change

Biotechnology, Agriculture and the Developing World:...

Author: Timothy M. Swanson
ISBN: 9781840646795
Format: Hardback
$285.00

How will the industrial changes implicit within new biotechnologies affect modern agriculture? This book investigates...  Read More >>

Babel's Shadow: Genetic technologies in a fracturing society

Babel's Shadow: Genetic technologies in a fracturing...

Author: Pete Moore
ISBN: 9780745944241
Format: Paperback
$36.93

Argues for regulation of genetic research and technologies to avoid severe division and disease rather than cohesion...  Read More >>

Cyborg Citizen: Politics in the Posthuman Age

Cyborg Citizen: Politics in the Posthuman Age

Author: Chris Hables Gray
ISBN: 9780415919791
Format: Paperback
$56.00

"The creator of cult classic ""Cyborg Handbook"", Chris Hables Gray, now offers a guide to ""posthuman"" politics,...  Read More >>

Skeptical Environmentalism: The Limits of Philosophy and Science

Skeptical Environmentalism: The Limits of Philosophy...

Author: Robert Joseph Kirkman
ISBN: 9780253340375
Format: Hardback
$105.47

In this volume, Robert Kirkman raises doubts about the speculative tendencies of environmental thought that have...  Read More >>

Global Networks and Local Values: A Comparative Look at Germany and the United States

Global Networks and Local Values: A Comparative Look...

Author: National Research Council ,  Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences
ISBN: 9780309073103
Format: Paperback
$84.48

Focuses on the relationship between global information networks and local values. This book draws a comparison between...  Read More >>

Technology, Tradition and Survival: Aspects of Material Culture in the Middle East and Central Asia

Technology, Tradition and Survival: Aspects of Material...

Author: Richard Tapper (School of Oriental and African Studies, London, UK) ,  Keith McLachlan
ISBN: 9780714644875
Format: Paperback
$95.00

This work addresses the history, originality, variety and sophistication of traditional science, technology and...  Read More >>

Rocks of Ages: Science and Religion in the Fullness of Life

Rocks of Ages: Science and Religion in the Fullness...

Author: Stephen Jay Gould
ISBN: 9780345450401
Format: Paperback
$39.47

Writing with bracing intelligence and clarity, Stephen Jay Gould sheds new light on a dilemma that has plagued thinking...  Read More >>

A Companion to Genethics

A Companion to Genethics

Author: Justine Burley (National University of Singapore) ,  John Harris (University of Manchester)
ISBN: 9780631206989
Format: Hardback
$308.95

This is a study of the multi-faceted dimensions of the genetic revolution and its philosophical, ethical, social,...  Read More >>

Engines That Move Markets: Technology Investing from Railroads to the Internet and Beyond

Engines That Move Markets: Technology Investing from...

Author: Alasdair Nairn ,  John Templeton
ISBN: 9780471205951
Format: Hardback
$125.40

Experienced investment professional Sandy Nairn offers a comprehensive and fascinating account of the important...  Read More >>

Golden Helix

Golden Helix

Author: Kornberg
ISBN: 9781891389191
Format: Paperback
$42.00

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In Search of Boundaries: Communication, Nation-States and Cultural Identities

In Search of Boundaries: Communication, Nation-States...

Author: Joseph M. Chan ,  Bryce T. Mcintyre
ISBN: 9781567505719
Format: Paperback
$67.99

In this age of global communication, local identities and nation-states reassert themselves when cultural boundaries...  Read More >>

In Search of Boundaries: Communication, Nation-States, and Cultural Identities

In Search of Boundaries: Communication, Nation-States,...

Author: Joseph M. Chan ,  Bryce T. Mcintyre
ISBN: 9781567505702
Format: Hardback
$140.00

In this age of global communication, local identities and nation-states reassert themselves when cultural boundaries...  Read More >>

Information Systems and Global Diversity

Information Systems and Global Diversity

Author: Chrisanthi Avgerou
ISBN: 9781280907500
Format: Electronic book text
$179.97

This book studies the intertwined processes of information systems implementation and organizational change within...  Read More >>

Ex Machina: A History of the Robot from 1950 to the Present

Ex Machina: A History of the Robot from 1950 to the...

Author: Cologne Museum fur Angewandte Kunst
ISBN: 9783775711609
Format: Paperback
$40.00

Fifty years of robot history are presented in this work demonstrating the development and perspectives of machine...  Read More >>

Future of Health Technology

Future of Health Technology

Author: R.G. Bushko
ISBN: 9781586030919
Format: Hardback
$359.04

This text provides a comprehensive vision of the future of health technology by looking at the ways to advance medical...  Read More >>

Who Rules in Science?: An Opinionated Guide to the Wars

Who Rules in Science?: An Opinionated Guide to the Wars...

Author: J.R. Brown
ISBN: 9780674006522
Format: Hardback
$68.64

What if something as seemingly academic as the so-called science wars were to determine how we live? This book reveals...  Read More >>

Time and Space

Time and Space

Author: Barry Dainton
ISBN: 9780773523067
Format: Paperback
$65.87

Is time passing a basic feature of reality, or only illusory? Is the past real, or only the present? Is space nothingness,...  Read More >>

Time and Space

Time and Space

Author: Barry Dainton
ISBN: 9780773523029
Format: Hardback
$250.80

Is time passing a basic feature of reality, or only illusory? Is the past real, or only the present? Is space nothingness,...  Read More >>

Brick by Brick: Participatory technology development in brickmaking

Brick by Brick: Participatory technology development...

Author: Kelvin Mason
ISBN: 9781853395291
Format: Paperback
$38.68

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Information Systems and Global Diversity

Information Systems and Global Diversity

Author: Chrisanthi Avgerou
ISBN: 9781282199620
Format: Electronic book text
$179.97

This book studies the intertwined processes of information systems implementation and organizational change within...  Read More >>

Breaking the Digital Divide: Implications for Developing Countries

Breaking the Digital Divide: Implications for Developing...

Author: Elena Murelli ,  R.W'O. Okot-Uma
ISBN: 9780850926729
Format: Paperback
$52.67

Dynamism and innovation are predominant features in the emergence of the information society and knowledge economy....  Read More >>

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