Impact of science & technology on society books

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Techno-Human Mesh: The Growing Power of Information Technologies

Techno-Human Mesh: The Growing Power of Information...

Author: Cynthia West
ISBN: 9781567204094
Format: Hardback
$131.00

West's research examines how information technologies are on a path of creating efficiency, productivity, profitability,...  Read More >>

Technology and In/equality: Questioning the Information Society

Technology and In/equality: Questioning the Information...

Author: Flis Henwood ,  Nod Miller
ISBN: 9780415230230
Format: Paperback
$76.00

This text explores the relationship between technology and inequality through social and cultural theory and case...  Read More >>

Virtual Gender

Virtual Gender

Author: Alison Adam (Sheffield Hallam University, UK) ,  Eileen Green (Sheffield City Polytechnic, Sheffield, UK)
ISBN: 9781280144936
Format: Electronic book text
$475.20

As yet there has been relatively little published on women's activities in relation to new digital technologies....  Read More >>

Conversation and Technology: From the Telephone to the Internet

Conversation and Technology: From the Telephone to the...

Author: Ian Hutchby (Brunel University)
ISBN: 9780745621111
Format: Paperback
$36.95

A A well--written, innovative book, which makes an important contribution to current debates about the role of communication...  Read More >>

Contested Futures: A Sociology of Prospective Techno-Science

Contested Futures: A Sociology of Prospective Techno-Science...

Author: Nik Brown ,  Brian Rappert
ISBN: 9780754612636
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Examining the relationship between social action and the future, this book interrogates the metaphors and practices...  Read More >>

Planchette; Or, the Despair of Science. Being a Full Account of Modern Spiritualism, Its Phenomena, and the Various Theories Regarding It. with a Surv

Planchette; Or, the Despair of Science. Being a Full...

Author: Epes Sargent
ISBN: 9781418120962
Format: Hardback
$105.47

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Electronic Revolution

Electronic Revolution

Author: W.S. Burroughs
ISBN: 9783880300026
Format: Paperback
$36.83

A newly issued and reformatted, beautifully designed larger version of this bilingual German/English work, published...  Read More >>

The Robot Revolution

The Robot Revolution

Author: Tom Logsdon
ISBN: 9780595149483
Format: Paperback
$42.11

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Technology and the Good Life?

Technology and the Good Life?

Author: Eric Higgs ,  Andrew Light
ISBN: 9780226333878
Format: Paperback
$72.95

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Technology and the Good Life?

Technology and the Good Life?

Author: Eric Higgs ,  Andrew Light
ISBN: 9780226333861
Format: Hardback
$187.95

This work uses a collective analysis of Albert Borgmann's controversial ideas as a jumping-off point from which...  Read More >>

The Touchstone of Life: Molecular Information, Cell Communication, and the Foundations of Life

The Touchstone of Life: Molecular Information, Cell...

Author: Werner R Lowenstein ,  Werner R Loewenstein
ISBN: 9780195140576
Format: Paperback
$52.67

A world-renowned biologist takes readers to the forefront of science as he proposes a revolutionary way of thinking...  Read More >>

The Concise Encyclopedia of the Ethics of New Technologies

The Concise Encyclopedia of the Ethics of New Technologies...

Author: Ruth Chadwick
ISBN: 9786611025878
Format: Electronic book text
$654.72

The ethical assessment of new technologies raises two principal concerns: the need to develop effective policies...  Read More >>

Digital Divide, The: Facing a Crisis or Creating a Myth?

Digital Divide, The: Facing a Crisis or Creating a Myth?...

Author: Benjamin M Compaine (Massachusetts Instit of Technology) ,  Benjamin M Compaine (Massachusetts Instit of Technology)
ISBN: 9781282100251
Format: Electronic book text
$92.40

This book presents data supporting the existence of a gap along racial, economic, ethnic, and education lines between...  Read More >>

Philosophical Tools for Technological Culture: Putting Pragmatism to Work

Philosophical Tools for Technological Culture: Putting...

Author: Dr Larry A Hickman, PH.D. (Southern Illinois University)
ISBN: 9781282066113
Format: Undefined
$44.85

Hickman['s]... style of pragmatism provides us with flexible, philosophical 'tools' which can be used to analyze...  Read More >>

Science and Its Times: Understanding the Social Significance of Scientific Discovery

Science and Its Times: Understanding the Social Significance...

Author: Neil Schlager ,  Josh Lauer
ISBN: 9780787639358
Format: Hardback
$359.04

Combining essays on people, theories, discoveries and concepts with overviews, primary documents and chronological...  Read More >>

Art and Technics

Art and Technics

Author: Lewis Mumford ,  Casey Nelson Blake
ISBN: 9780231121057
Format: Paperback
$54.95

"Lewis Mumford was the author of more than thirty influential books, many of which expounded his views on the perils...  Read More >>

The Labyrinth of Technology: A Preventive Technology and Economic Strategy as a Way Out

The Labyrinth of Technology: A Preventive Technology...

Author: Willem H. Vanderburg
ISBN: 9780802044310
Format: Hardback
$160.00

Exposing the limitations of conventional approaches to the engineering and regulation of technology, Vanderburg...  Read More >>

Biology Today an Issues Approach

Biology Today an Issues Approach

Author: Eli C. Minkoff ,  Pamela J. Baker
ISBN: 9780815327608
Format: Paperback
$217.67

Biology as a subject not only plays a major role within the scientific world but has broader implications that...  Read More >>

Telecosm: How Infinite Bandwidth Will Revolutionize Our World

Telecosm: How Infinite Bandwidth Will Revolutionize...

Author: George Gilder ,  Jeff Riggenbach
ISBN: 9780786198108
Format: Audio
$211.20

One of the world's leading futurologists and technology analysts offers a guide to the post-computer age of communications...  Read More >>

Stability and Change in High-Tech Enterprises: Organisational Practices in Small to Medium Enterprises

Stability and Change in High-Tech Enterprises: Organisational...

Author: Neil Costello
ISBN: 9780415231213
Format: Hardback
$266.00

How do firms live through and experience change? The author examines four high-technology firms, providing an analysis...  Read More >>

Copying Machines: Taking Notes for the Automaton

Copying Machines: Taking Notes for the Automaton

Author: Catherine Liu
ISBN: 9780816635030
Format: Paperback
$46.95

Explores literary theory's fear of and fascination with the mechanical. Anxieties about fixing the absolute difference...  Read More >>

Copying Machines: Taking Notes for the Automaton

Copying Machines: Taking Notes for the Automaton

Author: Catherine Liu
ISBN: 9780816635023
Format: Hardback
$114.00

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