Impact of science & technology on society books

8586 books were found.

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

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

Author: Neil Schlager
ISBN: 9780787639365
Format: Hardback
$279.45

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

Exploring the Gaps: Vital Links between Trade, Environment, and Culture

Exploring the Gaps: Vital Links between Trade, Environment,...

Author: James Lee
ISBN: 9781565491151
Format: Hardback
$82.95

Today's dramatic globalization parallels earlier historical periods of rapid technological change that brought contested...  Read More >>

From Fireplace To Cookstove: Technology and the Domestic Ideal in America

From Fireplace To Cookstove: Technology and the Domestic...

Author: Priscilla J Brewer
ISBN: 9780815606505
Format: Hardback
$79.07

An examination of the development of the first American appliance - the cast iron stove. The stove created a quiet...  Read More >>

e-Sphere: The Rise of the World-Wide Mind

e-Sphere: The Rise of the World-Wide Mind

Author: Joseph Pelton ,  Sir Arthur C. Clarke
ISBN: 9781567203905
Format: Hardback
$140.00

A truly important, necessary study for people at all levels of today's organizations, and for those expecting to...  Read More >>

Doing Science + Culture

Doing Science + Culture

Author: Roddey Reid ,  Sharon Traweek
ISBN: 9780415921121
Format: Paperback
$77.99

A collection of work in the cultural study of science, technology and medicine. A contribution by 'science watchers'....  Read More >>

Electronic Privacy A-Z: The Internet and beyond

Electronic Privacy A-Z: The Internet and beyond

Author: Bruce Maxwell
ISBN: 9781568025513
Format: Paperback
$52.99

Explosive growth in the use of tools such as computer databases, the Internet, and mobile telephones has sparked...  Read More >>

Electronic Privacy A-Z: The Internet and beyond

Electronic Privacy A-Z: The Internet and beyond

Author: Bruce Maxwell
ISBN: 9781568025520
Format: Hardback
$80.99

Explosive growth in the use of tools such as computer databases, the Internet, and mobile telephones has sparked...  Read More >>

Technology, Growth, and Development: An Induced Innovation Perspective

Technology, Growth, and Development: An Induced Innovation...

Author: Ruttan
ISBN: 9780195118711
Format: Hardback
$232.95

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Science In Public: Communication, Culture, And Credibility

Science In Public: Communication, Culture, And Credibility...

Author: Jane Gregory ,  Steven Miller
ISBN: 9780738203577
Format: Paperback
$26.99

A fascinating and insightful look at science in the media.  Read More >>

Finding Order in Nature: The Naturalist Tradition from Linnaeus to E. O. Wilson

Finding Order in Nature: The Naturalist Tradition from...

Author: Paul Lawrence Farber
ISBN: 9780801863905
Format: Paperback
$64.99

Many naturalists are drawn, consequently, to deeper philosophical and ethical issues: What is the extent of our...  Read More >>

The Nuclear Muse: Literature, Physics and the First Atomic Bomb

The Nuclear Muse: Literature, Physics and the First...

Author: John Canaday
ISBN: 9780299168544
Format: Paperback
$60.59

Crossing the boundaries between science and the humanities, the author explores the volumes of discourse involved...  Read More >>

The Metrics of Science and Technology

The Metrics of Science and Technology

Author: Eliezer Geisler
ISBN: 9781567202137
Format: Hardback
$131.00

Dr. Geisler's far-reaching, unique book provides an encyclopedic compilation of the key metrics to measure and evaluate...  Read More >>

The Renaissance Computer: Knowledge Technology in the First Age of Print

The Renaissance Computer: Knowledge Technology in the...

Author: Jonathan Sawday (University of Strathclyde, UK) ,  Neil Rhodes
ISBN: 9780415220637
Format: Hardback
$210.00

The Renaissance Computer some of the foremost Renaissance scholars look afresh at the remarkable products of the...  Read More >>

Reconnecting Culture, Technology and Nature: From Society to Heterogeneity

Reconnecting Culture, Technology and Nature: From Society...

Author: Professor Mike Michael (University of London Goldsmiths, University of London, UK Goldsmiths, University of London, UK)
ISBN: 9781280328510
Format: Electronic book text
$506.88

This book uses case studies of mundane technologies such as the walking boot, the car and the TV remote control...  Read More >>

Trade Specialisation, Technology and Economic Growth: Theory and Evidence from Advanced Countries

Trade Specialisation, Technology and Economic Growth:...

Author: Keld Laursen
ISBN: 9781840643855
Format: Hardback
$254.75

How does Ricardian specialisation affect economic development in relatively advanced countries? Keld Laursen, inspired...  Read More >>

Knowledge, Innovation and Economic Growth: The Theory and Practice of Learning Regions

Knowledge, Innovation and Economic Growth: The Theory...

Author: Frans Boekema ,  Kevin Morgan
ISBN: 9781840642155
Format: Hardback
$284.63

The learning region offers a new perspective on the dynamics of change which shape the economy. This book examines...  Read More >>

The Future of the Disabled in Liberal Society: An Ethical Analysis

The Future of the Disabled in Liberal Society: An Ethical...

Author: Hans S. Reinders ,  Joseph Dunne
ISBN: 9780268028565
Format: Hardback
$264.00

This text questions developments in human genetic research from the perspective of persons with mental disabilities...  Read More >>

Technical Fouls: Democracy And Technological Change

Technical Fouls: Democracy And Technological Change...

Author: John Kurt Jacobsen
ISBN: 9780813319995
Format: Paperback
$55.00

This book examines the interaction of ideology, profits, and power, and their combined effect upon technology policy...  Read More >>

Masons, Tricksters and Cartographers: Comparative Studies in the Sociology of Scientific and Indigenous Knowledge

Masons, Tricksters and Cartographers: Comparative Studies...

Author: David Turnbull
ISBN: 9789058230010
Format: Paperback
$73.00

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