Impact of science & technology on society books

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The Future of Tradition: Customary Law, Common Law and Legal Pluralism

The Future of Tradition: Customary Law, Common Law and...

Author: Leon Shaskolsky Sheleff
ISBN: 9780714649535
Format: Hardback
$266.00

This study of the manner in which indigenous peoples can function in modern states offers a survey of tribal life....  Read More >>

Architecture and Identity

Architecture and Identity

Author: Chris Abel (University of Ulster, UK) ,  Chris Abel
ISBN: 9780750642460
Format: Paperback
$195.23

This edited collection of essays, now in its second edition, brings together the author's key writings on the technological,...  Read More >>

Learning to Glow: A Nuclear Reader

Learning to Glow: A Nuclear Reader

Author: John Bradley
ISBN: 9780816519552
Format: Hardback
$121.44

Atomic energy is not only invisible, it has been cloaked in secrecy by government, industry, and the military. Yet...  Read More >>

What is an Exchange?: Automation, Management, and Regulation of Financial Markets

What is an Exchange?: Automation, Management, and Regulation...

Author: Ruben Lee (Director, Director, Oxford Finance Group)
ISBN: 9780198297048
Format: Paperback
$133.95

This book analyses the operation, management, and governance of stock and futures exchanges as providers of trading...  Read More >>

Exploring Communication

Exploring Communication

Author: Richard D Seymour ,  Florence A Cloghessy
ISBN: 9781566376785
Format: Book
$121.44

Introduces the process of communication in its various forms, explaining the designing and transmitting of messages,...  Read More >>

Unnatural Harvest: How Genetic Engineering is Altering Our Food

Unnatural Harvest: How Genetic Engineering is Altering...

Author: Ingeborg Boyens
ISBN: 9780385257893
Format: Paperback
$36.83

Do you know what you're eating? Do you know what you're feeding your children? Chances are, the last time you visited...  Read More >>

Between Understanding and Trust: The Public, Science and Technology

Between Understanding and Trust: The Public, Science...

Author: Meinolf Dierkes ,  Claudia von Grote
ISBN: 9789058230072
Format: Hardback
$238.00

This book identifies and analyses the public understanding of science and technology and makes an important new...  Read More >>

The Information Revolution and the Arab World: Its Impact on State and Society

The Information Revolution and the Arab World: Its Impact...

Author: Emirates Center for Strategic Studies & Research
ISBN: 9781860642098
Format: Paperback
$55.00

An exploration of the information and communication revolution and its effect on Arab states and societies. The...  Read More >>

The Facts on File Encyclopedia of Science, Technology, and Society

The Facts on File Encyclopedia of Science, Technology,...

Author: Rudi Volti
ISBN: 9780816031238
Format: Hardback
$698.63

This three-volume reference presents science and technology in the context of historical and social dimensions....  Read More >>

Cities in the Telecommunications Age: The Fracturing of Geographies

Cities in the Telecommunications Age: The Fracturing...

Author: James O. Wheeler ,  Yuko Aoyama
ISBN: 9780415924429
Format: Paperback
$118.67

Case studies of cities such as Atlanta, Phoenix, and Sunderland provide an insight into urban cyberspace and the...  Read More >>

Engineering Tomorrow: Today's Technology Experts Envision the Next Century

Engineering Tomorrow: Today's Technology Experts Envision...

Author: Janie Fouke ,  Dave Dooling
ISBN: 9780780353626
Format: Hardback
$227.95

This work is an informal ""status report"" on electrical and electronics engineering and its potential for human...  Read More >>

GOVERNANCE OF SCIENCE

GOVERNANCE OF SCIENCE

Author: Steve Fuller
ISBN: 9780335202348
Format: Paperback
$126.67

Offers a perspective on the governance of science from the standpoint of social and political theory. This book...  Read More >>

Gender and Technology

Gender and Technology

Author: Caroline Sweetman
ISBN: 9780855984229
Format: Paperback
$33.51

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Poetry at Stake: Lyric Aesthetics and the Challenge of Technology

Poetry at Stake: Lyric Aesthetics and the Challenge...

Author: Carrie Noland
ISBN: 9780691004174
Format: Paperback
$94.99

Carrie Noland explores poetic attempts to redefine the relationship between subjective expression and mechanical...  Read More >>

Social Issues in Science and Technology: An Encyclopedia

Social Issues in Science and Technology: An Encyclopedia...

Author: David E. Newton
ISBN: 9780874369205
Format: Hardback
$130.00

A thought-provoking compendium exploring differing views, possible social impacts, and government policy decisions...  Read More >>

Hardrock Mining on Federal Lands

Hardrock Mining on Federal Lands

Author: National Research Council ,  Division on Earth and Life Studies
ISBN: 9780309065962
Format: Paperback
$69.30

Examines the adequacy of the regulatory framework for mining of hardrock minerals - such as gold, silver, copper,...  Read More >>

Wonder and Science: Imagining Worlds in Early Modern Europe

Wonder and Science: Imagining Worlds in Early Modern...

Author: Mary Baine Campbell
ISBN: 9780801436482
Format: Hardback
$152.99

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Off the Record: The Technology and Culture of Sound Recording in America

Off the Record: The Technology and Culture of Sound...

Author: David Morton
ISBN: 9780813527475
Format: Paperback
$71.15

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Technology and Literacy in the Twenty-first Century

Technology and Literacy in the Twenty-first Century...

Author: Cynthia L. Selfe ,  Hugh Burns
ISBN: 9780809322695
Format: Paperback
$84.48

Part critique of existing policy and practice, part call-to-action, this work explores the complex linkage between...  Read More >>

Conceptualizing Technological Change: Theoretical and Empirical Explorations

Conceptualizing Technological Change: Theoretical and...

Author: Govindan Parayil, University of South Florida
ISBN: 9780847695201
Format: Hardback
$232.32

An analysis of technology, and how it develops and changes, both spatially and temporally. Drawing on a detailed...  Read More >>

Testing Women, Testing the Fetus

Testing Women, Testing the Fetus

Author: Rayna Rapp
ISBN: 9781280055157
Format: Electronic book text
$174.08

Rich with the voices and stories of participants, these firsthand accounts examine how women of diverse racial,...  Read More >>

Technology and the Logic of American Racism

Technology and the Logic of American Racism

Author: Professor Sarah E Chinn
ISBN: 9781281298065
Format: Electronic book text
$264.00

In this book, Sarah E. Chinn pulls together what seems to be opposite discourses--the information-driven languages...  Read More >>

The Concise Encyclopedia of the Ethics of New Technologies

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

Author: Distinguished Research Professor and Director Ruth Chadwick (Cardiff University)
ISBN: 9781281025876
Format: Electronic book text
$491.04

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

Database Nation

Database Nation

Author: Simson Garfinkel
ISBN: 9781306817684
Format: Electronic book text
$36.93

Fifty years ago, in 1984, George Orwell imagined a future in which privacy was demolished by a totalitarian state...  Read More >>

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