Impact of science & technology on society books

8586 books were found.

Digital Democracy: Discourse and Decision Making in the Information Age

Digital Democracy: Discourse and Decision Making in...

Author: Barry N. Hague ,  Brian D Loader
ISBN: 9780415197373
Format: Hardback
$266.00

This text examines the impact of information and communication technologies (ICTs) and their consequences for political...  Read More >>

American Cities and Technology: Wilderness to Wired city

American Cities and Technology: Wilderness to Wired...

Author: Gerrylynn K. Roberts ,  Philip Steadman
ISBN: 9780415200837
Format: Hardback
$322.00

Provides a study of technological advances in relation to cities, ranging from 1790, when the first US census reported...  Read More >>

The Social Shaping of Technology

The Social Shaping of Technology

Author: Donald MacKenzie ,  Judy Wajcman
ISBN: 9780335199136
Format: Paperback
$73.95

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The Real World of Technology

The Real World of Technology

Author: Ursula Franklin
ISBN: 9780887846366
Format: Paperback
$50.03

In this expanded edition of her bestselling 1989 CBC Massey Lectures, renowned scientist and humanitarian Ursula...  Read More >>

Technology, Management and Systems of Innovation

Technology, Management and Systems of Innovation

Author: Keith Pavitt
ISBN: 9781858988740
Format: Hardback
$277.50

An analysis of innovation and technology. It assesses the economic impact of technological change and how it related...  Read More >>

Really? What is Mathematics

Really? What is Mathematics

Author: Reuben Hersh
ISBN: 9780195130874
Format: Paperback
$65.97

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Global Communications since 1844: Geopolitics and Technology

Global Communications since 1844: Geopolitics and Technology...

Author: Peter J. Hugill (Professor of Geography, Texas A&M University)
ISBN: 9780801860744
Format: Paperback
$84.35

This account demonstrates that the nations that best developed and marketed new technologies were the ones that...  Read More >>

Behind the Silicon Curtain: The Seductions of Work in a Lonely Era

Behind the Silicon Curtain: The Seductions of Work in...

Author: Dennis Hayes
ISBN: 9780896083509
Format: Paperback
$26.40

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High-tech Betrayal: Working and Organizing on the Shop Floor

High-tech Betrayal: Working and Organizing on the Shop...

Author: Victor G. Devinatz
ISBN: 9780870134937
Format: Paperback
$68.51

"High-Tech Betrayal is the first comprehensive study of life and work in an American high-tech factory. Victor Devinatz...  Read More >>

Prometheus Bedeviled: Science and the Contradictions of Contemporary Culture

Prometheus Bedeviled: Science and the Contradictions...

Author: Norman Levitt
ISBN: 9780813526522
Format: Hardback
$84.48

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The Sacred Depths of Nature

The Sacred Depths of Nature

Author: Ursula Goodenough (Professor of Biology, Professor of Biology, Washington University, St. Louis)
ISBN: 9780195126136
Format: Hardback
$82.95

For many of us, the scientific breakthroughs of our times--the Big Bang, evolution, quantum physics, and relativity--denote...  Read More >>

Behind the Silicon Curtain: The Seductions of Work in a Lonely Era

Behind the Silicon Curtain: The Seductions of Work in...

Author: Dennis Hayes
ISBN: 9780896083516
Format: Hardback
$79.20

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Renewing Governance: Governing by Learning in the Information Age

Renewing Governance: Governing by Learning in the Information...

Author: Steven A. Rosell
ISBN: 9780195414257
Format: Paperback
$84.35

'Renewing Governance' outlines the work and findings of an Action research programme undertaken by senior Canadian...  Read More >>

Who Gives a Gigabyte?: A Survival Guide for the Technologically Perplexed

Who Gives a Gigabyte?: A Survival Guide for the Technologically...

Author: Gary Stix ,  Miriam Lacob
ISBN: 9780471162933
Format: Hardback
$65.87

An insightful and timely guide to the new technologies that are shaping our lives.  Read More >>

The Double Helix: Technology and Democracy in the American Future

The Double Helix: Technology and Democracy in the American...

Author: Edward Wenk
ISBN: 9781567504316
Format: Paperback
$67.99

Whoever controls technology controls the future. America's preeminence stems from a remarkable intertwining of technology...  Read More >>

The Double Helix: Technology and Democracy in the American Future

The Double Helix: Technology and Democracy in the American...

Author: Edward Wenk
ISBN: 9781567504309
Format: Hardback
$140.00

Whoever controls technology controls the future. America's preeminence stems from a remarkable intertwining of technology...  Read More >>

The Hard People: Rivalry, Sympathy and Social Structure in an Alpine Valley

The Hard People: Rivalry, Sympathy and Social Structure...

Author: Patrick Heady
ISBN: 9789057023415
Format: Hardback
$224.00

Heady draws on both participant observation and interviews with older informants to trace the effects of recent...  Read More >>

The Horizontal Society

The Horizontal Society

Author: Lawrence M. Friedman
ISBN: 9780300075458
Format: Hardback
$132.00

Modern technology has radically and irretrievably altered our sense of identity and hence our social, political...  Read More >>

The Victorian Internet

The Victorian Internet

Author: Tom Standage
ISBN: 9780753807033
Format: Paperback
$24.99

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Crystal Fire: The Invention of the Transistor and the Birth of the Information Age

Crystal Fire: The Invention of the Transistor and the...

Author: Michael Riordan (Stanford University) ,  Lillian Hoddeson (University of Illinois)
ISBN: 9780393318517
Format: Paperback
$40.95

"""Without the invention of the transistor, I'm quite sure that the PC would not exist as we know it today.""—Bill...  Read More >>

European Cities and Technology: Industrial to Post-Industrial Cities

European Cities and Technology: Industrial to Post-Industrial...

Author: Colin Chant ,  David Goodman
ISBN: 9780415200790
Format: Hardback
$322.00

This volume covers cities of the industrial revolution to 1870, European cities since 1870 and urban technology...  Read More >>

God and the Chip: Religion and the Culture of Technology

God and the Chip: Religion and the Culture of Technology...

Author: William A. Stahl
ISBN: 9780889203211
Format: Paperback
$113.39

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