Impact of science & technology on society books

8586 books were found.

European Cities and Technology: Industrial to Post-Industrial Cities

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

Author: Colin Chant ,  David Goodman
ISBN: 9780415200806
Format: Paperback
$92.00

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

Impossibility: The Limits of Science and the Science of Limits

Impossibility: The Limits of Science and the Science...

Author: John D. Barrow
ISBN: 9780099772118
Format: Paperback
$19.99

Barrow looks at what limits there might be to human discovery, and what we might find, ultimately, to be unknowable,...  Read More >>

Merged Evolution: Long-term Complications of Biotechnology and Informatin Technology

Merged Evolution: Long-term Complications of Biotechnology...

Author: Susantha Goonatilake
ISBN: 9789057005213
Format: Hardback
$238.00

This book charts the implications of two major forces of change, information technology and biotechnology, combined...  Read More >>

The Partnership Between Science and Industry: Co-operation or Conflict of Interest?

The Partnership Between Science and Industry: Co-operation...

Author: Gavin Stewart
ISBN: 9780712308496
Format: Paperback
$184.67

For some time now it has been established British government policy to foster close links among scientists, government...  Read More >>

Cyborgs@Cyberspace?: An Ethnographer Looks to the Future

Cyborgs@Cyberspace?: An Ethnographer Looks to the Future...

Author: David Hakken
ISBN: 9780415915595
Format: Paperback
$61.00

"This book outlines a fresh way of thinking about technology and offers an ethical and political response to the...  Read More >>

Meeting the Challenge of Sustainable Mobility: The Role of Technological Innovations

Meeting the Challenge of Sustainable Mobility: The Role...

Author: H. Geerlings
ISBN: 9783540654889
Format: Hardback
$340.56

The author provides new insights into the relationship between transport and the environment, the role of technology...  Read More >>

Communicating Uncertainty: Media Coverage of New and Controversial Science

Communicating Uncertainty: Media Coverage of New and...

Author: Sharon M. Friedman ,  Sharon Dunwoody
ISBN: 9780805827279
Format: Hardback
$168.00

Explores the interaction between scientists, journalists, & audiences in the comm. of info. on emerging scientific...  Read More >>

Questioning Technology

Questioning Technology

Author: Andrew Feenberg
ISBN: 9780415197557
Format: Paperback
$64.00

Questioning Reality convinces us that it is vital that we learn more about technology the better to live with it...  Read More >>

Society on the Line: Information Politics in the Digital Age

Society on the Line: Information Politics in the Digital...

Author: William Dutton (Professor, Annenberg School of Communication, Professor, Annenberg School of Communication, University of Southern California, Los Angeles)
ISBN: 9780198774600
Format: Paperback
$115.95

Presenting a way of thinking about the social and economic implications of the revolution in information and communication...  Read More >>

Questioning Technology

Questioning Technology

Author: Andrew Feenberg
ISBN: 9780415197540
Format: Hardback
$210.00

Questioning Reality convinces us that it is vital that we learn more about technology the better to live with it...  Read More >>

Society on the Line: Information Politics in the Digital Age

Society on the Line: Information Politics in the Digital...

Author: William Dutton (Professor, Annenberg School of Communication, Professor, Annenberg School of Communication, University of Southern California, Los Angeles)
ISBN: 9780198774617
Format: Hardback
$339.95

Presenting a way of thinking about the social and economic implications of the revolution in information and communication...  Read More >>

Polybrominated dibenzo-p-dioxins and dibenzofurans

Polybrominated dibenzo-p-dioxins and dibenzofurans

Author: United Nations Environment Programme ,  International Labour Organisation
ISBN: 9789241572057
Format: Paperback
$209.09

Evaluates the risks to human health and to the environment posed by exposure to polybrominated dibenzo-p-dioxins...  Read More >>

Consuming Power: A Social History of American Energies

Consuming Power: A Social History of American Energies...

Author: David E. Nye (Professor, University of Southern Denmark)
ISBN: 9780262640381
Format: Paperback
$130.00

Nye uses energy as a touchstone to examine the lives of ordinary people engaged in normal activities.  Read More >>

Cyborgs@cyberspace? an Ethnographer Looks to the Future

Cyborgs@cyberspace? an Ethnographer Looks to the Future...

Author: David Hakken
ISBN: 9781280355035
Format: Electronic book text
$300.96

This book outlines a fresh way of thinking about technology and offers an ethical and political response to the...  Read More >>

Communicating Uncertainty: Media Coverage of New and Controversial Science

Communicating Uncertainty: Media Coverage of New and...

Author: Sharon M. Friedman ,  Sharon Dunwoody
ISBN: 9780805827286
Format: Paperback
$72.00

Explores the interaction between scientists, journalists, & audiences in the comm. of info. on emerging scientific...  Read More >>

Anticipations of the Reactions of Mechanical and Scientific Progress upon Human Life and Thought

Anticipations of the Reactions of Mechanical and Scientific...

Author: H G Wells
ISBN: 9780486406732
Format: Paperback
$26.27

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Nature, Risk and Responsibility: Discourses of Biotechnology

Nature, Risk and Responsibility: Discourses of Biotechnology...

Author: Jo Campling ,  Patrick O'Mahony
ISBN: 9780333665886
Format: Paperback
$90.00

Explores the ethical interpretations of biotechnology and examines whether sufficient consensus exists or is emerging...  Read More >>

History of Technology

History of Technology

Author: Graham John Hollister- Short
ISBN: 9780720123760
Format: Hardback
$240.00

A history of technical discovery and change, which explores the relation of technology to other aspects of life...  Read More >>

Pre-Industrial Cities and Technology

Pre-Industrial Cities and Technology

Author: Colin Chant ,  David Goodman
ISBN: 9780415200752
Format: Hardback
$580.80

This text is divided into three main sections: ancient cities; medieval and early modern cities; and pre-industrial...  Read More >>

Making Technology Masculine: Men, Women, and Modern Machines in America, 1870-1945

Making Technology Masculine: Men, Women, and Modern...

Author: Ruth Oldenziel
ISBN: 9789053563816
Format: Paperback
$95.70

A pioneering study of the relations between gender and technology.  Read More >>

Leading the Wired Organization: The Information Professional's Guide to Managing Technological Change

Leading the Wired Organization: The Information Professional's...

Author: Mark Stover
ISBN: 9781555703578
Format: Hardback
$184.80

This text gives advice covering technical issues, and political and sociological changes technology brings to businesses:...  Read More >>

Pre-Industrial Cities and Technology

Pre-Industrial Cities and Technology

Author: Colin Chant ,  David Goodman
ISBN: 9780415200769
Format: Paperback
$105.00

This set, a series of three textbooks and three readers, explores a fundamental change in the history of human society,...  Read More >>

Safety Management: The Challenge of Change

Safety Management: The Challenge of Change

Author: Andrew Hale ,  M. Baram
ISBN: 9780080430751
Format: Hardback
$350.95

Studies how organisations manage safety and what is crucial for a good safety management system, how to harness...  Read More >>

Amalgamations: Fusing Culture & Technology

Amalgamations: Fusing Culture & Technology

Author: Susanne Lundin ,  Lynn Akesson
ISBN: 9789189116078
Format: Paperback
$38.68

Seven essays on the amalgamation of technology and culture. The amalgamations of technology and culture; technology...  Read More >>

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