Impact of science & technology on society books

8586 books were found.

Re-Shaping Work 2: Labour, the Workplace, and Technological Change

Re-Shaping Work 2: Labour, the Workplace, and Technological...

Author: Chris Schenk ,  John Anderson
ISBN: 9781551930299
Format: Paperback
$100.19

This book will contribute to a better understanding of workplace change, the role of new technologies, the debate...  Read More >>

On Line and On Paper: Visual Representations, Visual Culture, and Computer Graphics in Design Engineering

On Line and On Paper: Visual Representations, Visual...

Author: Kathryn Henderson ,  Wiebe E. Bijker (Professor of Technology and Society, Maastricht University)
ISBN: 9780262519144
Format: Paperback
$47.50

The role of representation in the production of techno-scientific knowledge has become a subject of great interest...  Read More >>

On a Silver Platter: CD-ROMs and the Promises of a New Technology

On a Silver Platter: CD-ROMs and the Promises of a New...

Author: Greg M. Smith
ISBN: 9780814780817
Format: Paperback
$64.99

The contributors to this book examine how CD-ROMs offer alternatives to familiar places, especially classrooms....  Read More >>

On a Silver Platter: CD-ROMs and the Promises of a New Technology

On a Silver Platter: CD-ROMs and the Promises of a New...

Author: Greg M. Smith
ISBN: 9780814780800
Format: Hardback
$184.00

The contributors to this book examine how CD-ROMs offer alternatives to familiar places, especially classrooms....  Read More >>

Information Technology Diffusion in the Asia Pacific: Perspectives on Policy, Electronic Commerce and Education

Information Technology Diffusion in the Asia Pacific:...

Author: Felix B. Tan ,  P.Scott Corbett
ISBN: 9781878289483
Format: Hardback
$139.95

In the last decade, IT has advanced so rapidly and its impact has become so pervasive, that it is necessary to revisit...  Read More >>

Pre-Industrial Cities & Technology

Pre-Industrial Cities & Technology

Author: Colin Chant ,  David Goodman (Polytechnic University, NY)
ISBN: 9781280241161
Format: Electronic book text
$728.64

This textbook is designed to be used on its own or in association with the Pre-Industrial Cities and Technology...  Read More >>

The Possibility of Naturalism: A philosophical critique of the contemporary human sciences

The Possibility of Naturalism: A philosophical critique...

Author: Roy Bhaskar
ISBN: 9780415198738
Format: Hardback
$210.00

This one of the cornerstones of the critical realist position, which is now widely seen as offering a viable alternative...  Read More >>

Winners and Losers of the Information Revolution: Psychosocial Change and Its Discontents

Winners and Losers of the Information Revolution: Psychosocial...

Author: Bernard Rosen
ISBN: 9780275962777
Format: Hardback
$140.00

The second great transformation of our society in the modern era has demoted manufacturing to a position that is...  Read More >>

Digital Democracy: Discourse and Decision Making in the Information Age

Digital Democracy: Discourse and Decision Making in...

Author: N Hague Barry
ISBN: 9781280143359
Format: Electronic book text
$448.80

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

World Without Mind

World Without Mind

Author: Franklin Foer
ISBN: 9781787330290
Format: Paperback
$36.20

They have produced an unstable and narrow culture of misinformation, and put us on a path to a world without private...  Read More >>

Technological Change in the Modern Economy: Basic Topics and New Developments

Technological Change in the Modern Economy: Basic Topics...

Author: Paul Beije
ISBN: 9781858983318
Format: Hardback
$279.45

Technological Change in the Modern Economy presents an authoritative overview of the economics of technological...  Read More >>

Society on the Line: Information Politics in the Digital Age

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

Author: William H Dutton
ISBN: 9786610906895
Format: Electronic book text
$326.96

Society on the Line presents a new way of thinking about the social and economic implications of the revolution...  Read More >>

The Advancement of Science, and Its Burdens: With a New Introduction

The Advancement of Science, and Its Burdens: With a...

Author: Gerald Holton
ISBN: 9780674005303
Format: Paperback
$72.95

How did Einstein’s ideas shape the imaginations of 20th-century artists and writers? Are there national differences...  Read More >>

Live from the Trenches: Changing Role of the Television News Correspondent

Live from the Trenches: Changing Role of the Television...

Author: Joe S. Foote ,  Ted Koppel
ISBN: 9780809322329
Format: Hardback
$72.32

"Focuses on American television news correspondents and their work, with much of the analysis coming from the correspondents...  Read More >>

The Intellectual Appropriation of Technology: Discourses on Modernity, 1900-1939

The Intellectual Appropriation of Technology: Discourses...

Author: Mikael Hard (Darmstadt University of Technology) ,  Andrew Jamison (Professor of Technology and Society, Aalborg University)
ISBN: 9780262581660
Format: Paperback
$79.99

This book examines the broad range of social and intellectual responses to technology in the first four decades...  Read More >>

The Intellectual Appropriation of Technology: Discourses on Modernity, 1900-1939

The Intellectual Appropriation of Technology: Discourses...

Author: Mikael Hard (Darmstadt University of Technology) ,  Andrew Jamison (Professor of Technology and Society, Aalborg University)
ISBN: 9780262082686
Format: Hardback
$165.00

This book examines the broad range of social and intellectual responses to technology in the first four decades...  Read More >>

Cracking the Gender Code: Who Rules the Wired World?

Cracking the Gender Code: Who Rules the Wired World?...

Author: Melanie Stewart Millar
ISBN: 9781896764146
Format: Paperback
$61.97

The digital world, its advertising machinery and the popular media are pushing women back into traditional roles...  Read More >>

Socio-Political Reflections and Civil Defense

Socio-Political Reflections and Civil Defense

Author: E.P. Wigner ,  Jagdish Mehra
ISBN: 9783540572954
Format: Hardback
$604.56

Wigner, one of the leading scientists involved in the early development of nuclear technology, had always in mind...  Read More >>

Genetic Maps and Human Imaginations: The Limits of Science in Understanding Who We Are

Genetic Maps and Human Imaginations: The Limits of Science...

Author: Barbara Katz Rothman
ISBN: 9780393350098
Format: Paperback
$34.05

The new genetics and race, illness, and procreation.  Read More >>

Fostering Research on the Economic and Social Impacts of Information Technology

Fostering Research on the Economic and Social Impacts...

Author: National Research Council ,  Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences
ISBN: 9780309060325
Format: Paperback
$92.40

The tremendous growth in use of information technology (IT) has led to an increased interest in understanding its...  Read More >>

High Technology and Low-Income Communities: Prospects for the Positive Use of Advanced Information Technology

High Technology and Low-Income Communities: Prospects...

Author: Donald A. Schön ,  Bishwapriya Sanyal (Ford International Professor of Urban Development and PlanningDirector, SPURS and Humphrey Programs, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
ISBN: 9780262691994
Format: Paperback
$97.68

This text considers how low-income communities will be affected by the waves of social, economic, political and...  Read More >>

Chemical Research 2000 and Beyond: Challenges and Visions

Chemical Research 2000 and Beyond: Challenges and Visions...

Author: Paul Barkan
ISBN: 9780841235755
Format: Hardback
$145.20

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Living and Dying Well

Living and Dying Well

Author: Lewis Petrinovich
ISBN: 9780262661423
Format: Paperback
$79.20

In the second volume of his trilogy, Lewis Petrinovich presents a detailed account of the dilemmas that humans in...  Read More >>

Imagined Worlds

Imagined Worlds

Author: Freeman Dyson
ISBN: 9780674539099
Format: Paperback
$55.95

Dyson shows us where science and technology, real and imagined, may be taking us. The stories he tells—about “Napoleonic”...  Read More >>

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