Impact of science & technology on society books

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The Science Matrix: The Journey, Travails, Triumphs

The Science Matrix: The Journey, Travails, Triumphs...

Author: Frederick Seitz
ISBN: 9780387985749
Format: Paperback
$171.47

""Seitz Presents a sophisticated, balanced, and practical analysis of the relationship between science and society...  Read More >>

Cyborg Babies: From Techno-Sex to Techno-Tots

Cyborg Babies: From Techno-Sex to Techno-Tots

Author: Robbie Davis-Floyd ,  Joseph Dumit
ISBN: 9780415916035
Format: Hardback
$200.00

This book tracks the process of reproducing children in symbiosis with pervasive technology and offers a range of...  Read More >>

Knowing Machines: Essays on Technical Change

Knowing Machines: Essays on Technical Change

Author: Donald Mackenzie (University of Edinburgh)
ISBN: 9780262631884
Format: Paperback
$79.20

"Ranging from broad inquiries into the roles of economics and sociology in the explanation of technological change...  Read More >>

His and Hers: Gender, Consumption and Technology

His and Hers: Gender, Consumption and Technology

Author: Roger Horowitz ,  Arwen Mohun
ISBN: 9780813918020
Format: Paperback
$59.40

A collection of essays exploring the history of consumption by synthesizing discrete historical literatures on consumer...  Read More >>

The Social Control of Technology in North Africa: Information in the Global Economy

The Social Control of Technology in North Africa: Information...

Author: Andrea Kavanaugh
ISBN: 9780275948153
Format: Hardback
$110.00

Examines the social control of new media and the implications of access to new media in a controlled environment....  Read More >>

Mind at Large

Mind at Large

Author: James L Perry ,  Frederick Ferre (University of Georgia, USA)
ISBN: 9780762300181
Format: Paperback
$56.95

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Zeros and Ones: Digital Women and the New Technoculture

Zeros and Ones: Digital Women and the New Technoculture...

Author: Sadie Plant
ISBN: 9781857026986
Format: Paperback
$23.99

A highly contentious, very readable and totally up-to-the-minute investigation of women’s natural relationship with...  Read More >>

The Fifth Branch: Science Advisers as Policymakers

The Fifth Branch: Science Advisers as Policymakers

Author: Sheila Jasanoff
ISBN: 9780674300620
Format: Paperback
$72.95

How can decisionmakers tasked with protecting the environment and public health avoid false or misleading scientific...  Read More >>

Medicine Worth Paying For: Assessing Medical Innovations

Medicine Worth Paying For: Assessing Medical Innovations...

Author: Howard S. Frazier ,  C. Frederick Mosteller
ISBN: 9780674563629
Format: Hardback
$169.95

There have been few credible studies of the risks and benefits of widely used medical treatments. Howard Frazier...  Read More >>

Science, Technology and Culture: Cultural Studies Volume 12 Issue 3

Science, Technology and Culture: Cultural Studies Volume...

Author: Anne Balsamo
ISBN: 9780415184274
Format: Paperback
$50.00

An issue of the journal 'Cultural Studies', devoted to the study of culture in scientific and technological systems....  Read More >>

Global News Access: The Impact of New Communications Technologies

Global News Access: The Impact of New Communications...

Author: Carla B. Johnston
ISBN: 9780275957742
Format: Hardback
$140.00

This analysis of the worldwide impact of new communications technologies shows how ordinary citizens can protect...  Read More >>

The Machine in Me: An Anthropologist Sits Among Computer Engineers

The Machine in Me: An Anthropologist Sits Among Computer...

Author: Gary Lee Downey
ISBN: 9780415920223
Format: Paperback
$64.00

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The Machine in Me: An Anthropologist Sits Among Computer Engineers

The Machine in Me: An Anthropologist Sits Among Computer...

Author: Gary Lee Downey
ISBN: 9780415920216
Format: Hardback
$216.00

This ethnography of computer engineers documents the everyday power of technology's dominant image in society, and...  Read More >>

Impossibility

Impossibility

Author: John D. Barrow
ISBN: 9780198518907
Format: Hardback
$75.00

What can we never do? The end of each century leads to a stocktaking of human achievement and our expectations about...  Read More >>

Seizing the Future: Dawn of the Macroindustrial Era

Seizing the Future: Dawn of the Macroindustrial Era...

Author: Jonathan B. Imber ,  Jonathan B. Imber
ISBN: 9780765804440
Format: Paperback
$76.53

Seizing the Future is a provocative and optimistic look at the way advances in scientific and technological knowledge...  Read More >>

Avatars of the Word: From Papyrus to Cyberspace

Avatars of the Word: From Papyrus to Cyberspace

Author: James J. O'Donnell
ISBN: 9780674055452
Format: Hardback
$126.72

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The Indian Response to European Technology and Culture, AD 1498-1707

The Indian Response to European Technology and Culture,...

Author: Ahsan Jan Qaisar
ISBN: 9780195645552
Format: Paperback
$18.95

This volume demolishes the myth that Indian society was resistant to change. Through a fascinating diversity of...  Read More >>

Visions

Visions

Author: Michio Kaku
ISBN: 9780198500865
Format: Hardback
$37.95

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Noble Numbers, Subtle Words: Art of Mathematics in the Science of Storytelling

Noble Numbers, Subtle Words: Art of Mathematics in the...

Author: Barbara M. Fisher
ISBN: 9780838637401
Format: Hardback
$83.16

This book investigates the use of number, geometry, and mathematical abstraction in the service of a literary text....  Read More >>

Using IT Effectively: A Guide to Technology in the Social Sciences

Using IT Effectively: A Guide to Technology in the Social...

Author: Millsom Henry ,  Millsom Henry University of Stirling.
ISBN: 9781857287950
Format: Paperback
$78.00

Evaluates the development, implementation, assessment and impact of the use of technology in social science. The...  Read More >>

Communication and Trade-Essays In Honor of Meheroo Jussawalla

Communication and Trade-Essays In Honor of Meheroo Jussawalla...

Author: Lamberton
ISBN: 9781572731103
Format: Hardback
$104.50

These essays focus on the field of economic and communications development. They celebrate the writing and research...  Read More >>

New connections: Telecommunications in a changing South Africa

New connections: Telecommunications in a changing South...

Author: Richard Gerber ,  Robin Braun
ISBN: 9781919713199
Format: Book
$46.45

The book investigates the telecommunications sector worldwide, and provides a study of the South African perspective....  Read More >>

Research in philosophy and technology

Research in philosophy and technology

Author: Carl Mitcham ,  Carl Mitcham
ISBN: 9780762304141
Format: Hardback
$259.95

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Virtualities: Television, Media Art, and Cyberculture

Virtualities: Television, Media Art, and Cyberculture...

Author: Margaret Morse
ISBN: 9780253333827
Format: Hardback
$85.00

Virtualities are found in everyday life, in forms supported by television, video, and the computer. Far from being...  Read More >>

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