Impact of science & technology on society books

8586 books were found.

Sustaining Democracy?: Journalism and the Politics of Objectivity

Sustaining Democracy?: Journalism and the Politics of...

Author: Robert A. Hackett ,  Yuezhi Zhao
ISBN: 9781551930138
Format: Paperback
$102.96

Sustaining Democracy? asks whether it is worth trying to be objective in the first place by addressing current,...  Read More >>

Innovation and Sustainable Development: Lessons for Innovation Policies

Innovation and Sustainable Development: Lessons for...

Author: Frieder Meyer-Krahmer
ISBN: 9783790810387
Format: Paperback
$197.87

A collection of papers on sustainable development and on innovation and innovation policy, which seeks to bridge...  Read More >>

Virtual Futures

Virtual Futures

Author: Dixon Broadhurst, Joan ,  Eric Cassidy
ISBN: 9781280146558
Format: Electronic book text
$377.52

Virtual Futures explores the ideas that the future lies in its ability to articulate the consequences of an increasingly...  Read More >>

Technology: Shaping Our World

Technology: Shaping Our World

Author: John Gradwell
ISBN: 9781566372176
Format: Paperback
$87.86

Discusses various technologies, how they work, and their uses and side effects, including those involving communication,...  Read More >>

The Sociology of Medical Science and Technology

The Sociology of Medical Science and Technology

Author: Mary Ann Elston (University of London)
ISBN: 9780631204473
Format: Paperback
$41.95

Contributes to the debate about the relationship between science and medicine by bringing together approaches from...  Read More >>

Passage to Union: How the Railroads Transformed American Life, 1829-1929

Passage to Union: How the Railroads Transformed American...

Author: Sarah H. Gordon
ISBN: 9781566631389
Format: Hardback
$46.95

How the railroads transformed American life between 1829 and 1929, and why the cost of their achievements was so...  Read More >>

Meeting Technology's Advance: Social Change in China and Zimbabwe in the Railway Age

Meeting Technology's Advance: Social Change in China...

Author: James Z. Gao
ISBN: 9780313300950
Format: Hardback
$131.00

In this first comparative look at China and Zimbabwe, Gao explores the interplay between technological advance and...  Read More >>

Exploring Technology and Social Space

Exploring Technology and Social Space

Author: J. (John) Macgregor Wise
ISBN: 9780761904229
Format: Paperback
$268.00

This volume offers a critical, philosophical and epistemological framework to understand better our relations to...  Read More >>

Victorian Science in Context

Victorian Science in Context

Author: Bernard Lightman (York University, Canada)
ISBN: 9780226481128
Format: Paperback
$92.95

Victorians were fascinated by the strange new worlds which science was revealing to them. This study sets out to...  Read More >>

Image and Logic: A Material Culture of Microphysics

Image and Logic: A Material Culture of Microphysics...

Author: Peter Galison
ISBN: 9780226279176
Format: Paperback
$122.95

"A detailed engagement with the impact of modern technology, and on what it means to ""do"" physics and to be a...  Read More >>

Science and Technology in a Developing World

Science and Technology in a Developing World

Author: T. Shinn ,  J. Spaapen
ISBN: 9780792344193
Format: Hardback
$683.76

"block possible Soviet expansion by mobilizing European ""democracies"", the policy soon extended to some developing...  Read More >>

Science and the Raj, 1857-1905

Science and the Raj, 1857-1905

Author: Deepak Kumar
ISBN: 9780195641943
Format: Paperback
$18.95

This book explores the links between science, technology, and the process of colonization in the context of Victorian...  Read More >>

Technology, Innovation and Competitiveness

Technology, Innovation and Competitiveness

Author: Jeremy Howells ,  Jonathan Michie
ISBN: 9781858984285
Format: Hardback
$266.00

Technology and innovation are fundamental to economic success and the struggle for markets in an increasingly competitive...  Read More >>

Victorian Science in Context

Victorian Science in Context

Author: Bernard Lightman (York University, Canada)
ISBN: 9780226481111
Format: Hardback
$264.00

Victorians were fascinated by the strange new worlds which science was revealing to them. This study sets out to...  Read More >>

Beyond Engineering: How Society Shapes Technology

Beyond Engineering: How Society Shapes Technology

Author: Robert Pool, Ph.D.
ISBN: 9780195107722
Format: Hardback
$76.95

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The Electronic Grapevine: Rumor, Reputation, and Reporting in the New On-line Environment

The Electronic Grapevine: Rumor, Reputation, and Reporting...

Author: Diane L. Borden ,  Kerric Harvey
ISBN: 9780805821727
Format: Paperback
$59.00

An examination of how the Internet has affected journalism, drawing from scholarly work and real life experiences...  Read More >>

The Electronic Grapevine: Rumor, Reputation, and Reporting in the New On-line Environment

The Electronic Grapevine: Rumor, Reputation, and Reporting...

Author: Diane L. Borden ,  Kerric Harvey
ISBN: 9780805821710
Format: Hardback
$104.00

An examination of how the Internet has affected journalism, drawing from scholarly work and real life experiences...  Read More >>

The Allied Occupation and Japan's Economic Miracle: Building the Foundations of Japanese Science and Technology 1945-52

The Allied Occupation and Japan's Economic Miracle:...

Author: Bowen C. Dees
ISBN: 9781873410677
Format: Hardback
$305.00

"Addresses the significance of the enormous contributions in science and technology towards the realization of...  Read More >>

Changing Life: Genomes, Ecologies, Bodies, Commodities

Changing Life: Genomes, Ecologies, Bodies, Commodities...

Author: Peter J. Taylor ,  Saul E. Halfon
ISBN: 9780816630127
Format: Hardback
$158.27

In laboratories all over the world, life, even the idea of life, is changing - and with these changes, come transformations...  Read More >>

Science with a Human Face: In Honor of Roger Randall Revelle

Science with a Human Face: In Honor of Roger Randall...

Author: Robert Dorfman ,  Peter Rogers
ISBN: 9780674794832
Format: Paperback
$42.11

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No Other Gods: On Science and American Social Thought

No Other Gods: On Science and American Social Thought...

Author: Charles E. Rosenberg (Ernest E. Monrad Professor in the Social Sciences, Harvard University)
ISBN: 9780801855986
Format: Paperback
$67.99

This expanded edition focuses on the dilemmas posed by the social study of science: how can we reconcile the scientist's...  Read More >>

Royal Institution of Great Britain: v.68

Royal Institution of Great Britain: v.68

Author: Peter Day
ISBN: 9780198500841
Format: Hardback
$120.00

The Proceedings of the Royal Institution provide writing by active scientists. It covers areas of science that are...  Read More >>

Women Encounter Technology: Changing Patterns of Employment in the Third World

Women Encounter Technology: Changing Patterns of Employment...

Author: Swasti Mitter ,  Sheila Rowbotham
ISBN: 9780415141185
Format: Paperback
$95.00

This collection explores the effects of new technologies on women's employment and on the nature of women's work...  Read More >>

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