Impact of science & technology on society books

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The Social Meaning of Modern Biology: From Social Darwinism to Sociobiology

The Social Meaning of Modern Biology: From Social Darwinism...

Author: Howard Kaye
ISBN: 9781560009146
Format: Paperback
$92.99

The Social Meaning of Modern Biology analyzes the cultural significance of recurring attempts since the time of...  Read More >>

New Information Revolution: A Reference Handbook

New Information Revolution: A Reference Handbook

Author: Martin K. Gay
ISBN: 9780874368475
Format: Hardback
$90.00

The era of the new information revolution is arriving faster than any other era in the history of humanity-and its...  Read More >>

Beyond Engineering: How Society Shapes Technology. the Sloan Technology Series.

Beyond Engineering: How Society Shapes Technology. the...

Author: Robert Pool
ISBN: 9786610529001
Format: Electronic book text
$56.21

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Disconnected: Haves and Have-Nots in the Information Age

Disconnected: Haves and Have-Nots in the Information...

Author: William Wresch
ISBN: 9780813523705
Format: Paperback
$58.08

Contrasting the lives of two men, this work examines those that have access to information and those that do not....  Read More >>

The Innovators, College: The Engineering Pioneers who Transformed America

The Innovators, College: The Engineering Pioneers who...

Author: David P. Billington
ISBN: 9780471140962
Format: Paperback
$219.95

A richly illustrated introduction to the engineering triumphs that made America modern In this age of microchips...  Read More >>

The Artful Universe: The Cosmic Source of Human Creativity

The Artful Universe: The Cosmic Source of Human Creativity...

Author: John D Barrow ,  John D Barrow
ISBN: 9780316082426
Format: Paperback
$52.77

In this eclectic and entertaining study of the interrelationship between the arts and the sciences, Barrow explains...  Read More >>

Human Genome Research:: And the Challenge of Contingent Future Persons

Human Genome Research:: And the Challenge of Contingent...

Author: Jan Christian Heller
ISBN: 9781881871200
Format: Paperback
$52.80

This text provides an investigation into how the Human Genome Project (HGP) is likely to affect future generations....  Read More >>

Re-Shaping Work: Union Responses to Technological Change

Re-Shaping Work: Union Responses to Technological Change...

Author: Chris Schenk ,  John Anderson
ISBN: 9781551930091
Format: Paperback
$65.87

This anthology is the first Canadian collection of union research papers on issues of technology and workplace reorganization....  Read More >>

Bit by Bit: Building a Transatlantic Partnership for the Information Age

Bit by Bit: Building a Transatlantic Partnership for...

Author: Robin Gaster ,  Erik Olbeter
ISBN: 9781563249167
Format: Hardback
$200.00

This text suggests solutions to the obstacles facing the USA and European Union as they race to secure their positions...  Read More >>

The Technological Unemployment and Structural Unemployment Debates

The Technological Unemployment and Structural Unemployment...

Author: Gregory R. Woirol
ISBN: 9780313298929
Format: Hardback
$140.00

The two historical debates studied here are concerned with the impact of technological change on unemployment and...  Read More >>

Yesterday's Tomorrows: Past Visions of the American Future

Yesterday's Tomorrows: Past Visions of the American...

Author: Joseph J. Corn (Senior Lecturer, Stanford University) ,  Brian Horrigan (Minnesota Historical Society)
ISBN: 9780801853999
Format: Paperback
$82.99

From Jules Verne to the Jetsons, from a 500-passenger flying wing to an anti-aircraft flying buzz-saw, the vision...  Read More >>

In and About the World: Philosophical Studies of Science and Technology

In and About the World: Philosophical Studies of Science...

Author: Hans Radder
ISBN: 9780791430507
Format: Paperback
$79.07

Offers a new approach to a number of central issues concerning the theoretical interpretation and normative evaluation...  Read More >>

Computer-Mediated Communication: Linguistic, social, and cross-cultural perspectives

Computer-Mediated Communication: Linguistic, social,...

Author: Susan C. Herring (University of Texas at Arlington) ,  S. Herring
ISBN: 9781556198038
Format: Paperback
$142.56

This collection of 14 articles on text-based computer-mediated communication (CMC) brings empirical evidence from...  Read More >>

Computer-Mediated Communication: Linguistic, social, and cross-cultural perspectives

Computer-Mediated Communication: Linguistic, social,...

Author: Susan C. Herring (University of Texas at Arlington)
ISBN: 9789027250544
Format: Paperback
$77.63

This collection of 14 articles on text-based computer-mediated communication (CMC) brings empirical evidence from...  Read More >>

Computer-Mediated Communication: Linguistic, social, and cross-cultural perspectives

Computer-Mediated Communication: Linguistic, social,...

Author: Susan C. Herring (University of Texas at Arlington)
ISBN: 9789027250513
Format: Hardback
$227.70

This collection of 14 articles on text-based computer-mediated communication (CMC) brings empirical evidence from...  Read More >>

Research in Science and Technology Studies: Material Culture

Research in Science and Technology Studies: Material...

Author: Shirley Gorenstein ,  Shirley Gorenstein
ISBN: 9781559380003
Format: Hardback
$248.95

This volume contains research in science and technology studies. It covers topics ranging from the computer as gendered...  Read More >>

The Trouble with Computers: Usefulness, Usability, and Productivity

The Trouble with Computers: Usefulness, Usability, and...

Author: Thomas K. Landauer
ISBN: 9780262621083
Format: Paperback
$92.40

Beginning with an explanation of why considerable outlays for computing since 1973 have not resulted in comparable...  Read More >>

Frontiers Of Illusion: Science, Technology, and the Politics of Progress

Frontiers Of Illusion: Science, Technology, and the...

Author: Daniel Sarewitz
ISBN: 9781566394161
Format: Paperback
$89.63

Scrutinizes the fundamental myths that have guided the formulation of science policy for half a century myths that...  Read More >>

New Science, New World

New Science, New World

Author: Denise Albanese
ISBN: 9780822317685
Format: Paperback
$63.23

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New Science, New World

New Science, New World

Author: Denise Albanese
ISBN: 9780822317593
Format: Hardback
$224.27

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Reflections on Artificial Intelligence: The Legal, Moral and Ethical Dimensions

Reflections on Artificial Intelligence: The Legal, Moral...

Author: Blay Whitby
ISBN: 9781871516685
Format: Paperback
$61.97

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Technical Knowledge in American Culture: Science, Technology and Medicine Since the Early 1800s

Technical Knowledge in American Culture: Science, Technology...

Author: Hamilton Cravens ,  etc.
ISBN: 9780817307936
Format: Paperback
$73.79

This text addresses the relationship between what modern-day experts say to each other and to their constituencies...  Read More >>

Zipper: An Exploration in Novelty

Zipper: An Exploration in Novelty

Author: Robert D. Friedel
ISBN: 9780393313659
Format: Paperback
$55.44

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