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Mass Communication in Canada

Mass Communication in Canada

Author: Rowland Lorimer ,  Jean McNulty
ISBN: 9780195412086
Format: Paperback
$62.95

This illustrated text explores the new terrain of the mid-1990s, examining the rewards and the pitfalls of changing...  Read More >>

Rebels Against The Future: The Luddites And Their War On The Industrial Revolution: Lessons For The Computer Age

Rebels Against The Future: The Luddites And Their War...

Author: Kirkpatrick Sale
ISBN: 9780201407181
Format: Paperback
$42.24

The first technology backlash was in 1811, when the Luddites fought to preserve their jobs by wrecking the machines...  Read More >>

Computers, Surveillance, and Privacy

Computers, Surveillance, and Privacy

Author: David Lyon ,  Elia Zureik
ISBN: 9780816626533
Format: Paperback
$118.42

Addressing issues of the global integration of surveillance, social control, new information technologies, privacy...  Read More >>

Alternative Science: Challenging the Myths of the Scientific Establishment

Alternative Science: Challenging the Myths of the Scientific...

Author: Richard Milton
ISBN: 9780892816316
Format: Paperback
$44.75

This tour of the scientific frontier makes a strong case that the alternative science of today will be the hard...  Read More >>

Global Information Infrastructure

Global Information Infrastructure

Author: Andrew Targowski
ISBN: 9781878289322
Format: Hardback
$139.95

A new world has arrived in which computer and communications technologies will transform the national and global...  Read More >>

Stealing Into Print: Fraud, Plagiarism, and Misconduct in Scientific Publishing

Stealing Into Print: Fraud, Plagiarism, and Misconduct...

Author: Marcel C. LaFollette
ISBN: 9780520205130
Format: Paperback
$55.95

An examination into the world of scientific publishing in which various incidents of misconduct take place. It focuses...  Read More >>

Technology and European Overseas Enterprise: Diffusion, Adaptation and Adoption

Technology and European Overseas Enterprise: Diffusion,...

Author: Michael Adas
ISBN: 9780860785255
Format: Hardback
$305.00

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The End of the World: The Science and Ethics of Human Extinction

The End of the World: The Science and Ethics of Human...

Author: John Leslie
ISBN: 9780415140430
Format: Hardback
$154.00

Are we in imminent danger of extinction? Yes, we probably are, argues John Leslie in his chilling account of the...  Read More >>

Information Society: New Media, Ethics and Postmodernism

Information Society: New Media, Ethics and Postmodernism...

Author: Karamjit S. Gill
ISBN: 9783540760368
Format: Paperback
$294.98

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Futurenatural: Nature, Science, Culture

Futurenatural: Nature, Science, Culture

Author: Jon Bird ,  Barry Curtis
ISBN: 9780415070140
Format: Paperback
$77.99

Brings together leading theorists of culture and science to discuss the concept of 'nature'. Recent developments...  Read More >>

Futurenatural: Nature, Science, Culture

Futurenatural: Nature, Science, Culture

Author: Jon Bird ,  Barry Curtis
ISBN: 9780415070133
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Brings together leading theorists of culture and science to discuss the concept of 'nature'. Recent developments...  Read More >>

Scientific Aspects of European Expansion

Scientific Aspects of European Expansion

Author: William K. Storey
ISBN: 9780860785248
Format: Hardback
$620.40

This volume addressses the scientific aspects of Europe's expanding presence in the wider world. It focuses particularly...  Read More >>

American Technological Sublime

American Technological Sublime

Author: David E. Nye (Professor, University of Southern Denmark)
ISBN: 9780262640343
Format: Paperback
$79.99

"This text examines the continuing appeal of the ""technological sublime"" as a key to America's history, using...  Read More >>

Communication by Design

Communication by Design

Author: Robin E. Mansell ,  Roger Silverstone
ISBN: 9780198289418
Format: Hardback
$105.00

The information and communication technologies (ICTs) of the 1990s enable the electronic production and consumption...  Read More >>

Cyberspace/Cyberbodies/Cyberpunk: Cultures of Technological Embodiment

Cyberspace/Cyberbodies/Cyberpunk: Cultures of Technological...

Author: Mike Featherstone ,  Roger Burrows
ISBN: 9780761950844
Format: Hardback
$483.00

This innovative collection examines the emerging arena of cyberspace and the challenges it presents for the social...  Read More >>

Designing Engineers

Designing Engineers

Author: Louis L. Bucciarelli
ISBN: 9780262522120
Format: Paperback
$79.99

Designing Engineers describes the evolution of three disparate projects: an x-ray inspection system for airports,...  Read More >>

Risk, Environment and Modernity: Towards a New Ecology

Risk, Environment and Modernity: Towards a New Ecology...

Author: Scott M Lash ,  Bronislaw Szerszynski
ISBN: 9780803979383
Format: Paperback
$167.00

This wide-ranging and accessible contribution to the study of risk, ecology and environment helps us to understand...  Read More >>

The Politics of Technology in Latin America

The Politics of Technology in Latin America

Author: Maria Ines Bastos (UNESCO Brazil) ,  Charles M. Cooper
ISBN: 9780415126908
Format: Hardback
$280.00

Based on country studies and industry studies in the main Latin American economies, this collection sets out to...  Read More >>

Cyberspace/Cyberbodies/Cyberpunk: Cultures of Technological Embodiment

Cyberspace/Cyberbodies/Cyberpunk: Cultures of Technological...

Author: Mike Featherstone ,  Roger Burrows
ISBN: 9780761950851
Format: Paperback
$146.00

This innovative collection examines the emerging arena of cyberspace and the challenges it presents for the social...  Read More >>

Science, Technology, and Ecopolitics in the USSR

Science, Technology, and Ecopolitics in the USSR

Author: Miron Rezun
ISBN: 9780275953836
Format: Hardback
$140.00

Although enormous industrial advances were made in the USSR, the country still lagged behind the West in the post-industrial...  Read More >>

The Moral Dilemma of the Scientist in Modern Drama

The Moral Dilemma of the Scientist in Modern Drama

Author: Allen E. Hye
ISBN: 9780773488694
Format: Hardback
$245.68

This volume looks at the moral dilemmas of the scientist, as portrayed in modern drama. The plays discussed explore...  Read More >>

History of Technology

History of Technology

Author: Graham John Hollister- Short ,  Frank A. J. L. James
ISBN: 9780720122848
Format: Paperback
$414.00

Deals with the history of technical discovery and change, and explores the relationship of technology to other aspects...  Read More >>

Unglued Empire: The Soviet Experiences with Communications Technologies

Unglued Empire: The Soviet Experiences with Communications...

Author: Gladys D. Ganley
ISBN: 9781567501971
Format: Hardback
$140.00

The Soviet Union may well have collapsed of its own weight sooner or later, but there is no doubt that the media,...  Read More >>

Telecommunications and the City: Electronic Spaces, Urban Places

Telecommunications and the City: Electronic Spaces,...

Author: Steve Graham ,  Simon Marvin
ISBN: 9780415119030
Format: Paperback
$124.00

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Telecommunications and the City: Electronic Spaces, Urban Places

Telecommunications and the City: Electronic Spaces,...

Author: Steve Graham ,  Simon Marvin
ISBN: 9780415119023
Format: Hardback
$389.00

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