Impact of science & technology on society books

8586 books were found.

Allocating Federal Funds for Science and Technology

Allocating Federal Funds for Science and Technology...

Author: National Research Council ,  National Academy of Engineering
ISBN: 9780309053471
Format: Paperback
$124.08

The United States faces the challenge of maintaining the vitality of its system for supporting science and technology...  Read More >>

The Myth of the Framework: In Defence of Science and Rationality

The Myth of the Framework: In Defence of Science and...

Author: Karl Popper ,  M.A. Notturno
ISBN: 9780415135559
Format: Paperback
$62.00

In a career spanning sixty years, Sir Karl Popper made some of the most important contributions to the twentieth...  Read More >>

Missing Links: Gender equity in science and technology for development

Missing Links: Gender equity in science and technology...

Author: Gender Working Group ,  Betsy McGregor
ISBN: 9781853392894
Format: Paperback
$77.50

Gender differences in the field of science and technology have real consequences for the quality of women's lives...  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: 9781881871194
Format: Hardback
$145.20

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

Taylored Lives: Narrative Productions in the Age of Taylor, Veblen, and Ford

Taylored Lives: Narrative Productions in the Age of...

Author: Martha Banta
ISBN: 9780226037028
Format: Paperback
$72.60

Martha Banta takes a close look at texts ranging from mail order catalogs and popular romances to the works of Henry...  Read More >>

Living in a Technological Culture: Human Tools and Human Values

Living in a Technological Culture: Human Tools and Human...

Author: Hans Oberdiek ,  Mary Tiles
ISBN: 9780415071017
Format: Paperback
$64.00

"Challenging traditionally held assumptions about the relationship between ""man and machine"" this book opens up...  Read More >>

Science at the Bar: Science and Technology in American Law

Science at the Bar: Science and Technology in American...

Author: Sheila Jasanoff ,  Richard C. Leone
ISBN: 9780674793026
Format: Hardback
$149.16

This text explores the relationship between technology and law in America. The author argues that courts do not...  Read More >>

Living in a Technological Culture: Human Tools and Human Values

Living in a Technological Culture: Human Tools and Human...

Author: Hans Oberdiek ,  Mary Tiles
ISBN: 9780415071000
Format: Hardback
$210.00

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The Social Implications Of Bioengineering

The Social Implications Of Bioengineering

Author: Elisabeth Gernsheim-Beck
ISBN: 9781573924313
Format: Paperback
$76.51

Very rapid developments have taken place in reproductive medicine, biology, and genetics over the years and jointly,...  Read More >>

The Dimensional Structure of Consciousness: A Physical Basis for Immaterialism

The Dimensional Structure of Consciousness: A Physical...

Author: Samuel Avery
ISBN: 9780964629103
Format: Paperback
$31.68

Written for both the layman and the professional, this may be the long-awaited revolution in physical science.  Read More >>

Rape on Trial: How the Mass Media Construct Legal Reform and Social Change

Rape on Trial: How the Mass Media Construct Legal Reform...

Author: Lisa M. Cuklanz
ISBN: 9780812215595
Format: Paperback
$69.96

Rape on Trial provides insight into the different roles news coverage and fictionalized texts play in adjudicating...  Read More >>

Hitler's Uranium Club: The Secret Recordings at Farm Hall

Hitler's Uranium Club: The Secret Recordings at Farm...

Author: Jeremy Bernstein
ISBN: 9781563962585
Format: Hardback
$105.47

This book contains annotated transcripts of the Farm Hall conversations, and brings insights into the progress of...  Read More >>

The Social Implications Of Bioengineering

The Social Implications Of Bioengineering

Author: Elisabeth Gernsheim-Beck
ISBN: 9781573926164
Format: Hardback
$150.43

Very rapid developments have taken place in reproductive medicine, biology, and genetics over the years. This title...  Read More >>

Scientific Knowledge and Its Social Problems

Scientific Knowledge and Its Social Problems

Author: Jerome R. Ravetz
ISBN: 9781560008514
Format: Paperback
$92.99

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Dynamics of Modern Communication: The Shaping and Impact of New Communication Technologies

Dynamics of Modern Communication: The Shaping and Impact...

Author: Patrice Flichy ,  Liz Libbrecht
ISBN: 9780803978508
Format: Hardback
$436.00

A social history of communication technology from 1790 to 1995 and a critical analysis of the social shaping and...  Read More >>

Growing a Japanese Science City: Communication in Scientific Research

Growing a Japanese Science City: Communication in Scientific...

Author: James W. Dearing
ISBN: 9780415081344
Format: Hardback
$294.00

Tsukuba Science City is the world's most ambitious attempt to turbocharge scientific collaboration, but it remains...  Read More >>

Biosociology: An Emerging Paradigm

Biosociology: An Emerging Paradigm

Author: Anthony Walsh
ISBN: 9780275953287
Format: Hardback
$140.00

Biosociology is an emerging paradigm seeking to understand human behavior by integrating relevant insights from...  Read More >>

Science and Culture: Popular and Philosophical Essays

Science and Culture: Popular and Philosophical Essays...

Author: Hermann von Helmholtz ,  David Cahan
ISBN: 9780226326580
Format: Hardback
$167.95

This text presents 15 lectures by Hermann von Helmholtz, a leading 19th-century scientist who was concerned with...  Read More >>

The Cyborg Handbook

The Cyborg Handbook

Author: Chris Gray ,  etc.
ISBN: 9780415908498
Format: Paperback
$88.00

The Cyborg (short for cybernetic organism) is an entity that mixes the mechanic and the organic, for example people...  Read More >>

Philosophy of Technology

Philosophy of Technology

Author: Frederick Ferre
ISBN: 9780820317618
Format: Paperback
$60.59

An introductory survey that explains the fundamental concerns and methods of philosophy and then guides readers...  Read More >>

Computer Mediated Communications: Multimedia Applications

Computer Mediated Communications: Multimedia Applications...

Author: Rob Walters
ISBN: 9780890067574
Format: Hardback
$92.40

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Dynamics of Modern Communication: The Shaping and Impact of New Communication Technologies

Dynamics of Modern Communication: The Shaping and Impact...

Author: Patrice Flichy ,  Liz Libbrecht
ISBN: 9780803978515
Format: Paperback
$146.00

A social history of communication technology from 1790 to 1995 and a critical analysis of the social shaping and...  Read More >>

Über die physikalische und philosophische Atomenlehre

Über die physikalische und philosophische Atomenlehre...

Author: Gustav T. Fechner
ISBN: 9783211827086
Format: Paperback
$110.99

Überzeugt von der Zukunftsperspektive atomistischer Ansätze sammelt und ordnet er Begründungszusammenhänge für eine...  Read More >>

Sleepers, Wake!

Sleepers, Wake!

Author: Barry Jones
ISBN: 9780195537567
Format: Paperback
$29.95

Sleepers, Wake! offers analysis and prescriptions on issues shaping our lives - threats to human capacity, changing...  Read More >>

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