Impact of science & technology on society books

8586 books were found.

Breakdown: Deadly Technological Disasters

Breakdown: Deadly Technological Disasters

Author: Neil Schlager
ISBN: 9780787604783
Format: Paperback
$42.11

Explores the causes and effects of 35 recent man-made disasters and their related casualties. Failures in aircraft,...  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: 9780415126878
Format: Hardback
$294.00

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

Democracy And Technology

Democracy And Technology

Author: Sclove.
ISBN: 9780898628616
Format: Paperback
$79.20

First published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.  Read More >>

Cultural Collisions: Postmodern Technoscience

Cultural Collisions: Postmodern Technoscience

Author: Raphael Sassower
ISBN: 9780415911108
Format: Paperback
$61.00

Contends that technoscientific projects are contingent upon economic and political support, and not simply on their...  Read More >>

The Telecommunications Revolution in Korea

The Telecommunications Revolution in Korea

Author: James F. Larson
ISBN: 9780195867855
Format: Hardback
$85.00

This book focuses on Korea's distinct political, economic, legal, socio-cultural and personal dimensions. It includes...  Read More >>

Worüber man nicht sprechen kann: Aspekte der Undarstellbarkeit in Philosophie, Naturwissenschaft und Literatur

Worüber man nicht sprechen kann: Aspekte der Undarstellbarkeit...

Author: Dirk Vanderbeke
ISBN: 9783476451439
Format: Paperback
$105.57

Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--Frankfurt (Main), 1993.  Read More >>

The Mangle of Practice: Time, Agency, and Science

The Mangle of Practice: Time, Agency, and Science

Author: Andrew Pickering
ISBN: 9780226668031
Format: Paperback
$56.95

This text offers an understanding of the nature of scientific, mathematical and engineering practice, and the production...  Read More >>

The Mangle of Practice: Time, Agency, and Science

The Mangle of Practice: Time, Agency, and Science

Author: Andrew Pickering
ISBN: 9780226668024
Format: Hardback
$163.95

This text offers an understanding of the nature of scientific, mathematical and engineering practice, and the production...  Read More >>

The Refinement of Production: Ecological Modernization Theory and the Chemical Industry

The Refinement of Production: Ecological Modernization...

Author: Arthur P. J. Mol
ISBN: 9789062249794
Format: Paperback
$89.95

The theory of ecological modernization explains the forces, mechanisms and dynamics of environmental reform in modern...  Read More >>

Globalisation, Communication and Caribbean Identity

Globalisation, Communication and Caribbean Identity...

Author: Hopeton Dunn
ISBN: 9789768100436
Format: Paperback
$30.92

Explores the economic, social, political and cultural implications of new technologies, especially as they relate...  Read More >>

The Grammar of the Machine: Technical Literacy and Early Industrial Expansion in the United States

The Grammar of the Machine: Technical Literacy and Early...

Author: Edward Stevens
ISBN: 9780300061062
Format: Hardback
$103.95

Investigating the instruction, curricula and textbooks used in the schools and institutes, this text describes the...  Read More >>

Postphenomenology: Essays in the Postmodern Context

Postphenomenology: Essays in the Postmodern Context...

Author: Don Ihde
ISBN: 9780810112759
Format: Paperback
$65.87

This work addresses the impact of technology on the contemporary world. It covers a variety of topics including...  Read More >>

In Search of the Virtual Class: Education in an Information Society

In Search of the Virtual Class: Education in an Information...

Author: Lalita Rajasingham ,  John Tiffin
ISBN: 9780415124836
Format: Paperback
$109.00

The authors present a vision of the future of education and training as information technology develops into the...  Read More >>

In Search of the Virtual Class: Education in an Information Society

In Search of the Virtual Class: Education in an Information...

Author: Lalita Rajasingham ,  John Tiffin
ISBN: 9780415115568
Format: Hardback
$350.00

The authors present a vision of the future of education and training as information technology develops into the...  Read More >>

Science and Technology in a Multicultural World: The Cultural Politics of Facts and Artifacts

Science and Technology in a Multicultural World: The...

Author: David J. Hess
ISBN: 9780231101974
Format: Paperback
$61.95

This new approach to the study of multiculturalism focuses on its applications to science and technology. It explores...  Read More >>

The Second Media Age

The Second Media Age

Author: Mark Poster (University of California, Irvine)
ISBN: 9780745613963
Format: Paperback
$34.95

Examines the implications of new communication technologies. This book evaluates critically the concepts of media...  Read More >>

History and Modernity in Latin America

History and Modernity in Latin America

Author: Constantin von Barloewen
ISBN: 9781571810120
Format: Hardback
$55.00

Why is it that Japan, with few natural resources, has become one of the world's leading economies but not Latin...  Read More >>

Technoscientific Imaginaries: Conversations, Profiles, and Memoirs

Technoscientific Imaginaries: Conversations, Profiles,...

Author: George E. Marcus
ISBN: 9780226504438
Format: Hardback
$215.95

How have shifts in power and in assumptions about knowledge affected scientific practice? Who controls the new technologies,...  Read More >>

Technological Change, Economic Development and Space

Technological Change, Economic Development and Space...

Author: C. S. Bertuglia ,  Manfred M. Fischer
ISBN: 9783540592884
Format: Hardback
$261.36

Based on theoretical and empirical research, leading scholars discuss the possible benefits of new technology on...  Read More >>

Managing Technology in Society: Approach of the CTA

Managing Technology in Society: Approach of the CTA...

Author: Arie Rip ,  etc.
ISBN: 9781855673403
Format: Paperback
$95.01

This text is based on the workshop on Constructive Technology Assessment, at the University of Twente, the Netherlands,...  Read More >>

The Reporter's Environmental Handbook

The Reporter's Environmental Handbook

Author: Bernadette West ,  Michael R. Greenberg
ISBN: 9780813521497
Format: Paperback
$47.52

Here, journalists can find the facts they need to cover complex and controversial environmental health stories accurately....  Read More >>

Electronic Technology, Corporate Strategy, and World Transformation

Electronic Technology, Corporate Strategy, and World...

Author: Maurice Estabrooks
ISBN: 9780899309699
Format: Hardback
$140.00

How are the new electronic technologies transforming business here and abroad — indeed, the entire world economy...  Read More >>

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