Impact of science & technology on society books

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CyberSociety: Computer-Mediated Communication and Community

CyberSociety: Computer-Mediated Communication and Community...

Author: Steven Jones
ISBN: 9780803956773
Format: Paperback
$166.19

The culture of computer and network- mediated communication is growing both in size and sophistication. Cyberspace...  Read More >>

Life After Television: The Coming Transformation of Media and American Life

Life After Television: The Coming Transformation of...

Author: George Gilder
ISBN: 9780393311587
Format: Paperback
$52.67

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Physics and Industry: Proceedings of the Academic Session of the XXI General Assembly of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics, Held at Nara, Japan, 22 and 23 September 1993

Physics and Industry: Proceedings of the Academic Session...

Author: Eiichi Maruyama ,  Hisatsune Watanabe
ISBN: 9783540583769
Format: Hardback
$171.47

This is a collection of articles addressing the interplay between physics and technology in the modern industrial...  Read More >>

White Heat: People and Technology

White Heat: People and Technology

Author: Carroll W. Pursell
ISBN: 9780520089051
Format: Paperback
$76.43

Takes the reader on a tour through history and around the lives, showing what machines can tell us about the world...  Read More >>

Reviews of National Science and Technology Policy: Mexico

Reviews of National Science and Technology Policy: Mexico...

Author:
ISBN: 9789264142329
Format: Paperback
$40.95

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Consuming Technologies: Media and Information in Domestic Spaces

Consuming Technologies: Media and Information in Domestic...

Author: Eric Hirsch ,  Roger Silverstone
ISBN: 9780415117128
Format: Paperback
$77.99

Opens up for analysis some crucial but rarely examined areas of social, cultural and economic life. At its core...  Read More >>

Culture Clash: Law and Science in America

Culture Clash: Law and Science in America

Author: Steven Goldberg
ISBN: 9780814730577
Format: Hardback
$171.00

Exposing how law both supports and restricts American science and technology, Goldberg considers the role and futures...  Read More >>

Invention: The Care and Feeding of Ideas

Invention: The Care and Feeding of Ideas

Author: Norbert Wiener (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) ,  Steve Joshua Heims
ISBN: 9780262731119
Format: Paperback
$26.27

An insider's view of the history of discovery and invention.  Read More >>

Meta-Analysis for Explanation: A Casebook

Meta-Analysis for Explanation: A Casebook

Author: Thomas D. Cook ,  etc.
ISBN: 9780871542281
Format: Paperback
$58.08

"Social science research often yields conflicting results: Does juvenile delinquent rehabilitation work? Is teenage...  Read More >>

The Cold War and American Science: The Military-Industrial-Academic Complex at MIT and Stanford

The Cold War and American Science: The Military-Industrial-Academic...

Author: Stuart W. Leslie
ISBN: 9780231079594
Format: Paperback
$69.95

Focusing on MIT and Stanford, Leslie offers a critical look at American science in the making. He reveals a regrettable...  Read More >>

The New Production of Knowledge: The Dynamics of Science and Research in Contemporary Societies

The New Production of Knowledge: The Dynamics of Science...

Author: Michael Gibbons ,  Camille Limoges
ISBN: 9780803977945
Format: Paperback
$133.00

There are fundamental changes in the ways in which scientific, social and cultural knowledge is produced. The book...  Read More >>

First European Congress of Mathematics Paris, July 6–10, 1992: Vol. I Invited Lectures (Part 1)

First European Congress of Mathematics Paris, July 6–10,...

Author: Anthony Joseph ,  Fulbert Mignot
ISBN: 9783764328016
Format: Hardback
$259.95

The first European Congress of Mathematics was held in Paris from July 6 to July 10, 1992, at the Sorbonne and Pantheon-Sorbonne...  Read More >>

Technology Policy: Towards an Integration of Social and Ecological Concerns

Technology Policy: Towards an Integration of Social...

Author: Georg Aichholzer ,  Gerd Schienstock
ISBN: 9783110136777
Format: Hardback
$291.98

"No detailed description available for ""Technology Policy""."  Read More >>

Making Arms in the Machine Age: Philadelphia's Frankford Arsenal, 1816–1870

Making Arms in the Machine Age: Philadelphia's Frankford...

Author: James J. Farley
ISBN: 9780271028217
Format: Paperback
$67.99

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Shifting Time: Social Policy and the Future of Work

Shifting Time: Social Policy and the Future of Work...

Author: Armine Yalnizyan ,  T Ran Ide
ISBN: 9780921284918
Format: Paperback
$39.47

""Shifting Time"" is an incisive, fact-filled examination of social policy in Canada and the impact of new technology...  Read More >>

Chemists and Chemistry in Nature and Society, 1770–1878

Chemists and Chemistry in Nature and Society, 1770–1878...

Author: Trevor H. Levere
ISBN: 9780860784128
Format: Hardback
$164.00

"Explores the chemical ""revolution"" in 18th-century Europe and Britain and its influences on the 19th century....  Read More >>

Machine-Age Ideology: Social Engineering and American Liberalism, 1911-1939

Machine-Age Ideology: Social Engineering and American...

Author: John M. Jordan
ISBN: 9780807821237
Format: Hardback
$171.60

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Explaining Technical Change in a Small Country: The Finnish National Innovation System

Explaining Technical Change in a Small Country: The...

Author: Synnöve Vuori ,  Pentti Vuorinen
ISBN: 9783790807608
Format: Paperback
$261.36

Technologypolicy must be seen as one part of more encompassing socialand economic policies, and the...  Read More >>

Dangerous Diagnostics: The Social Power of Biological Information

Dangerous Diagnostics: The Social Power of Biological...

Author: Dorothy Nelkin ,  Laurence Tancredi
ISBN: 9780226571294
Format: Paperback
$52.95

A study of the pervasiveness of diagnostic testing and the potential it offers institutions to classify, categorize...  Read More >>

Information Technology in the Service Society: A Twenty-First Century Lever

Information Technology in the Service Society: A Twenty-First...

Author: National Research Council ,  Computer Science and Telecommunications Board
ISBN: 9780309048767
Format: Paperback
$76.56

Examines what macroeconomic data do and do not show about the impact of information technology on service-sector...  Read More >>

Treading Different Paths: Information in Asian Nations

Treading Different Paths: Information in Asian Nations...

Author: Georgette Wang
ISBN: 9781567500486
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Despite heated debate on the nature of changes brought by the widespread use of information and information technologies,...  Read More >>

Treading Different Paths: Informatization in Asian Nations

Treading Different Paths: Informatization in Asian Nations...

Author: Georgette Wang
ISBN: 9781567500479
Format: Hardback
$335.15

Despite heated debate on the nature of changes brought by the widespread use of information and information technologies,...  Read More >>

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