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The Discovery of Kepler's Laws: The Interaction of Science, Philosophy, and Religion

The Discovery of Kepler's Laws: The Interaction of Science,...

Author: Job Kozhamthadam
ISBN: 9780268008680
Format: Hardback
$264.00

Examines the religious, philosophical and empirical factors that informed Kepler's thought and works, making possible...  Read More >>

Technopoly

Technopoly

Author: Neil Postman
ISBN: 9780786106455
Format: Audio
$86.99

A social critic argues that the United States has become a technopoly --a system that sacrifices social institutions...  Read More >>

Elusive Transformation

Elusive Transformation

Author: Eugene B Skolnikoff
ISBN: 9781282751705
Format: Electronic book text
$238.92

Eugene Skolnikoff treats the roles of science and technology across the entire range of relations among nations,...  Read More >>

Science With A Vengeance: How the Military Created the US Space Sciences After World War II

Science With A Vengeance: How the Military Created the...

Author: David H. DeVorkin
ISBN: 9780387941370
Format: Paperback
$224.27

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Technology Assessment: A Feminist Perspective

Technology Assessment: A Feminist Perspective

Author: Janine Morgall
ISBN: 9781566390910
Format: Paperback
$84.35

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Technology Assessment: A Feminist Perspective

Technology Assessment: A Feminist Perspective

Author: Janine Morgall
ISBN: 9781566390903
Format: Hardback
$241.56

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Global Networks: Computers and International Communication

Global Networks: Computers and International Communication...

Author: Linda M. Harasim
ISBN: 9780262082228
Format: Hardback
$158.40

twenty-one contributors focus on the implementation, application, and impact of computer-mediated communication...  Read More >>

Controversial Science: From Content to Contention

Controversial Science: From Content to Contention

Author: Thomas Brante ,  Steve Fuller
ISBN: 9780791414743
Format: Paperback
$97.55

"This book represents emerging alternative perspectives to the ""constructivist"" orthodoxy that currently dominates...  Read More >>

Technocracy at Work

Technocracy at Work

Author: Beverly H. Burris
ISBN: 9780791414965
Format: Paperback
$92.27

"Technocracy, loosely defined, is ""rule by experts."" Technocracy at Work focuses on the organizational dimensions...  Read More >>

Technocracy at Work

Technocracy at Work

Author: Beverly H. Burris
ISBN: 9780791414958
Format: Hardback
$261.36

"Technocracy, loosely defined, is ""rule by experts."" Technocracy at Work focuses on the organizational dimensions...  Read More >>

The Integrity of Intelligence: A Bill of Rights for the Information Age

The Integrity of Intelligence: A Bill of Rights for...

Author: Bryan Glastonbury ,  Walter LaMendola
ISBN: 9780333605219
Format: Paperback
$84.99

This book examines the effect of Information Technology on our lives, illustrating how a lack of proper social control...  Read More >>

Mechanism and Mysticism: The Influence of Science on the Thought and Work of Theodore Dreiser

Mechanism and Mysticism: The Influence of Science on...

Author: Louis J. Zanine
ISBN: 9780812231717
Format: Hardback
$224.27

In Mechanism and Mysticism, Louis J. Zanine provides the first full-length study of Theodore Dreiser's interest...  Read More >>

Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology

Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology

Author: Neil Postman
ISBN: 9780679745402
Format: Paperback
$35.00

A social critic argues that the United States has become a ""technopoly""--a system that sacrifices social institutions...  Read More >>

The New Politics of Science

The New Politics of Science

Author: David Dickson
ISBN: 9780226147635
Format: Paperback
$56.95

"How science ""gets done"" in today's world has profound political repercussions, since scientific knowledge, through...  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: 9780231079587
Format: Hardback
$223.95

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

National Issues in Science and Technology 1993

National Issues in Science and Technology 1993

Author: National Research Council ,  National Academy of Engineering
ISBN: 9780309048828
Format: Paperback
$68.64

"Consists of four ""white papers,"" prepared for the Clinton administration as it took office, on important national...  Read More >>

Headline News, Science Views

Headline News, Science Views

Author: David Jarmul ,  National Research Council
ISBN: 9780309048347
Format: Paperback
$147.49

Probes into scientific issues behind headlines, issues like highway safety, global warming, industrial competitiveness,...  Read More >>

A Discourse on Disenchantment: Reflections on Politics and Technology

A Discourse on Disenchantment: Reflections on Politics...

Author: Gilbert G. Germain
ISBN: 9780791413197
Format: Hardback
$261.36

"This book is the first full-length study of the ongoing debate over the status of our ""disenchanted"" world-a...  Read More >>

A Discourse on Disenchantment: Reflections on Politics and Technology

A Discourse on Disenchantment: Reflections on Politics...

Author: Gilbert G. Germain
ISBN: 9780791413203
Format: Paperback
$89.63

"This book is the first full-length study of the ongoing debate over the status of our ""disenchanted"" world-a...  Read More >>

Das Problem der theoretischen Terme: Eine Kritik an der strukturalistischen Wissenschaftstheorie

Das Problem der theoretischen Terme: Eine Kritik an...

Author: Thomas Zoglauer
ISBN: 9783528065393
Format: Paperback
$116.41

Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral--Stuttgart, 1991).  Read More >>

The Value of Convenience: A Genealogy of Technical Culture

The Value of Convenience: A Genealogy of Technical Culture...

Author: Thomas F. Tierney
ISBN: 9780791412435
Format: Hardback
$261.36

In this volume, Tierney identifies convenience as the value of central importance to the development of modern technical...  Read More >>

Consuming Technologies: Media and Information in Domestic Spaces

Consuming Technologies: Media and Information in Domestic...

Author: Eric Hirsch ,  Roger Silverstone
ISBN: 9780415069908
Format: Hardback
$284.00

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

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