Impact of science & technology on society books

8586 books were found.

For Love of the Automobile: Looking Back into the History of Our Desires

For Love of the Automobile: Looking Back into the History...

Author: Wolfgang Sachs ,  Don Reneau
ISBN: 9780520068780
Format: Hardback
$104.95

Presents a cultural analysis of the motor car in Germany. This work starts from the assumption that the automobile...  Read More >>

Technology, Culture and Development: The Experience of the Soviet Model

Technology, Culture and Development: The Experience...

Author: James P. Scanlan ,  Paul R. Josephson
ISBN: 9780873328913
Format: Hardback
$75.99

"Although scholars have devoted much attention to the impact of technology on society, they have tended to slight...  Read More >>

Science, Technology and Development: North-South Co-operation

Science, Technology and Development: North-South Co-operation...

Author: Mozammel Huq ,  Prabhakara Bhatt
ISBN: 9780714634555
Format: Hardback
$266.00

First Published in 1992. Introduction: Science, Technology and Development: North-South Co-operation- An Overview,...  Read More >>

Experts in Uncertainty: Opinion and Subjective Probability in Science

Experts in Uncertainty: Opinion and Subjective Probability...

Author: Roger M. Cooke (Associate Professor of Mathematics and Informatics, Associate Professor of Mathematics and Informatics, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)
ISBN: 9780195064650
Format: Hardback
$252.95

"This book is an extensive survey and critical examination of the literature on the use of expert opinion in scientific...  Read More >>

Emerging Technologies in Plastics Recycling

Emerging Technologies in Plastics Recycling

Author: Gerald D. Andrews ,  Pallatheri M. Subramanian
ISBN: 9780841224995
Format: Hardback
$143.75

Recognizing that successful recycling efforts throughout the country are providing a new raw material to be exploited,...  Read More >>

Social Responsibility in Science, Technology and Medicine

Social Responsibility in Science, Technology and Medicine...

Author: Paul T Durbin
ISBN: 9780934223270
Format: Hardback
$71.16

In this book, Durbin presents a scholarly plea for social responsibility on the part of technical professionals....  Read More >>

Literature and Technology

Literature and Technology

Author: Mark L. Greenberg ,  Lance Schachterle
ISBN: 9780934223201
Format: Hardback
$102.21

The essays in this collection argue that literature from the middle ages to the present has been shaped -- thematically,...  Read More >>

Physics and Politics in Revolutionary Russia

Physics and Politics in Revolutionary Russia

Author: Paul R. Josephson
ISBN: 9780520074828
Format: Hardback
$104.95

Recounts the development of physics in Soviet Russia up to World War II. This title focuses on Leningrad, center...  Read More >>

Mathematik Und Wirklichkeit

Mathematik Und Wirklichkeit

Author: Ulrich Röseberg
ISBN: 9783112768341
Format: Hardback
$393.33

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für ""Mathematik und Wirklichkeit"" verfügbar.  Read More >>

Einheit Der Wissenschaften: Internationales Kolloquium Der Akademie Der Wissenschaften Zu Berlin, Bonn 25-27. Juni 1990

Einheit Der Wissenschaften: Internationales Kolloquium...

Author: Akademie Der Wissenschaften Zu Berlin ,  Jürgen Mittelstraß
ISBN: 9783110129052
Format: Hardback
$265.89

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für ""Einheit der Wissenschaften"" verfügbar.  Read More >>

Biotechnics and Society: The Rise of Industrial Genetics

Biotechnics and Society: The Rise of Industrial Genetics...

Author: Sheldon Krimsky
ISBN: 9780275938604
Format: Paperback
$67.99

An overview of the first ten years of the industrial revolution in applied molecular genetics, this work discusses...  Read More >>

Technology in World Civilization: A Thousand-Year History

Technology in World Civilization: A Thousand-Year History...

Author: Arnold Pacey
ISBN: 9780262660723
Format: Paperback
$60.72

In this very different book, Arnold Pacey takes a global view, placing the development of technology squarely in...  Read More >>

Technology and Choice: Readings from Technology and Culture

Technology and Choice: Readings from Technology and...

Author: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette ,  Jeffrey K. Stine
ISBN: 9780226467764
Format: Hardback
$106.92

"Innovation - the imaginative attempt to introduce something new or to solve some problem - smashes routine and...  Read More >>

Scientific Knowledge in Controversy: The Social Dynamics of the Fluoridation Debate

Scientific Knowledge in Controversy: The Social Dynamics...

Author: Brian Martin
ISBN: 9780791405383
Format: Hardback
$261.36

Scientific Knowledge in Controversy: The Social Dynamics of the Fluoridation Debate is a study of today's most...  Read More >>

Technoculture

Technoculture

Author: Constance Penley ,  Andrew Ross
ISBN: 9780816619320
Format: Paperback
$46.95

Wary, on the one hand, of the disempowering habit of viewing technology as a satanic mill of domination, and weary,...  Read More >>

Technoculture

Technoculture

Author: Constance Penley ,  Andrew Ross
ISBN: 9780816619306
Format: Hardback
$190.08

"Wary, on the one hand, of the disempowering habit of viewing technology as a satanic mill of domination, and weary,...  Read More >>

Technology & Empire

Technology & Empire

Author: G Grant
ISBN: 9780887845147
Format: Paperback
$39.47

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Sexual Science: The Victorian Constuction of Womanhood

Sexual Science: The Victorian Constuction of Womanhood...

Author: Cynthia Russett
ISBN: 9780674802919
Format: Paperback
$74.95

The spectacle presented in Russett’s book, of nineteenth-century white male scientists and thinkers earnestly trying...  Read More >>

The Transcendental Temptation

The Transcendental Temptation

Author: Paul Kurtz
ISBN: 9780879756451
Format: Paperback
$58.99

A landmark work. Mandatory reading for anyone who wants to learn to be a good skeptic. In this widely acclaimed...  Read More >>

Nuclear Energy: Communicating with the Public

Nuclear Energy: Communicating with the Public

Author: Nuclear Energy Agency
ISBN: 9789264134560
Format: Paperback
$33.95

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National Interests in an Age of Global Technology

National Interests in an Age of Global Technology

Author: National Academy of Engineering ,  Committee on Engineering as an International Enterprise
ISBN: 9780309043298
Format: Paperback
$132.00

Presents a policy framework for reconciling national interests with the realities of the global technical enterprise....  Read More >>

Nouvelle Classification Des Sciences: Etude Philosophique

Nouvelle Classification Des Sciences: Etude Philosophique...

Author: Adrien Naville
ISBN: 9782864601654
Format: Paperback
$84.48

Previously published: Paris: Ancienne librairie Germer Bailliaere, 1901.  Read More >>

Acceptable Evidence: Science and Values in Risk Management. Environmental Ethics and Science Policy.

Acceptable Evidence: Science and Values in Risk Management....

Author: Deborah G Mayo ,  Rachelle D Hollander
ISBN: 9786610760480
Format: Electronic book text
$137.23

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