Impact of science & technology on society books

8621 books were found.

The Smartphone Society: Technology, Power, and Resistance in the New Gilded Age

The Smartphone Society: Technology, Power, and Resistance...

Author: Nicole Aschoff ,  Linda Bevilacqua Farber
ISBN: 9781662010422
Format: Audio
$92.37

Discover how technology empowers community organizing and protest movements.  Read More >>

Natural: How Faith in Nature's Goodness Leads to Harmful Fads, Unjust Laws, and Flawed Science

Natural: How Faith in Nature's Goodness Leads to Harmful...

Author: Alan Levinovitz, PhD ,  Joe McQuillan
ISBN: 9781662010491
Format: Audio
$65.97

"The problem with believing that natural simply means ""good"""  Read More >>

The Invisible Rainbow: A History of Electricity and Life

The Invisible Rainbow: A History of Electricity and...

Author: Arthur Firstenberg
ISBN: 9781645020097
Format: Paperback
$65.87

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Always Day One: How the Tech Titans Stay on Top

Always Day One: How the Tech Titans Stay on Top

Author: Alex Kantrowitz
ISBN: 9780241459058
Format: Paperback
$37.99

Acclaimed tech reporter reveals the inner workings of Amazon, Facebook, Google, Apple, and Microsoft At Amazon,...  Read More >>

The Jobs to Be Done Playbook: Align Your Markets, Organization, and Strategy Around Customer Needs

The Jobs to Be Done Playbook: Align Your Markets, Organization,...

Author: Jim Kalbach ,  Michael Schrage
ISBN: 9781933820682
Format: Paperback
$105.57

"""These days, consumers have real power: they can research companies, compare ratings, and find alternatives with...  Read More >>

Hacking Darwin: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Humanity

Hacking Darwin: Genetic Engineering and the Future of...

Author: Jamie Metzl
ISBN: 9781728214139
Format: Paperback
$32.99

From leading geopolitical expert and technology futurist Jamie Metzl comes a groundbreaking exploration of the many...  Read More >>

International Cooperation for Enhancing Nuclear Safety, Security, Safeguards and Non-proliferation: Proceedings of the XXI Edoardo Amaldi Conference, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Rome, Italy, October 7–8, 2019

International Cooperation for Enhancing Nuclear Safety,...

Author: Luciano Maiani ,  Raymond Jeanloz
ISBN: 9783030429126
Format: Hardback
$116.41

This open access book examines key aspects of international cooperation to enhance nuclear safety, security, safeguards,...  Read More >>

Superior: The Return of Race Science

Superior: The Return of Race Science

Author: Angela Saini
ISBN: 9780807028421
Format: Paperback
$42.24

Superior: The Return of Race Science is a non-fiction book by Angela Saini published in 2019. Built around interviews...  Read More >>

The Innovation Complex: Cities, Tech, and the New Economy

The Innovation Complex: Cities, Tech, and the New Economy...

Author: Sharon Zukin (Professor of Sociology, Professor of Sociology, City University of New York Graduate Center)
ISBN: 9780190083830
Format: Hardback
$74.95

"You hear a lot these days about ""innovation and entrepreneurship"" and about how ""good jobs"" in tech will save...  Read More >>

Sulphuric Utopias: A History of Maritime Fumigation

Sulphuric Utopias: A History of Maritime Fumigation...

Author: Lukas Engelmann (Chancellor's Fellow, STIS, University of Edinburgh) ,  Christos Lynteris
ISBN: 9780262538732
Format: Paperback
$95.00

How early twentieth century fumigation technologies transformed maritime quarantine practices and inspired utopian...  Read More >>

L'Impossible Pour Horizon: L'Essence de l'Exploration de l'Espace

L'Impossible Pour Horizon: L'Essence de l'Exploration...

Author: Jacques Arnould
ISBN: 9781925438420
Format: Hardback
$97.55

With his particular questioning style, Jacques Arnould takes us on a journey through the history of space exploration...  Read More >>

Environmental Ethics: Foundational Readings, Critical Responses

Environmental Ethics: Foundational Readings, Critical...

Author: Joel Kassiola
ISBN: 9781516579259
Format: Hardback
$573.06

Through a carefully selected collection of readings, Environmental Ethics: Foundational Readings, Critical Responses...  Read More >>

Little Eyes: LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE, 2020

Little Eyes: LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER INTERNATIONAL...

Author: Samanta Schweblin ,  Megan McDowell
ISBN: 9781786077929
Format: Hardback
$36.99

A visionary novel about our interconnected world, about the collision of horror and humanity, from the Man Booker-shortlisted...  Read More >>

Digital Detox: The Politics of Disconnecting

Digital Detox: The Politics of Disconnecting

Author: Trine Syvertsen (University of Oslo, Norway)
ISBN: 9781787693425
Format: Paperback
$47.95

Against a backdrop of increasingly intrusive technologies, Trine Syvertsen explores the digital detox phenomenon...  Read More >>

Golf's Holy War: The Battle for the Soul of a Game in an Age of Science

Golf's Holy War: The Battle for the Soul of a Game in...

Author: Brett Cyrgalis ,  Kyle Tait
ISBN: 9781797108094
Format: Audio
$105.57

Golf’s Holy War captures golf at a monumental turning point between its beloved artistic tradition and its analytic...  Read More >>

Meaningful Inefficiencies: Civic Design in an Age of Digital Expediency

Meaningful Inefficiencies: Civic Design in an Age of...

Author: Eric Gordon (Professor and Director of the Engagement Lab, Professor and Director of the Engagement Lab, Emerson College) ,  Gabriel Mugar (Berkman Klein Center, Berkman Klein Center, Harvard University)
ISBN: 9780190870133
Format: Paperback
$82.95

"Public trust in the institutions that mediate civic life-from governing bodies to newsrooms-is low. In facing this...  Read More >>

Future Politics: Living Together in a World Transformed by Tech

Future Politics: Living Together in a World Transformed...

Author: Jamie Susskind (Barrister, Barrister, Littleton Chambers)
ISBN: 9780198848929
Format: Paperback
$25.95

Future Politics confronts the most important question of our time: how will digital technology change society?  Read More >>

The Balancer

The Balancer

Author: James Geissinger ,  Robert Doherty
ISBN: 9780984741823
Format: Paperback
$39.93

"Flashing red and blue police lights on the evening television news serve as an all too frequent reminder of yet...  Read More >>

Too Smart: How Digital Capitalism is Extracting Data, Controlling Our Lives, and Taking Over the World

Too Smart: How Digital Capitalism is Extracting Data,...

Author: Jathan Sadowski (Research Fellow, Monash University - Caulfield campus)
ISBN: 9780262538589
Format: Paperback
$55.00

Who benefits from smart technology? Whose interests are served when we trade our personal data for convenience and...  Read More >>

A Way Through the Global Techno-Scientific Culture

A Way Through the Global Techno-Scientific Culture

Author: Sheldon Richmond
ISBN: 9781527546264
Format: Hardback
$263.87

Computers are supposed to be smart, yet they frustrate both ordinary users and computer technologists. Why are people...  Read More >>

Environmental Ethics: Foundational Readings, Critical Responses

Environmental Ethics: Foundational Readings, Critical...

Author: Joel Kassiola
ISBN: 9781516590964
Format: Paperback
$393.23

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Digital Detox: The Politics of Disconnecting

Digital Detox: The Politics of Disconnecting

Author: Trine Syvertsen (University of Oslo, Norway) ,  Laurel Lefkow
ISBN: 9781839827709
Format: Undefined
$63.33

Against a backdrop of increasingly intrusive technologies, Trine Syvertsen explores the digital detox phenomenon...  Read More >>

The Stars in Our Pockets

The Stars in Our Pockets

Author: Howard Axelrod ,  Tom Taylorson
ISBN: 9781662004933
Format: Audio
$92.37

How is technology changing the way we make sense of the world and of ourselves?  Read More >>

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