Impact of science & technology on society books

8621 books were found.

Quantum Supremacy: How the Quantum Computer Revolution Will Change Everything

Quantum Supremacy: How the Quantum Computer Revolution...

Author: Michio Kaku
ISBN: 9780593744239
Format: Paperback
$84.48

"""The best-selling author of The God Equation turns his attention to humanity's next great technological advancement--quantum...  Read More >>

Animal Liberation Now: The Definitive Classic Renewed

Animal Liberation Now: The Definitive Classic Renewed...

Author: Peter Singer ,  Yuval Noah Harari
ISBN: 9780063226708
Format: Paperback
$52.77

THE UPDATED CLASSIC OF THE ANIMAL RIGHTS MOVEMENT, NOW WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY YUVAL NOAH HARARI ""The indispensable...  Read More >>

Fancy Bear Goes Phishing: The Dark History of the Information Age, in Five Extraordinary Hacks

Fancy Bear Goes Phishing: The Dark History of the Information...

Author: Scott J Shapiro
ISBN: 9780374601171
Format: Hardback
$79.20

""A law professor and computer expert's take on how hacks happen and how the Internet can be made more secure""--...  Read More >>

Animal Liberation Now: The Definitive Classic Renewed

Animal Liberation Now: The Definitive Classic Renewed...

Author: Peter Singer ,  Yuval Noah Harari
ISBN: 9780063335981
Format: Hardback
$79.20

THE UPDATED CLASSIC OF THE ANIMAL RIGHTS MOVEMENT, NOW WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY YUVAL NOAH HARARI ""The indispensable...  Read More >>

Split and Splice: A Phenomenology of Experimentation

Split and Splice: A Phenomenology of Experimentation...

Author: Hans-Jörg Rheinberger
ISBN: 9780226825328
Format: Paperback
$49.95

An esteemed historian of science explores the diversity of scientific experimentation.   The experiment has long...  Read More >>

D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson's Generative Influences in Art, Design, and Architecture: From Forces to Forms

D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson's Generative Influences in...

Author: Ellen K. Levy (independent artist and scholar, USA) ,  Dr. Charissa N. Terranova (University of Texas at Dallas, USA)
ISBN: 9781350191150
Format: Paperback
$49.99

Scottish zoologist D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson’s visionary ideas in On Growth and Form continue to evolve a century...  Read More >>

Influence of Social Capital and Social Networks on Student Achievement

Influence of Social Capital and Social Networks on Student...

Author: H. Kay Thomas
ISBN: 9781799882541
Format: Hardback
$312.40

Very few studies on social capital and social networks have used research to measure social capital and its concepts...  Read More >>

Power to the Public: The Promise of Public Interest Technology

Power to the Public: The Promise of Public Interest...

Author: Tara Dawson McGuinness ,  Hana Schank
ISBN: 9780691216645
Format: Paperback
$27.99

As the speed and complexity of the world increases, governments and nonprofit organisations need new ways to effectively...  Read More >>

Technology Touchpoints: Parenting in the Digital Dystopia

Technology Touchpoints: Parenting in the Digital Dystopia...

Author: Mac ,  Allyson Johnson
ISBN: 9798212972970
Format: Audio
$52.77

This is a story about a family coming of age at the same time as smartphones and social media; a multiracial family...  Read More >>

Our Changing Views of Photons: A Tutorial Memoir

Our Changing Views of Photons: A Tutorial Memoir

Author: Bruce W. Shore (Retired, Retired)
ISBN: 9780198877394
Format: Paperback
$64.95

Definitions, and views, of photons have undergone a remarkable change during the last century, continuing today...  Read More >>

The Battle for Your Brain: Defending the Right to Think Freely in the Age of Neurotechnology

The Battle for Your Brain: Defending the Right to Think...

Author: Nita A. Farahany
ISBN: 9781250272959
Format: Hardback
$49.99

A rock star academic explores the final frontier of personal privacy: your mind.  Read More >>

Size: How It Explains the World

Size: How It Explains the World

Author: Vaclav Smil
ISBN: 9780063324091
Format: Hardback
$84.48

""What makes a human society too big? What about a human being? Which alternative energy sources have the best chance...  Read More >>

Technology and Oligopoly Capitalism

Technology and Oligopoly Capitalism

Author: Luis Suarez-Villa
ISBN: 9781032386157
Format: Paperback
$83.99

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The Milestones of Science: How We Came to Understand the Universe

The Milestones of Science: How We Came to Understand...

Author: James D. Stein
ISBN: 9781633888487
Format: Hardback
$59.99

""Comprised of riveting and readable stories from along the path of scientific discovery in the fields of Astronomy,...  Read More >>

Peirce Mattering: Value, Realism, and the Pragmatic Maxim

Peirce Mattering: Value, Realism, and the Pragmatic...

Author: Dorothea Sophia
ISBN: 9781793654106
Format: Hardback
$169.00

This book explores ""real"" valuation through tracing the pragmatic meanings of ""mattering."" Employing Peirce's...  Read More >>

Technology and Oligopoly Capitalism

Technology and Oligopoly Capitalism

Author: Luis Suarez-Villa
ISBN: 9781032386188
Format: Hardback
$263.00

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The Trajectory of Discovery: What Determines the Rate and Direction of Medical Progress?

The Trajectory of Discovery: What Determines the Rate...

Author: Mark P. Khurana (University of Copenhagen)
ISBN: 9781009354431
Format: Paperback
$77.60

Exploring the forces that determine the rate and direction of medical progress, this book brings together the worlds...  Read More >>

Idea Materia: Can Ideas be Measured by Science?

Idea Materia: Can Ideas be Measured by Science?

Author: Patrick J Ricard
ISBN: 9781039149496
Format: Paperback
$76.53

"How is it possible that throughout history several inventors around the world have independently invented the same...  Read More >>

We Have Always Been Cyborgs: Digital Data, Gene Technologies, and an Ethics of Transhumanism

We Have Always Been Cyborgs: Digital Data, Gene Technologies,...

Author: Stefan Lorenz Sorgner (John Cabot University)
ISBN: 9781529219210
Format: Paperback
$57.99

This visionary new book explores the critical issues that link transhumanism with digitalisation, gene technologies...  Read More >>

Detecting shared communities in social networks algorithmically

Detecting shared communities in social networks algorithmically...

Author: Himansu Sekhar Pattanayak
ISBN: 9781805280576
Format: Paperback
$108.24

Detecting shared communities in social networks algorithmically involves the use of graph theory and clustering...  Read More >>

Carbon Queen: The Remarkable Life of Nanoscience Pioneer Mildred Dresselhaus

Carbon Queen: The Remarkable Life of Nanoscience Pioneer...

Author: Maia Weinstock ,  Eva Wilhelm
ISBN: 9798874669614
Format: Audio
$52.77

"""The first biography of the late Mildred Dresselhaus, a pioneer of nanoscience, a champion for women in STEM,...  Read More >>

Carbon Queen: The Remarkable Life of Nanoscience Pioneer Mildred Dresselhaus

Carbon Queen: The Remarkable Life of Nanoscience Pioneer...

Author: Maia Weinstock ,  Eva Wilhelm
ISBN: 9798874669621
Format: Audio
$52.77

"""The first biography of the late Mildred Dresselhaus, a pioneer of nanoscience, a champion for women in STEM,...  Read More >>

Quantum Fuzz: The Strange True Makeup of Everything Around Us

Quantum Fuzz: The Strange True Makeup of Everything...

Author: Michael S. Walker
ISBN: 9781633889057
Format: Paperback
$46.99

Quantum physics has turned our commonsense notion of reality on its head. This accessible book describes in layperson's...  Read More >>

Clone Genesis: The Ethics of Human Duplication

Clone Genesis: The Ethics of Human Duplication

Author: Daniel Zaborowski
ISBN: 9798215301715
Format: Paperback
$79.17

"""Clone Genesis: The Ethics of Human Duplication"" is a thought-provoking exploration of the complex ethical issues...  Read More >>

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