Science funding & policy books

1202 books were found.

The Politics of Cancer: Malignant Indifference

The Politics of Cancer: Malignant Indifference

Author: Wendy N. Whitman Cobb (Cameron University, USA)
ISBN: 9798765136942
Format: Paperback
$59.99

This book examines the politics of cancer, explains how our government is intrinsically tied to cancer research...  Read More >>

Future Polity: Using Autonomous Policymaking to Shape Progressive Societies

Future Polity: Using Autonomous Policymaking to Shape...

Author: Mohamed Al Jneibi
ISBN: 9781544546506
Format: Hardback
$79.17

Consensus-based policymaking is a thing of the past. A new Industrial Revolution has arrived, disrupting our...  Read More >>

Behind the Science: The Invisible Work of Data Management in Big Science

Behind the Science: The Invisible Work of Data Management...

Author: Katherine Harrison (Linköping University)
ISBN: 9781529230109
Format: Paperback
$57.95

Available Open Access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.Examining the data processes at the European Spallation...  Read More >>

On Leading a Lab: Strengthening Scientific Leadership in Responsible Research: Proceedings of a Workshop

On Leading a Lab: Strengthening Scientific Leadership...

Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine ,  Policy and Global Affairs
ISBN: 9780309725477
Format: Paperback
$58.08

Research leaders overseeing laboratories, centers, and collaborations have an opportunity to build and promote a...  Read More >>

Queering Science Communication: Representations, Theory, and Practice

Queering Science Communication: Representations, Theory,...

Author: Lindy A. Orthia (The Australian National University) ,  Tara Roberson (University of Queensland)
ISBN: 9781529224412
Format: Paperback
$57.95

Written by leading experts, this collection examines representations of queerness in popular science and media,...  Read More >>

Epigenetics and Public Policy: The Tangled Web of Science and Politics

Epigenetics and Public Policy: The Tangled Web of Science...

Author: Shea K. Robison (Idaho State University, USA)
ISBN: 9798765135754
Format: Paperback
$59.99

The exciting field of epigenetics offers novel and unanticipated science-based insights into human origins and development....  Read More >>

Pioneering Progress: American Science, Technology, and Innovation Policy

Pioneering Progress: American Science, Technology, and...

Author: William B. Bonvillian
ISBN: 9780262549448
Format: Paperback
$100.00

""An expert roadmap for the ways science and technology policy can help us overcome the complex challenges we face...  Read More >>

The Handover: How We Gave Control of Our Lives to Corporations, States and AIs

The Handover: How We Gave Control of Our Lives to Corporations,...

Author: David Runciman (University of Cambridge)
ISBN: 9781324095590
Format: Paperback
$52.77

""[W]itty and refined . . . Runciman's point is that the alliance between even a democratic government and a safe-ish...  Read More >>

Genesis: Artificial Intelligence, Hope, and the Human Spirit

Genesis: Artificial Intelligence, Hope, and the Human...

Author: Henry a Kissinger ,  Eric Schmidt
ISBN: 9780316581295
Format: Hardback
$79.20

Three pioneering thinkers offer a powerful guide to our future amid AI's rapid acceleration.  Read More >>

Military Ethics and Emerging Technologies

Military Ethics and Emerging Technologies

Author: Timothy J. Demy (US Naval War College, USA) ,  George R. Lucas Jr.
ISBN: 9781032922041
Format: Paperback
$81.99

This volume looks at current and emerging technologies of war and some of the ethical issues surrounding their use....  Read More >>

Data and Metrics for the DOD SBIR and STTR Programs: Proceedings of a Workshop

Data and Metrics for the DOD SBIR and STTR Programs:...

Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine ,  Policy and Global Affairs
ISBN: 9780309727242
Format: Paperback
$95.04

In response to a congressional mandate, a committee of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine...  Read More >>

Gender and Physics in the Academy: Theory, Policy and Practice in European Perspective

Gender and Physics in the Academy: Theory, Policy and...

Author: Meytal Eran-Jona (Weizmann Institute of Science) ,  Pauline Leonard (University of Southampton)
ISBN: 9781529222302
Format: Hardback
$188.95

This interdisciplinary collection addresses women's under-representation in science across Europe, focusing on physics...  Read More >>

Politics Recoded: The Infrastructural Organizing of Code for America

Politics Recoded: The Infrastructural Organizing of...

Author: Aure Schrock
ISBN: 9780262549455
Format: Paperback
$95.00

""A detailed history of Code for America examining how we can democratically design government systems""--  Read More >>

The Elephant and the Dragon in Contemporary Life Sciences: A Call for Decolonising Global Governance

The Elephant and the Dragon in Contemporary Life Sciences:...

Author: Joy Y. Zhang ,  Saheli Datta Burton
ISBN: 9781526182289
Format: Paperback
$56.99

This book demonstrates that the 'subversiveness' assumed in China's and India's rise in the life sciences reflects...  Read More >>

Nobel Genius: Prizes, Prestige and Scientific Practice

Nobel Genius: Prizes, Prestige and Scientific Practice...

Author: Nils Hansson ,  Ad Maas
ISBN: 9789087284138
Format: Hardback
$258.75

This book explores the prize cultures of the most famous scientific award worldwide: the Nobel Prize.  Read More >>

Cloud Policy: A History of Regulating Pipelines, Platforms, and Data

Cloud Policy: A History of Regulating Pipelines, Platforms,...

Author: Jennifer Holt
ISBN: 9780262548069
Format: Paperback
$135.00

""This book is a history of U.S. regulations governing media and distribution infrastructures that support the cloud""--...  Read More >>

Taming Silicon Valley: How to Protect Our Jobs, Safety, and Society in the Age of AI

Taming Silicon Valley: How to Protect Our Jobs, Safety,...

Author: Gary F. Marcus
ISBN: 9780262551069
Format: Paperback
$39.99

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Fantasies of Virtual Reality: Untangling Fiction, Fact, and Threat

Fantasies of Virtual Reality: Untangling Fiction, Fact,...

Author: Marcus Carter ,  Ben Egliston
ISBN: 9780262549165
Format: Paperback
$65.00

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Toward an Ecological Society

Toward an Ecological Society

Author: Murray Bookchin ,  Dan Chodorkoff
ISBN: 9781849354448
Format: Paperback
$46.58

Toward an Ecological Society compiles key writings from a seminal period in Murray Bookchin's thought, including...  Read More >>

From Pessimism to Promise: Lessons from the Global South on Designing Inclusive Tech

From Pessimism to Promise: Lessons from the Global South...

Author: Payal Arora ,  Charles Hayes
ISBN: 9780262049306
Format: Hardback
$55.00

A radical paradigm shift in the way we think about AI and tech, taking hope and inspiration from the aspirational...  Read More >>

Knowledge as Commons: Toward Inclusive Science and Technology

Knowledge as Commons: Toward Inclusive Science and Technology...

Author: Prabir Purkayastha
ISBN: 9781685900700
Format: Paperback
$63.99

A powerful contribution to the debate on intellectual property Knowledge as Commons traces the historical path...  Read More >>

Knowledge as Commons: Toward Inclusive Science and Technology

Knowledge as Commons: Toward Inclusive Science and Technology...

Author: Prabir Purkayastha
ISBN: 9781685900717
Format: Hardback
$196.00

A powerful contribution to the debate on intellectual property Knowledge as Commons traces the historical path...  Read More >>

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