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Impact of science & technology on society
For six hundred years, the nations of Europe and North America have periodically attempted to coerce, invade, or conquer other societies. This title examines Western imperialism's complex relationship with technology, from the first Portuguese ships that ventured down the coast of Africa in the 1430s to America's conflicts in the Middle East. Series: The Princeton Economic History of the Western World. Num Pages: 408 pages, 20 halftones. 4 maps. BIC Classification: HBG; KCZ; PDR. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 36. Weight in Grams: 704.
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 408
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691139333
- ISBN
- 9780691139333
Condition: New
€ 68.92€ 53.97
€ 68.92
€ 53.97
Hardback. .
- Publisher
- Lexington Books United States
- Number of pages
- 162
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780739181508
- ISBN
- 9780739181508
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.72
€ 116.72
Hardback. Editor(s): Pinn, Anthony B. Series: Studies in Humanism and Atheism. Num Pages: 239 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HRQA; JFD; PDR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 217 x 21. Weight in Grams: 474.
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing AG
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783319317137
- ISBN
- 9783319317137
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.85
€ 127.85
Paperback. The profound impact of information technology on intellectual and cultural life is universally acknowledged. This title brings together American and European scholars, scientists, and artists to consider how the precipitous growth of digital information and its associated technologies transform the ways we think and act. Editor(s): Bartscherer, Thomas; Coover, Roderick. Num Pages: 392 pages, 40 halftones, 4 line drawings. BIC Classification: AB; JFC; JFD; PDR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 228 x 24. Weight in Grams: 714.
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226038315
- ISBN
- 9780226038315
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 33.73
€ 43.99
€ 33.73
Hardback. This collection is framed through Deleuze's symptomalogical approach which creates the ideal terrain for architecture and medical technologies of care to meet with robotics, alongside the newly emerging 'materialist landscape. Editor(s): Radman, Andrej; Sohn, Heidi. Series: New Materialisms. Num Pages: 328 pages, 45 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: AMA; HPJ; HPN; HPS; PDA; PDR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 173 x 237 x 25. Weight in Grams: 658.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781474421119
- ISBN
- 9781474421119
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 124.76€ 120.22
€ 124.76
€ 120.22
Hardback. In his latest book, Arthur Asa Berger offers a concise series of analyses on the transformative impact of digital devices on American society. Num Pages: 132 pages, 18 black & white illustrations, 8 black & white tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFCD; PDR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 141. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137575265
- ISBN
- 9781137575265
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.04
€ 66.04
Hardback. Ethical Ripples of Creativity and Innovation coaches responsible creativity, ethical anticipation, and flexible consideration of the future. Readers engage with 22 provocative cases of real-world emerging innovations to consider each innovation's potential beneficial and harmful effects now and into the future. Num Pages: 226 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFMG; PDR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 430.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137505538
- ISBN
- 9781137505538
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.78
€ 66.78
Hardback. This book describes and analyzes a project collecting the stories of some 700 people on how computing transformed Swedish society between 1950 and 1980; explores the interaction of computing with broad transformation in economies, cultures, and societies. Series: History of Computing. Num Pages: 148 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DNS; 3JJPG; 3JJPK; 3JJPL; PDR; TBX; UBJ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 164 x 248 x 16. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Publisher
- Springer London Ltd
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 2012th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781447129325
- ISBN
- 9781447129325
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.78
€ 127.78
Hardback. This book explores the emergence of a new scientific field, synthetic biology, and the many bold promises its proponents have made to change the future of science, industry and humanity. It explores how people tried to change their practices to bring engineering and biology together and to realise such promises from within their everyday lives. Num Pages: 207 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHB; PDR; PSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 404.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137495419
- ISBN
- 9781137495419
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.46
€ 127.46
Hardback. .
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781107177857
- ISBN
- 9781107177857
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 72.18
€ 72.18
Hardback. What impact has technology had on cultural meanings, values, and symbols? This anthropological exploration shows how technologies produce novel and sometimes jarring realignments among cultural institutions. Num Pages: 198 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHMC; PDR; TB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 153 x 16. Weight in Grams: 362.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 208
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 2013th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137342010
- ISBN
- 9781137342010
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.37
€ 66.37
Hardback. It is during the nineteenth-century, the age of machinery, that we begin to witness a sustained exploration of the literal and discursive entanglements of minds, bodies, machines. This book explores the impact of technology upon conceptions of language, consciousness, human cognition, and the boundaries between materialist and esoteric sciences. Editor(s): Coleman, Deirdre; Fraser, Hilary. Series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture. Num Pages: 241 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBF; DSBH; DSK; PDR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 156 x 21. Weight in Grams: 416.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 248
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- 2011th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230284678
- ISBN
- 9780230284678
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.27
€ 67.27
Hardback. Editor(s): Lourtioz, Jean-Michel; Lahmani, Marcel; Dupas-Haeberlin, Claire; Hesto, Patrice. Translator(s): Lyle, Stephen N. Num Pages: 438 pages, 32 black & white illustrations, 185 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: PDR; TBN; TDPB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 25. Weight in Grams: 853.
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland
- Number of pages
- 438
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783319193595
- ISBN
- 9783319193595
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 163.40
€ 163.40
Hardback. Communications and Mobility is a unique, interdisciplinary look at mobility, territory, communication, and transport in the 21st century with extended case studies of three icons of this era: the mobile phone, the migrant, and the container box. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: JFCD; PDR; UD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. .
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405192019
- ISBN
- 9781405192019
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 97.38
€ 97.38
Paperback. The internet has profoundly shaped how Muslims perceive Islam, and how Islamic societies and networks are evolving and shifting within the twenty-first century. This book explores how these transformations and influences play out in diverse cyber Islamic environments, and how they are responding to shifts in technology and society. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: HRHP; PDR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 24. Weight in Grams: 472.
- Publisher
- C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781850659501
- ISBN
- 9781850659501
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 19.87
€ 19.99
€ 19.87
Hardback. The Italian Antimafia, New Media, and the Culture of Legality is the first book to examine the online battles between the mafia and its growing cohort of opponents. Series: Toronto Italian Studies. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: 1DST; 2ADT; DSB; HBJD; JF; PDR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781487501105
- ISBN
- 9781487501105
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 73.24
€ 73.24
Paperback. Our Battle for the Human Spirit is a comprehensive probe into what is happening to human life in the beginning of the 21st century. It explores how culture, experience, and symbolization have been replaced by scientific, discipline-based, approaches. Num Pages: 440 pages. BIC Classification: HRAM2; JHB; KC; KJ; PDR; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 155 x 229 x 30. Weight in Grams: 662.
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781487520359
- ISBN
- 9781487520359
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 44.99€ 39.95
€ 44.99
€ 39.95
Hardcover. Details the story of a group of San Francisco Bay Area entrepreneurs - Stewart Brand and the Whole Earth network. While tracing the transformation of how our networked culture came to be, this book reminds us that the distance between the Grateful Dead and Google, between Ken Kesey and the computer itself, is not as great as we might think. Num Pages: 360 pages, 16 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTB; JFC; PDR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 163 x 31. Weight in Grams: 672.
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 360
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226817415
- ISBN
- 9780226817415
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 28.96
€ 36.99
€ 28.96
Paperback. In Fungible Life Aihwa Ong traces the revolutionary scientific developments in Asia by investigating how biomedical centers in Biopolis, Singapore and China mobilize ethnicized "Asian" bodies and health data for genomic research. Num Pages: 312 pages, 10 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1F; HBJF; JFMG; JHMC; PDR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 153 x 229 x 21. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822362647
- ISBN
- 9780822362647
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 28.79
€ 31.99
€ 28.79
Hardback. Analyzing the relationship between digital technologies and society this book explores a wide range of complex social issues emerging in a new digital space. It examines both the vexing dilemmas with a critical eye as well as prompting readers to think constructively and strategically about exciting possibilities. Num Pages: 408 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFP; KJD; PDR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 147 x 24. Weight in Grams: 598.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 408
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230273467
- ISBN
- 9780230273467
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 68.20
€ 68.20