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Impact of science & technology on society
Hardcover. As technology changes, so too have its applications and our uses and experiences with them have changed as well. The emergence of new technologies offer opportunities for new ways of interacting, playing, working and learning. It is within the context of simultaneous excitement and anxiety that we discuss Virtual Social Networks. Editor(s): Panteli, Niki. Num Pages: 213 pages, biography. BIC Classification: KJP; PDR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 150 x 19. Weight in Grams: 418.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230229280
- ISBN
- 9780230229280
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.97
€ 127.97
Hardback. As their roles become more demanding, specialised and far removed from their own inborn predispositions, will the military require ever more years of 'programming'? Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: JWA; JWM; PDR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 148 x 27. Weight in Grams: 562.
- Publisher
- C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
- Number of pages
- 384
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781849042543
- ISBN
- 9781849042543
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 42.18
€ 46.99
€ 42.18
Paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: JPF; JPHV; KCHS; PDR; PDZM; UMB; UYQM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141985411
- ISBN
- 9780141985411
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.14
€ 14.99
€ 11.14
Paperback. * The first book to explore the social meaning of the 'always on' webcam and the role it has come to play in our lives. * Using case studies from the UK and Trinidad and Tobago, the authors examine how webcams have become an integral part of people's everyday life. Num Pages: 220 pages. BIC Classification: GTC; PDR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 342.
- Publisher
- Polity Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 220
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745671475
- ISBN
- 9780745671475
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.53
€ 23.53
Hardcover. * The first book to explore the social meaning of the 'always on' webcam and the role it has come to play in our lives. * Using case studies from the UK and Trinidad and Tobago, the authors examine how webcams have become an integral part of people's everyday life. Num Pages: 220 pages. BIC Classification: GTC; PDR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 160 x 21. Weight in Grams: 448.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Polity Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 220
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745671468
- ISBN
- 9780745671468
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.86
€ 66.86
Paperback. Num Pages: 576 pages. BIC Classification: JMR; PDR; UYQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 206 x 135 x 29. Weight in Grams: 448.
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers Inc
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780062425652
- ISBN
- 9780062425652
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 13.47
€ 16.99
€ 13.47
Paperback. Examines the proliferation of surveillance technologies - such as facial recognition software and digital fingerprinting - that have come to pervade our everyday lives. This book focuses on the ways that the technologies reinforce distinctions of race, class, gender, sexuality, disability, and nationality. Num Pages: 224 pages, 7 photos, 11 figures. BIC Classification: JFD; PDR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 155 x 15. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822351351
- ISBN
- 9780822351351
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.56
€ 27.99
€ 26.56
Paperback. Offers an introduction to the world of women and men who did the hard computational labor of science. This book tells us about the surveyors of the French Revolution, describes the calculating machines of Charles Babbage, and guides readers through the Great Depression to marvel at the giant computing room of the Works Progress Administration. Num Pages: 424 pages, 50 halftones. BIC Classification: PDR; PDX; TBX; UYZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 160 x 23. Weight in Grams: 622.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 424
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691133829
- ISBN
- 9780691133829
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 39.95
€ 54.99
€ 39.95
Paperback. The trend that began with ATMs and do-it-yourself checkouts is moving at lightning speed. Everything from driving to teaching to the care of the elderly and, indeed, code-writing can now be done by smart machines. Series: New Human Frontiers. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: PDR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 190 x 130. .
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781509509560
- ISBN
- 9781509509560
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.88
€ 15.88
Hardback. The trend that began with ATMs and do-it-yourself checkouts is moving at lightning speed. Everything from driving to teaching to the care of the elderly and, indeed, code-writing can now be done by smart machines. Series: New Human Frontiers. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: PDR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 190 x 130. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9781509509553
- ISBN
- 9781509509553
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 54.12
€ 54.12
Paperback. "Wireless World" brings together experts from different disciplines to explore the social factors that are shaping the wireless world and provides an overview of the issues for anyone designing, testing or studying mobile devices. Editor(s): Brown, Barry; Harper, Richard; Green, Nicola. Series: Computer Supported Cooperative Work. Num Pages: 240 pages, 7 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: PDR; TJK; UT. Category: (P) Professional & Scholarly; (UP) Postgraduate; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 13. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Springer London Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2002
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781852334772
- ISBN
- 9781852334772
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.49
€ 66.49
Paperback. Putting the transfer of technology between nations into historical context, this book considers the degree to which global technologies have made national institutions and traditions of technology redundant. It brings together a cross-disciplinary gathering of scholars from both sides of the Atlantic. Num Pages: 255 pages, illus. BIC Classification: HB; JFFS; PDR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 240 x 171 x 18. Weight in Grams: 550.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Aarhus University Press Denmark
- Number of pages
- 255
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788772889474
- ISBN
- 9788772889474
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.88
€ 35.88
Paperback. * This is a remarkable study of the impact on online technologies on professional workers. * Gregg introduces the notion of work's intimacy to describe the way technology exacerbates the expectations of professional jobs as they come to invade spaces and times that were once less susceptible to work's presence. Num Pages: 200 pages, black & white illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: JHBL; JHMC; PDR; UBJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 364.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Number of pages
- 200
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745650289
- ISBN
- 9780745650289
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.81
€ 24.81
Hardback. * This is a remarkable study of the impact on online technologies on professional workers. * Gregg introduces the notion of work's intimacy to describe the way technology exacerbates the expectations of professional jobs as they come to invade spaces and times that were once less susceptible to work's presence. Num Pages: 200 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JHBL; JHMC; PDR; UBJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 153 x 24. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745650272
- ISBN
- 9780745650272
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.86
€ 66.86
Paperback. From Jules Verne to the Jetsons, from a 500-passenger flying wing to an anti-aircraft flying buzz-saw, the vision of the future as seen through the eyes of the past demonstrates the play of the American imagination on the canvas of the future. Num Pages: 176 pages, 166, 166 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFCX; PDR; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 196 x 252 x 10. Weight in Grams: 488.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801853999
- ISBN
- 9780801853999
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 48.16
€ 48.16
Paperback. Reveals how the internet is deadening personal interaction, stifling genuine inventiveness and even changing us as people. Showing us the way to a future where individuals mean more than machines, this book is a searing manifesto against mass mediocrity, a creative call to arms - and an impassioned defence of the human. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: JFC; PDR; UBJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 184.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141049113
- ISBN
- 9780141049113
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 12.61
€ 15.99
€ 12.61
Paperback. A highly contentious, very readable and totally up-to-the-minute investigation of women's natural relationship with modern technology, an association which, Plant argues, will trigger a new sexual revolution. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: GPF; JFFK; PDR; U. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 197 x 131 x 22. Weight in Grams: 234.
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781857026986
- ISBN
- 9781857026986
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.50
€ 15.99
€ 11.50