Ethical Issues: Scientific & Technological Developments

CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 BY WATERSTONES AND THE TIMES'Entertaining and original.' Guardian'Accessible and insightful, it's a thought-prov...

This latest volume provides a framework, evidence, and recommendations on how to attain a dynamic and inclusive digital economy. Europe 4.0 is poss...

'Persistently funny, ill-advisedly honest and deadly accurate' Caitlin Moran'This book is a delight - very real and very entertaining' Bob Mortim...

In an era of corporate surveillance, artificial intelligence, deep fakes, genetic modification, automation, and more, law often seems to take a bac...

The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence has two goals. The first goal is meta-theoretical and is fulfilled by Part One, which comprises the first thr...

A timely and powerful must-read on how the big tech companies are damaging our culture and what we can do to fight their influenceFour titanic cor...

'It is rare for a business analysis to read like a thriller this one does.' Azeem Azhar, Founder, Exponential View 'Vital to understanding how[Ti...

'This brilliantly subversive and witty book lays bare the techniques of manipulation and disinformation that keep the rich and powerful rich and po...

The first authoritative yet accessible guide to this controversial topic Stem Cell Research For Dummies offers a balanced, plain-English look at th...

The tech elite have a plan to survive the apocalypse: they want to leave us all behind. Five mysterious billionaires summoned Douglas Rushkoff to a...

In this book, historian Mar a M. Portuondo takes us to sixteenth-century Spain, where she identifies a community of natural philosophers and biblic...

We've outsourced too much of our thinking. How do we get it back?Have you ever followed your GPS device to a deserted parking lot? Or unquestioning...

Rachel Carson Environment Book Award, First Place (2018) IPPY Outstanding Book of the Year: Most Likely to Save the Planet (2018) Thorpe M...

This book refutes the 21st-century zeitgeist that views advancing technology as an unambiguous social good, and examines the effects of this uncrit...

Good communication, conventional wisdom suggests, is calm, logical, rational. Emotions, were told, just get in the way. But what if this is backwar...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is everywhere, yet it causes damage to society in ways that cant be fixed. Instead of helping to address our current ...

When should a surveillance system that is used in preventive policing sacrifice the privacy of citizens to prevent criminality? What should be the ...

Using an accessible question-and-answer format, this short but focused book tackles themes relating to the etheric - or life - realm. What is ether...

The recent explosion of neuroscience techniques has been game-changing in terms of understanding the healthy brain, and in the development of neuro...

Deepfake technology can create video evidence of just about anything: Hollywood superstar Margot Robbie in an orgy.Chinese president Xi Jinping dec...

It seems that just about every new technology that we bring to bear on improving our lives brings with it some downside, side effect or unintended ...

A wide-ranging history of assisted reproductive technologies and their ethical implications.Finalist of the PROSE Award for Best Book in History of...

The use of animals in research has always been surrounded by ethical controversy. This book provides an overview of the central ethical issues focu...

This volume tackles a quickly-evolving field of inquiry, mapping the existing discourse as part of a general attempt to place current developments ...

Politics in the Twentieth Century was dominated by a single question: how much of our collective life should be determined by the state, and what s...

The recent explosion of neuroscience techniques has proved to be game changing in terms of understanding the healthy brain, and in the development ...

Colin Farrelly contemplates the various ethical and social quandaries raised by the genetic revolution. Recent biomedical advances such as genetic ...

Colin Farrelly contemplates the various ethical and social quandaries raised by the genetic revolution. Recent biomedical advances such as genetic ...

THE NEW INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE WORLD IS FLATWe all sense it: something big is going on. Life is speeding up, and it is diz...

The first decade of the twenty-first century marked the demise of the current world order. Despite widespread acknowledgement of these disruptive c...

A guide to the everyday decisions about right and wrong faced by physical scientists and research engineers. This book offers the first comprehe...

How a journey of self-discovery unearthed the scandalous evolution of artificial insemination. By his forties, Peter J. Boni was an accomplished C...

This Eden is a smart modern-day adventure reminiscent of both the cyber noir novels of William Gibson and the golden age of espionage fiction.'An i...

Deepfake technology can create video evidence of just about anything: Hollywood superstar Margot Robbie in an orgy.Chinese president Xi Jinping dec...

In Industry Unbound, Ari Ezra Waldman exposes precisely how the tech industry conducts its ongoing crusade to undermine our privacy. With research ...