Ethical Issues: Scientific & Technological Developments

The 1960s (a.k.a. the 60s) remains a terrain of contemporary politicswith the values of the period embraced or rejected, as well as differently int...

This book evaluates some of the most common ethical issues confronted by reproductive endocrinologists, embryologists, and their teams. The authors...

The threat of social-environmental destruction is a fundamental challenge for those who are interested in creating and maintaining liveable worlds....

The threat of social-environmental destruction is a fundamental challenge for those who are interested in creating and maintaining liveable worlds....

A devastating portrait of the cultures and logics underlying big tech. Rushkoff is going to make you mad enough to fight back. A vital, lucid, and ...

Climate change impacts-more heat, drought, extreme rainfall, and stronger storms-have already harmed communities around the globe. Even if the worl...

*SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2024**LONGLISTED FOR THE FINANCIAL TIMES BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2023* 'A parable for...

If you want real food, food security and a truly biodiverse countryside, please, please read this book. John Lewis-Stempel, author of Meadowland  ...

'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...

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 ...