Impact of Science & Technology on Society
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How to Stand Up to a Dictator: Radio 4 Book of the Week
Da-Hae WestCurrent price €15.75Original price €17.50WINNER OF THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE 2021 What will you sacrifice for the truth? Maria Ressa has spent decades speaking truth to power. But her work tr...
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Smoother Pebbles: Essays in the Sociology of Science
Jonathan R. ColeCurrent price €40.49Original price €44.99Until the middle of the twentieth century, few thought of science as a social system, instead seeing scientific discovery as the work of individual...
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Atheism & Freedom: An introduction to free thought
Andr CancianCurrent price €16.19Original price €17.99Current price €16.19Original price €17.99Save 10% -
The Universe in a Box: A New Cosmic History
Andrew PontzenCurrent price €16.28Original price €18.50**AS SEEN ON BBC BREAKFAST**Will we ever truly understand our cosmic home? This is the story of the technologies that allow us to look up, to learn...
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Don''t Be Evil: The Case Against Big Tech
Rana ForooharCurrent price €15.40Original price €17.50A TIMES BEST CURRENT AFFAIRS BOOK OF THE YEARThe award-winning Financial Times columnist exposes the threat that Big Tech poses to our democracies,...
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The New Breed: How to Think About Robots
Kate DarlingCurrent price €15.75Original price €17.50'A must read for anyone interested in the emerging ethics of robotics' Irene M. PepperbergA bold, optimistic exploration of the relationship betwe...
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Humanizing the Web: Change and Social Innovation
H. Oinas-KukkonenCurrent price €51.91Original price €58.99Offers a vivid description of the ongoing transformation of the web into something that is widely recognized and that will have an enormous impact ...
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Revolutions in Book Publishing: The Effects of Digital Innovation on the Industry
Lall RamrattanCurrent price €55.43Original price €62.99Revolutions in Book Publishing uses dynamic methods to examine the evolution of the industry's transition from physical place to cyber space, analy...
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Joined-Up Thinking: The Science of Collective Intelligence and its Power to Change Our Lives
Hannah CritchlowCurrent price €15.75Original price €17.50At a time of existential global challenges we need our best brainpower to solve them. We can no longer rely on the myth of the lone genius to creat...
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Earthly Things: Immanence, New Materialisms, and Planetary Thinking
Fordham University PressCurrent price €125.09Original price €138.99Globalization and climate weirding are two of the leading phenomena that challenge and change the way we need to think and act within the planetary...
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Earthly Things: Immanence, New Materialisms, and Planetary Thinking
Fordham University PressCurrent price €41.39Original price €45.99Globalization and climate weirding are two of the leading phenomena that challenge and change the way we need to think and act within the planetary...
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Untangling Twinning: What Science Tells Us about the Nature of Human Embryos
Maureen L. CondicCurrent price €46.40Original price €50.99Scientists and philosophers have long struggled to answer the questions of when human life begins and when human life has inherent value. The pheno...
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Inquiring into Human Enhancement: Interdisciplinary and International Perspectives
Jean GayonCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99Human enhancement has become a major concern in debates about the future of contemporary societies. This interdisciplinary book is devoted to clari...
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Science for Life: A manual for better living
Brian CleggCurrent price €20.01Original price €21.99In Science for Life acclaimed science writer Brian Clegg cuts through the vested interests and confusing contradictory statements that litter the m...
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The Sentinel State: Surveillance and the Survival of Dictatorship in China
Minxin PeiCurrent price €34.31Original price €38.99Countering recent hype around technology, a leading expert argues that the endurance of dictatorship in China owes less to facial recognition AI an...
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Machines as the Measure of Men: Science, Technology, and Ideologies of Western Dominance
Michael AdasCurrent price €35.09Original price €38.99Over the past five centuries, advances in Western understanding of and control over the material world have strongly influenced European responses ...
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Turning the Tide on Plastic: How Humanity (And You) Can Make Our Globe Clean Again
Lucy SiegleCurrent price €12.04Original price €14.50Enough plastic is thrown away every year to circle the world 4 times More than 8 million tonnes of plastic enter the oceans each year 300 million t...
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Cybercrime Risks and Responses: Eastern and Western Perspectives
Palgrave MacmillanCurrent price €48.71Original price €55.99This book examines the most recent and contentious issues in relation to cybercrime facing the world today, and how best to address them. The contr...
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Domesticity in the Making of Modern Science
Palgrave MacmillanCurrent price €110.69Original price €122.99The history of the modern sciences has long overlooked the significance of domesticity as a physical, social, and symbolic force in the shaping of ...
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The Will to Predict: Orchestrating the Future through Science
Egl RindzeviitCurrent price €61.19Original price €67.99In The Will to Predict, Egl Rindzeviit demonstrates how the logic of scientific expertise cannot be properly understood without knowing the concept...
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Blockchain Chicken Farm: And Other Stories of Tech in China''s Countryside
Xiaowei WangCurrent price €16.65Original price €18.50In Blockchain Chicken Farm, the technologist and writer Xiaowei Wang explores the political and social entanglements of technology in rural China. ...
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Growing Down: Theology and Human Nature in the Virtual Age
Jaco J. HammanCurrent price €43.19Original price €47.99Growing Down explores the theological and psychological implications of humanity's fascination with technology. Author Jaco Hamman examines how our...
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Social Media, Freedom of Speech, and the Future of our Democracy
Oxford University Press IncCurrent price €25.03Original price €27.50A broad explanation of the various dimensions of the problem of bad speech on the internet within the American context. One of the most fiercely d...
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Ursachen
Andreas HüttemannCurrent price €25.94Original price €28.50Ursachen spielen im Alltag und in der Wissenschaft eine zentrale Rolle. Wir stützen uns auf Ursachenwissen wenn wir Vorhersagen machen, wenn wir Ph...
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Science in the Service of Human Rights
Richard Pierre ClaudeCurrent price €29.58Original price €32.50Issues that mix science and politics present some of today's most daunting ethical questions. Did China violate the human rights of prisoners in 20...
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Automate This: How Algorithms Took Over Our Markets, Our Jobs, and the World
Christopher SteinerCurrent price €24.20Original price €27.50In Automate This, Christopher Steiner looks at how the rise of computerized decision making affects every aspect of business and daily lifeThese da...
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Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI
Ethan MollickCurrent price €19.79Original price €21.99'Co-Intelligence is the very best book I know about the ins, outs, and ethics of generative AI. Drop everything and read it cover to cover NOW' Ang...
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Philosophical Letters, Abridged
Margaret CavendishCurrent price €62.99Original price €69.99Margaret Cavendish (16231673) is a fascinating figure who is getting increasing attention by historians of philosophy these days, and for good reas...
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Philosophical Letters, Abridged
Margaret CavendishCurrent price €28.79Original price €31.99Margaret Cavendish (16231673) is a fascinating figure who is getting increasing attention by historians of philosophy these days, and for good reas...
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The Politics of Modelling: Numbers Between Science and Policy
Oxford University PressCurrent price €88.26Original price €96.99Chapter 2, 'Pay no attention to the model behind the curtain', Chapter 4, 'Mind the hubris: Complexity can misfire', and Chapter 8, ' Sensitivity a...
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The Four-Dimensional Human: Ways of Being in the Digital World
Laurence ScottCurrent price €14.07Original price €15.99SHORTLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2015WINNER OF THE JERWOOD PRIZEONE OF WIRED's NON-FICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADEWe spend more...
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All My Friends Live in My Computer: Trauma, Tactical Media, and Meaning
Samira RajabiCurrent price €35.09Original price €38.99All My Friends Live in my Computer combines personal stories, media studies, and interdisciplinary theories to examine case studies from three uniq...
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The Undertaker at Work
Brian ParsonsCurrent price €23.85Original price €26.50A comprehensive historical survey of the work of undertakers in the first half of the twentieth century, essential reading for anyone interested in...
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Bright Labyrinth: Sex, Death and Design in the Digital Regime
Ken HollingsCurrent price €21.59Original price €23.99A subtle and sometimes disturbing account of how technology has impacted upon human culture.
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Human Rights, Robot Wrongs: Being Human in the Age of AI
Susie AlegreCurrent price €16.65Original price €18.50'Utterly brilliant' Helena Kennedy'A brilliant expose' Roger McNameeNo longer an uncertain technology of the distant future, artificial intelligenc...
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