Impact of Science & Technology on Society

Discover the future of cybersecurity through the eyes of the world's first augmented ethical hacker In Human Hacked: My Life and Lessons as the Wor...

Developing a new political thought to address todays planetary crises What is planetary thinking today? Arguing that a new approach is urgently nee...

In Ray Kurzweil's New York Times bestseller The Singularity is Near, the futurist and entrepreneur describes the Singularity, a likely future utter...

Imagine a world where your brain can be interrogated to learn your political beliefs, thought crimes are punishable by law, and your own feelings c...

Technology has revolutionized many aspects of modern life, from how businesses operate, to how people get information, to how countries wage war. C...

In the face of global challenges such as climate change, population growth, and food security, understanding and optimizing crop nutrition has nev...

The book introduces the reader to machine learning in transportation. It describes techniques, applications and codes. It discusses both simple an...

Industrial quantum computing (IQC) covers the applications of quantum computing innovations in general industry and industry 4.0. This book presen...

Integrated Agriculture - An Approach for Sustainable Agriculture offers a comprehensive examination of a transformative agricultural paradigm aime...

Microbial ecology, or environmental microbiology, is a field that studies the interactions between microorganisms and their environment, including ...

Microbial ecology, or environmental microbiology, is a field that studies the interactions between microorganisms and their environment, including ...

MCKINSEY TOP 5 RECOMMENDED READ 'An underground hit' Best Politics Books, Financial Times 'Jon has one of the few big ideas that's easily applie...

Behind the euphoric narrative of India as an emerging world power lies a complex and evolving relationship between science and religion. Evoking th...

Examines the theoretical achievements and the political impact of the new materialisms Materialism, a rich philosophical tradition that goes back t...

Bryan Giemza challenges the myth of the solitary genius, both in scientific and humanistic endeavors, and demonstrates how Cormac McCarthy is the e...

Empires and their aftermaths were massive planning institutions; in the past two hundred years, the natural and social sciences emergedat least in ...

An exclusive behind-the-scenes look at one of Americas most controversial experiments in police surveillance.    In 2020, the Baltimore Police Depa...

Debates over science, facts, and values are pivotal in the struggle for environmental justice. For decades, environmental justice activists have ca...

Never before have the scope and limits of scientific freedom been more important or more under attack. New science, from artificial intelligence to...

The great paradox of science in the twentieth century is that the more we learn, the less we seem to know. In this volume, John Templeton and scien...

In this colorful and consistently engaging work, law and economics professor Gillian Hadfield picks up where New York Times columnist Thomas Friedm...

Der vorliegende Band dokumentiert Schlicks fast vier Jahrzehnte währende, auf den ersten Blick immer noch überraschende und von der Forschung bishe...

Racially and economically segregated schools across the United States have hosted many interventions from commercial digital education technology (...

This book explores the social forces among and between online aggressors that affect the expression and perpetration of online hate. Its chapters i...

This book explores the social forces among and between online aggressors that affect the expression and perpetration of online hate. Its chapters i...

Risky Bodies and Techno-Intimacy traverses disparate and uncommon routes to explore how people grapple with the radical uncertainties of their live...

Wired called Dr. Fei-Fei Li one of a tiny group of scientistsa group perhaps small enough to fit around a kitchen tablewho are responsible for AIs ...

When the tech platforms promised a future of connection, they were lying. They said their walled gardens would keep us safe, but those were prison ...

While the general public may feel uncomfortable discussing sexual assault and violence with neighbors or coworkers, the popularity of Twitter, Snap...