Impact of Science & Technology on Society

The dramatic advances in computer and telecommunications technologies such as the Internet, virtual reality, smart cards or multimedia applications...

Volume 12 (4 titles bound in one volume) 978-0-415-46317-1 £80.00Hephaestus, or the Soul of the Machine E E Fournier d’AlbeOriginally published in ...

How does everyday life change when electricity becomes available to a group of people for the first time? Why do some groups tend to embrace this...

AI in and for Africa: A Humanistic Perspective explores the convoluted intersection of artificial intelligence (AI) with Africa’s unique socio-econ...

Today, safeguarding nation-states, organizations, and citizens has less to do with security (cyber and non-cyber) but has everything to do with Sur...

This work is Volume 2 of an extensive two-volume monograph on the interplay of science and literature in Europe from the eighteenth to the early tw...

Ithiel de Sola Pool was a pioneering social scientist, a distinguished scholar of the political process, and one of the most original thinkers in t...

In the 18th century chemistry established itself as both an autonomous and a public science, moving from mining and medicine into agriculture and g...

i in the sky is a collection of essays by over 40 experts, including leading writers Charles Handy and Don Tapscott, giving their personal vision o...

Latinas Pathways to STEM: Exploring Contextual Mitigating Factors presents transnational case studies of Latinas and Mexicanas pursuing a STEM degr...

Make the most of your human services training or practice with these electronic tools!Human Services Technology: Innovations in Practice and Educat...

Learn how computer technology is helping school social workers collect information and synthesize it into meaningful data! Technology-Assisted Deli...

Make the most of your human services training or practice with these electronic tools!Human Services Technology: Innovations in Practice and Educat...

Learn how computer technology is helping school social workers collect information and synthesize it into meaningful data! Technology-Assisted Deli...

We live in an age when the dominant technologically utilitarian worldview is undergoing a transformation. To increase our awareness of this change,...

Garrett Pierman argues that the Internet, as it is structured today, is inhospitable to democracy. What began as a government-funded defense projec...

How do social scientists study the impact of social networking sites on racial identity formation? How has the Internet impacted the accumulation o...

A National Post Bestseller!A multi-faceted story that explores how small actions and changes can give rise to startling and unintended consequences...

The project of science has been to provide answers to questions about the world and how it works. Often, this lofty role has been characterised by ...

In a relatively short time, Finland has transformed a society of approximately 5.3 million people into one of the most educated and technologically...

In this gripping expose of our cyber-centric, attention-deficient life, journalist Maggie Jackson argues that we are eroding our capacity for deep ...