Impact of Science & Technology on Society
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Exponential: How Accelerating Technology Is Leaving Us Behind and What to Do About It
Azeem AzharCurrent price €20.83Original price €24.50The Times and Financial Times Book of the Year''Enticing'' Sunday Times ''Engaging'' Financial Times ''Excellent'' Amol Rajan, BBC NewsAs techn...
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Rule of the Robots: How Artificial Intelligence Will Transform Everything
Martin FordCurrent price €25.18Original price €26.50'The best up-to-date, go-to book on the social and economic implications of artificial intelligence - Tyler Cowen'Rule of the Robots explores the f...
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Human Frontiers: The Future of Big Ideas in an Age of Small Thinking
Michael BhaskarCurrent price €23.32Original price €26.50'A fascinating book . . . Bhaskar is a reassuringly positive and often witty guide'Observer'A fascinating, must-read book covering a vast array of ...
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Love Orange: a vivid, comic cocktail about a modern American family
Natasha RandallCurrent price €13.27Original price €15.99A disturbing portrait of a modern American family'Imagine Richard Yates becoming fascinated by Donald Antrim before writing Revolutionary Road and ...
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Understanding DNA Ancestry
Sheldon KrimskyCurrent price €16.19Original price €17.99DNA ancestry companies generate revenues in the region of $1bn a year, and the company 23andMe is said to have sold 10 million DNA ancestry kits to...
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Industry Unbound: The Inside Story of Privacy, Data, and Corporate Power
Ari Ezra WaldmanCurrent price €23.06Original price €26.50In Industry Unbound, Ari Ezra Waldman exposes precisely how the tech industry conducts its ongoing crusade to undermine our privacy. With research ...
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Why Visit America
Matthew BakerCurrent price €14.44Original price €16.99Welcome, dear visitor, to a proud and storied nation. When you put down this guidebook, look around you. A nation isnt land. A nation is people. E...
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Digital Imaginaries: African Positions
Kerber VerlagCurrent price €37.71Original price €45.99Africa is changing and digitisation is playing a pivotal role in it. Throughout the whole continent, digital practices are emerging which radical...
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Hacking Diversity: The Politics of Inclusion in Open Technology Cultures
Christina Dunbar-HesterCurrent price €82.79Original price €91.99A firsthand look at efforts to improve diversity in software and hackerspace communitiesHacking, as a mode of technical and cultural production, is...
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Cultures of Video Game Concerns The Child Across Families, Law, Science, and Industry
Estrid SoerensenCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99The same computer games are played by youths all over the world, and worldwide games become matters of concern in relation to children: worries ris...
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Soonish: Ten Emerging Technologies That Will Improve and/or Ruin Everything
Dr. Kelly WeinersmithCurrent price €21.05Original price €26.99**The New York Times Bestseller**''Space elevators, gold asteroids, and fusion-powered toasters - who knew science could be so much fun? Soonish is...
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The Platform Society: Public Values in a Connective World
Jose van DijckCurrent price €35.09Original price €38.99Individuals all over the world can use Airbnb to rent an apartment in a foreign city, check Coursera to find a course on statistics, join PatientsL...
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Securing Australia''s Future: Harnessing Interdisciplinary Research for Innovation and Prosperity
Paul HolperCurrent price €34.68Original price €36.50The future will bring change for Australia. But whether that change is for the better or worse largely depends on the decisions we make today as in...
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Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World
Meredith BroussardCurrent price €17.99Original price €19.99A guide to understanding the inner workings and outer limits of technology and why we should never assume that computers always get it right. In...
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I Love My Computer Because My Friends Live in It: Stories from an Online Life
Jess Kimball LeslieCurrent price €15.73Original price €18.50I Love My Computer Because My Friends Live in It is tech analyst Jess Kimball Leslie's hilarious, frank homage to the technology that contributed s...
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Ingenious: How Canadian Innovators Made the World a Smaller, Smarter, Kinder, Safer Healthier, Wealthier & Happier
Tom JenkinsCurrent price €40.49Original price €44.99Current price €40.49Original price €44.99Save 10% -
The Parent App: Understanding Families in the Digital Age
Lynn Schofield ClarkCurrent price €30.59Original price €33.99Ninety-five percent of American kids have Internet access by age 11; the average number of texts a teenager sends each month is well over 3,000. Mo...
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Science in a Democratic Society
Philip KitcherCurrent price €24.69Original price €25.99In this successor to his pioneering Science, Truth, and Democracy, the author revisits the topic explored in his previous work-namely, the challeng...
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A Deadly Wandering: A Tale of Tragedy And Redemption in the Age of Attention
Matt RichtelCurrent price €20.92Original price €22.99From Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Matt Richtel, a brilliant, narrative-driven exploration of technology's vast influence on the human mind and...
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Drones in Society: Exploring the strange new world of unmanned aircraft
James CoyneCurrent price €141.54Original price €148.99The integration of drones into society has attracted unprecedented attention throughout the world. The change, for aviation, has been described as ...
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A Tale of Seven Scientists and a New Philosophy of Science
Eric ScerriCurrent price €42.74Original price €44.99In his latest book, Eric Scerri presents a completely original account of the nature of scientific progress. It consists of a holistic and unified ...
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Emerging Technology Issues for People with Disabilities
Nova Science Publishers IncCurrent price €116.09Original price €128.99There are 54.4 million Americans who have disabilities, and 35 million Americans who have a severe disability. For those aged 15 and over, this inc...
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The Cunning of Uncertainty
Helga NowotnyCurrent price €58.23Original price €63.99Uncertainty is interwoven into human existence. It is a powerful incentive in the search for knowledge and an inherent component of scientific rese...
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Humboldt and Jefferson: A Transatlantic Friendship of the Enlightenment
Sandra RebokCurrent price €27.63Original price €32.50Humboldt and Jefferson explores the relationship between two fascinating personalities: the Prussian explorer, scientist, and geographer Alexander ...
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