The Technological Society, Paperback

Information is regarded as a distinguishing feature of our world. Where once economies were built on industry and conquest, we are now part of a gl...

Reducere. A Social History of American Technology, Second Edition, tells the story of American technology from the tools used by its earliest inhabitants to ...

Reducere. Offering clear, easy-to-understand guidance on designing qualitative research, this fully updated Seventh Edition of Marshall and Rossman's bestsel...

The provision of sustainable energy supplies for an expanding and increasingly productive world is one of the major issues facing civilisation toda...

Reducere. An assessment of the ancient Greek city and its subsequent influence. A masterwork of political theory and comparative politics for the classroom.I...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Ieee Computer SocietyEditor: Pierre BourqueEditor: Richard E. FairleyIn the Guide to the Software Engineering Body of Knowl...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Prof Kenneth HolmqvistAuthor: Dr Richard AnderssonWe make 3-5 eye movements per second, and these movements are crucial in ...

The migration movement, which has taken place since the beginning of the story of mankind, increasingly continues voluntarily or compulsorily for v...

Reducere. This textbook uses modern political economy to introduce students of political science, government, economics, and public policy to the politics of...

As both readers and writers, we are all aware of blogs, chat rooms, and preprint servers. The truly new feature of this second edition is an extens...

Reducere. Addressing the technological opportunities and challenges of the 21st century, Introduction to Philosophy of Technology offers the most up-to-date ...

Technological Addictions is a wakeup call alerting the medical community--and society at large--to the addictive potential of technology and to tec...

The Routledge Companion to World Cinema explores and examines a global range of films and filmmakers, their movements and audiences, comparing thei...

Reducere. The definitive guide to digital engineering--fully updated Gain a thorough understanding of digital audio tools, techniques, and practices from thi...

Today, the general public craves information on food and agriculture with an unprecedented passion. But the agricultural sector, unaccustomed to an...

The roots of our modern world lie in this early civilisation, which saw the first urban society and the invention of writing. Postgate uses both hi...

This comprehensive volume is widely regarded as the definitive practitioner resource and text in the field of biofeedback and applied psychophysiol...

What do ghost hunting, legend tripping, and legendary monsters have in common with email hoaxes, chain letters, and horror movies? In this follow-u...

American Defense Policy, first published in 1965 under the leadership of Brent Scowcroft, has been a mainstay in courses on political science, inte...

This important book questions the psychological construct of Internet Addiction by contextualizing it within the digital technological era. It prop...

Reducere. Executive assessment is a specialized application of individual psychological assessment focused on executive and senior leadership positions, a po...

DescriptionAwarded the Dexter Prize by the Society for the History of Technology, this book offers a comparative history of the evolution of modern...

Updated and expanded new edition including coverage of recent media developments and the continued impact of technological change Newly reworked ch...

Reducere. How did the individual human being become the focus of the contemporary discourse on security? What was the role of the United Nations in securing ...

Reducere. Anthem is a dystopian fiction novella by Russian-American writer Ayn Rand, written in 1937 and first published in 1938 in the United Kingdom. The s...

Reducere. Building on the influential book The Social Construction of Technological Systems, this volume carries forward the project of creating a theory of ...

Reducere. Lifestyle in Siberia and the Russian North breaks new ground by exploring the concept of lifestyle from a distinctly anthropological perspective. S...

Drawing on treaties, international law, the work of other Indigenous scholars, and especially personal experiences, Marie Battiste documents the na...

This comprehensive and clear introduction to contemporary social theory explores major theoretical traditions from the Frankfurt School to the digi...

Few of us consider how mundane infrastructures-from electrical grids to sewage systems-have developed over millennia in ways that enable democracy,...

Focussing on the global nature of research in today's society, this book takes the reader through the process of designing, conducting and analysin...

Reducere. Learn how to use digital technologies to provide a rich new entry-point for art students to make meaning, express their thoughts, and visualize the...

English Learners (ELs) are left behind in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM). The growing need for effective critical pedagog...

Reducere. Metaphysical study of God, love, technology, and culture in modern society Reality most basically and properly considered, says David L. Schindler,...

Dominant narratives about the changing character of warfare and the revolutionary effect of technological advancement lack nuance and can ultimatel...

Luciano Floridi develops an original ethical framework for dealing with the new challenges posed by Information and Communication Technologies (ICT...

Analyzing the historical, philosophical, psychological, biological, sociological and technological perspectives of emotion, this book will be of in...

Reducere. What determines why some countries succeed and others fall behind? Economists have long debated the sources of economic growth, resulting in confli...

This new volume in the acclaimed Global Punk series extends the critical enquiry to reflect broader social, political and technological concerns im...

DescriptionThe third edition of E-Learning in the 21st Century provides a coherent, comprehensive, and empirically-based framework for understandin...

This book explores the ways that scientific and technological advances affect society - from politics to family life to ethics - and what we can do...

A definitive reference--now extensively revised with 70% new material--this book presents cutting-edge knowledge on how learning disorders develop ...

Since the US Navy's beginnings, it has created, adapted, rejected, and sometimes grudgingly accepted new technologies. This entry into the Wheel Bo...

Reducere. DescriptionIt is a curious situation that technologies we now take for granted have, when first introduced, so often stoked public controversy and ...

A new approach to safety, based on systems thinking, that is more effective, less costly, and easier to use than current techniques.Engineering has...

Contributor(s): Author: Bill KovarikRevolutions in Communication offers a new approach to media history, presenting an encyclopedic look at the way...

In this magnificent synthesis of military, technological, and social history, William H. McNeill explores a whole millennium of human upheaval and ...

In this brilliant reimagining of Marx's concept of forces of production, Graham shows that the power of fossil capital, not technological deficienc...

DescriptionA Mexican State of Mind: New York City and the New Borderlands of Culture explores the cultural and creative lives of the largely young ...

This book examines social movements and transnational networks in the context of globalization in all its forms-economic, political, cultural, and ...

For more than a century, oil has been the engine of growth for a society that delivers an unprecedented standard of living to many. We now take for...

Railroads linked remote hinterlands with cities; overland and undersea cables connected distant continents. This title recounts the enduring conseq...

Reducere. Description"There is no world of thought that is not a world of language, " Walter Benjamin remarked, "and one only sees in the world what is preco...

Reducere. ""What is politization? . . . (It is that) all problems have, in our time, become political."" --J. Ellul, from the Introduction Jacques Ellul, the...

Reducere. In Kinship, Islam, and the Politics of Marriage in Jordan, Geoffrey Hughes sets out to trace the marriage crisis in Jordan and the Middle East. Rap...

Reducere. Focusing on the cultural and philosophic conflation between the "oriental" and the "ornamental, " Ornamentalism offers an original and sustained th...

Reducere. We are witnessing an unprecedented technological revolution. Every sphere of life from communications, work, economy, leisure, our homes, and healt...

When it was published twenty-five years ago, this book captured a huge audience of Vietnam War protesters, dropouts, and rebels-and their baffled e...

Reducere. This is the third volume of the series Reinventing Social Emancipation: Towards New Manifestoes. Another Knowledge Is Possible explores the struggl...

This open access textbook offers a critical introduction to human and economic development prospects in Africa revolving around three questions: wh...

This reissue of Understanding Media marks the thirtieth anniversary (1964-1994) of Marshall McLuhan's classic expose on the state of the then emerg...

Traces the history of government profiling, the effects of contemporary technologies on surveillance practices, and how the law protects individual...

Reducere. This book articulates an empirically grounded theory of law applicable throughout history and across different societies. Unlike natural law theory...

DescriptionData and algorithms are changing our life. The awareness of importance and pervasiveness of the digital revolution is the primary elemen...

The technological innovation and unprecedented physical growth of the cold war era permeated American life in every aspect and at every scale. From...

Reducere. DescriptionOn April 26, 1986, Unit Four of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor exploded in then Soviet Ukraine. More than 3.5 million people in Ukraine a...

Debashree Mukherjee offers a panoramic history of early Bombay cinema and its consolidation in the 1930s. Bombay Hustle provides vital insight into...

Reducere. In 1976, Daniel Bell's historical work predicted a vastly different society developing--one that will rely on the "economics of information" rather...

In The Future of Fallout, and Other Episodes in Radioactive World-Making Joseph Masco examines the strange American intimacy with and commitment to...

Reducere. DescriptionA sociological approach to understanding new media's impact on society We use cell phones, computers, and tablets to access the Internet...