Impact of science and technology on society

Visual pollution is an emerging, multi-dimensional, subjective, and under studied area of manmade environments that has recently received researchers' focus.

Visual pollution is an emerging, multi-dimensional, subjective, and under studied area of manmade environments that has recently received researchers' focus.

A revelatory uncovering of a vanished agricultural way of life by bestselling nature writer Sally Coulthard.

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'I have fond memories of watching Hugo de Burgh handle the Chinese media and I can think of no one better qualified to tell us about a subject of ever-growing importance' Boris Johnson, Prime Minster, United Kingdom'An excellent, well-written and important survey which should be on the shelves of all those interested in China and in the media' Alan MacFarlane, Professor of Anthropology, University of Cambridge'Well written and a good access point particularly for students that have not previously been exposed to the Chinese media.

Few events have matched the landing of the first man on the Moon for drama and excitement.

Over the past decades, a fundamental epistemological shift has transformed notions of performativity and representation in the arts under the influence of new technologies.

Over the past decades, a fundamental epistemological shift has transformed notions of performativity and representation in the arts under the influence of new technologies.

Will the digital revolution give us digital dictatorships or digital democracies?

The disaster at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant was an event of obviously transnational significance not only in the airborne particulates it deposited across the Northern hemisphere, but in the political and social repercussions it set off well beyond the Soviet bloc.

In eastern spiritual traditions, samsara has long been associated with the cycle of birth and death.

Why are we more nostalgic in the digital age than ever before?

Adam Smith and Karl Marx recognized that the best way to understand the economy is to study the most advanced practice of production.

Nobel Prize-winning physicist Roger Penrose questions some of the most fashionable ideas in physics today, including string theoryWhat can fashionable ideas, blind faith, or pure fantasy possibly have to do with the scientific quest to understand the universe?

The explosive debate that transformed our views about time and scientific truthOn April 6, 1922, in Paris, Albert Einstein and Henri Bergson publicly debated the nature of time.

No study in the philosophy of science created such controversy in the seventies as Paul Feyerabend's Against Method.

The Xenofeminist Manifesto is an attempt to articulate a feminism fit for the twenty-first century.

The Soviet agronomist Trofim Lysenko, who died in 1976, symbolizes one of the most notorious yet obscure episodes in the history of the Soviet Union.

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For centuries, beer has been a favourite drink throughout the world.

Chemical formulation can be traced back to Stone Age times, when hunter-gatherers attached flint arrowheads to shafts using a resin made from birch bark and beeswax.

One of the most important parts of British heavy industry today is our railway system.

Food fraudsters be warned!

Providing an introduction to the use of nutrition and health claims, this book explores these claims around the world and the impact of the different legislations on consumers as well as likely developments in the future.

'Who am I at this (st)age?

There are not many books about how people get younger.

The smartphone is often literally right in front of our nose, so you would think we would know what it is.

Citizen science, the active participation of the public in scientific research projects, is a rapidly expanding field in open science and open innovation.

Work Want Work considers in captivating detail how a logic of work has become integral to everything we do, even as the place of formal work has become increasingly precarious.

Work Want Work considers in captivating detail how a logic of work has become integral to everything we do, even as the place of formal work has become increasingly precarious.

A fast-paced and emotionally gripping modern adaptation of Mary Shelley's classic gothic thriller, Carl Miller's Frankenstein places the primal struggle between creator and created in a provocative contemporary setting, exploring Artificial Intelligence, virtual reality, emotional learning and what it means to be post-human.

'Dripping with delicious detail' - Aditya ChakraborttyTaking the reader on a journey through North East Scotland, Merseyside, South Wales, the Thames Estuary and London, this is the story of Britain s oil-soaked past, present and future.

'Dripping with delicious detail' - Aditya ChakraborttyTaking the reader on a journey through North East Scotland, Merseyside, South Wales, the Thames Estuary and London, this is the story of Britain s oil-soaked past, present and future.

Science and technology are playing increasingly important roles in our lives.

Science and technology are playing increasingly important roles in our lives.

In late nineteenth and early twentieth century Britain, there was widespread fascination with the technological transformations wrought by modernity.

In late nineteenth and early twentieth century Britain, there was widespread fascination with the technological transformations wrought by modernity.

What is it that makes humans human?

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Skillfully deploying a large cast of characters, Sheehan retraces the development of Marxist philosophy of science through detailed and highly readable accounts of the debates that have characterized it.

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Christopher Caudwell's The Crisis in Physics is a stylish and readable analysis of the lines of connection between scientific theories and economic realities.