Impact of science and technology on society

Our oceans are amazing!

Bowler traces ideas about progress using evolutionary biology to throw light on parallel changes in the understanding of social development.

This text contains Annie Besant's seminal treatise on consciousness.

Currently, the health of over half the adult population in the UK suffers because of fat.

An accessible exploration of scientific explanation and how it leads to knowledge and understanding of the world.

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

Sharing is central to how we live today: it is what we do online; it is a model of economic behaviour; and it is also a type of therapeutic talk.

Life for early humans wasn't easy.

Protogaea, an ambitious account of terrestrial history, was central to the development of the earth sciences in the eighteenth century and provides key philosophical insights into the unity of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz's thought and writings.

How Mexican and Latinx hackers apply concepts from coding to their lived experiencesIn Code Work, Hector Beltran examines Mexican and Latinx coders' personal strategies of self-making as they navigate a transnational economy of tech work.

As you read this, thousands of remote computers are refining secret models of who you are, using the information to make huge fortunes for a few people.

Drawing on years of online research, this book presents key principles of life and wellbeing in the digital realm.

Epidemic cinema remains an enduring genre of contemporary film, ranging from medical dramas to post-apocalyptic thrillers.

The author of Charlatan is “the perfect armchair cosmonaut” for “a very funny and provocative rumination on the big move to off-planet real estate” (Mark Haskell Smith, author of Blown).

In 1957 Sputnik, the world's first man-made satellite, dazzled people as it zipped around the planet.

The pandemic has significantly impacted people's engagement with the administrative justice system (AJS).

Internet-ontologies-Things explores how power mobilizes algorithmic and ontological objects, for example smartwatches and smart buildings, to uncover hidden problems within the physical domains of the IoT.

Newton urged scientists never to speculate, only to prove by establishing experimental facts.

Why efforts to create a scientific basis of morality are neither scientific nor moral: “Important and timely.

This book explains to the general reader the roles of chemistry in various areas of life ranging from the entirely personal to the worryingly global.

This volume critically examines the work of three eminent twentieth-century philosophers, Carnap, Quine, and Putnam, engaging with and developing their answers to key methodological questions.

How Mexican and Latinx hackers apply concepts from coding to their lived experiencesIn Code Work, Hector Beltran examines Mexican and Latinx coders' personal strategies of self-making as they navigate a transnational economy of tech work.

From videos of rights violations, to satellite images of environmental degradation, to eyewitness accounts disseminated on social media, human rights practitioners have access to more data today than ever before.

Jobs To Be Done is key to building successful products, and this book masterfully gives a stepbystep guide on how to put it into practice.

Asks whether and to what effect the widespread adoption of digital technology has led to large-scale or structural economic changes in business.

Reading Victorian Deafness is the first book to address the crucial role that deaf people, and their unique language of signs, played in Victorian culture.

With a focus on China, the United States, and India, this book examines the economic ambitions of the second space race.

We need a new philosophy of the earth.

This book presents a new approach to the epistemology of mathematics by viewing mathematics as a human activity whose knowledge is intimately linked with practice.

The natural history museum is a place where the line between "e;high"e; and "e;low"e; culture effectively vanishes--where our awe of nature, our taste for the bizarre, and our thirst for knowledge all blend happily together.

While quantum theory has been used to study the physical universe with great profit, both intellectual and financial, ever since its discovery eighty-five years ago, over the last fifty years we have found out more and more about the theory itself, and what it tells us about the universe.

For some, automation will usher in a labor-free utopia; for others, it signals a disastrous age-to-come.

Following the rapid development of connected technologies, which are now highly sophisticated and spread across the globe, Society 5.

A creature of Jewish mythology, a golem is an animated being made by man from clay and water who knows neither his own strength nor the extent of his ignorance.

Ordinary Genomes is an ethnography of genomics, a global scientific enterprise, as it is understood and practiced in the Netherlands.

How will the future leaders of Russia regard the world scene?

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.

Since the earliest days of our species, technology and language have evolved in parallel.

Capitalism likes us to believe in the steady, inevitable march of progress, from the abacus to the iPad.

Science, Technology and Society: Needs, Challenges and Limitations focuses on the role of science and technology in promoting development as well as its limitation in shaping the society.