Impact of science and technology on society

Computation has now been reconfigured by machine learning: those technical processes and operations that yoke together statistics and computer science to create artificial intelligence (AI) by furnishing vast datasets to learn tasks and predict outcomes.

Floods, fires, famines, epidemics and disasters of all kinds are on the increase, and as their frequency rises so does the call for greater resilience.

Poland: Solidarity: Walesa is a three-chapter book that details the life and significant contribution of Lech Walesa of Poland.

In Unsettled Borders Felicity Amaya Schaeffer examines the ongoing settler colonial war over the US-Mexico border from the perspective of Apache, Tohono O'odham, and Maya who fight to protect their sacred land.

This book challenges the ways we read, write, store, and retrieve information in the digital age.

"e;A fascinating, game-changing scientific argument for the use of unconventional medicines by those struggling with matters of the heart.

'A wake-up call .

Making a Good Life takes a timely look at the ideas and values that inform how people think about reproduction and assisted reproductive technologies.

The first comprehensive defense of an inferential conception of scientific representation with applications to art and epistemology.

In New Science, New World Denise Albanese examines the discursive interconnections between two practices that emerged in the seventeenth century-modern science and colonialism.

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.

In order to be able to communicate and engage with each other via new communicative spaces such as Google Earth, we need to understand as much as possible about how they work as cultural texts: how and why we make them and how we respond to them.

Slavoj i ek gives us a reading of a philosophical giant that changes our way of thinking about our new posthuman era.

In this original study, Moshe Idel, an eminent scholar of Jewish mysticism and thought, and the cognitive neuroscientist and neurologist Shahar Arzy combine their considerable expertise to explore the mysteries of the Kabbalah from an entirely new perspective: that of the human brain.

Using examples from biosafety to climate change, Jacqueline Peel examines the use and abuse of science in international risk regulation.

The impact of science and technology on culture raises a number of questions about the ways in which people relate to each other and to their environment.

How is morality understood in the marketplace?

Why our brains aren''t built for media multitasking, and how we can learn to live with technology in a more balanced way.

Information technology has been touted as a boon for productivity, but measuring the benefits has been difficult.

Argues that human freedom is threatened by systems of intelligent persuasion developed by tech giants who compete for our time and attention.

History and archaeology tell us that when our far ancestors began to settle in localized groups, they codified their lives and experiences, and formed a collective for mutual support.

This volume contributes to the growing body of literature exploring the work of contemporary French philosopher Catherine Malabou.

This history of astronomy in Egypt reveals how modern science came to play an authoritative role in Islamic religious practice.

In today s world, numbers are in the ascendancy.

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.

A tech insider who has been hailed by The New Yorker for her ';forceful critique' of Big Tech describes what must be done to stop its erosion of democracyOver the past decades, under the cover of ';innovation,' technology companies have successfully resisted regulation and have even begun to seize power from governments themselves.

People of faith insist that God is the God of the world around us.

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

The variety, pace, and power of technological innovations that have emerged in the 21st Century have been breathtaking.

The mobile app as technique and imaginary tool, offering a shortcut to instantaneous connection and entertainment.

There can be no doubt that social media has fundamentally transformed how people relate to each other and navigate the social environment of the contemporary era.

Vivid stories highlight the capabilities and limits of the human mind in this fascinating introduction to human factors psychology.

Explorations of design, use, and reuse of information technology in diverse historical and cultural contexts.

High in the Australian Alps, Possum needs to find enough food and shelter to survive the harsh alpine winter.

Hailed by Publishers Weekly as "e;a potent primer on the need to rein in big tech"e; and Kirkus Reviews as "e;a rock-solid plan for controlling the tech giants,"e; readers will be energized by Tom Wheeler's vision of digital governance.

In his entertaining and informative book Graphic Discovery, Howard Wainer unlocked the power of graphical display to make complex problems clear.

Why are some countries better than others at science and technology (S&T)?

It may be surprising to focus on and praise imperfection, but, in reality, perfection is a fiction.

Essays on the history of psychedelics, the present renaissance, and visions for an inclusive and equitable future.

The New York Times bestselling author of Darwins Doubt, Stephen Meyer, presents groundbreaking scientific evidence of the existence of God, based on breakthroughs in physics, cosmology, and biology.

La science est une puissante manifestation de la curiosité humaine.

In his classic work Anarchy, State and Utopia, Robert Nozick asked his readers to imagine being permanently plugged into a 'machine that would give you any experience you desired'.

In Jane Addams's Evolutionary Theorizing, Marilyn Fischer advances the bold and original claim that Addams's reasoning in her first book, Democracy and Social Ethics, is thoroughly evolutionary.