Impact of science and technology on society

Successful scientists must be effective communicators within their professions.

Humans spend more time in or on the water than ever before.

This is the first book-length introductory analysis of the concept of a created scientific controversy.

This book provides an overview of the history of interactions between science and religion, with an emphasis on Christianity.

Black Networked Resistance explores the creative range of Black digital users and their responses to varying forms of oppression, utilizing cultural, communicative, political, and technological threads both on and offline.

For a quarter of a century, the Council for Responsible Genetics has provided a unique historical lens into the modern history, science, ethics, and politics of genetic technologies.

This collection of essays addresses whether all nations will actively participate in building the information superhighway or whether the Internet will reflect global technological inequalities.

A roboticist imagines life with robots that sell us products, drive our cars, even allow us to assume new physical form, and more.

The transformative effect of technological change on households and culture, seen from a macroeconomic perspective through simple economic models.

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

The prolific Margaret Cavendish (1623-1673) published books on natural philosophy as well as stories, plays, poems, orations, allegories, and letters.

Successful communication requires optimal relevance to a target audience.

Can we use technology in the pursuit of a good life, or are we doomed to having our lives organized and our priorities set by the demands of machines and systems?

Science is the most reliable means available for understanding the world around us and our place in it.

A short, informal account of our ever-increasing dependence on a complex multiplicity of messages, records, documents, and data.

"e;In this revision of his already classic text, William May shows us once again the wisdom of the Catholic Church's moral tradition in its application to contemporary bioethics.

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.

The relationship of texts and maps, and the mappability of literature, examined from Homer to Houellebecq.

In today's digital societies, parenting is shaped by algorithms daily - in search engines, social media, kids' entertainment, the news and more.

100 Under $100: One Hundred Tools for Empowering Global Women is a comprehensive look at effective, low-cost solutions for helping women in the Global South out of poverty.

In Pragmatism's Evolution, Trevor Pearce demonstrates that the philosophical tradition of pragmatism owes an enormous debt to specific biological debates in the late 1800s, especially those concerning the role of the environment in development and evolution.

The dawning era of nanotechnology promises to transform life as we know it.

Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe What do you see when you gaze at the night sky?

The first nuclear engineers emerged from the Manhattan Project in the USA, UK and Canada, but remained hidden behind security for a further decade.

Duana Fullwiley has penned an intimate chronicle of laboratory life in the genomic age.

A revealing insight into the links between globalization and the technological advances in communication brought about by the telegraph network.

The thoroughly updated new edition of Gordon Bonan''s comprehensive textbook on terrestrial ecosystems and climate change, for advanced students and researchers.

If you found maths lessons at school irrelevant and boring, that s because you didn t have a teacher like Bobby Seagull.

Worries about scientific objectivity seem never-ending.

Sustainability challenges blur the boundaries between academic disciplines, between research, policy and practice, and between states, markets and society.

A different kind of matchmaker.

Modern is a word much used, but hard to pin down.

An exploration of the diverse experiments in digital futures as they advance far from the celebrated centers of technological innovation and entrepreneurship.

In the early 1990s, people predicted the death of privacy, an end to the current concept of 'property,' a paperless society, 500 channels of high-definition interactive television, world peace, and the extinction of the human race after a takeover engineered by intelligent machines.

Investigates the impact of scientific and technological advances on society, including politics, economy, family life, and ethics.

A distinguished scholar urges scientists and religious thinkers to become colleagues rather than adversaries in areas where their fields overlap Each age has its own crisis—our modern experience of science-religion conflict is not so very different from that experienced by our forebears, Keith Thomson proposes in this thoughtful book.

Perspectives from philosophy, psychology religious studies, economics, and law on the possible future of robot-human sexual relationships.

Fired Clay in Four Porcelain Clusters examines how energy use in the ceramics-making industry has evolved as a result of technological advancements and changing social norms and ideas in environmental conservation.

The concept of smart cities holds environmental promises: that digital technologies will reduce carbon emissions, air pollution and waste, and help address climate change.

Just about any social need is now met with an opportunity to "e;connect"e; through digital means.

Racially and economically segregated schools across the United States have hosted many interventions from commercial digital education technology (edtech) companies who promise their products will rectify the failures of public education.

From the visionary founder of the Self-Assembly Lab at MIT, a manifesto for the dawning age of active materialsThings in life tend to fall apart.

America is a wonderful and magnificent country that affords its citizens the broadest freedoms and the greatest prosperity in the world.

Twenty-three stories about how ordinary girls with very different passions have become extraordinary women and made significant contributions to our world Women look to other women as role models and for inspiration.

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

La innovación y las modificaciones que ocurren y ocurrirán en las relaciones jurídicas –y, en particular, las derivadas del uso de nuevas tecnologías– son la materia de este conjunto de trabajos abordados por distinguidos profesores extranjeros y otros nacionales, que se adelantan, marcan un camino que indefectiblemente deberá transitarse en los tiempos que vienen.