Impact of science and technology on society

An exclusive behind-the-scenes look at one of America's most controversial experiments in police surveillance.

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

'Consummate and thorough' - The Times'Darkly entertaining' - The SpectatorA superbly written work of narrative non-fiction by an exciting new talent, The Anti-Catastrophe League is a brilliant study of the people and their teams who are trying to save the world.

Modern waste disposal systems in mega-cities of the global South are embedded in socio-cultural belief systems, colonial histories and neoliberal logics which operate by reproducing existing social hierarchies.

If you read only one non-fiction book this year, consider this one TOM HANKS If there s one book that I would urge everyone to read it is Nexus STEPHEN FRYThe mind-blowing story of how information networks from the stone age to AI -have shaped our world from the #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of SapiensStories brought us together.

As with any digital technology, there are concerns about how new advancements may affect our health, safety, security, privacy, and economy.

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.

This book investigates the digital transformation of aid as a form of humanitarian extractivism.

How ought we to live with new technologies?

From the pilot's seat in the B-29 that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, to Chernobyl's exclusion zone and to the site in Finland where highly radioactive waste will be buried, this is the incredible story of nuclear power.

In health care, we come across daily promises of miraculous cures for various ailments.

AI has the potential to help us create a more peaceful, just, sustainable, healthy and joyful world.

Unlike many books about the afterlife, Life after Death makes no appeal to religious faith, divine revelation, or sacred texts.

Birth controlled analyses the world of selective reproduction - the politics of who gets to legitimately reproduce the future - through a cross-cultural analysis of three modes of 'controlling' birth: contraception, reproductive violence and repro-genetic technologies.

Peter Holland takes us on an exciting journey across the animal world, as it sheds light on its diversity of sponges to sharks and from the many legs to mammals.

How hackers facilitate community technology projects that counter the monoculture of "e;big tech"e; and point us to brighter, innovative horizons.

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?

Transform Crisis into Unprecedented OpportunitiesAmidst the turbulence of todays world, where challenges seem insurmountable, lies the hidden power to transform adversity into triumph.

In the Romantic period, women writers developed specific aesthetics and writing strategies in their engagements with climate change and climate catastrophe.

The book provides an overarching perspective on sustainability from a historical, practical and legal perspective.

With nanotechnology being a relatively new field, the questions regarding safety and ethics are steadily increasing with the development of the research.

With nanotechnology being a relatively new field, the questions regarding safety and ethics are steadily increasing with the development of the research.

In the dawning age of brilliant machines, what will people do better than computers?

Todos hemos oído hablar de ellos, pero, ¿qué es realmente un hacker?

In order to meet the growing scientific requirements of an increasingly complex society, it is essential for us to have an appreciation of the power and breadth of science.

The acclaimed climate futurist examines our unquestioning faith in progress, and its limits in the face of peak oil and climate change.

The history of science is littered with mad, bad and delightfully dotty inventions, from the bicycle that relied for its momentum on the rider waggling his head back and forth continually to the Improved Pneumatic Advertising Hat - a bowler that hurled a lit-up billboard into the air at the touch of a button - or the suitcase that turned into a small boat for the nervous ferry passenger.

Spending long hours in her claustraphobic office cubicle, a customer service assistant is struggling.

The acclaimed climate futurist examines our unquestioning faith in progress, and its limits in the face of peak oil and climate change.

El título del libro, delimita muy bien el sentido de la presente obra y de sus distintas contribuciones: presentar a los amables lectores la manera sui generis y fecunda como se complementan el trabajo científico y la reflexión filosófica en la producción intelectual y creativa de Albert Einstein.