In recent years, many members of the intellectual community have embraced a radical relativism regarding knowledge in general and scientific knowledge in particular, holding that Kuhn, Quine, and Feyerabend have knocked the traditional picture of scientific knowledge into a cocked hat.
Edited by three of the world's leading authorities on the psychology of technology, this new handbook provides a thoughtful and evidence-driven examination of contemporary technology's impact on society and human behavior.
Over the past decades, a fundamental epistemological shift has transformed notions of performativity and representation in the arts under the influence of new technologies.
Aimed at researchers and graduate students, this book describes how brain processes support religious expression and provides a current account of the neuroscience of religion.
Global Application of Prescribed Fire provides a first-hand perspective of the various methods and ways people around the world view and use prescribed fire.
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In the twenty-first century, there is a battle raging over the hearts and minds of our people, especially for the education of our children in scientific fields.
Este libro tiene dos objetivos: en primer lugar, poner en escena los aportes y las propuestas desarrolladas por un conjunto de investigadores latinoamericanos sobre diversos temas y enfoques en torno al estudio de las relaciones entre la ciencia, la tecnologia y la sociedad (CTS), es decir, tratar de presentar un panorama de los estudios CTS latinoamericanos vistos a traves de las aportaciones teorico-epistemologicas y empiricas recientes, generadas por especialistas representativos de campos de conocimiento y abordajes diversos; en segundo lugar, mostrar algunas avenidas por las que transcurriran los esfuerzos de investigacion en la region, tratando de profundizar los debates vigentes y de enriquecer la agenda de discusion de los estudios CTS, y dar cuenta de las modificaciones del campo CTS en la region en terminos de los abordajes posdisciplinarios, de la fuerte integracion conceptual y empirica de los diversos ambitos y de las posiciones criticas respecto de las elaboraciones teorico-metodologicas de otras regiones.
The founder and executive chairman of the World Economic Forum on how the impending technological revolution will change our livesWe are on the brink of the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
"e;Sharp and engaging"e; - The Times"e;The intricately-reported, elegantly-crafted story of the website that came out of nowhere, to change everything.
The author of the international bestseller The Sixth Extinction returns to humanity's transformative impact on the environment, now asking: after doing so much damage, can we change nature, this time to save it?
'Devastating and urgent, this book could not be more timely' Caroline Criado Perez, award-winning and bestselling author of Invisible WomenDanielle Citron takes the conversation about technology and privacy out of the boardrooms and op-eds to reach readers where we are - in our bathrooms and bedrooms; with our families and our lovers; in all the parts of our lives we assume are untouchable - and shows us that privacy, as we think we know it, is largely already gone.
'Required reading for everyone' Adam RutherfordShortlisted for the Royal Society Science Book Prize 2021 Medicine, education, psychology, economics - wherever it really matters, we look to science for guidance.
Timothy Ferris, bestselling author of Coming of Age in the Milky Way, brilliantly synthesizes inner and outer space with a penetrating examination into the nature of the universe and the human brain that perceives it.
London's Natural History describes how the spread of man's activities has affected the plants and animals in them, destroying some and creating others.
'Joins the dots in a neglected narrative of female scientists, visionaries and code-breakers' ObserverHow is artificial intelligence changing the way we live and love?
*; Describes how energy therapies are now gaining acceptance due to irrefutable proof of their effectiveness for clinical conditions from PTSD to phantom limb pain*; Examines the power of group energetics and team chemistry in sports and in society*; Explains how megalithic sacred sites are aligned with Earth's subtle energies and explores the energetics of crop circles and global consciousnessExamining the wealth of evidence supporting the reality of the human biofield, Eric Leskowitz, M.
The Fourth Industrial Revolution is changing everything - from the way we relate to each other, to the work we do, the way our economies work, and what it means to be human.
