The first book to draw a direct line between the datafication and prediction techniques of past eugenicists and todays often violent and extractive big data regimes.
In this prodigiously researched book, Emanuel Adler addresses the hotly contested issue of how developing nations can emerge from the economic and technological tutelage of the developed world.
In a world increasingly run by algorithms and artificial intelligence, Hatim Rahman traces how organizations are using algorithms to control workersin an ';invisible cage.
The surprising history of education technology and its political, financial, and social impact on higher education and our worldFrom AI tutors who ensure individualized instruction but cannot do math to free online courses from elite universities that were supposed to democratize higher education, claims that technological innovations will transform education often fall short.
Indigenous communities globally struggle to preserve their cultural heritage amidst a modern landscape shaped by technological advancement and free market capitalism.
Breves tratados de Lógica y argumentación es un libro no muy ortodoxo, tanto desde el punto de vista de los tratados de Lógica como de los de argumentación.
El autor de este libro tiene una gran amplitud de miras, lo que se evidencia en la textura de su indagación, en la medida en que, partiendo de su formación en el ámbito de las ciencias sociales, se atreve ?
Trata de temas que en el mundo se debaten desde diversas perspectivas: la cuestión del embrión, el asesoramiento genético y diagnóstico prenatal, el aborto, la clonación y células troncales, trasplante de órganos, investigación médica en seres humanos, eutanasia, neuroética, eugenesia, etc.
This creative non-fiction book for the reader is a great introduction to the effects of global capitalism on the dynamic region that is the San Francisco Bay Area.
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY WIREDIn this brilliant smart-thinking book about the power and influence of social media, Professor Sinan Aral shows how 'hyper-socialization' has profoundly changed us.
Vamos Topando, es un libro elaborado a partir de las vivencias, aprendizajes y experiencias obtenidas al trabajar y convivir con los Autodefensas, en el marco del trabajo con la Comisin para la Seguridad y el Desarrollo de Michoacn, as como un ao de entrevistas y bsqueda de informacin, 2016.
'Highly readable, subtle and thought-provoking scientific history' ScotsmanIn this penetrating work, Pyenson and Pyenson identify that major advances in science stem from changes in three distinct areas of society: the social institutions that promote science, the sensibilities of scientists themselves and the goal of the scientific enterprise.
Un anlisis profundo sobre la influencia que enfrentan los usuarios de los medios audiovisuales de comunicacin masiva en la era virtual de Internet y, cmo estos medios, a travs de sus imgenes, estimulan los patrones genticos que determinan las conductas de los individuos, penetrando hasta lo ms profundo de la intimidad de su ser, provocando conductas impulsivas hacia la violencia, la compra de productos innecesarios, la incorrecta alimentacin, la prdida de tiempo valioso y otros flagelos sociales.
To Save Everything, Click Here, the new book by the acclaimed author of The Net Delusion, Evgeny Morozov, is a penetrating look at the shape of society in the digital age, of the direction in which the 21st Century may take us, and of the alternate paths we can still chooseOur society is at a crossroads.
Stephen Jay Gould (1941-2002) was a leading critic of human behavioral genetics, human sociobiology, evolutionary psychology, and the modern evolutionary synthesis.
If youve ever wondered if a particle can have weight but no mass, why the neutron is neutral or why the electrona negative particledoesnt fly apart when all of its inner parts are presumably negative also, then this book is for you.