Víctor Manuel Toledo, un destacado referente académico en el pensamiento ambiental, presenta en su libro una antología de sus contribuciones teóricas y metodológicas.
Years before the advent of music streaming, Sirius and XM established satellite radio services that attracted paying subscribers through their ever-expanding lineup of niche music channels and exclusivecelebrity-hosted programming.
In Science and Social Inequality, Sandra Harding makes the provocative argument that the philosophy and practices of today's Western science, contrary to its Enlightenment mission, work to insure that more science will only worsen existing gaps between the best and worst off around the world.
A concise primer that complicates a convenient truth in biology-the divide between germ and somatic cells-with far-reaching ethical and public policy ramifications.
We inhabit a world not only full of natural dispositions independent of human design, but also artificial dispositions created by our technological prowess.
Algorithmic recommender systems, deployed by media companies to suggest content based on users' viewing histories, have inspired hopes for personalized, curated media but also dire warnings of filter bubbles and media homogeneity.
We inhabit a world not only full of natural dispositions independent of human design, but also artificial dispositions created by our technological prowess.
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.
What Historys Greatest Science and Technology Breakthroughs Teach Us About Future TechnologyDagogo has the uncanny ability to take fascinating topics and somehow make them even more interesting.
A look at the destructive history of science-for-profit, including its toll on the US pandemic response, by the author of A People's History of Science.
In this fresh and gutsy analysis, Amanda Little lays bare America's energy past, present and future and shows how the innovatory designs that got it to its current energy crisis will actually save it from ruin.
A sweeping history of and meditation on humanity's relationship with machines, showing how we got here and what happens nextFaith in technological fixes for our problems is waning.
This book examines how technology such as smartphones, computers, and the internet shape our physical health, cognitive and psychological development, and interactions with one another and the world around us.
One of the world s greatest scientists of human behaviour, the bestselling author of Behave, shows that free will does not exist - and sets out the disturbing yet liberating implications of accepting this fact.
A fascinating look at the cutting-edge science and technologies that are on the cusp of changing everything from where we'll live, how we'll look, and who we'll be, by the popular science broadcaster and bestselling author Jay Ingram.
This edited book of proceedings is a collection of seventeen selected and peer-reviewed contributions from the Virtual Conference on Chemistry and its Applications (VCCA-2022).
Como premisa fundamental para la consolidación de relaciones multisectoriales alrededor del proceso científico, las sociedades del conocimiento han asumido retos y alternativas frente a las dinámicas de ciencia, tecnología e innovación, para involucrar a los distintos actores comprometidos en la construcción del desarrollo tecnológico.
En el corazón de la revolución digitalyace un refugio único para los individuos urbanos y expertos en tecnología que se esfuerzan por conectar con su yo interno - "Bytes & Bliss: Logrando la Conexión Interna en Medio del Caos Digital".
Negotiating the terrain between techno-optimism and eco-pessimism, this work establishes the political connections between technologies of the body, property, and the environment.
Although advanced technologies are the cornerstone of modern life, few people understand how such technologies as robotics or nuclear science actually work.
Yu gives Western readers a full view of China's science and technology policy, plus a historical perspective on the development of her science, technology, and industrial enterprises.
This comprehensive volume explores the intricate, mutually dependent relationship between science and exploration-how each has repeatedly built on the discoveries of the other and, in the process, opened new frontiers.
