Impact of science and technology on society

The World As I See It reveals the idealistic, spiritual, and witty side of this great intellectual.

An esteemed historian of science explores the diversity of scientific experimentation.

UPDATED EDITION'A holistic take on AI from an African perspective, Closing the Gap joins the dots on deploying AI efficiently into everyday business and life.

The Oxford Handbook of New Science Fiction Cinemas provides novel insight into the rapidly developing genre of science fiction.

The Oxford Handbook of New Science Fiction Cinemas provides novel insight into the rapidly developing genre of science fiction.

Today's internet service providers mediate communication, control data flow, and influence everyday online interactions.

Over the past decade, cities have come into closer contact and conflict with new technologies.

This book is a collection of stories, reflections and advice written by proficient scientists.

Profiling 60 medical innovations and milestones from the 11th through 21st centuries, this book highlights the people and stories behind these key moments while also exploring their historical context and enduring legacy.

How will protecting our digital infrastructure shape our future?

Discover the secret method used to build the world.

A compelling history of popular phrenology in the transforming settler-colonial landscapes of the nineteenth-century Tasman World.

Walkley Award-winning journalist Tracey Spicer exposes the next frontier of feminism through the lens of artificial intelligence.

Con el fin de abordar la búsqueda de vida inteligente extraterrestre, en el 2016 los autores del libro iniciaron un grupo de investigación multidisciplinaria que dieron en llamar Proyecto OTHER (Otros mundos, Tierra, Humanidad y Espacio Remoto).

Almost unknown to the rest of the globe, Xiaomi has become the world's third-largest mobile phone manufacturer.

Argues that treating people and artificial intelligence differently under the law results in unexpected and harmful outcomes for social welfare.

Risky Bodies and Techno-Intimacy traverses disparate and uncommon routes to explore how people grapple with the radical uncertainties of their lives.

Kindergarteners are not high in EQ yet, that's a given.

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

Addressing the big questions about how technological change is transforming economies and societiesRapid technological change-likely to accelerate as a consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic-is reshaping economies and how they grow.

En la literatura sobre las emociones una de las teorías con mayor fuerza es la llamada "teoría James-Lange".

Science fiction has often been considered the literature of futuristic technology: fantastic warfare among the stars or ruinous apocalypses on Earth.

In the 21st century, reality television and the Internet have fed public interest in ghosts, UFOs, cryptozoology and other unusual phenomena.

Quantum physicist, New York Times bestselling author, and BBC host Jim Al-Khalili offers a fascinating and illuminating look at what physics reveals about the worldShining a light on the most profound insights revealed by modern physics, Jim Al-Khalili invites us all to understand what this crucially important science tells us about the universe and the nature of reality itself.

How the internet and powerful online tools are democratizing and accelerating scientific discoveryReinventing Discovery argues that we are living at the dawn of the most dramatic change in science in more than three hundred years.

The classic case for why government must support science-with a new essay by physicist and former congressman Rush Holt on what democracy needs from science todayScience, the Endless Frontier is recognized as the landmark argument for the essential role of science in society and government's responsibility to support scientific endeavors.

A vivid look at China's shifting place in the global political economy of technology production How did China's mass manufacturing and "e;copycat"e; production become transformed, in the global tech imagination, from something holding the nation back to one of its key assets?

CREATE FIENDISHLY FUN SPY TOOLS AND COUNTERMEASURESFully updated throughout, this wickedly inventive guide is packed with a wide variety of stealthy sleuthing contraptions you can build yourself.

In his entertaining and informative book Graphic Discovery, Howard Wainer unlocked the power of graphical display to make complex problems clear.

We are in the middle of a process of complex cultural transformation, but to what extent is this matched by the transformation in the way we see ourselves?

From school lunchrooms to the White House press room, video games are an integral part of our popular culture, and the industry behind them touches all aspects of our lives, gamer and non-gamer alike.

Proposing a new way of understanding the relationship between the city and personal identity, The City is Me argues that there is no longer a distance between the two.

Beth Porter presents The Net Effect exploring not just how it evolved and what it does, but how it relates to the way we live.

In 2011, amid the popular uprising against Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak, the government sought in vain to shut down the Internet-based social networks of its people.

Life for early humans wasn't easy.

A short, provocative book about why "e;useless"e; science often leads to humanity's greatest technological breakthroughsA forty-year tightening of funding for scientific research has meant that resources are increasingly directed toward applied or practical outcomes, with the intent of creating products of immediate value.

For almost a century and a half, biologists have gone to the seashore to study life.

"e;Kuhn has the unmistakable address of a man, who, so far from wanting to score points, is anxious above all else to get at the truth of matters.

In The Powers of Ten by Charles and Ray Eames, a view of two people enjoying a picnic zooms up and away to show their surroundings, moving progressively farther into space, then zooms back in for a close-up of the hand of the picnicker, travelling deep into the microscopic realm.

The question of why an individual would actively kill itself has long been an evolutionary mystery.

The natural world is infinitely complex and hierarchically structured, with smaller units forming the components of progressively larger systems: molecules make up cells, cells comprise tissues and organs that are, in turn, parts of individual organisms, which are united into populations and integrated into yet more encompassing ecosystems.

Why-against his mentor's exhortations to publish-did Charles Darwin take twenty years to reveal his theory of evolution by natural selection?

Does science aim at providing an account of the world that is literally true or objectively true?

In this enlightening book James Boyle describes what he calls the range wars of the information age—today’s heated battles over intellectual property.

A groundbreaking study of one of the most crucial yet least understood issues of the twenty-first century: the governance of the Internet and its content The Internet has transformed the manner in which information is exchanged and business is conducted, arguably more than any other communication development in the past century.

China is surging in the tech race - and will continue to outperform the United States.

An ambitious new model of experimentation that will reorient our understanding of the key features of experimental practice.

The Digital Factory reveals the hidden human labor that supports today's digital capitalism.