Pourquoi la science ? aborde ces questions selon quatre orientations : les relations entre sciences et techniques, l'impact de la science et des techniques sur la culture, le rapport à l'économie, les régulations du développement ...

Using as a fuel a mixture of deuterium and tritium, which can be extracted from sea water, this is a very promising way to develop an intrinsically safe reactor.

This collection of essays and reviews represents the most significant and comprehensive writing on Shakespeare's A Comedy of Errors.

Against the backdrop of the recent trend towards megaregional trade initiatives, this book addresses the most topical issues that lie at the intersection of law and technology.

This book is the first to discuss, for an English-speaking audience, the ideas of the German-Jewish man of letters, thinker, and activist Günther Anders.

El presente libro es un curso de actualización de filosofía de la ciencia.

Les slogans sur "l'âge de l'information" et la "société de la connaissance" laissent croire que la matière ne compte plus.

"Dominance by Design" explores the critical ways in which technological superiority has undergirded the U.S.'s policies of unilateralism, preemption, and interventionism in foreign affairs and raised us from an impoverished frontier nation ...

A narrative history of the Silicon Valley generation that launched five major high-tech industries in seven years details the specific contributions of seven technical pioneers and how they established the foundation for today's tech-driven ...

Three commonly used FACTS controllers: controllable series capacitors (CSCs) controllable phase shifters (CPSs) and static var compensators (SVCs) have been used in this book to control the inter-area oscillations.

This book examines the way complex systems affect interaction at work through video-based field studies.

The rapid development of communications technology is transforming the manner in which people communicate across time and space. In this book, the authors examine the ways in which the English language has adapted to new media.

This volume provides a multidisciplinary perspective on a set of transformations in social practices that modify the meaning of everyday interactions, and especially those that affect the world of labour.

This book aims to identify the most important political, socio-economic, and technical determinants of Internet development in China, through a historical approach that combines political economy, cultural, and public studies.

This interdisciplinary volume explores how two domains of human experience and action-religion and technology-are implicated in one another.

In When old Technologies Were New, Carolyn Marvin explores how two of these new inventions--the telephone and the electric light--were publicly envisioned at the end of the nineteenth century, as seen in specialized engineering journals and ...

Ein Buch aus der Reihe "Wissen & Leben" Früher war alles später.

This lively book focuses on how different Jewish, Muslim, and Christian communities engage with new media.

An enlightening history of 19th-century technology, focusing on the connections between invention and cultural values. * A chronology marking dates of important inventions and innovations, the passage of laws relating to finance and working ...

This work draws together a wide range of literature on contemporary technologies and their ethical implications. It focuses on advances in medical, reproductive, genetic and information technologies.