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 ...

Attending to techno-science super-structures and systems technocracies the book tackles problems of social responsibility, humanitarianism, ecological policies, and a philosophy of technology, planning, risk assessment, decision-making, ...

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.

“It is simply too much” is a common complaint of the modern age. This book looks at how people and institutions deal with overflow - of information, consumption or choices.

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

"Contributors approach the challenge of interpreting the science and technology of Chairman Mao's Cultural Revolution from different viewpoints, some as China-based scholars, others in the United States, and representing views of historians ...

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 ...

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.

Graham highlights the harsh irrationalities built into the Soviet system - the world's most inefficient steel mill in Magnito-gorsk, the gigantic and ill-conceived hydro-electric plant on the Dnieper River, the infamously cruel and ...

The essays in this book provide a new conceptual framework for the analysis and debate of privacy policy and for the design and development of information systems.

Review: "Using as a study their own experience of pioneering computer-mediated communication in Alaska in the late 1970s and early 1980s, the authors conduct a 'nexus analysis' of those events and discourses.

Three teen geniuses from around the world must win a Game witht he highest of stakes in this action-packed novel.

MIT emerged in mid-century as an experiment in scientific and technicaleducation, with its origins in the tension between these old and new ideas.Mind and Hand wasundertaken by Julius Stratton after his retirement from the presidency of MIT ...

A wide-ranging saga of a mid-nineteenth century English clan who face the challenges of rapid changes within their family and the world at large.

CUTTING EDGE provides an up-to-the-minute analysis of the complex relations between technology and work and how jobs and living standards can be protected.