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  • Technoscientific Angstby Raphael Sassower

    University of Minnesota Press 1997; US$ 72.00

    Reassesses the social and ethical situations of technoscientists.What responsibility do the Manhattan Project scientists have for the atomic devastation of Hiroshima? The Krupps scientists for the crematoriums at Auschwitz? Disturbing questions like these are at the heart of this book, a sobering exploration of scientific and intellectual responsibility.Raphael... more...

  • Technocultureby Constance Penley; Andrew Ross

    University of Minnesota Press 1991; US$ 72.00

    The contributors provide a realistic assessment of the politics?the dangers and possibilities?currently at stake in cultural practices touched by advanced technology, while suggesting new and timely possibilities for those concerned with the pressing need for technoliteracy. more...

  • Rethinking Expertiseby Harry Collins; Robert Evans

    University of Chicago Press 2008; US$ 25.00

    What does it mean to be an expert? In Rethinking Expertise , Harry Collins and Robert Evans offer a radical new perspective on the role of expertise in the practice of science and the public evaluation of technology. Collins and Evans present a Periodic Table of Expertises based on the idea of tacit knowledge—knowledge that we have but... more...

  • The Principles of War for the Information Ageby Robert Leonhard; Robert Scales

    Random House Publishing Group 2009; US$ 19.00

    One of the most cogent and respected strategic theorists in today's military sounds the alarm: We have no viable doctrine for tomorrow's war. The advent of the information age renders the hallowed Principles of War useless. Forged in agrarian times and honed by the more modern conflicts of the industrial age, the principles that have guided generations... more...

  • Nanotechnologyby Geoffrey Hunt; Michael Mehta

    Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 48.95

    Nanotechnology - technology at the molecular level - is held out by many as the Holy Grail for creating a trillion dollar economy and solving problems from curing cancer to reprocessing waste into products and building superfast computers. Yet, as with GMOs, many view nanotech as a high risk genie in a bottle that once uncorked has the potential to... more...

  • Transforming Technologyby Andrew Feenberg

    Oxford University Press, USA 2002; US$ 49.99

    Thoroughly revised, this new edition of Critical Theory of Technology rethinks the relationships between technology, rationality, and democracy, arguing that the degradation of labor--as well as of many environmental, educational, and political systems--is rooted in the social values that preside over technological development. It contains materials... more...

  • The Limits to Governanceby Catherine Lyall; Theo Papaioannou; James Smith

    Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2009; US$ 124.95

    How can policy-makers ensure that we benefit from the health developments brought by genomics while satisfying both the expectations of society and the economic imperatives?This book offers a critique of the new governance agenda for science and innovation in the context of the life sciences, and particularly genomics. The authors argue that the governance... more...

  • The Penguin and the Leviathanby Yochai Benkler

    Crown Publishing Group 2011; US$ 25.00

    What do Wikipedia, Zip Car?s business model, Barack Obama's presidential campaign, and a small group of lobster fishermen have in common? They all show the power and promise of human cooperation in transforming our businesses, our government, and our society at large. Because today, when the costs of collaborating are lower than ever before, there... more...

  • Citizen Engineerby David Douglas; Greg Papadopoulos; John Boutelle

    Pearson Education 2009; US$ 23.99

    ?Engineers create many of the inventions that shape our society, and as such they play a vital role in determining how we live. This new book does an outstanding job of filling in the knowledge and perspective that engineers must have to be good citizens in areas ranging from the environment, to intellectual property, to ensuring the health of the... more...

  • Living the Information Society in Asiaby Erwin Alampay

    International Development Research Centre 2009; US$ 30.00

    Asian societies are in a period of transition, as people are learn to live with new information and communication technologies (ICTs). Whether at work, at home, at school, or at large, ICTs are having an impact on day-to-day lives. How can mobile phones help to forge relationships within families that have been separated my migration? How do camera... more...