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The Future of the Internet And How to Stop It
by Jonathan Zittrain  Publisher Comments This extraordinary book explains the engine that has catapulted the Internet from backwater to ubiquity, and reveals that it is sputtering precisely because of its runaway success. With the unwitting help of its users, the generative Internet is on a...
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Crypto Anarchy, Cyberstates, and Pirate Utopias (Digital Communication)
by Peter Ludlow Publisher Comments In Crypto Anarchy, Cyberstates, and Pirate Utopias, Peter Ludlow extends the approach he used so successfully in High Noon on the Electronic Frontier, offering a collection of writings that reflects the eclectic nature of the online world, as well as its...
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Twilight War: The Folly of U.S. Space Dominance
by Mike Moore Publisher Comments Considering the historical background of space militarization and providing an overview of the United States' efforts to militarily dominate space since the dawn of the space age, this book argues that America must either ensure that space-related...
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Beyond the Hoax: Science, Philosophy and Culture
by Alan Sokal Publisher Comments When physicist Alan Sokal revealed that his1996 article, "Transgressing the Boundaries: Toward a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity," published in Social Text, was a hoax, the ensuing scandal made the front page of the New York Times and...
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The Digital Dialectic: New Essays on New Media (Leonardo Book)
by Peter Lunenfeld Publisher Comments The Digital Dialectic is an interdisciplinary jam session about our visual and intellectual cultures as the computer recodes technologies, media, and art forms....
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Suppressed Inventions
by Jonathan Eisen Publisher Comments A scientist with a revolutionary cure for AIDS is incarcerated without explanation. Valuable artifacts are mysteriously misplaced by a prominent archaeological institution. Three celebrated astronauts perish in a suspicious fire after voicing their...
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Crafting a Cloning Policy : From Dolly To Stem Cells (02 Edition)
by Andrea L. Bonnicksen Publisher Comments Ever since Dolly, the Scottish lamb, tottered on wobbly legs into our consciousness -- followed swiftly by other animals: first, mice; then pigs that may provide human transplants, and even an ordinary house cat -- thoughts have flown to the cloning of...
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Junk Science: An Overdue Indictment of Government, Industry, and Faith Groups That Twist Science for Their Own Gain
by Dan Agin Publisher Comments “A passionate, minutely informed, and scrupulously fair analysis of all the abuses and misuses of science that are rampant today—a clarion call to action that concerns us all.”—Oliver Sacks, M.D., author of Awakenings and The Man...
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Junk Science : How Politicians, Corporations, and Other Hucksters Betray Us (06 Edition)
by Dan Agin Publisher Comments Provocative and hard-hitting, "Junk Science" takes on the government, industry, and faith groups, all of whom twist scientific fact for their own gain....
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War, Science and Terrorism; From Laboratory to Open Conflict
by Jacques Richardson Publisher Comments This work describes the application of research to the evolution of weapons. He shows how natural, engineering, information and environmental sciences are thoroughly exploited how even social science is applied to recruitment, battlefield and logistical...
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Technology and privacy : the new landscape
by Philip Agre Publisher Comments Privacy is the capacity to negotiate social relationships by controlling access to personal information. As laws, policies, and technological design increasingly structure people's relationships with social institutions, individual privacy faces new...
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The Quest for Human Longevity: Science, Business, and Public Policy
by Lewis D Solomon Publisher Comments Over the past decade, impressive results have been achieved in targeting the mechanisms and pathways of aging. Solomon considers these scientific studies by exploring the principal biomedical and anti-aging techniques. In this book, he considers cutting...
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Offense, Defense, and War
by Michael E Brown Publisher Comments An overview of offense-defense theory, which argues that the relative ease of offense and defense varies in international politics....
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Life as Surplus: Biotechnology and Capitalism in the Neoliberal Era (In Vivo)
by Melinda Cooper Synopsis From the development of recombinant DNA technology in the 1970s to the second Bush administration's policies on stem cell research, Cooper connects the utopian polemic of free-market capitalism with the growing internal contradictions of the...
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Computers, Ethics and Social Values
by Deborah G Johnson Publisher Comments It is intended for college students, computer professionals, policy makers, and other individuals who see the increasing significance of computing and information technologies and are concerned about their effects on social values....
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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Understanding Intelligent Design (Complete Idiot's Guides)
by Christophe Carlisle Publisher Comments "An objective overview of the biggest controversy in American education." Intelligent Design is one of the hottest issues facing parents and educators to day, but it can be hard to separate the facts from the heated rhetoric. This expert and objective...
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The Republican War on Science
by Chris Mooney Publisher Comments Science has never been more crucial to deciding the political issues facing the country. Yet science and scientists have less influence with the federal government than at any time since the Eisenhower administration. In the White House and Congress...
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The Republican War on Science
by Chris Mooney 
Powells.com Staff Pick One of the most frightening things to me about the current administration is its disregard for scientific fact — the basis for any rational society. Mooney skillfully traces the history of the Republicans' manipulation of science that doesn't...
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The Second Life Herald: The Virtual Tabloid That Witnessed the Dawn of the Metaverse
by Peter Ludlow Publisher Comments When a virtual journalist for a virtual newspaper reporting on the digital world of an online game lands on the real-world front page of the New York Times, it just might signal the dawn of a new era. Virtual journalist Peter Ludlow was banned from The...
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The Baltimore Case: A Trial of Politics, Science, and Character
by Daniel J Kevles Publisher Comments Kevles tells the complete story of David Baltimore, winner of a Nobel Prize for medicine in 1975 in the field of immunology, who got caught up in a legal battle over fraudulent scientific papers. Photos & line drawings....
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