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Science in Action: How to Follow Scientists and Engineers Through Society
by Bruno Latour  Publisher Comments Science and technology have immense authority and influence in our society, yet their working remains little understood. The conventional perception of science in Western societies has been modified in recent years by the work of philosophers...
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In the Name of Science: A History of Secret Programs, Medical Research, and Human Experimentation
by Andrew Goliszek Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 407-432) and index....
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Biology as Ideology: Doctrine of DNA, the
by Richard C Lewontin Publisher Comments A Reasonable Skepticism Science is a social institution about which there is a great deal of misunderstanding, even among those who are part of it. We think that science is an institution, a set of methods, a set of people, a great body of knowledge that...
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Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology
by Neil Postman Publisher Comments In this witty, often terrifying work of cultural criticism, the author of Amusing Ourselves to Death chronicles our transformation into a Technopoly: a society that no longer merely uses technology as a support system but instead is shaped by it--with...
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The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google
by Nicholas Carr Publisher Comments In this lucid and compelling look at the new computer revolution and the coming transformation on the economy, Carr weaves together history, economics, and technology to explain why computing is changing--and what it means....
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Philosophical Foundations of the Social Sciences: Analyzing Controversies in Social Research
by Harold Kincaid Publisher Comments This book defends the prospects for a science of society. It argues that behind the diverse methods of the natural sciences lies a common core of scientific rationality that the social sciences can and sometimes do achieve. It also argues that good...
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Inmates Are Running the Asylum 2ND Edition
by Alan Cooper Publisher Comments Cooper calls for a Software Revolution in his bestselling book, now in trade paperback with a new Foreword and Afterword. "eWeek" lists Alan Cooper, the father of Visual Basic, as the #2 mover and shaker in a list of the 25 most influential people in...
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The New Barbarian Manifesto: How to Survive the Information Age
by Ian O Angell Synopsis Angell writes that information technology is breeding a new society of "barbarians" that will overrun social, economic, and geographical borders in a winner-take-all fight for wealth and power. Only those with the knowledge and power to guide the...
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Vanity, Vitality, and Virility: The Science Behind the Products You Love to Buy
by John Emsley Publisher Comments What is the secret of shower cleaners? How does the dangerous explosive nitroglycerin ward off heart attacks? And what medicines, usually prescribed for other purposes, are said to produce the ultimate orgasm? In Vanity, Vitality, and Virility, award...
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Environmental Issues: Primary Sources (Social Issues Primary Sources: Environmental Issues)
by K Lee Lerner Publisher Comments These volumes of primary source documents focus on leading social issues of the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries. International in scope, each title is devoted to one topic: < ul> < li> Crime and Punishment < li> Environmental...
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Beyond 9 to 5: Your Life in Time
by Sarah Norgate Publisher Comments In Beyond 9 to 5, Sarah Norgate investigates the psychological, social, and cultural influences that affect the way we regard and are affected by time. Using everyday examples from around the world, her intriguing analysis unravels both the mental and...
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Small Pieces Loosely Joined: A Unified Theory of the Web
by David Weinberger Publisher Comments In this insightful social commentary, David Weinberger goes beyond misdirected hype to reveal what is truly revolutionary about the Web. Just as Marshall McLuhan forever altered our view of broadcast media, Weinberger shows that the Web is transforming...
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Cyborg Citizen
by Chris Hables Gray Publisher Comments The growing synergy of humans and technology--from dialysis to genetically altered foods to PET scans--is transforming how we view our minds and our bodies. But how has it changed the body politic? How can we forge a society that protects the rights of...
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Mobile Communication and Society: A Global Perspective (Information Revolution and Global Politics)
by Manuel Castells Publisher Comments Wireless networks are the fastest growing communications technology in history. Are mobile phones expressions of identity, fashionable gadgets, tools for life--or all of the above? Mobile Communication and Society looks at how the possibility of...
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A House Built on Sand: Exposing Postmodernist Myths about Science
by Noretta Koertge Publisher Comments Cultural critics argue that the results of scientific inquiry is shaped by ideological and political agendas. This hard-hitting collection of essays offers crisp and detailed critiques of case studies as evidence that scientific investigation today tells...
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One Culture? (01 Edition)
by Jay A. Labinger Publisher Comments In recent years, combatants from one or the other of what C. P. Snow famously called "the two cultures" (science versus the arts and humanities) have launched bitter attacks but have seldom engaged in constructive dialogue. In "The One Culture?" Jay A...
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The Inmates Are Running the Asylum: Why High-Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity
by Alan Cooper Synopsis An explanation of how talented people continuously design bad software-based products, this title shows that business executives are not in control of the high-tech industry. They have inadvertently put programmers and engineers in charge, leading to...
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Appropriating Technology: Vernacular Science and Social Power (04 Edition)
by Ron Eglash Publisher Comments From the vernacular engineering of Latino car design to environmental analysis among rural women to the production of indigenous herbal cures-groups outside the centers of scientific power persistently defy the notion that they are merely passive...
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Transductions: Bodies and Machines at Speed (Technologies: Studies in Culture & Theory)
by Adrian Mackenzie Publisher Comments Part of the Technologies: Studies in Culture and Theory series. Through a critical analysis of the widely accepted notion that technology speeds everything up, this book argues that there are only ever differences in speed. The question for us is how can...
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Is Science Multicultural? (98 Edition)
by Sandra Harding Publisher Comments This original and scholarly book explores what practitioners of Euro-American, feminist, and postcolonial science and technology studies can learn from each other. It suggests new directions for thinking about objectivity, method, and reflexivity in the...
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