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Product Description: In The Techno-Human Condition, Braden Allenby and Daniel Sarewitz explore what it means to be human in an era of incomprehensible technological complexity and change. They argue that if we are to have any prospect of managing that complexity, we will need to escape the shackles of current assumptions about rationality, progress, and certainty, even as we maintain a commitment to fundamental human values...read more
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9780262015691 | Mit Pr, April 22, 2011, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: In The Techno-Human Condition, Braden Allenby and Daniel Sarewitz explore what it means to be human in an era of incomprehensible technological complexity and change.

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9780262525251 | Mit Pr, September 13, 2013, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: In The Techno-Human Condition, Braden Allenby and Daniel Sarewitz explore what it means to be human in an era of incomprehensible technological complexity and change.

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Product Description: This book describes twelve inventions that transformed the United States from a rural and small-town community to an industrial country of unprecedented power. These inventions demonstrate that no one person is ever responsible for technological advances and that the culture produces a number of people who work together to create each new invention...read more
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9780761860808 | Hamilton Books, February 13, 2013, cover price $32.99 | About this edition: This book describes twelve inventions that transformed the United States from a rural and small-town community to an industrial country of unprecedented power.

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Product Description: Describes 35 ecologically sound materials and processesThis book is an essential reference for understanding the environmental impact of materials, manufacturing processes, and product life cycles, and is also a guide on how to select and use them in an intelligent way...read more
By Martin Thompson (photographer)
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9780500290712 | 1 edition (Thames & Hudson, May 1, 2013), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Describes 35 ecologically sound materials and processesThis book is an essential reference for understanding the environmental impact of materials, manufacturing processes, and product life cycles, and is also a guide on how to select and use them in an intelligent way.

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Product Description: Technology is evolving faster than we are. As our mobile phones, mp3 players, cars, and digital cameras become more and more complex, we understand less and less about how they actually work and what personal details these gadgets might reveal about us...read more
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9780465019588 | Basic Books, March 29, 2011, cover price $26.99 | About this edition: Technology is evolving faster than we are.

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9780465031382 | Reprint edition (Basic Books, February 5, 2013), cover price $16.99 | About this edition: Technology is evolving faster than we are.

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Product Description: Public Space, Media Space asks how public space is being mediatised in different ways in different cities around the world today. Urban public spaces today are saturated by media, perhaps more than ever before. These range from highly visible large LED screens in cities like Tokyo, through the cassette sermons one hears in the streets of Cairo, to the invisible, inaudible satellite surveillance systems that are everywhere...read more
By Rachel O. Moore (editor)
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9781137027757 | Palgrave Macmillan, May 24, 2013, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: Public Space, Media Space asks how public space is being mediatised in different ways in different cities around the world today.

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In the Sixth Edition of Society and Technological Change, Rudi Volti continues to bring both his enthusiasm and expertise to the student. Comprehensive in his discussion of both historical and contemporary technological advance, Volti never fails to explore the societal implications of each technology he presents. The new Sixth Edition has been fully updated to include recent technological innovation in such areas as genetics, communications, terrorism, and medicine. Further, updated photos throughout the book bring Volti's words to life.
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9781429278973 | 7 edition (Worth Pub, January 4, 2013), cover price $78.10
9781429221214 | 6 edition (Worth Pub, March 6, 2009), cover price $78.10 | About this edition: In the Sixth Edition of Society and Technological Change, Rudi Volti continues to bring both his enthusiasm and expertise to the student.
9780716787327 | 5th edition (Worth Pub, June 7, 2005), cover price $64.50 | About this edition: Technology is a basic feature of all human societies.
9781572599529 | 4 sub edition (Worth Pub, January 1, 2001), cover price $59.65 | About this edition: Argues that society pushes for technological change that, in turn, shapes society.
9780312096427 | 3rd edition (Worth Pub, January 1, 1995), cover price $33.80 | About this edition: This is a fully-revised and updated edition.

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Product Description: From today's headlines to your textbook, SOCIETY, ETHICS, AND TECHNOLOGY, Fifth Edition, explores the cutting edge of technological innovation and how these advances represent profound moral dilemmas for society as a whole. You will build a strong foundation in theory and applied ethics as you are challenged to examine critically the social effects of technology in your daily life...read more
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9780840033802 | 4th edition (Wadsworth Pub Co, January 3, 2011), cover price $135.95 | also contains Society, Ethics and Technology | About this edition: From the forefront of news today to your textbook, SOCIETY, ETHICS, AND TECHNOLOGY, Fourth Edition, stresses the latest technological innovations and how these advancements represent new ethical challenges and dilemmas for society as a whole.
9780534585402, titled "Society, Ethics and Technology" | 2nd edition (Wadsworth Pub Co, October 1, 2002), cover price $55.95 | About this edition: This anthology presents a variety of historical, social, and philosophical perspectives on technological change and its social consequences, stressing the manner in which technological innovation creates new ethical problems for human civilization.
9789990063196, titled "Society, Ethics And Technology" | 2 edition (Thomson Learning, October 1, 2002), cover price $0.02 | also contains Society, Ethics and Technology
9780534505813 | Wadsworth Pub Co, January 1, 2000, cover price $46.95 | About this edition: A reader for an undergraduate course which fosters an understanding of the role that science and technology play in shaping modern society and provides students with a method for evaluating the benefits and risks associated with technological change.
9789990831900 | Wadsworth Pub Co, January 1, 2000, cover price $0.02 | also contains Society, Ethics and Technology | About this edition: From the forefront of news today to your classroom, SOCIETY, ETHICS, AND TECHNOLOGY, 4e, UPDATE EDITION: Now with Technology and Ethics in the news and information on Engineering Ethics, SOCIETY, ETHICS, AND TECHNOLOGY stresses the latest technological innovations and how these advancements represent new ethical challenges and dilemmas for society as a whole.
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Product Description: China is emerging as a new superpower in science and technology, reflected in the success of its spacecraft and high-velocity Maglev trains. While many seek to understand the rise of China as a technologically-based power, the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s may seem an unlikely era to explore for these insights...read more
By Darryl E. Brock (editor) and Chunjuan Nancy Wei (editor)
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9780739149744 | 1 edition (Lexington Books, December 14, 2012), cover price $85.00 | About this edition: China is emerging as a new superpower in science and technology, reflected in the success of its spacecraft and high-velocity Maglev trains.

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Product Description: This Critical Theory and Contemporary Society volume re-examines critical theory in light of the challenges raised by today’s digital revolution.
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9781441166395 | Continuum Intl Pub Group, July 18, 2013, cover price $120.00 | About this edition: This Critical Theory and Contemporary Society volume re-examines critical theory in light of the challenges raised by today’s digital revolution.

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Product Description: By 1920 one of the most recognised faces on the planet belonged to Charlie Chaplin, confirming the influence of a powerful new medium. Today's film fans turn to Facebook and Twitter to follow their heroes. While the ubiquitous smart phone enmeshes consumers in nets of connectivity, interactivity requires that actors are also ensnared: thirty-two cameras simultaneously scrutinizing the face of the actor enables performance to blend with game logic...read more
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9780230298927 | Palgrave Macmillan, November 13, 2012, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: By 1920 one of the most recognised faces on the planet belonged to Charlie Chaplin, confirming the influence of a powerful new medium.

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Product Description: This book investigates the implications of technology on identity in embodied performance; the discussion within it forms a forum of debate exploring the interrelationship of and between identities in performance practices, informed by new technologies...read more
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9780230298880 | Palgrave Macmillan, November 27, 2012, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: This book investigates the implications of technology on identity in embodied performance; the discussion within it forms a forum of debate exploring the interrelationship of and between identities in performance practices, informed by new technologies.

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Product Description: Sensualities/Textualities & Technologies: Writings of the Body in 21st Century Performance explores the interrelation of text, body and technology in performance. It provides an edited collection which reconsiders textual practices in contemporary performance specifically focussing on the exciting exchange between writerly texts, body and technology...read more
By Josephine Machon (editor)
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9780230220256 | Palgrave Macmillan, February 15, 2010, cover price $90.00 | About this edition: This innovative collection, with essays by a range of internationally renowned scholars, reconsiders textual practices in contemporary performance, specifically focusing on the exciting exchange between text, body and technology.

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9781137274687 | Reprint edition (Palgrave Macmillan, April 30, 2013), cover price $29.00 | About this edition: Sensualities/Textualities & Technologies: Writings of the Body in 21st Century Performance explores the interrelation of text, body and technology in performance.

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Product Description: Even Steve Jobs didn't know what he had on his hands when he announced the original iPhone as a combination of a mere "three revolutionary products"--an iPod, a cell phone, and a keyboard-less handheld computer. Once Apple introduced the App Store and opened it up to outside developers, however, the iPhone became capable of serving a rapidly growing number of functions--now more than 200,000 and counting...read more
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9780306820762 | Da Capo Pr, October 2, 2012, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Even Steve Jobs didn't know what he had on his hands when he announced the original iPhone as a combination of a mere "three revolutionary products"--an iPod, a cell phone, and a keyboard-less handheld computer.

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Product Description: Mobile Communication covers a wide range of topics. These include the replacement of co-present interaction with mediated contact and analysis of mobile-based cohesion and gender. The authors also explore the role of media choice and its effect on the quality as well as quantity of social cohesion...read more
By Scott W. Campbell (editor)
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9781412849555 | Reprint edition (Transaction Pub, August 29, 2012), cover price $34.95 | About this edition: Mobile Communication covers a wide range of topics.

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Product Description: The word 'digital' refers to both digital data, as used in computers, and also the digits, fingers, of the hand, and thus by extension touch, which has long been a trope for connectivity, community, and participation. Thus, in its drive towards greater connectivity, our culture is digital in more than one sense, in that it increasingly encourages such contact (from the Latin, 'com', together, and 'tangere', to touch)...read more
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9781137026668 | Palgrave Macmillan, September 4, 2012, cover price $80.00 | About this edition: The word 'digital' refers to both digital data, as used in computers, and also the digits, fingers, of the hand, and thus by extension touch, which has long been a trope for connectivity, community, and participation.

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Product Description: This book develops a fresh perspective on everyday forms of engagement, one that foregrounds the role of objects, technologies and settings in democracy. Examining a range of devices, from smart meters to eco-homes, the book sets out new concepts and methods for analyzing the relations between participation, innovation and the environment...read more
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9780230232112 | Palgrave Macmillan, September 4, 2012, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: This book develops a fresh perspective on everyday forms of engagement, one that foregrounds the role of objects, technologies and settings in democracy.

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Product Description: Discover the inventions that have made our world what it is todayA great invention opens the door to a new era in human history. The stone axe, for example, invented some 2 million years ago in East Africa, enabled us to enter the human path of endless improvements through inventions...read more
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9780470768174 | Amer Inst of Chemical Engineers, July 31, 2012, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: Discover the inventions that have made our world what it is todayA great invention opens the door to a new era in human history.

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Product Description: El plastico ha construido nuestro mundo moderno, hasta el punto de que es dificil imaginar nuestra vida sin objetos como el peine, el cepillo de dientes, la bolsa de la compra, el chicle, el encendedor, el marcapasos o la tarjeta de credito...read more
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9788483833933 | Italian edition edition (Tusquets Editor, May 1, 2012), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: El plastico ha construido nuestro mundo moderno, hasta el punto de que es dificil imaginar nuestra vida sin objetos como el peine, el cepillo de dientes, la bolsa de la compra, el chicle, el encendedor, el marcapasos o la tarjeta de credito.

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Product Description: Even Steve Jobs didn't know what he had on his hands when he announced the original iPhone as a combination of a mere "three revolutionary products"--an iPod, a cell phone, and a keyboard-less handheld computer. Once Apple introduced the App Store and opened it up to outside developers, however, the iPhone became capable of serving a rapidly growing number of functions--now more than 350,000 and counting...read more
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9780306819605 | Da Capo Pr, June 7, 2011, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Even Steve Jobs didn't know what he had on his hands when he announced the original iPhone as a combination of a mere "three revolutionary products"--an iPod, a cell phone, and a keyboard-less handheld computer.

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Product Description: It's not paranoia; we ARE being watched.  Today, thanks to technology and new media--cell phone GPS, backscatter scanners, online financial transactions, cloud-stored medical records, Facebook and Twitter--our every activity can be quietly monitored...read more
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9781588168580, titled "Popular Mechanics: Who's Spying on You?: The Looming Threat to Your Privacy, Identity, and Family in the Digital Age" | Hearst Books, November 6, 2012, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: It's not paranoia; we ARE being watched.

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Product Description: By looking at a range of different European Public Television (PTV) broadcasters,this bookinvestigates the challenges that these broadcasters encounter in a competitive digital broadcasting environment and reveals the different policies and strategies they are adopting in order to remain accountable, competitive and efficient...read more
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9781403989611 | Palgrave Macmillan, December 10, 2007, cover price $105.00 | About this edition: Petros Iosifidis investigates the challenges that Public Television (PTV) broadcasters in Western European countries encounter in a competitive digital broadcasting environment and looks at the policies and strategies that these broadcasters are adopting in order to remain accountable, competitive and efficient.

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9780230361461 | Palgrave Macmillan, March 27, 2012, cover price $28.00 | About this edition: By looking at a range of different European Public Television (PTV) broadcasters,this bookinvestigates the challenges that these broadcasters encounter in a competitive digital broadcasting environment and reveals the different policies and strategies they are adopting in order to remain accountable, competitive and efficient.

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Product Description: The modern human animal spends upwards of 11 hours out of every 24 in a state of constant consumption. Not eating, but gorging on information ceaselessly spewed from the screens and speakers we hold dear. Just as we have grown morbidly obese on sugar, fat, and flour—so, too, have we become gluttons for texts, instant messages, emails, RSS feeds, downloads, videos, status updates, and tweets...read more
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9781449304683 | Oreilly & Associates Inc, January 18, 2012, cover price $22.99 | About this edition: The modern human animal spends upwards of 11 hours out of every 24 in a state of constant consumption.

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Product Description: Social networks, the defining cultural movement of our time, offer many freedoms. But as we work and shop and date over the Web, we are opening ourselves up to intrusive privacy violations by employers, the police, and aggressive data collection companies that sell our information to any and all takers...read more
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9781451650518 | Free Pr, January 10, 2012, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: A leading specialist on social networks writes a shocking exposé of the widespread misuse of our personal online data and creates a Constitution for the web to protect us.

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9781451651058 | Reprint edition (Free Pr, January 1, 2013), cover price $15.99 | About this edition: Social networks, the defining cultural movement of our time, offer many freedoms.

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9781455165315 | Mp3 una edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, April 1, 2012), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: [This is the MP3CD audiobook format in vinyl case.
9781455165308 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, April 1, 2012), cover price $32.95 | About this edition: Social networks are the defining cultural movement of our time, empowering us in constantly evolving ways.
9781455165292 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, April 1, 2012), cover price $105.00 | About this edition: [This is the Audiobook CD Library Edition in vinyl case.

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Product Description: This diverse collection of readings by technology enthusiasts and critics introduces you to different philosophical approaches regarding the impact of technology, as well as specific technologies to give you a complete overview of technology today.
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9781439083932 | Int edition (Gardners Books, July 12, 2009), cover price $64.10
9780495570523, titled "Technology & the Future" | 11 edition (Wadsworth Pub Co, October 31, 2008), cover price $93.95 | About this edition: Technology influences society, and society influences technology--but how?
9780534602772, titled "Technology & The Future" | 10th edition (Wadsworth Pub Co, April 15, 2005), cover price $85.95 | About this edition: How does techology shape society and how is technology shaped by social trends?
9780534604264 | 9th edition (Wadsworth Pub Co, August 1, 2002), cover price $43.95 | About this edition: TECHNOLOGY AND THE FUTURE offers an unsurpassed collection of readings on how technology shapes society while itself being shaped by social trends.
9789990063264 | 9 edition (Thomson Learning, August 1, 2002), cover price $0.02
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Product Description: Arguing that information technology and communication are undergoing rapid development and affecting almost all areas of society, this book addresses the important issues of these fields and their uses as tools to strengthen the development of education...read more
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9788497006422 | Aljibe Ediciones, May 30, 2012, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Arguing that information technology and communication are undergoing rapid development and affecting almost all areas of society, this book addresses the important issues of these fields and their uses as tools to strengthen the development of education.

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