An updated work by social workers, psychologists, and anthropologists reflects important new developments in the field, concentrating on perhaps the most important aspect of research in child abuse: prevention

Product Description: Book by Carnes, Alice, Zerzan, John

This book provides a wide ranging review of current research and thinking about the spatial context of technological change. It brings together theoretical pieces of work, methodological developments, empirical evidence from differing national contexts, and discussions of policy formulation and implementation at a range of spatial scales. The book is divided into four parts. The first deals with theoretical and conceptual issues concerning technological change in regional and city systems and the role of technology in less developed countries and regions. Part two deals with a selection of methodological issues. Part three presents empirical evidence from a range of national contexts. Part four covers policy issues from the supra-national to the local or metropolitan scale. The book covers a broad range of essential concepts with treatments from different perspectives and disciplines. It should therefore appeal to a wide audience.

A collection of short articles dealing with science and technological issues such as the nation's health, confronting social problems, and dealing with the effects of environmental problems

Read any newspaper or watch your television and as often as not you will be confronted by the worries, hopes, challenges, and mistakes of science and technology. Sociology has been trying to make sense of science for many years, while government and industry have promoted and exploited it for even longer. But what are science and technology? How have they been shaped by society? What new directions are they taking?Andrew Webster provides a lively and accessible introduction to the sociological analysis of science and technology, exploring contemporary debates in a comprehensive and balanced fashion, and showing how the findings of sociologists of science relate to important issues of science policy and politics.Biotechnology and genetic engineering, technology transfer, feminist and radical critiques of science, "big science" projects, science parks and research within private industry are some of the topics that provide the focus for a wide-ranging, critical yet constructive sociological discussion. Science, Technology, and Society will be of particular value to students, academics, and practitioners involved in studying and helping to shape these two very powerful institutions of society. 

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Rethinking Technologies was first published in 1993. Grounded on the assumption that the relationship between the arts and the sciences is dictated by technology, the essays in Rethinking Technologies explore trends in contemporary thought that have been changing our awareness of science, technology, and the arts. "Rethinking Technologies constitutes a significant contribution to the analysis of techno-cultures today. It will definitely contradict those who still think that postmodernity is merely a fashionable term or an empty fad." -SubStance "Rarely has a book done as much of what its title promises as this book. Not only were the authors "re-thinking technologies" but I found myself being challenged to think in ways in which I had not considered before. As such this book offers a unique and stimulating, if at times difficult to understand, re-think regarding technology, especially for western thinkers. Definitely a must for those engaged in the critical study of technology and society from philosophical, psycbological, literary and discourse analysis perspectives." -Prometheus Contributors: Teresa Brennan, Patrick Clancy, Verena Andermatt Conley, Scott Durham, Thierry de Duve, Françoise Gaillard, Félix Guattari, N. Katherine Hayles, Alberto Moreiras, Jean-Luc Nancy, Avital Ronell, Ingrid Scheibler, Paul Virilio.

Consuming Tecnologies opens for analysis some crucial but rarely examined areas of social, cultural....

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This book contains a survey of the history of technology in America from 1700 to the present, and covers the history of inventions with discussions of the social, economic, and cultural impact of technology.

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