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Product Description: A growing problem of interest in the field of science and technology policy is that the next generation of innovations is arriving at an accelerating rate, and the governance system is struggling to catch up. Current approaches and institutions for effective technology assessment are ill suited and poorly designed to proactively address the multidimensional, interconnected societal impacts of science and technology advancements that are already taking place and expected to continue over the course of the 21st century...read more

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9781138123434 | Routledge, June 1, 2016, cover price $145.00 | About this edition: A growing problem of interest in the field of science and technology policy is that the next generation of innovations is arriving at an accelerating rate, and the governance system is struggling to catch up.

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9780822357292 | Duke Univ Pr, April 6, 2015, cover price $99.95

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9780822357438 | Duke Univ Pr, April 6, 2015, cover price $28.95

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Product Description: This book addresses the interconnections and tensions between technological development, the social benefits and risks of new technology, and the changing political economy of a global world system as they apply to the emerging field of nanotechnologies...read more
By Barbara Herr Harthorn (editor) and John W. Mohr (editor)

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9780415899055 | Routledge, July 26, 2012, cover price $145.00

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9780415629621 | Routledge, June 2, 2014, cover price $54.95 | About this edition: This book addresses the interconnections and tensions between technological development, the social benefits and risks of new technology, and the changing political economy of a global world system as they apply to the emerging field of nanotechnologies.

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Product Description: Advances in nanotechnology are transforming the ways of creating materials and products, leading society to the threshold of a second industrial revolution. However, future opportunities will depend significantly on how nanotechnology stakeholders deal with the short-term and long-term benefits, limitations, uncertainties and risks of nanotechnology...read more

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9781439859537 | CRC Pr I Llc, May 17, 2012, cover price $90.95 | About this edition: Advances in nanotechnology are transforming the ways of creating materials and products, leading society to the threshold of a second industrial revolution.

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By Richard Danzig (foreword by)

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9780262017176 | Mit Pr, March 23, 2012, cover price $54.00

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9780262516969 | Mit Pr, March 30, 2012, cover price $30.00

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Product Description: From nuclear power to gene therapy to the automobile, history shows that it is useful to encourage and facilitate public discussion about new technologies and their potential dangers. Part of the series Perspectives in Nanotechnology, Nanotechnology and the Public: Risk Perception and Risk Communication assesses results from focus groups, interviews, and other resources to provide a more nuanced understanding of how non-experts perceive nanotechnology and what they expect from it...read more

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9781439826836 | CRC Pr I Llc, September 12, 2011, cover price $57.95 | About this edition: From nuclear power to gene therapy to the automobile, history shows that it is useful to encourage and facilitate public discussion about new technologies and their potential dangers.

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By Esther Ruiz Ben (editor)

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9783825507565, titled "Technologisierung Gesellschaftlicher Zukünfte: Nanotechnologien in Wissenschaftlicher, Politischer Und Öffentlicher Praxis" | Springer Verlag, December 31, 2010, cover price $39.99

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Product Description: Inside the Emerging Multibillion-Dollar Nanotechnology Industry   Suddenly, nanotechnology isn't science fiction or mere theory: It's becoming one of the world's fastest-growing, highest-impact industries. In Nanotechnology: Science, Innovation, and Opportunity, the field's leading experts offer an up-to-the-minute briefing on where the industry stands now, how it will unfold over the coming decade, and how it will impact you...read more

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9780131927568 | Prentice Hall Ptr, December 30, 2005, cover price $34.99

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9780137025756 | Prentice Hall Ptr, June 9, 2009, cover price $39.99 | About this edition: Inside the Emerging Multibillion-Dollar Nanotechnology Industry   Suddenly, nanotechnology isn't science fiction or mere theory: It's becoming one of the world's fastest-growing, highest-impact industries.

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Product Description: From manufacturing to medicine, nanotechnology implies revolutionary change. However, the sweeping changes wrought by a technological advance of this magnitude are likely to come at a price that includes unforeseen environmental impact, disruptions in industry, displacement of workers, and deeply controversial applications of the technology and its offspring...read more

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9781420053524 | CRC Pr I Llc, May 1, 2008, cover price $62.95 | About this edition: From manufacturing to medicine, nanotechnology implies revolutionary change.

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By Fritz Allhoff (editor), Patrick Lin (editor), James Moor (editor) and James Weckert (editor)

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9780470084168 | John Wiley & Sons Inc, August 17, 2007, cover price $99.95

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9780470084175 | John Wiley & Sons Inc, August 10, 2007, cover price $62.95

By Nigel M. De S. Cameron (editor) and M. Ellen Mitchell (editor)

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9780470084199 | Wiley-Interscience, August 15, 2007, cover price $115.95

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9780470165867 | Wiley-Interscience, August 10, 2007, cover price $90.00 | also contains Nanoscale: Issues and Perspectives for the Nano Century

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By Geoffrey Hunt (editor) and Michael D. Mehta (editor)

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9781844073580 | Routledge, August 30, 2006, cover price $150.00

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Product Description: This book explains the fast moving world of the new nanotechnology and who controls it, ranging from medical, energy, computing, and even military interests. It explores the potential consequences--the upsides as well as the downsides - for individuals, the environment, and relations between the powers...read more

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9781842776865 | Zed Books, July 11, 2006, cover price $85.95 | About this edition: This book explains the fast moving world of the new nanotechnology and who controls it, ranging from medical, energy, computing, and even military interests.

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9781842776872 | Zed Books, July 11, 2006, cover price $29.95

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A leading medical ethicist examines the potential implications of technological innovation for human society, arguing that new cybernetic and biomedical technologies should be used to better life for everyone and that such advances will require new approaches to the issues of liberty, common good, human rights, and personal freedom. 25,000 first printing.

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9780813341989 | Basic Books, October 26, 2004, cover price $30.95 | About this edition: A leading medical ethicist examines the potential implications of technological innovation for human society, arguing that new cybernetic and biomedical technologies should be used to better life for everyone and that such advances will require new approaches to the issues of liberty, common good, human rights, and personal freedom.

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