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Genetic Governance: Health, Risk and Ethics in a Biotech Era
ISBN: 9780415354066 / Angielski / Twarda / 10 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ethical and practical issues around genetic research are of major international concern, both in academia and in the public domain. Questions concerning what interventions are possible and appropriate with the increasing amount of genetic information available, challenge our understandings of ourselves, our health and wellbeing, and the role of medical ethics, public health, surveillance and risk. However there has been little reflection on the socio-political effects of this new genetic knowledge and the changes in practice that are currently impacting on our lives. Ethical and practical issues around genetic research are of major international concern, both in academia and in the public domain. Questions conce... |
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187,39 zł |
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The Technological Fix: How People Use Technology to Create and Solve Problems
ISBN: 9780415947107 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The term "technological fix" should mean a fix provided by technology--a solution for all of our problems, from medicine and food production to the environment and business. Instead, technological fix has come to mean a cheap, quick fix using inappropriate technology that usually creates more problems than it solves. This collection sets out the distinction between a technological fix and a true technological solution.
Bringing together scholars from a variety of disciplines, the essays trace the technological fix as it has appeared throughout the twentieth century. Addressing such... The term "technological fix" should mean a fix provided by technology--a solution for all of our problems, from medicine and food production to the en...
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702,94 zł |
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The Technological Fix: How People Use Technology to Create and Solve Problems
ISBN: 9780415947114 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The term technological fix should mean a fix provided by technology - a solution for all of our problems. Instead, technological fix has come to mean a cheap, quick fix using inappropriate technology that usually creates more problems than it
The term technological fix should mean a fix provided by technology - a solution for all of our problems. Instead, technological fix has come to mean ...
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197,81 zł |
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Surveillance and Security: Technological Politics and Power in Everyday Life
ISBN: 9780415953924 / Angielski / Twarda / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Featuring contributions from scholars in eight different humanities and social science disciplines, this book aims to present a range of surveillance technologies used in everyday life and investigate the politics of their use.
Featuring contributions from scholars in eight different humanities and social science disciplines, this book aims to present a range of surveillance ...
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755,01 zł |
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Bodies in Code: Interfaces with Digital Media
ISBN: 9780415970150 / Angielski / Twarda / 340 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Bodies in Code explores how our bodies experience and adapt to digital environments. Cyberculture theorists have tended to overlook biological reality when talking about virtual reality, and Mark B. N. Hansen's book shows what they've been missing. Cyberspace is anchored in the body, he argues, and it's the body--not high-tech computer graphics--that allows a person to feel like they are really "moving" through virtual reality. Of course these virtual experiences are also profoundly affecting our very understanding of what it means to live as embodied beings. Hansen draws upon...
Bodies in Code explores how our bodies experience and adapt to digital environments. Cyberculture theorists have tended to overlook biologica...
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702,94 zł |
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Bodies in Code: Interfaces with Digital Media
ISBN: 9780415970167 / Angielski / Miękka / 340 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Bodies in Code explores how our bodies experience and adapt to digital environments. Cyberculture theorists have tended to overlook biological reality when talking about virtual reality, and Mark B. N. Hansen's book shows what they've been missing. Cyberspace is anchored in the body, he argues, and it's the body--not high-tech computer graphics--that allows a person to feel like they are really "moving" through virtual reality. Of course these virtual experiences are also profoundly affecting our very understanding of what it means to live as embodied beings. Hansen draws upon...
Bodies in Code explores how our bodies experience and adapt to digital environments. Cyberculture theorists have tended to overlook biologica...
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192,60 zł |
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The Human Factor: Revolutionizing the Way People Live with Technology
ISBN: 9780415978910 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this incessantly readable, groundbreaking work, Vincente makes vividly clear how we can bridge the widening gap between people and technology. He investigates every level of human activity - from simple matters such as our hand-eye coordination to complex human systems such as government regulatory agencies, and why businesses would benefit from making consumer goods easier to use. He shows us why we all have a vital stake in reforming the aviation industry, the health industry, and the way we live day-to-day with technology. In this incessantly readable, groundbreaking work, Vincente makes vividly clear how we can bridge the widening gap between people and technology. H... |
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187,39 zł |
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Who Gives a Gigabyte?: A Survival Guide for the Technologically Perplexed
ISBN: 9780471162933 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An exhilarating chronicle of the most revolutionary advancements in recent-and future-technology
Which new technologies are bound to have the biggest impact on our lives in the years ahead? This groundbreaking book looks at the latest technological superstars destined to reshape the upcoming century and offers easy-to-understand, engaging explanations of what they are, how they work, and how they will affect our lives. Written by a senior editor of Scientific American, the world's premier science magazine, and based on in-depth interviews with today's leading innovators as... An exhilarating chronicle of the most revolutionary advancements in recent-and future-technology
Which new technologies are bound to have ... |
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147,04 zł |
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The Evolution of Wired Life: From the Alphabet to the Soul-Catcher Chip -- How Information Technologies Change Our World
ISBN: 9780471357599 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Thoughtful and erudite... Intelligent and readable...Will appeal to people who enjoyed Longitude by Dava Sobel or Fermat's Enigma by Simon Singh. -The San Diego Union Tribune
""Most engaging.""-The Boston Globe ""An optimistic and reassuring assertion that no matter what wonders we invent, human beings . . . remain infinitely more complex and interesting.""-The Economist A lively, informative examination of the computer revolution-and why the top-performing information-processing device is still the human brain If we believe the forecasts of many computer enthusiasts, a wave... Thoughtful and erudite... Intelligent and readable...Will appeal to people who enjoyed Longitude by Dava Sobel or Fermat's Enigma by Simon Singh. -The...
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146,86 zł |
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The Evolution of Wired Life: From the Alphabet to the Soul-Catcher Chip -- How Information Technologies Change Our World
ISBN: 9780471392989 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Thoughtful and erudite... Intelligent and readable...Will appeal to people who enjoyed Longitude by Dava Sobel or Fermat's Enigma by Simon Singh. -The San Diego Union Tribune
""Most engaging.""-The Boston Globe ""An optimistic and reassuring assertion that no matter what wonders we invent, human beings . . . remain infinitely more complex and interesting.""-The Economist A lively, informative examination of the computer revolution-and why the top-performing information-processing device is still the human brain If we believe the forecasts of many computer enthusiasts, a wave... Thoughtful and erudite... Intelligent and readable...Will appeal to people who enjoyed Longitude by Dava Sobel or Fermat's Enigma by Simon Singh. -The...
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69,00 zł |
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For Love of the Automobile: Looking Back Into the History of Our Desires
ISBN: 9780520068780 / Angielski / Twarda / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In his cultural analysis of the motor car in Germany, Wolfgang Sachs starts from the assumption that the automobile is more than a means of transportation and that its history cannot be understood merely as a triumphant march of technological innovation. Instead, Sachs examines the history of the automobile from the late 1880s until today for evidence on the nature of dreams and desires embedded in modern culture. Written in a lively style and illustrated by a wealth of cartoons, advertisements, newspaper stories, and propaganda, this book explores the nature of Germany's love affair with the...
In his cultural analysis of the motor car in Germany, Wolfgang Sachs starts from the assumption that the automobile is more than a means of transporta...
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387,85 zł |
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Creativity in Invention and Design
ISBN: 9780521430685 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this book, creativity in technology is discussed using a computational approach. Examining an important historical episode in computer technology as a case study, namely, the invention of microprogramming by Maurice Wilkes in 1951, the author presents a plausible explanation of the process by which Wilkes may have arrived at his invention. Based on this case study, the author has also proposed some very general hypotheses concerning creativity that appear to corroborate the findings of some psychologists and historians and then suggests that creative thinking is not significantly different...
In this book, creativity in technology is discussed using a computational approach. Examining an important historical episode in computer technology a...
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548,92 zł |
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An Inventor in the Garden of Eden
ISBN: 9780521441063 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. We oftentimes think that human inventions are an improvement on nature. In fact, many of humankind's most clever inventions have been anticipated by nature. In this book, Professor Laithwaite takes a new look at the natural world from an engineer's point of view. He questions conventional science in such fundamental topics as logic, habit, memory, simplicity, experience, absolute size, wisdom, and civilization. On the way to arriving at his conclusions, Dr. Laithwaite crosses the boundaries of engineering, biology, religion, economics, and cosmology. Filled with truly fascinating anecdotes...
We oftentimes think that human inventions are an improvement on nature. In fact, many of humankind's most clever inventions have been anticipated by n...
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637,71 zł |
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Power from Steam: A History of the Stationary Steam Engine
ISBN: 9780521458344 / Angielski / Miękka / 356 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Power from Steam is the first comprehensive history of the steam engine in 50 years, following the development of the reciprocating steam engine. Hills covers its history from its earliest form to the beginning of the twentieth century when it was replaced by the steam turbine. Although the first steam engine was used to pump water, its development really started with the mechanisation of the textile industry. This development is studied closely and the theoretical understanding of its operation is covered. The background of thermodynamics is introduced to show how science and design coupled...
Power from Steam is the first comprehensive history of the steam engine in 50 years, following the development of the reciprocating steam engine. Hill...
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262,76 zł |
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Cellular Phones, Public Fears, and a Culture of Precaution
ISBN: 9780521520829 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Adam Burgess' study is the first account of the health panic surrounding cellular phones that developed in the mid 1990s. Explaining that the related health anxieties had little substantial basis, Burgess traces the origins of the panic and how and why it grew so significantly in some societies, but not in others. The book also outlines a history and sociology of the cell phone, and compares popular reactions to other technologies, such as x-rays and radar.
Adam Burgess' study is the first account of the health panic surrounding cellular phones that developed in the mid 1990s. Explaining that the related ...
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188,77 zł |
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Philosophy and Technology
ISBN: 9780521558167 / Angielski / Miękka / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection of essays examines the philosophical and cultural aspects of technology. The issues range widely--from quantum technology to problems of technology and culture in a developing country and contributors approach the issues from a variety of perspectives. The volume includes case studies, and also more theoretical pieces that consider the fundamental question of whether technology should be perceived as a force for liberation or enslavement.
This collection of essays examines the philosophical and cultural aspects of technology. The issues range widely--from quantum technology to problems ...
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164,10 zł |
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Technology in Action
ISBN: 9780521568692 / Angielski / Miękka / 286 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Despite extraordinary advances in digital and communication technology over recent years, we know very little about the way these complex systems affect everyday work and interaction. This book seeks to explore these issues through a series of video-based field studies that look at the introduction of basic information systems in general medical practice, news production, the control rooms of the London Underground and computer aided design in architectural practice. It focuses in particular on social interaction and the way video-based field studies can inform the design, development and...
Despite extraordinary advances in digital and communication technology over recent years, we know very little about the way these complex systems affe...
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213,43 zł |
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Cellular Phones, Public Fears, and a Culture of Precaution
ISBN: 9780521817592 / Angielski / Twarda / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Adam Burgess' study is the first account of the health panic surrounding cellular phones that developed in the mid 1990s. Explaining that the related health anxieties had little substantial basis, Burgess traces the origins of the panic and how and why it grew so significantly in some societies, but not in others. The book also outlines a history and sociology of the cell phone, and compares popular reactions to other technologies, such as x-rays and radar.
Adam Burgess' study is the first account of the health panic surrounding cellular phones that developed in the mid 1990s. Explaining that the related ...
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356,54 zł |
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The Dynamics of Technology for Social Change: Understanding the Factors that Influence Results: Lessons Learned from the Field
ISBN: 9780595372744 / Angielski / Miękka / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "If technology leads to such obvious efficiency and productivity in the private sector, why not deploy it just as easily to strengthen civil society and solve the world's social ills?"
Author Jonathan Peizer effectively answers this question in the innovative "The Dynamics of Technology for Social Change." Peizer brings over twenty years of experience in implementing successful projects that have affected millions of lives globally. Working through all the important factors that affect successful implementations, Peizer points out what nonprofit organizations, foundations, social... "If technology leads to such obvious efficiency and productivity in the private sector, why not deploy it just as easily to strengthen civil society a...
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94,95 zł |
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The Dynamics of Technology for Social Change: Understanding the Factors that Influence Results: Lessons Learned from the Field
ISBN: 9780595819799 / Angielski / Twarda / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "If technology leads to such obvious efficiency and productivity in the private sector, why not deploy it just as easily to strengthen civil society and solve the world's social ills?"
Author Jonathan Peizer effectively answers this question in the innovative "The Dynamics of Technology for Social Change." Peizer brings over twenty years of experience in implementing successful projects that have affected millions of lives globally. Working through all the important factors that affect successful implementations, Peizer points out what nonprofit organizations, foundations, social... "If technology leads to such obvious efficiency and productivity in the private sector, why not deploy it just as easily to strengthen civil society a...
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138,21 zł |
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