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Boys and their Toys : Masculinity, Class and Technology in America
ISBN: 9780415929332 / Angielski / Miękka / 282 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Negotiating the divide between "respectable manhood" and "rough manhood" this book explores masculinity at work and at play through provocative essays on labor unions, railroads, vocational training programs, and NASCAR racing.
Negotiating the divide between "respectable manhood" and "rough manhood" this book explores masculinity at work and at play through provocative essays...
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195,86 |
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The Philosophy of Science and Technology Studies
ISBN: 9780415941044 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Science and Technology Studies (STS) is a broad, interdisciplinary and rapidly-growing field that explores the relationship between science, technology and the multitude of ways they shape, structure and reorient our society, and our understanding of the world. This is the first book to lay out a general account of the underlying philosophical character, assumptions, and implications of STS and its relationship to traditional and contemporary philosophy.
Science and Technology Studies (STS) is a broad, interdisciplinary and rapidly-growing field that explores the relationship between science, technolog...
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The Philosophy of Science and Technology Studies
ISBN: 9780415941051 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the first book to present a general account of the underlying philosophical character, assumptions and implications of Science and Technology Studies (STS) and its relationship to traditional and contemporary philosophy.
This is the first book to present a general account of the underlying philosophical character, assumptions and implications of Science and Technology ...
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195,86 |
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Heidegger and Marcuse : The Catastrophe and Redemption of History
ISBN: 9780415941778 / Angielski / Twarda / 174 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The first to engage Marcuse as a philosopher of technology, this book contrasts his ideas with Heidegger, and relates their work to contemporary technology studies. Both the historical and theoretical aspects of the debate are explored.
The first to engage Marcuse as a philosopher of technology, this book contrasts his ideas with Heidegger, and relates their work to contemporary techn...
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759,15 |
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Heidegger and Marcuse: The Catastrophe and Redemption of History
ISBN: 9780415941785 / Angielski / Miękka / 174 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
First published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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205,65 |
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New Media, Old Media: A History and Theory Reader
ISBN: 9780415942249 / Angielski / Miękka / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this history of new media technologies, leading media and cultural theorists examine new media against the background of traditional media such as film, photography, and print in order to evaluate the multiple claims - political, social ethical, and aesthetic - made about the benefits and freedom of digital media.
In this history of new media technologies, leading media and cultural theorists examine new media against the background of traditional media such as ...
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288,66 |
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Where Stuff Comes from: How Toasters, Toilets, Cars, Computers, and Many Others Things Come to Be as They Are
ISBN: 9780415944007 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. No toaster is an island. In fact, as Harvey Molotch demonstrates in this revealing tour of how things are created, the everyday objects of our life are a delicate and clever intermingling of design, timing and functionality that mirrors contemporary life. Where Stuff Comes From is about paper clips, post-its, bathtubs, cars and all the other stuff in our lives. It is about how these items were imagined into existence and made a part of the American material culture. From the designer to the manufacturer to the business owner to the consumer, Molotch guides us through the worlds of technology,...
No toaster is an island. In fact, as Harvey Molotch demonstrates in this revealing tour of how things are created, the everyday objects of our life ar...
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Where Stuff Comes From: How Toasters, Toilets, Cars, Computers and Many Other Things Come To Be As They Are
ISBN: 9780415950428 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Molotch takes us on a fascinating exploration into the worlds of technology, design, corporate and popular culture. We now see how corporations, designers, retailers, advertisers, and other middle-men influence what a thing can be and how it is made. We see the way goods link into ordinary life as well as vast systems of consumption, economic and political operation. The book is a meditation into the meaning of the stuff in our lives and what that stuff says about us.
Molotch takes us on a fascinating exploration into the worlds of technology, design, corporate and popular culture. We now see how corporations, desig...
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Atoms, Bytes and Genes: Public Resistance and Techno-Scientific Responses
ISBN: 9780415958035 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Atom," "byte" and "gene" are metonymies for techno-scientific developments of the 20th century: nuclear power, computing and genetic engineering. Resistance continues to challenge these developments in public opinion. This book traces historical debates over atoms, bytes and genes which raised controversy with consequences, and argues that public opinion is a factor of the development of modern techno-science. The level and scope of public controversy is an index of resistance, examined here with a "pain analogy" which shows that just as pain impacts movement, resistance impacts... "Atom," "byte" and "gene" are metonymies for techno-scientific developments of the 20th century: nuclear power, computing and genetic engineering. ... |
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The Haraway Reader
ISBN: 9780415966887 / Angielski / Twarda / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For readers in cultural studies, feminist theory, science studies and cyberculture, Donna Haraway is one of our keenest observers of nature, science and the social world. This volume is provides an introduction to her thought.
For readers in cultural studies, feminist theory, science studies and cyberculture, Donna Haraway is one of our keenest observers of nature, science a...
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759,15 |
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The Haraway Reader
ISBN: 9780415966894 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Haraway Reader brings together a generous selection of Donna Haraway's work, she is one of our keenest observers of nature, science, and the social world and this volume is ideal introduction to her thought.
The Haraway Reader brings together a generous selection of Donna Haraway's work, she is one of our keenest observers of nature, science, and ...
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239,94 |
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The Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution
ISBN: 9780452011847 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the tumultuous late 60s and early 70s, a social movement known as the "New Left" emerged as a major cultural influence, especially on the youth of America. It was a movement that embraced "flower-power" and psychedelic "consciousness-expansion," that lionized Ho Chi Minh and Fidel Castro and launched the Black Panthers and the Theater of the Absurd.In Return Of The Primitive (originally published in 1971 as The New Left), Ayn Rand, bestselling novelist and originator of the theory of Objectivism, identified the intellectual roots of this movement. She...
In the tumultuous late 60s and early 70s, a social movement known as the "New Left" emerged as a major cultural influence, especially on the youth of ...
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Nanoethics: The Ethical and Social Implications of Nanotechnology
ISBN: 9780470084175 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Nanotechnology will eventually impact every area of our world
Nanoethics seeks to examine the potential risks and rewards of applications of nanotechnology. This up-to-date anthology gives the reader an introduction to and basic foundation in nanotechnology and nanoethics, and then delves into near-, mid-, and far-term issues. Comprehensive and authoritative, it:
Nanotechnology will eventually impact every area of our world
Nanoethics seeks to examine the potential risks and rewards of applications of... |
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283,29 |
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Nanoscale: Issues and Perspectives for the Nano Century
ISBN: 9780470084199 / Angielski / Twarda / 488 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An authoritative examination of the present and potential impact of nanoscale science and technology on modern life
Because truly transformative technologies have far-reaching consequences, they always generate controversy. Establishing an effective process for identifying and understanding the broad implications of nanotechnology will advance its acceptance and success, impact the decisions of policymakers and regulatory agencies, and facilitate the development of judicious policy approaches to new technology options. Nanoscale: Issues and Perspectives for the Nano Century... An authoritative examination of the present and potential impact of nanoscale science and technology on modern life
Because truly transformative te... |
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The End of Books--Or Books Without End?: Reading Interactive Narratives
ISBN: 9780472088461 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Of all developments surrounding hypermedia, none has been as hotly or frequently debated as the conjunction of fiction and digital technology. J. Yellowlees Douglas considers the implications of this union. She looks at the new light that interactive narratives may shed on theories of reading and interpretation and the possibilities for hypertext novels, World Wide Web-based short stories, and cinematic, interactive narratives on CD-ROM. She confronts questions that are at the center of the current debate: Does an interactive story demand too much from readers? Does the concept of readerly...
Of all developments surrounding hypermedia, none has been as hotly or frequently debated as the conjunction of fiction and digital technology. J. Yell...
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Solar Energy, Technology Policy, and Institutional Values
ISBN: 9780521034296 / Angielski / Miękka / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Energy policies influence the shape of emergent technological systems, and also condition our social, political, and economic lives. This book demonstrates the difficulties of deliberating such properties by providing a historical case study that analyzes U.S. renewable energy policy from the end of World War II through the energy crisis of the 1970s. It illuminates the ways beliefs and values come to dominate official problem frames and get entrenched in institutions.
Energy policies influence the shape of emergent technological systems, and also condition our social, political, and economic lives. This book demonst...
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Technological Innovation as an Evolutionary Process
ISBN: 9780521542173 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ground-breaking yet non-technical analysis of the analogy that technological artefacts 'evolve' like biological organisms.
Ground-breaking yet non-technical analysis of the analogy that technological artefacts 'evolve' like biological organisms.
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Technology and the Culture of Modernity in Britain and Germany, 1890-1945
ISBN: 9780521845281 / Angielski / Twarda / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines the obsession for new technology that swept through Britain and Germany between 1890 and 1945. Drawing on a wide range of popular contemporary writings and pictorial material, it explains how, despite frequently feeling overwhelmed by innovations, Germans and Britons nurtured a long-lasting fascination for aviation, glamorous passenger liners and film as they lived through profound social transformations and two vicious wars. Public discussions about these ?modern wonders? were torn between fears of novel risks and cultural decay on the one hand, and passionate support...
This book examines the obsession for new technology that swept through Britain and Germany between 1890 and 1945. Drawing on a wide range of popular c...
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The Preservationist's Guide to Technological Change and the American Home: 1600-1900
ISBN: 9780595010837 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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76,88 |
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Science and Technology in Society
ISBN: 9780631231813 / Angielski / Twarda / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This thoughtful and engaging text challenges the widely held notion of science as somehow outside of society, and the idea that technology proceeds automatically down a singular and inevitable path. Through specific case studies involving contemporary debates, this book shows that science and technology are fundamentally part of society and are shaped by it.
This thoughtful and engaging text challenges the widely held notion of science as somehow outside of society, and the idea that technology proceeds au...
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510,13 |
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