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Genetic Databases: Socio-Ethical Issues in the Collection and Use of DNA
ISBN: 9780415316798 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Genetic Databases offers a timely analysis of the underlying tensions, contradictions and limitations of the current regulatory frameworks for, and policy debates about, genetic databases. Drawing on original empirical research and theoretical debates in the fields of sociology, anthropology and legal studies, the contributors to this book challenge the prevailing orthodoxy of informed consent and explore the relationship between personal privacy and the public good. They also consider the multiple meanings attached to human tissue and the role of public consultations and... Genetic Databases offers a timely analysis of the underlying tensions, contradictions and limitations of the current regulatory frameworks... |
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783,64 |
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Genetic Databases: Socio-Ethical Issues in the Collection and Use of DNA
ISBN: 9780415316804 / Angielski / Miękka / 222 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Genetic Databases offers a timely analysis of the underlying tensions, contradictions and limitations of the current regulatory frameworks for, and policy debates about, genetic databases. Drawing on original empirical research and theoretical debates in the fields of sociology, anthropology and legal studies, the contributors to this book challenge the prevailing orthodoxy of informed consent and explore the relationship between personal privacy and the public good. They also consider the multiple meanings attached to human tissue and the role of public consultations and... Genetic Databases offers a timely analysis of the underlying tensions, contradictions and limitations of the current regulatory frameworks... |
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239,94 |
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The Audience in Everyday Life: Living in a Media World
ISBN: 9780415942584 / Angielski / Miękka / 211 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Audience in Everyday Life argues that a media audience cannot be studied in front of the television alone - their interaction with media does not simply end when the set is turned off. Instead, we must study the daily lives of audiences to find the undercurrents of media influence in everyday life. S. Elizabeth Bird offers a series of empirically based audience studies of phenomena that include media scandals, fan culture, representations of race and ethnicity, tabloid journalism and runaway media hoaxes. Bird provides a host of useful tools and methods for scholars and students...
The Audience in Everyday Life argues that a media audience cannot be studied in front of the television alone - their interaction with media does not ...
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186,06 |
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The Audience in Everyday Life: Living in a Media World
ISBN: 9780415942591 / Angielski / Twarda / 222 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text argues that a media audience cannot be studied in front of the television alone - their interaction with media does not simply end when the set is turned off. Instead, we must study the daily lives of audiences to find the undercurrents of media influence in everyday life. Applying developments in cultural anthropology and folklore to media studies, the book offers a series of empirically based audience studies of phenomena that include media scandals, fan culture, representations of race and ethnicity, tabloid journalism, and runaway media hoaxes. It provides a host of useful tools...
This text argues that a media audience cannot be studied in front of the television alone - their interaction with media does not simply end when the ...
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710,17 |
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Cyberactivism: Online Activism in Theory and Practice
ISBN: 9780415943192 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The internet played a central role in some of the most memorable instances of contemporary political activism. On-line information sites enabled more than 70,000 protestors to come together to take on the World Trade Organization at the Battle of Seattle in 1999; similar ad-hoc groups were assembled at the April 2000 World Bank protests in Washington, DC, at George W. Bush's inauguration and at the World Economic Forum in New York.
The internet played a central role in some of the most memorable instances of contemporary political activism. On-line information sites enabled more ...
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759,15 |
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Green Building Handbook: Volume 1: A Guide to Building Products and Their Impact on the Environment
ISBN: 9780419226901 / Angielski / Miękka / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Environmentally responsible building involves resolving many conflicting issues and requirements. Each stage in the design process from the fundamental decisions about what, where and even whether to build has implications for the environment.
Evolving out of the success of Green Building Digest, a publication described by Building Design as well-researched, authoritative and exhaustive, this practical new handbook considers the environmental issues which relate to the production, use and disposal of key building products and materials. It is designed to help specifiers... Environmentally responsible building involves resolving many conflicting issues and requirements. Each stage in the design process from the fundamenta...
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465,23 |
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Spychips: How Major Corporations and Government Plan to Track Your Every Purchase and Watc H Your Every Move
ISBN: 9780452287662 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Winner of the Lysander Spooner Award for Advancing the Literature of Liberty
As you walk down the street, a tiny microchip implanted in your tennis shoe tracks your every move; chips woven into your clothing transmit the value of your outfit to nearby retailers; and a thief scans the chips hidden inside your money to decide if you're worth robbing. This isn't science fiction; in a few short years, it could be a fact of life. Spychips takes readers into the frightening world of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID). While manufacturers and the government want you to... Winner of the Lysander Spooner Award for Advancing the Literature of Liberty
As you walk down the street, a tiny microchip implanted in you... |
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92,48 |
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Political Machines
ISBN: 9780485006346 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In a series of in-depth analyses of topics ranging from direct action to intellectual property law, and from interactive science centres to the EU, this book interrogates the politics of the technological society.
In a series of in-depth analyses of topics ranging from direct action to intellectual property law, and from interactive science centres to the EU, th...
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293,81 |
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The Cult of Information: A Neo-Luddite Treatise on High-Tech, Artificial Intelligence, and the True Art of Thinking
ISBN: 9780520085848 / Angielski / Miękka / 267 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As we devote ever-increasing resources to providing, or prohibiting, access to information via computer, Theodore Roszak reminds us that voluminous information does not necessarily lead to sound thinking. "Data glut" obscures basic questions of justice and purpose and may even hinder rather than enhance our productivity.
In this revised and updated edition of The Cult of Information, Roszak reviews the disruptive role the computer has come to play in international finance and the way in which "edutainment" software and computer games degrade the literacy of children. At the same... As we devote ever-increasing resources to providing, or prohibiting, access to information via computer, Theodore Roszak reminds us that voluminous in...
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128,89 |
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Making Technology Work: Applications in Energy and the Environment
ISBN: 9780521523172 / Angielski / Miękka / 282 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Fifteen interdisciplinary case studies on the application of technology in the energy and environment sectors include applications of solar, wind, fuel cell, nuclear, and other coal combustion and emission control technologies. The case studies reveal the interrelationships among technical and non-technical factors, and demonstrate that the successful application of new technologies requires the synthesis of technical, economic, political, environmental, and social aspects.
Fifteen interdisciplinary case studies on the application of technology in the energy and environment sectors include applications of solar, wind, fue...
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229,29 |
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Making Technology Work: Applications in Energy and the Environment
ISBN: 9780521818575 / Angielski / Twarda / 282 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Fifteen interdisciplinary case studies on the application of technology in the energy and environment sectors include applications of solar, wind, fuel cell, nuclear, and other coal combustion and emission control technologies. The case studies reveal the interrelationships among technical and non-technical factors, and demonstrate that the successful application of new technologies requires the synthesis of technical, economic, political, environmental, and social aspects.
Fifteen interdisciplinary case studies on the application of technology in the energy and environment sectors include applications of solar, wind, fue...
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516,69 |
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Autokind Vs. Mankind: An Analysis of Tyranny, a Proposal for Rebellion, a Plan for Reconstruction
ISBN: 9780595193479 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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80,73 |
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The Android Myth: How Humans Think and Why Computers Can't
ISBN: 9780595254170 / Angielski / Miękka / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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92,30 |
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American CEOs Can do better, we have the technology?: The American high & low intellectual property is at risk for terrorism from abroad.
ISBN: 9780595351633 / Angielski / Miękka / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Most CEOs are good, honest and good corporate citizens. But they can do better. Out-sourcing is good...if...it is fair and balanced, but the horror comes when its your turn on the chopping block...
Forty six state governments now Out-source jobs and contracts to foreign countries like India, China, and more... American HMOs, Insurance companies, banks, and credit card companies are processing your social security information, your medical and financial data with employees oversees where no laws protect you from the sharing and releasing of your personal information. By the year 2017,... Most CEOs are good, honest and good corporate citizens. But they can do better. Out-sourcing is good...if...it is fair and balanced, but the horror co...
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69,17 |
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American CEOs Can do better, we have the technology?: The American high & low intellectual property is at risk for terrorism from abroad.
ISBN: 9780595672080 / Angielski / Twarda / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Most CEOs are good, honest and good corporate citizens. But they can do better. Out-sourcing is good...if...it is fair and balanced, but the horror comes when its your turn on the chopping block...
Forty six state governments now Out-source jobs and contracts to foreign countries like India, China, and more... American HMOs, Insurance companies, banks, and credit card companies are processing your social security information, your medical and financial data with employees oversees where no laws protect you from the sharing and releasing of your personal information. By the year 2017,... Most CEOs are good, honest and good corporate citizens. But they can do better. Out-sourcing is good...if...it is fair and balanced, but the horror co...
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107,71 |
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The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Computing and Information
ISBN: 9780631229193 / Angielski / Miękka / 371 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This Guide provides an ambitious state-of-the-art survey of the fundamental themes, problems, arguments and theories constituting the philosophy of computing.
This Guide provides an ambitious state-of-the-art survey of the fundamental themes, problems, arguments and theories constituting the philosoph...
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200,80 |
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Science, Technology, and Society: A Sociological Approach
ISBN: 9780631232100 / Angielski / Miękka / 164 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Science, Technology and Society: A Sociological Approach is a comprehensive guide to the emergent field of science, technology, and society (STS) studies and its implications for today's culture and society.
Science, Technology and Society: A Sociological Approach is a comprehensive guide to the emergent field of science, technology, and society (ST...
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149,25 |
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Biobazaar: The Open Source Revolution and Biotechnology
ISBN: 9780674026353 / Angielski / Twarda / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Fighting disease, combating hunger, preserving the balance of life on Earth: the future of biotechnological innovation may well be the future of our planet itself. And yet the vexed state of intellectual property law--a proliferation of ever more complex rights governing research and development--is complicating this future. At a similar point in the development of information technology, "open source" software revolutionized the field, simultaneously encouraging innovation and transforming markets. The question that Janet Hope explores in Biobazaar is: can the... Fighting disease, combating hunger, preserving the balance of life on Earth: the future of biotechnological innovation may well be the future of o... |
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185,34 |
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The Global Soul: Jet Lag, Shopping Malls, and the Search for Home
ISBN: 9780679776116 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the acclaimed author of Video Night in Kathmandu comes this intriguing new book that deciphers the personal impact of globalization and the rising tide of worldwide displacement. The author presents Los Angeles International Airport as a town, Hong Kong, and Japan, pondering what the word home means in the face of rapid change.
From the acclaimed author of Video Night in Kathmandu comes this intriguing new book that deciphers the personal impact of globalization and the risin...
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73,22 |
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Picturing Personhood: Brain Scans and Biomedical Identity
ISBN: 9780691113982 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. By showing us the human brain at work, PET (positron emission tomography) scans are subtly--and sometimes not so subtly--transforming how we think about our minds. Picturing Personhood follows this remarkable and expensive technology from the laboratory into the world and back. It examines how PET scans are created and how they are being called on to answer myriad questions with far-reaching implications: Is depression an observable brain disease? Are criminals insane? Do men and women think differently? Is rationality a function of the brain? Based on interviews, media... By showing us the human brain at work, PET (positron emission tomography) scans are subtly--and sometimes not so subtly--transforming how we think ... |
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220,40 |
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