Science & Technology Policy

Everywhere we turn, a startling new device promises to transfigure our lives. But at what cost? In this urgent and revelatory excavation of our Information Age, leading technology thinker Adam Greenfield forces us to reconsider our relationship with the...

Bonnie Steinbock presents The Oxford Handbook of Bioethics - an authoritative, state-of-the-art guide to current issues in bioethics. Thirty-four contributors reflect the interdisciplinarity that is characteristic of bioethics, and its increasingly...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of PROSE Award - Engineering & Technology 2021.Book InformationISBN 9780262043458Author Sasha Costanza-ChockFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint MIT PressPublisher...

The Grant Writer's Handbook: How to Write a Research Proposal and Succeed provides useful and practical advice on all aspects of proposal writing, including developing proposal ideas, drafting the proposal, dealing with referees, and budgeting. The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262515962Author Michel CallonFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 17mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781737478560Author Naomi WolfFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint All Seasons PressPublisher All Seasons PressWeight(grams) 667gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

From the highly acclaimed author of WAYS OF BEING. We live in times of increasing inscrutability. Our news feeds are filled with unverified, unverifiable speculation, much of it automatically generated by anonymous software. As a result, we no longer...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262044813Author John ZerilliFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

"Made me look at the industrial revolution, invention, sleeping beauties, contexts and the forces that shape our societies differently."-David Byrne, New York Times Book ReviewHow the history of technological revolutions can help us better understand...

"Made me look at the industrial revolution, invention, sleeping beauties, contexts and the forces that shape our societies differently."-David Byrne, New York Times Book ReviewHow the history of technological revolutions can help us better understand...

Many societies have imagined going to live in space. What they want to do once they get up there - whether conquering the unknown, establishing space "colonies," privatising the moon's resources - reveals more than expected. In this fascinating radical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262550789Author Mira LaneFormat PaperbackPage Count 342Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262542746Author Julia LaneFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781735358000Author Meredith AngwinFormat PaperbackPage Count 440Imprint Carnot CommunicationsPublisher Carnot CommunicationsWeight(grams) 585gDimensions(mm)...

Our finances, politics, media, opportunities, information, shopping and knowledge production are mediated through algorithms and their statistical approaches to knowledge; increasingly, these methods form the organizational backbone of contemporary...

In Internet for the People, leading tech writer Ben Tarnoff offers an answer. The internet is broken, he argues, because it is owned by private firms and run for profit. Google annihilates your privacy and Facebook amplifies right-wing propaganda because...

'Entertaining and insightful' -- Evening Standard'One of the most important books of the year... Compelling' Jamie Bartlett, Literary Review'Timely' -- New StatesmanAs the world becomes better connected and we grow ever more dependent on technology, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942130918Author Liliana DoganovaFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Zone BooksPublisher Zone Books

We live in complicated, dangerous times. Present and future presidents need to know if North Korea's nascent nuclear capability is a genuine threat to the West, if biochemical weapons are likely to be developed by terrorists, if there are viable...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781576879207Author Joe ToscanoFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint powerHouse Books,U.S.Publisher powerHouse Books,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525561989Author Richard A. ClarkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

The COVID-19 pandemic isn't over, but even as governments around the world strive to put it behind us, they're also starting to talk about what happens next. How can we prevent a new pandemic from killing millions of people and devastating the global...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Reviews"This is a must-read volume for anybody interested in understanding both the general implications of AI in the world of defence and more specific issues, including a set...

'A fascinating expose of the world behind your screen. Timely, often disturbing, and so important' Caroline Criado Perez, author of Invisible Women 'Takes us beyond Zuckerberg, Bezos et al to a murkier world where we discover how everything online...

This book considers the implications of the regulatory burden being borne increasingly by technological management rather than by rules of law. If crime is controlled, if human health and safety are secured, if the environment is protected, not by rules...

Across the world, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is being used as a tool for political manipulation and totalitarian repression. Stories about AI are often stories of polarization, discrimination, surveillance, and oppression. Is democracy in danger? And...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262548748Author Herbert HovenkampFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Much has been written about the challenges tech presents to equality and democracy. But we can either criticize big data and automation or steer it to do better. Lobel makes a compelling argument that while we cannot stop technological development, we...

In this fascinating foray into the millennia-long relationship between science and military power, "the world's best science communicator" (Times Literary Supplement), astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson and writer Avis Lang examine how the methods and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781637557464Author Bill RaduchelFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Mascot Books, IncPublisher Mascot Books, IncWeight(grams) 342g

We live in complicated, dangerous times. They are also hyper-technical times. As citizens who will elect future presidents of the most powerful and influential country in the world, we need to know-truly understand, not just rely on television's talking...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262542333Author Daniel GreeneFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

'Entertaining and insightful' -- Evening Standard'One of the most important books of the year... Compelling' Jamie Bartlett, Literary Review'Timely' -- New StatesmanAs the world becomes better connected and we grow ever more dependent on technology, the...

Developed in cooperation with the International Baccalaureate (R)Trust an experienced team of IB educators to help develop the key skills needed to understand global politics with a range of contemporary case studies, different perspectives on political...

We are entering a new era of technological determinism and solutionism in which governments and business actors are seeking data-driven change, assuming that Artificial Intelligence is now inevitable and ubiquitous. But we have not even started asking...

This open access book examines the various ways that shame, shaming and stigma became an integral part of the United Kingdom's public health response to COVID-19 during 2020. As the Covid-19 pandemic unfolded in 2020, it quickly became clear that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316533539Author Christian BroseFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Hachette BooksPublisher Hachette BooksWeight(grams) 499gDimensions(mm) 236mm * 157mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739588618Author H Sama NwanaFormat PaperbackPage Count 502Imprint Strathclyde Academic MediaPublisher Strathclyde Academic MediaWeight(grams)...

The Bodies of Others is about how we came to the harrowing civilizational crossroads at which we find ourselves - engaged in a war against vast impersonal forces with limitless power over our lives and which threaten the freedoms we have always taken for...

Over the last decade, the rapid pace of innovation with drone technology has led to dozens of new and innovative commercial and scientific applications, from Amazon drone deliveries to the patrolling of national parks with drones. But what is less...