Future of Computing Books


Managing in the Information Society: Planning for SynergyManaging in the Information Society: Planning for SynergyHigh Technology, Space, and Society (Urban Affairs Annual Reviews)High Technology, Space, and Society (Urban Affairs Annual Reviews)
The relationship between the technological revolution and the simultaneous process of worldwide...
The Information Society: A Retrospective ViewThe Information Society: A Retrospective View
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The past three decades have witnessed the worldwide growth of an information industry and the...
Writing Technology: Studies on the Materiality of LiteracyWriting Technology: Studies on the Materiality of Literacy
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Academic and practitioner journals in fields from electronics to business to language studies,...
Public Space And DemocracyPublic Space And Democracy
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Political Science/Media Studies A timely look at the ways new technologies affect public...


Contra TechnologiamContra Technologiam
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This book analyzes the impact of technology in the modern age, an age obsessed with...
Once upon the Future: A Woman's Guide to Tomorrows Technology (Pandora Press Focus)Once upon the Future: A Woman's Guide to Tomorrows Technology (Pandora Press Focus)
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Link AgeLink Age
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Tornow studies a group of students writing online for an entire semester and weaves their...
Future Mind: Artificial Intelligence : The Merging of the Mystical and the Technological in the 21st CenturyFuture Mind: Artificial Intelligence : The Merging of the Mystical and the Technological in the 21st Century
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Education As a Force for Social Change (Foundations of Waldorf Education, 4)Education As a Force for Social Change (Foundations of Waldorf Education, 4)
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These dazzling, radical lectures were given one month before the opening of the first Waldorf...


Continuity and Change in Communication Systems: An Asian Perspective (Communication and Information Science)Continuity and Change in Communication Systems: An Asian Perspective (Communication and Information Science)
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The growth of developmental and intercultural communication in recent years has prompted...
The Best That Money Can't Buy: Beyond Politics, Poverty, & WarThe Best That Money Can't Buy: Beyond Politics, Poverty, & War
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The Best That Money Can't Buy - Beyond Politics, War, and Poverty. In the context of these...
Silicon StoriesSilicon Stories
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I am an avid user of computers at home and use them extensively at work as a Paramedic. I read...
Tendencies and Tensions of the Information Age: The Production and Distribution of Information in the United StatesTendencies and Tensions of the Information Age: The Production and Distribution of Information in the United States
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When, in 1983, the authors of this erudite volume began to reflect on the concept of the...
Disrupting Pedagogies in the Knowledge Society: Countering Conservative Norms with Creative Approaches (Premier Reference Source)Disrupting Pedagogies in the Knowledge Society: Countering Conservative Norms with Creative Approaches (Premier Reference Source)
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Although classrooms are thought of as places where skills are learned and knowledge gained, they...

Technological Competition, Employment and Innovation Policies in OECD CountriesTechnological Competition, Employment and Innovation Policies in OECD Countries
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High unemployment rates in the period of an internationalization of economies and an intensified...
Social carriers of technology for development (Discussion paper - Research Policy Program)Social carriers of technology for development (Discussion paper - Research Policy Program)Seeking the Calm in the Storm: Managing Chaos in Your Business Life ReaderSeeking the Calm in the Storm: Managing Chaos in Your Business Life Reader
This is the eBook version of the printed book. In a 24/7 world that veers ever closer to chaos,...
24/7: How Cell Phones and the Internet Change the Way We Live, Work, and Play24/7: How Cell Phones and the Internet Change the Way We Live, Work, and Play
Just as the automobile radically changed people's lives at the beginning of the 20th...
Cyberspace Reflections (Society and Developments in Science and Technology , No 2)Cyberspace Reflections (Society and Developments in Science and Technology , No 2)
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A Scientist Speaks Out: A Personal Perspective on Science, Society and ChangeA Scientist Speaks Out: A Personal Perspective on Science, Society and Change
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In this work, Nobel Laureate (Chemistry, 1951) Glenn T. Seaborg shares some of his thoughts and...
Impact of Modern Communication Technology in AustraliaImpact of Modern Communication Technology in AustraliaIncreasing the rate of sustainable change: a call for a redefinition of the concept and the model for its implementation [An article from: Journal of Cleaner Production]Increasing the rate of sustainable change: a call for a redefinition of the concept and the model for its implementation [An article from: Journal of Cleaner Production]
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This digital document is a journal article from Journal of Cleaner Production, published by...
Holding On to Reality: The Nature of Information at the Turn of the MillenniumHolding On to Reality: The Nature of Information at the Turn of the Millennium
Holding On to Reality is a brilliant history of information, from its inception in the natural...
The Electronic Word: Democracy, Technology, and the ArtsThe Electronic Word: Democracy, Technology, and the Arts
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The personal computer has revolutionized communication, and digitized text has introduced a...

The Electronic Word: Democracy, Technology, and the Arts (Chicago Expanded Books)The Electronic Word: Democracy, Technology, and the Arts (Chicago Expanded Books)
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The personal computer has revolutionized communication, and digitized text has introduced a...
Dark Fiber: Tracking Critical Internet Culture (Electronic Culture: History, Theory, and Practice)Dark Fiber: Tracking Critical Internet Culture (Electronic Culture: History, Theory, and Practice)
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(Planeta.com Journal) - Dark fiber is optical fiber infrastructure (cabling and repeaters) that...
Computer Chips and Paper Clips: Technology and Women's Employment, Volume IComputer Chips and Paper Clips: Technology and Women's Employment, Volume I
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Drawing on the historical changes in five areas - the jobs of telephone operators, workers in...
Continuity and Change in Communication Systems: An Asian Perspective (Communication and Information Science)Continuity and Change in Communication Systems: An Asian Perspective (Communication and Information Science)
Best Price: $45.00
The growth of developmental and intercultural communication in recent years has prompted...
The Best That Money Can't Buy: Beyond Politics, Poverty, & WarThe Best That Money Can't Buy: Beyond Politics, Poverty, & War
Best Price: $337.42
The Best That Money Can't Buy - Beyond Politics, War, and Poverty. In the context of these...

Silicon StoriesSilicon Stories
Best Price: $49.90
I am an avid user of computers at home and use them extensively at work as a Paramedic. I read...
Tendencies and Tensions of the Information Age: The Production and Distribution of Information in the United StatesTendencies and Tensions of the Information Age: The Production and Distribution of Information in the United States
Best Price: $29.98
When, in 1983, the authors of this erudite volume began to reflect on the concept of the...
Disrupting Pedagogies in the Knowledge Society: Countering Conservative Norms with Creative Approaches (Premier Reference Source)Disrupting Pedagogies in the Knowledge Society: Countering Conservative Norms with Creative Approaches (Premier Reference Source)
Best Price: $150.00
Although classrooms are thought of as places where skills are learned and knowledge gained, they...
Technological Competition, Employment and Innovation Policies in OECD CountriesTechnological Competition, Employment and Innovation Policies in OECD Countries
Best Price: $147.88
High unemployment rates in the period of an internationalization of economies and an intensified...
Social carriers of technology for development (Discussion paper - Research Policy Program)Social carriers of technology for development (Discussion paper - Research Policy Program)

Seeking the Calm in the Storm: Managing Chaos in Your Business Life ReaderSeeking the Calm in the Storm: Managing Chaos in Your Business Life Reader
This is the eBook version of the printed book. In a 24/7 world that veers ever closer to chaos,...
24/7: How Cell Phones and the Internet Change the Way We Live, Work, and Play24/7: How Cell Phones and the Internet Change the Way We Live, Work, and Play
Just as the automobile radically changed people's lives at the beginning of the 20th...
Technology of the Labour Process (Studies in the labour process)Technology of the Labour Process (Studies in the labour process)
The papers in this volume examine the conditions and consequences of micro-electronic technology...
The Ingenuity Gap: Facing the Economic, Environmental, and Other Challenges of an Increasingly Complex and Unpredictable WorldThe Ingenuity Gap: Facing the Economic, Environmental, and Other Challenges of an Increasingly Complex and Unpredictable World
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Don't get me wrong, I think this is a good book. I'd give it 5 stars for social...
Chinese Firms and Technology in the Reform Era (Routledge Studies in the Growth Economies of Asia)Chinese Firms and Technology in the Reform Era (Routledge Studies in the Growth Economies of Asia)
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In Chinese Firms and Technology in the Reform Era , Yizheng Shi analyses the technological...

Thanks for Nothing (From the Files of Madison Finn, Book 5)Thanks for Nothing (From the Files of Madison Finn, Book 5)
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Paths of FirePaths of Fire
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Technology, perhaps the most salient feature of our time, affects everything from jobs to...
The Politics of Global Atmospheric Change (Issues in Environmental Politics)The Politics of Global Atmospheric Change (Issues in Environmental Politics)
This text, written from the perspective of international relations, explores how the...
The Information Society: Issues and IllusionsThe Information Society: Issues and Illusions
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In recent years there has been a great deal of speculation about the possible consequences of...
Under Technology's ThumbUnder Technology's Thumb
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From the introduction: "Standing at the threshold of modern times, Francis Bacon saw in...

Crossroads of Culture: A Study in the Culture of TransienceCrossroads of Culture: A Study in the Culture of Transience
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"A valuable book overall." --Indian Review of Books "A highly commendable...
New Communication Technologies in Developing Countries (Routledge Communication Series)New Communication Technologies in Developing Countries (Routledge Communication Series)
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This volume explores how a number of developing countries -- including India, Malaysia,...
Cybering Democracy: Public Space and the InternetCybering Democracy: Public Space and the Internet
The Internet has been billed by some proponents as an "electronic agora" ushering in a...
Technology--Humanism or Nihilism: A Critical Analysis of the Philosophical Basis and Practice of Modern TechnologyTechnology--Humanism or Nihilism: A Critical Analysis of the Philosophical Basis and Practice of Modern Technology
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Ideology, Values, and Technology in Political LifeIdeology, Values, and Technology in Political Life
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What are the pervasive forces for change in the modern world? Looking back on political,social,...

Technology and Resistance (Counterpoints)Technology and Resistance (Counterpoints)
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What happens when the means of communication, often centralized, become diffused? What happens...
Negative Horizon: An Essay in DromoscopyNegative Horizon: An Essay in Dromoscopy
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If you enjoyed the movie "Crash," but didn't feel like you understood the message,...
Technology and Human Productivity: Challenges for the FutureTechnology and Human Productivity: Challenges for the Future
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The editors have assembled a collection of original essays offering a holistic view of how...
The Human Side of Factory Automation: Managerial and Human Resource Strategies for Making Automation Succeed (Jossey Bass Business and Management Series)The Human Side of Factory Automation: Managerial and Human Resource Strategies for Making Automation Succeed (Jossey Bass Business and Management Series)
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Provides a valuable approach for addressing the full range of management, organizational, and...
The Death of Distance: How the Communications Revolution Is Changing our LivesThe Death of Distance: How the Communications Revolution Is Changing our Lives
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In this updated paperback edition of the 1997 original, Frances Cairncross of The Economist...

Etica, tecnologia y valores en la sociedad global/ Ethics, Technology and Values in a Global Society: El Caballo De Troya Al Reves/ The Trojan Horse ... Abierta/ Open Window) (Spanish Edition)Etica, tecnologia y valores en la sociedad global/ Ethics, Technology and Values in a Global Society: El Caballo De Troya Al Reves/ The Trojan Horse ... Abierta/ Open Window) (Spanish Edition)
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Sociedad virtual?/ Virtual society? Get Real!: Tecnologia, ciberbole, realidad / Technology, Cyberbole, Reality (Nuevas Tecnologias Y Sociedad / New Technologies and Society) (Spanish Edition)Sociedad virtual?/ Virtual society? Get Real!: Tecnologia, ciberbole, realidad / Technology, Cyberbole, Reality (Nuevas Tecnologias Y Sociedad / New Technologies and Society) (Spanish Edition)
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Autoaffection: Unconscious Thought in the Age of TechnologyAutoaffection: Unconscious Thought in the Age of Technology
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Improving Maintenance & Reliability Through Cultural ChangeImproving Maintenance & Reliability Through Cultural Change
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I thought this book was so realistic in its explanation for why companie's culture prevents...
Culture and TechnologyCulture and Technology

MediatizationMediatization
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The media are ubiquitous and constantly changing, causing social and cultural shifts. This book...
Culture on the Brink: Ideologies of Technology (Discussions in Contemporary Culture)Culture on the Brink: Ideologies of Technology (Discussions in Contemporary Culture)
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Discussions in Contemporary Culture is an award-winning series copublished with the Dia Center...
The End of WorkThe End of Work
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I often enjoy reading books written trying to read the future that are several years old. If...
Life Without Oil: Why We Must Shift to a New Energy FutureLife Without Oil: Why We Must Shift to a New Energy Future
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Brazil became Petroleum independent in ten years by utilizing their own offshore petroleum...
Sudden and Disruptive Climate Change: Exploring the Real Risks and How We Can Avoid ThemSudden and Disruptive Climate Change: Exploring the Real Risks and How We Can Avoid Them
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I have read several books on climate change and the Cleantech industry and I think this is the...

Rent, Resources, TechnologiesRent, Resources, Technologies
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Rent, resources, and technologies are three crucial issues to the understanding of history and...
Tourism and Global Environmental Change: Ecological, Social, Economic and Political Interrelationships (Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility)Tourism and Global Environmental Change: Ecological, Social, Economic and Political Interrelationships (Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility)
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Internet Dreams: Archetypes, Myths, and MetaphorsInternet Dreams: Archetypes, Myths, and Metaphors
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The "information superhighway" is a metaphor oft used to describethe ...
Learning to Manage Global Environmental Risks, Vol. 1: A Comparative History of Social Responses to Climate Change, Ozone Depletion, and Acid Rain (Politics, Science, and the Environment)Learning to Manage Global Environmental Risks, Vol. 1: A Comparative History of Social Responses to Climate Change, Ozone Depletion, and Acid Rain (Politics, Science, and the Environment)
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This long-awaited two-volume book examines how the interplay of ideas and ...
Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100
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Imagine, if you can, the world in the year 2100. In Physics of the Future , Michio Kaku?the ...

Lightning Wires: The Telegraph and China's Technological Modernization, 1860-1890 (Contributions in Asian Studies)Lightning Wires: The Telegraph and China's Technological Modernization, 1860-1890 (Contributions in Asian Studies)
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Baark examines the transfer of telegraph technology to China in the late nineteenth century. He...
Human-Centered Systems in the Global Economy: Proceedings from the International Workshop on Industrial Cultures and Human-Centered Systems Held by T (Artificial Intelligence and Society)Human-Centered Systems in the Global Economy: Proceedings from the International Workshop on Industrial Cultures and Human-Centered Systems Held by T (Artificial Intelligence and Society)
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The arrival of the information society in Japan has radically altered the industrial structure,...
Where's It Going? (Prospects for Tomorrow)Where's It Going? (Prospects for Tomorrow)
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¡§Imaging yourself sitting in front of a computer in the year 2020. What do you...
The Global Information SocietyThe Global Information Society
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This study provides a picture of the information society by examining the social, economic,...
Environmental Change, Adaptation and Security (NATO SCIENCE PARTNERSHIP SUB-SERIES: 2: Environmental Security Volume 65)Environmental Change, Adaptation and Security (NATO SCIENCE PARTNERSHIP SUB-SERIES: 2: Environmental Security Volume 65)
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The papers collected here range from descriptions of environmental and health issues in Russia...

Risk Society: Towards a New Modernity (Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society)Risk Society: Towards a New Modernity (Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society)
This panoramic analysis of the condition of Western societies has been hailed as a classic. This...
Climate Change: Shifting Glaciers, Deserts, and Climate Belts (Hazardous Earth)Climate Change: Shifting Glaciers, Deserts, and Climate Belts (Hazardous Earth)
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The Electronic Word: Democracy, Technology, and the ArtsThe Electronic Word: Democracy, Technology, and the Arts
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He describes the transformation of idea and language in the electronic age with grace and wit...
Technology, the Economy, and SocietyTechnology, the Economy, and Society
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Indians, Markets, and RainforestsIndians, Markets, and Rainforests
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This book addresses two important and related questions: does participation in a market economy...

Cities of Light and Heat: Domesticating Gas and Electricity in Urban AmericaCities of Light and Heat: Domesticating Gas and Electricity in Urban America
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Cities of Light and Heat takes us to Kansas City and Denver during the late nineteenth century...
Global News Access: The Impact of New Communications TechnologiesGlobal News Access: The Impact of New Communications Technologies
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this book is very helpful for you to know what happen back there and then.
Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100
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Space elevators. Internet-enabled contact lenses. Cars that fly by floating on magnetic fields....
Land Change Science in the Tropics: Changing Agricultural LandscapesLand Change Science in the Tropics: Changing Agricultural Landscapes
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The IGBP Land Use Land Cover Change program ended in November 2005 with sessions at the IHDP 6th...
Modern Conditions, Postmodern Controversies (Social Futures)Modern Conditions, Postmodern Controversies (Social Futures)
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I bought this way back in 91 or 92. Really fun geeky almost philosophical stuff. Basically,...

$20 Per Gallon: How the Inevitable Rise in the Price of Gasoline Will Change Our Lives for the Better$20 Per Gallon: How the Inevitable Rise in the Price of Gasoline Will Change Our Lives for the Better
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I almost skipped this book thinking it would just be a call for the government to raise gas...
Climate Variability, Climate Change and Social Vulnerability in the Semi-arid TropicsClimate Variability, Climate Change and Social Vulnerability in the Semi-arid Tropics
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Climate changes can trigger events that lead to mass migration, hunger, and even famine. Rather...
Exploring Post-development: Theory and Practice, Problems and Perspectives (Routledge Studies in Human Geography)Exploring Post-development: Theory and Practice, Problems and Perspectives (Routledge Studies in Human Geography)
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Letters from Lake Como: Explorations in Technology and the Human Race (Ressourcement: Retrieval & Renewal in Catholic Thought)Letters from Lake Como: Explorations in Technology and the Human Race (Ressourcement: Retrieval & Renewal in Catholic Thought)
Wm B Eerdmans print on demand title This volume contains a fascinating series of letters written...
How to Survive the End of the World as We Know It: Tactics, Techniques, and Technologies for Uncertain TimesHow to Survive the End of the World as We Know It: Tactics, Techniques, and Technologies for Uncertain Times
This book is a bunch of unrealistic, paranoid, fantasy laced drivel. Almost anything that might...

Keep Your Damn Oil!Keep Your Damn Oil!
Keep Your Damn Oil! describes in detail our relationship with OPEC and how precarious our energy...
Dig in! Hands-On Soil InvestigationsDig in! Hands-On Soil Investigations
Give students the dirt on soil with a practical book that brings new meaning to the term...
Pandaemonium: The Coming of the Machine As Seen by Contemporary Observers, 1660-1886Pandaemonium: The Coming of the Machine As Seen by Contemporary Observers, 1660-1886
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The Immaterial Society: Design, Culture, and Technology in the Postmodern WorldThe Immaterial Society: Design, Culture, and Technology in the Postmodern World
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This book considers the sociology of technology from a postmodernist perspective. Arguing for a...
Historical Perspectives on Climate ChangeHistorical Perspectives on Climate Change
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This intriguing volume provides a thorough examination of the historical roots of global climate...

Harbingers of Rain: Land and Life in South AsiaHarbingers of Rain: Land and Life in South Asia
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The book focuses on understanding the cultural implications of changes introduced by government...
Innovation, Science, and Institutional Change: A Research HandbookInnovation, Science, and Institutional Change: A Research Handbook
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This book was referenced in a lot of other textbooks I was reading on managing scientific...
   
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