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  • Governing Future Technologies

    Nanotechnology and the Rise of an Assessment Regime

    Edited by Mario Kaiser, Monika Kurath, Sabine Maasen, Christoph Rehmann-Sutter ...
    Series series History (R0)
    Nanotechnology has been the subject of extensive ‘assessment hype,’ unlike any previous field of research and development. A multiplicity of stakeholders have started to analyze the implications of nanotechnology: Technology assessment institutions around the world, non-governmental organizations, think tanks, re-insurance companies, and academics from science and technology studies and applied ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

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    The Master of Ballantrae (UNABRIDGED)

    by Robert Louis Stevenson ...
    Narrated by Mario Kaiser ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 42 min

    Heir to a noble Scottish house in the mid 18th century, the Master is a charming, clever, and resourceful villain whose daring but ill-advised schemes first alienate his patrimony and at last cost him his life. His younger brother, sweet-tempered and good but dull and unpopular, suffers at the Master's hands until his patience and courage win him limited ascendancy, but he is at last consumed with ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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    "The Emancipation of South America (UNABRIDGED) "

    by Bartolomé MITRE ...
    Narrated by Mario Kaiser ...

    Unabridged

    16 hours 41 min

    THREE great names stand forth conspicuous in the annals of America, those of Washington, Bolívar, San Martin. Of Washington, the great leader of the Democracy of the North; of Bolívar and of San Martin, who were the emancipators of the southern half of the continent. The story of the life-work of the latter of these two is the Argument of this book.The scene of action passes on a vast theatre, a ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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  • Ethics and Science

    An Introduction

    by Adam Briggle, Carl Mitcham ...
    Series series Cambridge Applied Ethics
    Who owns your genes? What does climate science imply for policy? Do corporations conduct honest research? Should we teach intelligent design? Humans are creating a new world through science. The kind of world we are creating will not simply be decided by expanding scientific knowledge, but will depend on views about good and bad, right and wrong. These visions, in turn, depend on critical thinking ... Read more

    $32.79 USD

  • Entrepreneurship

    A New Perspective

    by Thomas Grebel ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Global Competition
    The entrepreneur has been neglected over the years in formal economic theorizing. Previously there has been only eclectic theories such as human capital theory and network dynamics which discuss certain perspectives of entrepreneurial behaviour. This insightful book closes this gap in entrepreneurship literature. Inspired by modern physics, author Thomas Grebel brings together an evolutionary ... Read more

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  • Re-Thinking Science

    Knowledge and the Public in an Age of Uncertainty

    by Helga Nowotny, Michael T. Gibbons, Peter B. Scott ...
    Re-Thinking Science presents an account of the dynamic relationship between society and science. Despite the mounting evidence of a much closer, interactive relationship between society and science, current debate still seems to turn on the need to maintain a 'line' to demarcate them. The view persists that there is a one-way communication flow from science to society - with scant attention given ... Read more

    $29.00 USD

  • Transgovernance

    Advancing Sustainability Governance

    Edited by Louis Meuleman ...
    ‘Transgovernance: Advancing Sustainability Governance’ analyses the question what recent and ongoing changes in the relations between politics, science and media – together characterized as the emergence of a knowledge democracy – may imply for governance for sustainable development, on global and other levels of societal decision making, and the other way around: How can the discussion on ... Read more

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  • Why Society is a Complex Matter

    Meeting Twenty-first Century Challenges with a New Kind of Science

    by Philip Ball ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    Society is complicated. But this book argues that this does not place it beyond the reach of a science that can help to explain and perhaps even to predict social behaviour. As a system made up of many interacting agents – people, groups, institutions and governments, as well as physical and technological structures such as roads and computer networks – society can be regarded as a complex system. ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • The Ethics of Nuclear Energy

    Risk, Justice, and Democracy in the Post-Fukushima Era

    Edited by Behnam Taebi, Sabine Roeser ...
    Despite the nuclear accident at the Fukushima Daiichi plant in Japan, a growing number of countries are interested in expanding or introducing nuclear energy. However, nuclear energy production and nuclear waste disposal give rise to pressing ethical questions that society needs to face. This book takes up this challenge with essays by an international team of scholars focusing on the key issues ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Science In Society

    An Introduction to Social Studies of Science

    by Massimiano Bucchi ...
    Series series Key Concepts
    The world around us is continually being shaped by science, and by society’s relationship to it. In recent years sociologists have been increasingly preoccupied with the latter, and now in this fascinating book, Massimiano Bucchi provides a brief introduction to this topical issue.Bucchi provides clear and unassuming summaries of all the major theoretical positions within the sociology of science, ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Science, Culture and Society

    Understanding Science in the 21st Century

    by Mark Erickson ...
    Science occupies an ambiguous space in contemporary society. Scientific research is championed in relation to tackling environmental issues and diseases such as cancer and dementia, and science has made important contributions to today’s knowledge economies and knowledge societies. And yet science is considered by many to be remote, and even dangerous. It seems that as we have more science, we ... Read more

    $23.00 USD

  • The Cambridge Handbook of Information and Computer Ethics

    Edited by Luciano Floridi ...
    Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) have profoundly changed many aspects of life, including the nature of entertainment, work, communication, education, healthcare, industrial production and business, social relations and conflicts. They have had a radical and widespread impact on our moral lives and hence on contemporary ethical debates. The Cambridge Handbook of Information and ... Read more

    $44.29 USD