Science Technology category: 45382 books
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Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012
As new technology continues to emerge, the training and education of learning new skills and strategies become important for professional development. Therefore, technology leadership plays a vital role for the use of technology in organizations by providing guidance in the many aspects of using technologies....
Entanglements
Conversations on the Human Traces of Science, Technology, and Sound
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2016
Conversations with a founder of the influential Social Construction of Technology (SCOT) approach in science and technology studies offer an introduction to the field.
Science and technology studies (STS) is a relatively young but influential field. Scholars from disciplines as diverse as urban...
by Branden Hookway
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
A cultural theory of the interface as a relation that is both ubiquitous and elusive, drawing on disciplines from cultural theory to architecture.
In this book, Branden Hookway considers the interface not as technology but as a form of relationship with technology. The interface, Hookway proposes,...
We Have the Technology
How Biohackers, Foodies, Physicians, and Scientists Are Transforming Human Perception, One Sense at a Time
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2015
An award-winning journalist investigates how scientists and citizens around the world are re-tooling our senses-and what their discoveries are teaching us about the nature and future of human perception
How do we know what's real? That's not a trick question: sensory science is increasingly...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2016
Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this 2016 book seeks to spotlight the NASA Glenn Research Center's accomplishments, people, and research tools. It also aspires to elucidate the esoteric world of research laboratories, exhibit a large number of photographs...
Applied Mechanics, Mechatronics and Intelligent Systems
Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Applied Mechanics, Mechatronics and Intelligent Systems (AMMIS2015)
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2015
This book consists of one hundred and twenty-five selected papers presented at the 2015 International Conference on Applied Mechanics, Mechatronics and Intelligent Systems (AMMIS2015), which was held in Nanjing, China during June 19–20, 2015.
AMMIS2015 focuses on seven main areas, namely,...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2018
The Light Metals symposia at the TMS Annual Meeting & Exhibition present the most recent developments, discoveries, and practices in primary aluminum science and technology. The annual Light Metals volume has become the definitive reference in the field of aluminum production and related light...
Architecture
Cool Women Who Design Structures
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
What style building do you live in? Is it a skyscraper, a Victorian home, or a modern building? In Architecture: Cool Women Who Design Structures, readers ages 9 to 12 examine the stories of women who are today designing the houses, schools, museums, and public spaces where we spend our time.
Architecture...
by David Skrbina
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2014
What is technology? Why does it have such power in our lives? Why does it seemingly progress of its own accord, and without regard to social or environmental well-being? The quest for the essence of technology is an old one, with roots in the pre-Socratic philosophy of ancient Greece. It was then...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2013
This compendium of official government documents provides a thorough overview of the environmental, health, and safety aspects of nanotechnology. The same unique properties that characterize nanomaterials enabling new applications also carry potential risks to human health and the environment. To...
The Smart Enough City
Putting Technology in Its Place to Reclaim Our Urban Future
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2019
Why technology is not an end in itself, and how cities can be “smart enough,” using technology to promote democracy and equity.
Smart cities, where technology is used to solve every problem, are hailed as futuristic urban utopias. We are promised that apps, algorithms, and artificial intelligence...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This volume grew out of the experience of the First Inter-American Congress on Philosophy of Technology, October 1988, organized by the Center for the Philosophy and History of Science and Technology of the University of Puerto Rico in Mayagiiez. The Spanish-language proceedings of that conference...
Advanced Functional Materials
A Perspective from Theory and Experiment
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012
This book deals with functional materials that are in the frontiers of current materials science and technology research, development and manufacture. The first of its kind, it deals with three classes of materials, (1) magnetic semiconductors, (2) multiferroics, and (3) graphene. Because of the wide...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2013
The 4e of The Science and Technology of Rubber provides a broad survey of elastomers with special emphasis on materials with a rubber-like elasticity. As in previous editions, the emphasis remains on a unified treatment of the material, exploring chemical aspects such as elastomer synthesis and curing,...