Technology category: 51960 books
The transHuman Code
How To Program Your Future
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2019
A Humanitarian Approach to a Technologically Innovative Future
In The transHuman Code, authors Carlos Moreira and David Fergusson ask, “Are we building a better future for humanity with the help of magnificent technology or are we instead building a better future of better technology at the...
Teaching Machines
Learning from the Intersection of Education and Technology
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2014
The allure of educational technology is easy to understand. Classroom instruction is an expensive and time-consuming process fraught with contradictory theories and frustratingly uneven results. Educators, inspired by machines’ contributions to modern life, have been using technology to facilitate...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
The annual collections in the History of Technology series look at the history of technological discovery and change, exploring the relationship of technology to other aspects of life and showing how technological development is affected by the society in which it occurred.
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Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
The annual collections in the History of Technology series look at the history of technological discovery and change, exploring the relationship of technology to other aspects of life and showing how technological development is affected by the society in which it occurred.
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Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
The annual collections in the History of Technology series look at the history of technological discovery and change, exploring the relationship of technology to other aspects of life and showing how technological development is affected by the society in which it occurred.
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Life in the last quarter of the twentieth century presents a baffling array of complex issues. The benefits of technology are arrayed against the risks and hazards of those same technological marvels (frequently, though not always, arising as side effects or by-products). This confrontation poses...
Cosmopolitan Commons
Sharing Resources and Risks across Borders
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
A new approach in commons theory to understand the interactions of technology, society, and nature, supported by case studies of new transnational European commons.
With the advent of modernity, the sharing of resources and infrastructures rapidly expanded beyond local communities into regional,...
From Physics to Daily Life
Applications in Informatics, Energy, and Environment
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
Beatrice Bressan brings together a number of outstanding examples of successful cross-disciplinary technology transfer originating in fundamental physics research, which dramatically impacted scientific progress in areas which changed modern society. Many of them were developed at CERN, a hotbed of...
Rethinking Technology
A Reader in Architectural Theory
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2006
This essential reference for all students of architecture, design and the built environment provides a convenient single source for all the key texts in the recent literature on architecture and technology.
The book contains over fifty carefully selected essays, manifestoes, reflections and...
From Notepad to iPad
Using Apps and Web Tools to Engage a New Generation of Students
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
This book is a one-stop-shop for secondary teachers looking to use iPads effectively in the classroom.The author provides a clear and practical overview of how to implement the technology, manage it, and use it successfully. Each chapter is full of tips and engaging classroom activities. Teachers...
by Mariana Regalado, Maura A. Smale
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
This book explores college students’ lived experiences of using digital technologies for their academic work. Access to and use of digital technologies is an integral aspect of higher education in the twenty-first century. However, despite the tech-savvy image of them propagated by the media, not...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2013
The topic of this book is the development of automated and inexpensive tools that transfer medical tests from a specialized clinical laboratory directly to the point of care, using biochip technology. Immediate access to medically relevant biochemical information for doctors and nurses promises to...
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...
Progress in High-Efficient Solution Process Organic Photovoltaic Devices
Fundamentals, Materials, Devices and Fabrication
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2015
This book presents an important technique to process organic photovoltaic devices. The basics, materials aspects and manufacturing of photovoltaic devices with solution processing are explained. Solution processable organic solar cells - polymer or solution processable small molecules - have the potential...