Worlds of ScienceCraft
Title | Worlds of ScienceCraft PDF eBook |
Author | Sal Restivo |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 285 |
Release | 2016-02-11 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1134785429 |
A response to complex problems spanning disciplinary boundaries, Worlds of ScienceCraft offers bold new ways of conceptualizing ideas of science, sociology, and philosophy. Beginning with the historical foundations of civilization and progress, assumptions about the categories we use to talk about minds, identities, and bodies are challenged through case studies from mathematics, social cognition, and medical ethics. Offering innovative approaches to these issues, such as an integrated social brain-mind-body model and a critique of divisions between the natural and technological, this book provides novel conceptions of self, society and an emerging ’cyborg’ generation. From the micro level of brains and expanding all the way out to biopolitical civics, disciplinary boundaries are made permeable, emphasizing the increased need for interdisciplinary scholarship. By rejecting outdated and restrictive categories and classifications, new horizons in studies of science, technology, and medicine can be explored through the incorporation of feminist, international, and postmodern perspectives. A truly interdisciplinary examination of science and technology as cultural phenomena, Worlds of ScienceCraft will appeal to scholars and students of science and technology studies, as well as philosophers, historians, and sociologists of science, technology, and medicine.
Mediations of Social Life in the 21st Century
Title | Mediations of Social Life in the 21st Century PDF eBook |
Author | Harry F. Dahms |
Publisher | Emerald Group Publishing |
Total Pages | 350 |
Release | 2014-11-07 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1784412228 |
The essays included in this volume illuminate mediations of the individual-society relationship from a variety of angles, both explicitly and implicitly. They highlight the need to consider the consequences of choices made by collective decision-makers, politicians and leaders of organizations.
Of Worlds Beyond
Title | Of Worlds Beyond PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Anson Heinlein |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 118 |
Release | 1965 |
Genre | Science fiction |
ISBN |
Alternate Worlds
Title | Alternate Worlds PDF eBook |
Author | James Gunn |
Publisher | McFarland |
Total Pages | 337 |
Release | 2018-08-10 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1476673535 |
Alternate Worlds was first published in 1975 and became an instant classic, winning a Hugo award. This third edition brings the history of science fiction up to date, covering developments over the past forty years--a period that has seen the advent of technologies only imagined in the genre's Golden Age. As a literature of change, science fiction has become ever more meaningful, presaging dangers to humanity and, as Alvin Toffler wrote, guarding against "the premature arrival of the future." The world has begun to recognize science fiction in many different ways, incorporating its elements in products, visual media and huge conventions.
Science, Myth, and the Fictional Creation of Alien Worlds
Title | Science, Myth, and the Fictional Creation of Alien Worlds PDF eBook |
Author | Albert Wendland |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 220 |
Release | 1985 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN |
World of Science
Title | World of Science PDF eBook |
Author | Parragon, Incorporated |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Chemistry |
ISBN | 9781405499248 |
Heroes of Science
Title | Heroes of Science PDF eBook |
Author | Emily Sohn |
Publisher | B.E.S. Publishing |
Total Pages | 128 |
Release | 2019-03 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 9781438012001 |
Learn all about history's most incredible scientists in a graphic novel format! Here's the story of ten history-changing scientific discoveries and the people behind them.