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The Computer Boys Take Over: Computers, Programmers, and the Politics of Tech…
"This book provides the most holistic approach to the history of the development of programming and computer systems so far written. By embedding this history in a sociological and political context, Ensmenger has added hugely to our understanding of how the world of computing and its work practices came to be." Martin Campbell-Kelly, Professor of Computer Science, Warwick University.;"The Comp…
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Metabolism of the anthroposphere: Analysis, evaluation, design
Over the last several thousand years of human life on Earth, agricultural settlements became urban cores, and these regional settlements became tightly connected through infrastructures transporting people, materials, and information. This global network of urban systems, including ecosystems, is the anthroposphere; the physical flows and stocks of matter and energy within it form its metabolis…
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- 9780262301329
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- 1 online resource (x, 392 pages) :illustrations, maps
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Disappearing Acts: Gender, Power, and Relational Practice at Work
Joyce Fletcher's research shows that emotional intelligence and relational behavior are often viewed as inappropriate because they collide with powerful, gender-linked images.This study of female design engineers has profound implications for attempts to change organizational culture. Joyce Fletcher's research shows that emotional intelligence and relational behavior are often viewed as inappro…
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Synthetic Biology and Morality: Artificial Life and the Bounds of Nature
Synthetic biology, which aims to design and build organisms that serve human needs, has potential applications that range from producing biofuels to programming human behaviour. The emergence of this new form of biotechnology, however, raises a variety of ethical questions - first and foremost, whether synthetic biology is intrinsically troubling in moral terms. Is it an egregious example of sc…
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The Economics of Risk and Time
This book updates and advances the theory of expected utility as applied to risk analysis and financial decision making. Von Neumann and Morgenstern pioneered the use of expected utility theory in the 1940s, but most utility functions used in financial management are still relatively simplistic and assume a mean-variance world. Taking into account recent advances in the economics of risk and un…
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- 1 online resource (xx, 445 pages) :illustrations
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Humanity Enhanced: Genetic Choice and the Challenge for Liberal Democracies
Emerging biotechnologies that manipulate human genetic material have drawn a chorus of objections from politicians, pundits, and scholars. In Humanity Enhanced, Russell Blackford examines them in the context of liberal thought, discussing the public policy issues they raise from legal and political perspectives. Some see the possibility of genetic choice as challenging the values of liberal dem…
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- 0262318539
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- 1 online resource (231 pages).
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Rebel Genius: Warren S. McCulloch's Transdisciplinary Life in Science
"The book is a scientific biography of American neurophysiologist and cybernetician Warren S. McCulloch, one that places his life and work in historical context. By focusing on the various identities that he assumed throughout his life's major work--the study of the brain and mind--the book examines the intermingling of McCulloch's professional and personal worlds, and by doing so provides a mu…
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 305 pages) :illustrations
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Everyday Engineering: An Ethnography of Design and Innovation
A guide to the everyday working world of engineers, written by researchers trained in both engineering and sociology.Everyday Engineering was written to help future engineers understand what they are going to be doing in their everyday working lives, so that they can do their work more effectively and with a broader social vision. It will also give sociologists deeper insights into the sociotec…
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- 1 online resource (247 pages) :illustrations.
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Resilient Computer System Design
This book presents a paradigm for designing new generation resilient and evolving computer systems, including their key concepts, elements of supportive theory, methods of analysis and synthesis of ICT with new properties of evolving functioning, as well as implementation schemes and their prototyping. The book explains why new ICT applications require a complete redesign of computer systems to…
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Governing molecules :the discursive politics of genetic engineering in Europe…
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- 1 online resource (viii, 397 pages) : illustrations.
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- Inside Technology
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