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Technobrat Technobrat Rukmini Bhaya Nair. An attempt to highlight the culture existing in some of the premier technological institutes in India. OL1052744W
Making digital cultures Making digital cultures Martin Hand "Making Digital Cultures tracks intellectual debates about the digitization of culture from the cyberspace of the 1990s to the new technologies known as Web 2.0 arguing that they have cohered around … OL11825417W
Entertainment Entertainment Walter G. Oleksy Provides an overview of how the entertainment industry is being revolutionized by new developments in electronics such as digital wide-screen television, laser disc players, computer movies, and inte… OL15278960W
Smart mobs Smart mobs Howard Rheingold From Tokyo to Helsinki, Manhattan to Manila, Rheingold takes readers on a journey around the world for a preview of the next techno-cultural shift--a shift he predicts will be as dramatic as the wide… OL15839936W
The axemaker's gift The axemaker's gift Burke, James "A Grosset/Putnam book." OL1631405W
The pentagon of power The pentagon of power Lewis Mumford In this concluding volume of The Myth of the Machine, Mumford brings to a head his radical revisions of the stale popular conceptions of human and technological progress. Far from being an attack on … OL1879232W
TechnoStress TechnoStress Michelle M. Weil xiii, 240 p. ; 23 cm OL2664399W
Our own devices Our own devices Edward Tenner From the author of Why Things Bite Back-- which introduced us to the revenge antics of technology--Our Own Devices is a wonderfully revealing look at the inventions of everyday things that protect us… OL2958209W
Selections Selections Jawaharlal Nehru Translation of articles on nationalism. OL296013W
The search for solutions The search for solutions Horace Freeland Judson Contains primary source material. OL2973345W
Knowledge societies Knowledge societies Nico Stehr Knowledge Societies offers both a critical examination of existing social theory, and a new synthesis of social theory with the actual study of knowledge relations in advanced economies. Some of the … OL3139609W
Conversations on the uses of science and technology Conversations on the uses of science and technology Norman Hackerman xi, 107 p. ; 22 cm OL3269510W
From counterculture to cyberculture From counterculture to cyberculture Fred Turner In the early 1960s, computers haunted the American popular imagination. Bleak tools of the cold war, they embodied the rigid organization and mechanical conformity that made the military-industrial c… OL3272110W
Subject matter Subject matter Joyce E. Chaplin "With this reinterpretation of early cultural encounters between the English and American natives, Joyce E. Chaplin thoroughly alters our historical view of the origins of English presumptions of rac… OL4293958W
Leo Laporte's 2005 technology almanac Leo Laporte's 2005 technology almanac Leo Laporte xxxi, 520 p. : 24 cm OL5739731W
Flash effect Flash effect David J. Tietge "The ways science and technology are portrayed in advertising, in the news, in our politics, and in the culture at large inform the way we respond to these particular facts of life. The better we are… OL5955827W
Sciences, techniques et utopies Sciences, techniques et utopies Raymond Trousson Tout au long de son histoire, l'Utopie a tracé la voie vers une société juste, assurant le bonheur de tous. Le XIXème siècle a fait des sciences et des techniques les bases de son culte quasi religie… OL678863W
Industrial Society and Its Future Industrial Society and Its Future Theodore Kaczynski In 1971 Dr. Theodore Kaczynski rejected modern society and moved to a primitive cabin in the woods of Montana. There, he began building bombs, which he sent to professors and executives to express hi… OL9003449W
Cultural history and modernity in Latin America Cultural history and modernity in Latin America Constantin von Barloewen "Preconiza la necesidad de tomar en cuenta las culturas tradicionales ante las necesidades de la modernización, especialmente en el orden de lo científico-tecnológico"--Handbook of Latin American … OL972664W
Maschinenwelt und Alltagsleben Maschinenwelt und Alltagsleben Hermann Glaser An Herrschaftsgeschichte besteht kein Mangel. Hermann Glasers Geschichtsbegriff ist jedoch ein anderer, umfassenderer: Er wendet sich der Geschichte und den Geschichten der kleinen Leute zu. An einer… OL974793W
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