Electronic Books

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Academic Flying and the Means of Communication

This book shines a light on how and why academic work became entwined with air travel, and what can be done to change academia’s ...

Chemical Youth Navigating Uncertainty in Search of the Good Life

This book explores how young people engage with chemical substances in their everyday lives. It builds upon and supplements ...

Communicating Science and Technology in Society

Addresses the engagement between science and society from multiple viewpoints. At a time when trust in experts is being ...

Community and Identity in Contemporary Technosciences

This book provides new thinking on scientific identity formation. It thoroughly interrogates the concepts of community and ...

Continental Philosophy of Technoscience

This text draws upon continental authors such as Hegel, Engels, Heidegger, Bachelard and Lacan (and their fields of dialectics, ...

Engineering a Better Future

This open access book examines how the social sciences can be integrated into the praxis of engineering and science, presenting ...

European E-Democracy in Practice

This book explores how digital tools and social media technologies can contribute to better participation and involvement ...

Forensic Genetics in the Governance of Crime

This book uses a critical sociological perspective to explore contemporary ways of reformulating the governance of crime ...

Information and Communication Technologies in Tourism 2022 : Proceedings of the ENTER 2022 eTourism Conference, January 11-14, 2022

The book provides an extensive overview of how information and communication technologies can be used to develop tourism ...

Interdisciplinary Insights for Digital Touch Communication

The book concludes with a discussion of the significance of social understanding and methods in the context of Interdisciplinary ...

Modes of Bio-Bordering The Hidden (Dis)integration of Europe

This book explores how biometric data is increasingly flowing across borders in order to limit, control and contain the ...

On the path to AI Law’s prophecies and the conceptual foundations of the machine learning age

This book explores machine learning and its impact on how we make sense of the world. It does so by bringing together two ...

People and Things : A Behavioral Approach to Material Culture

This comprehensive text sets forth a theory for understanding the relationship between people and things. Humans, whether ...

Picturing Ecology : Photography and the birth of a new science / Damian Hughes

Examines the role of photography and visual culture in the emergence of ecological science between 1895 and 1939.

Precision Oncology and Cancer Biomarkers : Issues at Stake and Matters of Concern

This book reflects on matters of social and ethical concern raised in the daily practices of those working in and around ...

The Everyday Life of an Algorithm

This book begins with an algorithm–a set of IF…THEN rules used in the development of a new, ethical, video surveillance ...

e-Science Open, Social and Virtual Technology for Research Collaboration

This book shows the breadth and various facets of e-Science, while also illustrating their shared core. Changes in scientific ...

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