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Laura Cabrera, “Rethinking Human Enhancement: Social Enhancement and Emergent Technologies” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014)
Laura Cabrera
Rethinking Human Enhancement
Social Enhancement and Emergent Technologies
Palgrave Macmillan, 2014

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In Rethinking Human Enhancement: Social Enhancement and Emergent Technologies (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), Laura Cabrera discusses three possible human enhancement paradigms and explores how each involves different values, uses of technology, and different degrees and kinds of ethical concerns. A new framework is advanced that promotes technological innovation that serves the... Read More
Thomas Yarrow, “Architects: Portraits of a Practice” (Cornell UP, 2019)
Thomas Yarrow
Architects
Portraits of a Practice
Cornell University Press, 2019

New Books in AnthropologyNew Books in ArchitectureNew Books in ArtNew Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Science, Technology, and SocietyNew Books in SociologyNew Books Network December 12, 2019 Prue Chiles

What is creativity? What is the relationship between work life and personal life? How is it possible to live truthfully in a world of contradiction and compromise? These deep and deeply personal questions spring to the fore in Thomas Yarrow‘s vivid exploration of the life of architects. Yarrow takes us... Read More
E. Jones-Imhotep and T. Adcock, “Made Modern: Science and Technology in Canadian History” (UBC Press, 2018)
Edward Jones-Imhotep and Tina Adcock
Made Modern
Science and Technology in Canadian History
University of British Columbia Press, 2018

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in ScienceNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books in Science, Technology, and SocietyNew Books in TechnologyNew Books Network December 10, 2019 Carrie Lynn Evans

Science and technology have shaped not only economic empires and industrial landscapes, but also the identities, anxieties, and understandings of people living in modern times. The book I’m looking at today, Made Modern: Science and Technology in Canadian History (University of British Columbia Press, 2018) explores the complex interconnections between... Read More
Audrey Kurth Cronin, “Power to the People: How Open Technological Innovation is Arming Tomorrow’s Terrorists” (Oxford UP, 2019)
Audrey Kurth Cronin
Power to the People
How Open Technological Innovation is Arming Tomorrow’s Terrorists
Oxford University Press, 2019

New Books in National SecurityNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Political ScienceNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books in Science, Technology, and SocietyNew Books in TechnologyNew Books in World AffairsNew Books Network December 9, 2019 Beth Windisch

Never have so many possessed the means to be so lethal. The diffusion of modern technology (robotics, cyber weapons, 3-D printing, autonomous systems, and artificial intelligence) to ordinary people has given them access to weapons of mass violence previously monopolized by the state. In recent years, states have attempted to... Read More
Jason Smith, “To Master the Boundless Sea: The US Navy, the Marine Environment, and the Cartography of Empire” (UNC Press, 2018)
Jason Smith
To Master the Boundless Sea
The US Navy, the Marine Environment, and the Cartography of Empire
The University of North Carolina Press, 2018

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Military HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books in Science, Technology, and SocietyNew Books Network December 6, 2019 Michael F. Robinson

Jason Smith discusses the US Navy’s role in exploring and charting the ocean world. Smith is an assistant professor of history at Southern Connecticut State University. He’s the author of To Master the Boundless Sea: The US Navy, the Marine Environment, and the Cartography of Empire (UNC Press, 2018). As... Read More
Michael R. Boswell, “Climate Action Planning: A Guide to Creating Low-Carbon, Resilient Communities” (Island Press, 2019)
Michael R. Boswell, Adrienne I. Greve, Tammy L. Seale
Climate Action Planning
A Guide to Creating Low-Carbon, Resilient Communities
Island Press, 2019

New Books in ArchitectureNew Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in Environmental StudiesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Public PolicyNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books in Science, Technology, and SocietyNew Books Network December 6, 2019 Tricia Keffer

Climate Action Planning: A Guide to Creating Low-Carbon, Resilient Communities (Island Press, 2019) is designed to help planners, municipal staff and officials, citizens and others working at local levels to develop and implement plans to mitigate a community’s greenhouse gas emissions and increase the resilience of communities against climate change... Read More
Deborah Lupton, “The Quantified Self” (Polity, 2016)
Deborah Lupton
The Quantified Self

Polity Press, 2016

New Books in AnthropologyNew Books in CommunicationsNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books in Science, Technology, and SocietyNew Books in SociologyNew Books in TechnologyNew Books Network December 5, 2019 John Danaher

With the advent of digital devices and software, self-tracking practices have gained new adherents and have spread into a wide array of social domains. The Quantified Self movement has emerged to promote ‘self-knowledge through numbers’. In The Quantified Self (Polity, 2016), Deborah Lupton critically analyses the social, cultural and political... Read More
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