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We already know how much of our data is collected and used to profile and target us. The real question is why, knowing all this, do we keep going back for more?
Technology has delivered a world that we expect to revolve around us, our needs and preferences, and our unique personalities. Each of us willingly yields…
The latest volume in the Artefacts series, Objects in Motion: Globalizing Technology delves into globalization’s various manifestations throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Each chapter highlights the movement of a specific object within the global economy. Transported out of their original…
Over the past five decades, the field of religion-and-science scholarship has experienced a considerable expansion. This volume explores the historical and contemporary perspectives of the relationship between religion, technology and science with a focus on South and East Asia. These three areas are not seen as…
Mobile technology has become a ubiquitous presence in the lives of today’s students and faculty. The maturing of this technology has led to our becoming more and more comfortable in a world where digital information flows seamlessly from screen to screen as we move about our daily lives. This evolution presents both…
Kategorier: Ande, kropp och själ Ande, kropp och själ: tänkande och praktik Hälsa, relationer och personlig utveckling Karriär och framgång Populärpsykologi och personlig utveckling Självhjälp och praktiska råd Självkänsla, självförtroende och motivation
We are a technological society, no doubt about it. Our devices keep us informed while isolating us from each other and from ourselves, our true selves. There is, however, another technology, an inner technology that brings us back to our true selves and gives us the ability to create lives of joy, abundance and wisdom.…
First published in 1968, the year of international-student confrontation and revolution, this classic challenges readers to choose which of two roads humankind ought to take: the one, leading to a completely mechanised society with the individual a helpless cog in a machine bent on mass destruction; or the second,…
Kategorier: Folkliga föreställningar och kontroversiell kunskap Samhälle och kultur: allmänt Samhälle och samhällsvetenskap
Since the dawn of the Age of Science, humankind has been engaged in a methodical quest to understand the cosmos. With the development of quantum mechanics, the notion that everything is solid matter, is being replaced with the idea that information or “thought” may be the true source of physical reality.
Such…
Kategorier: Folkliga föreställningar och kontroversiell kunskap Samhälle och kultur: allmänt Samhälle och samhällsvetenskap
In 1945, a mysterious Nazi secret weapons project code-named ’The Bell’ left its underground bunker in lower Silesia, along with its project documentation, and the 4-star SS general Hans Kammler. Taken aboard a massive six engine Junkers 390 ultra-long range aircraft, The Bell, Kammler, and all project…
This textbook explains Technology Roadmapping, in both its development and practice, and illustrates the underlying theory of, and empirical evidence for, technologic evolution over time afforded by this strategy. The book contains a rich set of examples and practical exercises from a wide array of domains in applied…
Everybody has some character trait they would like to change, and there are many techniques available to facilitate these changes. Unfortunately, many of them are either impractical or expensive – or both! Most people are somewhat familiar with hypnosis and subliminal technology but are reluctant to use them as…
Kategorier: Elektronik Elektronik och kommunikationsteknik Reglerteknik Teknik, ingenjörsvetenskap etc.
”Industrial Robotics Technology” serves as an invaluable resource for students pursuing degrees in mechanical engineering, mechatronics, and industrial automation, as well as professionals attending workshops and training programs focused on robotics in manufacturing. This book covers the fundamentals of industrial…
Develop your understanding of how to use similar steps in your problem-solving approaches
For courses in calculus-based physics.
University Physics with Modern Physics, 15th edition, now in SI Units, is known for its clear and accessible approach to physics. With its step-by-step guidance and variety of problem types,…
Information Technology Law takes a unique socio-legal approach to examining the interaction between the law and other elements of the information society. Murray discusses relevant issues such as governance, free expression, and crime with enthusiasm, and looks forward to future challenges presented by developing…
· Fully illustrated thoughout with photos and diagrams
· Examines ancient sites in South America and reveals evidence that
they were made by a far older culture than originally thought
· Reveals evidence that the technology used could only have been
’power’ tools
In his new book, packed with…
Kategorier: Samhälle och samhällsvetenskap
People around the world claim to be victims of mind control technology. Medical professionals are quick to marginalise these targeted individuals and diagnose them with mental illness. Unfortunately, most people are oblivious to the historical precedent for the practice of mind control and the patented technology that…
By the middle of the nineteenth century, industrialisation and military-technological innovation were beginning to alter drastically, the character and conditions of warfare as it had been conducted for centuries. Occurring in the midst of these far-reaching changes, the American Civil War can justly be labelled both…
Kategorier: Teknik, ingenjörsvetenskap etc.
The US government can hack into any computer or smartphone on the planet. What sounded like a crazy conspiracy theory was exposed as truth with the 2013 NSA leaks from Edward Snowden. Since then, the deluge of CIA and NSA hacking programmes filling the sky like rain hasn’t stopped. This is an exposé of the…
Kategorier: Ande, kropp och själ Hälsa, relationer och personlig utveckling Övernaturliga fenomen / det paranormala UFOn och utomjordingar
Nazi technology extended far further than has generally been acknowledged, in fact to almost unfathomable levels. Yet conventional historians have absolutely failed to provide an adequate picture of the technology, and weaponry of the Third Reich. Was it government intervention, peer scepticism or just plain…
Kategorier: Ande, kropp och själ Hälsa, relationer och personlig utveckling Kristaller och färgterapi Parapsykologi och psykiska fenomen
· Explores the use of crystals throughout history, including their role in Atlantis and in alien technology
· Offers step-by-step instructions to successfully use crystals in scrying, meditation and Enochian magic
· Includes never-before-published scientific findings on the author’s crystal skull as well as other…
Analysing and designing Programmed Technological Solutions (PTS) has been introduced as a part of technology education in an effort to bring elements of programming into the curriculum for compulsory school, in order to develop pupils’ understanding of how PTS work and are controlled by programming. However, what an…
Kategorier: Biografier och litteraturvetenskap Biografier, sanna berättelser, essäer etc. Essäer Etiska frågor och debatter Etiska frågor: vetenskaplig och teknisk utveckling Matematik och naturvetenskap Naturvetenskap Naturvetenskapens och teknikens inverkan på samhället Samhälle och kultur: allmänt Samhälle och samhällsvetenskap Sociala och etiska frågor
The Times and Financial Times Book of the Year’Enticing’ Sunday Times | ’Engaging’ Financial Times | ’Essential’ Reid Hoffman___As technology accelerates, the human mind struggles to keep up – and our companies, workplaces and democracies get left behind. This is the…
Kategorier: Barn och ungdom: skönlitteratur och sanna berättelser Barnböcker, ungdomsböcker och läromedel
Denna bok bjuder in språkinlärare på en spännande utbildningsresa med älskade karaktärer som Mike och Sulley. Engagerande aktiviteter och animerade äventyr gör engelsk inlärning till en monstruös njutning i Disneys fantasifulla värld.
Kategorier: Ekonomi, finansväsen, näringsliv och management
This book presents the most comprehensive collection of antique and collectible office technology that has appeared to date. 645 beautiful color photos capture the marvelous mechanical inventions that paved the way for the electronic age of computers. See an incredible array of typewriters, adding machines,…
Tour Indiana University’s spooky Bloomington campus and Southern Indiana’s haunted houses and creepy corners. Be introduced to timeless campus ghosts such as the Girl in Yellow of Read Hall who stumbles about looking for her sliced-away face, the shadow dog that growls and patrols the Indiana Memorial…
Kategorier: Ekonomi, finansväsen, näringsliv och management
New technologies have always provoked panic about workers being replaced by machines. In the past, such fears have been misplaced, and many economists maintain that they remain so today. Yet in A World Without Work, Daniel Susskind shows why this time really is different. Advances in artificial intelligence mean that…
Now more than ever, we find ourselves unable to express our true feelings through technology. Whether it’s a misunderstood text, an oversimplified emoji or a Skype call that leaves us feeling lonely, when most of our communication is carried out through tech, the result is a virtual world that’s lacking our…
Varnish is the leading web acceleration and content delivery software that powers more than ten million websites worldwide and that is trusted by more than 20% of the top 10,000 websites.
Varnish caches HTTP responses and accelerates anything that communicates over HTTP by doing so. The technology is used not only to…
Kategorier: Ingenjörsvetenskap Referensverk, informationshantering och tvärvetenskap Samhälle och samhällsvetenskap Sociologi Sociologi och antropologi Teknik Teknik, ingenjörsvetenskap etc. Tvärvetenskap
Key Concepts in Science and Technology Studies is an introduction to the interdisciplinary field of science and technology studies through concepts that are also used in other areas, from design to organization studies. The book is relevant for students at bachelor and master level as well as for doctoral students and…
Writing is a central activity at university. Writing in English at University: A Guide for Second Language Writers is a textbook designed to accompany the MOOC Writing in English at University. This book can also be used as a stand-alone handbook, with links to online resources, such as instructional videos on key…
Kategorier: Samhälle och samhällsvetenskap
This book is the 4th volume in the series Emergent Issues in Research on Vocational Education and Training an outcome of the research work and international networking of the research group VETYL (Vocational Education & Training/Yrkeskunnande och Lärande), at the Department of Education, Stockholm University,…
This book is the 4th volume in the series Emergent Issues in Research on Vocational Education and Training an outcome of the research work and international networking of the research group VETYL (Vocational Education & Training/Yrkeskunnande och Lärande), at the Department of Education, Stockholm University,…
Kategorier: Affärsetik och samhällsansvar Ekonomi, finansväsen, näringsliv och management Företagsekonomi och management
My Gift to You
With the book you are holding in your hand, I am giving you what might be the most important innovation-related intellectual property of our time.
What if you could build a machine that solves everything from hunger to poverty to the world’s environmental problems? Or that takes the United Nations’…
2017 marks the 40th anniversary of the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, SLU. During these years SLU has developed into an internationally prominent university that challenges, raises issues on sustainability and seeks solutions for global problems.
This chronicle gives an overview of how SLU has changed…
Inspired by the need to increase general awareness of foreign sentiments and cultures the Prussian Parliament decided in 1917 to found Area Studies Institutes. In the University of Greifswald the reform saw the establishment of the Nordic Institute, an interdisciplinary institute that was to study Northern Europe in a…
Kategorier: Ekonomi, finansväsen, näringsliv och management Entreprenörskap Företagsekonomi och management
The aim of this thesis is to investigate the evolution of new technology-based firms
(NTBFs) based on solid empirical material for the Swedish economy. The focus on this
thesis is exploring the role of acquisition by incumbent firms in the evolution of NTBFs.
The findings of this thesis show that selection is a core…
The papers presented address many different approaches to these issues such as the use of tradition and memory in shaping an individual or a collective identity, questions of continuity and/or change and efforts to connect the past with the present. Although the sources vary a great deal depending on the topics…