This book provides an exploration of the impact of technology on women’s lives. The technology considered includes word processors, food processors, genetic engineering and buildings. The book surveys sociological and feminist literature on technology, and argues that there is an in-built male bias in the way technology is designed and defined…. More >>

Feminism Confronts Technology

Emerging technology in the field of telecommunications – the Internet, the World Wide Web and related applications – has begun to impact the way we receive and transmit information of all kinds. How will these new technologies affect museums’ missions, operations, and even definitions, both now and in the near future? With chapters on online networks, digitization of collections, cultural intellectual property, public access, finance, management, and more, experts in the fields of museums and communications offer their analyses of the emerging information technology and the opportunities and challenges these changes present for museums…. More >>

The Wired Museum: Emerging Technology and Changing Paradigms

This book focuses on practical applications for using adult and embryonic stem cells in the pharmaceutical development process. It emphasizes new technologies to help overcome the bottlenecks in developing stem cells as therapeutic agents. A key reference for professionals working in stem cell science, it presents the general principles and methodologies in stem cell research and covers topics such as derivitization and characterization of stem cells, stem cell culture and maintenance, stem cell engineering, applications of high-throughput screening, and stem cell genetic modification with their use for drug delivery…. More >>

Emerging Technology Platforms for Stem Cells

A daily newspaper industry blog run by Chas J. Hartman, a former reporter. We feature industry news, in-depth commentaries and exclusive interviews with journalists across the world. We also find YouTube videos about newspapers and present them on the blog. “I want people to be able to walk away from the blog every day having learned something new about the newspaper industry, the technology that is affecting the industry and where the industry is going,” said Hartman.Kindle blogs are fully downloaded onto your Kindle so you can read them even when you’re not wirelessly connected. And unlike RSS readers which often only provide headlines, blogs on Kindle give you full text content and images, and are updated wirelessly throughout the day…. More >>

Scooping the News

As he focuses on works by Norman Mailer, Thomas Pynchon, Joseph McElroy, and Don DeLillo, Joseph Tabbi finds that a simultaneous attraction to and repulsion from technology has produced a powerful new mode of modern writing–the technological sublime…. More >>

Postmodern Sublime: Technology and American Writing from Mailer to Cyberpunk

In 1945, the United States was not only the strongest economic and military power in the world; it was also the world’s leader in science and technology. In American Hegemony and the Postwar Reconstruction of Science in Europe, John Krige describes the efforts of influential figures in the United States to model postwar scientific practices and institutions in Western Europe on those in America. They mobilized political and financial support to promote not just America’s scientific and technological agendas in Western Europe but its Cold War political and ideological agendas as well.

Drawing on the work of diplomatic and cultural historians, Krige argues that this attempt at scientific dominance by the United States can be seen as a form of “consensual hegemony,” involving the collaboration of influential local elites who shared American values. He uses this notion to analyze a series of case studies that describe how the U.S. administration, senior officers in the Rock… More >>

American Hegemony and the Postwar Reconstruction of Science in Europe

Provides current and thorough introduction to computers by integrating usage of the World Wide Web with the printed text. This text offers a complete solution to successfully teach students basic computer concepts with new exercises, case studies, and online tools on the Companion Web site. For the past three decades, the Shelly Cashman Series® has effectively introduced computers to millions of students-consistently providing the highest quality, most up-to-date, and innovative materials in computer education…. More >>

Discovering Computers 2006: A Gateway to Information, Brief

Increase literacy learning with multimedia technologies!

Educational Computing in the Schools: Technology, Communication, and Literacy examines critical issues of technology, teaching, and learning through the areas of access, communication, and literacy to help students from preschool to college get the most out of using computers for educational purposes. As an educator interested in technology applications in the classroom, you will discover new ideas and practices for gaining access to and correctly using technology in education such as using electronic journaling, libraries, and chat rooms. This important book explores areas such as using the Internet to foster literacy growth in developing nations, connecting schools and communities, and the use of technology to enhance early literacy.

This important book explores examples of creating access to technology for learning at three levels: state, community, and international. You will discover new facets of online p… More >>

Educational Computing in the Schools: Technology, Communication, and Literacy

Short snappy ideas you can read in 30 seconds, pick up and run with. No bullshit, just the guts the real content. Move along if you’re looking for fluf!Kindle blogs are fully downloaded onto your Kindle so you can read them even when you’re not wirelessly connected. And unlike RSS readers which often only provide headlines, blogs on Kindle give you full text content and images, and are updated wirelessly throughout the day…. More >>

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Ideal for telecommunications engineers as well as DSL vendors, this comprehensive volume clearly explains ADSL and DSL technology and provides detailed information on installation, network design, and security. … More >>

ADSL & DSL Technologies