“…Now updated--A comprehensive, 500-year history of technology in society. Historian Thomas J. Misa's sweeping history of the relationship between technology and society over the past 500 years reveals how technological innovations have shaped--and have been shaped by--the cultures in which they arose. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Neoliberalism and the Unfolding Patterns of Young People's Political Engagement and Political Participation in Contemporary Britain -- Towards a Conceptualization of Young People's Political Engagement: A Qualitative Focus Group Study -- Young People Engaging in Volunteering: Questioning a Generational Trend in an Individualized Society -- Political Consumerism as a Neoliberal Response to Youth Political Disengagement -- Still Troubled: Tunisia's Youth During and Since the Revolution of 2011 -- A Global Generation? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Göbekli Tepe -- V. Gordon Childe and revolution; Gotcha?44 -- The big guns of storytelling . . . …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Introduction -- audience/society transformations / Nico Carpentier, Kim Schrøder and Lawrie Hallett -- Using the media. …”
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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Introduction -- audience/society transformations / Nico Carpentier, Kim Schrøder and Lawrie Hallett -- Using the media. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…From Early thinker to Social Scientists -- 1 Knowledge and Wisdom Across Cultures -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Unabated Learning and Unbounded Knowledge -- 1.3 Pearls of Wisdom Along Highways of Time -- 1.4 Need for a Modern Science of Knowledge -- 1.5 Inception and Use of Business Machines -- 1.6 Information and its Current Deployment -- 1.6.1 Mostly Human: Senate, Legal, and Judiciary Use -- 1.6.2 Current - Organizational (Un, Church, Religious) -- 1.6.3 Evolving Use of Social Machines -- 1.6.4 Use of Federal and Legal Machines -- 1.7 Internet and Knowledge Revolution -- Conclusions -- References -- 2 From Philosophers to Knowledge Machines -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 From Immanuel Kant to george Herbert Mead -- 2.2.1 Kant as a Meta-Physicist -- 2.2.2 Mead as a Social Psychologist -- 2.3 From Henry Ford to Peter Drucker -- 2.3.1 Ford and Model T Automobiles -- 2.3.2 Drucker and Management Sciences -- 2.3.3 The Unison of Social Sciences and Physical Sciences -- 2.3.4 Machine Architecture from Knowledge Functions -- 2.3.5 Generalization of the Structure of Knowledge Science -- Conclusions -- References -- 3 Affirmative Knowledge and Positive Human Nature -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Use of Scientific and AI-Based Machines -- 3.2.1 Evolving Use of Knowledge and Internet Machines -- 3.2.2 Incremental Changes in Society -- 3.3 Duality of Natural Forces and Human Traits -- 3.4 THE Fine Side of Human Nature -- 3.4.1 Integrated Changes in Society -- 3.4.2 Gradual Transition in the Knowledge Domain -- 3.4.3 Positive Social Change: Betterment and Enhancement -- Conclusions -- References -- 4 Negative Knowledge and Aggressive Human Nature -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 The Coarse Side of Human Nature…”

“…., one of the most distinguished thinkers in critical theory and historical sociology, was long concerned with the prospects for freedom and decency in industrial society. The product of decades of reflection on issues of authority, inequality, and injustice, this volume analyzes fluctuating moral beliefs and behavior in political and economic affairs at different points in history, from the early Middle Ages in England to the prospects for liberalism under twentieth-century Soviet socialism. …”

“…Brewer Prize presented by the American Society of Church History Mississippi Praying examines the faith communities at ground-zero of the racial revolution that rocked America. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…PART I -Military Psychology: The Roots and the Journey -- Military Psychology in War and Peace: An Appraisal / Swati Mukherjee and Updesh Kumar -- War, Peace and the Military in Biblical and Ancient Greek Societies / Matthew B. Schwartz and Kalman J. Kaplan -- Four Stages in the Evolution of Military Enlisted Testing / Michael G. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The utopia of the knowledge society and the empire of beliefs -- 2.2. The ditherer's problem -- 2.3. …”

“…The book deals, in particular, with how the Labour government and Labour party as a whole tried to come to terms with the 1960s 'cultural revolution'. It is grounded in original research, takes unique account of responses from Labour's grass roots and from Wilson's ministerial colleagues, and constructs a 'total history' of the party at this critical moment in history. …”

“…The ideas of the Enlightenment and the dramatic convulsions of the French Revolution had shattered the old bonds and cast doubt upon the established moral and social norms of the old corporate society. …”

“…Several dictatorships (especially military governments) emerged during this period dominated by the development of the Cold War and the consequences of the Cuban Revolution. Repressive regimes remained in power for decades, until internal and international changes allowed democracy to take over a firm hold. …”

“…This book seeks to bridge the gap between leading edge scholarship about the nature of the physical, tangible Universe and the nature of the life process on Earth on the one hand, and on the other hand challenges facing human society as to the current revolution in energy sources, national and international levels of political and economic organization, and humanity's impacts upon the global ecosystem which have given rise to the depiction of a new era in earthlife termed the "anthropocene".The author's public career included responsibilities for economic policy formulation and implementation at the United States Department of Justice, the United States Agency for International Development, and a White House Office of Consumer Affairs. …”

“…The Industrial Internet of Things (Industrial IoT—IIoT) has emerged as the core construct behind the various cyber-physical systems constituting a principal dimension of the fourth Industrial Revolution. While initially born as the concept behind specific industrial applications of generic IoT technologies, for the optimization of operational efficiency in automation and control, it quickly enabled the achievement of the total convergence of Operational (OT) and Information Technologies (IT). …”