Author: Committee on Assessing Technological LiteracyNati
Publisher: National Academies Press
Keywords: technological, literacy, assessing, approaches, tally, tech
Number of Pages: 376
Published: 2006-07-27
List price: $47.95
ISBN-10: 0309101832
ISBN-13: 9780309101837

In a broad sense, technology is any modification of the natural world made to fulfill human needs or desires. Although people tend to focus on the most recent technological inventions, technology includes a myriad of devices and systems that profoundly affect everyone in modern society. Technology is pervasive; an informed citizenship needs to know what technology is, how it works, how it is created, how it shapes our society, and how society influences technological development. This understanding depends in large part on an individual level of technological literacy. "Tech Tally: Approaches

Author: Germany) Symposium on 3-D Radiation Treatment: Tec
Publisher: S. Karger AG (Switzerland)
Keywords: radiation, technological, treatment, innovations, therapy, oncology, symposium, results, three, clinical, dimensional
Number of Pages: 191
Published: 2000-10
List price: $158.25
ISBN-10: 3805569475
ISBN-13: 9783805569477

Radiation therapy is in the process of continual change, fueled by advances in computer technology, but also aided by the contributions of several disciplines such as physics, mathematics, radiological diagnostics, neurosurgery, and mechanical and electrical engineering. Based on the 3D imaging techniques CT and MRI, a complete change from the 2D consideration of the radiotherapy problem has taken place, leading to 3D treatment planning and to completely new treatment delivery systems. A 3D approach allows for a dramatic rethinking of the following central therapy issues: positioning, targetin

Author: H. W. Lewis
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Keywords: risk, technological
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 1992-03-17
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 0393308294
ISBN-13: 9780393308297

"Balanced, sensible, down-to-earth. . . . Should be read by anyone concerned about toxic chemicals, the Greenhouse Effect, nuclear waste, and other similarly evil accompaniments of present-day civilization."--Barry Gewen, New Republic.

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Publisher: Croom Helm
Keywords: innovation, technological, control
Number of Pages: 366
Published: 1977
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0856644439
ISBN-13: 9780856644436

Author: David E. Nye
Publisher: The MIT Press
Keywords: sublime, technological, american
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 1996-02-28
List price: $34.00
ISBN-10: 0262640341
ISBN-13: 9780262640343

"David Nye always has something interesting and suggestive to say about the role of technology in American culture and society. American Technological Sublime is...a book that can be profitably and enjoyably read by specialists and general readers alike. It is an estimable piece of historical interpretation and writing and deserves a wide readership." -- David Nasaw, Boston Globe Technology has long played a central role in the formation of Americans’ sense of selfhood. From the first canal systems through the moon landing, Americans have, for better or worse, derived unity fro

Author: Mr. Jacques Ellul
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.
Keywords: bluff, technological
Number of Pages: 434
Published: 1990-09-25
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 080280960X
ISBN-13: 9780802809605

The author argues that "an easily distracted consumer society is caught up in a rapidly developing, uncontrollable technological system . . . . Every problem generates a technological solution; computers breed ever larger, more fragile, and vulnerable systems. But the solutions raise more and greater problems than they solve . . . . Responsibility, contemplation, civility, and spirituality suffer." (Choice)

Author: Jacques Ellul
Publisher: Vintage Books
Keywords: society, technological
Number of Pages: 449
Published: 1964
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 0394703901
ISBN-13: 9780394703909