ECS 188 - Suggested Project Books
- Bomb Scare: The History and Future of Nuclear Weapons (Joseph
Cirincione)
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To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design (Henry Petroski)
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Our Stolen Future: How We Are Threatening Our Fertility,
Intelligence and Survival (Theo Colborn, Dianne Dumanoski, John Peter Meyers)
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Living Downstream : A Scientist's Personal Investigation of Cancer and the Environment
(Sandra Steingraber)
- A Patent
System for the 21st Century (Board of Science, Technology, and Economic Policy)
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Everything Bad Is Good for You: How Today's Popular
Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter (Steven Johnson)
- The
Technological Society (Jacques Ellul)
- Technopoly:
The Surrender of Culture to Technology (Neil Postman)
- Technology
and the Character of Contemporary Life: A Philosophical Inquiry (Albert Borgmann)
- Database
Nation: The Death of Privacy in the 21st Century (Simon Garfinkel)
- The
Machine in the Garden: Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America
(Leo Marx)
- Why
Things Bite Back: Technology and the Revenge of Unintended Consequences
(Edward Tenner)
- America by Design:
Science, Technology, and the Rise of Corporate Capitalism (David Noble)
- Religion
of Technology: The Divinity of Man and the Spirit of Invention (David F. Noble)
- Technics
and Civilization (Lewis Mumford)
- Myth
of the Machine: Technics and Human Development (Lewis Mumford)
- Code
and other Laws of Cyberspace (Lawrence Lessig)
- Darwin
Among the Machines: The Evolution of Global Intelligence (George B. Dyson)
- Ethics
in an Age of Technology: Gifford Lectures, Volume Two (Ian Barbour)
- Reinventing
the Wheel: A Buddhist Response to the Information Age (Peter Hershock)
- The
Rise of the Network Society (Manuel Castells)
- Does
Technology Drive History: The Dilemma of Technological Determinism (Merritt Roe Smith,
Leo Marx)
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Science and Technology in World History: An Introduction
(James E. III McClellan, Harold Dorn)
- Technology
in World Civilization: A Thousand-Year History (Arnold Pacey)
- Sakharov:
A Biography (Richard Lourie)
- Pentagon
of Power: The Myth of the Machine, vol. II (Lewis Mumford)
- World
Without Secrets: Business, Crime and Privacy in the Age of Ubiquitous
Computing (Richard Hunter)
- Secrets:
On the Ethics of Concealment and Revelation (Sissela Bok)
- Questioning
Technology (Andrew Feenberg)
- Thinking Through Technology:
The Path Between Engineering and Philosophy (Carl Mitcham)
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Open Source Licensing: Software Freedom and Intellectual
Property Law (Lawrence Rosen) (legal background may be useful)
- The Ethical Brain (Michael Gazzaniga)
- Culture of Death:
The Assault on Medical Ethics in America (Wesley Smith)
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Classica Cases in Medical Ethics: Accounts of Cases that have Shaped Medical Ethics,
with Philosophical, Legal, and Historical Backgrounds (Gregory Pence)
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Diet for a New America: How Your Food Choices Affect Your
Health, Happiness and the Future of Life on Earth (John Robbins)
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Euthanasia, Ethics and Public Policy: An Argument Against Legalisation (John Keown)
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Connection on the Ice: Environmental Ethics in Theory and Practice (Patti Clayton, Charles Masson)
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Animal Liberation (Peter Singer)
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For the Good of Mankind: A History of the People of Bikini and their Islands (Second Edition) (Jack Niedenthal)
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Jared Diamond)
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The End of Poverty: Economic Possiblities for Our Times
(Jeffrey Sachs)
- Five Past Midnight in Bhopal (Dominique Lapierre) and Javier Moro) and
some selection from
Elusive Justice (a symposium on the Bhopal gas
disaster after twenty years) (2004)
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Trespass Against Us: Dow Chemical and the Toxic Century (Jack Doyle)
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The Imperative of Responsibility: In Search of an Ethics for the Technological Age
(Hans Jonas)
- The Transparent Society: Will Technology Force Us to Choose Between Privacy and Freedom? (David Brin)