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• Robotics -- Social aspects -- United States

• Exploratory Workshop on the Social Impacts of Robotics: Summary and Issues (1982), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Elements of Robotics (Cham: Springer Open, c2018), by M. Ben-Ari and Francesco Mondada (PDF and EPub with commentary at EPFL and Springer)
• Exploring the Moon and Mars: Choices for the Nation (1991), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)
• Applications of Robotics and Artificial Intelligence to Reduce Risk and Improve Effectiveness: A Study for the United States Army (1983), by National Research Council Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems (page images with commentary at NAP)
• How Mobile Robots can Self-Organise a Vocabulary (Berlin: Language Science Press, c2015), by Paul Vogt
  • PDF with commentary at langsci-press.org
  • PDF at OAPEN

• Towards a New Enlightenment? A Transcendent Decade (Madrid: BBVA, c2018), contrib. by Francisco González Rodríguez, Martin J. Rees, José M. Sánchez Ron, María Martinón-Torres, Alex Pentland, Sandeep Tiwari, Joanna J. Bryson, Ramon López de Mántaras, José M. Mato, Daniela Rus, Samuel H. Sternberg, Peter Kalmus, Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de León, Victoria Robinson, Barry J. Eichengreen, Michelle Baddeley, Nancy H. Chau, S. M. Ravi Kanbur, Vivien Ann Schmidt, Diana Marie Owen, Yang Xu, Carlo Ratti, and Amos N. Guiora (multiple formats with commentary at bbvaopenmind.com)

• Annual Review of Control, Robotics, and Autonomous Systems (partial serial archives)

• Teaching Tech Together: How to Create and Deliver Lessons That Work and Build a Teaching Community Around Them (free online editions in English and Spanish; c2019), by Greg Wilson (illustrated HTML with commentary at teachtogether.tech)

• Where Am I? Systems and Methods for Mobile Robot Positioning (electronic version of "Navigating Mobile Robots"), by Johann Borenstein, H. R. Everett, and Liqiang Feng (PDF at Michigan)

• Mobilities, Boundaries, and Travelling Ideas: Rethinking Translocality Beyond Central Asia and the Caucasus (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2018), ed. by Manja Stephan-Emmrich and Philipp Schröder (PDF and HTML with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• Language in Our Time: Bilingual Education and Official English, Ebonics and Standard English, Immigration and the Unz Initiative (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 1999; Washington: Georgetown University Press, 1999), ed. by James E. Alatis and Ai-Hui Tan (PDF at Georgetown)

• Untimely Interventions: AIDS Writing, Testimonial, and the Rhetoric of Haunting (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2004), by Ross Chambers (page images at HathiTrust)
• AIDS: The Burdens of History (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988), ed. by Elizabeth Fee and Daniel M. Fox (HTML at UC Press)

• Personal Effects: The Social Character of Scholarly Writing (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2001), ed. by Deborah H. Holdstein and David Bleich (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)

• The Revolution Will Be Improvised: The Intimacy of Cultural Activism, by Elizabeth Rodriguez Fielder (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)

• Heritage, Tourism, and Race: The Other Side of Leisure (New York and London: Routledge, c2020), by Antoinette T. Jackson (PDF with commentary at OAPEN)

• Aging in the Social Space (Białystok-Kraków: Association of Social Gerontologists, 2015), by Łukasz Tomczyk and Andrzej Klimczuk
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • PDF at SSOAR

• Social, Economic, and Institutional Aspects of Agro-Forestry, ed. by J. K. Jackson (HTML at UNU Press)

• The Violence of the Letter: Toward a Theory of Writing (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2023), by Melanie McMahon (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)

• Animals and the Shaping of Modern Medicine: One Health and Its Histories (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, c2018), by Abigail Woods, Michael Bresalier, Angela Cassidy, and Rachel Mason Dentinger (PDF and Epub with commentary at Springer)

• How to Make a Human: Animals and Violence in the Middle Ages (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2011), by Karl Steel (PDF at Ohio State)

• Writing Signs: The Fatimid Public Text, by Irene A. Bierman (HTML at UC Press)

• Digital Archives and Collections: Creating Online Access to Cultural Heritage (Anthropology of Media v11; New York and Oxford: Berghahn, c2021), by Katja Müller (PDF and EPub with commentary at Berghahn Books)

• Towards a New Enlightenment? A Transcendent Decade (Madrid: BBVA, c2018), contrib. by Francisco González Rodríguez, Martin J. Rees, José M. Sánchez Ron, María Martinón-Torres, Alex Pentland, Sandeep Tiwari, Joanna J. Bryson, Ramon López de Mántaras, José M. Mato, Daniela Rus, Samuel H. Sternberg, Peter Kalmus, Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de León, Victoria Robinson, Barry J. Eichengreen, Michelle Baddeley, Nancy H. Chau, S. M. Ravi Kanbur, Vivien Ann Schmidt, Diana Marie Owen, Yang Xu, Carlo Ratti, and Amos N. Guiora (multiple formats with commentary at bbvaopenmind.com)
• Artificial Communication: How Algorithms Produce Social Intelligence (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2022), by Elena Esposito (PDF files with commentary at MIT Press)
• The Amazing Journey of Reason: From DNA to Artificial Intelligence (Cham: Springer, c2020), by Mario Alemi (PDF and Epub with commentary at Springer)
• The Future Computed: Artificial Intelligence and its Role in Society (2018), by Microsoft Corporation (PDF with commentary at microsoft.com)

• The Impact of Space Activities Upon Society (2005), by International Academy of Astronautics and European Space Agency (PDF at esa.int)

• Re-Awakening Languages: Theory and Practice in the Revitalisation of Australia's Indigenous Languages (Sydney: Sydney University Press, c2010), ed. by John Robert Hobson, Kevin Lowe, Susan Poetsch, and Michael Walsh (HTML and PDF with commentary at Sydney University Press)

• Social Rule: A Study of the Will to Power (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's sons, 1916), by Elsie Worthington Clews Parsons (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Wikipedia and the Representation of Reality (open access edition; New York and London: Routledge, 2022), by Zachary J. McDowell and Matthew A. Vetter (PDF files at taylorfrancis.com)

• Literacy, Sexuality, Pedagogy: Theory and Practice for Composition Studies (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 2008), by Jonathan Alexander
  • PDF with commentary at usu.edu
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Towards an Ethics of Autism: A Philosophical Exploration (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2021), by Kristien Hens (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• The Future Computed: Artificial Intelligence and its Role in Society (2018), by Microsoft Corporation (PDF with commentary at microsoft.com)

• Banks and Social Responsibility (ACSJC occasional paper #17; North Blackburn, Vic.: CollinsDove, c1993), by David Farmer (PDF in Australia)

• Sartorial Fandom: Fashion, Beauty Culture, and Identity (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2023), ed. by Elizabeth Affuso and Suzanne Scott (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)

• Data Feminism (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2020), by Catherine D'Ignazio and Lauren F. Klein (illustrated HTML with commentary at MIT Press)
• Heritage and Nationalism: Understanding Populism Through Big Data (London: University College London Press, 2022), by Chiara Bonacchi (PDF with commentary at UCL Press)

• Essays of a Biologist (second edition; London: Chatto and Windus, 1923), by Julian Huxley (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Reading the Comments: Likers, Haters, and Manipulators at the Bottom of the Web (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2015), by Joseph M. Reagle (illustrated HTML with commentary at MIT Press)

• Ending Book Hunger: Access to Print Across Barriers of Class and Culture (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, c2019), by Lea Bishop Shaver (PDF with commentary at bookhunger.org)

• Violence and Disruption in Society: A Study of the Early Buddhist Texts, by Elizabeth J. Harris (HTML at Access to Insight)
• Buddhism and Social Action: An Exploration, by Ken Jones (HTML at Access to Insight)

• Icon, Brand, Myth: The Calgary Stampede (Edmonton: AU Press, c2008), ed. by Max Foran (PDF with commentary at AU Press)

• Who Survives Cancer? (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), by Howard P. Greenwald (HTML at UC Press)

• Knocking the Hustle: Against the Neoliberal Turn in Black Politics (Brooklyn: Punctum Books, c2015), by Lester K. Spence (PDF with commentary at OAPEN)
• The Critique of Digital Capitalism: An Analysis of the Political Economy of Digital Culture and Technology (Brooklyn: Punctum Books, c2015), by Michael Betancourt (PDF with commentary at OAPEN)

• Mapping Society: The Spatial Dimensions of Social Cartography (London: UCL Press, c2018), by Laura Vaughan (PDF with commentary at UCL Press)

• Bonesetting, Chiropractic, and Cultism (1963, with a 2000 afterword), by Samuel Homola (HTML at chirobase.org)

• Some Social Remedies: Socialism, Anarchy, Henry Georgism and the Land Question, Communism, Etc. (Christchurch: Free Age Press, 1900), by Leo Tolstoy (bound with other pamphlets: multiple formats at archive.org)

• Cities Made of Boundaries: Mapping Social Life in Urban Form (London: UCL Press, c2018), by Benjamin N. Vis (PDF with commentary at UCL Press)

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