Bøker av James E. Katz

Julian Simon was known for his methodical, and often controversial, writings challenging conventional beliefs about overpopulation, pollution, disappearing farmland, and the scarcity of energy sources and raw materials

A textbook on the basics of social-scientific research. It discusses all the important empirical methods used in social science, and its examples are drawn from a wide variety of academic and applied fields, illustrating the use of each method in its appropriate context.

This work examines how the telephone reveals gender relations in a way not predicted by feminist theories, how it can be used to protect and invade personal privacy, and how people harness telephone answering machines to their advantage.

Social critics and artificial intelligence experts have long prophesized that computers and robots would soon relegate humans to the dustbin of history. This work explores the increasingly intimate relationship between people and their personal communication technologies.