Privacy & Surveillance
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Permanent Record
$19.99 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Edward Snowden, the man who risked everything to expose the US government’s system of mass surveillance, reveals for the first time the story of his life, including how he he- Author: Snowden, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1250772907
- Language: English
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The Conviction Machine: Prosecutors, Politicians, and Police Violence in Chicago
$24.95 Read moreA captivating account of the most corrupt and blood-soaked chapters in Chicago law enforcement history
In December 1969, the FBI, the Chicago Police Department, and the office of States Attorney, led
- Author: Taylor, Flint
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 19 2026
- ISBN10: 9798888905920
- Language: English
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Little Blue Dot: How GPS Shaped the Modern World
$29.99 Read moreThe unexplored history of the GPS, a military technology turned daily necessity that impacts all matters economic, social, and cultural.
Gone are the days when we pulled off to the side of the road,- Author: Dunn, Katherine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 16 2026
- ISBN10: 1639734317
- Language: English
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Privacy’s Defender: My Thirty-Year Fight Against Digital Surveillance
$29.95 Add to cartA personal chronicle of three key legal privacy battles that have defined the digital age and shaped the internet as we know it.
From a seasoned leader in the field of digital privacy rights. Througho- Author: Cohn, Cindy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: March 10 2026
- ISBN10: 0262051249
- Language: English
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Prophecy: Prediction, Power, and the Fight for the Future, from Ancient Oracles to AI
$35.00 Add to cartFrom an award-winning University of Oxford professor comes a brilliant, urgent new look at prophecies–the predictions that determine our lives, from our personal finances and the quality of our healt… [more below]
- Author: Veliz, Carissa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 21 2026
- ISBN10: 0385550979
- Language: English
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Dark Screens: Hackers and Heroes in the Shadowy World of Ransomware
$30.00 Add to cartA riveting account of major ransomware attacks and their devastating consequences, revealing how exposed we really are–and how we can protect ourselves
Imagine opening your computer only to find eve- Author: Shortland, Anja
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 28 2026
- ISBN10: 1541705750
- Language: English
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The Information State: Politics in the Age of Total Control
$29.99 Add to cartWe’re constantly told that disinformation is everywhere and that it’s ruining our democracy. But what if the war on disinformation itself is really just a weapon to squash any and all legitimate disse
- Author: Siegel, Jacob
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 24 2026
- ISBN10: 1250363128
- Language: English
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Dragnet Nation: A Quest for Privacy, Security, and Freedom in a World of Relentless Surveillance
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An inside look at who’s watching you, what they know and why it matters. We are being watched.
We see online ads from websites we’ve visited, long after we’ve moved on to other interests. Our smartphon- Author: Angwin, Julia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 10 2015
- ISBN10: 1250060869
- Language: English
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Farewell to Westphalia: Crypto Sovereignty and Post-Nation-State Governance
$19.99 Add to cartIn 1648, the Peace of Westphalia marked the end of the Thirty Years’ War – an event in which Catholics and Protestants had clashed across Northern Europe. The settlement not only ended the conflict bu
- Author: Hope, Jarrad
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 16 2025
- ISBN10: 3952627518
- Language: English
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They Know Everything about You: How Data-Collecting Corporations and Snooping Government Agencies Are Destroying Democracy
$19.99 Add to cartThey Know Everything About You is a groundbreaking expos’ of how government agencies and tech corporations monitor virtually every aspect of our lives, and a fierce defense of privacy and democracy.
- Author: Scheer, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 23 2016
- ISBN10: 1568585187
- Language: English
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Strangers and Intimates: The Rise and Fall of Private Life
$28.99 Add to cartAs heard on BBC Radio 4’s ‘Start the Week’
‘Brilliantly original . . . endlessly fascinating’ – Alice Loxton, author of Eighteen
‘An intricate cultural history . . . thought-provoking’ – The Sunday Time- Author: Jenkins, Tiffany
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 29 2025
- ISBN10: 1529034167
- Language: English
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Invisible Rulers: The People Who Turn Lies Into Reality
$34.00 Add to cartAn “essential and riveting” (Jonathan Haidt) account of the small communities of propagandists revolutionizing politics, culture, and society
Invisible Rulers is about a profound transformation in po
- Author: DiResta, Renee
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: June 11 2024
- ISBN10: 1541703375
- Language: English
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Our Biggest Fight: Reclaiming Liberty, Humanity, and Dignity in the Digital Age
$28.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – The internet as we know it is broken. Here’s how we can seize back control of our lives from the corporate algorithms and create a better internet–before it’s too late.
“In the- Author: McCourt, Frank H.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 12 2024
- ISBN10: 0593728513
- Language: English
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Cyber Citizens: Saving Democracy with Digital Literacy
$28.95 Add to cartA grounding exploration of how our online prowess shapes the very essence of democracy
The electronic age compels us to confront the delicate balance between the convenience of constant connectivity a- Author: Boghosian, Heidi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 24 2025
- ISBN10: 0807010847
- Language: English
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Against Platforms: Surviving Digital Utopia
$19.99 Add to cartA bold and imaginative critique of the hidden costs of digital life – and a manifesto for a better future . . .
At the turn of the millennium, digital technologies seemed to have immense promise for t- Series: Activist Citizens’ Library
- Author: Pepi, Mike
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1685891373
- Language: English
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The Preventive State: The Challenge of Preventing Serious Harms While Preserving Essential Liberties
$29.99 Add to cartYou shall thank Alan Dershowitz for writing this [valuable] book.
—Stephen Breyer, Former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court
If reliable but uncertain intelligence predicted a mass casualty terror… [more below]
- Author: Dershowitz, Alan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 20 2025
- ISBN10: 1641774401
- Language: English
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The Known Citizen: A History of Privacy in Modern America
$30.33 Add to cartA Washington Post Book of the Year
“A masterful study of privacy.”
Winner of the Merle Curti Award
Winner of the Jacques Barzun Prize
Winner of the Ralph Waldo Emerson Award
–Sue Halpern, New York Review- Author: Igo, Sarah E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: March 10 2020
- ISBN10: 0674244796
- Language: English
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Why We Fear AI: On the Interpretation of Nightmares
$20.00 Add to cartFears about AI tell us more about capitalism today than technology in the future.
Will AI come and take all our jobs? Will it dominate humanity, hack the foundations of our civilization, or even wipe h… [more below]
- Author: Blix, Hagen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: March 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1945335173
- Language: English
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The Drone Age: How Drone Technology Will Change War and Peace
$34.99 Add to cartIn The Drone Age, Michael J. Boyle addresses some of the biggest questions surrounding the impact of drones on our world today and the risks that we might face tomorrow. Will drones produce a safer wo… [more below]
- Author: Boyle, Michael J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: July 01 2020
- ISBN10: 019063586X
- Language: English
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The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World
$19.95 Read moreHow Israel makes a killing from the occupation of Palestine
**WINNER OF THE 2023 WALKLEY NON FICTION JOURNALISM PRIZE**
**Shortlisted for the 2023 Moore Prize for Human Rights Writing** Israel’s milita- Author: Loewenstein, Antony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1839762098
- Language: English
