Social Aspects
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Sedition Hunters: How January 6th Broke the Justice System
$32.50 Add to cartThe January 6th attack is an unprecedented crime in American history. Sprawling and openly political, it can’t be handled by the traditional rules and norms of law enforcement–threatening the very id… [more below]
- Author: Reilly, Ryan J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1541701801
- Language: English
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Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement
$22.00 Add to cartWhen bioethicist and professor Ashley Shew became a self-described “hard-of-hearing chemobrained amputee with Crohn’s disease and tinnitus,” there was no returning to “normal.” Suddenly well-meaning p
- Series: A Norton Short
- Author: Shew, Ashley
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 19, 2023
- ISBN10: 1324036664
- Language: English
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Broken Code: Inside Facebook and the Fight to Expose Its Harmful Secrets
$32.50 Read moreTHE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS’ CHOICE – By an award-winning technology reporter for The Wall Street Journal, a behind-the-scenes look at the manipulative tactics Facebook used to grow its bus… [more below]
- Author: Horwitz, Jeff
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 0385549180
- Language: English
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Extremely Online: The Untold Story of Fame, Influence, and Power on the Internet
$29.99 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER
Acclaimed Washington Post reporter Taylor Lorenz presents a groundbreaking social history of the internet, revealing how online influence and the creators who amass it have reshape… [more below]- Author: Lorenz, Taylor
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 03, 2023
- ISBN10: 1982146869
- Language: English
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Recoding America: Why Government Is Failing in the Digital Age and How We Can Do Better
$31.99 Add to cartNamed one of NPR’s Best Books of 2023
Learn more about Jennifer Pahlka’s work at recodingamerica.us. “The book I
Named one of Ezra Klein’s “Books That Explain Where We Are in 2023,” The New York Times- Author: Pahlka, Jennifer
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 13, 2023
- ISBN10: 1250266777
- Language: English
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Quantum Supremacy: How the Quantum Computer Revolution Will Change Everything
$30.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – An exhilarating tour of humanity’s next great technological achievement–quantum computing–which may supercharge artificial intelligence, solve some of humanity’s biggest
- Author: Kaku, Michio
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 02, 2023
- ISBN10: 0385548362
- Language: English
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The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-First Century’s Greatest Dilemma
$32.50 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – An urgent warning of the unprecedented risks that AI and other fast-developing technologies pose to global order, and how we might contain them while we have the chance–fr… [more below]
- Author: Suleyman, Mustafa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 0593593952
- Language: English
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The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country
$15.99 Add to cartThe instant #1 New York Times bestseller and #1 USA Today bestseller
Amanda Gorman’s electrifying and historic poem “The Hill We Climb,” read at President Joe Biden’s inauguration, is now available a- Author: Gorman, Amanda
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: March 30, 2021
- ISBN10: 059346527X
- Language: English
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Technological Slavery: Enhanced Edition Volume 1
$24.95 Add to cartLogical, lucid, and direct, Technological Slavery radically reinvigorates and reforms the intellectual foundations of an age-old and resurgent world-view: “Progress” is a myth. Wild nature and humanit… [more below]
- Author: Kaczynski, Theodore John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 355
- Publish Date: July 18 2022
- ISBN10: 1944228039
- Language: English
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The Myth of Artificial Intelligence: Why Computers Can’t Think the Way We Do
$19.95 Add to cart“Exposes the vast gap between the actual science underlying AI and the dramatic claims being made for it.”
“If you want to know about AI, read this book…It shows how a supposedly futuri
–John Horgan- Author: Larson, Erik J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 0674278666
- Language: English
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Stolen Focus: Why You Can’t Pay Attention–And How to Think Deeply Again
$30.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – Our ability to pay attention is collapsing. From the author of Chasing the Scream and Lost Connections comes a groundbreaking examination of why this is happening–and how … [more below]
- Author: Hari, Johann
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: January 25, 2022
- ISBN10: 0593138511
- Language: English
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Neuromined: Triumphing Over Technological Tyranny
$26.95 Read more- Author: Grant, Robert Edward
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: July 25, 2023
- ISBN10: 1639080341
- Language: English
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Swipe Up for More!: Inside the Unfiltered Lives of Influencers
$29.00 Add to cartAn unfiltered, colorful romp through the IRL world of influencers that spills the tea on the multibillion-dollar industry of content creation.
If you’re anything like journalist Stephanie McNeal–aka,- Author: McNeal, Stephanie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 06, 2023
- ISBN10: 0593418603
- Language: English
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I Am Code: An Artificial Intelligence Speaks: Poems
$17.99 Add to cartA “fascinating, terrifying” (JJ Abrams) cautionary tale about the destructive power of AI–an autobiographical thriller written in verse by an AI itself, with context from top writers and scientists,
- Author: Code-Davinci-002
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: August 01, 2023
- ISBN10: 0316560065
- Language: English
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The Power of One: How I Found the Strength to Tell the Truth and Why I Blew the Whistle on Facebook
$30.00 Read moreThe inside story of one woman’s quest to bring transparency and accountability to Big Tech, by the Facebook whistleblower who is determined to help us all retake control of our lives.
In 2021, when n- Author: Haugen, Frances
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 13 2023
- ISBN10: 031647522X
- Language: English
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The Software Developer’s Career Handbook: A Guide to Navigating the Unpredictable
$45.99 Add to cartAt some point in your career, you’ll realize there’s more to being a software engineer than dealing with code. Is it time to become a manager? Or join a startup? In this insightful and entertaining bo
- Author: Lopp, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 318
- Publish Date: September 19, 2023
- ISBN10: 1098116674
- Language: English
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Means of Control: How the Hidden Alliance of Tech and Government Is Creating a New American Surveillance State
$32.00 Add to cartYou are being surveilled right now. This sweeping exposé reveals how the U.S. government allied with data brokers, tech companies, and advertisers to monitor us through the phones we carry and the de… [more below]
- Author: Tau, Byron
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 27, 2024
- ISBN10: 0593443225
- Language: English
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System Error: Where Big Tech Went Wrong and How We Can Reboot
$21.99 Add to cart“System Error is a triumph: an analysis of the critical challenges facing our digital society that is as accessible as it is sophisticated.” — Anne-Marie Slaughter, CEO of New America
A forward-thinki
- Author: Reich, Rob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 0063251310
- Language: English
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You Are Not Expected to Understand This: How 26 Lines of Code Changed the World
$19.95 Add to cartLeading technologists, historians, and journalists reveal the stories behind the computer coding that touches all aspects of life–for better or worse
Few of us give much thought to computer code or h- Author: Bosch, Torie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: November 15, 2022
- ISBN10: 0691208484
- Language: English
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How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
$19.99 Add to cart** A New York Times Bestseller **
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY: Time – The New Yorker – NPR – GQ – Elle – Vulture – Fortune – Boing Boing – The Irish Times – The New York Public Library- Author: Odell, Jenny
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: December 29 2020
- ISBN10: 1612198554
- Language: English
