Social Aspects
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Technology for Good: How Nonprofit Leaders Are Using Software and Data to Solve Our Most Pressing Social Problems
$29.95 Add to cartA visionary guide to using technology for positive social change, from a MacArthur genius awardee, former rocket engineer, and passionate leader in the social enterprise movement.
The accepted wisdom- Author: Fruchterman, Jim
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 0262050978
- Language: English
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The Body Digital: A Brief History of Humans and Machines from Cuckoo Clocks to ChatGPT
$19.99 Add to cartA dazzling tour of the history of technology and its complex relationship to the human body
What is the relationship between our bodies and our senses and technology? In today’s world of blinding tech- Author: Chang, Vanessa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1685891977
- Language: English
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Rewiring Democracy: How AI Will Transform Our Politics, Government, and Citizenship
$29.95 Add to cartFrom the New York Times-bestselling author of The Hacker’s Mind and Data & Goliath, an informative and wide-ranging exploration of how AI will alter every facet of democracy, and how to harness the te… [more below]
- Series: Strong Ideas
- Author: Schneier, Bruce
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 0262049945
- Language: English
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What Is Intelligence?: Lessons from AI about Evolution, Computing, and Minds
$36.95 Add to cartWhat intelligence really is, and how AI’s emergence is a natural consequence of evolution.
It has come as a shock to some AI researchers that a large neural net that predicts next words seems to produ- Series: The Antikythera
- Author: Aguera Y. Arcas, Blaise
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 600
- Publish Date: September 23 2025
- ISBN10: 0262049953
- Language: English
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The Paradox of Progress: Book 2: The Roses and Thorns of Artificial Intelligence
$28.99 Add to cartWith opportunity comes uncertainty.
An industrial revolution has begun: artificial intelligence is creating a cultural upheaval.
But is this progress or peril? Is the potential really worth the risk?
In
- Author: M. Karch, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: September 16 2025
- ISBN10: 1544549296
- Language: English
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Machines of Loving Grace: The Quest for Common Ground Between Humans and Robots
$18.99 Add to cartAs robots are increasingly integrated into modern society–on the battlefield and the road, in business, education, and health–Pulitzer-Prize-winning New York Times science writer John Markoff search
- Author: Markoff, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: August 16 2016
- ISBN10: 0062266691
- Language: English
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A Christian Field Guide to Technology for Engineers and Designers
$29.99 Add to cartTechnology and its power are both old and new-as is the wisdom needed to envision, design, and use it well. In this field guide for Christians studying and working in technology, case studies, histori
- Author: Brue, Ethan J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 19 2022
- ISBN10: 1514001004
- Language: English
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Wired Wisdom: How to Age Better Online
$20.00 Add to cartA surprising window into the online lives of people sixty and over–offering essential insights, no matter your age.
Many popular accounts say the older you are, the greater your tech struggles. And- Author: Hargittai, Eszter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: July 09 2025
- ISBN10: 0226841391
- Language: English
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The Warrior’s Garden: Tools for Guarding Your Mind Against Big Tech
$27.95 Add to cartIn a world dominated by screens and algorithms, who is truly in control?
Every time you pick up the phone, you’re being manipulated. With every site you visit and post you make, your behavior is being
- Author: Ryan, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 306
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 1544548087
- Language: English
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The Line: AI and the Future of Personhood
$32.95 Add to cartHow AI will challenge our ideas about personhood.
Chatbots like ChatGPT have challenged human exceptionalism: we are no longer the only beings capable of generating language and ideas fluently. But is- Author: Boyle, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 0262049163
- Language: English
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Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans (with a New Preface)
$20.00 Add to cartNamed One of the Five Best Books on AI by The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal
No technological development in recent history has generated as much excitement and terror–both utopian vision- Author: Mitchell, Melanie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1250404851
- Language: English
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Digital Exhaustion: Simple Rules for Reclaiming Your Life
$30.00 Add to cartA revelatory examination of why you’re feeling so worn out–and practical daily strategies to change your relationship with your devices.
Unplugging is not a long-term solution for the stress caused- Author: Leonardi, Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 0593851234
- Language: English
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The Global Soul: Jet Lag, Shopping Malls, and the Search for Home
$19.00 Add to cartFrom the acclaimed author of Video Nights in Kathmandu comes this intriguing new book that deciphers the cultural ramifications of globalization and the rising tide of worldwide displacement.
Beginni- Series: Vintage Departures
- Author: Iyer, Pico
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 13 2001
- ISBN10: 0679776117
- Language: English
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The Seven Rules of Trust: A Blueprint for Building Things That Last
$30.00 Add to cartFrom the founder of Wikipedia, a sweeping reflection on the global crisis of credibility and knowledge, revealing “the rules of trust” that transformed Wikipedia from a scrappy experiment into a globa… [more below]
- Author: Wales, Jimmy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 0593727460
- Language: English
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Welcome to the Metaverse: Unlocking the Potential of Virtual Worlds
$32.00 Add to cartA clear-eyed guide to the metaverse and how this powerful technology–along with advances in spatial computing, VR, and AR–will impact our economy, our lives, and our world.
The metaverse. That term e
- Author: Shrier, David L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: July 08 2025
- ISBN10: 1647827639
- Language: English
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Blown to Bits: Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness After the Digital Explosion
$24.99 Add to cartWhat you must know to protect yourself today
The digital technology explosion has blown everything to bits–and the blast has provided new challenges and opportunities. This second edition of Blown t- Author: Abelson, Hal
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: December 05 2020
- ISBN10: 0134850017
- Language: English
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Rad Future: The Untold Story of Nuclear Electricity and How It Will Save the World
$30.00 Add to cartWe’re running out of time. Fossil fuels are choking the planet and renewable energy isn’t cutting it. The solution has been hiding in plain sight all along.
Nuclear. When most people hear that word, t- Author: Boemeke, Isabelle
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 12 2025
- ISBN10: 0593716329
- Language: English
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Language Machines: Cultural AI and the End of Remainder Humanism Volume 74
$27.95 Add to cartHow generative AI systems capture a core function of language
Looking at the emergence of generative AI, Language Machines presents a new theory of meaning in language and computation, arguing that hu
- Series: PostHumanities
- Author: Weatherby, Leif
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: June 24 2025
- ISBN10: 1517919320
- Language: English
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$20.99 Add to cartShortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction
Named a best book of the year by Esquire, The Spectator and Publishers Weekly
A riveting story of what it means to be human in a world changed by artifi- Author: Murgia, Madhumita
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 17 2025
- ISBN10: 1250868483
- Language: English
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Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do about It
$30.00 Add to cartEnshittification: it’s not just you–the internet sucks now. Here’s why, and here’s how we can disenshittify it.
We’re living through the Enshittocene, the Great Enshittening, a time in which the serv- Author: Doctorow, Cory
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 0374619328
- Language: English
