Social Aspects
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Thinking Better: The Art of the Shortcut in Math and Life
$30.00 Read moreOne of the world’s great mathematicians shows why math is the ultimate timesaver–and how everyone can make their lives easier with a few simple shortcuts.
We are often told that hard work is the key- Author: Du Sautoy, Marcus
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 19 2021
- ISBN10: 1541600363
- Language: English
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The Internet Is for Cats: How Animal Images Shape Our Digital Lives
$27.95 Read moreLOL cats. Grumpy Cat. Dog-rating Twitter. Pet Instagram accounts. It’s generally understood the internet is for pictures of cute cats (and dogs, and otters, and pandas). But what motivates people to m… [more below]
- Author: Maddox, Jessica
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 254
- Publish Date: October 14 2022
- ISBN10: 1978827911
- Language: English
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Air Age Blueprint
$0.00 Read moreHow can humans and non-humans come together to save the planet in an age of climate crisis? In recent years, we have seen a rise in the popular understanding of non-human intelligence, from octopi to … [more below]
- Author: Allado-McDowell, K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: February 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1838003959
- Language: English
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Technically Wrong: Sexist Apps, Biased Algorithms, and Other Threats of Toxic Tech
$15.95 Read moreBuying groceries, tracking our health, finding a date: whatever we want to do, odds are that we can now do it online. But few of us realize just how many oversights, biases, and downright ethical nigh
- Author: Wachter-Boettcher, Sara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 16 2018
- ISBN10: 0393356043
- Language: English
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Voices in the Code: A Story about People, Their Values, and the Algorithm They Made
$48.75 Read moreAlgorithms-rules written into software-shape key moments in our lives: from who gets hired or admitted to a top public school, to who should go to jail or receive scarce public benefits. Today, high s
- Author: Robinson, David G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 212
- Publish Date: September 08 2022
- ISBN10: 0871547775
- Language: English
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Robot-Proof: Higher Education in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
$19.95 Read moreHow to educate the next generation of college students to invent, to create, and to discover–filling needs that even the most sophisticated robot cannot.
Driverless cars are hitting the road, powered
- Series: Mit Press
- Author: Aoun, Joseph E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 210
- Publish Date: August 14 2018
- ISBN10: 0262535971
- Language: English
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Life Beyond Likes: Logging Off Your Screen and Into Your Life
$27.95 Read moreWith so much of our lives lived online, we’ve never been more connected–or disconnected from what’s most important to us.
It’s time to let go of our curated online worlds and get beyond our need for- Author: Watson, Isa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 163774093X
- Language: English
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Health Design Thinking, Second Edition: Creating Products and Services for Better Health
$19.95 Read moreA practice-based guide to applying the principles of human-centered design to real-world health challenges; updated and expanded with post-COVID-19 innovations.
This book offers a practice-based guid
- Author: Ku, Bon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 228
- Publish Date: February 22 2022
- ISBN10: 0262543605
- Language: English
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Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber
$18.95 Add to cartHailed as the definitive book on Uber and Silicon Valley, Super Pumped is an epic story of ambition and deception, obscene wealth, and bad behavior that explores how blistering technological and finan
- Author: Isaac, Mike
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0393358615
- Language: English
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You’ve Been Played: How Corporations, Governments, and Schools Use Games to Control Us All
$30.00 Read moreHow games are being harnessed as instruments of exploitation–and what we can do about it
Warehouse workers pack boxes while a virtual dragon races across their screen. If they beat their colleagues,- Author: Hon, Adrian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 20 2022
- ISBN10: 1541600177
- Language: English
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Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us about Who We Really Are
$28.99 Read moreAn Economist Best Book of the Year
A PBS NewsHour Book of the Year
An Entrepeneur Top Business Book
An Amazon Best Book of the Year in Business and Leadership
New York Times Bestseller
Foreword by Steven
- Author: Stephens-Davidowitz, Seth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 09 2017
- ISBN10: 0062390856
- Language: English
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Supervision: On Motherhood and Surveillance
$35.00 Read moreA wide-ranging, first-of-its-kind anthology of art and writing exploring how surveillance impacts contemporary motherhood.
The tracking of our personal information, activities, and medical data throug- Author: Hamacher, Sophie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 0262047810
- Language: English
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Fertility Technology
$16.95 Read moreA concise overview of fertility technology–its history, practical applications, and ethical and social implications around the world.
In the late 1850s, a physician in New York City used a syringe an- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Drucker, Donna J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0262544695
- Language: English
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Unsupervised: Navigating and Influencing a World Controlled by Powerful New Technologies
$30.00 Read moreHow a broad range of new immensely powerful technologies is disrupting and transforming every corner of our reality–and why you must act and adapt
Unsupervised: Navigating and Influencing a World Con
- Author: Doll-Steinberg, Daniel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 13 2023
- ISBN10: 1394209908
- Language: English
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Interconnected Realities: How the Metaverse Will Transform Our Relationship with Technology Forever
$28.00 Read moreExplore how the metaverse is changing our lives in this fast-paced, informative, and fresh take on where technology is leading us
In Interconnected Realities, Leslie Shannon, Head of Trend and Innovati
- Author: Shannon, Leslie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1394160844
- Language: English
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Making a Metaverse That Matters: From Snow Crash & Second Life to a Virtual World Worth Fighting for
$32.00 Read moreAn up-close account from the world’s first metaverse-embedded reporter
In Making a Metaverse That Matters: From Snow Crash & Second Life to A Virtual World Worth Fighting For, the celebrated author of
- Author: Au, Wagner James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 1394155816
- Language: English
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The World Is Flat 3.0: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century (Further Updated and Expanded)
$24.00 Read moreA New Edition of the Phenomenal #1 Bestseller
“One mark of a great book is that it makes you see things in a new way, and Mr. Friedman certainly succeeds in that goal,” the Nobel laureate Joseph E. St- Author: Friedman, Thomas L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: July 24 2007
- ISBN10: 0312425074
- Language: English
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Team Human
$17.99 Add to cartTeam Human is a manifesto–a fiery distillation of preeminent digital theorist Douglas Rushkoff’s most urgent thoughts on civilization and human nature. In one hundred lean and incisive statements, h
- Author: Rushkoff, Douglas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 12 2021
- ISBN10: 0393541533
- Language: English
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Proof of Stake: The Making of Ethereum and the Philosophy of Blockchains
$18.95 Read moreThe new book from one of TIME’s 2021 most influential people
“A crucial contribution to development of a new technology that will impact all of our lives.”
Author was in Forbes 30 Under 30 Hall of Fame- Author: Buterin, Vitalik
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 27 2022
- ISBN10: 164421248X
- Language: English
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How to Stay Smart in a Smart World: Why Human Intelligence Still Beats Algorithms
$29.95 Read moreHow to stay in charge in a world populated by algorithms that beat us in chess, find us romantic partners, and tell us to “turn right in 500 yards.”
Doomsday prophets of technology predict that robots- Author: Gigerenzer, Gerd
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 02 2022
- ISBN10: 0262046954
- Language: English
