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  • "You Are Not Expected to Understand This"

    How 26 Lines of Code Changed the World

    Edited by Torie Bosch ...
    Leading technologists, historians, and journalists reveal the stories behind the computer coding that touches all aspects of life—for better or worseFew of us give much thought to computer code or how it comes to be. The very word “code” makes it sound immutable or even inevitable. “You Are Not Expected to Understand This” demonstrates that, far from being preordained, computer code is the result ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • #1news2cents la qualità costa! un modello sociale per l’editoria (online)

    Questo libro arriva alla fine di un percorso di ricerca durato quattro anni e iniziato con un obiettivo molto ambizioso: individuare una soluzione per recuperare il ruolo del giornalismo in Italia e, quindi, risollevare le sorti di un comparto in crisi.L’osservazione dell’evoluzione del mercato editoriale e lo studio di alcuni argomenti specifici (la teoria dei bisogni di Maslow, i principi del ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 100 Ideas that Changed the World

    by Jheni Osman ...
    Every once in a while, an idea comes along that makes the entire world sit up and take notice. From the earliest understandings of our place in the solar system, via Darwinism, DNA, neutrons and quarks, right up to the theories that are pushing the boundaries of our knowledge today, we are forever propelled forward by our most gifted scientific minds.In this fascinating book, former BBC Focus ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • 100 Under $100

    One Hundred Tools for Empowering Global Women

    by Betsy Teutsch ...
    100 Under $100: One Hundred Tools for Empowering Global Women is a comprehensive look at effective, low-cost solutions for helping women in the Global South out of poverty. Most books on this subject focus on one problem and one solution; author Betsy Teutsch instead spreads her net wide, sharing one hundred successful, proven paths out of poverty in eleven different sectors—including tech, public ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • 12 Bytes

    “Witty [and] provocative” essays on how AI might change us by the New York Times–bestselling author of Why Be Happy When You Can Be Normal? (Kirkus Reviews).When we create non-biological life-forms, will we do so in our image? Or will we accept the once-in-a-species opportunity to remake ourselves in their image? What do love, caring, sex, and attachment look like when humans form connections with ... Read more

    $20.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 18 Rules of Community Engagement

    by Angela Connor ...
    A study of more than 100 businesses with online communities found that 35% had less than 100 members and less than 25% had more than 1,000 members. The consultant's recommendation who conducted the study was "Put someone who has experience running an online community in charge of the project." Here's your chance to learn from someone with experience. In "18 Ways to Engage Users Online," Angela ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • 21st Century Robot

    The Dr. Simon Egerton Stories

    When companies develop a new technology, do they ask how it might affect the people who will actually use it? That, more or less, sums up Brian David Johnson’s duties as Intel’s futurist-in-residence. In this fascinating book, Johnson provides a collection of science fiction prototyping stories that attempt to answer the question.These stories focus on the same theme: scientists and thinkers ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • 5G. Everything you Need to Know

    All the truth about the unknown hazards of electro-magnetic field (EMF) radiation

    by Claude Kramer ...
    5G is a large scale leap, a new paradigm, a revolution. Everything from the washing machine to baby diapers will be connected to the Internet, and everyone on the planet will have instant access to each other and to everything. Each one of our interactions will remain as an indelible mark. But for this to happen, a new infrastructure with a much denser network is required. 5G uses high-frequency ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Billion Little Pieces

    RFID and Infrastructures of Identification

    by Jordan Frith ...
    Series series Infrastructures
    How RFID, a ubiquitous but often invisible mobile technology, identifies tens of billions of objects as they move through the world.RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) is ubiquitous but often invisible, a mobile technology used by more people more often than any flashy smartphone app. RFID systems use radio waves to communicate identifying information, transmitting data from a tag that carries ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • A Brief History of Tomorrow: How The Experts Usually Screw Up (Future Forecasting)

    A fascinating look at the future, as you’ve never seen it. Ten years from now, will we have a tiny personal computer surgically inserted in an earlobe, capable of connecting to phone lines and the internet? Fifty years from now, will atomic-sized robots replace surgeons? A hundred years from now, instead of taking the bus, will we simply teleport to work? It all may sound like impossible science ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Case Study for Computer Ethics in Context

    The Scandal in Academia

    Aimed at addressing the difficulties associated with teaching often abstract elements of technical ethics, this book is an extended fictional case study into the complexities of technology and social structures in complex organizations. Within this case study, an accidental discovery reveals that the algorithms of Professor John Blackbriar are not quite what they were purported to be. Over the ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • A Christian Field Guide to Technology for Engineers and Designers

    Our technology shapes the way we live, interact, work, play, and even worship. Technology and its power are both old and new—as is the wisdom we need to envision, design, build, and use it well. For Christians passionate about developing technology, it's not always clear how their faith and work intersect. How can designing and using technology actually be a way of loving God and our neighbors? ... Read more

    $27.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Citizen's Guide to Artificial Intelligence

    A concise but informative overview of AI ethics and policy.Artificial intelligence, or AI for short, has generated a staggering amount of hype in the past several years. Is it the game-changer it's been cracked up to be? If so, how is it changing the game? How is it likely to affect us as customers, tenants, aspiring home-owners, students, educators, patients, clients, prison inmates, members of ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • A Crowd of One

    The Future of Individual Identity

    Great leaps forward in scientific understanding have, throughout history, engendered similar leaps forward in how we understand ourselves. Now, the new hybrid disciplines of evolutionary biology and social physics are making the next leap possible -- and fundamentally altering our notions of individual identity. If identity is a fact not derived from within the individual, but conferred on an ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • A Dangerous Master

    How to Keep Technology from Slipping Beyond Our Control

    We live in an age of awesome technological potential. From nanotechnology to synthetic organisms, new technologies stand to revolutionize whole domains of human experience. But with awesome potential comes awesome risk: drones can deliver a bomb as readily as they can a new smartphone; makers and hackers can 3D-print guns as well as tools; and supercomputers can short-circuit Wall Street just as ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • A Deadly Wandering

    A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age

    by Matt Richtel ...
    "Deserves a spot next to Fast Food Nation and To Kill a Mockingbird in America’s high school curriculums. To say it may save lives is self-evident.” —New York Times Book Review (Editor's Choice)NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: San Francisco Chronicle, Chrisitian Science Monitor, Kirkus, Winnipeg Free PressOne of the decade's most original and masterfully reported books, A ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • A Equação do Futuro: Equilíbrio entre a Humanidade e a Tecnologia: Uma Coleção de Ensaios

    by Mekiki ...
    Num universo onde as fronteiras do conhecimento são constantemente expandidas, somos confrontados com um enigma fascinante: o contraste entre um cenário de inovação espantosa e uma crescente desigualdade social. O livro "A Equação do Futuro: Equilíbrio entre a Humanidade e Tecnologia" convida-o a embarcar numa jornada emocionante através desta realidade complexa, iluminando o caminho para um ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Future for Public Service Television

    Edited by Des Freedman, Vana Goblot ...
    A guide to the nature, purpose, and place of public service television within a multi-platform, multichannel ecology.Television is on the verge of both decline and rebirth. Vast technological change has brought about financial uncertainty as well as new creative possibilities for producers, distributors, and viewers. This volume from Goldsmiths Press examines not only the unexpected resilience of ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • A Hinge of History

    Governance in an Emerging New World

    The world is at an inflection point. Advancing technologies are creating new opportunities and challenges. Great demographic changes are occurring rapidly, with significant consequences. Governance everywhere is in disarray. A new world is emerging.These are some of the key insights to emerge from a series of interdisciplinary roundtables and global expert contributions hosted by the Hoover ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A History of Modern Computing, second edition

    Series series History of Computing
    From the first digital computer to the dot-com crash—a story of individuals, institutions, and the forces that led to a series of dramatic transformations.This engaging history covers modern computing from the development of the first electronic digital computer through the dot-com crash. The author concentrates on five key moments of transition: the transformation of the computer in the late ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • A History of Place in the Digital Age

    by Stuart Dunn ...
    Series series Digital Research in the Arts and Humanities
    A History of Place in the Digital Age explores the history and impact of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and related digital mapping technologies in humanities research. Providing a historical and methodological discussion of place in the most important primary materials which make up the human record, including text and artefacts, the book explains how these materials frame, form and ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • A History of Technoscience

    Erasing the Boundaries between Science and Technology

    Series series History and Philosophy of Technoscience
    Are science and technology independent of one another? Is technology dependent upon science, and if so, how is it dependent? Is science dependent upon technology, and if so how is it dependent? Or, are science and technology becoming so interdependent that the line dividing them has become totally erased? This book charts the history of technoscience from the late nineteenth century to the end of ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • A Life Lived Remotely

    What happens when we take our lives online? How are we being changed by immersion in the internet? How do we know the difference between work and life when one seems to blend into the other?Part memoir, part theory, A Life Lived Remotely tells the story of a transition to the digital age. It follows the author's journey through remote work, framing it within the exponential growth of the internet ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • A máquina da vergonha

    by Cathy O'Neil ...
    Translated by Rafael Abraham ...
    ESCOLHA DOS EDITORES DO THE NEW YORK TIMESELEITO COMO UM DOS MELHORES LIVROS DO ANO PELO THE TIMESDa mesma autora do best-seller Algoritmos de Destruição em Massa, um alerta claro sobre a influência destrutiva do "complexo industrial da vergonha"."Cathy O'Neil encoraja os leitores a pensar profundamente não apenas sobre o que é a vergonha, mas para que ela pode servir. Uma resposta à nossa ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus