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  • The Circus Age

    Culture and Society under the American Big Top

    A century ago, daily life ground to a halt when the circus rolled into town. Across America, banks closed, schools canceled classes, farmers left their fields, and factories shut down so that everyone could go to the show. In this entertaining and provocative book, Janet Davis links the flowering of the early-twentieth-century American railroad circus to such broader historical developments as the ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Driver in the Driverless Car

    How Your Technology Choices Create the Future

    “[An] excellent and wide-ranging review of our responses to accelerating technological change” from the authors of Your Happiness Was Hacked (Financial Times).Tech experts Vivek Wadhwa and Alex Salkever describe dozens of astonishing technological advances in this fascinating and thought-provoking book, which asks what kind of future lies ahead—Star Trek or Mad Max?Breakthroughs such as ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • NSA Secrets

    Government Spying in the Internet Age

    The Pulitzer Prize–winning investigation into surveillance abuses and the Edward Snowden case that brought them to light.The NSA's extensive surveillance program has led Americans to question threats to their privacy. As reported by the Washington Post, in their Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of whistleblower Edward Snowden's NSA leaks, NSA Secrets delves into the shadowy world of information ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Chilled

    How Refrigeration Changed the World and Might Do So Again

    by Tom Jackson ...
    A thrilling, mystery-lifting narrative history of the refrigerator and the process of refrigerationThe refrigerator. This white box that sits in the kitchen may seem mundane nowadays, but it is one of the wonders of 20th century science – life-saver, food-preserver and social liberator, while the science of refrigeration is crucial, not just in transporting food around the globe but in a host of ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Myth of Artificial Intelligence

    Why Computers Can’t Think the Way We Do

    “Exposes the vast gap between the actual science underlying AI and the dramatic claims being made for it.”—John Horgan“If you want to know about AI, read this book…It shows how a supposedly futuristic reverence for Artificial Intelligence retards progress when it denigrates our most irreplaceable resource for any future progress: our own human intelligence.”—Peter ThielEver since Alan Turing, AI ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement

    by Ashley Shew ...
    A manifesto exploding what we think we know about disability, and arguing that disabled people are the real experts when it comes to technology and disability.When 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 people called her an “inspiration” while ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Robot, Take the Wheel

    The Road to Autonomous Cars and the Lost Art of Driving

    From famed automotive journalist Jason Torchinsky comes a witty insider’s guide to self-driving cars, the automated future, and the road ahead.Self-driving cars sound fantastical and futuristic and yet they’ll soon be on every street in America. Whether it’s Tesla’s Autopilot, Google’s Waymo, Mercedes’s Distronic, or Uber’s modified Volvo, companies around the world are developing autonomous cars. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • In the Looking Glass

    Mirrors & Identity in Early America

    “[An] utterly fascinating reading of the multiple uses and meanings of mirrors among European Americans, African Americans, and Native Americans.” —Journal of Social HistoryWhat did it mean, Rebecca K. Shrum asks, for people—long-accustomed to associating reflective surfaces with ritual and magic—to became as familiar with how they looked as they were with the appearance of other people? ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Walk

    Stoplight Secrets, Mischievous Squirrels, Manhole Mysteries & Other Stuff You See Every Day (And Know Nothing About)

    by Spike Carlsen ...
    “Carlsen sees a world of wonder hiding in plain sight and may just change how you look at the world around you.” - TODAY ShowA simple walk around the block set journalist Spike Carlsen, bestselling author of A Splintered History of Wood, off to investigate everything he could about everything we take for granted in our normal life—from manhole covers and recycling bins to bike lanes and stoplights ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Against the Web

    A Cosmopolitan Answer to the New Right

    Michael Brooks takes on the new "Intellectual Dark Web." As the host of The Michael Brooks Show and co-host of the Majority Report, he lets his understanding of the new media environment direct his analysis of the newly risen conservative rebels who have taken YouTube by storm. Brooks provides a theoretically rigorous but accessible critique of the most prominent "renegades" including Sam Harris, ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies

    A New York Times Bestseller. A “fascinating” (Thomas L. Friedman, New York Times) look at how digital technology is transforming our work and our lives.In recent years, Google’s autonomous cars have logged thousands of miles on American highways and IBM’s Watson trounced the best human Jeopardy! players. Digital technologies—with hardware, software, and networks at their core—will in the near ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Consumption Economics: The New Rules of Tech

    The New Rules of Tech

    If you’re a tech company, the most dramatic effect of megatrends like cloud computing, managed services, and the rise of consumer technology won’t be felt in your company’s product line. The true disruption will be to your business model. Future customers won’t want to pay you high prices out of big “CapEx” budgets anymore. They will expect lower “cloud” prices paid from “OpEx” budgets only when ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber

    by Mike Isaac ...
    **Now a SHOWTIME® original series starring Emmy winners Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Kyle Chandler and Academy Award nominee Uma Thurman. Now streaming – Only on SHOWTIME.Named one of the best books of the year by NPR, Fortune, Bloomberg, Sunday TimesA New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice“If you want to understand modern-day Silicon Valley, you need to read this book.” —John Carreyrou, New York ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Plastic

    A Toxic Love Story

    “This eloquent, elegant book thoughtfully plumbs the . . . consequences of our dependence on plastics” (The Boston Globe, A Best Nonfiction Book of 2011).From pacemakers to disposable bags, plastic built the modern world. But a century into our love affair, we’re starting to realize it’s not such a healthy relationship. As journalist Susan Freinkel points out in this eye-opening book, we’re at a ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires

    The tech elite have a plan to survive the apocalypse: they want to leave us all behind.Five mysterious billionaires summoned Douglas Rushkoff to a desert resort for a private talk. The topic? How to survive The Event: the societal catastrophe they know is coming. Rushkoff came to understand that these men were under the influence of The Mindset, a Silicon Valley–style certainty that they can break ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • In Their Own Words

    Forgotten Women Pilots of Early Aviation

    by Fred Erisman ...
    Series series Purdue Studies in Aeronautics and Astronautics
    Amelia Earhart’s prominence in American aviation during the 1930s obscures a crucial point: she was but one of a closely knit community of women pilots. Although the women were well known in the profession and widely publicized in the press at the time, they are largely overlooked today. Like Earhart, they wrote extensively about aviation and women’s causes, producing an absorbing record of the ... Read more

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  • The Invisible Rainbow

    A History of Electricity and Life

    5g is being rolled out across the country, despite growing evidence that it is disruptive to our health, our safety, and the environment. The Invisible Rainbow is the groundbreaking story of electricity as it’s never been told before—exposing its very real impact on the biosphere and human health.100,000 copies sold!Over the last 220 years, society has evolved a universal belief that electricity ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Numerati

    by Stephen Baker ...
    Learn how the crisis over digital privacy and manipulation evolved in this “utterly fascinating” look at the growth of data mining and analysis (Seattle Post-Intelligencer).Award-winning journalist Stephen Baker traces the rise of the “global math elite”: computer scientists who invent ways to not only record our behavior, but also to predict and alter it. Nowadays, we don’t need to be online to ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Team Human

    **Porchlight’s Management and Workplace Culture Book of The Year“[A] thoroughly fascinating exploration of the long interplay between power and the technologies of communication.” —Adam Frank, NPR**Team 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, he ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Metaverse: And How It Will Revolutionize Everything

    by Matthew Ball ...
    **INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER — United States, Canada, United Kingdom, and China (Wall Street Journal, Associated Press, Nielsen Bookscan, Publishers Weekly, USA Today, Toronto Star, Globe & Mail, BookNet Canada, Bookseller.com, Bookdao/Nielsen, JD, DangDang)Tim Sweeney (CEO of Fortnite-maker Epic Games): “Matthew Ball’s essays have defined, analyzed, and inspired the Metaverse for years. His book is ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Writing on the Wall

    Social Media - The First 2,000 Years

    by Tom Standage ...
    From the bestselling author of A History of the World in 6 Glasses, the story of social media from ancient Rome to the Arab Spring and beyond.Social media is anything but a new phenomenon. From the papyrus letters that Cicero and other Roman statesmen used to exchange news, to the hand-printed tracts of the Reformation and the pamphlets that spread propaganda during the American and French ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency

    Blockchain Technologies, #1

    by rodney cannon ...
    Series Book 1 - Blockchain Technologies
    What do you need to know about Bitcoin, other crytocurrencies and the technology behind it known as Blockchain technology. While the world has been surprised and amazed at the growth of bitcoin and other crytocurrencies the real story may be Blockchain technology. This technology could not only change the way that we look at money, but more aspects of your life than you could possibly imagine.In ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Living in Information

    Responsible Design for Digital Places

    by Jorge Arango ...
    The book brings together ideas from three fields— architecture, library sciences, and cognitive science—to explain how we can create websites and apps that lead to more resilient societies. The book offers principles for designing systems that produce resilient and healthy information environments. ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • A Survival Guide to the Misinformation Age

    Scientific Habits of Mind

    Learning how to tell news from fake news from fake fake news: An “important and timely” book on protecting ourselves, and society, from the infodemic (Library Journal).We have billions of bytes of data at our fingertips. But how much of it is misinformation—or even disinformation? A lot of it is, and your search engine can’t tell the difference.As a result, an avalanche of misinformation threatens ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus