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A Hacker's Mind: How the Powerful Bend Society's Rules, and How to Bend them Back by Bruce Schneier 9781324074533
RRP: £15.99£12.30A hack is any means of subverting a system's rules in unintended ways. The tax code isn't computer code, but a series of complex formulas. It has vulnerabilities; we call them "loopholes." We call exploits "tax avoidance strategies." And there is an... -
The Invisible Rainbow: A History of Electricity and Life by Arthur Firstenberg
RRP: £18.99£11.48'This seminal book...will transform your understanding ...of the environmental and health effects of electricity and radio frequencies' Paradigm Explorer 'Firstenberg is a pioneer in the sense that Rachel Carson was a pioneer.' Chellis Glendinning,... -
Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein 9781802061956
RRP: £10.99£7.77*THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION**A BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR THE TIMES, NEW YORK TIMES, GUARDIAN, OBSERVER, AND PROSPECT*'If I had to name a single book that makes sense of these last few dark years,... -
Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age by Paul Graham
RRP: £19.99£13.35"The computer world is like an intellectual Wild West, in which you can shoot anyone you wish with your ideas, if you're willing to risk the consequences. " --from Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age, by Paul Graham We are living in the... -
The Technological Society by Jacques Ellul
£9.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780394703909Author Jacques EllulFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 261gDimensions(mm)... -
Life in Code: A Personal History of Technology by Ellen Ullman
RRP: £19.00£11.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250181695Author Ellen UllmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 201mm *... -
Read Write Own: Building the Next Era of the Internet by Chris Dixon 9781529925623
RRP: £25.00£17.62THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'A compelling vision of where the internet should go and how to get there.' Sam Altman, CEO, OpenAI_A potent exploration of the power of blockchains to reshape the future of the internet - and how that affects us all... -
Ten Arguments For Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now by Jaron Lanier
RRP: £9.99£7.11Social media is supposed to bring us together - but it is tearing us apart. 'A... -
The Cyber Effect: A Pioneering Cyberpsychologist Explains How Human Behaviour Changes Online Mary Aiken 9781473610255
RRP: £10.99£7.40Dr Mary Aiken is the world's leading expert in forensic cyberpsychology - a discipline that combines psychology, criminology and technology to investigate the intersection between technology and human behaviour. In this, her first book, Aiken has created... -
Because Internet: Understanding how language is changing Gretchen McCulloch 9781529112825
RRP: £10.99£7.77THE ACCLAIMED NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. Have you ever puzzled over how to punctuate a text message? Wondered where memes came from? Fret no more: Because Internet is the perfect book for understanding how the internet is changing the English language,... -
Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein 9780241621301
RRP: £25.00£18.02*THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**A BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR THE TIMES, NEW YORK TIMES, GUARDIAN, OBSERVER, AND PROSPECT*'If I had to name a single book that makes sense of these last few dark years, it would be this one' New York Times'A deeply... -
The Future of the Professions: How Technology Will Transform the Work of Human Experts, Updated Edition by Richard Susskind
RRP: £11.99£8.43This book predicts the decline of today's professions and introduces the people and systems that will replace them. In an internet-enhanced society, according to Richard Susskind and Daniel Susskind, we will neither need nor want doctors, teachers,... -
The Fourth Industrial Revolution by Klaus Schwab
RRP: £14.99£10.95'In this book, Klaus Schwab and the World Economic Forum contribute significantly to one of the most important issues of our time - how to move forward in the Fourth Industrial Revolution' Jack Ma, Executive Chairman, Alibaba Group Holding, People's... -
Advanced Introduction to Law and Artificial Intelligence Woodrow Barfield 9781789905144
RRP: £19.95£18.15Elgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences and law, expertly written by the world's leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of... -
The Politics of Bitcoin: Software as Right-Wing Extremism by David Golumbia
RRP: £9.00£7.98Since its introduction in 2009, Bitcoin has been widely promoted as a digital currency that will revolutionize everything from online commerce to the nation-state. Yet supporters of Bitcoin and its blockchain technology subscribe to a form of... -
We Had To Remove This Post by Hanna Bervoets
RRP: £8.99£5.92Does what you see change who you are?Kayleigh is broke. Out of options, she takes a job as a content moderator, reviewing horrors and hate online and deciding which posts needs to be removed. Kayleigh is good at her job, and in her colleagues she finds a... -
The Cathedral & the Bazaar - Musings on Linux & Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary Rev Eric Raymond 9780596001087
RRP: £19.99£13.35Open source provides the competitive advantage in the Internet Age. According to the August Forrester Report, 56 percent of IT managers interviewed at Global 2,500 companies are already using some type of open source software in their infrastructure... -
Software Developer's Career Handbook, The: A Guide to Navigating the Unpredictable Michael Loop 9781098116675
RRP: £36.99£23.64At 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 book, Michael Lopp recalls his own make-or-break moments... -
Robot Souls: Programming in Humanity Eve Poole 9781032426624
RRP: £22.99£20.16Two of the biggest design problems in Artificial Intelligence are how to build robots that behave in line with human values and how to stop them ever going rogue. One under-explored solution to these alignment and control problems might be to examine how... -
From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network and the Rise of Digital Utopianism by Fred Turner 9780226817422
RRP: £17.00£14.62In "From Counterculture to Cyberculture", Fred Turner details the previously untold story of a highly influential group of San Francisco Bay Area entrepreneurs: Stewart Brand and the Whole Earth network. Between 1968 and 1998, via such familiar venues as... -
AI Morality Edmonds 9780198876434
RRP: £14.99£13.09A philosophical task force explores how AI is revolutionizing our lives - and what moral problems it might bring, showing us what to be wary of, and what to be hopeful for. There is no more important issue at present than artificial intelligence. AI has... -
Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism by Safiya Umoja Noble 9781479837243
RRP: £23.99£20.84A revealing look at how negative biases against women of color are embedded in search engine results and algorithms Run a Google search for "black girls"-what will you find? "Big Booty" and other sexually explicit terms are likely to come up as top... -
The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier by Howard Rheingold 9780262681216
£53.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262681216Author Howard RheingoldFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 658g -
Making a Metaverse That Matters: From Snow Crash & Second Life to A Virtual World Worth Fighting For Wagner James Au 9781394155811
RRP: £24.99£16.38An 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 The Making of Second Life and Game Design Secrets,... -
Eaten by the Internet: 2023 Corinne Cath 9781913824044
RRP: £18.00£15.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913824044Author Corinne CathFormat PaperbackImprint Meatspace PressPublisher Meatspace PressDimensions(mm) 204mm * 130mm * 10mm -
Basic Metaverse: How Virtual Worlds Will Change Our Reality and What You Can Do to Unlock Their Potential by David Shrier
RRP: £14.99£8.54What is the metaverse? Quite simply, it's a digital platform to help people collaborate, work and play in new ways, in an immersive 3D environment. In Basic Metaverse, leading futurist David L. Shrier explains how the technology works, unpacks its... -
Technically Wrong: Sexist Apps, Biased Algorithms, and Other Threats of Toxic Tech by Sara Wachter-Boettcher 9780393356045
RRP: £12.99£11.46Buying 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 ask how all these digital products are designed or why. It's time we changed that. Many of the services we rely on are... -
Tubes: Behind the Scenes at the Internet by Andrew Blum
RRP: £10.99£7.77Tubes: Behind the Scenes at the Internet by Andrew Blum is...'Utterly engrossing. The year's most original and stimulating 'travel' book. Even the most geek-wary of readers will enjoy' Independent'Entertaining and illuminating. Excels at rooting the... -
The Jobs to Be Done Playbook: Align Your Markets, Organization, and Strategy Around Customer Needs by Jim Kalbach
RRP: £32.99£31.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781933820682Author Jim KalbachFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Rosenfeld MediaPublisher Rosenfeld Media -
The Language of Deception: Weaponizing Next Generation AI Justin Hutchens (United States Air Force) 9781394222544
RRP: £26.99£17.59A penetrating look at the dark side of emerging AI technologies In The Language of Deception: Weaponizing Next Generation AI, artificial intelligence and cybersecurity veteran Justin Hutchens delivers an incisive and penetrating look at how contemporary... -
Diffusion of Innovations, 5th Edition by Everett M. Rogers
RRP: £25.00£16.24Now in its fifth edition, Diffusion of Innovations is a classic work on the spread of new ideas. In this renowned book, Everett M. Rogers, professor and chair of the Department of Communication & Journalism at the University of New Mexico, explains how... -
Inmates Are Running the Asylum, The: Why High Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity Alan Cooper 9780672326141
RRP: £29.49£21.59Imagine, at a terrifyingly aggressive rate, everything you regularly use is being equipped with computer technology. Think about your phone, cameras, cars-everything-being automated and programmed by people who in their rush to accept the many benefits... -
Audit Culture: How Indicators and Rankings are Reshaping the World by Cris Shore 9780745336459
RRP: £19.99£15.76All aspects of our work and private lives are increasingly measured and managed. But how has this 'audit culture' arisen and what kind of a world is it producing? Cris Shore and Susan Wright provide a timely account of the rise of the new industries... -
The Death of Expertise: The Campaign against Established Knowledge and Why it Matters by Tom Nichols
RRP: £13.99£10.53People are now exposed to more information than ever before, provided both by technology and by increasing access to every level education. These societal gains, however, have also helped fuel a surge in narcissistic and misguided intellectual... -
Everything is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder by David Weinberger 9780805088113
RRP: £9.99£9.00Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell
RRP: £14.99£10.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781612198552Author Jenny OdellFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Melville House PublishingPublisher Melville House PublishingWeight(grams) 266g -
Ideas That Created the Future: Classic Papers of Computer Science by Harry Lewis
RRP: £57.00£48.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262045308Author Harry LewisFormat PaperbackPage Count 520Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
i-Minds: How and Why Constant Connectivity is Rewiring Our Brains and What to Do About It by Mari Swingle
RRP: £21.99£18.37An entertaining, scientifically rigorous exploration of the social and biological effects of our wireless world The way we use i-technology is affecting our health and happiness. While programs, devices, information, and constant connectivity can offer... -
Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World by Bruce Schneier 9780393352177
RRP: £13.99£11.62Data is everywhere. We create it every time we go online, turn our phone on (or off) or pay with a credit card. This data is stored, studied, bought and sold by companies and governments for surveillance and for control. "Foremost security expert"... -
AI: Unexplainable, Unpredictable, Uncontrollable Roman V. Yampolskiy (University of Louisville, Kentucky, USA) 9781032576268
RRP: £29.99£26.64Delving into the deeply enigmatic nature of Artificial Intelligence (AI), AI: Unexplainable, Unpredictable, Uncontrollable explores the various reasons why the field is so challenging. Written by one of the founders of the field of AI safety, this book...