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Digital Transformation: Survive and Thrive in an Era of Mass Extinction by Thomas M. Siebel 9781948122481
RRP: $48.73$32.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948122481Author Thomas M. SiebelFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Rosetta BooksPublisher Rosetta Books -
A Hacker's Mind: How the Powerful Bend Society's Rules, and How to Bend them Back by Bruce Schneier 9781324074533
RRP: $31.18$24.90A 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: $37.03$21.02'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 9780241621318
RRP: $33.13$25.33*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,... -
Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein 9781802061956
RRP: $21.43$15.15*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,... -
Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein 9780241621301
RRP: $48.75$35.14*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... -
Read Write Own: Building the Next Era of the Internet by Chris Dixon 9781529925623
RRP: $48.75$35.14THE 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: $19.48$13.86Social 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 by Mary Aiken
RRP: $21.43$14.43Dr 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... -
The Future of the Professions: How Technology Will Transform the Work of Human Experts, Updated Edition by Richard Susskind
RRP: $21.43$15.15This 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,... -
Because Internet: Understanding how language is changing by Gretchen McCulloch
RRP: $21.43$15.15THE 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,... -
The Fourth Industrial Revolution by Klaus Schwab
RRP: $29.23$21.35'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... -
How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell
RRP: $29.23$19.95Apologies 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 -
The Cathedral and the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary by Eric S. Raymond
RRP: $38.98$26.03Open 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... -
Ideas That Created the Future: Classic Papers of Computer Science by Harry Lewis
RRP: $111.15$77.43Apologies 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 -
We Had To Remove This Post by Hanna Bervoets
RRP: $17.53$11.54Does 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... -
Advanced Introduction to Law and Artificial Intelligence by Woodrow Barfield 9781789905144
RRP: $38.90$35.39Elgar 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: $17.55$15.13Since 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... -
The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence: Principles, Challenges, and Opportunities by Luciano Floridi 9780198883098
RRP: $58.50$50.60The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence has two goals. The first goal is meta-theoretical and is fulfilled by Part One, which comprises the first three chapters: an interpretation of the past (Chapter 1), the present (Chapter 2), and the future of AI... -
Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World by Bruce Schneier 9780393352177
RRP: $27.28$23.89Data 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"... -
The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom by Yochai Benkler 9780300125771
RRP: $37.03$36.82With the radical changes in information production that the Internet has introduced, we stand at an important moment of transition, says Yochai Benkler in this thought-provoking book. The phenomenon he describes as social production is reshaping markets,... -
Robot Souls: Programming in Humanity by Eve Poole 9781032426624
RRP: $44.83$39.31Two 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... -
How To Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell 9781612197494
RRP: $52.63$34.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781612197494Author Jenny OdellFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Melville House PublishingPublisher Melville House Publishing -
Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software by Nadia Eghbal 9780578675862
RRP: $31.18$22.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578675862Author Nadia EghbalFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Animal Media Group LLCPublisher Animal Media Group LLC -
Software Developer's Career Handbook, The: A Guide to Navigating the Unpredictable by Michael Loop
RRP: $72.13$46.10At 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... -
The Jobs to Be Done Playbook: Align Your Markets, Organization, and Strategy Around Customer Needs by Jim Kalbach
RRP: $64.33$60.94Apologies 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 -
Tubes: Behind the Scenes at the Internet by Andrew Blum
RRP: $21.43$15.15Tubes: 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... -
Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism by Safiya Umoja Noble 9781479837243
RRP: $50.68$42.98A 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... -
Uncanny Valley: Seduction and Disillusionment in San Francisco's Startup Scene by Anna Wiener
RRP: $19.48$12.95'Joan Didion at a startup' Rebecca Solnit 'Impossibly pleasurable' Jia Tolentino 'This is essential reading' Stylist At twenty-five years old, Anna Wiener... -
Technically Wrong: Sexist Apps, Biased Algorithms, and Other Threats of Toxic Tech by Sara Wachter-Boettcher 9780393356045
RRP: $25.33$22.35Buying 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... -
Digitizing Race: Visual Cultures of the Internet by Lisa Nakamura
RRP: $37.03$31.90In the nineties, neoliberalism simultaneously provided the context for the Internet's rapid uptake in the United States and discouraged public conversations about racial politics. At the same time many scholars lauded the widespread use of text-driven... -
Making a Metaverse That Matters: From Snow Crash & Second Life to A Virtual World Worth Fighting For by Wagner James Au 9781394155811
RRP: $48.73$31.94An 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,... -
From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network and the Rise of Digital Utopianism by Fred Turner 9780226817422
RRP: $33.15$28.51In "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... -
Eaten by the Internet: 2023 by Corinne Cath 9781913824044
RRP: $35.10$31.12Apologies 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 -
Moral AI: And How We Get There by Jana Schaich Borg 9780241454749
RRP: $48.75$34.36A balanced and thought-provoking guide to all the big questions about AI and ethics Can computers understand morality? Can they respect privacy? And what can we do to make AI safe and fair? The artificial intelligence revolution has begun. Today, there... -
Basic Metaverse: How Virtual Worlds Will Change Our Reality and What You Can Do to Unlock Their Potential by David Shrier
RRP: $29.23$19.11What 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... -
Retooling Politics: How Digital Media Are Shaping Democracy by Andreas Jungherr
RRP: $60.43$52.98Donald Trump, the Arab Spring, Brexit: digital media have provided political actors and citizens with new tools to engage in politics. These tools are now routinely used by activists, candidates, non-governmental organizations, and parties to inform,... -
Diffusion of Innovations, 5th Edition by Everett M. Rogers
RRP: $48.75$31.67Now 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... -
The Language of Deception: Weaponizing Next Generation AI by Justin Hutchens 9781394222544
RRP: $52.63$34.30A 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... -
Reality is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World by Jane McGonigal
RRP: $25.33$18.92We are living in a world full of games.More than 31 million people in the UK are gamers. The average young person will spend 10,000 hours gaming by the age of twenty-one. The future belongs to those who play games.In this ground-breaking book, visionary...