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Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans by Melanie Mitchell
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $13.86'After reading Mitchell's guide, you'll know what you don't know and what other people don't know, even though they claim to know it. And that's invaluable'' The New York Times A leading computer... -
The Invisible Rainbow: A History of Electricity and Life by Arthur Firstenberg
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $29.25'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... -
Tubes: Behind the Scenes at the Internet by Andrew Blum
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.70Tubes: 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' ... -
The Dark Net Jamie Bartlett 9780099592020
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $17.68From the creator of hit podcast The Missing Cryptoqueen______________________________Guns. Sex. Drugs. Murder.The Dark Net is just a click away.Beyond the familiar online world that most of us... -
Let Them Eat Crypto: The Blockchain Scam That's Ruining the World Peter Howson 9780745348216
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $26.31'An essential resource. Howson strikes not just at cryptocurrency, but the frauds who promote blockchain technology as a solution to any social problem' - David Gerard, author of Attack of the 50... -
The Fourth Industrial Revolution by Klaus Schwab
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $22.07'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,... -
Inmates Are Running the Asylum, The: Why High Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity Alan Cooper 9780672326141
RRP: $61.93Booksplease Price: $45.30Imagine, 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... -
The Cyber Effect: A Pioneering Cyberpsychologist Explains How Human Behaviour Changes Online Mary Aiken 9781473610255
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $19.45Dr 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... -
Audit Culture: How Indicators and Rankings are Reshaping the World by Cris Shore 9780745336459
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $35.62All 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... -
The Filter Bubble: What The Internet Is Hiding From You by Eli Pariser
RRP: $25.18Booksplease Price: $18.04Imagine a world where all the news you see is defined by your salary, where you live, and who your friends are. Imagine a world where you never discover new ideas. And where you can't have secrets... -
The Myth of Artificial Intelligence: Why Computers Can't Think the Way We Do by Erik J. Larson
RRP: $35.60Booksplease Price: $30.14"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... -
Dataclysm: Love, Sex, Race, and Identity--What Our Online Lives Tell Us about Our Offline Selves by Christian Rudder
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $27.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for L.A. Times Book Prize (Science and Tech) 2014.Book InformationISBN 9780385347396Author Christian Ru -
Ten Arguments For Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now by Jaron Lanier
RRP: $25.18Booksplease Price: $16.78Social media is supposed to bring us together - but it is tearing us apart. ... -
Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism by Safiya Umoja Noble 9781479837243
RRP: $52.48Booksplease Price: $42.42A 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... -
How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $22.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781612198552Author Jenny OdellFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint -
What Tech Calls Thinking: An Inquiry into the Intellectual Bedrock of Silicon Valley by Adrian Daub
RRP: $25.18Booksplease Price: $22.26Adrian Daub's What Tech Calls Thinking is a lively dismantling of the ideas that form the intellectual bedrock of Silicon Valley. Equally important to Silicon Valley's world-altering innovation are... -
Reality is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World by Jane McGonigal
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $18.12We 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... -
Information: A Very Short Introduction by Luciano Floridi
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $14.30We live an information-soaked existence - information pours into our lives through television, radio, books, and of course, the Internet. Some say we suffer from 'infoglut'. But what is information?... -
AI Snake Oil: What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can’t, and How to Tell the Difference Arvind Narayanan 9780691249131
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $33.83From two of TIME's 100 Most Influential People in AI, what you need to know about AI-and how to defend yourself against bogus AI claims and productsConfused about AI and worried about what it means... -
Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein 9781802061956
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.38*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... -
A Hacker's Mind: How the Powerful Bend Society's Rules, and How to Bend them Back by Bruce Schneier 9781324074533
RRP: $33.58Booksplease Price: $27.72A 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... -
Work Without the Worker: Labour in the Age of Platform Capitalism by Philip Jones 9781839760433
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.55We are told that the future of work will be increasingly automated. Algorithms, processing massive amounts of information at startling speed, will lead us to a new world of effortless labour and a... -
The Information Diet Ca Johnson 9781491933398
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $30.98This is a softcover version of the title released in 2011; there is no new material. The modern human animal spends upwards of 11 hours out of every 24 in a state of constant consumption. Not eating,... -
Cult Of Mac, The (2nd Edition) by Leander Kahney
RRP: $79.78Booksplease Price: $56.39As with any subculture, Apple fans have their own customs, obsessions, and rites of passage - from waiting in line to spend thousands of dollars on the newest Apple product, to attending Macworld... -
The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies by Erik Brynjolfsson
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $27.76In recent years, computers have learned to diagnose diseases, drive cars, write clean prose and win game shows. Advances like these have created unprecedented economic bounty but in their wake median... -
You Are Not A Gadget: A Manifesto by Jaron Lanier
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.70In You are Not a Gadget digital guru and virtual reality pioneer Jaron Lanier reveals how the internet is deadening personal interaction, stifling genuine inventiveness and even changing us as people... -
AI: Unexplainable, Unpredictable, Uncontrollable Roman V. Yampolskiy (University of Louisville, Kentucky, USA) 9781032576268
RRP: $67.18Booksplease Price: $55.97Delving 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... -
Because Internet: Understanding how language is changing Gretchen McCulloch 9781529112825
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.87THE 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... -
Diffusion of Innovations, 5th Edition by Everett M. Rogers
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $35.99Now 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 &... -
Is This OK?: One Woman's Search For Connection Online Harriet Gibsone 9781035000999
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $26.00'Persistently funny, ill-advisedly honest and deadly accurate' - Caitlin Moran'This book is a delight - very real and very entertaining' - Bob MortimerMusic journalist and self-professed creep,... -
Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor by Virginia Eubanks 9781250215789
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $25.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250215789Author Virginia EubanksFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint
Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer by Wendell Berry
Booksplease Price: $7.29'Do I wish to keep up with the times? No. My wish simply is to live my life as fully as I can'The great American poet, novelist and environmental activist argues for a life lived slowly.Penguin...
Uncanny Valley: Seduction and Disillusionment in San Francisco's Startup Scene by Anna Wiener
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $14.39'Joan Didion at a startup' Rebecca Solnit 'Impossibly pleasurable' Jia Tolentino 'This is essential reading' Stylist ...
The Death of Expertise: The Campaign against Established Knowledge and Why it Matters by Tom Nichols
RRP: $30.43Booksplease Price: $20.98People 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...
Glow Kids: How Screen Addiction is Hijacking Our Kids-and How to Break the Trance by Nicholas Kardaras
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $27.07We've all seen them: kids hypnotically staring at glowing screens in restaurants, in playgrounds and in friends' houses and the numbers are growing. Like a virtual scourge, the illuminated glowing...
The Ethical Algorithm: The Science of Socially Aware Algorithm Design by Michael Kearns
RRP: $51.43Booksplease Price: $37.51Over the course of a generation, algorithms have gone from mathematical abstractions to powerful mediators of daily life. In evolving from static computer programs hand-coded by engineers to the...
A Hacker's Mind: How the Powerful Bend Society's Rules, and How to Bend them Back by Bruce Schneier
RRP: $50.38Booksplease Price: $36.27A 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...
Facebook For Dummies Carolyn Abram 9781119782100
RRP: $46.18Booksplease Price: $35.47Be a new face on Facebook! If you're new to the Facebook user community, don't be shy: you're joining around 2.7 billion users (roughly two-and-a-half Chinas) worldwide, so you'll want to make sure...
Basic Metaverse: How Virtual Worlds Will Change Our Reality and What You Can Do to Unlock Their Potential by David Shrier
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $22.05What 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...
Darwin Among the Machines by George Dyson 9780718194574
RRP: $33.58Booksplease Price: $26.19'Full of historical anecdotes . . . but this is much more than a history book. [George Dyson] weaves his threads together for a purpose. Using voices of the past and present, he describes a fresh and...