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The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies by Erik Brynjolfsson
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $17.71In 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... -
Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People by Mahzarin R Banaji
RRP: $25.46Booksplease Price: $14.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345528438Author Mahzarin R. BanajiFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprin -
You Are Not A Gadget: A Manifesto by Jaron Lanier
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65In 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... -
To Explain the World: The Discovery of Modern Science by Steven Weinberg
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $10.37In To Explain the World, pre-eminent theoretical physicist Steven Weinberg offers a rich and irreverent history of science from a unique perspective - that of a scientist. Moving from ancient Miletus... -
Out of the Shadow of a Giant: How Newton Stood on the Shoulders of Hooke and Halley by John Gribbin
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.99Shortlisted for the BSHS Hughes Prize What if Isaac Newton had never lived? Robert Hooke and Edmond Halley, whose place in history has... -
Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution by Francis Fukuyama 9781861974952
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41Is a baby whose personality has been chosen from a gene supermarket still a human? If we choose what we create what happens to morality? Is this the end of human nature? The dramatic advances in DNA... -
A Beautiful Question: Finding Nature's Deep Design by Frank Wilczek 9780718199463
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.08A Nobel Prize-winning physicist argues that beauty is the fundamental organizing principle for the entire universeIn this scientific tour de force, world-class physicist Frank Wilczek argues that... -
Always On: Hope and Fear in the Social Smartphone Era by Rory Cellan-Jones
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $19.28'Delightfully insightful and intensely readable [...] There is an energy and drama to Rory's writing which nonetheless leaves space for us, the reader, to make up our minds' - Stephen Fry The... -
We Do Things Differently: The Outsiders Rebooting Our World by Mark Stevenson
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.92Our systems are failing. Old models - for education, healthcare and government, food production, energy supply - are creaking under the weight of modern challenges. As the world's population heads... -
Diffusion of Innovations, 5th Edition by Everett M. Rogers
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $22.97Now 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 &... -
Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor by Virginia Eubanks 9781250215789
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $16.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250215789Author Virginia EubanksFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint
The Comic Book Story of Video Games: The Incredible History of the Electronic Gaming Revolution by Jonathan Hennessey
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399578908Author Jonathan HennesseyFormat PaperbackImprint
Your Face Belongs to Us: The Secretive Startup Dismantling Your Privacy by Kashmir Hill 9781398509207
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75*SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2024**LONGLISTED FOR THE FINANCIAL TIMES BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2023* 'A parable for our times' FINANCIAL TIMES, Best Books of...![And: Phenomenology of the End by Franco "Bifo" Berardi](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/689032/8723994/9781584351702__94020.1743372798.jpg?c=1 "And: Phenomenology of the End by Franco "Bifo" Berardi")
And: Phenomenology of the End by Franco "Bifo" Berardi
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781584351702Author Franco "Bifo" BerardiFormat PaperbackPage Count 352
Why We Drive: On Freedom, Risk and Taking Back Control by Matthew Crawford
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.04Why We Drive is a rebellious and daring celebration of the human spirit and the competence of ordinary people by the bestselling author of The Case for Working with Your Hands.Once we were drivers on...
How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed by Ray Kurzweil
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37From the world's preeminent AI futurist: a fascinating account of how mapping the human mind leads to ever more intelligent machines Ray Kurzweil, described by Bill Gates as 'the best person I...
The Battle for Your Brain: Defending the Right to Think Freely in the Age of Neurotechnology by Nita A Farahany 9781250339270
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $17.21A new dawn of brain tracking and hacking is coming. Will you be prepared for what comes next? Imagine a world where your brain can be interrogated to learn your political beliefs, your thoughts...
Technopoly by Postman N 9780679745402
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679745402Author Neil PostmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint <
The Nature of Technology: What It Is and How It Evolves by W.Brian Arthur
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37In The Nature of Technology, ground-breaking economist W. Brian Arthur explores the extraordinary way in which the technology that surrounds us and allows us to live our modern lives has actually...
Tools for Conviviality by Ivan Illich 9781842300114
Booksplease Price: $19.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781842300114Author Ivan IllichFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint
The Victorian Internet by Tom Standage
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.41The history of the telegraph - the men and women who made it - and its relevance to the current Internet debateBeginning with the Abbe Nollet's famous experiment of 1746, when he successfully...
The Age of Em: Work, Love, and Life when Robots Rule the Earth by Robin Hanson 9780198817826
RRP: $16.74Booksplease Price: $13.11Robots may one day rule the world, but what is a robot-ruled Earth like? Many think the first truly smart robots will be brain emulations or ems. Scan a human brain, then run a model with the same...
The Twittering Machine by Richard Seymour
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41In surrealist artist Paul Klee's The Twittering Machine, the bird-song of a diabolical machine acts as bait to lure humankind into a pit of damnation. Leading political writer and broadcaster Richard...
Timelines of Science by DK 9780241600979
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $23.29Discover the world of science as never before in this richly illustrated guide bringing key milestones and events to life in visual timelines. Offering a uniquely accessible and visual approach,...
A Hacker's Mind: How the Powerful Bend Society's Rules, and How to Bend them Back by Bruce Schneier
RRP: $32.15Booksplease Price: $23.14A 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...
Evolution: What Everyone Needs to Know (R) by Robin Dunbar
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.28Evolution is one of the most important processes in life. It not only explains the detailed history of life on earth, but its scope also extends into many aspects of our own contemporary behavior-who...
Algorithms of Anxiety: Fear in the Digital Age Anthony Elliott 9781509555437
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $18.32Machine learning algorithms are widely presumed to herald a world in which the crippling burdens of anxiety can be left behind. The digital revolution promises a brave new world where individuals,...
Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World by Meredith Broussard
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Winner of the 2019 Prose Award in the Computing and Information Sciences category. 2019 and 2019 Hacker...
Murderous Contagion: A Human History of Disease Mary Dobson 9781782069430
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.24Disease is the true serial killer of human history: the horrors of bubonic plague, cholera, syphilis, smallpox, tuberculosis and the like have claimed more lives and caused more misery than the...
The Distracted Mind: Ancient Brains in a High-Tech World by Dr. Adam Gazzaley
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $24.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Winner, 2017 PROSE Awards, Biomedicine and Neuroscience category 2017.Book InformationISBN...
Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World by Bruce Schneier 9780393352177
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $17.22Data 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...
Blockchain Chicken Farm: And Other Stories of Tech in China's Countryside by Xiaowei Wang
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $14.73In Blockchain Chicken Farm, the technologist and writer Xiaowei Wang explores the political and social entanglements of technology in rural China. Their discoveries force them to challenge the...
Aeropolis – Queering Air in Toxicpolluted Worlds by Nerea Calvillo 9781941332788
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $19.50How do we get to know air? Aeropolis: Queering Air in Toxicpolluted Worlds offers a speculative and interdisciplinary framework to reorient common understandings of air and air pollution as matter...
The Life We're Looking For: Reclaiming Relationship in a Technological World by Andy Crouch
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.07From the author of The Tech-Wise Family'A fascinating and eye-opening book' - Tom Holland, author of Dominion: The Making of the Western MindOur greatest need is to be recognised - to be seen, loved,...
The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge by Abraham Flexner 9780691174761
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.05A short, provocative book about why "useless" science often leads to humanity's greatest technological breakthroughs A forty-year tightening of funding for scientific research has meant that...
Radical Technologies: The Design of Everyday Life by Adam Greenfield
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.70Everywhere we turn, a startling new device promises to transfigure our lives. But at what cost? In this urgent and revelatory excavation of our Information Age, leading technology thinker Adam...
The Right to Oblivion: Privacy and the Good Life Lowry Pressly 9780674260528
RRP: $40.13Booksplease Price: $30.18A New Yorker Best Book of the Year"It is a radiantly original contribution to a conversation gravely in need of new thinking."-Ben Tarnoff, The New YorkerA visionary reexamination of the value of...
Homo Numericus: The coming 'civilization' by Daniel Cohen 9781509560219
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $13.25From Amazon to Tinder, from Google to Deliveroo, there is no facet of human life which the digital revolution has not streamlined and dematerialised. Its objective was to reduce the cost of physical...
Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium by Carl Sagan 9780345379184
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $17.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345379184Author Carl SaganFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint
Who Can You Trust?: How Technology Brought Us Together - and Why It Could Drive Us Apart Rachel Botsman 9780241296189
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $12.37TRUST IS FUNDAMENTAL TO EVERY ACTION, EVERY RELATIONSHIP, EVERY TRANSACTIONAND IT MATTERS NOW MORE THAN EVER BEFORE...In this ground-breaking book world-renowned trust expert Rachel Botsman reveals...