Technology Studies

From 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, and embedded in rich relationships with the people...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250798725Author George DysonFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 426gDimensions(mm) 224mm * 147mm * 27mm

Everywhere 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 Greenfield forces us to reconsider our relationship with the...

A 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 privacy in today's hypermediated world-not just as a...

From 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 interactions by forgoing face-to-face interactions, a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781953943101Author Peter FiekowskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 266Imprint Rivertowns BooksPublisher Rivertowns BooksWeight(grams) 358gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Building on the influential book The Social Construction of Technological Systems, this volume carries forward the project of creating a theory of technological development and implementation that is strongly grounded in both sociology and history...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780874778564Author James BurkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 348Imprint Tarcher/Putnam,USPublisher Tarcher/Putnam,USWeight(grams) 1g

TRUST 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 that we are at the tipping point of one of the biggest...

Born since the mid-1990s, Generation Z is the first generation never to know the world without the internet, and it is the most diverse generation yet. As Gen Z starts to emerge into adulthood and enter the workforce, what do we really know about them?...

Explores the wealth of evidence for the reality of the biofield. Examining the wealth of evidence supporting the reality of the human biofield, Eric Leskowitz, M.D., explores the role of life energy in healing therapies and outlines its many...

Silicon Valley wants us to believe that technology will revolutionize our cities and the ways we move around. Autonomous vehicles will make us safer, greener, and more efficient. On-demand services like Uber and Lyft will eliminate car ownership...

Selected as one of LitHub's 38 Favorite Books of 2022Finalist for the 2022 Big Other Book Award for NonfictionIn this uncompromising essay, Jonathan Crary presents the obvious but unsayable reality: our 'digital age' is synonymous with the disastrous...

In Subprime Attention Crisis, Tim Hwang investigates the way big tech financialises attention. In the process, he shows us how digital advertising - the beating heart of the internet - is at risk of collapsing, and that its potential demise bears an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262515962Author Michel CallonFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 17mm

"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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781640320925Author Friedrich NietzscheFormat HardbackPage Count 84Imprint Innovative Eggz LLCPublisher Innovative Eggz LLCWeight(grams) 308gDimensions(mm)...

From the highly acclaimed author of WAYS OF BEING. We live in times of increasing inscrutability. Our news feeds are filled with unverified, unverifiable speculation, much of it automatically generated by anonymous software. As a result, we no longer...

'Communication strategies that should be taught to everyone with a story to tell.' - Marc Randolph, co-founder and first CEO of NetflixJeff Bezos is a dreamer who turned a bold idea into the world's most influential company. He learned to elevate the way...

Have you ever considered how mobile media change what we see, hear and pay attention to, or how they alter our movement through the city? Over the last decade, mobile media and communication technologies have become deeply integral to our perception and...

From the bestselling author of Talk Like TED, renowned communications coach Carmine Gallo reveals the leadership secrets of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos - and gives you the tools to master them yourself.Jeff Bezos built Amazon. A dreamer who turned a bold...

Many societies have imagined going to live in space. What they want to do once they get up there - whether conquering the unknown, establishing space "colonies," privatising the moon's resources - reveals more than expected. In this fascinating radical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262549349Author Julian TogeliusFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262047357Author Emily WeinsteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

'A celebration of human idiosyncrasy and of our talent for building shared meaning and solidarity out of the strangest material' - TLSFans takes the reader on a journey through a constellation of fandoms, and along the way demonstrates some fundamental...

Weapons and Warfare in Renaissance Europe explores the history of gunpowder in Europe from the thirteenth century, when it was first imported from China, to the sixteenth century, as firearms became central to the conduct of war. Bridging the fields of...

With a razor wit, Nicholas Carr cuts through Silicon Valley's unsettlingly cheery vision of the technological future to ask a hard question: Have we been seduced by a lie? Gathering a decade's worth of posts from his blog, Rough Type, as well as his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789562912495Author Albert EinsteinFormat HardbackPage Count 108Imprint www.bnpublishing.comPublisher www.bnpublishing.com

In Lurking, Joanne McNeil digs deep and identifies the primary (if sometimes contradictory) concerns of people online: searching, safety, privacy, identity, community, anonymity, and visibility. She charts what it is that brought us online and what keeps...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647990725Author Benedictus De SpinozaFormat HardbackPage Count 184Imprint Bibliotech PressPublisher Bibliotech PressWeight(grams) 381gDimensions(mm)...

'A must read for anyone interested in the emerging ethics of robotics' Irene M. PepperbergA bold, optimistic exploration of the relationship between robots and humans based on our history with animals, from a renowned MIT researcherThe robots are here...

- The author is one of the most influential AI reseachers of recent decades.- Written in an accessible language, the book provides a probing account of AI today and proposes a new narrative to connect and make sense of events that happened in the recent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780988877740Author Tim BallFormat PaperbackPage Count 298Imprint Stairway PressPublisher Stairway PressWeight(grams) 381g

Michael Higgins broadens our understanding of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World by bringing science, engineering, and technology together with ancient documentation and archaeological findings. The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World (Pyramids of...

Winner of the Ludwik Fleck Book Prize, Society for Social Studies of Science, 1995Eighteenth-century natural historians created a peculiar, and peculiarly durable, vision of nature-one that embodied the sexual and racial tensions of that era. When plants...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262049337Author Carliss Y. BaldwinFormat HardbackPage Count 590Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

'Witty, bracingly honest, deeply humane and piercingly insightful' PATRICK STOKES, AUTHOR OF DIGITAL SOULS Technology affects every interaction, shapes our identities and constantly hijacks our attention. So how can we reclaim our power and feel...

A revealing look at how user behavior is powering deep social divisions online-and how we might yet defeat political tribalism on social mediaIn an era of increasing social isolation, platforms like Facebook and Twitter are among the most important tools...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912685431Author Kat JungnickelFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Goldsmiths, University of LondonPublisher Goldsmiths, University of London

There is a robotics revolution underway. A record 3.1 million robots are working in factories right now, doing everything from assembling computers to packing goods and monitoring air quality and performance. A far greater number of smart machines impact...