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Utopia Is Creepy: And Other Provocations by Nicholas Carr
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.38Nicholas Carr has made his name as an incisive writer on our complicated relationship with technology. Utopia Is Creepy, a sharp and often funny indictment of our tech-besotted culture, collects... -
The End of Absence: Reclaiming What We've Lost in a World of Constant Connection by Michael Harris 9781591847922
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £18.90Soon enough, nobody will remember life before the Internet. What does this unavoidable fact mean?Those of us who have lived both with and without the crowded connectivity of online life have a rare... -
Utopia Is Creepy: And Other Provocations by Nicholas Carr 9780393254549
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £19.10With 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... -
The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £20.98"Is Google making us stupid?" When Nicholas Carr posed that question, in a celebrated Atlantic Monthly cover story, he tapped into a well of anxiety about how the Internet is changing us. He also... -
The Glass Cage: Who Needs Humans Anyway by Nicholas Carr
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.47In The Glass Cage, Pulitzer Prize nominee and bestselling author Nicholas Carr shows how the most important decisions of our lives are now being made by machines and the radical effect this is having... -
The Glass Cage: How Our Computers Are Changing Us by Nicholas Carr
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.83In The Glass Cage, best-selling author Nicholas Carr digs behind the headlines about factory robots and self-driving cars, wearable computers and digitized medicine, as he explores the hidden costs... -
The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr 9780393357820
Booksplease Price: £10.04Nicholas Carr's bestseller The Shallows has become a foundational book in one of the most important debates of our time: As we enjoy the internet's bounties, are we sacrificing our ability to read... -
Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart by Nicholas Carr 9781324064619
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.15From the telegraph and telephone in the 1800s to the internet and social media in our own day, the public has welcomed new communication systems. Whenever people gain more power to share information,... -
The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google Nicholas Carr 9780393062281
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.80A hundred years ago, companies stopped producing their own power with steam engines and generators and plugged into the newly built electric grid. The cheap power pumped out by electric utilities not... -
Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart Nicholas Carr 9781324130543
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.40With rich psychological insights and vivid examples drawn from history and science, Superbloom provides both a panoramic view of how media shapes society and an intimate examination of the fate of... -
The Shallows: How the Internet Is Changing the Way We Think, Read and Remember by Nicholas Carr
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23'Boldly reactionary... What looks like feast, Carr argues, may be closer to famine' Sunday Times'Chilling' The EconomistIn this ground-breaking and compelling book, Nicholas Carr argues that not... -
Darkness of Creation by Nicholas Carrol 9798993052403
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798993052403Author Nicholas CarrolFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint -
Darkness of Creation by Nicholas Carrol 9798993052427
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £24.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798993052427Author Nicholas CarrolFormat HardbackPage Count 512Imprint -
Sense and Creative Labor in Rainer Maria Rilke's Prose Works by Nicholas Carroll Reynolds 9783030744724
RRP: £109.99Booksplease Price: £102.20This book is an investigation of the role of creative labor and the five senses in Rainer Maria Rilke's prose works, including his "Primal Sound" essay, the Stories of God, The Notebooks of Malte... -
The Four-Dimensional Human: Ways of Being in the Digital World Laurence Scott 9780099591894
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16SHORTLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2015WINNER OF THE JERWOOD PRIZEONE OF WIRED's NON-FICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADEWe spend more time than ever online, and the digital revolution... -
Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age by Clay Shirky
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.47From the bestselling author of Here Comes Everybody, Clay Shirky's Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age is a fascinating look at how the internet is transforming our... -
Everything Bad is Good for You: How Popular Culture is Making Us Smarter by Steven Johnson
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.59We're constantly being told that popular culture is just mindless entertainment - but, as Steven Johnson shows in Everything Bad is Good for You, it's actually making us more intelligent. Steven... -
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Everything Bad is Good for You: How Popular Culture is Making Us Smarter by Steven Johnson 9780141018683 [USED COPY]
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £1.98We're constantly being told that popular culture is just mindless entertainment - but, as Steven Johnson shows in Everything Bad is Good for You, it's actually making us more intelligent. Steven... -
Here Comes Everybody: How Change Happens when People Come Together by Clay Shirky 9780141030623
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.47Clay Shirky's international bestseller Here Comes Everybody: How Change Happens When People Come Together explores how the unifying power of the internet is changing the character of human society. ... -
Business in the Cloud: What Every Business Needs to Know About Cloud Computing Michael H. Hugos (Center for Systems Innovation) 9780470616239
RRP: £34.99Booksplease Price: £25.91A close look at cloud computing's transformational role in business Covering cloud computing from what the business leader needs to know, this book describes how IT can nimbly ramp up revenue... -
You Are Not A Gadget: A Manifesto by Jaron Lanier
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95In 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... -
A Brief Guide to Smart Thinking: From Zeno's Paradoxes to Freakonomics James M. Russell 9781472143686
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50Each book is summarised to convey a brief idea of what each one has to offer the interested reader, while a 'Speed Read' for each book delivers a quick sense of what each book is like to read and a... -
What Should We Be Worried About?: Real Scenarios That Keep Scientists Up at Night by John Brockman 9780062296238
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £11.78Drawing from the horizons of science, today's leading thinkers reveal the hidden threats nobody is talking about-and expose the false fears everyone else is distracted by. What should we be worried... -
The Best Technology Writing 2009 by Steven Johnson
Booksplease Price: £27.47"The ubiquity of the digital lifestyle has forced us to write and think about technology in a different way."-Steven Johnson In his Introduction to this beautifully curated collection of essays,... -
Reconnected: How 7 Screen-Free Weeks with Monks and Amish Farmers Helped Me Recover the Lost Art of Being Human Carlos Whittaker 9781400246465
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.52USA TODAY BESTSELLERChange your relationship with technology. Change your life.Share. Post. Reply...Most of us have gotten so used to notifications and alerts, pings and rings, that even if we don't... -
Something Wicked by Kerry Wilkinson 9781447262091
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.00Something Wicked is the first in a breathtaking Andrew Hunter series from Kerry Wilkinson, creator of the bestselling Jessica Daniel books.Nicholas Carr disappeared on his eighteenth birthday and the... -
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Something Wicked by Kerry Wilkinson 9781447262091 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £2.46Something Wicked is the first in a breathtaking Andrew Hunter series from Kerry Wilkinson, creator of the bestselling Jessica Daniel books.Nicholas Carr disappeared on his eighteenth birthday and the... -
Pinpoint: How GPS is Changing Our World Greg Milner 9781847087096
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Over the last fifty years, humanity has developed an extraordinary global utility which is omnipresent, universal, and available to all: the Global Positioning System (GPS). A network of twenty-four... -
A Web of Our Own Making: The Nature of Digital Formation by Antón Barba-Kay 9781009324779
Booksplease Price: £25.63There no longer seems any point to criticizing the internet. We indulge in the latest doom-mongering about the evils of social media-on social media. We scroll through routine complaints about the... -
A Web of Our Own Making: The Nature of Digital Formation by Antón Barba-Kay 9781009324793
Booksplease Price: £75.13There no longer seems any point to criticizing the internet. We indulge in the latest doom-mongering about the evils of social media-on social media. We scroll through routine complaints about the... -
How is the Internet Changing the Way You Think?: The net's impact on our minds and future John Brockman (Ed.) 9780857892485
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.81The Internet, in the memorable words of EDGE founder John Brockman, is 'the infinite oscillation of our collective consciousness interacting with itself. It's not about computers. It's not about what... -
Which Side of History?: How Technology Is Reshaping Democracy and Our Lives by James P. Steyer
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.83Which Side of History? offers a collection of bold essays on how technology is affecting democracy, society, and our future. Featuring prominent national voices such as Sacha Baron Cohen, Marc... -
This Idea Is Brilliant: Lost, Overlooked, and Underappreciated Scientific Concepts Everyone Should Know by John Brockman
Booksplease Price: £13.05From the bestselling editor of This Explains Everything, 206 of the world's most brilliant minds tackle Edge.org's 2017 question: What scientific term or concept ought to be more widely known? ... -
Against the Machine: On the Unmaking of Humanity by Paul Kingsnorth 9780241788400
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.91How a force that's hard to name, but which we all feel, is reshaping what it means to be humanIn Against the Machine, "furiously gifted" (The Washington Post) novelist, poet, and essayist Paul... -
The Internet of Us: Knowing More and Understanding Less in the Age of Big Data Michael P. Lynch (University of Connecticut) 9780871406613
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.80We used to say "seeing is believing"; now googling is believing. With 24/7 access to nearly all of the world's information at our fingertips, we no longer trek to the library or the encyclopedia... -
What's Yours Is Mine: Against the Sharing Economy by Tom Slee
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.42The news is full of their names, supposedly the vanguard of a rethinking of capitalism. Lyft, Airbnb, Taskrabbit, Uber, and many more companies have a mandate of disruption and upending the "old... -
The Attention Merchants: The Epic Struggle to Get Inside Our Heads Tim Wu (Atlantic Books) 9781782394853
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Attention merchant: an industrial-scale harvester of human attention. A firm whose business model is the mass capture of attention for resale to advertisers.In nearly every moment of our waking... -
Society, Ethics, and Technology, International Edition by Morton E. Winston 9781133943587
Booksplease Price: £97.20From today's headlines to your textbook, SOCIETY, ETHICS, AND TECHNOLOGY, 5E, International Edition explores the cutting edge of technological innovation and how these advances represent profound... -
Words Onscreen: The Fate of Reading in a Digital World by Naomi S. Baron 9780190624163
Booksplease Price: £22.19People have been reading on computer screens for several decades now, predating popularization of personal computers and widespread use of the internet. But it was the rise of eReaders and tablets... -
A Deadly Wandering: A Tale of Tragedy And Redemption in the Age of Attention by Matt Richtel 9780062284068
Booksplease Price: £18.62From Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Matt Richtel, a brilliant, narrative-driven exploration of technology's vast influence on the human mind and society, dramatically-told through the lens of a...