Sciences and Technology

John Naughton / From Gutenberg to Zuckerberg

Our society has gone through a weird, unremarked transition: once a novelty, the Net is now something that we take for granted, like mains electricity or running water. In the process we've been surprisingly incurious about its significance or...

Michael J. Behe / The Edge of Evolution (Hardback)

Draws on new findings in genetics to pose an argument for intelligent design that refutes Darwinian beliefs about evolution while offering alternative analyses of such factors as disease, random mutations, and the human struggle for survival.  ...

John Hurley / Organisation and Scientific Discovery (Manchester Physics) (Hardback)

The book takes the view that discovery is the outcome of successful science, and that organisations play a central role in facilitating or inhibiting discovery. John Hurley argues against the theory that creativity only leads to scientific discovery and...

Fritjof Capra / The Hidden Connections (Hardback)

A fierce attack on globalism – and a manifesto for change – by one of the world’s leading scientific writers Recent scientific discoveries indicate that all of life – from the most primitive cells, up to human societies, corporations and nation-states,...

Andrew Keen / How to Fix the Future (Hardback)

Internet entrepreneur Andrew Keen was among the earliest to write about the dangers that the Internet poses to our culture and society. His 2007 book The Cult of the Amateur was critical in helping advance the conversation around the Internet, which has...