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Tyler Anbinder / Plentiful Country (Hardback)

Plentiful Country: The Great Potato Famine and the Making of Irish New York       This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author...

David E. Nye / Technology Matters: Questions to Live With (Hardback)

Technology matters, writes David Nye, because it is inseparable from being human. We have used tools for more than 100,000 years, and their central purpose has not always been to provide necessities. People excel at using old tools to solve new problems...

Richard Coyne / Technoromanticism (Hardback)

"This is an excellent and most welcome study of the discourse about computer communications, their narrativity as Coyne says, with particular attention to the classic theme of unity and fragmentation." -- Mark Poster, Professor of History and of...

Stephen Toulmin / Return to Reason (Hardback)

The turmoil and brutality of the twentieth century have made it increasingly difficult to maintain faith in the ability of reason to fashion a stable and peaceful world. After the ravages of global conflict and a Cold War that divided the world's...

Yi-Fu Tuan / Dear Colleague (Hardback)

"Maybe the most influential scholar you've never heard of" was how a feature article in The Chronicle of Higher Education recently described Yi-Fu Tuan, a widely traveled Chinese-American geographer whose letters to his friends and colleagues,...

Geoffrey C. Bowker / Sorting Things Out (Hardback)

A revealing and surprising look at how classification systems can shape both worldviews and social interactions.What do a seventeenth-century mortality table (whose causes of death include "fainted in a bath," "frighted," and "itch"); the identification...

Mike Davis / Ecology of Fear (Hardback)

A powerful glimpse into the history of disaster in Los Angeles, both real or imagined, argues that the most destructive forces are the many movies and books depicting this city as a veritable hotbed of riots, fires, floods, and earthquakes as well as an...

Richard Coyne / Cornucopia Limited (Hardback)

The network economy presents itself in the transactions of electronic commerce, finance, business, and communications. The network economy is also a social condition of discontinuity, indefinite limits, and in-between spaces. In Cornucopia Limited,...

Horst Hendriks-Jansen / Catching Ourselves in the Act (Hardback)

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Janet Abbate / Inventing the Internet (Hardback)

Janet Abbate recounts the key players and technologies that allowed the Internet to develop; but her main focus is always on the social and cultural factors that influenced the Internet's design and use. Since the late 1960s the Internet has grown...

Joseph Roth / The White Cities: Reports From France, 1925 39 (Hardback)

Joseph Roth, the greatest European newspaper correspondent of his age, left the splintering Weimar Republic for Paris in 1925 and, as an Austrian Jew, was exiled there for the rest of his life. Collected together here for the first time in English,...

Ben Shneiderman / Leonardo's Laptop (Hardback)

Leonardo's Laptop: Human Needs and the New Computing Technologies   2003 IEEE-USAB Award for Distinguished Literary Contributions Furthering Public Understanding of the Profession. and Selected as a Finalist in the category of Computer/Internet...

Richard Sennett / The Craftsman (Hardback)

Craftsmanship, says Richard Sennett, names the basic human impulse to do a job well for its own sake, and good craftsmanship involves developing skills and focusing on the work rather than ourselves. The computer programmer, the doctor, the artist,...

Christopher Baber / Cognition and Tool Use: Forms of Engagement in Human and Animal Use of Tools (Hardback)

The ability to use tools is a distinguishing feature of human beings. It represents a complex psychomotor activity that we are only now beginning to comprehend. Robust new theoretical accounts allow us to better understand how people use tools and...

Tiziano Terzani / Behind the forbidden door (Hardback)

This marvellously observed and brilliantly painted picture of China since Mao promises to be one of the most exciting and original new books of 1986.Tiziano Terzani was one of the first western journalists to be accredited after Deng Xiaoping opened...

Richard Harper / Organisational Change and Retail Finance (Hardback)

Financial organizations, like many others, are undergoing radical change. This is affecting both their organizational processes and the technology that supports those processes. This book reports on the use of sociological ethnography in helping guide...

Max H. Boisot / Information Space (Hardback)

In this book, Max Boisot lays the foundation for a new political economy of information to effectively meet today's needs. Information Space is the conceptual framework in which organizations, institutions, and cultures are being transformed by new...

Tristan Gooley / How To Read Water (Hardback)

A must-have book for walkers, sailors, swimmers, anglers and everyone interested in the natural world, in How To Read Water, Natural Navigator Tristan Gooley shares knowledge, skills, tips and useful observations to help you enjoy the landscape around...

Jeremy Rifkin / THE AGE OF ACCESS (Hardback)

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Sheree Bykofsky / 500 Terrific Ideas for Organizing Everything (Hardback)

500 savvy solutions for organizing your life, from putting those tax records in order to straightening out that messy closet, from keeping track of appointments to getting to them on time. Put these smart tips into practice at home, at work, at...

Doron Swade / The Cogwheel Brain (Hardback)

In 1821, 30-year-old inventor and mathematician Charles Babbage was poring over a set of printed mathematical tables with his friend, the astronomer John Herschel. Finding error after error in the manually evaluated results, Babbage made an...

John Millar Carroll / Minimalism Beyond the Nurnberg Funnel (Hardback)

Minimalism is an action- and task-oriented approach to instruction and documentation that emphasizes the importance of realistic activities and experiences for effective learning and information seeking. Since 1990, when the approach was defined in...

A. S. Imada / Participatory Ergonomics (Hardback)

Participatory ergonomics focuses on the way of involving workers in decisions which directly affect their well-being. Its aim is to match the technological developments and requirements of the business to the human needs of the workforce. This book...

Stephen van Dulken / Inventing the 20th Century (Hardback)

Imagine your average day without television, vacuum cleaners, photocopiers and personal stereos. This title offers window onto the technology of the 20th century. By combining a brief history of each patent (the zip fastener, the post-it note) with a...

David Cesarani / Arthur Koestler The Homeless Mind (Hardback)

Should we judge the work by the man, or vice versa? Ezra Pound was a Fascist and an anti-Semite; he was also a good poet. Arthur Koestler was a remarkable man, in his failings as much as his virtues, and David Cesarani's new biography pulls no...

Rana Mitter / A Bitter Revolution (Hardback)

China today is poised to play a key role on the world stage, but in the early twentieth century the situation was very different. In this powerful new look at modern China, Rana Mitter goes back to a pivotal moment in Chinese history to uncover the...

Lisl Klein / Putting Social Science to Work (Hardback)

In this book, first published in 1991, Lisl Klein and Ken Eason look at the various issues involved when attempts are made to make use of the theories, methods and findings of the social sciences in practical affairs. They consider how human and...

Barbara Czarniawska / A Tale of Three Cities (Hardback)

This book examines the effects of globalization at the local level within our everyday lives. Rather than seeing the city as a conurbation, a location of economic activity or in terms of governance and administration, Czarniawska explores the city as...

Arno Allan Penzias / Ideas and Information (Hardback)

A scientist probes the nature of computer information, exploring the assemblage of symbols, numbers, words, and pictures that make up information, the degree to which machines extract meaning, and the destined role of machines in our...

Evgeny Morozov / To Save Everything, Click Here (Hardback)

In the very near future, "smart" technologies and "big data" will allow us to make large-scale and sophisticated interventions in politics, culture, and everyday life. Technology will allow us to solve problems in highly original ways and create new...

Pierre Lévy / Collective Intelligence (Hardback)

Argues that the technology of cyberspace will have a positive, humanizing influence on civilization, rather than creating a world where machines rule mankind       This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same...

Barbara Czarniawska / Writing Management (Hardback)

Barbara Czarniawska is one of the most original of contemporary writers on organizations. Sceptical of scientific claims and explanations of the social world, she advocates an approach that draws on narrative, literary theory, cultural studies, and...

David M. Levy / Scrolling Forward (Hardback)

By focusing on the "document" in history, the author explores what this simple concept reveals about the people who use it every day, tracing its evolution from the handwritten correspondance of the nineteenth century to the digital documentation of the...

Andrew M. Greeley / Irish Gold (Hardback)

In Ireland to discover why his grandparents left there during the Troubles, American Dermot Michael Coyne becomes the target of someone who does not want the past revealed, and only beautiful Nuala Anne McGreal stands between him and certain death...

Donald M. Berwick / Escape Fire (Hardback)

Spanning a decade (1992-2002), these speeches echo the theme that our health care system needs fundamental change and a revolutionary new design. Throughout the book, Berwick identifies innovations and ideas from a number of surprising sources―a...

Pierre Lévy / Becoming Virtual (Hardback)

Virtual reality is a phenomenon that captivates people of all ages and all levels of technical expertise. It appears on the Internet and in computer games, and is used, among other places, in high-tech software for doctors, engineers, and scientists...

Gitta Sereny / The German Trauma (Hardback)

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Marilynne Robinson / Absence of Mind (Hardback)

In this ambitious book, acclaimed writer Marilynne Robinson applies her astute intellect to some of the most vexing topics in the history of human thought—science, religion, and consciousness. Crafted with the same care and insight as her...

John Brockman / The Third Culture (Hardback)

Providing an analysis of the intellectual culture of today that has science--not literature or philosophy--at its center, a guide to the latest scientific theories and research is also a provocative discussion of the predominance of science.   This...

Garry Kasparov / Deep Thinking (Hardback)

In May 1997, the world watched as Garry Kasparov, the greatest chess player in the world, was defeated for the first time by the IBM supercomputer Deep Blue. It was a watershed moment in the history of technology: machine intelligence had arrived at...

Manuel Castells / The Internet Galaxy (Hardback)

Manuel Castells is one of the world's leading thinkers on the new information age, hailed by The Economist as "the first significant philosopher of cyberspace," and by Christian Science Monitor as "a pioneer who has hacked out a logical, well-documented,...

George Mandler / Human Nature Explored (Hardback)

What exactly is "human nature"? Are we correct in accepting ourselves as unchangeable, determined by biology, or is this idea an obstacle to our cognitive, emotional, and evolutionary development?George Mandler explores these questions from a fresh...

Marie Larochelle / Constructivism and Education (Hardback)

This international and interdisciplinary collection of chapters presents and discusses the many issues and educational practices that are touched on by constructivism. Drawing on perspectives from a range of different fields (ethics, mathematics...

John Millar Carroll / Making Use (Hardback)

Difficult to learn and awkward to use, today's information systems often change our activities in ways that we do not need or want. The problem lies in the software development process. In this book John Carroll shows how a pervasive but underused...

Ruy Castro / Rio De Janeiro (Hardback)

Occupying what is arguably the most breathtakingly beautiful site in the world, the people of Rio - the Cariocas - tell their of cannibals charming European intellectuals; of elegant slaves and their shabby masters; of how a casual chat between two...

Yi-Fu Tuan / Passing Strange and Wonderful (Hardback)

In this rich and rewarding work, Yi-Fu Tuan vividly demonstrates that feeling and beauty are essential components of life and society. The aesthetic is not merely one aspect of culture but its central core - both its driving force and its ultimate...

Chris Argyris / Reasons and Rationalizations (Hardback)

What is the purpose of social science and management research? Do scholars/researchers have a responsibility to generate insights and knowledge that are of practical (implementable) value and validity? We are told we live in turbulent and changing times,...

Jamling Tenzing Norgay / Touching My Father's Soul (Hardback)

Sherpas are part of our everyday parlance, yet we know so little of their world beyond their depiction as climbing wonders. In Touching My Father's Soul, Jamling Tenzing Norgay gives us an insider's view of the Sherpa world as he tells a story of...

Rob Mundle / Fatal Storm (Hardback)

Describes the December, 1998 yacht race from Sydney, Australia to Hobart, Tasmania, and the overpowering storm that claimed the lives of six sailors       This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same...

Matt Goss / Matt Goss : More Than You Know (Hardback)

Matt Goss is to tell his life story for the first time, from before the Bros years, through the heady days as frontman for the biggest pop band on the planet, to the traumatic times following the band's split and his gritty, inspired return to public...

Duong T Huong / Novel without a Name (Hardback)

The powerful, personal story of Vietnam's war against Americans as experienced by North Vietnamese soldiers and villagers on the front lines offers an unforgettable tale of struggle and loss from the author of Paradise of the Blind.   This book is...

Tom Garvin / Preventing the Future (Hardback)

From the mid-thirties to 1960, independent Ireland endured economic stagnation and a period of intense cultural and psychological repression. External circumstances - the depression of the thirties, World War II and post-war trade barriers which...