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Edward S. Herman, Noam Chomsky / Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (Large Paperback)

In this pathbreaking work, Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky show that, contrary to the usual image of the news media as cantankerous, obstinate, and ubiquitous in their search for truth and defense of justice, in their actual practice they defend the...

Dan Schiller / Digital Capitalism: Networking the Global Market System (Large Paperback)

The networks that comprise cyberspace were originally created at the behest of government agencies, military contractors, and allied educational institutions. Over the past generation or so, however, a growing number of these networks began to serve...

Bruno Munari / Drawing a Tree (Large Paperback)

For Drawing a Tree, Bruno Munari proposes: "When drawing a tree, always remember that every branch is more slender than the one that came before. Also note that the trunk splits into two branches, then those branches split in two, then those in...

Gaston Bachelard / The Poetics of Space (Large Paperback)

Since its first publication in English in 1964, French philosopher Gaston Bachelard's Poetics of Space remains one of the most appealing and lyrical explorations of home. Bachelard takes us on a journey, from cellar to attic, to show how our...

Thierry Bardini / Bootstrapping: Douglas Engelbart, Coevolution, and the Origins of Personal Computing (Large Paperback)

Bootstrapping analyzes the genesis of personal computing from both technological and social perspectives, through a close study of the pathbreaking work of one researcher, Douglas Engelbart. In his lab at the Stanford Research Institute in the 1960s,...

Lissa Rankin / Mind Over Medicine: Scientific Proof That You Can Heal Yourself (Large Paperback)

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John Brierley / A Pilgrim's Guide to the Camino de Santiago: The Way of St. James (Large Paperback)

Representing the most popular Christian pilgrimage anywhere in the world, this guide combines maps, photographies, and hospitality information to help travelers in their journey.       This book is second hand, and while you may...

Paul Theroux / The Happy Isles of Oceania: Paddling the Pacific (Large Paperback)

Renowned travel writer and novelist Paul Theroux has been many places in his life and tried almost everything. But this trip in and around the lands of the Pacific may be his boldest, most fascinating yet. From New Zealand's rain forests, to...

M.N. Srinivas / The Fieldworker and the Field: Problems and Challenges in Sociological Investigation (Large Paperback)

This is a paperback of a 1979 hardback which broke new ground in social investigation. There have, since, been other books on the experience of fieldwork, but this remains a much cited work. The eighteen essays in the volume describe the experiences...

Steve Woolgar / Virtual Society? Get Real!: Technology, Cyberbole, Reality (Large Paperback)

This book investigates the precise effects on society of the new and much vaunted electronic technologies (ICTs). All aspects of our social, cultural, economic, and political life stand to be affected by their continued massive growth, but are...

Howard Rheingold / Tools for Thought: The History and Future of Mind-Expanding Technology (Large Paperback)

In a highly engaging style, Rheingold tells the story of what he calls the patriarchs, pioneers, and infonauts of the computer, focusing in particular on such pioneers as J. C. R. Licklider, Doug Engelbart, Bob Taylor, and Alan Kay. The digital...

Giuseppe Mantovani / New Communications Environments: From Everyday To Virtual (Large Paperback)

This multi-disciplinary book develops three intertwined the perspective of situated action from cognitive science, a model of social context as a framework for inspiring artifact use and starting from it, and the individual and organizational impact of...

Paul N. Edwards / The Closed World: Computers and the Politics of Discourse in Cold War America (Large Paperback)

The Closed World offers a radically new alternative to the canonical histories of computers and cognitive science. Arguing that we can make sense of computers as tools only when we simultaneously grasp their roles as metaphors and political icons, Paul...

Phillip Knightley / The Second Oldest Profession: Spies and Spying in the Twentieth Century (Large Paperback)

The spy is as old as history but spy services are quite new. Britain founded the first, Her Majesty's Secret Intelligence Service, in dubious circumstances in 1909. Others followed until no country considered itself a nation unless it had a corps of...

Armand Mattelart / Invention Of Communication (Large Paperback)

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Armand Mattelart / Mapping World Communication: War, Progress, Culture (Large Paperback)

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Dara Molloy / Reimagining The Divine: A Celtic Spirituality of Experience (Large Paperback)

The globalised belief in one ‘God’ has become a problem. The prayer ‘Our Father in heaven’presents an image that embodies the values of uniformity, exclusivity, patriarchy,authoritarianism and the absence of a sacred presence in...

Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing / Friction: An Ethnography of Global Connection (Large Paperback)

A wheel turns because of its encounter with the surface of the road; spinning in the air it goes nowhere. Rubbing two sticks together produces heat and light; one stick alone is just a stick. In both cases, it is friction that produces movement, action,...

Ricard Matthieu / Altruism: The Power of Compassion to Change Yourself and the World (Large Paperback)

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Immanuel Wallerstein / The End of the World As We Know It: Social Science for the Twenty-First Century (Large Paperback)

his book is nothing short of a state-of-the-world address, delivered by a scholar uniquely suited to the task. Immanuel Wallerstein, one of the most prominent social scientists of our time, documents the profound transformations our world is undergoing...

Colin Lankshear / New Literacies (Large Paperback)

"Lankshear and Knobel's New Changing Knowledge and Classroom Learning is a savvy and principled analysis of emerging socio-cultural conditions of digitization, the best take to date on education, Post-Lyotard." - Suzanne de Castell, Professor, Literacy...

Bruce Sterling / Shaping Things (Large Paperback)

A guide to the next great wave of technology--an era of objects so programmable that they can be regarded as material instantiations of an immaterial system. Shaping Things is about created objects and the environment, which is to say, it's...

Claudio U. Ciborra / From Control to Drift: The Dynamics of Corporate Information Infrastructures (Large Paperback)

This book presents six in-depth case studies of large corporations which offer a rich picture of the main issues involved in information infrastructure implementation and management. It provides interpretations and theories that are relevant both for...

Alastair Fuad-Luke / Design Activism: Beautiful Strangeness for a Sustainable World (Large Paperback)

Design academics and practitioners are facing a multiplicity of challenges in a dynamic, complex, world moving faster than the current design paradigm which is largely tied to the values and imperatives of commercial enterprise. Current education and...

Paul Karl Feyerabend / Against Method (Large Paperback)

Modern philosophy of science has paid great attention to the understanding of scientific ‘practice’, in contrast to concentration on scientific ‘method’. Paul Feyerabend’s acclaimed work, which has contributed greatly to...

Michael A. Jackson / Software Requirements and Specifications: A Lexicon of Practice, Principles and Prejudices (Large Paperback)

Software Reqiuirements and Specifications is the latest book from Michael Jackson, one of the foremost contributors to software development method and practice. The book brings together some 75 short pieces about principles and techniques for...

Evan Selinger / Chasing Technoscience: Matrix for Materiality (Large Paperback)

". . . an original, quirky, and illuminating collection of material concerning the relatively new and exciting field of technoscience studies. . . . [T]he editors' choice of multiple approaches to the work of four major figures is wholly suited to...

Judy Attfield / Wild Things: The Material Culture of Everyday Life (Large Paperback)

Shortlisted for the Design History Society Scholarship Prize 2001-2002 What do things mean? What does the life of everyday objects after the check-out reveal about people and their material worlds? Has the quest for the real thing become so important...

Langdon Winner/ The Whale and the Reactor: A Search for Limits in an Age of High Technology (Large Paperback)

"The questions he poses about the relationship between technical change and political power are pressing ones that can no longer be ignored, and identifying them is perhaps the most a nascent 'philosophy of technology' can expect to achieve at the...

Tony Fry / Becoming Human by Design (Large Paperback)

The last in Tony Fry's celebrated trilogy of books continues his radical rethinking of design. Becoming Human by Design 's provocative argument presents a revised reading of human 'evolution' centred on ontological design.Examining the relation of design...

Peter Checkland / Systems Thinking, Systems Practice: Includes a 30-Year Retrospective (Large Paperback)

Thirty years ago Peter Checkland set out to test whether the Systems Engineering (SE) approach, highly successful in technical problems, could be used by managers coping with the unfolding complexities of organizational life. The straightforward transfer...

Frank Webster / Theories of the Information Society (Large Paperback)

Information has come to be regarded as a symbol of the age in which we live. Talk nowadays is of an `information technology' revolution, even of an `information society'. But just what does this mean? In Theories of the Information Society Frank...

Richard Rogers / Technological Landscapes (Large Paperback)

Technological Landscapes captures the spirit of technology from the railways to the Internet. A series of philosophical and sociological essays explore the contemporary history of western technological culture, taking up both the built and the unbuilt,...

Jonathan A. Smith / Rethinking Psychology (Large Paperback)

In recent years, a range of perspectives across psychology have challenged the experimental, positivist and cognitivist orientation that has dominated the field for so long. This critique of the mainstream has come out of a broad spectrum of...

Ulrich Conrads / Programs and Manifestoes on 20th-Century Architechture (Large Paperback)

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John Friedmann / The Good Society: A personal account of its struggle with the world of social planning and a dialectical inquiry into the roots of radical practice (Large Paperback)

"Friedmann presents his readers with separate sentences and paragraphs to ponder. These are liberally punctuated with a very personalized anthology of quotations ranging from Martin Buber to Heraclitus, T. S. Eliot to Mao Tse-Tong, and many other no...

Jane M. Healy / Failure to Connect: How Computers Affect Our Children's Minds – and What We Can Do About It (Large Paperback)

* When should children start using computers?* How should schools incorporate computer use into their curriculum?* Which types of computer software programs should be avoided?* Are children who don't have computers in class and at home doomed to fall...

M. Mitchell Waldrop / The Dream Machine: J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal (Large Paperback)

A study of the evolution of the modern computer profiles the work of MIT psychologist J. C. R. Licklider, whose visionary dream of a human-computer symbiosis transformed the course of modern science and led to the development of the personal computer...

Richard Buchanan / Discovering Design: Explorations in Design Studies (Large Paperback)

Discovering Design reflects the growing recognition that the design of the everyday world deserves attention not only as a professional practice but as a subject of social, cultural, and philosophic investigation. Victor Margolin, cofounder and an editor...

Michel Lincourt / In Search of Elegance: Towards an Architecture of Satisfaction (Large Paperback)

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Malcolm McCullough / Abstracting Craft: The Practiced Digital Hand (Large Paperback)

In this investigation of the possibility of craft in the digital realm, Malcolm McCullough observes that the emergence of computation as a medium, rather than just a set of tools, suggests a growing correspondence between digital work and traditional...

Paul Connerton / How Modernity Forgets (Large Paperback)

Why are we sometimes unable to remember events, places and objects? This concise overview explores the concept of 'forgetting', and how modern society affects our ability to remember things. It takes ideas from Francis Yates' classic work, The...

Reyner Banham / Theory and Design in the First Machine Age (Large Paperback)

First published in 1960, Theory and Design in the First Machine Age has become required reading in numerous courses on the history of modern architecture and is widely regarded as one of the definitive books on the modern movement. It has influenced...

Steen Eiler Rasmussen / Experiencing Architecture (Large Paperback)

Profusely illustrated with fine instances of architectural experimentation through the centuries, Experiencing Architecture manages to convey the intellectual excitement of superb design. From teacups, riding boots, golf balls, and underwater...

James Howard Kunstler / Home from Nowhere: Remaking Our Everyday World for the 21st Century (Large Paperback)

In his landmark book The Geography of Nowhere James Howard Kunstler visited the "tragic sprawlscape of cartoon architecture, junked cities, and ravaged countryside" America had become and declared that the deteriorating environment was not...

James Fadiman / The Psychedelic Explorer's Guide: Safe, Therapeutic, and Sacred Journeys (Large Paperback)

Psychedelics for spiritual, therapeutic, and problem-solving use- Presents practices for safe and successful psychedelic voyages, including the benefits of having a guide and how to be a guide- Reviews the value of psychedelics for healing and...

Larry Cuban / Teachers and Machines: The Classroom of Technology Since 1920 (Large Paperback)

Film and radio, television, and computers have each been heralded by reformers as a way to revolutionize classroom instruction by increasing productivity. “The promises implied in these aids caught educators’ individualized instruction,...

Margaret A. Boden / Computer Models of Mind: Computational approaches in theoretical psychology (Large Paperback)

What is the mind? How does it work? How does it influence behavior? Some psychologists hope to answer such questions in terms of concepts drawn from computer science and artificial intelligence. They test their theories by modeling mental processes...

Davide Nicolini / Practice Theory, Work, and Organization: An Introduction (Large Paperback)

What is practice theory? Where do practice theories come from? What do they say? Do they really offer something new to the study of work and organization?In setting out to answer these questions, this book provides a rigorous yet accessible introduction...

Donald A. Norman / Turn Signals Are The Facial Expressions Of Automobiles (Large Paperback)

From water faucets and airplane cockpits to the concept of ”real time” and the future of memory, this wide-ranging tour through technology provides a new understanding of how the gadgets that surround us affect our lives. Donald Norman...

Rachel Charlotte Smith / Design Anthropological Futures (Large Paperback)

A major contribution to the field, this ground-breaking book explores design anthropology's focus on futures and future-making. Examining what design anthropology is and what it is becoming, the authors push the frontiers of the discipline and reveal...

Hans-Georg Gadamer / Reason in the Age of Science (Large Paperback)

The essays in this book deal broadly with the question of what form reasoning about life and society can take in a culture permeated by scientific and technical modes of thought. They attempt to identify certain very basic types of questions that...