New Large Paperback Books

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,...

Steven Nadler / Spinoza: A Life (Large Paperback)

Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677) was one of the most important philosophers of all time; he was also arguably the most radical and controversial. This was the first complete biography of Spinoza in any language and is based on detailed archival research. More...

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...

Le Corbusier / The City of To-morrow and Its Planning (Large Paperback)

In this 1929 classic, the great architect Le Corbusier turned from the design of houses to the planning of cities, surveying urban problems and venturing bold new solutions. The book shocked and thrilled a world already deep in the throes of the modern...

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...

Henri Lefebvre / The Production of Space (Large Paperback)

Henri Lefebvre has considerable claims to be the greatest living philosopher. His work spans some sixty years and includes original work on a diverse range of subjects, from dialectical materialism to architecture, urbanism and the experience of everyday...

Victor Turner / The Anthropology of Performance (Large Paperback)

Turner is all over the globe as he addresses issues of cultural performance, carnival, film, theatre, and "performing ethnography" to break new ground in anthropological thinking about event, spectacle, and audience. One of his last writings, "Body,...

Stephen J. Pyne / The Ice: A Journey to Antarctica (Large Paperback)

Stephen Pyne's overwhelming fascination with Antarctica is the compelling force behind this major book on this stark and largely unknown continent. It combines a geophysical examination of the ice with an inspirational survey of how one of the most...

Jörn Rüsen / Thinking Utopia: Steps into Other Worlds (Large Paperback)

After the breakdown of socialist and communist systems in the East, it had become fashionable to declare the so-called "end of utopia" ("end of history," "end of narratives"). The authors of this volume do not share this view but think that it is...

Fons Trompenaars / Riding the Waves of Culture : Understanding Cultural Diversity in Business (Large Paperback)

International management guru, Fons Trompenaar's best-selling Riding the Waves of Culture has become an essential guide for managers and trainers in multinational organizations, as well as anyone who conducts business overseas. This thoroughly...

Donald A. Norman / Things That Make Us Smart (Large Paperback)

In Things That Make Us Smart, Donald A. Norman explores the complex interaction between human thought and the technology it creates, arguing for the development of machines that fit our minds, rather than minds that must conform to the machine.Humans...

Dermot Moran / Introduction to Phenomenology (Large Paperback)

Introduction to Phenomenology is an outstanding and comprehensive guide to phenomenology. Dermot Moran lucidly examines the contributions of phenomenology's nine seminal thinkers: Brentano, Husserl, Heidegger, Gadamer, Arendt, Levinas, Sartre,...