Sciences and Technology

Gordon Graham / The Internet

The A Philosophical Inquiry develops many of the themes Gordon Graham presented in his highly successful radio series, The Silicon Society . Exploring the tensions between the warnings of the Neo-Luddites and the bright optimism of the Technophiles,...

Armand Mattelart / The Information Society: An Introduction

The impact of the `information society′ are multiform and transdisciplinary. There are few areas of social, political and economic life that have not been affected or challenged by the new technologies of information and communication. In this...

Richard C. Lewontin / The Doctrine of DNA: Biology as Ideology

In this book R. C. Lewontin, one of the world's leading geneticists, provides a thought-provoking overview of both the successes and limitations of modern biology, making a powerful challenge to the increasingly orthodox claim that all of human existence...

Margaret Wertheim / The Pearly Gates of Cyberspace

In Pythagoras' Trousers, science writer and feminist Margaret Wertheim took an astute look at the social and cultural history of physics. She explored how the development of physics became intertwined with the rising power of institutionalized...

James A Coleman - Relativity for the Layman - PB - 1972

Published by Pelican UK in this revised edition, 1972, subtitled  ' a simplifiued account of the history, theory and proofs of relativity'  Initially published 1954.  In excellent condition. 

Francis Spufford / Cultural Babbage: Technology, Time and Invention

Show the world you have invented a machine that can slice potatoes and someone will ask if it can slice a pineapple (so said Charles Babbage). In thirteen unorthodox pieces, biographers, historians, poets, and critics explore aspects of the powerful...

Katie Hafner, Matthew Lyon / Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet

Considering that the history of the Internet is perhaps better documented internally than any other technological construct, it is remarkable how shadowy its origins have been to most people, including die-hard Net-denizens! At last, Hafner and Lyon...

David Weinberger / Everything Is Miscellaneous - The Power of the New Digital Disorder

"Perfectly placed to tell us what's really new about [the] second-generation Web."― Los Angeles Times Business visionary and bestselling author David Weinberger charts how as business, politics, science, and media move online, the rules of the...

Martin Heidegger / The Question Concerning Technology and Other Essays

"To read Heidegger is to set out on an adventure. The essays in this volume—intriguing, challenging, and often baffling to the reader—call him always to abandon all superficial scanning and to enter wholeheartedly into the serious pursuit of...

Jonathan L. Zittrain / The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It

In The Future of the And How to Stop It Jonathan Zittrain explores the dangers the internet faces if it fails to balance ever more tightly controlled technologies with the flow of innovation that has generated so much progress in the field of...

Lee Siegel / Against the Machine: Being Human in the Age of the Electronic Mob

Against the Machine is a fascinating look at how the Internet is reshaping the way we think about ourselves and the world. Siegel explores how the internet affects culture and social life, particularly the psychological, emotional and social cost of...

Evgeny Morozov / The Net Delusion: How Not to Liberate the World

In The Net Delusion: How Not to Liberate the World Evgeny Morozov argues that our utopian, internet-centric thinking holds devastating consequences for the future of democracy.We were promised that the internet would set us free. From the...

Steven Johnson / Interface Culture - How New Technology Transforms the way we Create

Drawing on his own expertise in the humanities and on the Web, Steven Johnson not only demonstrates how interfaces - those buttons, graphics, and words on the computer screen through which we control information - influence our daily lives, but also...

Mike Cooley / Delinquent Genius : The Strange Affair of Man and His Technology

Delinquent Genius is simply brimming with insights. It traces the sources of technology and its application. It is, above all else, a brilliant account of a dangerous hubris which can lead to that which is instrumental becoming a source, a dangerous...

Steven Rose / The Making of Memory

The human brain weighs, on average, just over two pounds, is wrinkled like a walnut and has the colour and something of the consistency of porridge. Yet somehow the interactions of the ten billion cells that comprise it produce our capacity to think,...

Steven Rose / The 21st Century Brain: Explaining, mending and manipulating the mind

A compelling and authoritative study of the brain – its past, present and future.The human brain is the most complex structure in the known universe. How it works, the relationship between mind and brain, is one of the most important of...

Bonnie A. Nardi , Vicki O'Day / Information Ecologies: Using Technology With Heart (Hardback)

The common rhetoric about technology falls into two extreme uncritical acceptance or blanket rejection. These two positions leave us with poor choices for action. They encourage us to accept as inevitable whatever technological changes come along...

Fred Turner / From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism (Hardback)

In the early 1960s, computers haunted the American popular imagination. Bleak tools of the cold war, they embodied the rigid organization and mechanical conformity that made the military-industrial complex possible. But by the 1990s—and the dawn of...

Kim J. Vicente / The Human Factor: Revolutionizing the Way People Live with Technology (Hardback)

In this incessantly readable, groundbreaking work, Vincente makes vividly clear how we can bridge the widening gap between people and technology. He investigates every level of human activity - from simple matters such as our hand-eye coordination to...

Bonnie A. Nardi / Context and Consciousness: Activity Theory and Human-Computer Interaction (Hardback)

Intended for designers and researchers, Context and Consciousness brings together 13 contributions that apply activity theory to problems of human-computer interaction. Understanding how people actually use computers in their everyday lives is essential...

Eric von Hippel / Democratizing Innovation (Hardback)

Innovation is rapidly becoming democratized. Users, aided by improvements in computer and communications technology, increasingly can develop their own new products and services. These innovating users—both individuals and firms—often freely...

George Sanderson / Marshall McLuhan: The Man and His Message (Hardback)

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Tom McMaster / Facilitating Technology Transfer through Partnership (Hardback)

The primary aim for this book is to gather and collate articles which represent the best and latest thinking in the domain of technology transfer, from research, academia and practice around the world. We envisage that the book will, as a result of this,...

Walter R.J. Baets / Information Technology and Organizational Transformation: Innovation for the 21st Century Organization (Hardback)

This book discusses a holistic approach to organizations. It explores alternative organizational forms and work practices, the use and availability of information systems, evolving skill requirements, the innovative power of information technology, the...

Gene Moriarty / The Engineering Project: Its Nature, Ethics, and Promise (Hardback)

We all live our daily lives surrounded by the products of technology that make what we do simpler, faster, and more efficient. These are benefits we often just take for granted. But at the same time, as these products disburden us of unwanted tasks that...

Yoko Akama , Sarah Pink , Shanti Sumartojo / Uncertainty and Possibility: New Approaches to Future Making in Design Anthropology (Hardback)

Uncertainty and possibility are emerging as both theoretical concepts and fields of empirical investigation, as scholars and practitioners seek new creative, hopeful and speculative modes of understanding and intervening in a world of crisis.This book...

Harry Collins , Trevor Pinch / The Golem at Large: What You Should Know about Technology (Hardback)

In the very successful and widely discussed first volume in the Golem series, The What You Should Know About Science, Harry Collins and Trevor Pinch likened science to the Golem, a creature from Jewish mythology, a powerful creature which, while not...

Steve Fuller / Kuhn vs. Popper: The Struggle for the Soul of Science (Hardback)

In 1965 Thomas Kuhn and Karl Popper met at the University of London to stage what has turned out to be the most momentous philosophical debate of the 20th century. At stake was no less than the soul of science itself...No discipline remained untouched by...

Armand Marie Leroi / Mutants : On the Form, Varieties and Errors of the Human Body (Hardback)

How we grow; and what happens when mistakes occur.  Mutants is a book about how the body develops and grows from a single cell to an adult and then declines into old age. What does the new molecular genetics tell us about the human condition? How is...

Jonah Lehrer / Proust Was a Neuroscientist (Hardback)

Is science the only path to knowledge? In this sparkling and provocative book Jonah Lehrer, author of The Decisive Moment, explains that when it comes to understanding the brain, art got there first. Taking a group of celebrated writers, painters and...

Emma Gannon / Disconnected: How to Stay Human in an Online World (Hardback)

OUT The new book by Sunday Times bestselling author, Emma GannonI love Emma Gannon's wise and refreshing perspective on work, and more broadly on the challenges of building a meaningful life in an era of distraction, overwhelm and uncertainty. - Oliver...

Stephen H. Segal / Geek Wisdom: The Sacred Teachings of Nerd Culture (Hardback)

THE GEEKS HAVE INHERITED THE EARTH.Computer nerds are our titans of industry; comic-book superheroes are our Hollywood idols; the Internet is our night on the town. Clearly, geeks know something about life in the 21st century that other folks...

Peter Nathan / The Nervous System (Vintage Paperback)

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David Dickson / Alternative Technology and the Politics of Technical Change (Vintage Paperback)

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Michael Kaplan ( Editor) / Essential Works of Pavlov (Vintage Paperback)

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Anthony G. Oettinger / Run, Computer, Run - A Mythology of Educational Innovation(Vintage Paperback)

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Thomas S. Kuhn / The Copernican Revolution (Vintage Paperback)

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Jacques Ellul / The Technological Society (Vintage Paperback)

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David Attenborough / The Zoo Quest Expeditions (Vintage Paperback)

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Jacques Monod / Chance and Necessity (Vintage Paperback)

Chance and Necessity: Essay on the Natural Philosophy of Modern Biology (French: Le Hasard et la Nécessité: Essai sur la philosophie naturelle de la biologie moderne) is a 1970 book by Nobel Prize winner Jacques Monod. Aimed at a general...

I. Nicolson / Exploring the Planets (Vintage Paperback)

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Banesh Hoffmann / The Strange Story of the Quantum (Vintage Paperback)

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Matthew J. Gaines / Atomic Energy (Vintage Paperback)

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Raymond Williams / Television: Technology and Cultural Form (Vintage Paperback)

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Adrian Berry / The Next Ten Thousand Years (Vintage Paperback)

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Ian Wand / Computing Tomorrow: Future Research Directions in Computer Science (Hardback)

Computer science is no longer just a technology--for nearly all of us, it has become a way of life. Whether we spend our days surfing the Internet, or merely use an automatic teller machine on occasion, computers have affected our lives. This collection...

Paul Luff / Workplace Studies: Recovering Work Practice and Informing System Design (Hardback)

This important new book brings together key researchers in Europe and the United States to discuss critical issues in the study of the workplace and to outline recent developments in the field. The collection is divided into two parts. Part I contains a...

Donald A. Norman / The Invisible Computer: Why Good Products Can Fail, the Personal Computer Is So Complex, and Information Appliances Are the Solution (Hardback)

The author of The Design of Everyday Things calls for the redesign of personal computers and other "information appliances" to place users' needs before the complexity of the technology and for a human-centered development process. UP.     All...

Thomas P. Hughes / Human-Built World: How to Think about Technology and Culture (Hardback)

To most people, technology has been reduced to computers, consumer goods, and military weapons; we speak of "technological progress" in terms of RAM and CD-ROMs and the flatness of our television screens. In Human-Built World , thankfully, Thomas Hughes...

John E. Harrison / Synaesthesia : The Strangest Thing (Hardback)

Synaesthesia is a confusion of the senses, whereby stimulation of one sense triggers stimulation in a completely different sensory modality. A synaesthete might claim to be able to hear colors, taste shapes, describe the color, shape, and flavor of...

John Markoff / What the Dormouse Said: How the 60s Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry (Hardback)

An analysis of the political and cultural forces that gave rise to the personal computer chronicles its development through the people, politics, and social upheavals that defined its time, from a teenage anti-war protester who laid the groundwork for...

Paul Dourish / Where the Action Is: The Foundations of Embodied Interaction (Hardback)

Computer science as an engineering discipline has been spectacularly successful. Yet it is also a philosophical enterprise in the way it represents the world and creates and manipulates models of reality, people, and action. In this book, Paul Dourish...