Sciences and Technology

William J. Clancey / Situated Cognition: On Human Knowledge and Computer Representations (Large Paperback)

This text deals with recent changes in the design of intelligent machines. New computer models of vision and navigation in animals suggest a different way to build machines. Cognition is viewed not just in terms of high-level "expertise," but in the...

Michael A. Hiltzik / Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age (Large Paperback)

  In Dealers of Lightning, Hiltzik describes the forces and faces behind the revolution that the Xerox PARC team single-handedly spawned. The Xerox PARC group was composed solely of top technical minds. The decision was made at Xerox...

William J. Mitchell / City of Bits : Space, Place, and the Infobahn (Large Paperback)

Entertaining, concise, and relentlessly probing, City of Bits is a comprehensive introduction to a new type of city, an increasingly important system of virtual spaces interconnected by the information superhighway. William Mitchell makes extensive use...

Paul Stratern / Curie and Radioactivity

Revealing the intensity, dedication, and determination of one of the century's most inspiring single working mothers, Curie and Radioactivity is for anyone curious about the "female Einstein, " and even more important, for all those who want to...

Jesse S. Tatum et al / Technology and the Good Life (Large Paperback)

Can we use technology in the pursuit of a good life, or are we doomed to having our lives organized and our priorities set by the demands of machines and systems? How can philosophy help us to make technology a servant rather than a master?Technology and...

Peter J. Denning, Robert M. Metcalfe / Beyond Calculation: The Next Fifty Years of Computing (Large Paperback)

In March 1997, the Association for Computing Machinery celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of the electronic computer. Computers are everywhere: in our cars, our homes, our supermarkets, at the office, and at the local hospital. But as the contributors...

Claudio Ciborra / The Labyrinths of Information: Challenging the Wisdom of Systems (Large Paperback)

How to use information and communication technologies in organizations and how to manage their impact has been the traditional domain of computer specialists and management consultants. The former have offered multiple ways to represent, model, and build...

Bob Berman / Boom!: The Violent Supernovas, Galactic Explosions, and Earthly Mayhem that Shook our Universe

Space is quiet. Billion trillions of stars slowly burning out their lives. Bodies of rock, moons, planets, floating in the dark. Most of the time. Sometimes violence is unleashed on the cosmos, the ripple effects so far-reaching that they stretch the...

Tony Stubblebine / Regular Expression Pocket Reference

Regular expressions are such a powerful tool for manipulating text and data that anyone who uses a computer can benefit from them. Composed of a mixture of symbols and text, regular expressions can be an outlet for creativity, for brilliant programming,...

Æleen Frisch / Essential System Administration Pocket Reference

If you're a Unix system administrator, then the information you need every day just to get your job done could fill a book--a very large book. But, practically speaking, you don't want to stop and thumb through a weighty volume each time a problem...

Charles D. Ferguson / Nuclear Energy: What Everyone Needs to Know® (Large Paperback)

Originally perceived as a cheap and plentiful source of power, the commercial use of nuclear energy has been controversial for decades. Worries about the dangers that nuclear plants and their radioactive waste posed to nearby communities grew over time,...

John Naughton / A Brief History of the Future: From Radio Days to Internet Years in a Lifetime (Large Paperback)

A look at the communications revolution examines the history of the Internet and what it means for society and the future, celebrating the the engineers and scientists who contributed to its development and the ideas that were behind some of its top...

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...

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,...

Evelyn Cusack & Séamus Walsh - They Say it Might Rain : The Highs and Lows of Ireland’s Weather and Climate - BRAND NEW

The Irish weather. Subject of endless conversations, the saviour of small talk, and famously unreliable. We all know it well, as a constant, if capricious, backdrop to our lives. But how well do we really know it? While our relationship with the weather...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 Rhodes / Visions of Technology: A Century of Vital Debate About Machines Systems and the Human World (Large Paperback)

Technology was the blessing and the bane of the twentieth century. Human life span nearly doubled in the West, but in no century were more human beings killed by new technologies of war. Improvements in agriculture now feed increasing billions, but...

Lucy A. Suchman / Plans and Situated Actions: The Problem of Human-Machine Communication (Large Paperback)

This lively and original book offers a provocative critique of the dominant assumptions regarding human action and communication which underlie recent research in machine intelligence. Lucy Suchman argues that the planning model of interaction...

F. David Peat / Infinite Potential: The Life and Times of David Bohm (Large Paperback)

Infinite Potential is the first biography of David Bohm—brilliant physicist, explorer of consciousness, student of Oppenheimer, friend to Einstein, and enemy of the House Committee on Un-American Activities. Although he battled bouts of...

Kyra Karmiloff / Pathways to Language: From Fetus to Adolescent (Large Paperback)

Our journey to language begins before birth, as babies in the womb hear clearly enough to distinguish their mother's voice. Canvassing a broad span of experimental and theoretical approaches, this book introduces new ways of looking at language...

Mark Poster / What's the Matter with the Internet? (Large Paperback)

In What's the Matter with the Internet?, leading cultural theorist Mark Poster offers a sophisticated and astute assessment of the potential the medium has to redefine culture and politics. Avoiding the mindless hype and meaningless jargon that has...

Dr. K. / A Complete Hacker's Handbook: The Ultimate Guide to Hacking in the Internet Age (Large Paperback)

For the first time in the 90s, The Hacker's Handbook looks at the whole phenomenon of computer hacking, from its beginning in the computer networks of the early 80s, through the basic tools that hacker's use today.       This book...

Beth E. Kolko / Virtual Publics (Large Paperback)

How does virtuality affect reality? Fourteen experts consider this question from the perspective of law, architecture, rhetoric, philosophy, and art. Nearly all of the contributors have been online since before Netscape and a graphical World Wide Web;...

James J. O'Donnell / Avatars of the Word: From Papyrus to Cyberspace (Large Paperback)

The written word has been a central bearer of culture since antiquity. But its position is now being challenged by the powerful media of electronic communication. In this penetrating and witty book James O'Donnell takes a reading on the promise and the...

Ernest Nagel & James R. Newman / Gödel's Proof (Exact Copy)

In 1931 Kurt Godel published his fundamental paper, "On Formally Undecidable Propositions of "Principia Mathematica" and Related Systems." This revolutionary paper challenged certain basic assumptions underlying much research in mathematics and logic...

Paul Ramsey / Fabricated Man (Exact Copy)

The Ethics of Genetic Control, originally 1970.  "Fabricated Man: The Ethics of Genetic Control" explores the ethical implications of advancements in genetic technology, including birth control, artificial insemination, and potential impacts on the...

Bruno Latour / Pandora’s Hope: Essays on the Reality of Science Studies (Large Paperback)

A scientist friend asked Bruno Latour point-blank: “Do you believe in reality?” Taken aback by this strange query, Latour offers his meticulous response in Pandora’s Hope. It is a remarkable argument for understanding the reality...

Kristin Braa / Planet Internet (Large Paperback)

Digital convergence across computer, broadcasting and communication technologies is rapidly changing the ways we develop and use information technologies. The emergence of the Internet and the World Wide Web has enabled interaction, competition and...

Carl Sagan - Murmurs of Earth : The Voyager Interstellar Record - PB - 1978

Published by Ballantine Books, 1978. An account by Sagan and other scientists of the thinking behind the messaging on the Voyager probes, notably on the ' golden record' . 

M Mitchell Waldrop - The Dream Machine : J.C.R and the Revolution that made Computing Personal - HB

Behind every great revolution is a vision, and behind perhaps the greatest revolution of our time, personal computing, is the vision of J.C.R. Licklider. He did not design the first personal computers or write the software that ran on them, nor was he...

Clifton Fadiman ( Editor) / Fantasia Mathematica (Exact Copy)

Fantasia Mathematica is an anthology published in 1958 containing stories, humor, poems, etc., all on mathematical topics, compiled and edited by Clifton Fadiman.  The volume contains writing by authors including Robert Heinlein, Aldous Huxley, H. G...

Donald Knuth / Fundamental Algorithms ( Volume 1) - The Art of Computer Programming (Exact Copy) 2nd Edition

This volume begins with basic programming concepts and techniques, then focuses more particularly on information structures-the representation of information inside a computer, the structural relationships between data elements and how to deal with them...

Thomas F. Gieryn / Cultural Boundaries of Science: Credibility on the Line (Large Paperback)

Why is science so credible? Usual answers center on scientists' objective methods or their powerful instruments. In his new book, Thomas Gieryn argues that a better explanation for the cultural authority of science lies downstream, when scientific claims...

Ray Kurzweil / The Age of Spiritual Machines (Large Paperback)

Ray Kurzweil is the inventor of the most innovative and compelling technology of our era, an international authority on artificial intelligence, and one of our greatest living visionaries. Now he offers a framework for envisioning the twenty-first...

Larry Cuban / Oversold and Underused: Computers in the Classroom (Large Paperback)

Impelled by a demand for increasing American strength in the new global economy, many educators, public officials, business leaders, and parents argue that school computers and Internet access will improve academic learning and prepare students for an...

Adam Greenfield / Everyware: The Dawning Age of Ubiquitous Computing (Large Paperback)

Ubiquitous computing--almost imperceptible, but everywhere around us--is rapidly becoming a reality. How will it change us? how can we shape its emergence? Smart buildings, smart furniture, smart clothing... even smart bathtubs. networked street...

Byron Reeves, Clifford Nass / The Media Equation: How People Treat Computers, Television, and New Media Like Real People and Places (Large Paperback)

Can human beings relate to computer or television programs in the same way they relate to other human beings? Based on numerous psychological studies, this book concludes that people not only can but do treat computers, televisions, and new media as...

Donald Ervin Knuth / Selected Papers on Computer Science (Large Paperback)

This still timely collection of papers by Donald Knuth, "the father of computer science," surveys the field of computer science and the nature of algorithms. Topics covered here include the relationship between computer science and mathematics, the...

Daniel Drescher / Blockchain Basics: A Non-Technical Introduction in 25 Steps (Large Paperback)

In 25 concise steps, you will learn the basics of blockchain technology. No mathematical formulas, program code, or computer science jargon are used.No previous knowledge in computer science, mathematics, programming, or cryptography is required...

Arnold Pacey / The Maze of Ingenuity: Ideas and Idealism in the Development of Technology (Large Paperback)

From cathedrals to star wars, Arnold Pacey looks at the interaction of technologies and society over the last thousand years and uses that survey to argue for a more humane form of future technological development. The second edition of The Maze of...

Ben Forta / SQL in 10 Minutes, Sams Teach Yourself (Large Paperback)

Sams Teach Yourself SQL in 10 Minutes, Fourth Edition New full-color code examples help you see how SQL statements are structuredWhether you're an application developer, database administrator, web application designer, mobile app developer, or Microsoft...

John Scott Bowie / Navigating the Politics of UX: Strategies and Stories from 40 Years in the Trenches (Large Paperback)

In 1996, I began teaching a two-day UX workshop to HP's product divisions throughout the US, Europe, Canada and Asia. I had worked at HP for the past 14 years as a manager and engineer/scientist, most recently as a member of HP Corporate Engineering's...

Dan Bader / Python Tricks: A Buffet of Awesome Python Features (Large Paperback)

“I don’t even feel like I’ve scratched the surface of what I can do with Python” With Python Tricks: The Book you’ll discover Python’s best practices and the power of beautiful & Pythonic code with simple...

Michael Drummond / Renegades of the Empire (Large Paperback)

Microsoft chairman Bill Gates was by no accounts a kind, nurturing type of manager. In conversation, according to Renegades of the Empire , Gates is said to challenge and goad people just to see how robustly they'll defend a position. He may not know...

Robert M. Drake / Science: The Stars in Me are the Stars in You (Large Paperback)

This book employs the comparative method to understand societal collapses to which environmental problems contribute to the common youth and society as a whole. We all are broken and broken is its own kind of beautiful...

E.J. Lemmon / Beginning Logic (Large Paperback)

The aim of this book is to provide an exposition of elementary formal logic. The course, which is primarily intended for first-year students who have no previous knowledge of the subject, forms a working basis for more advanced reading and is...