Sciences and Technology

Daniel Miller, Don Slater / The Internet: An Ethnographic Approach (Large Paperback)

This pathbreaking book was the first to provide a rigorous and comprehensive examination of Internet culture and consumption in the early 2000's. A rich ethnography of Internet use, the book offers a sustained account not just of being online, but of the...

Charles Perrow, Charles Perron / Normal Accidents (Large Paperback)

A noted Yale sociologist examines how and why catastrophic accidents occur in high-tech industries—nuclear power, petrochemical, and aerospace—and argues that they are becoming nearly inevitable in our advanced technological society. This...

Philip E. Agre, Douglas Schuler / Reinventing Technology (Large Paperback)

This book addresses how computers affect people's everyday lives. Using actual situations and problems that people have encountered with current software applications, this book offers academics ways to examine how new situations are created through...

Anna Wiener / Uncanny Valley (Large Paperback)

The prescient, page-turning account of a journey in Silicon Valley: a defining memoir of our digital ageIn her mid-twenties, at the height of tech industry idealism, Anna Wiener—stuck, broke, and looking for meaning in her work, like any good...

Juilie Lloyd / A Concise Guide to Weather (Large Paperback)

A conprehensive guide to all aspects of the weather illustrated throughout with superb colour photographs diagrams and maps.   This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it...

Paul McFedries / iPad 2 Portable Genius (Large Paperback)

Everything you need to know about the iPad 2! Finally decided to get the hottest device on the planet? If so, don't go far without the iPad's must-have accessory—your own copy of iPad 2 Portable Genius. This hip little guide will show you how to...

Rohit Talwar / A Very Human Future (Large Paperback)

A Very Human Future: Enriching Humanity in a Digitized World   Rohit Talwar, Steve Wells, Alexandra Whittington, Helena Calle A VERY HUMAN FUTURE As society enters the fourth industrial revolution, a major question...

Sarah Gilbert, Catherine Green / Vaxxers (Hardback)

A gripping, inspirational account of the race to create a functioning vaccine to combat the spread of Covid-19, Vaxxers is the story of two scientists who have accomplished something truly remarkable at a pace that few people ever thought possible.This...

Michael Specter / Denialism: How Irrational Thinking Hinders Scientific Progress, Harms the Planet, and Threatens Our Lives (Large Paperback)

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Kevin Warwick / I, Cyborg (Hardback)

An account of an artificial intelligence experiment in humans.Computer chips will be inserted into the nervous systems of both the author, a professor of Cybernetics, and his wife. The experiment is to determine if emotions such as intoxication, anger,...

Bryan Appleyard / Brave New Worlds (Hardback)

Offers a review of modern-day scientific breakthroughs in biology and genetics while emphasizing the need for human ethics and values with regard to genetic manipulation       This book is second hand, and while you may not get...

Michael D. West / The Immortal Cell: One Scientist's Quest to Solve the Mystery of Human Aging (Hardback)

The extraordinary story of the breakthrough discoveries in cell aging, stem cell research, and therapeutic cloning, and the tremendous promise they hold for dramatically extending human life.Dr. Michael West has been consumed with the mystery of science...

Keith Whittles / Concise Dictionary of Science (Hardback)

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John Horgan / The End of Science (Hardback)

As a writer for "Scientific American", the author is regularly afforded the opportunity of interviewing comtemporary scientists such as Richard Dawkins, Murray Gell-Mann, Stephen Hawking and Noam Chomsky. In this work, he discusses with them whether all...

Grady Booch / Best of Booch: Designing Strategies for Object Technology (Large Paperback)

No one can dispute the impact Grady Booch's writings have had on object-oriented technology. Best of Booch contains articles on various object-oriented topics published since Grady Booch's book Object Oriented Modeling and Design with Applications...

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...

Richard Dawkins / The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene

People commonly view evolution as a process of competition between individuals—known as “survival of the fittest”—with the individual representing the “unit of selection.” Richard Dawkins offers a controversial...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Joseph Dumit / Picturing Personhood: Brain Scans and Biomedical Identity (Large Paperback)

By showing us the human brain at work, PET (positron emission tomography) scans are subtly--and sometimes not so subtly--transforming how we think about our minds. Picturing Personhood follows this remarkable and expensive technology from the laboratory...

Nicholas Carr / The Shallows: How the Internet Is Changing the Way We Think, Read and Remember

“Is Google making us stupid?” When Nicholas Carr posed that question in a celebrated Atlantic Monthly cover story, he tapped into a well of anxiety about how the Internet is changing us. He also crystallized one of the most...

Geoffrey Miller / The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature

In this brilliantly ambitious and provocative book, evolutionary psychologist Geoffrey Miller shows the evolutionary power of sexual choice, and the reasons why our ancestors became attracted not only to pretty faces and bodies, but to minds that...

Robert Dinwiddie / Spreadsheets : Charts and Graphics

This jargon-free guide from the "Essential Computers" series covers all chart and graph options from line, column, pie, bubble and 3D. It also helps you to extend your working knowledge of Microsoft Excel and to create professional-looking visuals...

Robert Liguori, Patricia Liguori / Java 7 Pocket Guide: Instant Help for Java Programmers

When you need quick answers for developing or debugging Java programs, this pocket guide provides a handy reference to the standard features of the Java programming language and its platform. You’ll find helpful programming examples, tables,...

Phil R.M. Oliver / An Introduction to Windows 7

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