Sciences and Technology

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...

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...

Catherine Price / How To Break Up With Your Phone

Do you feel addicted to your phone? Do you frequently pick it up “just to check,” only to look up forty-five minutes later wondering where the time has gone? Does social media make you anxious? Have you tried to spend less time mindlessly...

Peter M. Higgins / Mathematics for the Curious

When do the hands of a clock coincide? How likely is it that two children in the same class will share a birthday? How do we calculate the volume of a doughnut? Mathematics for the Curious provides anyone interested in mathematics with a simple and...

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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Bob Reeves / Teach Yourself the Internet and Email for the Over 50s

Do you feel that you have been left behind by the technological revolution? This book focuses on the wide range of Internet and email skills that are of particular relevance for older computer users, cutting through the 'techno-babble' and making the...

Pat Shipman / Taking Wing - Archaeopteryx and the Evolution of Bird Flight

The author breaks down the book into smaller stories, such as the discovery of the fossils themselves, the structure of the skeletal joints of dinosaurs and modern birds, and the evolution and aerodynamics of feathers to name a few. Also recounted are...

Robert Henson / The Rough Guide to Weather

Provides weather-related facts, including world climates, precipitation, and global warming, while outlining specific countries' weather patterns throughout the year.         All of our books are second hand, and while you may...

Michael Sims / Adam's Navel : The Weird and Wonderful Story of the Human Body

In this amusing and brilliantly conceived book, Michael Sims introduces you to your body. Moving from head to toe, Sims blends cultural history with evolutionary theory to produce a wonderfully original narrative in which he analyzes the visible...

Peter Hobson / The Cradle of Thought : Exploring the Origins of Thinking

In Cradle of Thought Peter Hobson, a Professor of Developmental Psychopathology at the Tavistock Clinic and the University of London, examines how thought develops in infants, focussing on the subsequent differences in the quality of thinking between...

Amir D. Aczel / Chance : A Guide to Gambling, Love, the Stock Market, and Just About Everything Else

In Chance , celebrated mathematician Amir D. Aczel turns his sights on probability theory -- the branch of mathematics that measures the likelihood of a random event. He explains probability in clear, layman's terms, and shows its practical...

Andrew Ford / Apache 2 Pocket Reference

  Even if you know the Apache web server inside and out, you still need an occasional on-the-job reminder -- especially if you're moving to the newer Apache 2.x. Apache 2 Pocket Reference gives you exactly what you need to get...

Clive Trotman / The Feathered Onion : Creation of Life in the Universe

Over the past 150 years the acknowledged dates for the formation of the Earth and the origin of Life have been pushed steadily back into the remote past. As these timescales have lengthened however, the interval between the two dates has reduced so...

Paul Strathern / Darwin and Evolution

THE BIG IDEA is a hugely popular series of science books that, at only 96 pages each, are an accessible read for the amateur.At a moment of great discovery, one Big Idea can change the world...When it was first published, Charles Darwin's theory of...

Michael A. Cusumano / Microsoft Secrets

This is a "facts ma'am, nothing but the facts" examination of how Microsoft worked, both internally, and in the marketplace in the earlly 2000's. Unlike the raft of gossipy Bill-bios or sardonic and shrill pro- or anti-screeds, this book is focused...

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...

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. 

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...

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...

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...

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...

Randal Keynes / Annie's Box: Charles Darwin, His Daughter and Human Evolution (Hardback)

In a chest of drawers bequeathed by his grandmother, author Randal Keynes discovered the writing case of Charles Darwin's beloved daughter Annie, who died at the age of ten. He also found the notes Darwin kept throughout Annie's illness, the eulogy he...

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...

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...

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...