Sciences and Technology

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...

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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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...

Victor Kaptelinin, Bonnie A. Nardi / Acting With Technology: Activity Theory And Interaction Design (Hardback)

A systematic presentation of activity theory, its application to interaction design, and an argument for the development of activity theory as a basis for understanding how people interact with technology.Activity theory holds that the human mind is the...

Gene I. Rochlin / Trapped in the Net (Hardback)

Voice mail. E-mail. Bar codes. Desktops. Laptops. Networks. The Web. In this exciting book, Gene Rochlin takes a closer look at how these familiar and pervasive productions of computerization have become embedded in all our lives, forcing us to narrow...

Philip E. Agre / Technology and Privacy: The New Landscape (Hardback)

Privacy is the capacity to negotiate social relationships by controlling access to personal information. As laws, policies, and technological design increasingly structure people's relationships with social institutions, individual privacy faces new...

Peter Bogh Andersen / The Computer as Medium (Hardback)

Computers are developing into a powerful medium integrating film, pictures, text, and sound, and the use of computers for communication and information is rapidly expanding. The Computer as Medium brings insights from art, literature, and theater to bear...

Abigail J. Sellen, Richard H. R. Harper / The Myth of the Paperless Office (Hardback)

Over the past thirty years, many people have proclaimed the imminent arrival of the paperless office. Yet even the World Wide Web, which allows almost any computer to read and display another computer's documents, has increased the amount of printing...

Marleen Huysman / Communities and Technologies (Hardback)

The book contains 24 research articles related to the emerging research field of Communities and Technologies (C&T). The papers treat subjects such as online communities, communities of practice, Community support systems, Digital Cities, regional...

Richard H.R. Harper / Trust, Computing, and Society (Hardback)

The Internet has altered how people engage with each other in myriad ways, including offering opportunities for people to act distrustfully. This fascinating set of essays explores the question of trust in computing from technical, socio-philosophical,...

Bill Lessard & Steve Baldwin / Net Slaves : True Tales of Working the Web (Hardback)

Exposes the dark side of the booming technology industry in the last decades which has thousands of poorly-paid employees working extended hours in cyber-sweatshops. Originally published 1998.      All of our books are second hand, and...

National Research Council / Flight to the Future: Human Factors in Air Traffic Control (Hardback)

Despite the strong safety record of the national airspace system, serious disruptions occasionally occur, often as a result of outdated or failed equipment. Under these circumstances, safety relies on the skills of the controllers and pilots and on...

Marshall McLuhan - The Gutenberg Galaxy - Vintage PB 1969

The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man is a 1962 book by Marshall McLuhan, in which he analyzes the effects of mass media, especially the printing press, on European culture and human consciousness. It popularized the term global village,...

Keith Gunderson / Mentality and Machines (Vintage Paperback)

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J. E. Gordon - Structures : Or Why Things Don't Fall Down - PB

In "The New Science of Strong Materials" the author made plain the secrets of materials science. In this volume he explains the importance and properties of different structures. Pelican PB 1980, originally 1978      

Jerome R. Ravetz / The No-Nonsense Guide to Science

In this No-Nonsense Guide Jerome Ravetz introduces a new way of thinking about science, moving away from simplistic ideas of perfect certainty and objectivity. The book gives a fresh look at science's history, with a guide to the key theories, and...

Alex Boese / Psychedelic Apes: From Parallel Universes to Atomic Dinosaurs – the Weirdest Theories of Science and History

What if we’re living inside a black hole? What if we’ve already found extraterrestrial life? What if the dinosaurs died in a nuclear war? What if Jesus Christ was actually a mushroom? Psychedelic Apes delves into the curious scientific...

Stephen Hawking / God Created the Integers: The Mathematical Breakthroughs That Changed History

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Simon Singh / The Code Book (Signed by the Author) (Hardback)

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Stephen Jay Gould / The Mismeasure of Man

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Arno Karlen / Plague's Progress - A Social History of Man and Disease

A disturbing report of the global crisis of new and resurgent diseases. This account investigates how and why diseases such as AIDS, Legionnaires' disease, Ebola, TB, and new forms of cholera and malaria occur. Karlen charts humanity's relationship with...

New Scientist Instant Expert: The End of Money (Large Paperback)

The story of the development of cryptocurrencies and the blockchain revolution.      All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing...

Margaret K Sands / Problems in Plant Physiology (Large Paperback)

Published by Hodder, 1988 ( originally 1983)  Plant biology.      All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a...

David Peak / Chaos Under Control: The Art and Science of Complexity (Large Paperback)

Chaos Under Control introduces the rich concepts driving the new science of complexity. Here you will discover the principles behind some of the most talked-about research findings of our time and see some astonishing examples and applications. Their...

John Fauvel / Let Newton Be! - A New Perspective on his Life and Works(Coffee Table Book)

Over the three hundred years since the publication of his Principia Mathematica , Newton has come to symbolize the ideal of scientist and mathematician par excellence . Let Newton Be! (the title comes from a famous couplet by Alexander Pope) explores the...

A.W.F. Edwards / Cogwheels of the Mind: The Story of Venn Diagrams (Coffee Table Book)

Used today in spheres of life as diverse as business strategy, creative writing, medicine, computer science, and theoretical physics, Venn diagrams possess fascinating properties. The basic Venn diagram is both elegantly simple―three overlapping circles...

Chris Eliasmith / How to Build a Brain: A Neural Architecture for Biological Cognition (Coffee Table Book)

One goal of researchers in neuroscience, psychology, and artificial intelligence is to build theoretical models that are able to explain the flexibility and adaptiveness of biological systems. How to build a brain provides a detailed guided exploration...

Esther Dyson / Release 2.0 - A Design for Living in the Digital Age(Hardback)

Published 1997 - at the very early days of the internet becoming a mass use technology.  So this reads more like ' what the author got right, from the perspective of nearly 3-0 years on'  Written with an insider's knowledge and a ready wit, and...

Stephen Jay Gould / Bully for Brontosaurus (Large Paperback) ( Reflections in Natural History)

Bully for Brontosaurus is the fifth volume of collected essays by the Harvard paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould. The essays were culled from his monthly column "This View of Life" in Natural History magazine, to which Gould contributed for 27 years...