Social Aspects
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The Irrational Decision: How We Gave Computers the Power to Choose for Us
$29.95 Add to cartHow the computer revolution shaped our conception of rationality–and why human problems require solutions rooted in human intuition, morality, and judgment
In the 1940s, mathematicians set out to des- Author: Recht, Benjamin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: March 10 2026
- ISBN10: 0691272441
- Language: English
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The Warrior’s Garden: Tools for Guarding Your Mind Against Big Tech
$27.95 Add to cartIn a world dominated by screens and algorithms, who is truly in control?
Every time you pick up the phone, you’re being manipulated. With every site you visit and post you make, your behavior is being
- Author: Ryan, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 306
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 1544548087
- Language: English
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Blown to Bits: Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness After the Digital Explosion
$24.99 Add to cartWhat you must know to protect yourself today
The digital technology explosion has blown everything to bits–and the blast has provided new challenges and opportunities. This second edition of Blown t- Author: Abelson, Hal
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: December 05 2020
- ISBN10: 0134850017
- Language: English
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Data Grab: The New Colonialism of Big Tech and How to Fight Back
$26.00 Add to cartA compelling argument that the extractive practices of today’s tech giants are the continuation of colonialism–and a crucial guide to collective resistance.
Large technology companies like Meta, Ama- Author: Mejias, Ulises A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 14 2024
- ISBN10: 0226832309
- Language: English
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Cyberlibertarianism: The Right-Wing Politics of Digital Technology
$34.95 Add to cartAn urgent reckoning with digital technology’s fundamentally right-wing legal and economic underpinnings
In a timely challenge to the potent political role of digital technology, Cyberlibertarianism a- Author: Golumbia, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1517918146
- Language: English
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Technically Wrong: Sexist Apps, Biased Algorithms, and Other Threats of Toxic Tech
$15.95 Read moreBuying groceries, tracking our health, finding a date: whatever we want to do, odds are that we can now do it online. But few of us realize just how many oversights, biases, and downright ethical nigh
- Author: Wachter-Boettcher, Sara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 16 2018
- ISBN10: 0393356043
- Language: English
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Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us about Who We Really Are
$28.99 Read moreAn Economist Best Book of the Year
A PBS NewsHour Book of the Year
An Entrepeneur Top Business Book
An Amazon Best Book of the Year in Business and Leadership
New York Times Bestseller
Foreword by Steven
- Author: Stephens-Davidowitz, Seth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 09 2017
- ISBN10: 0062390856
- Language: English
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Making a Metaverse That Matters: From Snow Crash & Second Life to a Virtual World Worth Fighting for
$32.00 Read moreAn up-close account from the world’s first metaverse-embedded reporter
In Making a Metaverse That Matters: From Snow Crash & Second Life to A Virtual World Worth Fighting For, the celebrated author of
- Author: Au, Wagner James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 1394155816
- Language: English
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Facing Internet Technology and Gaming Addiction: A Gentle Path to Beginning Recovery from Internet and Video Game Addiction
$29.95 Add to cartInternational technology addiction experts, Cash, Rae, and Carnes collaborate in a cutting-edge workbook designed for individuals with problematic technology use such as gaming addiction, compulsive i
- Author: Cash, Hilarie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 250
- Publish Date: October 19 2021
- ISBN10: 1732067333
- Language: English
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Scientific Computing: For Scientists and Engineers
$30.99 Add to cartScientific Computing for Scientists and Engineers is designed to teach undergraduate students relevant numerical methods and required fundamentals in scientific computing. Most problems in science and… [more below]
- Series: de Gruyter Textbook
- Author: Heister, Timo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: April 14 2023
- ISBN10: 3110999617
- Language: English
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Should You Believe Wikipedia?
$21.99 Add to cart- Author: Bruckman, Amy S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 03 2022
- ISBN10: 1108748406
- Language: English
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The Psychology of Evolving Technology: How Social Media, Influencer Culture and New Technologies Are Altering Society
$59.99 Add to cartTechnological innovations have advanced at an incredible speed since the introduction of the computer that it has altered the fabric of our society. The possession of computers, smart-devices, along w
- Author: Okunev, Rhoda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 124
- Publish Date: December 30 2022
- ISBN10: 1484286855
- Language: English
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From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism
$21.00 Add to cartIn 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 co
- Author: Turner, Fred
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 354
- Publish Date: May 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0226817423
- Language: English
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The Rise of Virtual Communities: In Conversation with Virtual World Pioneers
$32.99 Add to cartUncover the fascinating history of virtual communities and how we connect to each other online. The Rise of Virtual Communities, explores the earliest online community platforms, mapping the technolog
- Author: Atherton, Amber
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 181
- Publish Date: April 23 2023
- ISBN10: 1484292960
- Language: English
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Google Archipelago: The Digital Gulag and the Simulation of Freedom
$19.99 Add to cartGoogle Archipelago: The Digital Gulag and the Simulation of Freedom begins with familiar cultural politics as points of entry to the book’s theme regarding the reach, penetration, and soon the ubiquit
- Author: Rectenwald, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: September 30 2019
- ISBN10: 1943003262
- Language: English
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Hacker Culture A to Z: A Fun Guide to the People, Ideas, and Gadgets That Made the Tech World
$45.99 Add to cartHacker culture can be esoteric, but this entertaining reference is here to help. Written by longtime cybersecurity researcher and writer Kim Crawley, this fun reference introduces you to key people an
- Author: Crawley, Kim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 292
- Publish Date: December 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1098145674
- Language: English
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A Hacker’s Mind: How the Powerful Bend Society’s Rules, and How to Bend Them Back
$19.99 Add to cartA hack is any means of subverting a system’s rules in unintended ways. The tax code isn’t computer code, but a series of complex formulas. It has vulnerabilities; we call them “loopholes.” We call exp
- Author: Schneier, Bruce
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 23 2024
- ISBN10: 1324074531
- Language: English
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Computing the Climate: How We Know What We Know about Climate Change
$34.99 Add to cart- Author: Easterbrook, Steve M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 350
- Publish Date: August 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1107589924
- Language: English
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Resisting AI: An Anti-Fascist Approach to Artificial Intelligence
$32.95 Add to cartArtificial Intelligence (AI) is everywhere, yet it causes damage to society in ways that can’t be fixed. Instead of helping to address our current crises, AI causes divisions that limit people’s life … [more below]
- Author: McQuillan, Dan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 190
- Publish Date: August 30 2022
- ISBN10: 1529213509
- Language: English
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A Hacker’s Mind: How the Powerful Bend Society’s Rules, and How to Bend Them Back
$30.00 Read moreA hack is any means of subverting a system’s rules in unintended ways. The tax code isn’t computer code, but a series of complex formulas. It has vulnerabilities; we call them “loopholes.” We call exp
- Author: Schneier, Bruce
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 07, 2023
- ISBN10: 0393866661
- Language: English
