Science & Technology Policy
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Cómo Funciona El Mundo: Una GuÃa CientÃfica de Nuestro Pasado, Presente Y Futuro / How the World Really Works
$22.95 Read moreUn sincero y revelador análisis de las posibilidades energéticas de nuestro futuro.
«Si te preocupa el futuro y te enfurece que no se esté haciendo suficiente al respecto, por favor, lee este… [more below]- Author: Smil, Vaclav
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 20 2023
- ISBN10: 841861935X
- Language: Spanish
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Evolutionary Intelligence: How Technology Will Make Us Smarter
$26.95 Read moreA surprising vision of how human intelligence will coevolve with digital technology and revolutionize how we think and behave.
It is natural for us to fear artificial intelligence. But does Siri reall- Author: Neuman, W. Russell
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 0262048485
- Language: English
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The Equality Machine: Harnessing Digital Technology for a Brighter, More Inclusive Future
$30.00 Read moreAN ECONOMIST BEST BOOK OF 2022
At a time when AI and digital platforms are under fire, Orly Lobel, a renowned tech policy scholar, defends technology as a powerful tool we can harness to achieve equa- Author: Lobel, Orly
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 18 2022
- ISBN10: 1541774752
- Language: English
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Digitally Invisible: How the Internet Is Creating the New Underclass
$27.00 Add to cartBillions of people around the world lack internet access. No one cared until the whole world had to go online.
President Joe Biden has repeatedly said that the United States would close the digital div
- Author: Lee, Nicol Turner
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 0815738986
- Language: English
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Taming Silicon Valley: How We Can Ensure That AI Works for Us
$18.95 Add to cartHow Big Tech is taking advantage of us, how AI is making it worse, and how we can create a thriving, AI-positive world.
On balance, will AI help humanity or harm it? AI could revolutionize science, me- Author: Marcus, Gary F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 0262551063
- Language: English
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The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation
$19.95 Read moreA USA TODAY BESTSELLER
Winner of the 2024 Neil Postman Award for Career Achievement in Public Intellectual Activity “An essential read for anyone that wants to understand how we lost control of our di- Author: Doctorow, Cory
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1804292141
- Language: English
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The Tech Coup: How to Save Democracy from Silicon Valley
$27.95 Add to cartAn insider offers a “forceful critique…of Big Tech’s steady erosion of democracy” (The New Yorker) and describes what must be done to stop it
Over the past decades, under the cover of “innovation,”- Author: Schaake, Marietje
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 0691241171
- Language: English
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Unsettled (Updated and Expanded Edition): What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn’t, and Why It Matters
$21.95 Add to cartIn this updated and expanded edition of climate scientist Steven Koonin’s groundbreaking book, go behind the headlines to discover the latest eye-opening data about climate change–with unbiased facts… [more below]
- Author: Koonin, Steven E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 11 2024
- ISBN10: 1637745257
- Language: English
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Markets in the Making: Rethinking Competition, Goods, and Innovation
$35.00 Add to cartSlicing through blunt theories of supply and demand, Callon presents a rigorously researched but counterintuitive model of how everyday market activity gets produced.
If you’re convinced you know what- Series: Near Future
- Author: Callon, Michel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: December 07 2021
- ISBN10: 1942130570
- Language: English
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The Digital Republic: On Freedom and Democracy in the 21st Century
$28.95 Read moreFrom one of the leading intellectuals of the digital age, The Digital Republic is the definitive guide to the great political question of our time: how can freedom and democracy survive in a world of … [more below]
- Author: Susskind, Jamie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 05 2022
- ISBN10: 1643139010
- Language: English
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Tech Monopoly
$16.95 Add to cartA serious look at competition problems in tech markets and whether antitrust law can help address them.
In recent years, the astronomical rise of tech giants like Amazon, Apple, Meta, and Microsoft ha
- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Hovenkamp, Herbert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 226
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 0262548747
- Language: English
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Not a Scientist: How Politicians Mistake, Misrepresent, and Utterly Mangle Science
$15.95 Add to cartThe Butter-Up and Undercut. The Certain Uncertainty. The Straight-Up Fabrication. Dave Levitan dismantles all of these deceptive arguments, and many more, in this probing and hilarious examination of
- Author: Levitan, Dave
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 18 2017
- ISBN10: 039335332X
- Language: English
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Systems Ultra: Making Sense of Technology in a Complex World
$24.95 Read moreA TOOLBOX FOR COMPREHENDING — AND CHANGING — THE WORLD
Systems Ultra explores how we experience complex systems: the mesh of things, people, and ideas interacting to produce their own patterns and b- Author: Voss, Georgina
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 30, 2024
- ISBN10: 1839760559
- Language: English
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Crushed: Big Tech’s War on Free Speech with a Foreword by Senator Ted Cruz
$29.99 Add to cartAMERICAN DEMOCRACY IS AT RISK
“No one–conservative or liberal–should be comfortable with a few Silicon Valley oligarchs having a monopoly over the marketplace of ideas, and with it, democracy itself.
- Author: Buck, Ken
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1630062472
- Language: English
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The Fight for Privacy: Protecting Dignity, Identity, and Love in the Digital Age
$17.95 Add to cartPrivacy is disappearing. From our sex lives to our workout routines, the details of our lives once relegated to pen and paper have joined the slipstream of new technology. As a MacArthur fellow and di
- Author: Citron, Danielle Keats
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1324066091
- Language: English
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Atomic Days: The Untold Story of the Most Toxic Place in America
$19.95 Read moreThe Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington state has become the most toxic site in the Western Hemisphere, yet most Americans are in the dark about the damage their government’s nuclear obsession h
- Author: Frank, Joshua
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 258
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1642598283
- Language: English
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The Car: The Rise and Fall of the Machine That Made the Modern World
$28.95 Add to cartA spirited, insightful exploration of our favorite machine and it’s cultural impact on society over the past one hundred and fifty years.
More than any other technology, cars have transformed American- Author: Appleyard, Bryan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1639362304
- Language: English
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CUI Informed: The definitive guide to the United States Government’s Controlled Unclassified Information Program
$99.99 Add to cartBased on lessons learned as a result of the 9/11 attacks, the United States Government’s Controlled Unclassified Information (“CUI”) program fundamentally reshapes the way the Federal Government ident
- Series: Cui Informed
- Author: Goepel, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 22 2023
- ISBN10: 9798989103720
- Language: English
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Containing Big Tech: How to Protect Our Civil Rights, Economy, and Democracy
$27.95 Add to cartThe path forward to rein in online surveillance, AI, and tech monopolies
Technology is a gift and a curse. The five Big Tech companies–Meta, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, and Google–have built i- Author: Kemp, Tom
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: August 22 2023
- ISBN10: 1639080619
- Language: English
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Shorting the Grid: The Hidden Fragility of Our Electric Grid
$31.98 Add to cartWhen rolling blackouts come to the electric grid, they will be old news to the grid insiders.
Only the electricity customers will be surprised.
Grid insiders know how fragile the grid is becoming. Unfor
- Author: Angwin, Meredith
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: October 19, 2020
- ISBN10: 0989119084
- Language: English
