Social Aspects
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Aiq: How Artificial Intelligence Works and How We Can Harness Its Power for a Better World
$19.00 Add to cartTwo leading data scientists offer an up-close and user-friendly look at artificial intelligence: what it is, how it works, where it came from, and how to harness its power for a better world.
A revolut- Author: Polson, Nick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 13 2019
- ISBN10: 1250209013
- Language: English
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Living in Data: A Citizen’s Guide to a Better Information Future
$19.00 Add to cartJer Thorp’s analysis of the word “data” in 10,325 New York Times stories written between 1984 and 2018 shows a distinct trend: among the words most closely associated with “data,” we find not only its
- Author: Thorp, Jer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 30 2022
- ISBN10: 1250849152
- 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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The Revenge of Analog: Real Things and Why They Matter
$19.99 Add to cartOne of Michiko Kakutani’s (New York Times) top ten books of 2016
A funny thing happened on the way to the digital utopia. We’ve begun to fall back in love with the very analog goods and ideas the tec- Author: Sax, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 24, 2017
- ISBN10: 1610398211
- Language: English
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Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
$21.99 Add to cartA groundbreaking book by one of the most important thinkers of our time shows how technology is warping our social lives and our inner ones
Technology has become the architect of our intimacies. Onli- Author: Turkle, Sherry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: November 07 2017
- ISBN10: 0465093655
- Language: English
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The Fourth Industrial Revolution
$28.00 Add to cartWorld-renowned economist Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum, explains that we have an opportunity to shape the fourth industrial revolution, which will funda… [more below]
- Author: Schwab, Klaus
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: January 03 2017
- ISBN10: 1524758868
- 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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Uncanny Valley: A Memoir
$17.00 Add to cartA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES‘S 10 BEST BOOKS OF 2020.
Named one of the Best Books of 2020 by The Washington Post, The Atlantic, NPR, the Los Angeles Times, ELLE, Esquire, Pa- Author: Wiener, Anna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 05 2021
- ISBN10: 1250785693
- Language: English
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Stealing Fire: How Silicon Valley, the Navy SEALs, and Maverick Scientists Are Revolutionizing the Way We Live and Work
$18.99 Add to cartNational Bestseller
CNBC and Strategy + Business Best Business Book of the Year
It’s the biggest revolution you’ve never heard of, and it’s hiding in plain sight. Over the past decade, Silicon Valley ex
- Author: Kotler, Steven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 08 2018
- ISBN10: 0062429663
- Language: English
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Extremely Hardcore: Inside Elon Musk’s Twitter
$30.00 Read more“Zo? Schiffer has written the definitive book on perhaps the weirdest business story of our time. A fast-paced and riveting account of a hilarious and tragic mess.”
— Matt Levine, Bloomberg Opinion “… [more below]- Author: Schiffer, Zo?
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: February 13 2024
- ISBN10: 0593716604
- Language: English
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Restless Devices: Recovering Personhood, Presence, and Place in the Digital Age
$25.99 Add to cartWe’re being formed by our devices. Today’s digital technologies are designed to captivate our attention and encroach on our boundaries, shaping how we relate to time and space, to ourselves and others
- Author: Song, Felicia Wu
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: November 30 2021
- ISBN10: 0830851135
- Language: English
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Data Feminism
$27.95 Add to cartA new way of thinking about data science and data ethics that is informed by the ideas of intersectional feminism.
- Series: Strong Ideas
- Author: D’Ignazio, Catherine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 026254718X
- Language: English
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Subprime Attention Crisis: Advertising and the Time Bomb at the Heart of the Internet
$18.00 Add to cartIn Subprime Attention Crisis, Tim Hwang investigates the way big tech financializes attention. In the process, he shows us how digital advertising-the beating heart of the internet-is at risk of colla
- Series: Fsg Originals X Logic
- Author: Hwang, Tim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 13 2020
- ISBN10: 0374538654
- Language: English
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The Alchemy of Us: How Humans and Matter Transformed One Another
$22.95 Add to cartA “timely, informative, and fascinating” study of 8 inventions–and how they shaped our world–with “totally compelling” insights on little-known inventors throughout history (Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulit… [more below]
- Series: Mit Press
- Author: Ramirez, Ainissa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: April 06 2021
- ISBN10: 0262542269
- Language: English
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Facebook for Dummies
$29.99 Add to cartBe a new face on Facebook
If you’re new to the Facebook user community, don’t be shy: you’re joining around 2.7 billion users (roughly two-and-a-half Chinas) worldwide, so you’ll want to make sure yo
- Author: Abram, Carolyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: May 04 2021
- ISBN10: 1119782104
- 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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Analog
$16.95 Add to cartWhy, surrounded by screens and smart devices, we feel a deep connection to the analog–vinyl records, fountain pens, Kodak film, and other nondigital tools.
We’re surrounded by screens; our music come- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Hassan, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 03 2023
- ISBN10: 0262544490
- Language: English
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5,203 Things to Do Instead of Looking at Your Phone
$10.99 Add to cartBecause life is calling.
Put down your phone, close the lid on your laptop, and get back in touch with the wonders of the world around you. With thousands of ideas for simple, beautiful things to do- Author: Kipfer, Barbara Ann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 396
- Publish Date: September 29 2020
- ISBN10: 1523509856
- Language: English
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Sandy Hook: An American Tragedy and the Battle for Truth
$20.00 Read moreCarnegie Medal Nonfiction Longlist 2023
The Washington Post Best Non-Fiction Books of 2022 Publishers Weekly Best Books 2022 Kirkus Best Non-Fiction Books of 2022 Slate Best Books 2022 Chicago Tribune- Author: Williamson, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: March 07, 2023
- ISBN10: 1524746584
- Language: English
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Mismatch: How Inclusion Shapes Design
$17.95 Read moreHow inclusive methods can build elegant design solutions that work for all.
Sometimes designed objects reject their users: a computer mouse that doesn’t work for left-handed people, for example, or a t
- Series: Simplicity: Design, Technology, Business, Life
- Author: Holmes, Kat
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0262539489
- Language: English
