Social Aspects
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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 Add to cartHow 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
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We, the Data: Human Rights in the Digital Age
$26.95 Read moreA rallying call for extending human rights beyond our physical selves–and why we need to reboot rights in our data-intensive world.
Our data-intensive world is here to stay, but does that come at the- Author: Wong, Wendy H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 0262048574
- Language: English
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What Can a Body Do?: How We Meet the Built World
$28.00 Add to cartNamed a Best Book of the Year by NPR and LitHub
Winner of the 2021 Science in Society Journalism Book Prize A fascinating and provocative new way of looking at the things we use and the spaces we inha- Author: Hendren, Sara
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 18 2020
- ISBN10: 073522000X
- Language: English
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Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth
$24.95 Read moreIn this accessible volume, first published in 1969, Fuller offers advice on how to guide “spaceship earth” toward a sustainable future
Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983) was an architect, engineer, geometr
- Author: Fuller, R. Buckminster
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: July 15 2008
- ISBN10: 3037781262
- Language: English
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Code to Joy: Why Everyone Should Learn a Little Programming
$27.95 Read moreHow we can get more joy from our machines by telling them what our hearts desire.
In this informative, accessible, and very funny book, Michael L. Littman inspires readers to learn how to tell machine- Author: Littman, Michael L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 0262546396
- Language: English
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The AI Dilemma: 7 Principles for Responsible Technology
$22.95 Read moreThe misuse of AI has led to wrongful arrests, denial of medical care, even genocide–this book offers 7 powerful principles that business can use now to end the harm.
AI holds incredible promise to im- Author: Powell, Juliette
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 15, 2023
- ISBN10: 1523004193
- Language: English
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Unwired: Gaining Control Over Addictive Technologies
$79.17 Add to cartInstead of blaming users for technology addiction and offering self-help measures, Unwired shifts responsibility to technology companies. Through examining the battles against tobacco, junk food, and … [more below]
- Author: Bernstein, Gaia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: March 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1009257935
- Language: English
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The Art of Invisibility: The World’s Most Famous Hacker Teaches You How to Be Safe in the Age of Big Brother and Big Data
$21.99 Add to cartReal-world advice on how to be invisible online from “the FBI’s most wanted hacker” (Wired).
Be online without leaving a trace. Your every step online is being tracked and stored, and your identity l- Author: Mitnick, Kevin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 10, 2019
- ISBN10: 0316380520
- Language: English
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Data Feminism
$32.95 Read moreA new way of thinking about data science and data ethics that is informed by the ideas of intersectional feminism.
Today, data science is a form of power. It has been used to expose injustice, improve
- Series: Strong Ideas
- Author: D’Ignazio, Catherine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: March 17, 2020
- ISBN10: 0262044005
- Language: English
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iGen: Why Today’s Super-Connected Kids Are Growing Up Less Rebellious, More Tolerant, Less Happy–And Completely Unprepared
$20.00 Add to cartAs seen in Time, USA TODAY, The Atlantic, The Wall Street Journal, and on CBS This Morning, BBC, PBS, CNN, and NPR, iGen is crucial reading to understand how the children, teens, and young adults born… [more below]
- Author: Twenge, Jean M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 04 2018
- ISBN10: 1501152017
- Language: English
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Broken Code: Inside Facebook and the Fight to Expose Its Harmful Secrets
$35.00 Read moreTHE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS’ CHOICE – By an award-winning technology reporter for The Wall Street Journal, a behind-the-scenes look at the manipulative tactics Facebook used to grow its bus… [more below]
- Author: Horwitz, Jeff
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: November 28 2023
- ISBN10: 0593793196
- Language: English
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Thinking Better: The Art of the Shortcut in Math and Life
$18.99 Add to cartA “gifted and tireless mathematical communicator” (Financial Times) shows why math is the ultimate timesaver–and how everyone can make their lives easier with a few simple shortcuts.
Success isn’t- Author: Du Sautoy, Marcus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1541604407
- Language: English
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Blockchain Chicken Farm: And Other Stories of Tech in China’s Countryside
$16.00 Add to cartIn Blockchain Chicken Farm, the technologist and writer Xiaowei Wang explores the political and social entanglements of technology in rural China. Their discoveries force them to challenge the standar
- Series: Fsg Originals X Logic
- Author: Wang, Xiaowei
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 13, 2020
- ISBN10: 0374538662
- Language: English
