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Golf’s Holy War: The Battle for the Soul of a Game in an Age of Science
$18.99 Add to cartAs Michael Lewis’s bestseller Moneyball captured baseball at a technological turning point, this “highly entertaining, very smart book” (James Patterson) takes us inside golf’s clash between its hallo… [more below]
- Author: Cyrgalis, Brett
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 18 2021
- ISBN10: 147670760X
- Language: English
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Robótica: Lo que los principiantes deben saber sobre la automatización de procesos robóticos, robots móviles, inteligencia artif
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- Author: Wilkins, Neil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 122
- Publish Date: October 28 2019
- ISBN10: 1950924327
- Language: Spanish
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Scientific Computing: For Scientists and Engineers
$32.99 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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Experience on Demand: What Virtual Reality Is, How It Works, and What It Can Do
$16.95 Read moreVirtual reality is able to effectively blur the line between reality and illusion, granting us access to any experience imaginable. These experiences, ones that the brain is convinced are real, will s
- Author: Bailenson, Jeremy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 12 2019
- ISBN10: 039335685X
- Language: English
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The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe
$27.00 Add to cartIn 1979 Elizabeth Eisenstein provided the first full-scale treatment of the fifteenth-century printing revolution in the West in her monumental two-volume work, The Printing Press as an Agent of Chang… [more below]
- Series: Canto Classics
- Author: Eisenstein, Elizabeth L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 401
- Publish Date: March 29 2012
- ISBN10: 1107632757
- Language: English
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Being Geek: The Software Developer’s Career Handbook
$24.99 Add to cartAs a software engineer, you recognize at some point that there’s much more to your career than dealing with code. Is it time to become a manager? Tell your boss he’s a jerk? Join that startup? Author
- Author: Lopp, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 335
- Publish Date: September 07 2010
- ISBN10: 0596155409
- Language: English
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Who Can You Trust?: How Technology Brought Us Together and Why It Might Drive Us Apart
$45.50 Read moreIf you can’t trust those in charge, who can you trust? From government to business, banks to media, trust in institutions is at an all-time low. But this isn’t the age of distrust — far from it.
In- Author: Botsman, Rachel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 14 2017
- ISBN10: 1541773675
- Language: English
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The Information Diet: A Case for Conscious Comsumption
$24.99 Add to cartThis is a softcover version of the title released in 2011; there is no new material.
The modern human animal spends upwards of 11 hours out of every 24 in a state of constant consumption. Not eating,
- Author: Johnson, Clay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 162
- Publish Date: August 25 2015
- ISBN10: 1491933399
- Language: English
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Talk to Me (International Edition)
$17.99 Add to cart- Author: Vlahos, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 338
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1328606716
- Language: English
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The Icarus Question: Essays on Science, Technology, and the Search for Home in a Changing World
$25.99 Add to cartDaedalus, the great inventor of ancient myth, fashioned wings so that he and his son Icarus could escape imprisonment. But it all went awry when Icarus ignored his father’s warnings and flew too close
- Author: Tracy, Gene
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 246
- Publish Date: July 01 2023
- ISBN10: 9798988207023
- Language: English
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Utopia Is Creepy: And Other Provocations
$16.95 Add to cartWith razor wit, Nicholas Carr cuts through Silicon Valley’s unsettlingly cheery vision of the technological future to ask a hard question: Have we been seduced by a lie? Gathering a decade’s worth of
- Author: Carr, Nicholas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 12 2017
- ISBN10: 0393354741
- Language: English
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In the Beginning…Was the Command Line
$16.99 Add to cartThis is “the Word” — one man’s word, certainly — about the art (and artifice) of the state of our computer-centric existence. And considering that the “one man” is Neal Stephenson, “the hacker Hemin
- Author: Stephenson, Neal
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: August 11 2023
- ISBN10: 0380815931
- Language: English
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Innovation: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartWhat is innovation? How is innovation used in business? How can we use it to succeed?
Innovation, the ways ideas are made valuable, plays an essential role in economic and social development, and is a- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Dodgson, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: November 01 2018
- ISBN10: 0198825048
- Language: English
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Should You Believe Wikipedia?
$23.00 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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Your Face Belongs to Us: A Tale of AI, a Secretive Startup, and the End of Privacy
$20.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – The story of a small AI company that gave facial recognition to law enforcement, billionaires, and businesses, threatening to end privacy as we know it
“The dystopian future portr… [more below]- Author: Hill, Kashmir
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 059344857X
- Language: English
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The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction
$9.99 Add to cartIn The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction, visionary author Ursula K. Le Guin retells the story of human origin by redefining technology as a cultural carrier bag rather than a weapon of domination.
Hacki… [more below]
- Author: Le Guin, Ursula K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: September 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1838003983
- Language: English
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Design for a Better World: Meaningful, Sustainable, Humanity Centered
$24.95 Add to cart- Author: Norman, Donald A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 0262548305
- Language: English
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Artful Design: Technology in Search of the Sublime, a Musicomic Manifesto
$45.00 Read moreWhat we make, makes us. This is the central tenet of Artful Design, a photorealistic comic book that examines the nature, purpose, and meaning of design. A call to action and a meditation on art, auth
- Author: Wang, Ge
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 488
- Publish Date: September 11 2018
- ISBN10: 1503600521
- Language: English
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The Secret Life of Data: Navigating Hype and Uncertainty in the Age of Algorithmic Surveillance
$29.95 Add to cartHow data surveillance, digital forensics, and generative AI pose new long-term threats and opportunities–and how we can use them to make better decisions in the face of technological uncertainty.
In- Series: Information Society
- Author: Sinnreich, Aram
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: April 30 2024
- ISBN10: 0262048817
- Language: English
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Pinpoint: How GPS Is Changing Technology, Culture, and Our Minds
$16.95 Add to cartOver the last fifty years, humanity has developed an extraordinary shared utility: the Global Positioning System. Even as it guides us across town, GPS helps land planes, route mobile calls, anticipat
- Author: Milner, Greg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 16 2017
- ISBN10: 0393354369
- Language: English
