Technology and civilization
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Homo Deus: Breve Historia del Mañana / Homo Deus. a History of Tomorrow: Breve Historia del Mañana = Homo Deus
$21.95 Read moreTras el ?xito de Sapiens. De animales a dioses, Yuval Noah Harari vuelve su mirada al futuro para ver hacia d?nde nos dirigimos.
La guerra es algo obsoleto. Es m?s probable quitarse la vida que morir- Author: Harari, Yuval Noah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: January 30 2018
- ISBN10: 194554094X
- Language: Spanish
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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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Figuring
$21.00 Add to cartNAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY ESQUIRE AND BOOKPAGE
Figuring explores the complexities of love and the human search for truth and meaning through the interconnected lives of several historical figur- Author: Popova, Maria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: January 28 2020
- ISBN10: 0525565426
- Language: English
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How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World
$20.99 Add to cartDid you drink a glass of water today? Did you turn on a light? Did you think about how miraculous either one of those things is when you did it? Of course not–but you should, and New York Times bests… [more below]
- Author: Johnson, Steven
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 16 2018
- ISBN10: 0425287785
- Language: English
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The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism (20th Anniversary Edition)
$21.99 Add to cartWith a new afterword by the author, this classic analysis of Western liberal capitalist society contends that capitalism–and the culture it creates–harbors the seeds of its own downfall by creating … [more below]
- Author: Bell, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 18 1996
- ISBN10: 0465014992
- 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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The Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution
$24.00 Add to cartIn the tumultuous late 60s and early 70s, a social movement known as the “New Left” emerged as a major cultural influence, especially on the youth of America. It was a movement that embraced “flower-p… [more below]
- Author: Rand, Ayn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0452011841
- Language: English
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The System of Objects
$19.95 Add to cartThe System of Objects is a tour de force–a theoretical letter-in-a-bottle tossed into the ocean in 1968, which brilliantly communicates to us all the live ideas of the day.
Pressing Freudian and Saus- Author: Baudrillard, Jean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 31 2020
- ISBN10: 1788738543
- Language: English
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Thank You for Being Late: An Optimist’s Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations (Version 2.0, with a New Afterword)
$25.00 Add to cart#1 New York Times Bestseller – Los Angeles Times Bestseller
One of The Wall Street Journal‘s 10 Books to Read Now – One of Kirkus Reviews‘s Best Nonfiction Books of the Year – One of Publishers Weekly- Author: Friedman, Thomas L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: October 24 2017
- ISBN10: 1250141222
- Language: English
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Letters from Lake Como: Explorations on Technology and the Human Race
$17.99 Add to cartThis book collects a fascinating series of letters written by theologian-philosopher Romano Guardini in the mid-1920s in which he works out for the first time his sense of the challenges of humanity i… [more below]
- Series: Ressourcement: Retrieval & Renewal in Catholic Thought
- Author: Guardini, Romano
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 131
- Publish Date: June 10 1994
- ISBN10: 0802801080
- Language: English
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Zeros and Ones: Digital Women and the New Technoculture
$11.99 Add to cartA highly contentious, very readable and totally up-to-the-minute investigation of women’s natural relationship with modern technology, an association which, Plant argues, will trigger a new sexual rev
- Author: Plant, Sadie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 19 2016
- ISBN10: 1857026985
- 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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AI Needs You: How We Can Change Ai’s Future and Save Our Own
$24.95 Add to cartA humanist manifesto for the age of AI
Artificial intelligence may be the most transformative technology of our time. As AI’s power grows, so does the need to figure out what–and who–this technology- Author: Harding, Verity
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 12 2024
- ISBN10: 0691244871
- Language: English
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Artificial Intelligence: Modern Magic or Dangerous Future?, the Illustrated Edition
$29.95 Read moreA fascinating, richly illustrated journey through the history of artificial intelligence–and an honest assessment of our future alongside it.
Artificial intelligence has long been a mainstay of scien- Author: Wilks, Yorick A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 0262545454
- Language: English
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Work Mate Marry Love: How Machines Shape Our Human Destiny
$20.00 Add to cartA crucial guide to life before–and after–Tinder, IVF, and robots.
What will happen to our notions of marriage and parenthood as reproductive technologies increasingly allow for newfangled ways of cre- Author: Spar, Debora L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 17, 2021
- ISBN10: 1250798736
- Language: English
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The Technological Society
$15.95 Add to cartAs insightful and wise today as it was when originally published in 1954, Jacques Ellul’s The Technological Society has become a classic in its field, laying the groundwork for all other studies of te… [more below]
- Author: Ellul, Jacques
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: 12-Oct-67
- ISBN10: 0394703901
- Language: English
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How the World Really Works: The Science Behind How We Got Here and Where We’re Going
$30.00 Add to cartINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
“A new masterpiece from one of my favorite authors… [How The World Really Works] is a compelling and highly readable book that leaves readers with the fundamental g- Author: Smil, Vaclav
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 10, 2022
- ISBN10: 0593297067
- Language: English
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Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
$25.99 Add to cartOfficial U.S. edition with full color illustrations throughout.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Yuval Noah Harari, author of the critically-acclaimed New York Times bestseller and international phenomenon Sa
- Author: Harari, Yuval Noah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: September 04, 2018
- ISBN10: 0062464345
- Language: English
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Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech
$32.50 Add to cart“The most important book to read about the AI boom” (Wired): The “gripping” (New Yorker) true story of the first time machines came for human jobs–and how the Luddite uprising explains the power, th
- Author: Merchant, Brian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 0316487740
- Language: English
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I, Human: Ai, Automation, and the Quest to Reclaim What Makes Us Unique
$28.00 Read moreFor readers of Sapiens and Homo Deus and viewers of The Social Dilemma, psychologist Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic tackles one of the biggest questions facing our species: Will we use artificial intelligenc
- Author: Chamorro-Premuzic, Tomas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: February 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1647820553
- Language: English
