Sciences and Technology

Lucy A. Suchman / Human-Machine Reconfigurations (Large Paperback)

This 2007 book considers how agencies were figured at the human-machine interface, and how they might be imaginatively and materially reconfigured. Contrary to the apparent enlivening of objects...

Robert A. Weinberg / One Renegade Cell: The Quest For The Origins Of Cancer (Hardback)

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Andrew McAfee / Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital Future (Hardback)

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Daniel Miller, Don Slater / The Internet: An Ethnographic Approach (Large Paperback)

This pathbreaking book was the first to provide a rigorous and comprehensive examination of Internet culture and consumption in the early 2000's. A rich ethnography of Internet use, the book offers a...

Brenda Laurel / Computers As Theatre (Large Paperback)

Presents a new theory of human-computer activity. Building on Aristotle's analysis of the form and structure of drama, Laurel shows how similiar principles can help us understand what people...

Charles Perrow, Charles Perron / Normal Accidents (Large Paperback)

A noted Yale sociologist examines how and why catastrophic accidents occur in high-tech industries—nuclear power, petrochemical, and aerospace—and argues that they are becoming nearly inevitable in...

Philip E. Agre, Douglas Schuler / Reinventing Technology (Large Paperback)

This book addresses how computers affect people's everyday lives. Using actual situations and problems that people have encountered with current software applications, this book offers academics ways...

Albert Borgmann / Holding On to Reality (Large Paperback)

Holding On to Reality is a brilliant history of information, from its inception in the natural world to its role in the transformation of culture to the current Internet mania and is attendant assets...

Anna Wiener / Uncanny Valley (Large Paperback)

The prescient, page-turning account of a journey in Silicon Valley: a defining memoir of our digital ageIn her mid-twenties, at the height of tech industry idealism, Anna Wiener—stuck, broke, and...

Juilie Lloyd / A Concise Guide to Weather (Large Paperback)

A conprehensive guide to all aspects of the weather illustrated throughout with superb colour photographs diagrams and maps.   This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same...

Paul McFedries / iPad 2 Portable Genius (Large Paperback)

Everything you need to know about the iPad 2! Finally decided to get the hottest device on the planet? If so, don't go far without the iPad's must-have accessory—your own copy of iPad 2 Portable...

Rohit Talwar / A Very Human Future (Large Paperback)

A Very Human Future: Enriching Humanity in a Digitized World

Sarah Gilbert, Catherine Green / Vaxxers (Hardback)

A gripping, inspirational account of the race to create a functioning vaccine to combat the spread of Covid-19, Vaxxers is the story of two scientists who have accomplished something truly remarkable...

Edward Lucas / Cyberphobia: Identity, Trust, Security and the Internet (Large Paperback)

    This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a...

Michael Specter / Denialism: How Irrational Thinking Hinders Scientific Progress, Harms the Planet, and Threatens Our Lives (Large Paperback)

    This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a...

Kevin Warwick / I, Cyborg (Hardback)

An account of an artificial intelligence experiment in humans.Computer chips will be inserted into the nervous systems of both the author, a professor of Cybernetics, and his wife. The experiment is...

Bryan Appleyard / Brave New Worlds (Hardback)

Offers a review of modern-day scientific

Michael D. West / The Immortal Cell: One Scientist's Quest to Solve the Mystery of Human Aging (Hardback)

The extraordinary story of the breakthrough discoveries in cell aging, stem cell research, and therapeutic cloning, and the tremendous promise they hold for dramatically extending human life.Dr...

Keith Whittles / Concise Dictionary of Science (Hardback)

    This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a...

John Horgan / The End of Science (Hardback)

As a writer for "Scientific American", the author is regularly afforded the opportunity of interviewing comtemporary scientists such as Richard Dawkins, Murray Gell-Mann, Stephen Hawking and Noam...

Grady Booch / Best of Booch: Designing Strategies for Object Technology (Large Paperback)

No one can dispute the impact Grady Booch's writings have had on object-oriented technology. Best of Booch contains articles on various object-oriented topics published since Grady Booch's book...

William J. Clancey / Situated Cognition: On Human Knowledge and Computer Representations (Large Paperback)

This text deals with recent changes in the design of intelligent machines. New computer models of vision and navigation in animals suggest a different way to build machines. Cognition is viewed not...

Paul Stratern / Curie and Radioactivity

Revealing the intensity, dedication, and

Peter J. Denning, Robert M. Metcalfe / Beyond Calculation: The Next Fifty Years of Computing (Large Paperback)

In March 1997, the Association for Computing Machinery celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of the electronic computer. Computers are everywhere: in our cars, our homes, our supermarkets, at the...

Claudio Ciborra / The Labyrinths of Information: Challenging the Wisdom of Systems (Large Paperback)

How to use information and communication technologies in organizations and how to manage their impact has been the traditional domain of computer specialists and management consultants. The former...

Charles D. Ferguson / Nuclear Energy: What Everyone Needs to Know® (Large Paperback)

Originally perceived as a cheap and plentiful source of power, the commercial use of nuclear energy has been controversial for decades. Worries about the dangers that nuclear plants and their...

John Naughton / A Brief History of the Future: From Radio Days to Internet Years in a Lifetime (Large Paperback)

A look at the communications revolution examines the history of the Internet and what it means for society and the future, celebrating the the engineers and scientists who contributed to its...

Dan Schiller / Digital Capitalism: Networking the Global Market System (Large Paperback)

The networks that comprise cyberspace were originally created at the behest of government agencies, military contractors, and allied educational institutions. Over the past generation or so, however,...

Thierry Bardini / Bootstrapping: Douglas Engelbart, Coevolution, and the Origins of Personal Computing (Large Paperback)

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Steve Woolgar / Virtual Society? Get Real!: Technology, Cyberbole, Reality (Large Paperback)

This book investigates the precise effects on society of the new and much vaunted electronic technologies (ICTs). All aspects of our social, cultural, economic, and political life stand to be...

Giuseppe Mantovani / New Communications Environments: From Everyday To Virtual (Large Paperback)

This multi-disciplinary book develops three intertwined the perspective of situated action from cognitive science, a model of social context as a framework for inspiring artifact use and starting...

Bruce Sterling / Shaping Things (Large Paperback)

A guide to the next great wave of technology--an era of objects so programmable that they can be regarded as material instantiations of an immaterial system. Shaping Things is about created objects...

Evan Selinger / Chasing Technoscience: Matrix for Materiality (Large Paperback)

". . . an original, quirky, and illuminating collection of material concerning the relatively new and exciting field of technoscience studies. . . . [T]he editors' choice of multiple approaches to...

Richard Rhodes / Visions of Technology: A Century of Vital Debate About Machines Systems and the Human World (Large Paperback)

Technology was the blessing and the bane of the twentieth century. Human life span nearly doubled in the West, but in no century were more human beings killed by new technologies of war. Improvements...

Mark Poster / What's the Matter with the Internet? (Large Paperback)

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Beth E. Kolko / Virtual Publics (Large Paperback)

How does virtuality affect reality? Fourteen experts consider this question from the perspective of law, architecture, rhetoric, philosophy, and art. Nearly all of the contributors have been online...

James J. O'Donnell / Avatars of the Word: From Papyrus to Cyberspace (Large Paperback)

The written word has been a central bearer of culture since antiquity. But its position is now being challenged by the powerful media of electronic communication. In this penetrating and witty book...

Paul Ramsey / Fabricated Man (Exact Copy)

The Ethics of Genetic Control, originally 1970.  "Fabricated Man: The Ethics of Genetic Control" explores the ethical implications of advancements in genetic technology, including birth control,...

Kristin Braa / Planet Internet (Large Paperback)

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Thomas F. Gieryn / Cultural Boundaries of Science: Credibility on the Line (Large Paperback)

Why is science so credible? Usual answers center on scientists' objective methods or their powerful instruments. In his new book, Thomas Gieryn argues that a better explanation for the cultural...

Larry Cuban / Oversold and Underused: Computers in the Classroom (Large Paperback)

Impelled by a demand for increasing American strength in the new global economy, many educators, public officials, business leaders, and parents argue that school computers and Internet access will...

Adam Greenfield / Everyware: The Dawning Age of Ubiquitous Computing (Large Paperback)

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Byron Reeves, Clifford Nass / The Media Equation: How People Treat Computers, Television, and New Media Like Real People and Places (Large Paperback)

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Arnold Pacey / The Maze of Ingenuity: Ideas and Idealism in the Development of Technology (Large Paperback)

From cathedrals to star wars, Arnold Pacey looks at the interaction of technologies and society over the last thousand years and uses that survey to argue for a more humane form of future...

John Scott Bowie / Navigating the Politics of UX: Strategies and Stories from 40 Years in the Trenches (Large Paperback)

In 1996, I began teaching a two-day UX workshop to HP's product divisions throughout the US, Europe, Canada and Asia. I had worked at HP for the past 14 years as a manager and engineer/scientist,...

Michael Drummond / Renegades of the Empire (Large Paperback)

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Robert M. Drake / Science: The Stars in Me are the Stars in You (Large Paperback)

This book employs the comparative method

E.J. Lemmon / Beginning Logic (Large Paperback)

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Joseph Dumit / Picturing Personhood: Brain Scans and Biomedical Identity (Large Paperback)

By showing us the human brain at work, PET (positron emission tomography) scans are subtly--and sometimes not so subtly--transforming how we think about our minds. Picturing Personhood follows this...

Nicholas Carr / The Shallows: How the Internet Is Changing the Way We Think, Read and Remember

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Geoffrey Miller / The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature

In this brilliantly ambitious and provoca

Robert Dinwiddie / Spreadsheets : Charts and Graphics

This jargon-free guide from the "Essentia