Sciences and Technology

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...

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...

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...

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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Adam Greenfield / Everyware: The Dawning Age of Ubiquitous Computing (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...

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

This book employs the comparative method

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

Robert Liguori, Patricia Liguori / Java 7 Pocket Guide: Instant Help for Java Programmers

When you

Phil R.M. Oliver / An Introduction to Windows 7

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Bob Reeves / Teach Yourself the Internet and Email for the Over 50s

Do you feel that you have been left behin

Robert Henson / The Rough Guide to Weather

Provides weather-related facts, including

Peter Hobson / The Cradle of Thought : Exploring the Origins of Thinking

In Cradle of Thought Peter Hobson, a Professor of Developmental Psychopathology at the Tavistock Clinic and the University of London, examines how thought develops in infants, focussing on the...

Amir D. Aczel / Chance : A Guide to Gambling, Love, the Stock Market, and Just About Everything Else

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Andrew Ford / Apache 2 Pocket Reference

Paul Strathern / Darwin and Evolution

THE BIG IDEA is a hugely popular series of science books that, at only 96 pages each, are an accessible read for the amateur.At a moment of great discovery, one Big Idea can change the world...When...

Michael A. Cusumano / Microsoft Secrets

This is a "facts ma'am, nothing but the facts" examination of how Microsoft worked, both internally, and in the marketplace in the earlly 2000's. Unlike the raft of gossipy Bill-bios or sardonic and...

Gordon Graham / The Internet

The A Philosophical Inquiry develops many of the themes Gordon Graham presented in his highly successful radio series, The Silicon Society . Exploring the tensions between the warnings of the...

David Weinberger / Everything Is Miscellaneous - The Power of the New Digital Disorder

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Mary Mulvihill - Ingenious Ireland : A County-by-County Exploration of Irish Mysteries and Marvels - PB - BRAND NEW

Ingenious Ireland is a unique study of this country’s natural wonders, clever inventions, and historic industries. Richly illustrated, meticulously researched, and lucidly written, it brings the...

Bonnie A. Nardi , Vicki O'Day / Information Ecologies: Using Technology With Heart (Hardback)

The common rhetoric about technology falls into two extreme uncritical acceptance or blanket rejection. These two positions leave us with poor choices for action. They encourage us to accept as...

Bonnie A. Nardi / Context and Consciousness: Activity Theory and Human-Computer Interaction (Hardback)

Intended for designers and researchers, Context and Consciousness brings together 13 contributions that apply activity theory to problems of human-computer interaction. Understanding how people...

Tom McMaster / Facilitating Technology Transfer through Partnership (Hardback)

The primary aim for this book is to gather and collate articles which represent the best and latest thinking in the domain of technology transfer, from research, academia and practice around the...

Gene Moriarty / The Engineering Project: Its Nature, Ethics, and Promise (Hardback)

We all live our daily lives surrounded by the products of technology that make what we do simpler, faster, and more efficient. These are benefits we often just take for granted. But at the same time,...

Emma Gannon / Disconnected: How to Stay Human in an Online World (Hardback)

OUT The new book by Sunday Times bestselling author, Emma GannonI love Emma Gannon's wise and refreshing perspective on work, and more broadly on the challenges of building a meaningful life in an...

David Dickson / Alternative Technology and the Politics of Technical Change (Vintage Paperback)

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Matthew J. Gaines / Atomic Energy (Vintage Paperback)

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Ian Wand / Computing Tomorrow: Future Research Directions in Computer Science (Hardback)

Computer science is no longer just a technology--for nearly all of us, it has become a way of life. Whether we spend our days surfing the Internet, or merely use an automatic teller machine on...

Paul Luff / Workplace Studies: Recovering Work Practice and Informing System Design (Hardback)

This important new book brings together key researchers in Europe and the United States to discuss critical issues in the study of the workplace and to outline recent developments in the field. The...

Thomas P. Hughes / Human-Built World: How to Think about Technology and Culture (Hardback)

To most people, technology has been reduced to computers, consumer goods, and military weapons; we speak of "technological progress" in terms of RAM and CD-ROMs and the flatness of our television...

Victor Kaptelinin, Bonnie A. Nardi / Acting With Technology: Activity Theory And Interaction Design (Hardback)

A systematic presentation of activity theory, its application to interaction design, and an argument for the development of activity theory as a basis for understanding how people interact with...

Gene I. Rochlin / Trapped in the Net (Hardback)

Voice mail. E-mail. Bar codes. Desktops. Laptops. Networks. The Web. In this exciting book, Gene Rochlin takes a closer look at how these familiar and pervasive productions of computerization have...

Philip E. Agre / Technology and Privacy: The New Landscape (Hardback)

Privacy is the capacity to negotiate social relationships by controlling access to personal information. As laws, policies, and technological design increasingly structure people's relationships with...

Peter Bogh Andersen / The Computer as Medium (Hardback)

Computers are developing into a powerful medium integrating film, pictures, text, and sound, and the use of computers for communication and information is rapidly expanding. The Computer as Medium...

Marleen Huysman / Communities and Technologies (Hardback)

The book contains 24 research articles related to the emerging research field of Communities and Technologies (C&T). The papers treat subjects such as online communities, communities of practice,...

Bill Lessard & Steve Baldwin / Net Slaves : True Tales of Working the Web (Hardback)

Exposes the dark side of the booming technology industry in the last decades which has thousands of poorly-paid employees working extended hours in cyber-sweatshops. Originally published 1998...

National Research Council / Flight to the Future: Human Factors in Air Traffic Control (Hardback)

Despite the strong safety record of the national airspace system, serious disruptions occasionally occur, often as a result of outdated or failed equipment. Under these circumstances, safety relies...

Russell Foster / Life Time - The Science of the Body Clock(Hardback)

** THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER **GIVE THEM THE GIFT OF A GOOD NIGHT'S SLEEP WITH THIS GUIDE TO THE SCIENCE OF THE BODY CLOCK!' A superlative guide to some of the most intriguing questions of human...

Keith Gunderson / Mentality and Machines (Vintage Paperback)

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Jerome R. Ravetz / The No-Nonsense Guide to Science

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Stephen Hawking / God Created the Integers: The Mathematical Breakthroughs That Changed History

This volume is about the mathematical bre

New Scientist Instant Expert: The End of Money (Large Paperback)

The story of the development of cryptocurrencies and the blockchain revolution.      All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books...

David Peak / Chaos Under Control: The Art and Science of Complexity (Large Paperback)

Chaos Under Control introduces the rich concepts driving the new science of complexity. Here you will discover the principles behind some of the most talked-about research findings of our time and...

Paul Parsons / Science in 100 Key Breakthroughs (Coffee Table Book)

Science in 100 Key Breakthroughs presents a series of clear and concise essays that explain the fundamentals of some of the most exciting and important science concepts you really need to know. Paul...

Fabrizio Mazzucconi / Atlas of the Skies (Coffee Table Book)

Nowadays we have stopped watching the sky. We are so submerged by our towns’ lights, constantly busy, hypnotized by the television, that we hardly have time to contemplate the sky at night. We forget...

Brian May , Patrick Moore , Chris Lintott / Bang! The Complete History of the Universe (Coffee Table Book)

Who knows what Brian May was thinking when he wrote "We Will Rock You" for Queen? As a lifelong astrophysics aficionado, he may have been thinking about the origins of the universe. He's certainly...