Sciences and Technology

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

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

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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...

Armand Mattelart / The Information Society: An Introduction

The impa

Katie Hafner, Matthew Lyon / Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet

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

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Jonathan L. Zittrain / The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It

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Lee Siegel / Against the Machine: Being Human in the Age of the Electronic Mob

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Evgeny Morozov / The Net Delusion: How Not to Liberate the World

In The Net Delusion: How Not to Liberate the World Evgeny Morozov argues that our utopian, internet-centric thinking holds devastating consequences for the future of democracy.We were promised that...

Steven Johnson / Interface Culture - How New Technology Transforms the way we Create

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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...

Eric von Hippel / Democratizing Innovation (Hardback)

Innovation is rapidly becoming democratized. Users, aided by improvements in computer and communications technology, increasingly can develop their own new products and services. These innovating...

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,...

Harry Collins , Trevor Pinch / The Golem at Large: What You Should Know about Technology (Hardback)

In the very successful and widely discussed first volume in the Golem series, The What You Should Know About Science, Harry Collins and Trevor Pinch likened science to the Golem, a creature from...

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...

Donald A. Norman / The Invisible Computer: Why Good Products Can Fail, the Personal Computer Is So Complex, and Information Appliances Are the Solution (Hardback)

The author of The Design of Everyday Things calls for the redesign of personal computers and other "information appliances" to place users' needs before the complexity of the technology and for a...

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...

John Markoff / What the Dormouse Said: How the 60s Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry (Hardback)

An analysis of the political and cultural forces that gave rise to the personal computer chronicles its development through the people, politics, and social upheavals that defined its time, from a...

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

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Stephen Jay Gould / The Mismeasure of Man

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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...

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...

Richard Dawkins / The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True (Coffee Table Book)

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