(Paperback)
By: Rosetta S. Elkin
ISBN: 9781517912628
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2022
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
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"Rosetta S. Elkin reveals that planting a tree can either be one of the ultimate offerings to thriving on this planet, or one of the most extreme perversions of human agency over it. Plant Life exposes the relationship between human and plant life, revealing that afforestation is not an ecological act: rather, it is deliberately political and distressingly social"--
(Paperback)
By: Klaus Schwab
ISBN: 9780241366370
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2018
UK Publication Date: 8th November 2018
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Hardback)
By: Greg Epstein
ISBN: 9780262049207
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2024
UK Publication Date: 23rd October 2024
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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"Today's tech has overtaken religion as the chief shaper of 21st-century human lives and communities. In this book, Greg M. Epstein, the influential humanist chaplain at Harvard and MIT, explores what it means to be a critical thinker about this new faith, taking readers on a journey towards reasserting our common humanity"--
(Paperback, Main)
By: Professor Shoshana Zuboff
ISBN: 9781781256855
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2019
UK Publication Date: 5th September 2019
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
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Surveillance Capitalism: A new phase in economic history in which private companies and governments track your every move with the goal of predicting and controlling your behaviour. Under surveillance capitalism you are not the customer or even the product: you are the raw material.
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By: Nita A. Farahany
ISBN: 9781250339270
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2024
Publisher: St Martin's Press
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(Paperback)
By: Jamie Susskind
ISBN: 9781526625298
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2023
UK Publication Date: 22nd June 2023
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)
By: Tim Dunlop
ISBN: 9781742235646
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Sep 2018
Publisher: NewSouth Publishing
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We are in the middle of the greatest technological revolution in history. Its epicentre lies in Silicon Valley, but its impacts are across the globe. It could give all of us a better quality of life. Or it could further concentrate the world's wealth in the hands of a few. This book offers a bold vision for ensuring that we achieve the former.
(Paperback)
By: Robert Skidelsky
ISBN: 9780141982519
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Feb 2025
UK Publication Date: 7th November 2024
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Pedro Domingos
ISBN: 9780141979243
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2017
UK Publication Date: 26th January 2017
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Jamie Bartlett
ISBN: 9781785039065
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2018
UK Publication Date: 19th April 2018
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
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**Winner of the 2019 Transmission Prize**
**Longlisted for the 2019 Orwell Prize for Political Writing**
A superb book by one of the worlds leading experts on the digital revolution David Patrikarakos, Literary Review
This book could not have come at a better moment...
(Paperback, Main - Re-issue)
By: Nicholas Carr
ISBN: 9781838952587
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2020
UK Publication Date: 3rd September 2020
Publisher: Atlantic Books
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The 10th-anniversary edition of this landmark investigation into how the Internet is dramatically changing how we think, remember and interact, with a new afterword.
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By: Alexander C. Karp
ISBN: 9781847928535
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2025
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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(Paperback)
By: Stephen Witt
ISBN: 9781847928283
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 2025
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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(Hardback)
By: Benjamin Breen
ISBN: 9781804441091
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2024
Publisher: Footnote Press Ltd
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A bold and brilliant revisionist take on the history of psychedelics in the twentieth century, illuminating how a culture of experimental drugs shaped the Cold War and the birth of Silicon Valley.
(Paperback, None ed.)
By: David Fagan
ISBN: 9780702259869
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2017
Publisher: University of Queensland Press
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Everything you need to know about the digital revolution and how it affects your life.
(Paperback)
By: Peter Lewis
ISBN: 9781742236353
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2019
Publisher: NewSouth Publishing
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(Paperback)
By: Rachel Botsman
ISBN: 9780241296189
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2018
UK Publication Date: 4th October 2018
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Hardback, Large Print Edition)
By: Mary Roach
ISBN: 9781432894269
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2022
Publisher: Thorndike Press
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(Paperback)
By: Jordan Frith
ISBN: 9780262551281
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Feb 2024
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Michel Callon
ISBN: 9780262515962
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jan 2011
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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A call for a new form of democracy in which hybrid forums composed of experts and laypeople address such sociotechnical controversies as hazardous waste, genetically modified organisms, and nanotechnology.
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By: Brian Chen
ISBN: 9780306820762
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2012
Publisher: Hachette Books
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An intriguing, definitive analysis of technology's current "all-in-one" revolution, and a serious reflection on the social implications of an "always on" society.
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By: John Hackworth
ISBN: 9781483561769
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2016
Publisher: BookBaby
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(Paperback)
By: Gyan Prakash
ISBN: 9780691004532
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Nov 1999
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Another Reason is a study of the relationship between science, colonialism, and the modern nation. Gyan Prakash explores the complexities, contradictions, and importance of this relationship in the history of the subcontinent. He reveals how science served as an instrument of empire and as a symbol of liberty, progress, and universal reason.
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By: Paul Virilio
ISBN: 9780826487964
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2006
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Traces the twin development of art and science over the twentieth century. In the author's provocative and challenging vision, art and science vie with each other for the destruction of the human form as we know it. It is aimed at those wondering where art has gone and where science is taking us.
