Secrets and Lies: Digital Security in a Networked World – $200
Whom can you trust? Try Bruce Schneier, whose rare gift for common sense makes his book Secrets and Lies: Digital Security in a Networked World both enlightening and practical. He’s worked in...
View ArticleArt and Technics – $235
Art and Technics. Featuring a new introduction by Casey Nelson Blake, this classic text provides the essence of Mumford’s views on the distinct yet interpenetrating roles of technology and the arts in...
View ArticleThe Cluetrain Manifesto – $240
The Cluetrain Manifesto burst onto the scene in March 1999, with ninety-five theses nailed up on the Web. Within days, www.cluetrain.com had ignited a vibrant global conversation challenging sacred...
View ArticleThe Essential McLuhan – $325
Marshall McLuhan’s insights are fresher and more applicable today than when he first announced them to a startled world. A whole new generation is turning to his work to understand a global village...
View ArticleTechnics and Civilization – $435
Technics and Civilization first presented its compelling history of the machine and critical study of its effects on civilization in 1934—before television, the personal computer, and the Internet...
View ArticleThe Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction – $375
The Audible Past explores the cultural origins of sound reproduction. It describes a distinctive sound culture that gave birth to the sound recording and the transmission devices so ubiquitous in...
View ArticlePrivacy – $250
American essayist and Harper’s contributing editor Garret Keizer offers a brilliant, literate look at our strip-searched, over-shared, viral-videoed existence. Body scans at the airport, candid pics...
View ArticleNeed, Speed, and Greed – $310
Over the past few decades, globalization and Googlization have kicked off the first phase of an innovation revolution more profound and more powerful than any economic force since the arrival of...
View ArticleThe Golden Age of Video Games: The Birth of a Multibillion Dollar Industry –...
This book focuses on the history of video games, consoles, and home computers from the very beginning until the mid-nineties, which started a new era in digital entertainment. The text features the...
View ArticleMaking is Connecting – $345
In Making is Connecting, David Gauntlett argues that through making things, people engage with the world and create connections with each other. Both online and offline, we see that people want to...
View ArticleThe One World Schoolhouse: Education Reimagined – $365
Salman Khan, founder of the Khan Academy, has written what is destined to become one of the most influential books about education in our time. A free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere: this...
View ArticlePulse: The Coming Age of Systems and Machines Inspired by Living Things – $230
Nothing less than a blueprint for a new way of living: a global movement which aims to marry the fruits of technology with the essential truths of Mother Nature. Bridges made with spider silk; ships...
View ArticleAlif the Unseen – $275
In an unnamed Middle Eastern security state, a young Arab-Indian hacker shields his clients—dissidents, outlaws, Islamists, and other watched groups—from surveillance and tries to stay out of...
View ArticleDecadence of Industrial Democracies – $425
Bernard Stiegler is one of the most original philosophers writing today about new technologies and their implications for social, political and personal life. Drawing on sources ranging from Plato...
View ArticleThe Body Multiple: Ontology in Medical Practice – $385
The Body Multiple is an extraordinary ethnography of an ordinary disease. Drawing on fieldwork in a Dutch university hospital, Annemarie Mol looks at the day-to-day diagnosis and treatment of...
View ArticleCycling Science: How Rider and Machine Work Together – $475
Every July hundreds of thousands flock to the Champs-Élysées in Paris—and millions more to their televisions and computers—to witness the dramatic conclusion of the grueling three weeks of the Tour de...
View ArticleHandmade Electronic Music: The Art of Hardware Hacking – $695
Handmade Electronic Music: The Art of Hardware Hacking provides a long-needed, practical, and engaging introduction to the craft of making – as well as creatively cannibalizing – electronic circuits...
View ArticleEuphoria and Dystopia: The Banff New Media Institute Dialogues – $675
A compendium of some of the most important thinking about art and technology to have taken place in the last few decades at the international level. Based on the research of the Banff New Media...
View ArticleProgram or Be Programmed: Ten Commands for a Digital Age – $275
The debate over whether the Net is good or bad for us fills the airwaves and the blogosphere. But for all the heat of claim and counter-claim, the argument is essentially beside the point: It’s here;...
View ArticleFabricated: The New World of 3D Printing – $425
Fabricated tells the story of 3D printers, humble manufacturing machines that are bursting out of the factory and into schools, kitchens, hospitals, even onto the fashion catwalk. The magic happens...
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