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The Age of Extraction: How Tech Platforms Conquered the Economy and Threaten Our Future Prosperity

The Age of Extraction: How Tech Platforms Conquered...

Author: Tim Wu
ISBN: 9781847927118
Format: Hardback
$59.99

""A concise yet century-spanning exploration of the power of platforms, what the future of capitalism will look...  Read More >>

Archiving Machines: From Punch Cards to Platforms

Archiving Machines: From Punch Cards to Platforms

Author: Amelia Acker
ISBN: 9780262553247
Format: Paperback
$85.00

""This book tells the story of the rise of networked data through the evolution of archiving and digital storage,...  Read More >>

Neuroethics: The Implications of Mapping and Changing the Brain

Neuroethics: The Implications of Mapping and Changing...

Author: Walter Glannon
ISBN: 9780262553520
Format: Paperback
$160.00

An examination of ethical issues in recording and intervening in the brain, and the neurobiological basis of moral...  Read More >>

Mourning on Mobile Media: Everyday Affective Witnessing

Mourning on Mobile Media: Everyday Affective Witnessing...

Author: Larissa Hjorth
ISBN: 9780262553551
Format: Paperback
$95.00

""A book that looks at mourning as a social and communal practice in the age of mobile media and media sharing in...  Read More >>

The Random Universe: How Models and Probability Help Us Make Sense of the Cosmos

The Random Universe: How Models and Probability Help...

Author: Andrew H. Jaffe
ISBN: 9780300250503
Format: Hardback
$51.95

An award-winning astrophysicist looks at how the understanding of uncertainty and randomness has led to breakthroughs...  Read More >>

Shared Wisdom: Cultural Evolution in the Age of AI

Shared Wisdom: Cultural Evolution in the Age of AI

Author: Alex Pentland
ISBN: 9780262050999
Format: Hardback
$60.00

How to build a flourishing society by using what we know about human nature to design our technology rather than...  Read More >>

Moral AI: And How We Get There

Moral AI: And How We Get There

Author: Jana Schaich Borg ,  Walter Sinnott-Armstrong
ISBN: 9780241454756
Format: Paperback
$26.99

A balanced and thought-provoking guide to all the big questions about AI and ethics Can computers understand morality?...  Read More >>

The Infinite Alphabet: And the Laws of Knowledge

The Infinite Alphabet: And the Laws of Knowledge

Author: César A. Hidalgo
ISBN: 9780241655672
Format: Hardback
$59.99

A world-leading scholar reveals how knowledge moves, grows, and drives progress We all understand that knowledge...  Read More >>

Life on a Little-Known Planet: Dispatches from a Changing World

Life on a Little-Known Planet: Dispatches from a Changing...

Author: Elizabeth Kolbert
ISBN: 9781847929051
Format: Hardback
$55.00

Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Kolbert brings together her most urgent reporting and inspiring lessons from the...  Read More >>

A Citizen's Guide to Artificial Intelligence

A Citizen's Guide to Artificial Intelligence

Author: John Zerilli ,  John Danaher
ISBN: 9780262553926
Format: Paperback
$65.00

""An accessible overview of the threats and opportunities inherent in automated decision making in academia, government,...  Read More >>

The Body Digital: A Brief History of Humans and Machines from Cuckoo Clocks to ChatGPT

The Body Digital: A Brief History of Humans and Machines...

Author: Vanessa Chang
ISBN: 9781685891978
Format: Paperback
$45.00

A dazzling tour of the history of technology and its complex relationship to the human body-from a Silicon Valley...  Read More >>

The Age of Extraction: How Tech Platforms Conquered the Economy and Threaten Our Future Prosperity

The Age of Extraction: How Tech Platforms Conquered...

Author: Tim Wu
ISBN: 9781847927125
Format: Paperback
$36.99

""A concise yet century-spanning exploration of the power of platforms, what the future of capitalism will look...  Read More >>

Artificial Intelligence from Science Fiction to Reality: How AI May Impact Humanity

Artificial Intelligence from Science Fiction to Reality:...

Author: Emanuel Camilleri
ISBN: 9781041101413
Format: Paperback
$105.00

The book examines various aspects, starting with the evolution of human and artificial intelligence. It places AI...  Read More >>

The Order of People: Contesting Bio-Scientific Human Classifications

The Order of People: Contesting Bio-Scientific Human...

Author: Nils Ellebrecht ,  Tino Plümecke
ISBN: 9783837672374
Format: Paperback
$65.95

Human classifications: An examination of underlying epistemologies, ambiguities, and politics that reveals how concepts...  Read More >>

Worldbuilding: The Engineering Imagination

Worldbuilding: The Engineering Imagination

Author: Jenn Stroud Rossmann (Lafayette College)
ISBN: 9781509567140
Format: Paperback
$32.95

Engineers across the globe are building our future and, by extension, our world. But how can these engineers—whose...  Read More >>

The Jobless Future

The Jobless Future

Author: Sandeep Chavan
ISBN: 9798231106981
Format: Paperback
$118.77

What if losing your job isn't the end of work - but the beginning of evolution? In The Jobless Future: Why Work...  Read More >>

Revolutions in Communication: Media History from Gutenberg to the Digital Age

Revolutions in Communication: Media History from Gutenberg...

Author: PhD Bill Kovarik (Radford University, USA)
ISBN: 9798765107171
Format: Hardback
$190.00

This new and expanded edition of Revolutions in Communication, the 3rd edition, explores printing, imaging, electronic...  Read More >>

Worldbuilding: The Engineering Imagination

Worldbuilding: The Engineering Imagination

Author: Jenn Stroud Rossmann (Lafayette College)
ISBN: 9781509567133
Format: Hardback
$103.95

Engineers across the globe are building our future and, by extension, our world. But how can these engineers—whose...  Read More >>

Architectures of Global AI Governance: From Technological Change to Human Choice

Architectures of Global AI Governance: From Technological...

Author: Matthijs M. Maas (Senior Research Fellow, Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Law & AI)
ISBN: 9780198877837
Format: Hardback
$379.95

Architectures of Global AI Governance draws on technology law and global governance theory to propose robust conceptual...  Read More >>

Large Language Models

Large Language Models

Author: Stephan Raaijmakers
ISBN: 9780262552691
Format: Paperback
$39.99

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Geospatial Innovation: Igniting Smart Cities, Eco-Synergy, and Urban Resurgence: Geospatial Technologies for Smart Cities

Geospatial Innovation: Igniting Smart Cities, Eco-Synergy,...

Author: Ram Narayan Yadava ,  Uznir Ujang
ISBN: 9783031969645
Format: Hardback
$580.77

mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;"">This book presents cutting-edge research and applications in geospatial data acquisition,...  Read More >>

Appropriating Technology: How We Make Digital Tools Our Own

Appropriating Technology: How We Make Digital Tools...

Author: Pierre Tchounikine
ISBN: 9780262553872
Format: Paperback
$115.00

""Details the complex interplay of psychological, social, and technological forces and influences that shape how...  Read More >>

On the Eve of the Cybercultural Revolution: Black Power and Capitalism in the 1960s

On the Eve of the Cybercultural Revolution: Black Power...

Author: Brian Bartell
ISBN: 9781517913939
Format: Paperback
$47.99

Uncovering the Black Power movement's contributions to theorizing the politics of automation On the Eve of the...  Read More >>

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