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Digital Dominance: Winning in a Socially Networked World

Digital Dominance: Winning in a Socially Networked World...

Author: James Jay Carafano
ISBN: 9781648432897
Format: Paperback
$98.99

“In the modern world,” author James Jay Carafano asserts, “winning online could be the key to being free, safe,...  Read More >>

Journalism in the Anthropocene: Media, Modernity and the World to Come

Journalism in the Anthropocene: Media, Modernity and...

Author: Dominic Hinde (The University of Glasgow)
ISBN: 9781529256727
Format: Paperback
$41.95

What role does journalism play in shaping how we understand climate change and the planet we live on? This thought-provoking...  Read More >>

Journalism in the Anthropocene: Media, Modernity and the World to Come

Journalism in the Anthropocene: Media, Modernity and...

Author: Dominic Hinde (The University of Glasgow)
ISBN: 9781529256710
Format: Hardback
$176.95

What role does journalism play in shaping how we understand climate change and the planet we live on? This thought-provoking...  Read More >>

Revealing Relations: Knowledge Infrastructures for Liveable Futures

Revealing Relations: Knowledge Infrastructures for Liveable...

Author: Anne Beaulieu (University of Groningen, Netherlands)
ISBN: 9781529231526
Format: Paperback
$57.95

Are our tools for knowing nature part of what's harming it? This book rethinks knowledge infrastructures-from satellite...  Read More >>

Computing in the Age of Decolonization: India’s Lost Technological Revolution

Computing in the Age of Decolonization: India’s Lost...

Author: Dwaipayan Banerjee
ISBN: 9780691268217
Format: Hardback
$62.99

How Cold War geopolitics and domestic capitalism changed the trajectory of India's computing industry India today...  Read More >>

Hope in the Library: How Libraries Can Help Shape Our Future with Artificial Intelligence

Author: Dr. Michael J. Paulus, Jr. (Creighton University, USA)
ISBN: 9798765136188
Format: Paperback
$36.99

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Philosophy through Design: Rethinking Design Practice for a Changing World

Philosophy through Design: Rethinking Design Practice...

Author: Brian Dixon (Ulster University, UK)
ISBN: 9781350423381
Format: Paperback
$34.99

This book proposes a novel and foundational approach to understanding how contemporary design practice and philosophy...  Read More >>

“You're Muted"": Performance, Precarity, and the Logic of Zoom

“You're Muted"": Performance, Precarity, and the Logic...

Author: PhD Mark Nunes (Appalachian State University, USA) ,  Cassandra Ozog (University of Regina, Canada)
ISBN: 9798765108253
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Through the frame of Zoom, this collection of essays examines the rapid emergence of videoconferencing in everyday...  Read More >>

Conversing in the Metaverse: The Embodied Future of Online Communication

Conversing in the Metaverse: The Embodied Future of...

Author: Jieun Kiaer (University of Oxford, UK)
ISBN: 9781350338555
Format: Paperback
$59.99

How do metaverse technologies change how we communicate with each other? This book explores how existing metaverse...  Read More >>

Governing AI: A Primer

Governing AI: A Primer

Author: Onur Bakiner (Seattle University)
ISBN: 9781009738330
Format: Paperback
$82.80

This book is about efforts to get AI right. It documents potential risks and actual harms associated with AI, lists...  Read More >>

Medical Firsts: Innovations and Milestones That Changed the World

Medical Firsts: Innovations and Milestones That Changed...

Author: Tish Davidson (Independent Scholar, USA)
ISBN: 9798216452171
Format: Paperback
$44.99

Profiling 60 medical milestones, this book highlights the people and stories behind these key moments while also...  Read More >>

Philosophy through Design: Rethinking Design Practice for a Changing World

Philosophy through Design: Rethinking Design Practice...

Author: Brian Dixon (Ulster University, UK)
ISBN: 9781350423398
Format: Hardback
$100.00

This book proposes a novel and foundational approach to understanding how contemporary design practice and philosophy...  Read More >>

Empathy Machines: This American Life, Podcasting, and the Public Radio Structure of Feeling

Empathy Machines: This American Life, Podcasting, and...

Author: Professor Jason Loviglio (University of Maryland, USA)
ISBN: 9798765111727
Format: Hardback
$180.00

Empathy Machines explores This American Life as a crucial cultural institution in the evolution of empathy as a...  Read More >>

Hope in the Library: How Libraries Can Help Shape Our Future with Artificial Intelligence

Author: Dr. Michael J. Paulus, Jr. (Creighton University, USA)
ISBN: 9798765136195
Format: Hardback
$120.00

Argues for the importance of libraries in an age of artificial and automated intelligence to create a better information...  Read More >>

Weeping Eyes: Seeing and Feeling in the Sentimental Tradition

Weeping Eyes: Seeing and Feeling in the Sentimental...

Author: Megan Nash (University of Auckland)
ISBN: 9781009661751
Format: Hardback
$245.81

Academic discourse on eyes has focused overwhelmingly on their visual function. Weeping Eyes turns instead to their...  Read More >>

Governing AI: A Primer

Governing AI: A Primer

Author: Onur Bakiner (Seattle University)
ISBN: 9781009738309
Format: Hardback
$258.75

This book is about efforts to get AI right. It documents potential risks and actual harms associated with AI, lists...  Read More >>

Doxxed: How Privacy Abuse Harms

Doxxed: How Privacy Abuse Harms

Author: Briony Anderson (Durham University)
ISBN: 9781529253955
Format: Hardback
$176.95

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Radical Infrastructure: Imagining the Internet from the Ground Up

Radical Infrastructure: Imagining the Internet from...

Author: Britt Paris, Ph.D
ISBN: 9780520402058
Format: Paperback
$57.95

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing...  Read More >>

Radical Infrastructure: Imagining the Internet from the Ground Up

Radical Infrastructure: Imagining the Internet from...

Author: Britt Paris, Ph.D
ISBN: 9780520425859
Format: Hardback
$157.95

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing...  Read More >>

Acing Science: Compulsory Sexuality and Asexual Possibilities

Acing Science: Compulsory Sexuality and Asexual Possibilities...

Author: Kristina Gupta (Assistant Professor, Wake Forest University) ,  Rebecca Herzig (Professor and Chair, Bates College)
ISBN: 9780295754253
Format: Hardback
$290.40

Reveals the limits and exclusions of defining desire as universalCompulsory sexuality—where sexual desire is seen...  Read More >>

A Beginner’s Guide to Lasers and Their Applications, Part 2: The Laser's Impact on Science and Humanity

A Beginner’s Guide to Lasers and Their Applications,...

Author: Dhruba J. Biswas
ISBN: 9783032106988
Format: Paperback
$129.35

This two-volume book provides an enriching insight into the laser, covering different types of lasers, the basic...  Read More >>

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