Social science / Future Studies

Next 100 Years, The: A Forecast for the 21st Century

by George Friedman

The New York Times BestsellerIf you think you know where the world is headed, think again Mexico making a bid for global supremacy?Poland becoming America's closest ally?World War III taking place in space?...

Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age

by Paul Graham

"The computer world is like an intellectual Wild West, in which you can shoot anyone you wish with your ideas, if you're willing to risk the consequences. " --from Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer...

Addiction by Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas

by Natasha Dow Schüll

Recent decades have seen a dramatic shift away from social forms of gambling played around roulette wheels and card tables to solitary gambling at electronic terminals. Addiction by Design takes readers into...

Online Community Handbook: Building your business and brand on the Web

by Dan Moughamian & Scott Valentine

This is the eBook version of the printed book. If the print book includes a CD-ROM, this content is not included within the eBook version. Successful online communities don’t just happen by themselves. They’re...

Second Life for Dummies

by Sarah Robbins & Mark Bell

You’ve heard all about Second Life. Maybe you’ve already jumped with both feet—and gotten stuck. Or maybe you’re a Second Life veteran who wants to build something or run a business. Fear not! Second...

The Future and Its Enemies: The Growing Conflict Over Creativity, Enterprise,

by Virginia Postrel

Today we have greater wealth, health, opportunity, and choice than at any time in history. Yet a chorus of intellectuals and politicians laments our current condition -- as slaves to technology, coarsened by...

Search Engine Visibility, Second Edition

by Shari Thurow

This is the eBook version of the printed book.Search Engine Visibility is about designing, writing, and creating a web site primarily for a site's visitors, and helping them find what they are searching for...

Community Building on the Web: Secret Strategies for Successful Online Communities

by Amy Jo Kim

What's the point of creating a great Web site if no one goes there-or worse, if people come but never return? How do some sites, such as America Online, EBay, and GeoCities, develop into Internet communities...

I, Avatar: The Culture and Consequences of Having a Second Life

by Meadows Mark Stephen

What is an avatar? Why are there nearly a billion of them, and who is using them? Do avatars impact our real lives, or are they just video game conceits? Is an avatar an inspired rendering of its creator’s...

How to Win Sales & Influence Spiders: Boosting Your Business and Buzz on the Web

by Catherine Seda

Authored by wireless industry expert and leader Jim Geier, Deploying Voice over Wireless LANs draws on Geier's extensive experience with real-world VoWLAN deployments. Geier brings together state-of-the-art...

Counter Hack Reloaded: A Step-by-Step Guide to Computer Attacks and Effective Defenses

by Edward Skoudis & Tom Liston

Recent advances make it possible to deliver high-quality voice and video communications over a wireless LAN (WLAN), replacing costly wired telephone and video surveillance systems and dramatically reducing support...

Healing This Wounded Earth: With Compassion, Spirit and the Power of Hope

by Eleanor Stoneham

The world is seriously wounded threatened by violence egocentricity and mass consumerism. Government intervention alone will never solve society's problems. We need personal responsibility and healing on a global...

Everyware: The Dawning Age of Ubiquitous Computing

by Adam Greenfield

This is the eBook version of the printed book.

Ubiquitous computing--almost imperceptible, but everywhere around us--is rapidly becoming a reality. How will it change us? how can we shape its emergence?

Smart...

Publish and Prosper: Blogging for Your Business

by Steve Broback & DL Byron

This is the eBook version of the printed book.

While personal blogs take up much of the blogosphere, blogs are quickly gaining popularity in business as an inexpensive and amazingly effective marketing tool....

Dispatches from Blogistan: A travel guide for the modern blogger

by Suzanne Stefanac

This is the eBook version of the printed book.The term "blog" wasn't coined until 1999 and yet by 2004, it had become Merriam-Webster's Word of the Year. Globally, the number of blogs is doubling every six months,...

The Meaning of the 21st Century

by James Martin

According to James Martin-known as "the guru of the Information Age"-humanity is at a crucial turning point. If we succeed in finding ways to support massive gains in population combined with dizzying technological...

Facebook Me! A Guide to Socializing, Sharing, and Promoting on Facebook, 2/e

by Dave Awl

This is the eBook version of the printed book.In Facebook Me! Dave Awl takes you on a guided tour of everything Facebook has to offer, and shows you how to get the most out of the time you spend on Facebook....

The Coming Global Superstorm

by Art Bell & Whitley Strieber

Killer tornadoes. Violent tropical storms. Devastating temperatures. Are these just the prelude to an unprecedented environmental disaster in our near future?

Two of America's leading investigators of unexplained...

The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence

by Ray Kurzweil

Ray Kurzweil is the inventor of the most innovative and compelling technology of our era, an international authority on artificial intelligence, and one of our greatest living visionaries. Now he offers a framework...

And Then There's This: How Stories Live and Die in Viral Culture

by Bill Wasik

"An odd but happy marriage of sociological observation and Gonzo- style adventure."

-Wired

Journalist and new media provocateur Bill Wasik journeys to the edge of our churning and rambunctious viral culture...