Social science / Future Studies

Homo Deus

by Yuval Noah Harari

Yuval Noah Harari, author of the critically-acclaimed New York Times bestseller and international phenomenon Sapiens, returns with an equally original, compelling, and provocative book, turning his focus toward...

The Four-Dimensional Human: Ways of Being in the Digital World

by Laurence Scott

You are a four-dimensional human.

Each of us exists in three-dimensional, physical space. But, as a constellation of everyday digital phenomena rewires our lives, we are increasingly coaxed from the containment...

Surviving the Future: Culture, Carnival and Capital in the Aftermath of the Market Economy

by Shaun Chamberlin, David Fleming & Rob Hopkins

Surviving the Future is a story drawn from the fertile ground of the late David Fleming's extraordinary Lean Logic: A Dictionary for the Future and How to Survive It. That hardback consists of four hundred...

How Population Change Will Transform Our World

by Sarah Harper

Bad Code: Overcoming Bad Mental Code That Sabotages Your Life

by Deborah Johnson, Paula Miller & Sandra Grajeda

DEBORAH JOHNSON takes you through different types of code, tools of code and decades of code to change your thoughts and change your life!

Just as threatening as identity theft or a website hack, there is bad...

Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies: A Comprehensive Introduction

by Arvind Narayanan, Joseph Bonneau & Edward Felten

Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies provides a comprehensive introduction to the revolutionary yet often misunderstood new technologies of digital currency. Whether you are a student, software developer,...

Rise of the Machines: A Cybernetic History

by Thomas Rid

A sweeping history of our deep entanglement with technology.

As lives offline and online merge even more, it’s easy to forget how we got here. Rise of the Machines reclaims the spectacular story of cybernetics,...

Postfeminist Celebrity and Motherhood: Brand Mom

by Jorie Lagerwey

This book analyzes the intersections of celebrity, self-branding, and "mommy" culture. It examines how images of celebrity moms playing versions of themselves on reality television, social media, gossip sites,...

ROS Robotics By Example

by Carol Fairchild & Dr. Thomas L. Harman

Bring life to your robot using ROS robotic applications About This Book • This book will help you boost your knowledge of ROS and give you advanced practical experience you can apply to your ROS robot platforms...

Modern Monopolies

by Alex Moazed & Nicholas L. Johnson

What do Google, Snapchat, Tinder, Amazon, and Uber have in common, besides soaring market share? They're platforms - a new business model that has quietly become the only game in town, creating vast fortunes...

i-Minds: How Cell Phones, Computers, Gaming, and Social Media are Changing our Brains, our Behavior, and the Evolution of our Species

by Mari Swingle

Constant connectivity is rewiring our brains – this is your survival guide for the digital era

Information, Freedom and Property: The Philosophy of Law Meets the Philosophy of Technology

by Mireille Hildebrandt & Bibi van den Berg

This book addresses issues on the nexus of freedom of and property in information, while acknowledging that both hiding and exposing information may affect our privacy. It inquires into the physics, the technologies,...

Practical UX Design

by Scott Faranello

A foundational yet practical approach to UX that delivers more creative, collaborative, holistic, and mature design solutions, regardless of your background or experience About This Book • Improve your UX...

Preparing for a World that Doesn't Exist - Yet: Framing a Second Enlightenment to Create Communities of the Future

by Rick Smyre & Neil Richardson

Preparing For A World That Doesn't Exist - Yet is about an emerging Second Enlightenment and the capacities you will need to achieve success in this new, fast-evolving world.

Mobilized: An Insider's Guide to the Business and Future of Connected Technology

by SC Moatti & Nir Eyal

Mobile has now become such an integral part of how we live that, for many people, losing a cell phone is like losing a limb. Everybody knows mobile is the future, and every business wants in, but what are the...

The New Jewish Mandate (Vol. 2, Lipstick and War Crimes Series): Renouncing the Money Changers

by Ray Songtree

The New Jewish Mandate : Renouncing the Money Changers is the Jewish Edition of Vol. 2 of the Lipstick and War Crimes Series by Ray Songtree, with special introduction for friends and critics of Israel.

From...

Knowledge Management in Healthcare

by Lorri Zipperer

Knowledge management goes beyond data and information capture in computerized health records and ordering systems; it seeks to leverage the experiences of all who interact in healthcare to enhance care delivery,...

Last Futures: Nature, Technology and the End of Architecture

by Douglas Murphy

Whatever happened to the last utopian dreams of the city?

In the late 1960s the world was faced with impending disaster: the height of the Cold War, the end of oil and the decline of great cities throughout the...

Intimacy on the Internet: Media Representations of Online Connections

by Lauren Rosewarne

The focus of this book is on the media representations of the use of the Internet in seeking intimate connections-be it a committed relationship, a hook-up, or a community in which to dabble in fringe sexual...

Using Games and Simulations for Teaching and Assessment: Key Issues

by Harold F. O'Neil, Eva L. Baker & Ray S. Perez

Using Games and Simulations for Teaching and Assessment: Key Issues comprises a multidisciplinary investigation into the issues that arise when using games and simulations for educational purposes. Using both...