Social Aspects category: 6049 books
The Sorcerers and Their Apprentices
How the Digital Magicians of the MIT Media Lab Are Creating the Innovative Technologies That Will Transform Our Lives
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
If you've ever read a book on an e-reader, unleashed your inner rock star playing Guitar Hero, built a robot with LEGO Mindstorms, or ridden in a vehicle with child-safe air bags, then you've experienced first hand just a few of the astounding innovations that have come out of the Media Lab over the...
An Engine, Not a Camera
How Financial Models Shape Markets
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2008
In An Engine, Not a Camera, Donald MacKenzie argues that the emergence of modern economic theories of finance affected financial markets in fundamental ways. These new, Nobel Prize-winning theories, based on elegant mathematical models of markets, were not simply external analyses but intrinsic parts...
by Abner J Peddiwell
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2004
The 65th-anniversary edition of an educational classic proves its relevance in examining today's educational quandaries
McGraw-Hill first published The Saber- Tooth Curriculum in 1939, and it has remained a classic bestseller to this date. The book is just as relevant and applicable to the...
Future Crimes
Everything Is Connected, Everyone Is Vulnerable and What We Can Do About It
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2015
**NEW YORK TIMES and WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER
ONE OF THE WASHINGTON POST'S 10 BEST BOOKS OF 2015
One of the world’s leading authorities on global security, Marc Goodman takes readers deep into the digital underground to expose the alarming ways criminals, corporations, and even...
Unnatural Selection
Why the Geeks Will Inherit the Earth
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
“Compelling . . . Technology is changing the landscape of society, and Roeder describes how humanity is changing along with it.” —Daniel H. Wilson, author of Robopocalypse
Does the geek personify a distinct new phase in human evolution, as the environment shifts to favor their traits?...
The Science Delusion
Asking the Big Questions in a Culture of Easy Answers
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
One of our most brilliant social critics—author of the bestselling The Middle Mind—presents a scathing critique of the “delusions” of science alongside a rousing defense of the tradition of Romanticism and the “big” questions.
With the rise of religion critics such as Richard Dawkins,...
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2019
The challenges to humanity posed by the digital future, the first detailed examination of the unprecedented form of power called "surveillance capitalism," and the quest by powerful corporations to predict and control our behavior.
In this masterwork of original thinking and research,...
by Jaron Lanier
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2010
A NATIONAL BESTSELLER
A programmer, musician, and father of virtual reality technology, Jaron Lanier was a pioneer in digital media, and among the first to predict the revolutionary changes it would bring to our commerce and culture. Now, with the Web influencing virtually every aspect of our...
The Blank Slate
The Modern Denial of Human Nature
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2003
**A brilliant inquiry into the origins of human nature from the author of The Better Angels of Our Nature and Enlightenment Now.
"Sweeping, erudite, sharply argued, and fun to read..also highly persuasive." --Time**
Now updated with a new afterword
One of the world's...
Plato at the Googleplex
Why Philosophy Won't Go Away
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
Is philosophy obsolete? Are the ancient questions still relevant in the age of cosmology and neuroscience, not to mention crowd-sourcing and cable news? The acclaimed philosopher and novelist Rebecca Newberger Goldstein provides a dazzlingly original plunge into the drama of philosophy, revealing...
The Better Angels of Our Nature
Why Violence Has Declined
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2011
**“If I could give each of you a graduation present, it would be this—the most inspiring book I've ever read."
—Bill Gates (May, 2017)
Selected by The New York Times Book Review as a Notable Book of the Year**
The author of Enlightenment Now and The New York Times bestseller...
Merchants of Doubt
How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2010
The U.S. scientific community has long led the world in research on such areas as public health, environmental science, and issues affecting quality of life. Our scientists have produced landmark studies on the dangers of DDT, tobacco smoke, acid rain, and global warming. But at the same time, a small...
The Restless Clock
A History of the Centuries-Long Argument over What Makes Living Things Tick
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
Today, a scientific explanation is not meant to ascribe agency to natural phenomena: we would not say a rock falls because it seeks the center of the earth. Even for living things, in the natural sciences and often in the social sciences, the same is true. A modern botanist would not say that plants...
by Edward O. Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2014
National Book Award Finalist. How did humanity originate and why does a species like ours exist on this planet? Do we have a special place, even a destiny in the universe? Where are we going, and perhaps, the most difficult question of all, "Why?"
In The Meaning of Human Existence,...