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Imagine: How Creativity Works
Imagine: How Creativity Works
by Jonah Lehrer
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New York Times best-selling author Jonah Lehrer shows us how we can all learn to be more creative. Did you know that the most creative companies have centralized bathrooms? That brainstorming meetings are a terrible idea? That the color blue can help... (read more)

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The Digital Divide: Arguments for and Against Facebook, Google, Texting, and the Age of Social Networking
The Digital Divide: Arguments for and Against Facebook, Google, Texting, and the Age of Social Networking
by Mark Bauerlein
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This definitive work on the perils and promise of the social- media revolution collects writings by today's best thinkers and cultural commentators, with an all-new introduction by Bauerlein. Twitter, Facebook, e-publishing, blogs, distance-learning and... (read more)

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FAB: The Coming Revolution on Your Desktop--From Personal Computers to Personal Fabrication
FAB: The Coming Revolution on Your Desktop--From Personal Computers to Personal Fabrication
by Neil Gershenfeld
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What if you could someday put the manufacturing power of an automobile plant on your desktop? It may sound far-fetched-but then, thirty years ago, the notion of “personal computers” in every home sounded like science fiction. According to Neil... (read more)

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The Filter Bubble: What the Internet Is Hiding from You
The Filter Bubble: What the Internet Is Hiding from You
by Eli Pariser
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An eye-opening account of how the hidden rise of personalization on the Internet is controlling-and limiting-the information we consume. In December 2009, Google began customizing its search results for each user. Instead of giving you the most broadly... (read more)

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I Know Who You Are and I Saw What You Did: Social Networks and the Death of Privacy
I Know Who You Are and I Saw What You Did: Social Networks and the Death of Privacy
by Lori Andrews
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Social networks are the defining cultural movement of our time, empowering us in constantly evolving ways. We can all now be reporters, alerting the world to breaking news of a natural disaster; we can participate in crowd-sourced scientific research... (read more)

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Small Tech: The Culture of Digital Tools (Electronic Mediations)
Small Tech: The Culture of Digital Tools (Electronic Mediations)
by Byron Hawk
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The essays in Small Tech investigate the cultural impact of digital tools and provide fresh perspectives on mobile technologies such as iPods, digital cameras, and PDAs and software functions like cut, copy, and paste and WYSIWYG. Together they advance... (read more)

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Artscience: Creativity in the Post-Google Generation
Artscience: Creativity in the Post-Google Generation
by David Edwards
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Scientists are famous for believing in the proven and peer-accepted, the very ground that pioneering artists often subvert; they recognize correct and incorrect where artists see only true and false. And yet in some individuals, crossover learning... (read more)

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X-Ray Vision: Nikola Tesla on Roentgen Rays
X-Ray Vision: Nikola Tesla on Roentgen Rays
by Nikola Tesla
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Nikola Tesla is best known for his work with electricity, but he was also interested in Roentgen rays, better known today as X-rays. Collected here are his eight essays on Roentgen rays. Fascinating stuff from one of history's sharpest minds. Nikola... (read more)

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Your Neighbor's Secret Life Online: Protecting Families from Internet Conmen, Scammers and Predators
Your Neighbor's Secret Life Online: Protecting Families from Internet Conmen, Scammers and Predators
by Stephen Dean
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As computer technology becomes more powerful and pervasive, the Internet has emerged as an invaluable tool for information, research, and entertainment, but there is an unsavory, sometimes lethal side to the computer revolution as well. Investigative... (read more)

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The Genie in the Machine: How Computer-Automated Inventing Is Revolutionizing Law and Business (Stanford Law Books)
The Genie in the Machine: How Computer-Automated Inventing Is Revolutionizing Law and Business (Stanford Law Books)
by Robert Plotkin
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We have long considered inventing to be a uniquely human activity. But just as the assembly line automated the process of manufacturing, today's computers are automating the process of inventing. Software can automatically generate designs for everything... (read more)

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Digital Culture, Play, and Identity: A World of Warcraft Reader
Digital Culture, Play, and Identity: A World of Warcraft Reader
by Hilde G. Corneliussen and Jill Walker Rettberg
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World of Warcraft is the world's most popular massively multiplayeronline game (MMOG), with (as of March 2007) more than eight million activesubscribers across Europe, North America, Asia, and Australia, who play the game anastonishing average of twenty... (read more)

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