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The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood (Vintage) by James Gleick Publisher Comments A New York Times Notable Book A Los Angeles Times and Cleveland Plain Dealer Best Book of the Year From the bestselling author of the acclaimed Chaos and Genius comes a thoughtful and provocative exploration of the big ideas of the modern era... (read more) Your price: $15.95 New - Trade Paper 
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The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood by James Gleick Publisher Comments James Gleick, the author of the best sellers Chaos and Genius, now brings us a work just as astonishing and masterly: a revelatory chronicle and meditation that shows how information has become the modern era's defining quality — the blood, the... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $15.00 Used - Hardcover
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The Two Cultures by C P Snow Publisher Comments The notion that our society, its education system and its intellectual life, is characterized by a split between two cultures--the arts or humanities on one hand, and the sciences on the other--has a long history. The reissue of The Two Cultures and its... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Most Human Human: What Artificial Intelligence Teaches Us about Being Alive by Brian Christian Publisher Comments Each year, the AI community convenes to administer the famous (and famously controversial) Turing test, pitting sophisticated software programs against humans to determine if a computer can “think.” The machine that most often fools the... (read more) Your price: $15.00 New - Trade Paper
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Technology Human Becoming (Facets) by Philip Hefner Publisher Comments From a leader in the field of religion and science come these reflections on the role of technology in human life and culture. Technology, he argues, tells us much about ourselves--especially our innate drive toward exploration of possibilities--and... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $3.50 Used - Mass Market
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Laboratory Life Construction of Scientific Facts by Bruno Latour Publisher Comments The construction of scientific facts.... (read more) List Price $39.50 Your price: $12.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier, Revised Edition by Howard Rheingold Publisher Comments Howard Rheingold has been called the First Citizen of the Internet. In this book he tours the "virtual community" of online networking. He describes a community that is as real and as much a mixed bag as any physical community -- one where people talk... (read more) List Price $39.25 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Mobile Communication and Society: A Global Perspective (Information Revolution and Global Politics) by Manuel Castells Publisher Comments Wireless networks are the fastest growing communications technology in history. Are mobile phones expressions of identity, fashionable gadgets, tools for life--or all of the above?... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Hardcover
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The One Culture?: A Conversation about Science by Jay A Labinger Publisher Comments So far the "Science Wars" have generated far more heat than light. Combatants from one or the other of what C. P. Snow famously called "the two cultures" (science versus the arts and humanities) have launched bitter attacks but have seldom engaged in... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology by Neil Postman Publisher Comments In this witty, often terrifying work of cultural criticism, the author of Amusing Ourselves to Death chronicles our transformation into a Technopoly: a society that no longer merely uses technology as a support system but instead is shaped by it--with... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google by Nicholas Carr Publisher Comments Building on the success of his industry-shaking Does IT Matter?Nicholas Carr returns with The Big Switch, a sweeping look at how a new computer revolution is reshaping business, society, and culture. Just as companies stopped generating their own power... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $9.50 Used - Hardcover
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Composing cyberspace :identity, community, and knowledge in the electronic age by Richard Holeton Publisher Comments This innovative reader addresses the social, cultural, political, and educational implications of today?s burgeoning information and communication technologies in substantial critical depth. Using three broad human themes?Constructing Identity, Building... (read more) List Price $51.90 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Moment of Complexity: Emerging Network Culture by Mark C Taylor Publisher Comments "The Moment of Complexity is a profoundly original work. In remarkable and insightful ways, Mark Taylor traces an entirely new way to view the evolution of our culture, detailing how information theory and the scientific concept of complexity can be used... (read more) List Price $32.00 Your price: $23.00 Used - Hardcover
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The Anarchist in the Library: How the Clash between Freedom and Control Is Hacking the Real World and Crashing the System by Siva Vaidhyanathan Publisher Comments The Anarchist in the Library is the first guide to one of the most important cultural and economic battlegrounds of our increasingly plugged-in world. Siva Vaidhyanathan draws the struggle for information that will determine much of the culture and... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $14.80 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Communication, Technology and Cultural Change by Gary J Krug Publisher Comments With a foreword by Norman Denzin </p> <p></p> <p>Communication and the history of technology have invariably been examined in terms of artefacts and people. </p> <p></p> <p>Gary Krug argues that... (read more) List Price $61.25 Your price: $17.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Viral Spiral: How the Commoners Built a Digital Republic of Their Own by David Bollier Publisher Comments A world organized around centralized control, strict intellectual property rights, and hierarchies of credentialed experts is under siege. A radically different order of society based on open access, decentralized creativity, collaborative intelligence... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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The New Barbarian Manifesto: How to Survive the Information Age by Ian O Angell Publisher Comments Technology and the Information Age have been hailed as the great liberators -- genies that will free us all from enslavement to mundane chores and the daily grind, and empower all those that are computer literate. Not so, according to Ian Angell, dubbed "... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Hardcover
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Against Machine : How Web Is Reshaping Culture and Commerce - Why It Matters (08 Edition) by Lee Siegel Publisher Comments From the author hailed by the New York Times Book Review for his “drive-by brilliance” and dubbed by the New York Times Magazine as “one of the countrys most eloquent and acid-tongued critics” comes a ruthless challenge to the... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The One Culture?: A Conversation about Science by Jay A. Labinger Publisher Comments So far the "Science Wars" have generated far more heat than light. Combatants from one or the other of what C. P. Snow famously called "the two cultures" (science versus the arts and humanities) have launched bitter attacks but have seldom engaged in... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price: $25.44 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Vanity, Vitality, and Virility: The Science Behind the Products You Love to Buy by John Emsley Publisher Comments What is the secret of shower cleaners? How does the dangerous explosive nitroglycerin ward off heart attacks? And what medicines, usually prescribed for other purposes, are said to produce the ultimate orgasm? In Vanity, Vitality, and Virility, award... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price: $3.50 Used - Hardcover
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