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  • Voltage-Enhanced Processing of Biomass and Biochar

    by Gerardo Diaz ...
    Series series Wiley-ASME Press Series
    Voltage-Enhanced Processing of Biomass and BiocharA detailed introduction to voltage-enhanced processing of carbonaceous materialsWhile there are many well-established biomass processing techniques that are suitable for a variety of different situations, the utilization of voltage-driven techniques for the processing of biomass and biochar has been shown to have advantages for certain applications ... Read more

    $136.99 CAD

  • Just Code

    Power, Inequality, and the Political Economy of IT

    Edited by Jeffrey R. Yost, Gerardo Con Díaz ...
    Series series Studies in Computing and Culture
    How code shapes power and inequality across technology, governance, and global political economies.Code—whether software routines, legal frameworks, or informal social norms—shapes the world around us in profound and often invisible ways. In Just Code, editors Jeffrey R. Yost and Gerardo Con Díaz bring together a diverse group of scholars to examine how different forms of code both structure and ... Read more

    $71.49 CAD

  • Software Rights

    How Patent Law Transformed Software Development in America

    by Gerardo Con Diaz ...
    A new perspective on United States software development, seen through the patent battles that shaped our technological landscapeThis first comprehensive history of software patenting explores how patent law made software development the powerful industry that it is today. Historian Gerardo Con Díaz reveals how patent law has transformed the ways computing firms make, own, and profit from software. ... Read more

    $38.49 CAD

  • Computer

    A History of the Information Machine

    by Martin Campbell-Kelly, William F. Aspray, Jeffrey R. Yost, Honghong Tinn, Gerardo Con Díaz ...
    Computer: A History of the Information Machine traces the history of the computer and its unlimited, information-processing potential.Comprehensive and accessibly written, this fully updated fourth edition adds new chapters on the globalization of information technology, the rise of social media, fake news, and the gig economy, and the regulatory frameworks being put in place to tame the ... Read more

    $75.57 CAD

  • Handbook of Microbial Bioresources, The

    by Aakash Goyal, Jose López-Bucio, R.S. Upadhyay, Marcela Pagano, Marcela Panago, Pradeep Kumar, Igor Maksimov, Iqbal Ahmad, Gamini Seneviratne, Harikesh Bahadur Singh, Javier Hernández-Fernández, M.A. Mazutii, Bishnu Maya, Javed Ahamad Khan, Smriti Gaur, Sandipan Ganguly, Quang D. Nguyen, Vinod Singh, Hesham A. El Enshasy, Mohammed Kuddus, Marina G. Holyavka, Thais Martins Marques Costa, Franciele M. Pelissari, Ram Naraian, Gerardo Díaz Godínez, Gustavo Molina, Alfredo Aires, Ahmed M. El-Bondkly, Ipek Kurtböke, Hector Cristóbal, Mark Eppinger, María-del-Carmen Durán-Domínguez-de-Bazúa M, Ravichandra Potumarthi, Pattanathu K.S.M. Rahman, Neela Badrie, Christian Cumagun, Kanika Sharma, Shikha Shikha, Jeyabalan Sangeetha, S Chandra Nayak, Helen Treichel ...
    Microbial technology plays an integral role in the biotechnology, bioengineering, biomedicine/biopharmaceuticals and agriculture sector. This book provides a detailed compendium of the methods, biotechnological routes, and processes used to investigate different aspects of microbial resources and applications. It covers the fundamental and applied aspects of microorganisms in the health, industry, ... Read more

    $350.49 CAD

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  • The Age of Surveillance Capitalism

    The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power

    by Shoshana Zuboff ...
    **An exposé of the unprecedented form of power called “surveillance capitalism,” and the quest by powerful corporations to predict and control our behavior“Groundbreaking, magisterial, alarming.” – Financial Times**The heady optimism of the Internet’s early days has turned dark. Surveillance capitalism has deepened inequality, sown societal chaos, and undermined democracy.The fight for a human ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

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  • Net Smart

    How to Thrive Online

    by Howard Rheingold ...
    A media guru shows us how to use social media intelligently, humanely, and, above all, mindfully.Like it or not, knowing how to make use of online tools without being overloaded with too much information is an essential ingredient to personal success in the twenty-first century. But how can we use digital media so that they make us empowered participants rather than passive receivers, grounded, ... Read more

    $20.79 CAD

  • Your Computer Is on Fire

    Edited by Thomas S. Mullaney, Benjamin Peters, Mar Hicks, Kavita Philip ...
    Techno-utopianism is dead: Now is the time to pay attention to the inequality, marginalization, and biases woven into our technological systems.This book sounds an alarm: after decades of being lulled into complacency by narratives of technological utopianism and neutrality, people are waking up to the large-scale consequences of Silicon Valley-led technophilia. This book trains a spotlight on the ... Read more

    $36.79 CAD

  • The Ordinal Society

    by Marion Fourcade, Kieran Healy ...
    A sweeping critique of how digital capitalism is reformatting our world.We now live in an “ordinal society.” Nearly every aspect of our lives is measured, ranked, and processed into discrete, standardized units of digital information. Marion Fourcade and Kieran Healy argue that technologies of information management, fueled by the abundance of personal data and the infrastructure of the internet, ... Read more

    $49.49 CAD

  • Beyond Data

    Reclaiming Human Rights at the Dawn of the Metaverse

    by Elizabeth M. Renieris ...
    Why laws focused on data cannot effectively protect people—and how an approach centered on human rights offers the best hope for preserving human dignity and autonomy in a cyberphysical world.Ever-pervasive technology poses a clear and present danger to human dignity and autonomy, as many have pointed out. And yet, for the past fifty years, we have been so busy protecting data that we have failed ... Read more

    $28.79 CAD

  • The SAGE Handbook of Social Media

    Edited by Jean Burgess, Thomas Poell, Alice E. Marwick ...
    The world is in the midst of a social media paradigm. Once viewed as trivial and peripheral, social media platforms like Twitter, Facebook and WeChat have become an important part of the information and communication infrastructure of society. They are bound up with business and politics as well as everyday life, work, and personal relationships.This international Handbook addresses the most ... Read more

    $74.39 CAD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Internet Studies

    Edited by William H. Dutton ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Internet Studies has been one of the most dynamic and rapidly expanding interdisciplinary fields to emerge over the last decade. The Oxford Handbook of Internet Studies has been designed to provide a valuable resource for academics and students in this area, bringing together leading scholarly perspectives on how the Internet has been studied and how the research agenda should be pursued in the ... Read more

    $49.59 CAD