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  • SAFE

    Science and Technology in the Age of Ter

    by Martha Baer, Katrina Heron, Olivia Morton, Evan Rathff ...
    If our society is the most technologically sophisticated on Earth, then why can't we protect ourselves from terrorists and other threats to our safety and security?This is the question that frustrates—and scares—all of us today, and the answers have proved maddeningly elusive. Until now. Through dramatic, enlightening, and often entertaining narratives, SAFE makes visible—and understandable—the ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Life 3.0

    Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

    by Max Tegmark ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • How will Artificial Intelligence affect crime, war, justice, jobs, society and our very sense of being human? The rise of AI has the potential to transform our future more than any other technology—and there’s nobody better qualified or situated to explore that future than Max Tegmark, an MIT professor who’s helped mainstream research on how to keep AI beneficial.How ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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  • Everything Is Miscellaneous

    The Power of the New Digital Disorder

    by David Weinberger ...
    A provocative exploration of how the digital revolution is radically changing the way we make sense of our lives.Human beings are information omnivores: we are constantly collecting, labeling, and organizing data. But the ongoing shift from the physical to the digital is mixing, burning, and ripping our lives apart. In the past, everything had its one place—the physical world demanded it—but now ... Read more

    $25.59 CAD

  • The Essential Engineer

    by Henry Petroski ...
    From the acclaimed author of The Pencil and To Engineer Is Human, The Essential Engineer is an eye-opening exploration of the ways in which science and engineering must work together to address our world’s most pressing issues, from dealing with climate change and the prevention of natural disasters to the development of efficient automobiles and the search for renewable energy sources. While the ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • The Sorcerers and Their Apprentices

    How the Digital Magicians of the MIT Media Lab Are Creating the Innovative Technologies That Will Transform Our Lives

    by Frank Moss ...
    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 past 25 years. But that’s old hat for today’s researchers, who are creating technologies that will ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

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  • I Know Who You Are and I Saw What You Did

    Social Networks and the Death of Privacy

    by Lori Andrews ...
    Hailed as “stunning” (New York Post), “authoritative” (Kirkus Reviews), and “comprehensively researched” (Shelf Awareness), a shocking exposé of the widespread abuses of our personal online data by a leading specialist on Web privacy.Social networks, the defining cultural movement of our time, offer many freedoms. But as we work and shop and date over the Web, we are opening ourselves up to ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

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  • Out Of Control

    The New Biology Of Machines, Social Systems, And The Economic World

    by Kevin Kelly ...
    Out of Control chronicles the dawn of a new era in which the machines and systems that drive our economy are so complex and autonomous as to be indistinguishable from living things. ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • When Gadgets Betray Us

    The Dark Side of Our Infatuation With New Technologies

    by Robert Vamosi ...
    Technology is evolving faster than we are. As our mobile phones, mp3 players, cars, and digital cameras become more and more complex, we understand less and less about how they actually work and what personal details these gadgets might reveal about us.Robert Vamosi, an award-winning journalist and analyst who has been covering digital security issues for more than a decade, shows us the dark side ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Flesh and Machines

    How Robots Will Change Us

    by Rodney Brooks ...
    From the director of the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory—“a stimulating book written by one of the major players in the field—perhaps the major player.... Offers surprisingly deep glimpses into what it is to be human” (The New York Times Book Review).Are we really on the brink of having robots to mop our floors, do our dishes, mow our lawns, and clean our windows? And are researchers that ... Read more

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  • Global "Body Shopping"

    An Indian Labor System in the Information Technology Industry

    by Xiang Biao ...
    Series series In-Formation
    How can America's information technology (IT) industry predict serious labor shortages while at the same time laying off tens of thousands of employees annually? The answer is the industry's flexible labor management system--a flexibility widely regarded as the modus operandi of global capitalism today. Global "Body Shopping" explores how flexibility and uncertainty in the IT labor market are ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Cyberactivism

    Online Activism in Theory and Practice

    Edited by MARTHA MCCAUGHEY, Michael Ayers ...
    Cyberactivism is a timely collection of essays examining the growing importance of online activism. The contributors show how online activists have not only incorporated recent technology as a tool for change, but also how they have changed the meaning of activism, what community means, and how they conceive of collective identity and democratic change. Topics addressed range from the Zapatista ... Read more

    $81.99 CAD

  • Urban Youth in China: Modernity, the Internet and the Self

    by Fengshu Liu ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Information Technology and Society
    Fengshu Liu situates the lives of Chinese youth and the growth of the Internet against the backdrop of rapid and profound social transformation in China. In 2008, the total of Internet users in China had reached 253 million (in comparison with 22.5 million in 2001). Yet, despite rapid growth, the Internet in China is so far a predominantly urban-youth phenomenon, with young people under thirty ... Read more

    $114.04 CAD