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  • Technology and Desire

    The Transgressive Art of Moving Images

    Edited by Rania Gaafar, Martin Schulz ...
    The spectral realm at the boundaries of images incessantly reveals a desire to see beyond the visible and its medium: screens, frames, public displays and projection sites in an art context. The impact of new media on art and film has influenced the material histories and performances (be they in theory or practice) of images across the disciplines. Digital technologies have not only shaped post ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

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  • Physics for Future Presidents: The Science Behind the Headlines

    The Science Behind the Headlines

    by Richard A. Muller ...
    “A triumph.”—Steve Weinberg, Boston GlobeThis is “must-have” information for all presidents—and citizens—of the twenty-first century: Is Iran’s nascent nuclear capability a genuine threat to the West? Are biochemical weapons likely to be developed by terrorists? Are there viable alternatives to fossil fuels that should be nurtured and supported by the government? Should nuclear power be encouraged ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Radical Technologies

    The Design of Everyday Life

    by Adam Greenfield ...
    A “tremendously intelligent and stylish” guide to the new technologies that are transforming our everyday lives, in ways both good and bad (Guardian)Everywhere we turn, a startling new device promises to transfigure our lives. But at what cost? In this urgent and revelatory excavation of our Information Age, leading technology thinker Adam Greenfield forces us to reconsider our relationship with ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • Politically Incorrect Guide to Darwinism and Intelligent Design

    by Jonathan Wells ...
    Darwin is an emperor who has no clothes— but it takes a brave man to say so. Jonathan Wells, a microbiologist with two Ph.D.s (from Berkeley and Yale), is that brave man. Most textbooks on evolution are written by Darwinists with an ideological ax to grind. Brave dissidents—qualified scientists—who try to teach or write about intelligent design are silenced and sent to the academic gulag. But fear ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Digital Destiny

    How the New Age of Data Will Transform the Way We Work, Live, and Communicate

    by Shawn DuBravac ...
    Our world is about to change.In Digital Destiny: How the New Age of Data Will Change the Way We Live, Work, and Communicate, Shawn DuBravac, chief economist and senior director of research at the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA), argues that the groundswell of digital ownership unfolding in our lives signals the beginning of a new era for humanity. Beyond just hardware acquisition, the next ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Zombies in the Academy

    Living Death in Higher Education

    by Andrew Whelan, Ruth Walker, Christopher Moore ...
    Zombies in the Academy taps into the current popular fascination with zombies and brings together scholars from a range of fields, including cultural and communications studies, sociology, film studies and education, to give a critical account of the political, cultural and pedagogical state of the university through the metaphor of zombiedom. The contributions to this volume argue that the ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Silencing Science

    by Shaun Hendy ...
    Series series BWB Texts
    The nuclear meltdown at Fukushima ... the Fonterra botulism scare ... the Christchurch earthquakes in all these recent crises the role played by scientists has been under the spotlight.What is the first duty of scientists in a crisis to the government, to their employer, or to the wider public desperate for information? And what if these different objectives clash?In this penetrating BWB Text, ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The Resistance

    Digital dissent in the age of machines

    by Joel Achenbach, The Washington Post ...
    Washington Post reporter Joel Achenbach explores our relationship with technology—frequently beneficial, occasionally adversarial, and rapidly changing in a world growing more connected by the minute.In the second decade of this new millennium, we are more connected than we have ever been, and digital utopians speak of the new wonders ahead—artificial intelligence and augmented intelligence, a ... Read more

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  • Das Netz - English Edition

    Digitalization and Society

    Edited by Philipp Otto ...
    Digitalization is changing our world – and we are in the middle of it. The digital magazine "Das Netz" (German for "the net") gathers writers, activists, scientists, politicians and entrepreneurs to think about the developments of our digital life. More than 50 contributions reflect on the digital transformation of society. Topics include the internet of things, artificial intelligence, ethics of ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Trans(per)Forming Nina Arsenault

    An unreasonable body of work

    Edited by Judith Rudakoff ...
    After sixty surgeries at a cost of almost $200,000 to feminize and beautify her originally male body, transgendered Canadian artist Nina Arsenault has created a body of work emanating from her experiences that includes photographs, videos disseminated online, a website, a blog, several social networking presentation sites, stage plays, print media writing and performance of the body in both ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Privacy in the Modern Age

    The Search for Solutions

    Edited by Marc Rotenberg, Jeramie Scott, Julia Horwitz ...
    The threats to privacy are well known: the National Security Agency tracks our phone calls; Google records where we go online and how we set our thermostats; Facebook changes our privacy settings when it wishes; Target gets hacked and loses control of our credit card information; our medical records are available for sale to strangers; our children are fingerprinted and their every test score ... Read more

    $18.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Trends in Communication Policy Research

    New Theories, Methods and Subjects

    Edited by Manuel Puppis, Natascha Just ...
    With contributions from leading international experts from within both the communications industry and academia, Trends in Communication Policy Research comprises the very latest developments in the theories, methods and practical applications of this dynamic field. Topical and politically relevant, this authoritative volume will prove an invaluable reference for students and scholars seeking to ... Read more

    $28.79 USD