Impact of Science & Technology on Society
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End of Millennium
Manuel CastellsCurrent price €35.99Original price €39.99END OF MILLENNIUM This final volume in Manuel Castells trilogy studies the key defining processes taking place in the last decade of the twentieth ...
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Being Human: The Search for Order
Sean O NuallainCurrent price €27.29Original price €29.99This feels like a time of environmental and moral crisis without parallel.... Not only do human beings seem not to believe in anything but, despite...
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Electronic Trading And Blockchain: Yesterday, Today And Tomorrow
Richard L SandorCurrent price €72.97Original price €88.99Trading floors in the 60s and 70s involved hundreds of people shouting bids and offers in multi-coloured jackets standing next to each other in dif...
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SuperVision: An Introduction to the Surveillance Society
John GilliomCurrent price €26.99Original price €29.99We live in a surveillance society. Anyone who uses a credit card, cell phone, or even search engines to navigate the Web is being monitored and ass...
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You Are Not A Gadget: A Manifesto
Jaron LanierCurrent price €15.40Original price €17.50In You are Not a Gadget digital guru and virtual reality pioneer Jaron Lanier reveals how the internet is deadening personal interaction, stifling ...
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The Philosopher Lecturing on the Orrery: The Identity of the Man in Joseph Wright''s Famous Painting
Jonathan PowersCurrent price €8.79Original price €10.99Current price €8.79Original price €10.99Save 20% -
Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World
Bruce SchneierCurrent price €16.52Original price €18.99Data is everywhere. We create it every time we go online, turn our phone on (or off) or pay with a credit card. This data is stored, studied, bough...
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Messaging for Engineering: From Research to Action
Committee on Implementing Engineering MessagesCurrent price €27.29Original price €29.99For those in the broad engineering community--those who employ, work with, and/or educate engineers, and engineers themselves--there is no need to ...
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The Future of Medicine (WIRED guides): How We Will Enjoy Longer, Healthier Lives
James TempertonCurrent price €14.39Original price €15.99By the end of this century, living beyond 100 will be the rule rather than the exception. What medical breakthroughs and new technologies will make...
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GO BIG: How To Fix Our World
Ed MilibandCurrent price €19.98Original price €23.50''Enthralling'' PHILIP PULLMAN''Such a hopeful book'' ELIZABETH DAY''GO BIG should be the rallying cry of progressives around the world'' RUTGER BR...
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12 Bytes: How artificial intelligence will change the way we live and love
Jeanette WintersonCurrent price €16.10Original price €18.50*A 'BOOKS OF 2021' PICK IN THE GUARDIAN, FINANCIAL TIMES AND EVENING STANDARD*Twelve bytes. Twelve eye-opening, mind-expanding, funny and provocati...
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Blowout: Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth
Rachel MaddowCurrent price €16.65Original price €18.50**THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**A ground-breaking investigation into the oil and gas industry, international corruption and world politics. Oil. ...
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The New Breed: How to Think About Robots
Kate DarlingCurrent price €20.83Original price €24.50''A must read for anyone interested in the emerging ethics of robotics'' Irene M. Pepperberg''Endless ink has been spilled on AI and our robot fut...
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Sitopia: How Food Can Save the World
Carolyn SteelCurrent price €15.12Original price €16.99'A visionary look at how quality food should replace money as the new world currency' Tim Spector'Hugely ambitious and beautifully written...destin...
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The Road to Conscious Machines: The Story of AI
Michael WooldridgeCurrent price €15.75Original price €17.50'A terrific book - essential reading for everyone seeking to make sense of Artificial Intelligence' Professor Sir Adrian Smith, Director and Chief ...
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The Day the World Stops Shopping: How ending consumerism gives us a better life and a greener world
J. B. MacKinnonCurrent price €17.09Original price €18.99We are using up the planet at almost double the rate it can regenerate. To support our economies, we're told we must shop now like we've never shop...
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The Great Acceleration: How the World is Getting Faster, Faster
Robert ColvileCurrent price €15.46Original price €16.99Flash crashes. Speed dating. Instant messaging. From the devices we carry to the lives we lead, everything is getting faster, faster. But where d...
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The Upstarts: Uber, Airbnb and the Battle for the New Silicon Valley
Brad StoneCurrent price €15.83Original price €17.99New York Times bestselling author of The Everything Store Brad Stone takes us deep inside the new Silicon Valley.Ten years ago, the idea of getting...
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The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future
Kevin KellyCurrent price €16.71Original price €18.99Current price €16.71Original price €18.99Save 12% -
Wonderland: How Play Made the Modern World
Steven JohnsonCurrent price €12.89Original price €14.99''The book is a house of wonders'' The New York Times''Steven Johnson is the Darwin of technology'' Walter Issacson, author of Steve JobsWhat conne...
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Radical Technologies: The Design of Everyday Life
Adam GreenfieldCurrent price €15.93Original price €17.50Everywhere we turn, a startling new device promises to transfigure our lives. But at what cost? In this urgent and revelatory excavation of our Inf...
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WTF?: What''s the Future and Why It''s Up to Us
Tim O'ReillyCurrent price €15.29Original price €16.99The man who can really make a whole industry happen. Eric Schmidt, Executive Chairman of GoogleA punchy and provocative book . . . WTF? is an insig...
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Health Claims and Food Labelling
Royal Society of ChemistryCurrent price €162.59Original price €184.76Providing an introduction to the use of nutrition and health claims, this book explores these claims around the world and the impact of the differe...
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