Little Rice
1,133円 Can the world’s biggest economy actually innovate? Clay Shirky explores China at a crossroads. Smartphones have to be made someplace, and that place is China. In just five years, a company named Xiaomi (which means “little rice” in Mandarin) has grown into the most valuable startup ever, becoming...
Steampunk and Nineteenth-Century Digital ...
10,612円 Steampunk is more than a fandom, a literary genre, or an aesthetic. It is a research methodology turning history inside out to search for alternatives to the progressive technological boosterism sold to us by Silicon Valley. This book turns to steampunk's quirky temporalities to embrace diverse g...
The Power of Onlyness
933円 **An 800-CEO-READ Staff Pick Shortlisted for the Thinkers50 Breakthrough Idea Award A Financial Times Business Book of the Month “For any would-be activists who hear the voice: ‘not me’ or ‘not now,’ Merchant makes the strong case for ‘yes you’ and ‘yes now’ーand even shows you how to jump in.” ...
The Happiness Effect
2,113円 Sexting. Cyberbullying. Narcissism. Social media has become the dominant force in young people's lives, and each day seems to bring another shocking tale of private pictures getting into the wrong hands, or a lament that young people feel compelled to share their each and every thought with the e...
The Star as Icon
3,663円 Princess Diana, Jackie O, Grace Kellyーthe star icon is the most talked about yet least understood persona. The object of adoration, fantasy, and cult obsession, the star icon is a celebrity, yet she is also something more: a dazzling figure at the center of a media pantomime that is at once voye...
The Four
1,555円 **NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER USA TODAY BESTSELLER Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google are the four most influential companies on the planet. Just about everyone thinks they know how they got there. Just about everyone is wrong.** For all that’s been written about the Four over the last two decades...
Playable Bodies
3,946円 What happens when machines teach humans to dance? Dance video games transform players' experiences of popular music, invite experimentation with gendered and racialized movement styles, and present new possibilities for teaching, learning, and archiving choreography. Drawing on five years of rese...
Research Objects in their Technological S...
10,280円 What kind of stuff is the world made of? What is the nature or substance of things? These are ontological questions, and they are usually answered with respect to the objects of science. The objects of technoscience tell a different story that concerns the power, promise and potential of things –...
Come saremo
750円 Cambiamento climatico. Instabilità finanziaria. Migrazioni. Disuguaglianze. Accelerazione digitale e lentezza politica. Le grandi trasformazioni in corso irrompono nel dibattito di ogni giorno con le loro imprevedibilità e il loro fascino. Ma perché è tanto importante discutere di futuro e di inn...
Places of the Heart
2,652円 Library of Science Book Club selection Discover magazine What to Read” selection A really great book.” -IRA FLATOW, Science Friday One of the finest science writers I’ve ever read.” -Los Angeles Times Ellard has a knack for distilling obscure scientific theories into practical wisdom.” -New Y...
Reasoning in Measurement
13,099円 This collection offers a new understanding of the epistemology of measurement. The interdisciplinary volume explores how measurements are produced, for example, in astronomy and seismology, in studies of human sexuality and ecology, in brain imaging and intelligence testing. It considers photogra...
The Bleeding Edge
2,248円 Capitalism likes us to believe in the steady, inevitable march of progress, from the abacus to the iPad. But the historical record tells of innumerable roads not taken, all of which could have led to better, more equal worlds, and still can. Academic and activist Bob Hughes puts flesh on the bone...
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