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  • Bodies in Codeby Mark B. N. Hansen

    CRC Press 2006; US$ 24.95

    Bodies in Code explores how our bodies experience and adapt to digital environments. Cyberculture theorists have tended to overlook biological reality when talking about virtual reality, and Mark B. N. Hansen's book shows what they've been missing. Cyberspace is anchored in the body, he argues, and it's the body--not high-tech computer graphics--that allows a person to feel like they are really ''moving'' through virtual reality. Of course these virtual experiences are also profoundly affecting our very understanding of what it means to live as embodied beings. Hansen draws upon recent work in visual culture, cognitive science, and new media studies, as well as examples of computer graphics, websites, and new media art, to show how our bodies... more...

  • The Evolution of Useful Thingsby Henry Petroski

    Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2010; US$ 11.99

       How did the table fork acquire a fourth tine?  What advantage does the Phillips-head screw have over its single-grooved predecessor? Why does the paper clip look the way it does? What makes Scotch tape Scotch?    In this delightful book Henry, Petroski takes a microscopic look at artifacts that most of us count on but rarely contemplate, including such icons of the everyday as pins, Post-its, and fast-food "clamshell" containers.  At the same time, he offers a convincing new theory of technological innovation as a response to the perceived failures of existing products—suggesting that irritation, and not necessity, is the mother of invention. From the Trade Paperback edition. more...

  • The World Is Flat 3.0by Thomas L. Friedman; Oliver Wyman

    Picador 2007; US$ 9.99

    This Independence Day edition of  The World is Flat 3.0  includes an an exclusive preview of That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back , by Thomas L. Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum, on sale September 5th, 2011. A New Edition of the Phenomenal #1 Bestseller   "One mark of a great book is that it makes you see things in a new way, and Mr. Friedman certainly succeeds in that goal," the Nobel laureate Joseph E. Stiglitz wrote in The New York Times reviewing The World Is Flat in 2005. In this new edition, Thomas L. Friedman includes fresh stories and insights to help us understand the flattening of the world. Weaving new information into his overall thesis,... more...

  • Turing's Cathedralby George Dyson

    Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2012; US$ 14.99

    “It is possible to invent a single machine which can be used to compute any computable sequence,” twenty-four-year-old Alan Turing announced in 1936. In Turing’s Cathedral , George Dyson focuses on a small group of men and women, led by John von Neumann at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, who built one of the first computers to realize Alan Turing’s vision of a Universal Machine. Their work would break the distinction between numbers that mean things and numbers that do things—and our universe would never be the same.   Using five kilobytes of memory (the amount allocated to displaying the cursor on a computer desktop of today), they achieved unprecedented success in both weather... more...

  • The Race to the Intelligent Stateby Michael Connors

    John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 1996; US$ 39.95

    It is predicted that in the future we will be a post-industrial society where the majority of the population will control the handling of information. This could be a problem as the world is presently plagued with serious information technology structural problems. These problems have resulted from the information revolution and will only get worse as technology improves. The author, Michael Connors, describes how information technology will develop over the coming years and what challenges lay ahead in the information technology industry. more...

  • Digital Diversionsby Julian Sefton-Green

    Routledge 1998; US$ 35.95

    This work explores the diverse ways in which young people are active social agents in the production of youth culture in the digital age. The contributors draw on a range of theoretical perspectives such as cultural studies and feminism more...

  • Prosthetic Cultureby Celia Lury

    Routledge 1997; US$ 59.95

    Celia Lury describes the body's ability to act outside itself both mechanically and perceptually. She draws on a wide range of examples including phototherapy, accounts of false memory syndrome, family albums and Benetton adverts. more...

  • Protecting and Exploiting New Technology and Designsby K. Hodkinson

    Spon Press 1987; US$ 179.95

    The protection of intellectual property rights has become a major concern in recent years. The opportunities being seized, or lost, in areas such as computer software or biotechnology have captured most of the headlines but in every research facility, whatever the subject, there is an increased awareness of the importance to R & D management of a more commercial attitude. Keith Hodkinson has run Government sponsored "professional updating" courses for academic and industrial researchers and business executives. The practical questions raised there and the advice found most useful have all helped to make this guide a down-to-earth source of help which will be of immediate, profitable use to its readers. Appendices to the book as well as giving... more...

  • Politics of Technology in Latin Americaby Maria Ines Bastos

    Routledge 1996; US$ 200.00

    Based on country studies and industry studies in the main Latin American economies, this collection sets out to explore technology policy in Latin America during the 1970s and 1980s. more...

  • Introduction to Cybercultureby David Bell

    Routledge 2001; US$ 35.95

    A companion volume to The Cybercultures Reader , An Introduction to Cyberculture introduces students to all the major themes and concepts in this rapidly-growing field. more...