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Click and Kin is an interdisciplinary examination of how our increasingly mobile and networked age is changing the experience of kinship and connection. Focusing on how identity formation is affecte……続きを見る

The Oxford Handbook of the Economics of Networks represents the frontier of research into how and why networks they form, how they influence behavior, how they help govern outcomes in an interactive……続きを見る

Technology Professionals create important business solutions in every organization. They add value and have a huge effect on the bottom line. Intech Personal skills really teaches you how to improve……続きを見る

Drawing on the latest research, this book looks at the ways that screen culture is shaping the future and changing the way we think. Future Minds asks: are we becoming addicted to data and how do we……続きを見る

You are a four-dimensional human. Each of us exists in three-dimensional, physical space. But, as a constellation of everyday digital phenomena rewires our lives, we are increasingly coaxed from the……続きを見る

The 21st century offers a dizzying array of new technological developments: robots smart enough to take white collar jobs, social media tools that manage our most important relationships, ordinary o……続きを見る

Western society has become saturated with scientific and technological modes of thinking that impact our lives and our relationships. Expanding social inequality, the use of social media and the ris……続きを見る

We live in a world increasingly governed by technologyーbut to what end? Technology rules us as much as laws do. It shapes the legal, social, and ethical environments in which we act. Every time we ……続きを見る

A century ago, daily life ground to a halt when the circus rolled into town. Across America, banks closed, schools canceled classes, farmers left their fields, and factories shut down so that everyo……続きを見る

Why, with absolutely no idea what Brexit actually meant, did the UK vote for Brexit? Why, rather than vote for the best-qualified candidate ever to stand as US President, did voters opt for a realit……続きを見る

First published in 1904, "Anticipations" is an attempt by H. G. Wells in 1901 to make predictions about the future, especially concerning technological and scientific progress. It offers an interest……続きを見る

Blockchain ermöglicht Peer-to-Peer-Transaktionen ohne jede Zwischenstelle wie eine Bank. Die Teilnehmer bleiben anonym und dennoch sind alle Transaktionen transparent und nachvollziehbar. Somit ist ……続きを見る

The Maker City Playbook is a comprehensive case studies and how-to information useful for city leaders, civic innovators, nonprofits, and others engaged in urban economic development. The Maker City……続きを見る

Star Worlds explores the future-oriented universe of online virtual worlds connected with popular science fictionーspecifically, with Star Wars and Star Trekーthat have been inhabited for over a dec……続きを見る

This bookdocuments and examines the history of technology used by consumers to serve oneself. The telephone’s development as a self-service technology functions as the narrative spine, beginning wit……続きを見る

The new international bestseller from the Pulitzer Prize winner and author of The World is Flat - this is an essential and entertaining field guide to thriving in the twenty-first century. **'As a g……続きを見る

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 Xia……続きを見る

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 sol……続きを見る

This handbook provides a comprehensive global survey of the politics of technology. Written by an outstanding line up of distinguished scholars in the field, the handbook covers all aspects of the r……続きを見る

**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,……続きを見る

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 sh……続きを見る

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 ……続きを見る

Technology has become increasingly important to both the function and our understanding of the justice process. Many forms of criminal behaviour are highly dependent upon technology, and crime contr……続きを見る

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……続きを見る

Cambiamento climatico. Instabilità finanziaria. Migrazioni. Disuguaglianze. Accelerazione digitale e lentezza politica. Le grandi trasformazioni in corso irrompono nel dibattito di ogni giorno con l……続きを見る

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 studi……続きを見る

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 t……続きを見る

"ACCESS GRANTED - Tomorrow's Business Ethics" is science fiction in its literally sense. The book analyzes actual and future technological developments to discuss how these will affect tomorrow's bu……続きを見る

The past two decades have witnessed increasing opposition to mafia influence and activities in Italy. Community organizations such as Libera, founded in 1995, and Addiopizzo, originating in 2004, ex……続きを見る

***Planet Earth needs a self-help book, and this is it The future is happening to us far faster than we thought it would and this book explains why*** Fifty years after Marshall McLuhan's ground bre……続きを見る