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  • The Virtual Self

    How the casual information you create virtually is changing the physical world around you

    by Nora Young ...
    The host of CBC Radio's Spark explores the very real impact of the virtual information we generate about ourselves -- on our own lives, our communities, and our government.We generate enormous amounts of online data about our habits: where we go, what we do, and how we feel. Some of that is stuff we choose to report; some of it is the offhand data trails we leave behind. The Virtual Self looks at ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains

    What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains

    by Nicholas Carr ...
    Finalist for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction: “Nicholas Carr has written a Silent Spring for the literary mind.”—Michael Agger, Slate“Is Google making us stupid?” When Nicholas Carr posed that question, in a celebrated Atlantic Monthly cover story, he tapped into a well of anxiety about how the Internet is changing us. He also crystallized one of the most important debates of our ... Read more

    $11.69 USD

  • The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google

    Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google

    by Nicholas Carr ...
    “Magisterial. . . . Draws an elegant and illuminating parallel between the late-19th-century electrification of America and today’s computing world.”—SalonHailed as “the most influential book so far on the cloud computing movement” (Christian Science Monitor), The Big Switch makes a simple and profound statement: Computing is turning into a utility, and the effects of this transition will ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Hamlet's BlackBerry

    A Practical Philosophy for Building a Good Life in the Digital Age

    by William Powers ...
    A crisp, passionately argued answer to the question that everyone who's grown dependent on digital devices is asking: "Where's the rest of my life?"At a time when we're all trying to make sense of our relentlessly connected lives, this revelatory book presents a bold new approach to the digital age. Part intellectual journey, part memoir, Hamlet's BlackBerry sets out to solve what William Powers ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • You Are Not a Gadget

    by Jaron Lanier ...
    A NATIONAL BESTSELLERA programmer, musician, and father of virtual reality technology, Jaron Lanier was a pioneer in digital media, and among the first to predict the revolutionary changes it would bring to our commerce and culture. Now, with the Web influencing virtually every aspect of our lives, he offers this provocative critique of how digital design is shaping society, for better and for ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • I Live in the Future & Here's How It Works

    Why Your World, Work, and Brain Are Being Creatively Disrupted

    by Nick Bilton ...
    Are we driving off a digital cliff and heading for disaster, unable to focus, maintain concentration, or form the human bonds that make life worth living? Are media and business doomed and about to be replaced by amateur hour?The world, as Nick Bilton—with tongue-in-cheek—shows, has been going to hell for a long, long time, and what we are experiencing is the twenty-first-century version of the ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

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  • The Luminaries

    by Eleanor Catton ...
    The winner of the Man Booker Prize, this "expertly written, perfectly constructed" bestseller (The Guardian) is now a Starz miniseries.It is 1866, and Walter Moody has come to stake his claim in New Zealand's booming gold rush. On the stormy night of his arrival, he stumbles across a tense gathering of 12 local men who have met in secret to discuss a series of unexplained events: a wealthy man has ... Read more

    $12.99 USD