History & Culture

In this witty, often terrifying work of cultural criticism, the author of Amusing Ourselves to Death chronicles our transformation into a Technopoly: a soc...

The moving memoir of a scientist coming of age as an immigrant in America who finds her calling at the forefront of the AI revolution. Wired called Dr. Fe...

Following his blockbuster biography of Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson’s New York Times bestselling and critically acclaimed The Innovators is a “riveting, ...

a National Bestseller a Programmer, Musician, And Father Of Virtual Reality Technology, Jaron Lanier Was A Pioneer In Digital Media, And Among The First T...

A portrait of early nineteenth-century mathematician Charles Babbage describes his efforts to construct the first computing machine more than one century be...

Tom Boellstorff Conducted More Than Two Years Of Fieldwork In Second Life, Living Among And Observing Its Residents. He Conducted His Research In Exactly Th...

The #1 New York Times bestseller The phenomenal true story of the black female mathematicians at NASA whose calculations helped fuel some of America’s gr...

The Internet and smartphone are just the latest in a 250 year long cycle of disruption that has continuously changed the way we live, the way we work and th...

An unflinching look at the aspiring city-builders of our smart, mobile, connected future. We live in a world defined by urbanization and digital ubiquity, ...

iGen: Why Today's Super-Connected Kids Are Growing Up Less Rebellious, More Tolerant, Less Happy--and Completely Unprepared for Adulthood--and What That Mea...

A Wall Street Journal Best Business Book of 2012 A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2012 In this revealing account of how the digital universe exploded in the a...

This is a stunning visual guide to the life and works of entrepreneur Steve Jobs. Easily one of the most influential innovators of the twenty-first century,...

Foreword By Steven Pinker Blending The Informed Analysis Of The Signal And The Noise With The Instructive Iconoclasm Of Think Like A Freak, A Fascinating, I...

What Is The Information Highway? How Will The New Technology Change Our Lives? Do I Have To Learn To Use A Computer? Will My Job Become Obsolete? Welcome To...

From The Author Of The Bestselling Biographies Of Benjamin Franklin And Albert Einstein, This Is The Exclusive Biography Of Steve Jobs. Based On More Than F...