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Technology

Life on the Screen
Morality by Design: Technology’s Challenge to Human Values
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Furious

Never Use Futura
One Good Turn: A Natural History of the Screwdriver and the Screw
Fabric of Civilization
Permanent Record
Beyond Measure: The Hidden History of Measurement from Cubits to Quantum Constants
The Lie of Global Prosperity: How Neoliberals Distort Data to Mask Poverty and Exploitation
On paper
Criminal Futures: Predictive Policing and Everyday Police Work
The Psychology of Silicon Valley: Ethical Threats and Emotional Unintelligence in the Tech Industry
A Brief History of Motion: From the Wheel, to the Car, to What Comes Next
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Tech Stress

How Linux Works: What Every Superuser Should Know
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The Psychology of Computer Programming

Data and Goliath
Lurking: How a Person Became a User
Broad Band
System Error
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Atlas of AI

Hackerlar
The Soul of A New Machine
Where Wizards Stay Up Late
Coders
Ghost in the Wires
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The Art of Deception

Uncanny Valley
Targeted: The Cambridge Analytica Whistleblower's Inside Story of How Big Data, Trump, and Facebook Broke Democracy and How It Can Happen Again
Subprime Attention Crisis: Advertising and the Time Bomb at the Heart of the Internet
Pipe Dreams
A Brief History of Timekeeping: The Science of Marking Time, from Stonehenge to Atomic Clocks
The Clocks are Telling Lies: Science, Society, and the Construction of Time
The Weaponisation of Everything
Blood in the Machine
The Right to Repair: Reclaiming the Things We Own
A History of the World in 100 Objects
The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger
The Pencil: A History of Design and Circumstance
Coal: A Human History
Mauve
Color
Chokepoint Capitalism: How Big Tech and Big Content Captured Creative Labor Markets and How We'll Win Them Back
Brotopia: Breaking Up the Boys' Club of Silicon Valley
The Big Nine: How the Tech Titans and Their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity
Facebook
In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives
The Race Underground
Loaded : a disarming history of the Second Amendment
Art in the Alphabet: A History of the Evolution of Hand Lettering
A Better Pencil: Readers, Writers, and the Digital Revolution
Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things
Papyrus: The Plant that Changed the World: From Ancient Egypt to Today's Water Wars
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The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is

Don't Be Evil
BiblioTech
History, Disrupted: How Social Media and the World Wide Web Have Changed the Past
The Computer Boys Take over: Computers, Programmers, and the Politics of Technical Expertise
Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong about the Future of Transportation
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Automation and the Future of Work

Virtual Society: The Metaverse and the New Frontiers of Human Experience
The Rules We Break: Lessons in Play, Thinking, and Design
How Music Got Free
You've Been Played: How Corporations, Governments, and Schools Use Games to Control Us All
Battle of Ink and Ice: A Sensational Story of News Barons, North Pole Explorers, and the Making of Modern Media
Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
Internet for the People
How We Got to Now
Shareware Heroes
More than a Glitch
The Anthropocene Reviewed
Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement
Samuel Morse, That's Who!: The Story of the Telegraph and Morse Code
The Librarian Who Measured the Earth
Hands of Time: A Watchmaker's History
Kids Across the Spectrums: Growing Up Autistic in the Digital Age
Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor
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On Being a Data Skeptic

Network Propaganda: Manipulation, Disinformation, and Radicalization in American Politics
Ghost Work
Underbug: An Obsessive Tale of Termites and Technology
Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control
Hyphens & Hashtags: The Stories Behind the Symbols on Our Keyboard
Papyrus
Death Glitch: How Techno-Solutionism Fails Us in This Life and Beyond
The Tetris Effect: The Game that Hypnotized the World
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The Things We Make

Concrete Planet: The Strange and Fascinating Story of the World's Most Common Man-Made Material
Your Boss Is an Algorithm: Artificial Intelligence, Platform Work and Labour
Race after Technology Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code
The Costs of Connection: How Data Is Colonizing Human Life and Appropriating It for Capitalism
Your Computer Is on Fire
Predict and Surveil
The Private Is Political: Networked Privacy and Social Media
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The Two Revolutions

The Equality Machine
The Weather Machine: A Journey Inside the Forecast
The World in a Grain: The Story of Sand and How It Transformed Civilization
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The Chemical Age

The Apple II Age: How the Computer Became Personal
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