Psychology Books
Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man
Terms and phrases such as "the global village" and "the medium is the message" are now part of the lexicon, and McLuhan's theories continue to cha…
Reality is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World
More than 31 million people in the UK are gamers. The average young person in the UK will spend 10,000 hours gaming by the age of twenty-one. What…
The Sirens' Call: How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource
An Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller From the New York Times bestselling author and MSNBC and podcast host, a powerful wide-angle reckon…
Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation
The printing press, the pencil, the flush toilet, the battery--these are all great ideas. But where do they come from? What kind of environment br…
The Medium is the Massage
The Medium is the Massage is Marshall McLuhan's most condensed, and perhaps most effective, presentation of his ideas. Using a layout style that w…
Deep Thinking: Where Machine Intelligence Ends and Human Creativity Begins
Garry Kasparov's 1997 chess match against the IBM supercomputer Deep Blue was a watershed moment in the history of technology. It was the dawn of …
Futureproof: 9 Rules for Humans in the Age of Automation
"While we need to rewrite the rules of the twenty-first-century economy, Kevin's book is a great look at how people can do this on a personal leve…
Pragmatic Thinking and Learning: Refactor Your Wetware
Software development happens in your head. Not in an editor, IDE, or designtool. You're well educated on how to work with software and hardware, b…
The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect
A Turing Award-winning computer scientist and statistician shows how understanding causality has revolutionized science and will revolutionize art…
Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are
Foreword by Steven Pinker Blending the informed analysis of The Signal and the Noise with the instructive iconoclasm of Think Like a Freak,…