Sociology Books
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow
Yuval Noah Harari, author of the critically-acclaimed New York Times bestseller and international phenomenon Sapiens, returns with an equally orig…
The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma
Künstliche Intelligenz ist die Coming Wave, der nächste technologische Sprung, der sich nicht aufhalten lässt. Wir nähern uns einem kritisc…
Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
From the author of Sapiens comes the groundbreaking story of how information networks have made, and unmade, our world. For the last 100,00…
Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked
Welcome to the age of behavioral addiction—an age in which half of the American population is addicted to at least one behavior. We obsess over ou…
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
Television has conditioned us to tolerate visually entertaining material measured out in spoonfuls of time, to the detriment of rational public di…
Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology
A witty, often terrifying that chronicles our transformation into a society that is shaped by technology—from the acclaimed author of Amusing Ours…
Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future
What are the jobs of the future? How many will there be? And who will have them? We might imagine—and hope—that today's industrial revolution will…
Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now
Jaron Lanier, the world-famous Silicon Valley scientist-pioneer who first alerted us to the dangers of social media, explains why its toxic effect…
Antisocial: Online Extremists, Techno-Utopians, and the Hijacking of the American Conversation
From a rising star at The New Yorker , a deeply immersive chronicle of how the optimistic entrepreneurs of Silicon Valley set out to create a free…
The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains
“Is Google making us stupid?” When Nicholas Carr posed that question, in a celebrated Atlantic Monthly cover story, he tapped into a well of anxie…