Sociology Books
The Technological Society
As insightful and wise today as it was when originally published in 1954, Jacques Ellul's The Technological Society has become a classic in its fi…
Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World
Your cell phone provider tracks your location and knows who’s with you. Your online and in-store purchasing patterns are recorded, and reveal if y…
LikeWar: The Weaponization of Social Media
Social media has been weaponized, as state hackers and rogue terrorists have seized upon Twitter and Facebook to create chaos and destruction. Thi…
Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor
A powerful investigative look at data-based discrimination—and how technology affects civil and human rights and economic equity The State …
Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language
A linguistically informed look at how our digital world is transforming the English language. Language is humanity's most spectacular open-…
The Filter Bubble: What the Internet is Hiding From You
An eye-opening account of how the hidden rise of personalization on the Internet is controlling - and limiting - the information we consume. <…
The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads
Feeling attention challenged? Even assaulted? American business depends on it. In nearly every moment of our waking lives, we face a barrage of me…
21 Lessons for the 21st Century
In Sapiens, he explored our past. In Homo Deus, he looked to our future. Now, one of the most innovative thinkers on the planet turns to the prese…
Future Crimes
One of the world’s leading authorities on global security, Marc Goodman takes readers deep into the digital underground to expose the alarming way…
Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder
â Perfectly placed to tell us whatâ s really new about [the] second-generation Web.â â Los Angeles TimesBusiness visionary and bestselling author …