Sociology Books
Free: The Future of a Radical Price
Reveals how to run an online business profitably in spite of the Internet's inherently free culture, disseminating the principles of a ''priceless…
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…
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…
Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World
Out of Control chronicles the dawn of a new era in which the machines and systems that drive our economy are so complex and autonomous as to be in…
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…
Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity
Lawrence Lessig, “the most important thinker on intellectual property in the Internet era” ( The New Yorker ), masterfully argues that never befor…
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,…
Our Final Invention: Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era
In as little as a decade, artificial intelligence could match, then surpass human intelligence. Corporations & government agencies around the …
Lurking: How a Person Became a User
A concise but wide-ranging personal history of the internet from—for the first time—the point of view of the user In a shockingly short amo…
The Revenge of Analog: Real Things and Why They Matter
One of Michiko Kakutani's ( New York Times ) top ten books of 2016 A funny thing happened on the way to the digital utopia. We've begun to …