Politics Books
Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War
The never-before-told story of the computer scientists and the NSA, Pentagon, and White House policymakers who invented and employ the wars of the…
Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism
Run a Google search for "black girls" - what will you find? "Big Booty" and other sexually explicit terms are likely to come up as top search term…
Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It
Explaining the process of the “enshittification” of digital platforms over time and what to do about it. Cory Doctorow's Enshittification t…
Technics and Civilization
This is a history of the machine and a critical study of its effects on civilization. Mumford has drawn on every aspect of life to explain the mac…
Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI
Shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction Named one of the best books of the year by Publishers Weekly. A riveting story of what it…
Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech
Longlisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year The "rich and gripping" true story of the first time machines came for human j…
Radical Technologies: The Design of Everyday Life
A field manual to the technologies that are transforming our lives Everywhere we turn, a startling new device promises to transfigure our l…
Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
We live in the age of the algorithm. Increasingly, the decisions that affect our lives--where we go to school, whether we can get a job or a loan,…
The Big Nine: How the Tech Titans and Their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity
A call-to-arms about the broken nature of artificial intelligence, and the powerful corporations that are turning the human-machine relationship o…
Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt
1 New York Times Bestseller — With a new Afterword In Michael Lewis's game-changing bestseller, a small group of Wall Street iconoclasts …