Theory Books
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…
Basic Category Theory for Computer Scientists
Category theory is a branch of pure mathematics that is becoming an increasingly important tool in theoretical computer science, especially in pro…
New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future
“New Dark Age is among the most unsettling and illuminating books I’ve read about the Internet, which is to say that it is among the most unsettli…
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…
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…
The Question Concerning Technology and Other Essays
"To read Heidegger is to set out on an adventure. The essays in this volume—intriguing, challenging, and often baffling to the reader—call him alw…
The Mathematical Theory of Communication
Scientific knowledge grows at a phenomenal pace--but few books have had as lasting an impact or played as important a role in our modern world as …