Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World by Penguin Press HC, The $26.95
Visionary game designer Jane McGonigal reveals how we can harness the power of games to solve real-world problems and boost global happiness. More than 174 million Americans are gamers, and the average young person in the United States will spend ten thousand hours gaming by the age of twenty-one. According to world-renowned game designer Jane McGonigal, the reason for this mass exodus to...
Pocket Ref by Sequoia Pub $12.95
This great little book is a concise all-purpose reference featuring hundreds of tables, maps, formulas, constants & conversions AND it still fits in your shirt pocket! Goes where you go!
Wizard: The Life and Times of Nikola Tesla : Biography of a Genius by Citadel $32.00
Nikola Tesla, credited by many as the inspiration for radios, robots, and even radar, has been called the patron saint of modern electricity. "Wizard" is the definitive biography of this founding father of modern technology of photos .
Text Message from your Kindle, plus using 180srch.com by 180srch.com $1.24
"Text Message from your Amazon Kindle" is another title by the author of "Shop Amazon.com from your Kindle". Send text messages (SMS) from your Amazon Kindle, plus using 180srch.com a text message search service. Simple step-by-step instruction on sending text messages from your Amazon.com Kindle.180srch - Linking physical information and objects to the Internet ! Send a text message to 180srch...
Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age by Penguin Press HC, The $25.95
The author of the breakout hit Here Comes Everybody reveals how new technology is changing us from consumers to collaborators, unleashing a torrent of creative production that will transform our world. For decades, technology encouraged people to squander their time and intellect as passive consumers. Today, tech has finally caught up with human potential. In Cognitive Surplus, Internet...
The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires (Vintage) by Vintage $15.95
It is easy to forget that every development in the history of the American information industry–from the telephone to radio to film–once existed in an open and chaotic marketplace inhabited by entrepreneurs and utopians, just as the Internet does today. Each of these, however, grew to be dominated by a monopolist or cartel. In this pathbreaking book, Tim Wu asks: will the Internet follow the...
Electronics For Dummies by For Dummies $24.99
Electronics is fascinating – want to make something of it? This book shows you how!You can make all sorts of things, once you understand what electronics is and how it works. This book helps you out with that part, explaining the whole thing in plain English. Learn how electricity functions, how to harness it and put it to work, what tools you need to build circuits, what you can make with...
Reinventing Discovery: The New Era of Networked Science by Princeton University Press $24.95
In Reinventing Discovery, Michael Nielsen argues that we are living at the dawn of the most dramatic change in science in more than 300 years. This change is being driven by powerful new cognitive tools, enabled by the internet, which are greatly accelerating scientific discovery. There are many books about how the internet is changing business or the workplace or government. But this is the...
M2M Communications: A Systems Approach by Wiley $99.95
A comprehensive introduction to M2M Standards and systems architecture, from concept to implementationFocusing on the latest technological developments, M2M Communications: A Systems Approach is an advanced introduction to this important and rapidly evolving topic. It provides a systems perspective on machine-to-machine services and the major telecommunications relevant technologies. It...
Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations by Penguin (Non-Classics) $16.00
Read Clay Shirky's posts on the Penguin Blog. A revelatory examination of how the wildfirelike spread of new forms of social interaction enabled by technology is changing the way humans form groups and exist within them, with profound long-term economic and social effects-for good and for ill A handful of kite hobbyists scattered around the world find each other online and collaborate on...