Prentice Hall, December 1994. Trade Paperback. This volume focuses on design rules and techniques that are drawn from the rational, functionalist design aesthetic seen in modern graphic design, industrial design, interior design, and architecture - and applies them to various graphical user interface problems experienced in commercial software development. It.....

MIT Press, April 2026. Trade Paperback. How tech companies, journalists, and policymakers can prevent AI decision-making from going wrong. Our lives are increasingly governed by automated systems influencing everything from medical care to policing to employment opportunities, but researchers and investigative journalists have proven that AI systems regularly get things.....

PAMPHLET. Produced by Bell Telephone System, this instructional pamphlet (est. publishing in the later 40s/early 50's) details the history of the telephone, as well as the science and infrastructure behind the national and global telephone systems. Produced by Bell Telephone System, this instructional pamphlet (est. publishing in the later 40s/early.....

MIT Press (MA), October 2008. Hardcover. Some annotating, highlighting, and dog-earing. Some annotating, highlighting, and dog-earing. Digital media and network technologies are now part of everyday life. The Internet has become the backbone of communication, commerce, and media; the ubiquitous mobile phone connects us with others as it removes us.....

Simon & Schuster, September 2018. Trade Paperback. Soon to be a major motion picture, this is the first--and only--definitive authorized account of Neil Armstrong, the man whose "one small step" changed history. When Apollo 11 touched down on the Moon's surface in 1969, the first man on the Moon became.....

Createspace Independent Publishing Platform, May 2015. Trade Paperback. Television is the last mass medium to be disrupted by the Internet. Given the intricacies of the industry, it's also going to be the most resistant to change. Alan Wolk, an industry veteran and longtime analyst and observer, lays out how the.....

MIT Press, March 2019. Trade Paperback. An accessible introduction to 3D printing that outlines the additive manufacturing process, industrial and household markets, and emerging uses. The use of 3D printing--digitally controlled additive manufacturing--is growing rapidly. Consumer models of 3D printers allow people to fabricate small plastic objects, from cabinet knobs.....

Little Brown and Company, November 2024. Hardcover. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER USA TODAY BESTSELLER LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER J.P. MORGAN NEXTLIST SELECTION In his final book, the late Henry Kissinger joins forces with two leading technologists to mount "a profound exploration" (Walter Isaacson) of the epochal challenges and opportunities presented.....

Basic Books, November 2013. Trade Paperback. The essential guide to human-centered design "Even more relevant today than it was when first published."--Tim Brown, CEO, IDEO Even the smartest among us can feel inept as we fail to figure out which light switch or oven burner to turn on, or whether.....

Picador, May 2024. Trade Paperback. "Unsettling, absolutely riveting, and--for better or worse--necessary reading." --Brian Christian, author of Algorithms to Live By and The Alignment Problem An entertaining account of the philosophy and technology of hacking--and why we all need to understand it. It's a signal paradox of our times that.....

Simon & Schuster, February 2024. Hardcover. Instant New York Times Bestseller From award-winning journalist Kara Swisher comes a witty, scathing, but fair accounting of the tech industry and its founders who wanted to change the world but broke it instead. "Swisher, the bad-ass journalist and OG chronicler of Silicon Valley...takes.....

Little, Brown and Company, September 2023. Hardcover. "The most important book to read about the AI boom" (Wired): The "gripping" (New Yorker) true story of the first time machines came for human jobs--and how the Luddite uprising explains the power, threat, and toll of big tech and AI today Named.....