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Technology

1. The Internet Police: How Crime Went Online, and the Cops Followed

   Nate Anderson

   Chaos and order clash in this riveting exploration of crime and punishment on the Internet.More

2. Experience on Demand: What Virtual Reality Is, How It Works, and What It Can Do

   Jeremy Bailenson

   “If you want to understand the most immersive new communications medium to come along since cinema… I’d suggest starting with Mr. Bailenson’s [book].” —Wall Street JournalMore

3. The End of Plenty: The Race to Feed a Crowded World

   Joel K. Bourne, Jr

   “An urgent and at times terrifying dispatch from a distinguished reporter who has given heart and soul to his subject.”—Hampton SidesMore

4. The Earth Policy Reader

   Lester R. Brown, Janet Larsen, Bernie Fischlowitz-Roberts, Et Al.

   Award-winning environmental analyst Lester R. Brown and his colleagues chart progress in building the eco-economy, an economy that is compatible with the earth's ecosystem.More

5. Plan B 4.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization

   Lester R. Brown

   Substantially Revised

   “[Brown’s] ability to make a complicated subject accessible to the general reader is remarkable.”—Katherine Salant, Washington PostMore

6. The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies

   Erik Brynjolfsson, Andrew McAfee

   A New York Times Bestseller. A “fascinating” (Thomas L. Friedman, New York Times) look at how digital technology is transforming our work and our lives.More

7. Wheels, Clocks, and Rockets: A History of Technology

   Donald Cardwell

   "A prime example of how to write a history of an immense and technical subject ....a winner."—New ScientistMore

8. The Glass Cage: How Our Computers Are Changing Us

   Nicholas Carr

   At once a celebration of technology and a warning about its misuse, The Glass Cage will change the way you think about the tools you use every day.More

9. The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains

   Nicholas Carr

   Finalist for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction: “Nicholas Carr has written a Silent Spring for the literary mind.”—Michael Agger, SlateMore

10. The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google

    Nicholas Carr

    “Magisterial. . . . Draws an elegant and illuminating parallel between the late-19th-century electrification of America and today’s computing world.”—SalonMore

11. Utopia Is Creepy: And Other Provocations

    Nicholas Carr

    A freewheeling, sharp-shooting indictment of a tech-besotted culture.More

12. Where the Animals Go: Tracking Wildlife with Technology in 50 Maps and Graphics

    James Cheshire, Oliver Uberti

    "Where the Animals Go is beautiful and thrilling, a combination of the best in science and exposition, and a joy to study cover to cover." —Edward O. Wilson, University Research Professor Emeritus, Harvard UniversityMore

13. Clocks and Culture: 1300-1700

    Carlo M. Cipolla

    The history of the clock opens a window on how different cultures have viewed time and on Europe's path to industrialization.More

14. Superweapon: The Making of MX

    John Edwards

    This book tells the story of what may be the most important and difficult strategic decision faced by the United States since the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima.More

15. Hello World: Being Human in the Age of Algorithms

    Hannah Fry

    Shortlisted for the 2018 Royal Society Investment Science Book PrizeA look inside the algorithms that are shaping our lives and the dilemmas they bring with them.More