Where Big Tech Went Wrong, Myths about Surveillance, Mother of Invention, and More in Engineering and Technology | Academic Best Sellers

Best sellers in engineering and technology, July 2021 to date, as identified by GOBI Library Solutions from EBSCO.

July 2021 to date as identified by GOBI Library Solutions from EBSCO.

Cover of System Error, by Rob Reich, Mehran Sahami, and Jeremy M. Weinstein1. System Error: Where Big Tech Went Wrong and How We Can Reboot.
Reich, Rob
HarperCollins
2021. ISBN 9780063064881 $27.99

2. I Have Nothing to Hide: And 20 Other Myths about Surveillance and Privacy.
Boghosian, Heidi
Beacon
2021. ISBN 9780807061268 $17.00

3. Mother of Invention: How Good Ideas Get Ignored in an Economy Built for Men; Trans. by Alex Fleming.
Marcal, Katrine
Harry N Abrams
2021. ISBN 9781419758041 $26.00

4. Living with Robots: What Every Anxious Human Needs to Know.
Aylett, Ruth
MIT Press
2021. ISBN 9780262045810 $27.95

5. Meaningful Stuff: Design that Lasts.
Chapman, Jonathan
MIT Press
2021. ISBN 9780262045728 $24.95

6. Robots: What Everyone Needs to Know.
Husbands, Phil
Oxford University Press US
2022. ISBN 9780198845386 $74.00

7. About Time: A History of Civilization in Twelve Clocks.
Rooney, David
W W Norton
2021. ISBN 9780393867930 $28.95

8. Always on: Hope and Fear in the Social Smartphone Era.
Cellan-Jones, Rory
Bloomsbury
2021. ISBN 9781472981196 $22.00

9. Ecologies of the Building Envelope: A Material History and Theory of Architectural Surfaces.
Zaera-Polo, Alejandro
Actar
2021. ISBN 9781948765183 $59.95

10. Extinct: A Compendium of Obsolete Objects
Editor: Barbara Penner
Reaktion Books
2021. ISBN 9781789144529 $40.00

11. Nature Remade: Engineering Life, Envisioning Worlds
Editor: Luis A. Campos
University of Chicago Press
2021. ISBN 9780226783260 $135.00

12. Eyes to the Sky: Privacy and Commerce in the Age of the Drone
Editor: Matthew Feeney
Cato Institute
2021. ISBN 9781952223082 $24.95

13. Breathing Fire: Female Inmate Firefighters on the Front Lines of California's Wildfires.
Lowe, Jaime
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
2021. ISBN 9780374116187 $27.00

14. Greatest Adventure: A History of Human Space Exploration.
Burgess, Colin
Reaktion Books
2021. ISBN 9781789144604 $40.00

15. Cyber Intelligence: Actors, Policies, and Practices.
Uthoff, Constance
Lynne Rienner
2022. ISBN 9781626379657 $98.50

16. I, Warbot: The Dawn of Artificially Intelligent Conflict.
Payne, Kenneth
Hurst & Company
2021. ISBN 9780197611692 $29.95

17. Fat Fashion: The Thin Ideal and the Segregation of Plus-Size Bodies.
Volonte, Paolo
Bloomsbury
2022. ISBN 9781350126923 $100.00

18. Car that Knew Too Much: Can a Machine Be Moral?
Bonnefon, Jean-Francois
MIT Press
2021. ISBN 9780262045797 $22.95

19. Politics and Possibilities of Self-Tracking Technology: Data, Bodies and Design.
Jethani, Suneel
Emerald Group Publ
2021. ISBN 9781800433397 $95.00

20. Ethics for Engineers: A Brief Introduction.
Bainbridge, Anthony
CRC Press
2022. ISBN 9781032076904 $59.95

21. Image Objects: An Archaeology of Computer Graphics.
Gaboury, Jacob
MIT Press
2021. ISBN 9780262045032 $35.00

22. In the Forest of No Joy: The Congo-Ocean Railroad and the Tragedy of French Colonialism.
Daughton, J. P.
W W Norton
2021. ISBN 9780393541014 $30.00

23. Concepts of Materials Science.
Sutton, Adrian
Oxford University Press UK
2021. ISBN 9780192846839 $55.00

24. Autonorama: The Illusory Promise of High-Tech Driving.
Norton, Peter
Island Press
2021. ISBN 9781642832402 $27.00

25. Engineering as a Global Profession: Technical and Ethical Standards.
Davis, Michael
Rowman & Littlefield
2021. ISBN 9781538155042 $125.00

26. Shaping Femininity: Foundation Garments, the Body and Women in Early Modern England.
Bendall, Sarah A.
Bloomsbury
2022. ISBN 9781350164116 $115.00

27. Across the Airless Wilds: The Lunar Rover and the Triumph of the Final Moon Landings.
Swift, Earl
William Morrow
2021. ISBN 9780062986535 $28.99

28. Battle Over Patents: History and Politics of Innovation
Editor: Stephen H. Haber
Oxford University Press US
2021. ISBN 9780197576151 $99.00

29. Technical Arts in the Han Histories: Tables and Treatises in the Shiji and Hanshu
Editor: Mark Csikszentmihalyi
State University of New York Press
2021. ISBN 9781438485430 $95.00

30. Extracting Accountability: Engineers and Corporate Social Responsibility.
Smith, Jessica M
MIT Press
2021. ISBN 9780262542166 $65.00

31. Soda and Fizzy Drinks: A Global History.
Levin, Judith
Reaktion Books
2021. ISBN 9781789144918 $19.95

32. Atlas of Forecasts: Modeling and Mapping Desirable Futures.
Börner, Katy
MIT Press
2021. ISBN 9780262045957 $39.95

33. Robot Ecology: Constraint-Based Design for Long-Duration Autonomy.
Egerstedt, Magnus
Princeton University Press
2021. ISBN 9780691211688 $75.00

34. Proxies: The Cultural Work of Standing in.
Mulvin, Dylan
MIT Press
2021. ISBN 9780262045148 $45.00

35. Using and Conquering the Watery World in Greco-Roman Antiquity.
Irby, Georgia L.
Bloomsbury Academic
2021. ISBN 9781350155848 $115.00

36. Tumblr.
Tiidenberg, Katrin
Polity Press
2021. ISBN 9781509541089 $64.95

37. History and Future of Technology: Can Technology Save Humanity from Extinction?.
Ayres, Robert U.
Springer
2021. ISBN 9783030713928 $59.99

38. Building Materials: Material Theory and the Architectural Specification.
Lloyd Thomas, Katie
Bloomsbury
2022. ISBN 9781350176225 $115.00

39. Four Internets: Data, Geopolitics, and the Governance of Cyberspace.
O'hara, Kieron
Oxford University Press US
2021. ISBN 9780197523681 $35.00

40. Prototyping Across the Disciplines: Designing Better Futures
Editor: Jennifer Roberts-Smith
Intellect Ltd
2021. ISBN 9781789381801 $45.00

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