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AI Is Not Your Friend

Wed, 26 Aug 2026 19:39:07 +0000

Children are no longer just growing up online. They are growing up in conversation with machines.

At a time when they are still learning what relationships are supposed to feel like, AI companions create an artificial world in which they form intimate relationships with young people awa..

Price: $25.00

A Glossary for Sustainable Transitions (Perspectives from Science and Technology Studies)

Wed, 26 Aug 2026 08:12:10 +0000

The climate crisis demands new ways of thinking. This lexicon brings together key concepts – from Anthropocene to degrowth to matters of care – to help readers navigate sustainable transitions across science, technology and society. An essential companion for interdisciplinary learning.

Price: $49.95

Granny @ Work (Aging and New Technology on the Job in America)

Tue, 25 Aug 2026 19:17:55 +0000

Granny @ Work is an impassioned comment on aging, work, and technology in American culture. As Riggs challenges popular assumptions with surprising research-for example, people over the age of 60 spend more time on the Internet than people of any other age group-and trenchant cultural cri..

Price: $46.95

The Dispensable Human (Artificial Intelligence and the Collapse of the Middle Class)

Wed, 19 Aug 2026 05:20:49 +0000

A brilliant and important reckoning with the seismic shocks on our economy, our politics, and our society from the collapse of skilled work at a scale that has no historical precedent

We have never been here before. Analogies to industrialization, or electrification, or the internet,..

Price: $34.00

The Domestication (AI and the Terms of Our Surrender)

Wed, 19 Aug 2026 04:57:31 +0000

From a leading Harvard AI safety expert, an explosive vision, drawn from emerging new research, of the terrifyingly short road to cognitive diminishment, as humans have begun to be caught in the flywheel of domestication.

This is not a book about AI. This is a book about the huma..
Price: $34.00

Between Hurry and Heaven (Recovering Purpose and Presence in a Distracted Age)

Wed, 12 Aug 2026 01:16:26 +0000

Time-saving devices have failed us.
We are surrounded by technologies that promise to make life easier and more efficient, yet we've never felt busier. Robotic vacuums clean while we doomscroll. Furnaces spare us from chopping wood so we can spend time "saved" at the gym...
Price: $19.99

The Second Law (Evolution, AI, and the Path for a Human Future)

Mon, 10 Aug 2026 09:21:25 +0000

A completely original explanation for the irresistible rise of artificial intelligence, and a survival strategy for humanity that is grounded in four billion years of evolutionary precedent

In 2025, D. Scott Phoenix asked a room of CEOs, Nobel laureates, and heads of state a quest..
Price: $29.00

Strange New Thoughts (The Origins and Rise of the Tech Right)

Mon, 10 Aug 2026 08:44:15 +0000

The first comprehensive history of the background, origins, and philosophical evolution of the Tech Right—the movement blending Silicon Valley futurism with reactionary politics that is now reshaping power in the US and beyond

The alignment of Silicon Valley figures like Peter Thi..
Price: $31.00

The World Brain (The Untold History of the Broken Dreams and Forgotten Rivalries That Built the Web)

Mon, 10 Aug 2026 08:20:35 +0000
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Price: $30.00

When Machines Act (The Promise and Peril of Navigating Our Agentic AI Future)

Sat, 08 Aug 2026 05:32:03 +0000

Beyond the hype and above the panic: how autonomous AI reshapes work, competition, and power, and the judgments that decide where it leads.

The agentic AI conversation has hardened into two camps—the champions who promise frictionless transformation and the cynics who forecast societ..
Price: $34.95