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The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society
For the 75th anniversary, a new edition of The Human Use of Human Beings -the landmark book that delves into the relationship between humans and computers, and presciently anticipates many...
Marketing the Menacing Fetus in Japan
Helen Hardacre provides new insights into the spiritual and cultural dimensions of abortion debates around the world in this careful examination of mizuko kuyo -a Japanese religious ritual for aborted...
The End of Reality: How Elon Musk and his Friends are Changing Your
A withering takedown of four billionaires (from Andreessen to Zuckerberg) who are selling us fantasies while the world burns. At a time when multiple crises are compounding to create epic...
Love Machines: How Artificial Intelligence is Transforming Our
Friends. Lovers. Therapists. 'Deathbots'. AI is taking on unprecedented roles for millions of us every day - but how are these new 'relationships' rewiring us? Beyond those who are using...
On Eating Meat: The truth about its production and the ethics of
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'Compelling, illuminating and often confronting, On Eating Meat is a brilliant blend of a gastronome's passion with forensic research into the sources of the meat we eat. Matthew Evans brings...
The Immortalists: The Death of Death and the Race for Eternal Life
A wild and entertaining adventure into the business of living forever. Award-winning journalist Aleks Krotoski journeys from the cult fringes to the technological heartlands to find out what it means...
The Singularity is Nearer: When We Merge with AI
The international bestseller from the legendary oracle of technological change In this visionary and fundamentally optimistic book, the legendary oracle of technological change explains how AI will transform our species...
Death Talk, First Edition: The Case Against Euthanasia and
Death Talk asks why, when our society has rejected euthanasia for over two thousand years, are we now considering legalizing it? Has euthanasia been promoted by deliberately confusing it with...
Whitewash
Pablo Escobar, king of the Medellin Cartel in Columbia, was the world's richest cocaine baron, with an estimated personal fortune of $5 billion. His forces of hit men became small...
Human Frailties
This study of the human race's weaknesses highlights some of the more unusual frailties - from witch-burning to inflating the price of tulips.
The Philosopher in the Valley: Alex Karp, Palantir and the Rise of the
In the age of big data, no company embodies its promise and its perils more than Palantir. This software firm sells some of the most powerful and dangerous technology in...
The Ethical Canary: Science, Society and the Human Spirit
Sheds light on some urgent ethical and legal questions that vie for our attention, including the use of human embryos as living human tissue generators; euthanasia; male circumcision; the use...
Julian Assange: The Unauthorised Autobiography
Julian Assange: The Unauthorised Autobiography is a portrait of a man who polarises opinion but who has also changed the world. Whether you read this book as a ghosted memoir...
Your Face Belongs to Us: The Secretive Startup Dismantling Your
'A parable for our times' FINANCIAL TIMES Best Books of 2023 'In a gripping - and sometimes creepy - book, Hill explores the repercussions of [facial recognition] technology and finds...
Call Me Madam: From Mother to Madam
When Dawn Annandale's marriage fell apart, she was overwhelmed by debt and turned to prostitution to support her family. After one year, a near-fatal car crash and numerous encounters with...
The Philosopher in the Valley: Alex Karp, Palantir and the Rise of the
In the age of big data, no company embodies its promise and its perils more than Palantir. This software firm sells some of the most powerful and dangerous technology in...
Extra Confessions of a Working Girl
Having left behind the sauna where she was top girl, Miss S moves to London to start work as a stripper. But after one of the other dancers burns her...
Monsters: What Do We Do with Great Art by Bad People?
'H ow rare and nourishing this sort of roaming thought is and what a joy to read' MEGAN NOLAN, Sunday Times 'An exhilarating, shape-shifting exploration of the perilous boundaries between...
Neverland: The Pleasures and Perils of Fandom
Vanessa Kisuule is a big Michael Jackson fan. This fixation once gave her great joy, but now it keeps her up at night. In her bracingly honest, energetic and lively...
How Good Are You?: Clean Living in a Dirty World
Clean Living in a Dirty World. A landmark investigation of Australia's ethical track record - that also shows how you can make a difference. Climate change is wreaking havoc. Water...
Reefer Madness: ...and Other Tales from the American Underground
Eric Schlosser explores three of the most prominent and least understood features of globalization; drugs, pornography and migrant labour. "Reefer Madness" traces the history of the contemporary "war on drugs"...
Woke Is Dead: How common sense triumphed in an age of total madness
A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Piers Morgan welcomes the return of a common-sense world They claimed it was a movement that would change society forever. Instead, it's been buried six feet...
You Can't Joke about That: Why Everything Is Funny, Nothing Is Sacred,
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What happens when we can't joke about some of the most important stuff in life? In a 2019 study, 40% of people reported censoring themselves out of fear that voicing...
Feeding the Machine: The Hidden Human Labour Powering AI
Big Tech has sold us the illusion that artificial intelligence is a frictionless technology that will bring wealth and prosperity to humanity. But hidden beneath this smooth surface lies the...
Belabored: A Vindication of the Rights of Pregnant Women
The U.S. has the worst rate of maternal deaths in the developed world, a rate that is increasing, even as infant mortality rates decrease. Meanwhile, the right-wing assault on reproductive...
Your Face Belongs to Us: The Secretive Startup Dismantling Your
*AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK* SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2024 LONGLISTED FOR THE FINANCIAL TIMES BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD...
The Sentinel State: Surveillance and the Survival of Dictatorship in
Countering recent hype around technology, a leading expert argues that the endurance of dictatorship in China owes less to facial recognition AI and GPS tracking than to the human resources...
Sedition Hunters: How January 6th Broke the Justice System
The attack on the Capitol building following the 2020 election was an extraordinarily large and brazen crime. Conspiracies were formed on social media in full public view, the law-breakers paraded...
How the Pill Changes Everything: Your Brain on Birth Control
'It's time for all of us to join together to ask science for some new choices and for more information about what happens to us with the choices we have....
The Mind of the Censor and the Eye of the Beholder: The First
Beginning in the nineteenth century with Anthony Comstock, America's 'censor in chief,' The Mind of the Censor and the Eye of the Beholder explores how censors operate and why they...
Woke Is Dead: How common sense triumphed in an age of total madness
A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Piers Morgan welcomes the return of a common-sense world They claimed it was a movement that would change society forever. Instead, it's been buried six feet...
If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal: What Animal Intelligence Reveals About
** Financial Times Best Books for Summer** 'Entertaining and original.' Guardian 'Accessible and insightful, it's a thought-provoking read.' Observer ' Highly readable.' The Times 'Nothing less than brilliant.' Wall Street...
The Black Stork: Eugenics and the Death of `Defective' Babies in
In the late 1910s Dr. Harry J. Haiselden, a prominent Chicago surgeon, electrified the nation by allowing the deaths of at least six infants he diagnosed as "defectives". He displayed...
Saving Safa: Rescuing a Little Girl from FGM
Waris Dirie, the Somalia nomad who became a supermodel, and an anti-FGM activist, first came to the world's attention with the publication of her autobiography, Desert Flower . The book...
Pornography: Men Possessing Women
A landmark, searing critique of pornography that condemns how culture consumes and manipulates images of women and eroticises male dominance 'Pornography is the orchestrated destruction of women's bodies and souls...
Animals, Robots, Gods: Adventures in the Moral Imagination
How do we live ethical lives alongside others? A fascinating exploration of our moral universe We have always lived with ethically significant others, whether they are the pets we keep,...
Reflections on the Guillotine
'When silence or tricks of language contribute to maintaining an abuse that must be reformed or a suffering that can be relieved, then there is no other solution but to...
No Such Thing as Normal: Disorders, Diagnoses and the Limits of
Within the scientific community, the field of Psychiatry has been in freefall for a number of years. Its treatments and medications rest on assumptions that are, at best, unsupported, and...
Black Markets: The Supply and Demand of Body Parts
In America, in direct response to indefinite delays on the national transplantation waitlists and an inadequate supply of organs, a growing number of terminally ill Americans are turning to international...
We Must Not Be Afraid to Be Free: Stories of Free Expression in
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In a stinging dissent to a 1961 Supreme Court decision that allowed the Illinois state bar to deny admission to prospective lawyers if they refused to answer political questions, Justice...
The Abortion Myth: Feminism, Morality and the Hard Choices Women Make
'Women make decisions about abortion lightly.' 'Only 'Right to Lifers' see abortion as a moral issue.' The Abortion Myth explodes these and other myths about abortion, while forging a new...
Woke Is Dead: How common sense triumphed in an age of total madness
A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Piers Morgan welcomes the return of a common-sense world They claimed it was a movement that would change society forever. Instead, it's been buried six feet...
Trafficked: The Terrifying True Story of a British Girl Forced into
He'd been her friend for years. He said he loved her. Then she realised she didn't know him at all... When everything seemed to be falling apart in Sophie's life,...
The Reckoning: The unmissable crime thriller from the number 1 Sunday
A SMALL TOWN. A BIG MURDER. A man is dead - and nobody knows why. One morning in 1946, Pete Banning - war hero, pillar of the community and faithful...
FRAMED: John Grisham's Astonishing True Crime Stories of Wrongful
*** SHORTLISTED FOR THE ALCS GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION 2025*** Ten wrongful conviction cases. Twenty-one innocent people. Framed tells ten stories with a truth more shocking than fiction. John Grisham,...
Right and Wrong: How to decide for yourself, make wiser moral choices
In modern Western societies we are presented with a huge array of choices and encouraged to believe that having the freedom to choose sets us on the path to happiness....
Tissue
'wide-ranging, defiant and impassioned' - Fiona Wright, author of The World Was Whole What does it mean to terminate a pregnancy? In Tissue, Madison Griffiths turns her keen eye to...
An Unseemly Man
This autobiography details the story of Larry Flynt's rise from small town beginnings to become one of the richest men in America, owning a string of nightclubs, sex outlets and,...