ECS 188 – Example Books for Book-Based Projects
These books are only examples; there are a lot listed here, but you are in no way limited to them.
- Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of
the Internet (Yasha Levine, 2018)
- The Cultural Logic of Computation
(David Golumbia, 2009)
- Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and
the CIA Search for Mind Control (Stephen Kinzer, 2019)
- The Age of Surveillance
Capitalism (Shoshana Zuboff, 2019)
- The
Sixth Extinction by Elizabet Kolbert (2015)
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Fellow Creatures: Our Obligations to the Other Animals Fellow Creatures
(Christine M. Korsgaard, 2018)
- Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police,
and Punish the Poor (Virginia Eubanks, 2018)
- Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism (Safiya Umoja Noble, 2018)
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Cyberwar: How Russian Hackers and Trolls Helped Elect a President
(Kathleen Hall Jamieson, 2018)
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A Girl’s Guide to Missiles: Growing Up in America’s Secret Desert
(Karen Piper, 2018)
- Re-Engineering Humanity
(Brett Frischmann and Evan Selinger, 2018)
- The Radium Girls:
The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women (Kate Moore, 2017)
- When Google Met WikiLeaks Paperback
(Julian Assange, 2016)
- Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest
(Zeynep Tufekci, 2017)
- Technically Wrong:
Sexist Apps, Biased Algorithms, and Other Threats of Toxic Tech
(Sara Wachter-Boettcher, 2017)
- Confessions of a Radical Industrialist: Profits, People, Purpose — Doing Business by Respecting the Earth
(Ray C. Anderson, 2009)
- Engineers for Change: Competing Visions of Technology in
1960s America (Matthew Wisnioski, 2016)
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World Without Mind: The Existential Threat of Big Tech (Franklin Foer, 2017)
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Move Fast and Break Things: How Facebook, Google, and Amazon Cornered Culture and Undermined Democracy
(Jonathan Taplin, 2017)
- Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War (Fred Kaplan, 2016)
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@War: The Rise of the Military-Internet Complex (Shane Harris, 2015)
- Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked Hardcover
(Adam Alter, 2017)
- The CIA Doctors: Human Rights Violations by American Psychiatrists Psychiatrist (Colin Ross, 2006)
- Windows into the Soul: Surveillance and Society
in an Age of High Technology (Gart T. Marx, 2016)
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Changing the Subject: Art and Attention in the Internet Age (Sven Birkerts, 2015)
- Harvard and the Unabomber: The Education of an American Terrorist
(Alston Chase, 2003)
- The Search
for the “Manchurian Candidate”: The CIA and Mind Control: The Secret History of the Behavioral Sciences
(John D. Marks, 1991)
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Salt, Sugar, Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us
(Michael Moss, 2014)
- Rise of the Robots
(Martin Ford, 2015)
- The Second Machine Age
(Brynjolfsson and McAfee, 2014)
- The Deaths of Others: The Fate of
Civilians in America’s Wars (John Tirman, 2012)
- Our Robots, Ourselves: Robotocs and the Myths of Autonomy
(David A Mindell, 2015)
- Who Owns the Future (Jaron Lanier, 2013)
- Who Controls the
Internet? Illusions of a Borderless World
(Jack Goldsmith and Tim Wu, 2008)
- Exposed: Desire and Disobedience in the Digital Age
(Bernard Harcourt, 2015)
- This Machine Kills Secrets
(Andy Greenberg, 2013)
-
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
(Naomi Klein, 2014)
- The
Slaughter: Mass Killings, Organ Harvesting, and China’s
Secret Solution to Its Dissident Problem
(Ethan Gutmann, 2014)
- Reclaiminging Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age
(Sherry Turkle, 2015)
- This Machine Kills Secrets: Julian Assange, the Cypherpunks, and Their Fight to EmpowerWhistleblowers
(Andy Greenberg, 2013)
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The Fourth Revolution: How the Infosphere is Reshaping Human Reality
(Luciano Floridi, 2014)
- One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society
(Herbert Marcuse, 1968)
- Little Brother (2008)
and Homeland (2013) (Cory Doctorow) (must read both and
provide an insightful and original analysis)
- No Place to Hide
(Glenn Greenwald, 2014)
- Mediactive
(Dan Gillmor, 2010)
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WikiLeaks and the Age of Transparency
(Micah Sifry, 2011)
- Kill Chain: The Rise of the High-Tech Assassins
(Andrew Cockburn, 2015)
- The Future of Violence: Robots and Germs, Hackers and Drones
(Benjamin Wittes and Gabriella Blum, 2015)
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Predator: The Secret Origins of the Drone Revolution
(Richard Whittle, 2014)
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Drone Warfare: Killing by Remote Control (Medea Benjamin, 2013)
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American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
(Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin, 2006)
-
The Making of the Atomic Bomb: 25th Anniversary Edition
(Richard Rhodes, 2012)
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To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism
(Evgeny Morozov, 2013)
- Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation
(Dan Fagin, 2013)
- Green Illusions:
The Dirty Secrets of Clean Energy and the Future of Environmentalism
(Ozzie Zehner, 2012)
- Techno-Fix: Why Technology Won’t Save Us Or the Environment
(Michael Huesemann and Joyce Huesemann, 2011)
- Merchants of Doubt:
How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming
(Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway, 2011)
- Run
to Failure: BP and the Making of the Deepwater Horizon DisasteRun to Failure: BP and the Making
of the Deepwater Horizon Disaste
(Abrahm Lutgarten, 2012)
- Drugs for Life: How Pharmaceutical Companies Define Our Health
(Joseph Dumit, 2012) (UCD author)
- What Technology Wants
(Kevin Kelly, 2010)
- Pandora’s Seed:
Why the Hunter-Gatherer Holds the Key to Our Survival
(Spencer Wells, 2011)
- Our Final Hour (Martin Rees, 2004)
- The
End of the World: The Science and Ethics of Human Extinction (John Leslie, 1998)
- A Short History of Progress (Ronald Wright, 2005)
- Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Jared Diamond, 2011)
-
Laboratory Life: The Construction of Scientific Facts
(Latour and Woolgar, 1986)
- The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains (Nicholas Carr, 2011)
-
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil (Hannah Arendt, 1963), or
The Human Condition (Hannah Arendt, 1998)
- Genesis and Development
of a Scientific Fact (L. Fleck, 1935/1981)
- Confront and Conceal: Obama’s
Secret Wars and Surprising Use of American Power (David Sanger, 2012)
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An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World (McNeill, McNeill, and Kennedy, 2001)
- Climate Change: A Wicked Problem: Complexity and Uncertainty at the Intersection of Science, Economics,
Politics, and Human Behavior (Frank P. Incropera, 2015)
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Storms of My Granchildren: The Truth about the Coming Climate Catastrophe and Our Last Chance to Save Humanity (James Hansen, 2009)
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Frontiers of Illusion: Science, Technology, and the Politics of Progress
(Daniel Sarewitz, 1996)
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Science, Money, and Politics: Political Triumph and Ethical Erosion (Daniel S. Greenberg, 2003)
- Ordinary Men:
Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland (Christopher R. Browning, 1993)
- The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide (Robert Jay Lifton, 1988)
- The Filter Bubble: What the Internet is Hiding from You
(Eli Pariser, 2011)
- The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads
The Rise and Fall of Information Empires (Tim Wu, 2017)
- Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age (Sherry Turkle, 2015)
- The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom
(Evgeny Morozov, 2012)
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The Closed World: Computers and the Politics of Discourse in Cold War America
(Paul Edwards, 1997)
- The Myth of Digital Democracy (Matthew Hindman, 2008)
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Green to Gold: How Smart Companies Use Environmental Strategy to Innovate, Create Value, and Build Competitive Advantage
(Daniel Esty and Andrew Winston, 2009)
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Inventing Accuracy: A Historical Sociology of Nuclear Missile Guidance
(Donald MacKenzie, 1993)
- Bomb Scare: The History and Future of Nuclear Weapons
(Joseph Cirincione, 2007)
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To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design (Henry Petroski, 1992)
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Our Stolen Future: How We Are Threatening Our Fertility,
Intelligence and Survival (Theo Colborn, Dianne Dumanoski, and John Peter Meyers, 1997)
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Living Downstream : A Scientist’s Personal Investigation of Cancer and the Environment
(Sandra Steingraber, 1998)
- The
Technological Society (Jacques Ellul, 1964)
- Technopoly:
The Surrender of Culture to Technology (Neil Postman, 1992)
- Technology
and the Character of Contemporary Life: A Philosophical Inquiry
(Albert Borgmann, 1987)
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Animal Liberation (Peter Singer, 1975)
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The Ethics of What We Eat: Why Our Food Choices Matter
(Peter Singer and Jim Mason, 2007)
- The
Machine in the Garden: Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America
(Leo Marx, 1967)
- America by Design:
Science, Technology, and the Rise of Corporate Capitalism
(David Noble, 1977)
- Religion
of Technology: The Divinity of Man and the Spirit of Invention (David F. Noble, 1997)
- Technics and Civilization
(Lewis Mumford, 1934)
- Myth of the Machine, vol. I: Technics and Human Development
(Lewis Mumford, 1970)
- The Myth of the Machine, vol. II: Pentagon of Power
(Lewis Mumford, 1974)
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Code: Version 2.0 (Lawrence Lessig, 2011)
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Among the Machines: The Evolution of Global Intelligence
(George B. Dyson, 1997)
- Ethics
in an Age of Technology: Gifford Lectures, Volume Two
(Ian Barbour, 1992)
- Reinventing
the Wheel: A Buddhist Response to the Information Age (Peter Hershock, 1999)
- The
Rise of the Network Society (Manuel Castells, 2000)
- Does
Technology Drive History: The Dilemma of Technological Determinism
(Merritt Roe Smith, and Leo Marx, 1994)
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Science and Technology in World History: An Introduction
(James E. III McClellan and Harold Dorn, 2006)
- Technology
in World Civilization: A Thousand-Year History (Arnold Pacey, 1990)
- Sakharov:
A Biography (Richard Lourie, 2002)
- Secrets:
On the Ethics of Concealment and Revelation (Sissela Bok, 1989)
- Questioning
Technology (Andrew Feenberg, 1999)
- Thinking Through Technology:
The Path Between Engineering and Philosophy (Carl Mitcham, 1994)
- The Ethical Brain
(Michael Gazzaniga, 2005)
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Medical Ethics: Accounts of Ground-Breaking Cases (Gregory Pence, 2016)
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Diet for a New America: How Your Food Choices Affect Your
Health, Happiness and the Future of Life on Earth (John Robbins, 2012)
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Modern Death: How Medicine Changed the End of Life (Haider Warraich, 2017)
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Connection on the Ice: Environmental Ethics in Theory and Practice
(Patti Clayton and Charles Masson, 1998)
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For the Good of Mankind: A History of the People of Bikini and their Islands (Second Edition)
(Jack Niedenthal, 2001)
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The End of Poverty: Economic Possiblities for Our Times
(Jeffrey Sachs, 2005)
- Five Past Midnight in Bhopal (Dominique Lapierre and Javier Moro, 2003) and
some selection from Elusive Justice (a symposium on the Bhopal gas
disaster after twenty years, 2004)
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Trespass Against Us: Dow Chemical and the Toxic Century (Jack Doyle, 2004)
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The Imperative of Responsibility: In Search of an Ethics for the Technological Age
(Hans Jonas, 1984)
- The Transparent Society: Will Technology Force Us to Choose Between Privacy and Freedom?
(David Brin, 1998)