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50 Digital Ideas: You Really Need to Know by Tom Chatfield
Category: Computing | Series: 50 Ideas You Really Need to Know Ser.
Have you ever wondered what the difference is between a MUD and an API? Don't know your OCR from your PPC? Not quite clear on crowd-sourcing and culture jamming? Then this book is for you. In a series of accessible and engagingly written essays, 50 Digital Ideas You Really Need to Know introduces and ex ...Show more
50 Ideas You Really Need to Know: Digital by Tom Chatfield
Category: History | Series: 50 Ideas You Really Need to Know Series
We are in the throes of a revolution, yet the rapid pace of technological and cultural change makes it difficult to understand what's going on. 50 Ideas You Really Need to Know: Digital provides a clear path through the misinformation surrounding those technologies that are transforming the world. Leadi ...Show more
Critical Thinking by Tom Chatfield
Category: Education
Do you need to demonstrate a good argument or find more evidence? Are you mystified by your tutor's comment 'critical analysis needed'? What does it really mean to think well - and how do you learn to do it? Critical thinking is a set of techniques. You just need to learn them. So here's your personal ...Show more
FUN INC: WHY GAMES ARE THE 21ST CENTURY'S MOST SER by CHATFIELD, TOM
Category: Business Finance Management
People make many assumptions about video games; only teenage boys play them, they increase anti-social behaviour and they tend to be violent. "Fun Inc." dispels these misconceptions, revealing that 40 per cent of all video game players are women, that most of the bestselling console games of all time in ...Show more
Fun Inc.: Why Games are the 21st Century's Most Serious Business by Tom Chatfield
Category: Business
'Tom Chatfield's "Fun Inc." is the most elegant and comprehensive defence of the status of computer games in our culture I have read, as well as a helpful compendium of research...The numbers surrounding the sector are certainly thudding. By the end of 2008, annual sales of video games - not including c ...Show more
How to Thrive in the Digital Age (The School of Life series) by Tom Chatfield
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: The School of Life
Our world is, increasingly, a digital one. Over half of the planet's adult population now spend more of their waking hours 'plugged in' than not, whether to the internet, mobile telephony, or other digital media. To email, text, tweet and blog our way through our careers, relationships and even our fami ...Show more
Live This Book by Tom Chatfield
Category: Mind Body Spirit
Do you want to spend more quality time with the people, ideas and passions that matter most in your life? In an age of weightless, disposable digital products, here's a book to help you live more fully: that invites you to explore your beliefs, ambitions, friendships, memories and flights of imagination ...Show more
Netymology: From Apps to Zombies: A Linguistic Celebration of the Digital World by Tom Chatfield
Category: Languages and Reference
Composed of 100 bite-sized entries of 400 to 600 words each, Netymology weaves together stories, etymologies and analyses around digital culture's transformation, and creation, of words. Tom Chatfield presents a kaleidoscopic, thought-provoking tour through the buried roots of some of the digital age's ...Show more
School of Life by Alain de Botton, Tom Chatfield, and John Armstrong
Category: Philosophy and Religion
A series of intelligent, rigorous, well-written self-help books, put together by some of the leading minds in the field. This bindup includes the following titles: Alain de Botton's 'How to Think More About Sex' Tom Chatfield's 'How to Thrive in the Digital Age' John Armstrong's 'How to Worry Less Abou ...Show more
This Is Gomorrah by Tom Chatfield
Category: Crime and Thrillers
'Thriller writing at its absolute best' Chris Whitaker 'Gripping, intelligent and stylish' Sophie Hannah THIS IS GOMORRAH. An exclusive online marketplace where anything and everything is for sale. Guns and porn. Identities and elections. Lives and deaths. THIS IS HELL. The war on terror is no longer ...Show more
This Is Gomorrah by Tom Chatfield
Category: Fiction
Control the Internet, Control the World If you know what you're doing, you can find anything on the internet. Drugs, guns, porn, ideologies, elections, even lives and deaths are all up for sale . . . and everything must go.Elite hacker Azi Bello lives his life in the technological underbelly of the 21s ...Show more
Wise Animals: How Technology Has Made Us What We Are by Tom Chatfield
Category: Homosapiens
Combining compelling storytelling with erudite, compassionate and often profound insight about the human condition, this book will transform how you navigate the world.' - Richard Fisher, author of The Long View Wise Animals explores the history of our relationship with technology, and our deep involve ...Show more
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