Various Authors Books
The contributing authors are researchers and practitioners in fields such as psychology, veterinary medicine, and social work, united by their focus on the human–animal bond and its implications for health and wellbeing.
Known for: Digital Democracy: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications, E‑Books & Beyond, The Future of Media, AI in Marketing, AstroTech, Augmented Intelligence, Autonomous Vehicles: Opportunities, Strategies, and Challenges, Brain-Inspired Computing, Building Intelligent Systems, Clean Tech, Connected Cars, Cybersecurity and Society, Distributed Ledger Technology: The Science of the Blockchain, Edge AI: Convergence of Edge Computing and Artificial Intelligence, Environmental Sensing, Ethics of Artificial Intelligence, Gene Editing and Society, Green Computing, Healthy Cities Playbook: Urban Planning for Population Health, Innovation Ecosystems: Emerging Strategies and Practices for the Digital Economy, Innovation Metrics: The Innovation Management Handbook, Internet Governance: The New Frontier of Global Institutions, IoT and Society, Living Well with Chronic Illness: Practical Patient Guides, Maximize Your Potential: Grow Your Expertise, Take Bold Risks & Build an Incredible Career, Media Literacy in the Digital Age, Neuromorphic Computing, Robotics in Healthcare, Security & Privacy in Government, Segregation: A Global History of Separatism, Silicon Dreams: Information, Man, and Machine, Smart Homes, Tech Entrepreneurship, Tech and Human Rights, The Commercial Space Age, The Dynamics of Technological Change, The Future of Education, The Future of Mobility: Scenarios for the United States in 2030, The Future of Privacy, The Human–Animal Bond in Health: Compilations on Therapy Animals & Wellbeing, The Labor Question, The Long Now: Long-Term Thinking for a Short-Term World, The Physics of Quantum Computing, Wearable Computing
Books by Various Authors
Digital Democracy: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications
Digital Democracy: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications is a wide-ranging reference work that explores how digital technologies are reshaping political participation, public debate, govern...
E‑Books & Beyond
E‑Books & Beyond is a wide-ranging exploration of how digital publishing has transformed the way books are created, distributed, read, and preserved. Rather than treating the e-book as a simple electr...
The Future of Media
Media no longer simply reports the world; it actively shapes how reality is discovered, discussed, monetized, and remembered. The Future of Media examines this shift through a collection of essays and...
AI in Marketing
What if marketing could move from reacting to customers to anticipating them? AI in Marketing explores that shift in a clear, practical way, showing how artificial intelligence is reshaping every stag...
AstroTech
AstroTech is a multidisciplinary exploration of the technologies that make modern astronomy possible. Rather than treating space science as a purely theoretical pursuit, this collaborative volume show...
Augmented Intelligence
This book explores the concept of augmented intelligence, focusing on how human cognition can be enhanced through collaboration with artificial intelligence systems. It presents interdisciplinary pers...
Autonomous Vehicles: Opportunities, Strategies, and Challenges
This book provides a comprehensive overview of autonomous vehicle technologies, including the engineering principles, artificial intelligence systems, and regulatory frameworks that enable self-drivin...
Brain-Inspired Computing
This book explores computational architectures and algorithms inspired by the structure and function of the human brain. It covers neuromorphic engineering, spiking neural networks, and cognitive comp...
Building Intelligent Systems
This book provides a comprehensive overview of the principles, architectures, and methodologies used to design and implement intelligent systems. It covers topics such as machine learning, knowledge r...
Clean Tech
Clean Tech brings together a range of voices to examine one of the defining challenges of our time: how to build prosperity without deepening environmental damage. Across essays and case studies, the ...
Connected Cars
A car is no longer just a machine that moves people from one place to another; it is becoming a node in a vast digital network. Connected Cars brings together insights from researchers, engineers, and...
Cybersecurity and Society
Cybersecurity is often presented as a technical battlefield of passwords, malware, encryption, and network defense. Cybersecurity and Society argues that this view is far too narrow. This multidiscipl...
Distributed Ledger Technology: The Science of the Blockchain
Distributed Ledger Technology: The Science of the Blockchain is a concise but intellectually rich guide to one of the most important technological shifts of the digital age. Rather than treating block...
Edge AI: Convergence of Edge Computing and Artificial Intelligence
Edge AI: Convergence of Edge Computing and Artificial Intelligence examines one of the most important shifts in modern computing: moving intelligence away from distant cloud servers and directly onto ...
Environmental Sensing
This book provides a comprehensive overview of environmental sensing technologies, including sensor design, data acquisition, and applications in monitoring air, water, and soil quality. It covers bot...
Ethics of Artificial Intelligence
Artificial intelligence is no longer a futuristic thought experiment; it is an everyday force shaping hiring, healthcare, policing, education, finance, media, and public life. Ethics of Artificial Int...
Gene Editing and Society
Gene editing is no longer a distant scientific dream; it is a living force reshaping medicine, farming, public health, law, and even the way people think about what it means to be human. Gene Editing ...
Green Computing
Green Computing explores environmentally sustainable computing practices, focusing on energy-efficient hardware, software optimization, and responsible e-waste management. It discusses strategies for ...
Healthy Cities Playbook: Urban Planning for Population Health
Cities are often judged by their skylines, economies, or cultural energy, yet this book argues that their deepest measure is health. Healthy Cities Playbook: Urban Planning for Population Health shows...
Innovation Ecosystems: Emerging Strategies and Practices for the Digital Economy
This book explores the concept of innovation ecosystems, examining how organizations, governments, and research institutions collaborate to foster innovation in the digital economy. It presents theore...
Innovation Metrics: The Innovation Management Handbook
Innovation is often celebrated as a burst of creativity, but organizations rarely succeed by inspiration alone. They succeed when they can track whether ideas are moving, learning is accumulating, res...
Internet Governance: The New Frontier of Global Institutions
The Internet feels borderless when we use it, but the rules that shape it are anything but simple. Internet Governance: The New Frontier of Global Institutions examines the hidden architecture of powe...
IoT and Society
This academic collection explores the social, ethical, and economic implications of the Internet of Things (IoT). It examines how connected technologies transform everyday life, governance, and indust...
Living Well with Chronic Illness: Practical Patient Guides
Living with a chronic illness often means learning to manage far more than symptoms. It affects routines, relationships, work, sleep, confidence, and the way people imagine their future. Living Well w...
Maximize Your Potential: Grow Your Expertise, Take Bold Risks & Build an Incredible Career
Maximize Your Potential is a self-help book published by Amazon Publishing as part of the 99U series. It focuses on professional growth, encouraging readers to develop expertise, take calculated risks...
Media Literacy in the Digital Age
We no longer live in a world where media simply comes to us; we live in one where we constantly respond to it, reshape it, and circulate it. Media Literacy in the Digital Age examines what that change...
Neuromorphic Computing
Neuromorphic computing is an interdisciplinary field that seeks to design computer systems inspired by the structure and function of the human brain. It integrates neuroscience, computer science, and ...
Robotics in Healthcare
This book explores the integration of robotics technologies into healthcare systems, covering applications in surgery, rehabilitation, elder care, and hospital automation. It discusses the design, imp...
Security & Privacy in Government
This book explores the challenges and strategies related to information security and privacy within governmental institutions. It covers topics such as data protection policies, cybersecurity framewor...
Segregation: A Global History of Separatism
Segregation is often discussed as if it belongs to a few notorious cases, but this book argues that separation by race, religion, ethnicity, class, and culture is a deeply global phenomenon. Segregati...
Silicon Dreams: Information, Man, and Machine
Silicon Dreams: Information, Man, and Machine is a provocative science fiction anthology that examines one of the most enduring modern questions: what happens when human beings create minds that can r...
Smart Homes
What if your home could do more than shelter you? What if it could learn your routines, reduce your energy bills, strengthen your security, and adapt itself to your daily life with little effort from ...
Tech Entrepreneurship
Technology ventures are often described as engines of the future, but building one is far messier than the success stories suggest. Tech Entrepreneurship explores what really happens when innovation m...
Tech and Human Rights
This book explores the intersection between technology and human rights, examining how digital innovation, artificial intelligence, and data governance impact privacy, freedom of expression, and equal...
The Commercial Space Age
This book explores the emergence and evolution of the commercial space industry, examining how private enterprises have transformed space exploration from a government-led endeavor into a global busin...
The Dynamics of Technological Change
This academic volume explores the processes and patterns of technological innovation and diffusion across industries and societies. It examines how economic, institutional, and social factors shape th...
The Future of Education
A collection of essays and research papers exploring emerging trends, technologies, and pedagogical models shaping the future of education. The book discusses digital learning, personalized instructio...
The Future of Mobility: Scenarios for the United States in 2030
Transportation systems rarely change in a straight line. They evolve through the collision of technology, economics, public policy, consumer behavior, and social values. The Future of Mobility: Scenar...
The Future of Privacy
This book is a collection of essays and analyses exploring the evolving concept of privacy in the digital age. It examines legal, technological, and ethical dimensions of data protection, surveillance...
The Human–Animal Bond in Health: Compilations on Therapy Animals & Wellbeing
Health is often discussed in terms of drugs, diagnoses, and clinical interventions, but this compilation argues that healing can also emerge through relationship. The Human–Animal Bond in Health: Comp...
The Labor Question
The Labor Question is a compact but rich collection of classic essays on one of the defining problems of modern society: how work should be organized, rewarded, and governed in an industrial age. Writ...
The Long Now: Long-Term Thinking for a Short-Term World
A collection of essays and reflections exploring the concept of long-term thinking and responsibility for the future, inspired by the Long Now Foundation’s mission to foster slower, deeper, and more d...
The Physics of Quantum Computing
Quantum computing is often presented as a technological revolution, but this book makes a deeper point: before it can be engineered, it must be understood as a physical phenomenon. The Physics of Quan...
Wearable Computing
What happens when computing stops being something we sit down to use and becomes something we carry, wear, and live with continuously? Wearable Computing explores that turning point. This collection e...
Key Insights from Various Authors
Technology Does Not Automatically Democratize
One of the book’s most important insights is that digital access alone does not create democratic progress. It is tempting to assume that when more people can post, comment, vote online, or access information instantly, democracy will naturally become more inclusive and responsive. But the reality i...
From Digital Democracy: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications
Participation Must Be Designed, Not Assumed
Democratic participation does not emerge simply because a website, app, or portal exists. A recurring idea in the book is that meaningful civic engagement depends on careful design. Many digital participation projects fail not because citizens are apathetic, but because the experience is confusing, ...
From Digital Democracy: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications
Information Quality Shapes Democratic Choice
Democracy depends on informed judgment, and in the digital age, the struggle over information quality has become central to political life. The book shows that digital democracy is not just about giving citizens more channels to speak; it is also about ensuring they can find credible information, ev...
From Digital Democracy: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications
Online Deliberation Needs Structure and Trust
A healthy democracy needs more than expression; it needs deliberation. The book emphasizes that one of the most ambitious promises of digital democracy is the possibility of large-scale public discussion across distance, class, and institutional barriers. Yet open comment spaces alone rarely produce...
From Digital Democracy: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications
Data Can Empower or Endanger Citizens
In digital democracy, data is power. The book repeatedly suggests that the collection, analysis, and use of digital data can make governance more responsive while also introducing serious threats to privacy, autonomy, and political equality. Public institutions can use data to understand citizen nee...
From Digital Democracy: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications
Inclusion Is the Test of Legitimacy
A democratic platform is only as legitimate as the public it truly includes. One of the strongest themes in the book is that digital democracy cannot be judged solely by innovation or scale; it must be judged by whether diverse citizens can actually participate on fair terms. Digital initiatives oft...
From Digital Democracy: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications
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The contributing authors are researchers and practitioners in fields such as psychology, veterinary medicine, and social work, united by their focus on the human–animal bond and its implications for health and wellbeing.
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