

A PUBLIC SERVICE Whistleblowing, Disclosure and Anonymity Tim Schwartz Governments and corporations now have the tools to track and control us as never before. In this whistleblowing how-to, we are provided with tools and techniques to fight back and hold organizations, agencies, and corporations accountable for unethical behavior. More

IN DEFENSE OF JULIAN ASSANGE Tariq Ali and Margaret Kunstler The charges Assange faces are a major threat to press freedom. A wide range of distinguished contributors, many of them in original pieces, here set out the story of Julian Assange and WikiLeaks, the importance of their work, and the dangers for us all in the persecution they face. In Defense of Julian Assange is a vivid, vital intervention into one of the most important political issues of our day. More

CREATING CHAOS Covert Political Warfare, from Truman to Putin Larry Hancock Creating Chaos explores the covert use of political warfare from the Cold War to the 21st Century. This is the dark side of statecraft, involving hacks, cell phones, and computers—and encompassing most of the developed world. More



WOMEN, WHISTLEBLOWING, WIKILEAKS A Conversation Renata Avila, Sarah Harrison, and Angela Richter Why are whistleblowing and digital dissidence presented by the media as so heavily male dominated? Three activists and digital rights advocates discuss. More

DIGITAL CRITIC Literary Culture Online Edited by Houman Barekat, Robert Barry, and David Winters The Digital Critic brings together a diverse group of perspectives—early-adopters, Internet skeptics, bloggers, novelists, editors, and others—to address the future of literature and scholarship in a world of Facebook likes, Twitter wars, and Amazon book reviews. More

WHAT’S YOURS IS MINE Against the Sharing Economy (2nd Edition) Tom Slee In What’s Yours Is Mine, Tom Slee argues that the new wave of companies known as the sharing economy, including tech giants Lyft, Airbnb, Taskrabbit, and Uber, is funded and steered by very old-school venture capitalists. Now updated and revised throughout, with a new foreword by the author. More



THE LOST TETRADS OF MARSHALL McLUHAN Marshall McLuhan and Eric McLuhan Marshall McLuhan was the visionary theorist best known for coining the phrase “the medium is the message.” Now, his media scholar son Eric has recovered all the “lost” tetrads that he and his father developed, and accompanies them here with accessible explanations of how they function. More

HOW I LOST BY HILLARY CLINTON Introduced and annotated by Joe Lauria

With a foreword by Julian Assange How I Lost By Hillary Clinton is a riveting, unsparing picture of the disastrous campaign that delivered America to President Trump, and a stark warning of a mistake that must not be repeated. More

OURS TO HACK AND TO OWN The Rise of Platform Cooperativism, a New Vision for the Future of Work and a Fairer Internet Edited by Trebor Scholz and Nathan Schneider This book argues for a new kind of online economy: platform cooperativism, which combines the rich heritage of cooperatives with the promise of 21st-century technologies. It is a call for a new kind of online economy, one free from the economics of monopoly, exploitation, and surveillance. More



BLACK OPS ADVERTISING Native Ads, Content Marketing, and the Covert World of the Digital Sell Mara Einstein Black Ops Advertising dissects this rapid rise of “sponsored content,” a strategy whereby advertisers have become publishers and publishers create advertising—all under the guise of unbiased information. More

SPLINTERNET How Geopolitics and Commerce Are Fragmenting the World Wide Web Scott Malcomson From its beginning the World Wide Web seemed both inherently singular and global. Today, Scott Malcomson contends in Splinternet, the Internet is cracking apart into discrete groups no longer willing, or able, to connect. More

BEYOND ZERO AND ONE Machines, Psychedelics, and Consciousness Andrew Smart Can we build a robot that trips on acid? Is the human brain based on computation? In Beyond Zero and One, Andrew Smart challenges fundamental assumptions underlying artificial intelligence and convincingly makes the case that the answer lies beyond the computational. More



LEAN OUT The Struggle for Gender Equality in Tech and Start-Up Culture Elissa Shevinsky, editor Why aren’t the great, qualified women already in tech being hired or promoted? Should women seek to join an institution that is actively hostile to them? Edited by tech veteran Elissa Shevinsky, Lean Out sees a possible way forward that uses tech and creative disengagement to jettison 20th century corporate culture. More

WHEN GOOGLE MET WIKILEAKS Julian Assange Julian Assange and the chairman of Google Eric Schmidt debate the political problems faced by society, and the technological solutions engendered by the global network—and outline radically opposing perspectives. More

THE BIG DISCONNECT Why the Internet Hasn’t Transformed Politics (Yet) Micah L. Sifry In his usual pithy, to-the-point style, Micah L. Sifry explores why data-driven politics and our digital overlords have failed or misled us, and how they can be made to serve us instead, in a real balance between citizens and state, independent of corporations. More



CYPHERPUNKS Freedom and the Future of the Internet Julian Assange with Jacob Appelbaum, Andy Müller-Maguhn, and Jérémie Zimmermann Julian Assange brings together a small group of cutting-edge thinkers and activists from the front line of the battle for cyber-space to discuss whether electronic communications will emancipate or enslave us. More

TECHNOCREEP The Surrender of Privacy and the Capitalization of Intimacy Thomas P. Keenan Technocreep is the definitive dissection of privacy-eroding and life-invading technologies, coming at you from governments, corporations, and the person next door. More

@HEAVEN The Online Death of a Cybernetic Futurist Kim Hastreiter, editor Edited and with an introduction by Paper editor Kim Hastreiter, @heaven reproduces the extraordinary exchange that took place on the early online community The WELL in the months leading up to the death of a Stanford futurist named Tom Mandel. More



HACKING POLITICS How Geeks, Progressives, the Tea Party, Gamers, Anarchists and Suits Teamed Up to Defeat SOPA and Save the Internet David Moon, Patrick Ruffini, and David Segal, Editors Hacking Politics is a firsthand account of how a ragtag band of activists and technologists overcame a $90 million lobbying machine to defeat the most serious threat to Internet freedom in memory. More PROGRAM OR BE PROGRAMMED Ten Commands for a Digital Age Douglas Rushkoff With illustrations by Leland Purvis “Thinking twice about our use of digital media, what our practices are doing to us, and what we are doing to each other, is one of the most important priorities people have today… Read this before and after you Tweet, Facebook, email or YouTube.” —Howard RheingoldMore

THE UNITED STATES VS. PVT. CHELSEA MANNING A Graphic Account from Inside the Courtroom Clark Stoeckley Drawing in real time from inside the courtroom, artist and WikiLeaks activist Clark Stoeckley captures the extraordinary drama of The United States vs. Pvt. Chelsea Manning, one of the most secretive trials in American history. More



AUTOPILOT The Art & Science of Doing Nothing Andrew Smart A survivor of corporate-mandated “Six Sigma” training to improve efficiency, Smart has channeled his “loathing” of the time-management industry into a witty, informative and wide-ranging book that draws on the most recent research into brain power. Use it to explain to bosses, family, and friends why you need to relax – right now. More

FREELOADING How Our Insatiable Appetite for Free Content Starves Creativity Chris Ruen Freeloading is a book that takes a critical look at a near-pervasive phenomenon that involves almost everyone who taps a keyboard: beyond that, it’s a reminder of the truism that for every action there are consequences. What happens when we pirate a favorite work of art? And what, if anything, should be done about it? More

The Passion of Chelsea Manning The Story of the Suspect Behind the Largest Security Breach in U.S. History Chase Madar Who is Private Chelsea Manning? Why did she allegedly commit the largest security breach in American history—and why was it so easy? Around the world, the eloquent alleged act of one young woman obliges citizens to ask themselves if they have the right to know what their government is doing. More