SOCIAL PHYSICS – HOW GOOD IDEAS SPREAD – THE LESSONS FROM A NEW SCIENCE

Alex Pentland has distilled remarkable discoveries significant enough to become the bedrock of a whole new scientific field: social physics. Pentland says humans’ most important habits of action – and most basic notions of common sense – are wired into them through their co-ordination in social groups. Social physics is about “idea flow”, the way human social networks spread ideas and transform those ideas into behaviours.

Published by: Penguin Press

THE NEW DIGITAL AGE – TRANSFORMING NATIONS, BUSINESSES, AND OUR LIVES

Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen tackle some of the toughest questions about the future: how will technology change the way humans approach issues like privacy and security, war and intervention? And how can humans best use new technologies to improve their lives? The New Digital Age is a prescriptive glimpse of how technology is reshaping the world and the lives of the people who live in it.

Published by: Vintage Books

GUIDE TO NETWORK SECURITY

Guide to Network Security is a wide-ranging book that provides a detailed review of the network security field, including essential terminology, the history of the discipline, and practical techniques to manage implementation of network security solutions. The book begins with an overview of information, network, and Web security, emphasising the role of data communications and encryption.

Published by: Delmar Cengage Learning

DESIGNING WITH THE MIND IN MIND – SIMPLE GUIDE TO UNDERSTANDING USER INTERFACE DESIGN GUIDELINES

Jeff Johnson provides a background in perceptual and cognitive psychology that user interface (UI) design guidelines make intuitive sense rather than being just a list of rules to follow. UI practitioners were trained in cognitive psychology, and developed UI design rules based on it. The book has chapters on human choice and decision-making, hand-eye co-ordination and attention, as well as new examples, figures, and explanations throughout.

Published by: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers