A journey into the mind, showing the reader exactly how our minds work and how we can use this information to comprehend our behaviour. The author undertakes a variety of weird experiments to discover the reasons behind his own habits - such as making inappropriate jokes at the wrong time.

It is fast becoming clear that our lives revolve around the powers of emergence. Order arrives from the bottom-up, not top-down. This work looks at the cities we inhabit, the media frenzies we suffer and the games we play, showing how individual actions without central planning often create a wonderfully adaptive communal intelligence.

Asking questions about human motivation and living and reaching some conclusions, this book aims to be at the heart of things we see and do and the subjects that bedevil us: from parenting to crime, sport to politics, fat to cheating, fear to traffic jams.

This work previews what the author predicts will be a new shift in techno-culture spurred by advances in mobile communication, providing examples of current indicators and citing the technology's vulnerabilities.

Written by the acclaimed Silicon Valley journalist who co-founded Wired and founded The Industry Standard , this book explains how the search industry is changing the way we live in profound and unpredictable ways. It contains interviews with some of the biggest names at the top companies including Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin.

Intuition is not some magical property that arises unbidden from the depths of our mind. This book shows us how we can hone our instinctive ability to know in an instant, helping us to bring out the best in our thinking and become better decision-makers in our homes, offices and in everyday life.