Books by Douglas Rushkoff and Complete Book Reviews

Douglas Rushkoff, Author . Crown $24.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-609-61094-7

A self-styled "media theorist and social commentator," Rushkoff has written and lectured extensively about interactive technology. Here he applies Judaism to his questions about the Internet, since "Judaism is a religion dedicated to...

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Get Back in the Box: Innovation from the Inside Out

Douglas Rushkoff, Author . Collins $23.95 (316p) ISBN 978-0-06-075869-1

By touting the value of thinking "outside the box," business experts have inspired an obsession with growth, competition and offbeat concepts, says Rushkoff (Cyberia ; Coercion ; etc.). In fact, he insists, the secret of success lies inside...

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Life Inc.: How the World Became a Corporation and How to Take It Back

Douglas Rushkoff, Author . Random $25 (274p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6689-6

Rushkoff (Nothing Sacred ) offers a shrill condemnation of how corporate culture has disconnected human beings from each other. An engaging history of commerce and corporatism devolves into an extended philippic on how increasing personal wealth and

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Media Virus!

Douglas Rushkoff, Author Ballantine Books $21.95 (338p) ISBN 978-0-345-38276-4

This provocative title suggests the author will follow the familiar route of explaining how popular culture manipulates its audience into complacency. On the contrary, Rushkoff (The GenX Reader) asserts that media ``viruses'' empower audiences both...

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Ecstasy Club

Douglas Rushkoff, Author HarperOne $17.5 (320p) ISBN 978-0-06-017309-8

Club kids and new technologies potentiate like drugs and alcohol in a thriller that's the first novel from media critic Rushkoff (Media Virus) as well as the first fiction to come from HarperEdge. Rushkoff draws on his knowledge of cyberculture and...

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Coercion: Why We Listen to What ""They"" Say

Douglas Rushkoff, Author Riverhead Books $24.95 (321p) ISBN 978-1-57322-115-3

Until recently a cyber-optimist who, in popular books like Cyberia and Media Virus, augured a digital revolution, Rushkoff now warns that the promise of the Net as an open-ended civic forum is fading as relentless corporate marketers peddle their...

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Cyberia: Life in the Trenches of Hyperspace

Douglas Rushkoff, Author HarperOne $22 (250p) ISBN 978-0-06-251010-5

This heady report takes readers on a dizzying and dangerous guided tour through ``cyberspace,'' an unfolding terrain of digital information that, according to Rushkoff, is being tapped by a ``cyberian counterculture'' bent on redefining reality. In `

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Playing the Future: How Children's Culture Can Teach Us to Thrive in an Age of Chaos

Douglas Rushkoff, Author HarperCollins Publishers $25 (279p) ISBN 978-0-06-017310-4

A cyberculture cicerone, Rushkoff (Media Virus) leads the reader through heady glimpses of the millennium-the 21st century where ""We are all immigrants to a new territory."" And on whom do immigrants usually rely for adjustment and acculturation?...

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Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now

Douglas Rushkoff. Current, $25.95 (286p) ISBN 978-1-59184-476-1

Whether or not readers are familiar with the concept of presentism—the theory that society is more focused on the immediacy of the moment in front of them (actually more specifically on the moment that just passed) than the moment before or, perhaps

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Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus: How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity

Douglas Rushkoff. Penguin/Portfolio, $28 (288p) ISBN 978-1-61723-017-2

This interesting, thoughtful dissection of the modern digital economy and its shortcomings starts off with a clarion call. Rushkoff, a digital futurist turned critic, believes the speed and scale of digital commerce and corporate expansion since the

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Program or Be Programmed: Ten Commands for a Digital Age

Douglas Rushkoff and Leland Purvis, read by the Rushkoff. BetterListen!, unabridged, four CDs, 3.5 hours, $34.95 ISBN 978-1-61544-167-9

Rushkoff provides 10 insightful guidelines for survival in the new world of digital communication, media, and technology. His admirable goal is to encourage people en masse to take control of cutting-edge communication tools and better understand...

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A.D.D. Adolescent Demo Division

Douglas Rushkoff, Goran Sudzuka, and Jose Marzan Jr. DC/Vertigo, $24.99 (152p) ISBN 978-1-4012-2355-7

This heavy-handed fable presents the tale of a group of teens raised from birth in a life of privilege, carefully mentored to be the virtual reality superstars of tomorrow. This facade is soon ripped away; cosseted Lionel, beta male to the dominant...

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Testament, Vol. 2: West of Eden

Douglas Rushkoff, Author, Peter Gross, Author, Peter Gross, Illustrator . DC/Vertigo $12.99 (128p) ISBN 978-1-4012-1201-8

The second volume of Rushkoff's cosmic saga continues to give a 21st century, high-tech spin on the Bible. Rushkoff's central conceit is to update biblical stories (Joseph; Adam and Eve; etc.) and enmesh them in the new century, complete...

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Team Human

Douglas Rushkoff. Norton, $23.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-393-65169-0

Digital technology is destroying social bonds with wide-ranging and dire consequences, according to this scattershot jeremiad. Rushkoff (Program or Be Programmed), a professor of media theory and host of NPR’s Team Human podcast, argues that the...

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Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires

Douglas Rushkoff. Norton, $26.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-393-88106-6

Media theorist Rushkoff (Team Human) presents a fascinating and distressing account of how the very wealthy prep for doomsday. His premise is that über-rich individuals are operating with “The Mindset,” or the belief that with enough wealth and...

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