Biomedical Engineering

January 8, 2018

Non-fiction

The books below are just a sample of what's available at Cleveland Public Library on the subject of biomedical engineering, neural prostheses, human-computer interaction, and related topics. Click the titles to link to the library's catalog to place a hold or to get additional information.

Adapt : How Humans Are Tapping Into Nature's Secrets To Design And Build A Better Future by Amina Khan (2017)
- Amina Khan believes that nature does it best. In Adapt , she presents fascinating examples of how nature effortlessly solves the problems that humans attempt to solve with decades worth of the latest and greatest technologies, time, and money. This field is growing rapidly and everyone from architects to biologists to nano-technicians to engineers are paying attention.
The Body Builders: Inside the Science of the Engineered Human by Adam Piore (2017)
- In The Body Builders, Adam Piore takes us on a fascinating journey into the field of bioengineering--which can be used to reverse engineer, rebuild, and augment human beings--and paints a vivid portrait of the people at its center. Chronicling the ways new technology has retooled our physical expectations and mental processes, Piore visits people who have regrown parts of their fingers and legs in the wake of terrible traumas, tries on a muscle suit that allows him to lift ninety pounds with his fingertips, dips into the race to create "Viagra for the brain," and shadows the doctors trying to give mute patients the ability to communicate telepathically. (A Fareed Zakaria GPS Book of the Week, 3/19/2017)
Soonish: Emerging Technologies That'll Improve And/Or Ruin Everything by Kelly Weinersmith (2017)
- In this smart and funny book, celebrated cartoonist Zach Weinersmith and noted researcher Dr. Kelly Weinersmith give us a snapshot of what's coming next -- from robot swarms to nuclear fusion powered-toasters. By weaving their own research, interviews with the scientists who are making these advances happen, and Zach's trademark comics, the Weinersmiths investigate why these technologies are needed, how they would work, and what is standing in their way.
To Be A Machine : Adventures Among Cyborgs, Utopians, Hackers, And The Futurists Solving The Modest Problem Of Death by Mark O'Connell (2017)
- In To Be a Machine , journalist Mark O'Connell explores the staggering possibilities and moral quandaries that present themselves when you of think of your body as a device. He visits the world's foremost cryonics facility to witness how some have chosen to forestall death. He discovers an underground collective of biohackers, implanting electronics under their skin to enhance their senses. He meets a team of scientists urgently investigating how to protect mankind from artificial superintelligence.
Self-Tracking by Gina Neff amd Dawm Nafus (2016)
- What happens when people turn their everyday experience into data: an introduction to the essential ideas and key challenges of self-tracking. Gina Neff and Dawn Nafus describe what happens when people turn their everyday experience -- in particular, health and wellness-related experience -- into data, and offer an introduction to the essential ideas and key challenges of using these technologies.
The Brain Electric: The Dramatic High-Tech Race to Merge Minds and Machines by Malcolm Gay (2015)
- Part life-altering cure, part science fiction, part Defense Department dream, these cutting edge brain-computer interfaces promise to improve lives-but they also hold the potential to augment soldiers' combat capabilities. In The Brain Electric , Malcolm Gay follows the dramatic emergence of these technologies, taking us behind the scenes in operating rooms, startups, and research labs, where the future is unfolding.
Cyber-humans: Our Future with Machines by Woodrow Barfield (2015)
- Devices which were once worn on the body are now being implanted into the body, and as a result, a class of true cyborgs, who are displaying a range of skills beyond those of normal humans-beings, are being created. This is not science-fiction, these are developments that are really happening now, and will continue to develop in the future. Cyber-Humans provides a deep and unique perspective on the technological future of humanity.

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