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Basic Books
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English
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Technology has become the architect of our intimacies. Online, we fall prey to the illusion of companionship, gathering thousands of Twitter and Facebook friends, and confusing tweets and wall posts with authentic communication. But this relentless connection leads to a deep solitude. MIT professor Sherry Turkle argues that as technology ramps up, our emotional lives ramp down. Based on hundreds of interviews and with a new introduction taking us...
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Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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Lanier offers powerful and personal reasons for all of us to leave the dangers of online platforms behind. He has seen their tendency to bring out the worst in us, to make politics terrifying, to trick us with illusions of popularity and success, to twist our relationship with the truth, to disconnect us from other people. And he asks: How could the benefits of social media possibly outweigh the catastrophic losses to our personal dignity, happiness,...
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Routledge
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
"This book makes an important and timely contribution to debates about the relationship between climate change and security in Southeast Asia. It does so through a human security lens, drawing on local and regional expertise to discuss the threats that climate change poses to human security in Southeast Asia and to show how a human security approach draws attention to the importance of adaptation and strategies for social resilience. In doing so,...
71) A people's history of the American Revolution: how common people shaped the fight for independence
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English
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IGI Global/ Information Science Reference (an imprint of IGI Global)
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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"This book looks at how scientific research and technological innovation is shaping society, politics, and culture, and how in turn, society, politics, and culture is shaping and affecting society, politics, and culture"--
77) The case for space: how the revolution in spaceflight opens up a future of limitless possibility
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Prometheus Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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MIT Press
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English
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In this work, Matthias Gross examines the relationship between ignorance and surprise, proposing a conceptual framework for handling the unexpected and offering case studies of ecological design that demonstrate the advantages of allowing for surprises and including ignorance in the design and negotiation processes.
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Traditional advertising and marketing techniques just don't do the job anymore. Today's consumer relies on input from a trusted community when making buying decisions. Learn how to take advantage of their social network channels and interact with them online.