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Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2015
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
373 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Drawing on new research, interviews, and a fresh supply of material from the Grateful Dead archives, author Peter Richardson recounts the band's colorful history, adding new insight into everything from the acid tests to the band's formation of their own record label.
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2019
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 691 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Zuboff tackles the social, political, business, personal, and technological meaning of "surveillance capitalism" as an unprecedented new market form. It is not simply about tracking us and selling ads, it is the business model for an ominous new marketplace that aims at nothing less than predicting and modifying our everyday behavior.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
ix, 389 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The gripping and galling inside story of how Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and other social networks preyed on psychological frailties to create the algorithms that drive everyday users to extreme opinions and, increasingly, extreme actions. The companies' founding tenets, combined with a blinkered focus on maximizing engagement, have led to a destabilized world for everyone.
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xviii, 331 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A probing, witty, and deeply insightful history of blindness--in Western culture and literature, and in the author's own experience--that ranges from Homer to Milton to Braille to Stevie Wonder. M. Leona Godin begins her fascinating, wide-ranging study with an exploration of how the idea of sight is inextricably linked with knowledge and understanding; how "blindness" has, for millennia, been used as a metaphor for ignorance; and how, in metaphorical...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
514 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Often hailed as the "first freedom," free speech is the bedrock of democracy, the enemy of tyranny, and the gateway to enlightenment. Research reveals a strong correlation between freedom of speech and democracy, innovation, and advancements in human rights, as well as reductions in conflict, corruption, and discrimination. But for all its benefits, free speech remains a challenging, controversial, and often counterintuitive principle, easily subject...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
xiii, 257 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Fascinated by our pervasive fear of dead bodies, mortician Caitlin Doughty set out to discover how other cultures care for the dead. In rural Indonesia, she watches a man clean and dress his grandfather's mummified body, which has resided in the family home for two years. In La Paz, she meets Bolivian natitas (cigarette-smoking, wish-granting human skulls), and in Tokyo she encounters the Japanese kotsuage ceremony, in which relatives use chopsticks...
Author
Publisher
Vintage
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
First Vintage Books Edition.
Physical Desc
x, 413 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Tim Wu presents a revelatory look at the rise of "attention harvesting," and its transformative effect on our society and ourselves. In nearly every moment of our waking lives, we face a barrage of advertising enticements, branding efforts, sponsored social media, commercials and other efforts to harvest our attention. Over the last century, few times or spaces have remained uncultivated by the "attention merchants," contributing to the distracted,...
Author
Publisher
Tiller Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Tiller Press hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
277 p.
Language
English
Description
For readers of Mary Roach and Adam Diamond, an innovative look at the histories of different epidemics and what it meant for society, alongside what lessons different diseases have to teach us as society battles the novel Coronavirus.
Throughout history, there have been numerous epidemics that have threatened mankind with destruction. Diseases have the ability to highlight our shared concerns across the ages, affecting every social divide from national...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xviii, 330 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"In this riveting feat of reporting, Kashmir Hill illuminates the improbable rise of Clearview AI and how Hoan Ton-That, a computer engineer and Richard Schwartz, a Giuliani associate, launched a terrifying facial recognition app with society-altering potential. They were assisted by a cast of controversial characters, including conservative provocateur Charles Johnson and billionaire Trump backer Peter Thiel. The app can scan a blurry portrait, and,...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Like millions of Americans, Mark Leibovich has spent more of his life tuned into pro football than he'd care to admit. Being a lifelong New England Patriots fan meant growing up on a steady diet of lovable loserdom. That is, until the Tom Brady/Bill Belichick era made the Pats the most ruthlessly efficient and polarizing sports dynasty of the modern NFL, and its fans the most irritating in all of Pigskin America. Leibovich kept his obsession quiet,...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2024
Physical Desc
ix, 323 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A social scientist dispels people's tidy versions of reality and delves deeply into the theories of random chance and chaos to demonstrate that the world really works through random events that can alter the trajectory of our lives.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"In a forceful but humane narrative, former soldier and head of the West Point history department Ty Seidule's Robert E. Lee and Me challenges the myths and lies of the Confederate legacy-and explores why some of this country's oldest wounds have never healed. Ty Seidule grew up revering Robert E. Lee. From his southern childhood to his service in the U.S. Army, every part of his life reinforced the Lost Cause myth: that Lee was the greatest man who...
Author
Publisher
All Points Books
Pub. Date
c2019
Physical Desc
5 MP3 audio discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Since the election of Donald J. Trump, political disagreements have been ravaging our personal relationships like never before. This already widespread phenomenon will continue to grow unless we learn to fight it. From friends to relatives to lovers, no relationship is immune to this crisis. I Love You, but I Hate Your Politics draws from interviews with every type of politically mixed couple, as well as Dr. Safer’s own experiences as a die-hard...
Author
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
376 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When the concierge of The Alexander, a historic Atlanta apartment building, invites his fellow residents to join him for weekly screenings of Downton Abbey, four very different people find themselves connecting with the addictive drama, and--even more unexpectedly--with each other"--Cover flap.
Author
Publisher
Twelve
Pub. Date
2016
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xvii, 168 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Tribal society has been exerting an almost gravitational pull on Westerners for hundreds of years, and the reason lies deep in our evolutionary past as a communal species. Combining history, psychology, and anthropology, TRIBE explores what we can learn from tribal societies about loyalty, belonging, and the eternal human quest for meaning.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
xxvii, 353 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
By the time they reach kindergarten, most kids have learned that "fat" is bad. As they get older, kids learn to pursue thinness in order to survive in a world that ties our body size to our value. Multibillion-dollar industries thrive on consumers believing that we don't want to be fat. Our weight-centric medical system pushes "weight loss" as a prescription, while ignoring social determinants of health and reinforcing negative stereotypes about the...
Author
Publisher
Verso
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
ix, 243 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"How Gentrification is killing our cities, and what we can do about it. Leslie Kern, author of the best-selling Feminist City, travels from Toronto, New York, London, Paris and San Francisco and scrutinizes the myths and lies that surround this most urgent urban crisis of our times: gentrification. This process can be seen today in rising rents and evictions, transformed retail areas, increased policing and broken communities. But Kern argues that...