Social Aspects category: 6049 books
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Language: French
Release Date: December 29, 2015
Language: French
Release Date: December 29, 2015
Cet ouvrage, issu du séminaire « Éducation de la petite enfance » (IFE/ENS de Lyon – EXPERICE – Université Paris 13), se penche sur la notion de care, dans ses aspects corporels, psychiques et culturels et ce, dans une perspective comparatiste. Le point de départ réside dans trois recherches...
by The Freedom Writers, Erin Gruwell
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2007
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER & NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE
Shocked by the teenage violence she witnessed during the Rodney King riots in Los Angeles, Erin Gruwell became a teacher at a high school rampant with hostility and racial intolerance. For many of these students–whose ranks included...
Alone Together
Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
A groundbreaking book by one of the most important thinkers of our time shows how technology is warping our social lives and our inner ones
Technology has become the architect of our intimacies. Online, we fall prey to the illusion of companionship, gathering thousands of Twitter and Facebook...
The Accidental Billionaires
The Founding of Facebook: A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2009
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
“The Social Network, the much anticipated movie…adapted from Ben Mezrich’s book The Accidental Billionaires.” —The New York Times
Best friends Eduardo Saverin and Mark Zuckerberg had spent many lonely nights looking for a way to stand out among Harvard University’s...
Present Shock
When Everything Happens Now
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2013
People spent the twentieth century obsessed with the future. We created technologies that would help connect us faster, gather news, map the planet, and compile knowledge. We strove for an instantaneous network where time and space could be compressed. Well, the future's arrived. We live in a continuous...
Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus
How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
**Why doesn’t the explosive growth of companies like Facebook and Uber deliver more prosperity for everyone?
What is the systemic problem that sets the rich against the poor and the technologists against everybody else?**
When protesters shattered the windows of a bus carrying Google...
Ours to Hack and to Own
The Rise of Platform Cooperativism, A New Vision for the Future of Work and a Fairer Internet
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Includes stars in the field such as Yochai Benkler, Douglas Rushkoff, Astra Taylor, Dmytri Kleiner
Definitive collection on building and sustaining a cooperative Internet
More Awesome Than Money
Four Boys and Their Heroic Quest to Save Your Privacy from Facebook
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
Can Facebook be trusted with your data? Years ahead of their time, Diaspora tried to do better. This is their David-versus-Goliath effort to build a revolutionary social network that would give us back control of our privacy.
In June of 2010, four nerdy NYU undergrads moved to Silicon Valley to...
The End of Big
How the Internet Makes David the New Goliath
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
How seemingly innocuous technologies are unsettling the balance of power by putting it in the hands of the masses - and what a world without "big" will mean for all of us.
In The End of Big, social media pioneer, political and business strategist, and Harvard Kennedy School faculty member...
by Cory Doctorow
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
One of the Web’s most celebrated high-tech culture mavens returns with this second collection of essays and polemics. Discussing complex topics in an accessible manner, Cory Doctorow’s visions of a future where artists have full freedom of expression is tempered with his understanding that creators...
by R. Sassower
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2015
This books examines the conditions under which scientists compromised the ideals of science, and elucidates these with reference to the challenges of profit motives and national security concerns. The book also offers suggestions for changing the political and economic conditions under which the integrity of science and its ethos can be practiced.
The Shame of the Nation
The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2005
“The nation needs to be confronted with the crime that we’re committing and the promises we are betraying. This is a book about betrayal of the young, who have no power to defend themselves. It is not intended to make readers comfortable.”
Over the past several years, Jonathan Kozol has...
For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood... and the Rest of Y'all Too
Reality Pedagogy and Urban Education
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
**A New York Times Best Seller
Merging real stories with theory, research, and practice, a prominent scholar offers a new approach to teaching and learning for every stakeholder in urban education.**
Drawing on his own experience of feeling undervalued and invisible in classrooms as...
An Anthropology of the Machine
Tokyo's Commuter Train Network
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2018
With its infamously packed cars and disciplined commuters, Tokyo’s commuter train network is one of the most complex technical infrastructures on Earth. In An Anthropology of the Machine, Michael Fisch provides a nuanced perspective on how Tokyo’s commuter train network embodies the lived realities...