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Megatech
Technology in 2050
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
What will the world of technology look like in 2050? And how will it affect the way we live? These are the big questions explored in MEGATECH: TECHNOLOGY IN 2050, a collection of thought-provoking insights imagining how big developments in technology might shape the future.
The book invites...
Belching Out the Devil
Global Adventures with Coca-Cola
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2009
Mark Thomas-a legendarily seditious comedian and human rights activist-is a recovering Coca-Cola addict, a self-described middle-aged fat dad with asthma” who decides to trek around the globe investigating the stories and people Coca-Cola's iconic advertising campaigns don't mention: child laborers...
People Get Ready
The Fight Against a Jobless Economy and a Citizenless Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
Humanity is on the verge of its darkest hour—or its greatest moment
The consequences of the technological revolution are about to hit hard: unemployment will spike as new technologies replace labor in the manufacturing, service, and professional sectors of an economy that is already struggling....
The World As It Is
Dispatches on the Myth of Human Progress
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2011
Many liberals are disappointed with Barack Obama. Some talk of betrayal,” while others are writing abject letters to the White House asking the president to come back to his true self.” Chris Hedges, however, is a progressive who doesn't feel betrayed. Obama was and is a brand,” he argues....
They Know Everything About You
How Data-Collecting Corporations and Snooping Government Agencies Are Destroying Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2015
They Know Everything About You is a groundbreaking exposé of how government agencies and tech corporations monitor virtually every aspect of our lives, and a fierce defense of privacy and democracy.
The revelation that the government has access to a vast trove of personal online data demonstrates...
Money and Football: A Soccernomics Guide (INTL ed)
Why Chievo Verona, Unterhaching, and Scunthorpe United Will Never Win the Champions League, Why Manchester City, Roma, and Paris St. Germain Can, and Why Real Madrid, Bayern Munich, and Manchester United Cannot Be Stopped
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2015
Modern soccer is big business. From the ill-received takeover of Manchester United by the Glazer family to Paris Saint Germain's current shopping spree for the best footballers on the planet, soccer finance has become an increasingly important part of the game.
Barely a summer goes by now without...
Tropic of Chaos
Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011
From Africa to Asia and Latin America, the era of climate wars has begun. Extreme weather is breeding banditry, humanitarian crisis, and state failure.
In Tropic of Chaos, investigative journalist Christian Parenti travels along the front lines of this gathering catastrophe--the belt of economically...
by The Economist
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
This expanded twelfth edition of the bestselling guide to style is based on The Economist's own updated house style manual, and is an invaluable companion for everyone who wants to communicate with the clarity, style and precision for which The Economist is renowned.
As the introduction says,...
Noncompliant
A Lone Whistleblower Exposes the Giants of Wall Street
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018
A first-hand account of the oversight of the big banks in the wake of the financial crisis, from the Federal Reserve examiner who refused to be silenced
In 2011, Carmen Segarra took a job as at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York supervising for Goldman Sachs. It was an opportunity, she believed,...
China Safari
On the Trail of Beijing's Expansion in Africa
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2009
China has now taken Great Britain's place as Africa's third largest business partner. Where others only see chaos, the Chinese see opportunities. With no colonial past and no political preconditions, China is bringing investment and needed infrastructure to a continent that has been largely ignored...
A People's History of Science
Miners, Midwives, and Low Mechanicks
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2009
We all know the history of science that we learned from grade school textbooks: How Galileo used his telescope to show that the earth was not the center of the universe; how Newton divined gravity from the falling apple; how Einstein unlocked the mysteries of time and space with a simple equation....
A Big Fat Crisis
The Hidden Forces Behind the Obesity Epidemic - and How We Can End It
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2013
Obesity is the public health crisis of the twenty-first century. Over 150 million Americans are overweight or obese, and across the globe an estimated 1.5 billion are affected. In A Big Fat Crisis, Dr. Deborah A. Cohen has created a major new work that will transform the conversation surrounding the...
Rum
A Social and Sociable History of the Real Spirit of 1776
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2006
Ian Williams describes in captivating detail how Rum and the molasses that it was made from was to the 18th century what oil is today. Rum was used by the colonists to clear Native American tribes and to buy slaves. To make it, they regularly traded with the enemy French during the Seven Years' War,...
The Torture Report
A Graphic Adaptation
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
"The more who learn the truth the better off the country will be, because there is no better safeguard against the revival of torture than a well-informed public." --Jane Mayer, from the Introduction
On December 9, 2014, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence released a report...