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Book SynopsisWe live in the suburban era. Well over half of all Americans and two-thirds of Canadians live in suburbs. Tracts of suburban bungalows ring Sydney and Melbourne. Suburban apartments rise on the outskirts of Paris, Prague, Singapore, and Beijing. Nearly everyone has a strong opinion about suburbs. Folks who love dense cities scorn suburbia, while people who like big yards dislike bustling sidewalks and subways. Social scientists argue whether contemporary suburbs are losing their luster or if a supposed back-to-the-city trend is a mirage--a debate that has been exacerbated by uncertainty over the effects of COVID-19.Suburbs: A Very Short Introduction tackles two central questions: What is the history behind a suburbanizing world? What does the suburban trend mean for society, politics, and culture? Two chapters describe the ways that the new technologies of streetcars, trains, automobiles, and internet have allowed the compact cities of Britain and the United States to grow into sprawling metropolitan regions. The following chapters explore the vertical suburbs of Europe and East Asia, improvised or do-it-yourself suburbs in both North America Latin America, and suburbs as places of employment. The book concludes by exploring criticism and praise of suburbs in popular sociology, fiction, film, and the Americanization of twenty-first century suburbs around the globe. The approach is rooted in history and geography, draws on all the social sciences, and highlights the ways in which suburbs are central to the ways that we understand the present and imagine the future.Trade ReviewThe book includes frequent references to popular culture depictions of suburbs of various kinds. * Choice *Table of ContentsList of illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: What is a suburb? 1: The first suburban century 2: Suburbs at flood tide 3: Vertical suburbs 4: Improvised suburbs 5: Suburban work 6: What's wrong with suburbs 7: Two hundred years and counting References Further reading Index

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Book SynopsisWe live in an incredible period in history. The Computer Revolution may be even more life-changing than the Industrial Revolution. We can do things with computers that could never be done before, and computers can do things for us that could never be done before.But our love of computers should not cloud our thinking about their limitations.We are told that computers are smarter than humans and that data mining can identify previously unknown truths, or make discoveries that will revolutionize our lives. Our lives may well be changed, but not necessarily for the better. Computers are very good at discovering patterns, but are useless in judging whether the unearthed patterns are sensible because computers do not think the way humans think.We fear that super-intelligent machines will decide to protect themselves by enslaving or eliminating humans. But the real danger is not that computers are smarter than us, but that we think computers are smarter than us and, so, trust computers to maTrade ReviewAI is eating the world! Or is it? Read the AI Delusion to find out. Gary Smith provides us with a rich tapestry of stories, studies, and science to elucidate this topic in a fun and accessible fashion. Learning about AI, data, and science has never been more enjoyable! * Oren Etzioni, CEO of the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, and Professor of Computer Science at the University of Washington *Gary Smith demolishes the hype, the exaggerations, and the unrealistic expectations that have surrounded artificial intelligence and data mining. Combining vivid narratives with insightful analysis, the book is both highly informative and enormously entertaining. * Ernest Davis, Professor of Computer Science, New York University *You won't need a degree in linear algebra or multivariate calculus to understand The AI Delusion — a no-nonsense look at the limitations of Big Data. * Andrew Sloves, Former Managing Director at JP Morgan *This refreshing, amusing and frank book dispels many myths about the nature of AI when compared with human intelligence, with a stimulating range of examples. * David Lorimer, Paradigm Explorer *A remarkable book: deeply thoughtful but highly readable, full of practical examples to illustrate Smith's powerful computational critique of the proliferation of AI, big data, and machine learning in our daily lives. Truly essential reading. * Frank Pasquale, author The Black Box Society *Professor Gary Smith demonstrates why artificial intelligence doesn't live up to the hype. He uses a wide variety of real-world examples to illustrate the risks of taking humans out of the decision-making process. * Karl J. Meyer, Partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers *Big data is increasingly being used to make big decisions, and that's a good thing, as long as we keep aware of how things can go wrong, as Gary Smith explains in this fun new book. * Andrew Gelman, Director of the Applied Statistics Center at Columbia University *Data professionals and consumers can benefit from Smith's entertaining and accessible demonstration that more computing power and more data do not imply more intelligence. We need to have more confidence in our human intellect. Humans may have common sense and an appreciation of context. Computers uniformly have none. * Eric Engberg, Data Scientist and Software Engineer, Wells Fargo *Prof Smith delivers a strong defense of the scientific method - theory before data - and clearly demonstrates the limitations of 'AI' and 'Big Data'. * Chris Nelson, CFO Universal Studios Hollywood *Smith's book goes a long way towards dispelling the BS about AI. * Roger Schank, Professor Emeritus, Northwestern University *Remarkable ... This book so deserves to be widely read. * Jonathan Cowie, Concatenation *Table of Contents1: Intelligent or Obedient? 2: Doing Without Thinking 3: Symbols Without Context 4: Bad Data 5: Patterns in Randomness 6: If You Torture the Data Long Enough 7: The Kitchen Sink 8: Old Wine in New Bottles 9: Take Two Aspirin 10: Beat the Market I 11: Beat the Market II 12: We're Watching You

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Book SynopsisMany online applications, especially in the financial industries, are running on blockchain technologies in a decentralized manner, without the use of an authoritative entity or a trusted third party. Such systems are only secured by cryptographic protocols and a consensus mechanism. As blockchain-based solutions will continue to revolutionize online applications in a growing digital market in the future, one needs to identify the principal opportunities and potential risks. Hence, it is unavoidable to learn the mathematical and cryptographic procedures behind blockchain technology in order to understand how such systems work and where the weak points are.Cryptographic Primitives in Blockchain Technology provides an introduction to the mathematical and cryptographic concepts behind blockchain technologies and shows how they are applied in blockchain-based systems. This includes an introduction to the general blockchain technology approaches that are used to build the so-called immutablTable of Contents1: Introduction 2: Preliminaries 3: Cryptographic Primitives 4: Information Security in Software Systems 5: Distributed Systems 6: Introduction to Blockchain Technology 7: Bitcoin 8: Introduction to Quantum Computing 9: Bitcoin under brocken crypto primitives 10: Post-Quantum Blockchains 11: Conclusions

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Book SynopsisThe Tangle of Science argues that the scientific method, rigour, and objectivity are insufficient to guarantee reliability. It shows how reliable science is underpinned by a vast network of other scientific products, brings into focus neglected areas of science, and emphasizes how every product works together to support results we can trust.Trade ReviewNancy Cartwright and her colleagues steer us from the norms of scientific method to the variety of products—and of evidence—that make the tangle of science reliable. I was struck by the scope of the enterprise and the broad applicability of its findings: from a discussion of continuum and particulate models of flow, to explanations for why democracies don't fight one another or public health interventions fail. Lively and engaging, this book will be of interest not only to philosophers, but to both consumers and producers of science, and among both the natural and social science tribes. * Stephan Haggard, University of California San Diego *In the late 20th century, academics debunked the myth that science was reliable by virtue of its use of a singular method—"the scientific method" —or because scientists were preternaturally objective and rigorous. But if there is no scientific method, and scientists are fallible humans like the rest of us, then what makes science reliable? In this important book, Nancy Cartwright and her colleagues argue the answer is the ways in which the various practices and products of science—theories, methods, experiments, instruments, classification schemes, habits of data collection, forms of analysis, measuring techniques and more—work together and become mutually constitutive and supportive. Scientific knowledge, they argue, is a product of the interplay of all the ingredients that go into it. A must-read for anyone who cares about how science really works. * Naomi Oreskes, Harvard University *Drawing upon a wealth of examples from past and present science, from the physics of temperature to the archaeology of the Dead Sea scrolls, The Tangle of Science makes a strong case that we should replace truth by reliability as the ultimate goal of scientific inquiry. Clearly written and boldly argued, this is a book for everyone who wants to know why we should trust science—and which science to trust. * Lorraine Daston, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin *The Tangle of Science stands front and center of the wave of exciting new work on the nature of science that puts aside a fixation with narrowly epistemological notions such as confirmation and objectivity to examine without philosophical preconceptions, and in a way that embraces the non-cognitive, technological, and social dimensions of science, how scientists succeed at getting to grips with the world. Its picture of science is refreshing, provocative, and I think largely correct. * Michael Strevens, New York University *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Preface - What This Book is About Part 1: The Usual Suspects 1: Scientific Method 2: Rigour 3: Objectivity Part 2: The Tangle of Science 4: The Tangle 5: Illustrating the Tangle: Episodes from the History of Science 6: The Tangled Principle of the Democratic Peace 7: Afterword: The Study of Gravitational Waves: A Cautionary Lesson References

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Book SynopsisPraise for the previous edition''A relaxed, well-written and information-packed expedition discovering the history of eclipses'' - The Sky at NightA complete guide to the most stunning of celestial sights, a total eclipse of the Sun Totality: The Great North American Eclipse of 2024 is the most comprehensive source of information, photographs, and illustrations to help readers understand and safely enjoy all aspects of solar eclipses. It includes information on how best to photograph and video record an eclipse, as well as abundant maps, diagrams, and charts, as well as covering the science, history, mythology, and folklore of eclipses.This new edition focuses especially on the eclipse of April 8, 2024 that passes across Mexico, the United States, and Canada, including detailed maps, precise locations, and weather prospects.Trade ReviewTotal eclipses of the sun are the most spellbinding sights in the heavens, and Littmann and Espenak's Totality is far and away the most complete and authoritative guide to why, where, and how to see them. Filled with useful observing tips and maps, it's a must-read for experiencing the great US solar eclipse of April, 2024, and an enduring reference for eclipse watching in the future. * Larry Marschall, Professor of Physics, Emeritus, Gettysburg College *This is a richly informative guide for viewing the Total Solar Eclipse of 2024. It probably answers every question you might have had about this upcoming event as well as some that you probably have not thought of. For anyone planning to travel to see this eclipse the information on weather and viewing locations will be invaluable. * Joe Rao, Associate and Guest Lecturer, American Museum of Natural History *The authors provide an essential run-up to the great total solar eclipse of April 8, 2024 with an interesting history of past solar eclipses together with predictions for where, and how, to best observe the coming event. There are also enough observer anecdotes and testimonies of past eclipses to convince even the most reluctant travelers to make an effort in 2024 to seek out mother natures' rare, but unparalleled, celestial performance. * Donald K. Yeomans, NASA/JPL Senior Research Scientist *A total eclipse of the Sun is a fascinating and moving event of great scientific interest. This book is packed with information and is ideal for anyone hoping to witness the 2024 eclipse, whether an experienced eclipse chaser or a first timer * Professor Philippa Browning, Jodrell Bank Centre of Astrophysics, University of Manchester *This is a book rich with wonders, revelations, and delights—visual as well as intellectual. There is just something so astounding about a total solar eclipse (I've been privileged to witness two), and Littmann and Espenak have captured that. They help us comprehend the how, the when, and the why of those few moments, as we gaze into the eyeball of majesty. Get ready for 2024. * Dr David Quammen, author of Spillover and The Song of the Dodo, among others *The authors serve up a splendid repast of eclipse adventure, history, science, travel, and story that captures the excitement and anticipation of one of nature's grandest spectacles. The evolution of the eclipse experience is reconstructed through the amulets of ancient China and the cuneiform tablets of Babylon, the geometric contrivances of Greek philosophers, and the discoveries of Renaissance, Victorian, and 19th-century scientists, all interspersed with an emotional smorgasbord of personal eclipse stories. Written by two experienced "eclipse chasers," Totality offers suggestions on travel, site selection, photography, and, best of all, how to just watch and absorb the unfolding, too-short, celestial drama. An invaluable composition, to be read before the 2024 eclipse and those that follow. * Jay Anderson, Eclipse climatologist *If there is a more complete modern book describing solar eclipses, I haven't found it. "Totality: The Great North American Eclipse of 2024" describes how, where, and why humans are privileged to see these events. This book offers much more than information on the 2024 total eclipse. Wrapped in history, it tells stories of observers' experiences during eclipses. I am impressed with how thorough these historical biographies and reports are. Successes, failures, surprises, coincidences... It has them all. * Stephen J. Edberg, Astronomer, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (retired) *Review from previous edition Plenty of professional expertise in its overall contents. * Owen Gingerich, Times Literary Supplement *The most thorough on the practicalities of viewing an eclipse... It's a great reference book. * Stuart Clark, New Scientist *At £25, this book is an extremely useful, affordable guide to both of these magnificent astronomical phenomena. * Steve Bell, Observatory Magazine *The purpose of this book is to prepare the readers for the two total solar eclipses in the US ... Everything the readers need to be efficient eclipse observers is here. * B. Ishak, Contemporary Physics *Total solar eclipses have terrified and fascinated people for millennia. Littman and Espenak describe the history and science of solar eclipses, with stories about how eclipse enthusiasts were affected by these spectacular events. If you haven't seen a total solar eclipse, this book will prepare you for the experience of a lifetime. * Ralph Chou, Professor Emeritus, School of Optometry & Vision Science, University of Waterloo *Table of Contents1: The Experience of Totality 2: The Great Celestial Cover-Up 3: Ancient Efforts to Understand 4: Eclipses in Mythology 5: The Strange Behavior of Man and Beast: Long Ago 6: The Sun at Work 7: The First Eclipse Chasers 8: The Eclipse that Made Einstein Famous 9: The Eclipse that Made Einstein Famous 10: Eye Safety During Solar Eclipses 11: The Strange Behavior of Man and Beast: Modern Times 12: Eclipse Photography 13: Remembering the All-American Eclipse of 2017 14: Coming Back to America: The Eclipse of 2024 15: The Weather Outlook 16: When Is the Next One? Total Eclipses: 2025-2033 17: Eclipses: Cosmic Perspective, Human Perspective

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Book SynopsisHow have shifts in power and in assumptions about knowledge affected scientific practice? Who controls the new technologies, and how are moral and professional issues addressed during a time of global change? This work explores such questions of relevance in the current scientific climate.Table of ContentsIntroduction by George E. Marcus 1: Cornucopions of History: A Memoir of Science and the Politics of Private Lives Livia Polanyi 2: Eye(I)ing the Sciences and Their Signifiers (Language, Tropes, Autobiographers): InterViewing for a Cultural Studies of Science and Technology Michael M. J. Fischer 3: Twenty-first-Century PET: Looking for Mind and Morality through the Eye of Technology Joseph Dumit 4: Medicine on the Edge: Conversations with Oncologists Mary-Jo Del Vecchio Good, Irene Kuter, Simon Powell, Herbert C. Hoover, Jr., Maria E. Carson, Rita Linggood. 5: Reflections on Fieldwork in Alameda Paul Rabinow 6: Innocence and Awakening: Cyberdammerung at the Ashibe Research Laboratory Allucquere Rosanne Stone 7: The World of Industry-University-Government: Reimagining R&D as America 197 Gary Lee Downey 8: Trust but Verify: Science and Policy Negotiating Nuclear Testing Treaties - Interviews with Roger Eugene Hill Diana L. L. Hill 9: Becoming a Weapons Scientist Hugh Gusterson 10: Rehabilitating Science, Imagining "Bhopal" Kim Laughlin 11: Of Beets and Radishes: Desovietizing Lithuanian Science Kathryn Milun(aitis) 12: Andrzej Staruszkiewicz, Physicist Leszek Koczanowicz 13: Bachigai (Out of Place) in Ibaraki: Tsukuba Science City, Japan Sharon Traweek 14: Bitter Faiths Kathleen Stewart 15: Confabulating Jurassic Science Mario Biagioli 16: Insurgent Urbanism: Interactive Architecture and a Dialogue with Craig Hodgetts James Holston 17: Kith and Kin in Borderlands Gudrun Klein 18: Imagining In-formation: The Complex Disconnections of Computer Networks527 Christopher Pound Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisIn 2011, Tim Cook took on an impossible task - following in the footsteps of one of history''s greatest business visionaries, Steve Jobs. Facing worldwide scrutiny, Cook (who was often described as shy, unassuming and unimaginative) defied all expectations. Under Cook''s leadership Apple has soared: its stock has nearly tripled to become the world''s first trillion-dollar company. From the massive growth of the iPhone to new victories like the Apple Watch, Cook is leading Apple to a new era of success. But he''s also spearheaded a cultural revolution within the company. Since becoming CEO, Cook has introduced a new style of management that emphasizes kindness, collaboration and honesty, and has quietly pushed Apple to support sexual and racial equal rights and invest heavily in renewable energy. Drawing on authorized access with several Apple insiders, Kahney, the world''s leading reporter on Apple, tells the inspiring story of how one man attempted to replace the irreplaceable and succeeded better than anyone thought possible.Leander Kahney has covered Apple for more than a dozen years and has written four popular books about Apple and the culture of its followers, including Inside Steve''s Brain and Jony Ive. The former news editor for Wired.com, he is currently the editor and publisher of CultofMac.com. He lives in San Francisco.Trade ReviewA rich narrative * The Wall Street Journal *A praise-filled yet also critical one-decade performance report on Apple CEO Tim Cook * Kirkus Reviews *

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Book SynopsisJeanne Marie Laskas has written for GQ, Esquire and the New York Times. She is director of The Writing Program at the University of Pittsburgh, and she lives on a farm in Pennsylvania with her family. She is the author of six books including Hidden America and The Exact Same Moon.Trade ReviewThis is classic David and Goliath, and Jeanne Marie Laskas - one of my favourite writers on earth - makes it as exciting as a great courtroom drama. A riveting, powerful human tale... and a masterclass on how to tell a story -- Charles Duhigg * New York Times *A gripping medical mystery and a dazzling portrait of the young scientist no one wanted to listen to. Bennet Omalu's struggle to force the NFL to reckon with head injuries should give us all hope - and pause. A fabulous, essential read. -- Rebecca Skloot, author of 'The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks'Bennet Omalu forced football to reckon with head trauma. The NFL doesn't want you to hear his story, but Jeanne Marie Laskas makes it unforgettable. This book is gripping, eye-opening, and full of heart. -- Emily Bazelon, author of 'Sticks and Stones'

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Book SynopsisDiscusses extinction as a force shaping socio-cultural and biological lifeTrade ReviewIn an age of academic interdisciplinarity, it is often worth reading well outside the confines of one's discipline, for one can find valuable and unexpected insights. This volume of essays explores the connections, similarities, and sometimes interactions between biological and cultural extinctions. It emphasizes the nuances of language used to define extinctions and pending extinctions, drawing on each of the main sub-fields of anthropology. Genese Marie Sodikoff, the volume's editor, has drawn together an eclectic group of authors, resulting in a very loose-knit set of ideas, but a set that provocatively makes one think about extinction in novel ways. * Biological Conservation *If extinctions are seen as unfamiliar, faraway events, we often fail to think about them, let alone take conscious action to prevent them. Future studies in extinction discourse will do well to further interrogate the relationship between extinctions in 'local' and 'foreign' contexts, while interrogating the assumptions that undergird these very designations. A valuable step in this direction, The Anthropology of Extinction gives us the tools we need to bring us closer to the discomfiting, disorienting, destabilizing real. * Make Magazine *The Anthropology of Extinction offers compelling explorations of issues of widespread concern. * The Birdbooker Report *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Accumulating Absence—Cultural Productions of the Sixth Extinction \ Genese Marie SodikoffPart 1. The Social Construction of Biotic Extinction 1. A Species Apart: Ideology, Science, and the End of Life \ Janet Chernela 2. From Ecocide to Genetic Rescue: Can Technoscience Save the Wild? \ Tracey Heatherington 3. Totem and Taboo Reconsidered: Endangered Species and Moral Practice in Madagascar \ Genese Marie SodikoffPart 2. Endangered Species and Emergent Identities 4. Tortoise Soup for the Soul: Finding a Space for Human History in Evolution's Laboratory \ Jill Constantino 5. Global Environmentalism and the Emergence of Indigeneity: The Politics of Cultural and Biological Diversity in China \ Michael HathawayPart 3. Red-Listed Languages 6. Last Words, Final Thoughts: Collateral Extinctions in Maliseet Language Death \ Bernard C. Perley 7. Dying Young: Pidgins, Creoles, and Other Contact Languages as Endangered Languages \ Paul B. GarrettPart 4. Prehistories of an Apex Predator 8. Demise of the Bet Hedgers: A Case Study of Human Impacts on Past and Present Lemurs of Madagascar \ Laurie R. Godfrey and Emilienne Rasoazanabary 9. Disappearing Wildmen: Capture, Extirpation, and Extinction as Regular Components of Representations of Putative Hairy Hominoids \ Gregory ForthEpilogue: Prolegomenon for a New Totemism \ Peter M. WhiteleyList of ContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisThe collision of new technologies, changing business strategies, and innovative storytelling that produced a new golden age of TV.Cable television channels were once the backwater of American television, programming recent and not-so-recent movies and reruns of network shows. Then came La Femme Nikita, OZ, The Sopranos, Mad Men, Game of Thrones, and The Walking Dead. And then, just as “prestige cable” became a category, came House of Cards and Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Video, and other Internet distributors of television content. What happened? In We Now Disrupt This Broadcast, Amanda Lotz chronicles the collision of new technologies, changing business strategies, and innovative storytelling that produced an era termed “peak TV.”Lotz explains that changes in the business of television expanded the creative possibilities of television. She describes the costly infrastructure rebuilding undertake

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Book SynopsisHow everyday wetness?from finger smudges, sweat, and spilled drinks to showering and swimming?collides with consumers? media devices designed to stay dry.License to Spill investigates the everyday moments, activities, and spaces where media technologies and liquids collide?from disastrous spilled drinks that corrode laptops and drops in the toilet that drown smartphones?to the greasy finger smudges and sweat droplets that sully screens and glitch smartwatches. Putting historical and present-day case studies in conversation, Rachel Plotnick considers how people?s experiences with media devices inevitably encounter wetness, and yet how consumers?not the companies who make the devices?take the blame when leaks, spillages, and overflows occur. Along with thinking about preventive measures and device caretaking, License to Spill examines how water resistant and waterproofed technologies, through their design and marketing, imagine the brawniest and hardiest of users meant to ?punish? and ?abuse? their ?tough? devices, granting them unfettered permission to get wet. Examining a long history of ?torture testing? and hyperbolic claims of imperviousness, the book demonstrates how protective designs relate to broader cultural ideas about media use as sporty, luxurious, excessive, or messy. This context is especially relevant given that the market for water-resistant bags, cases, coatings, and seals has flourished over the past decade, with new rhetoric about wetness as ?natural? and digital technologies as ever-present. The book pushes us to attend to both the ideals and problems that arise when designing ?resilient? devices, ranging from the ?right to repair? movement and lawsuits over ingress protection (IP) ratings to obsolescence culture and work-from-home activities in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic.

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Book SynopsisTrade Review“The scope of this book is impressive . . . it provokes us to think deeply about our views on what we consider as reality.”—John H. Kaas, Vanderbilt University“Miguel is proposing an Enlightenment of the 21st century, in which all the old values of human society are reassessed and new values are proposed based on how the human brain is the measure of all things.”—Gordon Shepherd, Yale Medical School, author of Creating Modern Neuroscience: The Revolutionary 1950s“Nicolelis’s neuroscientific descriptions that form the basis of his theories expand and transcend current thinking in neuroscience—a characteristic that has epitomized his scientific career.”—Ron Frostig, University of California Irvine“In a sweeping style befitting his passion for neuroscience, Miguel Nicolelis takes the reader on a journey across his decades of scientific inquiry regarding a most amazing organ and into a future he foresees, challenging contemporary thinking. E pur si muove.”—Marshall G. Hussain Shuler, Johns Hopkins University"Miguel Nicolelis’ marvelous book is a great adventure story about the brain’s central role in creating our conception of the universe and its contents; it is colorful, electrifying and deep. He’s one of our great scientific adventurers and this book leverages his expertise and passion in formulating a theory on the origins of everything."—Asif A. Ghazanfar, Professor of Neuroscience, Psychology and Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University

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Book SynopsisWhen historians of the future come to examine western civilization in the twentieth century, one area of intellectual accomplishment will stand out above all others: more than any other era before it, the twentieth century was an age of science. Not only were the practical details of daily life radically transformed by the application of scientific discoveries, but our very sense of who we are, how our minds work, how our world came to be, how it works and our proper role in it, our ultimate origins, and our ultimate fate were all influenced by scientific thinking as never before in human history. In The Age of Science, the former editor and publisher of Scientific American gives us a sweeping overview of the scientific achievements of the twentieth century, with chapters on the fundamental forces of nature, the subatomic world, cosmology, the cell and molecular biology, earth history and the evolution of life, and human evolution. Beautifully written and illustrated, this is a

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"UK astronomer royal Martin Rees faces the future as scientist, citizen and 'worried member of the human species'. His bold, beautifully synthesized primer paces from human-driven challenges such as climate change to dizzying astronomical discoveries within and beyond the Solar System. . . A clarion call for global, rational, long-term thinking."---Barbara Kiser, Nature"A remarkable book not only because of the subject—the prospects of humanity—but because it is so reasonable. . . . Rees largely manages to steer clear of both fear mongering and cheerleading. The question of how we should deal with new technology has no easy answer, and the author doesn’t pretend that it does. Instead, in each case he lays out the important points to consider."---Sabine Hossenfelder, Wall Street Journal"Fortunately for Rees, the symptoms of his anxiety appear to be an exceptionally clear head and a capable grasp of the big picture. His sense of cosmic wonder shines through brilliantly in the book’s later chapters. Explanations of complex subjects like the Large Hadron Collider and the ongoing search for exoplanets benefit from his crisp, precise prose. . . . Rees is a seasoned science communicator, and in so far as his job is to get more and more people interested in the field, the book’s short length and approachable style is a shrewd move that will open a wormhole to the big questions for the curious."---Louie Conway, Vanity Fair"When politics seems impossible, it is sometimes good to take the long view. Astronomer Martin Rees’s On the Future offers a cosmological perspective on the present state of the world. Brexit seems a bit less all-or-nothing when set against the prospect of post-human space travel."---David Runciman, The Guardian"[Hawking and Rees] offer brisk, lucid peeks into the future of science and of humanity. They evince a profound faith in science’s power to demystify nature and bend it to our ends."---John Horgan, Wall Street Journal"[On the Future] offers forecasts of impending technological developments and words of hope for the human ability to use science to repair a wounded planet and improve lives. . . . This far-ranging but easily understood collection of ideas shares and communicates the enthusiasm of Rees’s ‘techno-optimist’ view of the prospects for humanity." * Publishers Weekly *"Short in extent but wide in range: from redesigning genes, through the likelihood of human-induced climate change, to the possibility of encounters with alien intelligence in the Universe. [On the Future]’s overall theme is that Earth’s growing population will flourish only if science and technology are deployed with ‘wisdom.’"---Andrew Robinson, Science"Rees neatly packages his sprawling subject matter into a guidebook for the responsible use of science to build a healthy and equitable future for humanity."---Daniel Ackerman, Scientific American"Rees is hardly the first to issue a stern warning about what lies ahead if complacency and consumerism rule, but his lucid, well-reasoned explanation of the stakes and inimitable prose lift this manifesto above the rest. An impassioned call to action from one of the world's foremost scientists. A book to be read by anyone on Earth who cares about its future." * Kirkus, starred review *"It is hard not to be fascinated as [Rees] builds his Eeyorish case – which is laid out with the dispassionate air of a superintelligent alien anthropologist observing our species’ eccentricities from afar. . . . [A] lucid and engaging book."---Tom Whipple, The Times"Lord Martin Rees manages weighty, often scary, matters with an eminently accessible lightness of touch in On the Future: Prospects for Humanity. . . . [A] short, crisply written new book."---John Cornwell, Financial Times"This slim volume, written in Rees’s characteristically elegant style, will frighten and inspire – and above all, entertain."---Clive Cookson, Financial Times"If you’re worried about the prospects for the human race, try Martin Rees’s On the Future for a sober, level-headed assessment."---John Naughton, The Observer"The importance of science in society has no greater spokesperson than Lord Martin Rees." * The Economist *"By no means merely a happiness pill, Martin Rees's On the Future: Prospects for Humanity nonetheless encourages the reader to think beyond the new norms of diminished and collapsing expectations. . . . This is less a book than a set of goggles that provides the reader a glimpse of a wider spectrum of possibility than would otherwise be visible."---Scott McLemee, Inside Higher Education"Rees is clear-sighted and pithy. . . . His account of the planets and exoplanets on which we might one day descend feels thrillingly real. . . . Wonderfully optimistic."---James McConnachie, Sunday Times"Rees shows us an optimistic yet realistic way of contemplating the what is to come, as long as we broaden our thinking and realise that we’re all on this crowded planet together."---Sandra Kropa, BBC Sky at Night Magazine"It would be easy for a book about the future to turn gloomy, but this one balances concerns with hopeful prospects." * Foreword Reviews *"[An] eloquent book."---John Thornhill, Financial Times"Rees dispenses his apocalyptic overview of the coming decades like cocktail party wisdom. The author, who moves in elevated circles and has the papal ear, is an affable doom merchant."---Anjana Ahuja, New Statesman"An overview of the great science-based possibilities for mankind, as well as an expert’s gentle warning against what will happen to life on earth if we continue to form our thinking around short-term goals."---Rozalind Dineen, Times Literary Supplement"With the authority that only someone of his calibre could command, Martin Rees presents his vision of the future of mankind." * Nature Astronomy *"This little gem is divided into four beautifully-crafted chapters providing broad perspective, personal anecdotes, some seldom-mined historical background, strong scientific emphasis, and hope."---Bruce L. Dietrich, Planetarian"In [On the Future], Rees turns his focus closer to home, examining the existential threats that face humanity over the next century. From cyberattacks to advances in biotechnology to artificial intelligence to climate change, Rees, Britain's astronomer royal, says we are living at a critical juncture — one that could define how the human species fares."---Denise Chow, NBC News MACH"[On the Future] shrewdly weighs up our chances of survival."---Andy Martin, Belfast Telegraph"A rallying call for the sort of rational thinking that seems to have become unpopular in recent years. . . . A short, but persuasive, book."---Dominic Lenton, Engineering & Technology"A really important book."---David Runciman, Talking Politics podcast"Overall, this is a wise and humane overview of the challenges we all face, with much practical guidance about how best to tackle these in terms of responsible scientific and technological innocation related to deeper human values."---David Lorimer, Paradigm Explorer"Lord Rees is the source on all things future-of-humanity." * Mayday *"[A] condensed masterpiece of analysis and observation."---Jonathan Power, New York Journal of Books"Reading On the Future will equip the reader with the means to challenge their representatives to lift their eyes above the daily grind of politics and set their sights on a brighter future which humanity can enjoy if the correct decisions are made in respect of the development and application of science and technology."---K. Alan Shore, Contemporary Physics"I found reading Rees’s ideas here rewarding. I also learned a lot from this book. . . as such, I am very positive about this book and I think that all ethicists should read it."---Wouter Kalf, Ethical Perspectives

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Book SynopsisIsambard Kingdom Brunel changed the world as we know it. He was responsible for building the Great Western Railway main line, introducing regular steamship travel across the Atlantic, building the first tunnel under a major river, and constructing docks, harbours and bridges that enabled Britain to expand and grow as the powerhouse of the world. Without his foresight and imagination, it is possible that nineteenth-century Britain might have been very different. There have been many books written about the man himself, but this book concentrates upon the structures, buildings and legacy of Brunel, introducing the reader to this great engineer and embarking upon a tour around Britain that reveals the many locations with a Brunel connection.

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Book SynopsisLeading theorists explore how the Internet impacts privacy issues, sensitivity to wrongdoing, and cultural and personal identity.

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Book SynopsisSummarizing this century's major debates over realism and the rationality of scientific knowledge, Joseph Rouse believes that these disputes oversimplify the political and cultural significance of the sciences. He provides an alternative understanding of science that focuses on practices rather than knowledge.Rouse first outlines the shared...Trade ReviewAn ambitious attempt to outline an alternative to the dominant philosophical and social constructivist efforts to make sense of science.... [Rouse] extends his examination of practice, local knowledge, and the politics of science into a full-fledged conception of philosophy of science as cultural studies. * Isis *

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Book SynopsisMartinez draws from an unparalleled wealth of sources to demonstrate why it is essential to the study and evolution of physics today.Trade ReviewFascinating... Recommended. Choice The author uses clear and easy-to-understand language to describe how kinematics is essential to the modern study of physics. Scitech Book News 2010 A great deal of interesting historical material on kinematic ideas... the story of Einstein's pathway to discovery is a gem... an illuminating pleasure to read. Einstein, the smasher of earlier images of physics, would have been the first to applaud this very human account of himself and this period of his life. Perhaps this text will turn out to be inspirational reading for some future young Einstein! -- Peter J. Bussey Contemporary Physics 2011 The book is really two books in one... Martinez deserves our gratitude for digging up a rich selection of recollections. Physics in Perspective 2011 This often-overlooked branch of mechanics, which describes objects' motion, provided the foundation for special relativity. Science News Martinez draws from an unparalleled wealth of sources. -- Hans-Jurgen Schmidt Zentralblatt Math 2011Table of ContentsPreface1. Big Picture: Rise of a Rejected Science2. Where to Begin? Invisible Causes or Visible Motions3. Ambiguous Truths: The Allegedly Pure Science of Motion4. Debates over Language: Coordinates versus Vectors5. Scientific Definitions: The Concepts of Space and Time6. Discovery and Invention: Conceptual Origins of Einstein's Relativity7. Text and Equations: Elements of Einstein's Kinematics8. Critical History: The Algebra of MotionBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisIncludes Whewell's seminal studies of the logic of induction (with his critique of Mill's theory), arguments for his realist view that science discovers necessary truths about nature, and exercises in the epistemology and ontology of science. This book sets forth a coherent statement of a historically important philosophy of science.

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Book SynopsisExploring the forces that determine the rate and direction of medical progress, this book brings together the worlds of scientific policy, economics, sociology, and innovation to describe the medical research landscape. Covers how issues, including incentive structures and lack of novelty in drug development, influence and impede progress.Trade Review'With engaging examples and a surprising breadth of research, The Trajectory of Discovery, brilliantly illuminates how both the rate and trajectory of medical research rests on the incentives built into the scientific system and the social context in which research takes place. Khurana deftly applies a host of classical and new findings from across scientometrics, sociology of science, and the economics of innovation to the medical area and highlight why we (don't) know what we (don't) know. Through examples, theory, and empirical research, the book argues that discovery rests crucially on the aggregated choices of many scientists, whose actions are shaped by the social logic of scientific system - a logic that is not necessarily optimized for this endeavor. It will be a great read for social scientists interested in the intricacies of medical science, or doctors in search for explanations of why science works the way it does.' Emil Bargmann Madsen, Postdoctoral Researcher, Danish Centre for Studies in Research and Research Policy, Aarhus University'The rate and direction of medical progress remain neglected topics for systematic study. Mark P. Khurana's The Trajectory of Discovery shines the spotlight on such issues and makes this what is likely to be the most important book on both biomedicine and science policy this year.' Tyler Cowen, Professor of Economics, George Mason University'A compelling route into the contemporary world of science. With plenty of illuminating examples from biomedical research, Khurana gives us an insider's view into how prizes, important discoveries, easily-accessible tools, funding bubbles, temporary emergencies and crises have long-term effect on what scientists study, and contribute to determine whether science will ultimately progress or sluggish. It shows how patients' groups, philanthropic institutions, corporate lobbies and governments can have a say into what gets prioritized and discusses how some of the current obsessions of science, such as having positive findings, publishing first and cumulate citations pose additional frictions. The final portrait is a world where little room, if any, is left to academic freedom.' Chiara Franzoni, Professor of Applied Economics, School of Management, Polytechnic University of MilanTable of ContentsPart I. Incentives, Context and Capital: 1. Citations as currency; 2. Hacking statistics; 3. The allure of prizes; 4. Streetlight effects; 5. Patented and regulated progress; 6. Teams and diversity; Part II. The Financial Determinants of Discovery: 7. The research marketplace; 8. Winners take all; 9. Public service; 10. The medici model; 11. The goldilocks zone; 12. Kindling creativity; Part III. Bending the Arc: 13. Lobbying for change; 14. Scientific elasticity; 15. Death of a star // new kids on the block; 16. Great emergencies; 17. Fraudulent findings; 18. Serendipity; 19. Converging paths; Part IV. Reflecting on the Trajectory: 20. Civic engagement; 21. Uncertainty; 22. Commercialization and power; 23. Morality and progress.

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Book SynopsisThe first systematic, comprehensive and critical English-language study of radio in China, this book documents a historical understanding of Chinese radio from the early twentieth century to the present. Covering both public matters and private lives, Radio and Social Transformation in China analyses a range of themes from healthcare, migration and education, to intimacy, family and friendship. Through a concentrated and thorough scrutiny of a variety of new genres and radio practices in post-Mao China, it also investigates the interaction between radio and social change, particularly in the era of economic reform. Building on the core theoretical concept of compressed modernity', each of the radio genres explored is shown to embody China's efforts to achieve modernity, while simultaneously exemplifying radio's capacity to manage the challenges that have arisen from the country's distinctive and perhaps unique process of modernization. WritteTable of Contents1. Transforming Radio in China 2. Radio and a Revolutionary China 3. Radio News and the Articulation of One Voice 4. Late Night Talkback Radio 5. Health Infomercial Radio 6. Drive Radio and the Construction of Urban Middle-class Identities 7. Digital Soundwork in Contemporary China 8. Missed Opportunities and Future Challenges

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Book SynopsisToday, Internet of Things (IoT) is ubiquitous as it is applied in practice in everything from Industrial Control Systems (ICS) to e-Health, e-commerce, Cyber Physical Systems (CPS), smart cities, smart parking, healthcare, supply chain management and many more. Numerous industries, academics, alliances and standardization organizations make an effort on IoT standardization, innovation and development. But there is still a need for a comprehensive framework with integrated standards under one IoT vision. Furthermore, the existing IoT systems are vulnerable to huge range of malicious attacks owing to the massive numbers of deployed IoT systems, inadequate data security standards and the resource-constrained nature. Existing security solutions are insufficient and therefore it is necessary to enable the IoT devices to dynamically counter the threats and save the system.Apart from illustrating the diversified IoT applications, this book also addresses the issue of data safekeepinTable of Contents1. IoT Conceptual Model and Application. 2. Standardization of IoT Ecosystems: Open Challenges, Current Solutions, and Future Directions. 3. A Node Reduction Technique for Trojan Detection and Diagnosis in IoT Hardware Devices. 4. Deep-Learning-Empowered Edge Computing-Based IoT Frameworks. 5. A Geo-Referenced Data Collection Microservice Based on IoT Protocols for Smart HazMat Transportation. 6. Impact of Dimentionality Reduction on Performance of IoT Intrusion Detection System. 7. IoT-Based Resources Management and Monitoring for a Smart City. 8. Internet of Things Applications in Marketing. 9. Internet of Things (IoT) for Sustainable Smart Cities. 10. An Integration of IOT and Machine Learning in Smart City Planning. 11. The Internet of Medical Things for Monitoring Health. 12. Secured Multimedia and IoT in Healthcare Computing Paradigms. 13. Designing Contactless Automated Systems Using IoT, Sensors and Artificial Intelligence to Mitigate COVID-19. 14. Analysis Of the Framework for the Development, Security and Efficacy Of IoT-Based Mobile Health-Care Solutions for Antenatal Care.

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Book SynopsisAs more Africans get online, information and communication technologies (ICTs) are increasingly hailed for their transformative potential. Yet, the fascination for the possibilities of promoting more inclusive forms of development in the information age have obfuscated the reality of the complex negotiations among political and economic actors who are seeking to use technology in their competition for power. Building on over ten years of research in Ethiopia, Iginio Gagliardone investigates the relationship between politics, development, and technological adoption in Africa's second most populous country and its largest recipient of development aid. The emphasis the book places on the 'technopolitics' of ICTs, and on their ability to embody and enact political goals, offers a strong and empirically grounded counter-argument to prevalent approaches to the study of technology and development that can be applied to other cases in Africa and beyond.Trade Review'For anyone interested in the complexities and contradictions of ICT for development in Africa, this book offers a fresh approach to the topic. I recommend this book to researchers engaged in national or comparative research as it offers a strong empirical model for how to conduct this kind of research without losing sight of the larger implications.' Melissa Tully, Information Technologies and International DevelopmentTable of ContentsAcknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 2. Technopolitics, communication technologies and development; 3. Avoiding politics: international and local discourses on ICTs; 4. A quest for hegemony: the use of ICTs in support of the Ethiopian national project; 5. Ethiopia's developmental and sovereign technopolitical regimes; 6. Resisting alternative technopolitical regimes; 7. ICT for development, human rights and the changing geopolitical order; 8. Conclusion; Bibliography.

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Book SynopsisIn an era of corporate surveillance, artificial intelligence, deep fakes, genetic modification, automation, and more, law often seems to take a back seat to rampant technological change. To listen to Silicon Valley barons, there''s nothing any of us can do about it. In this riveting work, Joshua A. T. Fairfield calls their bluff. He provides a fresh look at law, at what it actually is, how it works, and how we can create the kind of laws that help humans thrive in the face of technological change. He shows that law can keep up with technology because law is a kind of technology - a social technology built by humans out of cooperative fictions like firms, nations, and money. However, to secure the benefits of changing technology for all of us, we need a new kind of law, one that reflects our evolving understanding of how humans use language to cooperate.Trade Review'Can democracy keep pace with technology? Yes, says Joshua Fairfield, but only if we swiftly adapt the language of law itself.' Edward Castronova, Indiana University'Professor Fairfield has given us a critically important and engaging book. It is urgent, yet has timeless wisdom. It is erudite, but also highly accessible. It is consequential yet still laced with commendable levity. Runaway Technology is a must-read not just because of its insight into whether the law can keep up with modern technology, but because of its perspective on the law itself as a tool for human flourishing.' Woodrow Hartzog, Northeastern University'Fairfield's Runaway Technology offers a powerful argument for the centrality of law to our efforts to tackle a range of contemporary threats through organization and cooperation. Recent decades have seen a shift in power away from legal institutions and towards private actors and the technologies they control. By rejecting the reductive turn to economics and techno-determinism that drive policymaking today, Fairfield reminds us that law, when properly conceptualized as a dynamic social technology, provides a set of tools for constructing, adapting, interrogating, and justifying the narratives that guide our culture and our future.' Aaron Perzanowski, Case Western Reserve University'… stimulating, intelligent, challenging … I encourage you to read the book …' Christina Spiesel, Metascience'This book will appeal to readers who want a deeper understanding of how language, and the language of law, can be cooperatively used to effect social and legal change.' Sally Sax, Canadian Law Library ReviewTable of ContentsPart I. Keeping Up: Law as Social Technology: 1. Can law keep up?; 2. Rates of change; 3. Technology law; Part II. Running on Words: Law as Cooperative Fiction: 4. Language, the human superpower; 5. What went wrong with science?; 6. Law's fruitful fictions; 7. Shifting how we think; Part III. Law and the Language we Need: 8. Why we fail; 9. Jurisgenesis; 10. TL;DR.

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Book SynopsisIn Industry Unbound, Ari Ezra Waldman exposes precisely how the tech industry conducts its ongoing crusade to undermine our privacy. With research based on interviews with scores of tech employees and internal documents outlining corporate strategies, Waldman reveals that companies don''t just lobby against privacy law; they also manipulate how we think about privacy, how their employees approach their work, and how they weaken the law to make data-extractive products the norm. In contrast to those who claim that privacy law is getting stronger, Waldman shows why recent shifts in privacy law are precisely the kinds of changes that corporations want and how even those who think of themselves as privacy advocates often unwittingly facilitate corporate malfeasance. This powerful account should be read by anyone who wants to understand why privacy laws are not working and how corporations trap us into giving up our personal information.Trade Review'How did privacy policies become licenses to spy? And do we have any hope of effective data regulation? In vivid and accessible prose, Industry Unbound offers deep insight into contemporary corporate power to monitor workers, manipulate consumers, and influence governments. With a skilled attorney's understanding of contracts and statutes and a rigorous sociologist's command of empirical methods, Waldman tells a story of 'privacy professionals' who gradually accommodate themselves to surveillance capitalism. This brilliant book is a must-read for understanding the failures of contemporary privacy laws, and how they might evolve toward more robust protections.' Frank Pasquale, Professor of Law, Brooklyn Law School, and author of The Black Box Society and The New Laws of Robotics'Ari Waldman peels back the curtain on internal privacy practices at the most powerful tech companies to reveal an alarming trend: Despite robust privacy programs, teams of employees devoted to protecting privacy, and significant laws and regulations requiring many internal measures to safeguard privacy, the reality on the ground is that these things are often failing. Waldman provocatively contends that corporate power turns compliance with even robust privacy laws into an often hollow exercise. As legislatures rush to pass privacy laws, Industry Unbound is a wakeup call that these efforts will not end the nightmare. This eye-opening and unsettling book is also constructive, as it offers productive recommendations for a new direction in privacy law. Lively, alarming, and insightful, Industry Unbound deftly unites theory, practice, and law. It is essential reading for anyone who cares about the future of privacy.' Daniel J. Solove, John Marshall Harlan Research Professor of Law, George Washington University, and author of Understanding Privacy'Ari Waldman's powerful new book combines fascinating on-the-ground insights and a sharp critical eye to help us understand why, despite touted improvements in data protection, our privacy remains in jeopardy. Industry Unbound is clear, compelling, and essential reading for the personal data field and anyone who is concerned about privacy.' Woodrow Hartzog, Professor of Law and Computer Science, Northeastern University, and author of Privacy's Blueprint'Painstakingly researched and beautifully written, Industry Unbound chronicles the ways in which tech companies use their power to undermine our privacy. Ari Waldman went under the hood of the information industry for this project, and the result is a fantastic piece of law and sociology scholarship. But Industry Unbound isn't just for students and academics. It's a must read for anyone interested in privacy and political economy, for policymakers looking to write new privacy laws, for regulators trying to rein in Big Tech, and for anyone curious about how law really works on the ground. Everyone should read it.' Danielle Keats Citron, Jefferson Scholars Foundation Schenck Distinguished Professor in Law, University of Virginia School of Law, and recipient of the MacArthur 'Genius' Fellowship'Why is there so much privacy law but so little privacy? The answer lies in the way privacy compliance is practiced on the ground. Ari Waldman supplies a lucid, rigorous explanation of how privacy law has become captured from the inside out. Essential reading.' Julie E. Cohen, Mark Claster Mamolen Professor of Law and Technology, Georgetown, and author of Between Truth and Power'No one but law professor and sociologist Ari Waldman could have written Industry Unbound. Drawing from years of qualitative study, Waldman develops a 'social practice of privacy' that lays bare the cultural, political, and discursive forces winnowing our privacy even as regulatory requirements proliferate. Waldman's sober-eyed, sophisticated, and wisely prescriptive work should be required reading for anyone who studies or cares about privacy. We are not doomed to push the privacy rock up the hill, only for it tumble back down. There is a path to resistance, and Industry Unbound is its map.' Ryan Calo, Lane Powell and D. Wayne Gittinger Professor, University of Washington School of Law'Clearly written, insightful, polemical, sophisticated, and based upon extensive fieldwork, Industry Unbound is an instant classic. It is a rare combination of a sophisticated academic study, a penetrating sociological critique, and an accessible explanation of what's actually happening inside the information industry for the general reader. Few books have changed our understanding of privacy like this one; it is a must-read for anyone who studies, works in the field of, or worries about privacy and the power that human information confers.' Neil Richards, Koch Distinguished Professor of Law, Washington University in St. Louis, and author of Intellectual PrivacyTable of ContentsIntroduction; Part I. Privacy and the Information Industry: 1. A day at the office; 2. Spotting the issues; Part II. A Vicious Cycle: 3. Privacy's discourses; 4. Privacy compliance; 5. Designing data-extractive technologies; Part III. Power and Resistance: 6. Power; 7. Fighting back; 8. Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisAlgorithms have transformed our society, upsetting the concepts of work, property, government, even humanity. We rejoice that they make life easier, but fear that they will enslave us. Going beyond visions of good vs evil, this book takes a new look at our time, the age of algorithms. Algorithms will be what we want them to be: it's up to us.Trade Review'... written by two computer scientists offering a most accessible view on both what algorithms are (the book starts with a clearest analogy between algorithms and recipes) and how algorithms are severely changing human life.' Simona Chiodo, Metascience'This short and interesting book provides a non-technical introduction to the age of algorithms. The book is worth reading many times even by those unfamiliar with algorithms or computer science.' S.V. Nagaraj, The SIGACT NewsTable of Contents1. Algorithms intrigue, algorithms disturb; 2. What is an algorithm?; 3. Algorithms, computers, and programs; 4. What algorithms do; 5. What algorithms don't do; 6. Computational thinking; 7. The end of employment; 8. The end of work; 9. The end of property; 10. Governing in the age of algorithms; 11. An algorithm in the community; 12. The responsibility of algorithms; 13. Personal data and privacy; 14. Fairness, transparency, and diversity; 15. Computers and ecology; 16. Computer science education; 17. The augmented human; 18. Can an algorithm be intelligent?; 19. Can an algorithm have feelings? 20. Time to choose.

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Book SynopsisExplains how privacy laws are overridden by technology companies and how they can be improved. Drawing from behavioral science, psychology, sociology, and economics, the book dispels misconceptions that trap us into ineffective approaches to growing digital harms. It then develops solutions based on corporate accountability.Trade Review'To protect privacy in the digital age, Ignacio Cofone argues, we must rethink privacy harms. These harms are social and systemic as well as individual, and they will not be remedied by market and contractual approaches. This beautifully written book is an excellent introduction to problems of digital exploitation that affect everyone.' Jack Balkin, Yale Law School'Why are privacy rules failing us when we need them the most? In this superb book, Ignacio Cofone expertly threads together privacy law's many missteps and proposes a way forward that doesn't rest on myths and misconceptions. The Privacy Fallacy clearly and effectively stakes out an essential turning point for lawmakers and society: We either commit to holding companies liable for the full range of harms they cause, or we continue to indulge in the fantasy that privacy can be individually negotiated and that our laws have it under control.' Woodrow Hartzog, Boston University'With the rigor of an economist and the heart of a humanist, Cofone explores why privacy law has been disappointingly powerless in today's data-driven society. He proposes a new understanding of privacy harm to ground a more effective liability regime. A clear and engaging read for experts and interested laypeople alike!' Katherine J. Strandburg, New York University School of LawTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. The traditionalist approach to privacy; 2. The privacy myths: rationality and apathy; 3. The consent illusion; 4. Manipulation by design; 5. Traditionalist data protection rules; 6. Pervasive data harms; 7. Privacy as corporate accountability; Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisIntelligent Green Technologies for Sustainable Smart Cities Presenting the concepts and fundamentals of smart cities and developing green technologies, this volume, written and edited by a global team of experts, also goes into the practical applications that can be utilized across multiple disciplines and industries, for both the engineer and the student. Smart cities and green technologies are quickly becoming two of the most important areas of development facing today's engineers, scientists, students, and other professionals. Written by a team of experts in these fields, this outstanding new volume tackles the problem of detailing advances in smart city development, green technologies, and where the two areas intersect to create innovation and revolutionary solutions. This group of hand-selected and vetted papers deals with the fundamental concepts of adapting artificial intelligence, machine learning techniques with green technologies, and many other advances in concepts related Table of ContentsPreface xv List of Contributors xvii 1 An Overview of the Intelligent Green Technologies for Sustainable Smart Cities 1Tanya Srivastava, Sahil Virk and Souvik Ganguli 1.1 Introduction 2 1.2 Case Study 1: Oslo—A Smart City 5 1.3 Case Study 2: Chandigarh—A Smart City 5 1.4 Features of the Smart Cities 6 1.5 Well-Planned Public Spaces and Streets 6 1.5.1 Waste Management 6 1.5.2 Energy Management 7 1.5.3 Good Connectivity 7 1.5.4 Urban Residence 8 1.5.5 Smart Grids 8 1.5.6 Smart Governance 8 1.6 Intelligent Green Technologies 9 1.7 Global and National Acceptance Scenarios 13 1.8 Conclusions 15 References 15 2 Artificial Intelligence for Green Energy Technology 19Shanthi Jayaraj and Meena Chinniah 2.1 Introduction 19 2.2 Solar Energy and AI 20 2.3 AI Transforms Renewable Energy 23 2.4 IBM Solution Using AI 24 2.5 Hydrogen Vehicles 24 2.6 Wind Energy and AI 25 2.7 Renewable Energy Industry in India 29 2.8 Conclusion 30 References 30 Website Reference 31 Abbreviations 31 3 Effective Waste Management System for Smart Cities 33G. Boopathi Raja 3.1 Introduction 34 3.2 Literature Survey 36 3.3 Waste Management in India 37 3.4 Existing Methodology 40 3.4.1 IoT-Based Smart Waste Bin Monitoring and Municipal Solid Waste Management System 40 3.4.2 IoT Enabled Solid Waste Management System 41 3.4.3 Smart Garbage Management System 41 3.5 Proposed Framework 42 3.5.1 System Description 42 3.6 Functionality of the Proposed System 44 3.6.1 Sensing Module 44 3.6.2 Storage Module 46 3.6.3 User Module 47 3.7 Workflow of the Proposed Framework 48 3.8 Conclusion and Future Scope 49 References 50 4 Municipal Solid Waste Energy: An Option for Green Technology for Smart Cities 53Soumitra Mukhopadhyay 4.1 Unavoidable Impacts of Nonrenewable Energy 53 4.2 Municipal Solid Waste Energy as Clean Energy for Smart Cities 55 4.2.1 Renewable Energy Options 55 4.2.2 Municipal Solid Waste as Renewable Energy Option for Smart Cities 56 4.2.3 Why Is MSW Energy Renewable? 58 4.2.4 Various Waste to Energy Technologies 58 4.3 Waste to Energy Technologies (WTE-T) 59 4.3.1 Incineration 59 4.3.2 Pyrolysis 61 4.3.3 Gasification 63 4.3.4 Anaerobic Digestion 65 4.3.5 Landfill with Gas Capture 66 4.3.6 Microbial Fuel Cell (MFC) 68 4.4 Integrated Solid Waste Management Systems (ISWM-S) for Smart Cities 69 4.5 Conclusion 70 References 70 5 E-Waste Management and Recycling Issues: An Overview 73Simran Srivastava, Sahil Virk, Saumyadip Hazra and Souvik Ganguli 5.1 Introduction 73 5.2 Global Status of E-Waste Management 75 5.3 Industrial Practices in E-Waste Management 77 5.4 Recycling of E-Waste 79 5.5 E-Waste Management Benchmarking 81 5.6 Future of E-Waste Management 82 5.7 Conclusions 83 References 84 6 Energy Audit and Management for Green Energy 89Arjyadhara Pradhan and Babita Panda 6.1 Introduction 89 6.2 Types of Renewable Energy 91 6.2.1 Solar Energy 91 6.2.2 Wind Energy 91 6.2.3 Biomass 92 6.2.4 Geothermal Energy 92 6.2.5 Ocean Energy 93 6.3 Energy Management 93 6.3.1 Types of Energy Management 94 6.3.1.1 Demand Side Management 94 6.3.1.2 Implementation of DSM 95 6.3.1.3 Supply Side Management 96 6.3.2 Ways to Improve Energy Management 97 6.4 Energy Audit 97 6.4.1 Types of Energy Audit 98 6.4.2 Preliminary Energy Audit 98 6.4.3 Detailed Energy Audit 98 6.4.4 Data Analysis 100 6.4.5 Detailed Steps in Energy Audit 100 6.5 Energy Audit in Solar Plant 101 6.5.1 Technical Inspection Steps of Solar Power Plant 103 6.6 Energy Conservation 104 6.6.1 Energy Conservation Methods 104 6.6.2 Case Study 105 6.7 Conclusion 108 References 108 7 A Smart Energy-Efficient Support System for PV Power Plants 111Salwa Ammach and Saeed Mian Qaisar 7.1 Introduction 112 7.2 Literature Review 118 7.2.1 Solar Tracking System 119 7.2.2 Solar Cleaning Mechanisms 120 7.2.3 Hotspots Detection 123 7.3 Proposed Solution 131 7.3.1 Solar Tracking 131 7.3.2 Cleaning System 136 7.3.3 Hotspots 136 7.3.4 Modeling and Simulation 136 7.3.5 Limitations 137 7.3.6 Hypothesis 137 7.4 Conclusion 138 References 138 8 A New Hybrid Proposition Based on a Cuckoo Search Algorithm for Parameter Estimation of Solar Cells 143Souvik Ganguli, Shilpy Goyal and Parag Nijhawan 8.1 Introduction 144 8.2 Modelling of an Amended Double Diode Model (ADDM) and the Objective Function 145 8.3 Proposed Work 149 8.4 Results and Discussions 149 8.5 Conclusions 161 References 162 9 Supervisory Digital Feedback Control System for An Effective PV Management and Battery Integration 165Amal E. Abdel Gawad, Nehal A. Alyamani and Saeed Mian Qaisar 9.1 Introduction 166 9.2 Literature Review 173 9.2.1 GHI in the Middle East 173 9.2.2 Types of PV Systems 173 9.2.3 Solar Tracking Systems 176 9.2.4 Charger Controller 179 9.2.5 Series Regulator 179 9.2.6 Shunt Regulator 180 9.2.7 Pulse Width Modulation 180 9.2.8 Maximum Power Point Tracker Charger Controller 181 9.2.9 Reducing the Charging Time 182 9.2.10 Dust Remover 183 9.3 Proposed Solution 185 9.3.1 Single Axis Solar Tracking System 186 9.3.2 Supervisory Digital Feedback Solar Tracker Control System 186 9.3.3 Database-Based Digital Solar Tracker Control System 187 9.3.4 Soiling Treatment Module 187 9.3.5 PV-to-Battery Switching Module 187 9.4 Discussion 189 9.5 Conclusion 191 References 191 10 Performance Analysis of Tunnel Field Effect Transistor for Low-Power Applications 195Deepak Kumar, Shiromani Balmukund Rahi and Neha Paras 10.1 Introduction 196 10.1.1 Limitation of Conventional MOSFET 199 10.1.2 Subthreshold Slope Devices 199 10.2 TFET Structure and Simulation Setup 201 10.3 TFET Working Principle 203 10.3.1 Transport Mechanism in TFET 205 10.3.1.1 Band to Band (BTB) Tunneling Transmission 205 10.3.1.2 Kane’s Model 208 10.4 Subthreshold Swing (SS) in Tunnel FETs 209 10.5 Performance of Hetrojunction Tunnel FET 214 10.5.1 Transfer Characteristics Analysis of TFET Devices 214 10.5.2 Frequency Analysis of TFET Devices 219 10.6 Conclusion 221 References 222 11 Low-Power Integrated Circuit Smart Device Design 227Shasanka Sekhar Rout, Salony Mahapatro, Gaurav Jayaswal and Manish Hooda 11.1 Introduction 228 11.2 Need of Low Power 229 11.3 Design Techniques of Low Power 230 11.3.1 Power Optimization by IC System 230 11.3.2 Power Optimization by Algorithm Section 231 11.3.3 Power Optimization by Architecture Design 231 11.3.4 Power Optimization by Circuit Level 231 11.3.5 Power Optimization by Process Technology 231 11.4 VLSI Circuit Design for Low Power 232 11.4.1 Power Dissipation of CMOS Inverter 232 11.4.1.1 Static Power 232 11.4.1.2 Dynamic Power 233 11.4.1.3 Short Circuit Power Dissipation 233 11.4.1.4 Other Power Issue 233 11.4.2 Capacitance Estimation of CMOS Logic Gate 234 11.5 Circuit Techniques for Low Power 234 11.5.1 Static Power Technique 234 11.5.1.1 Self-Reverse Biasing 234 11.5.1.2 Multithreshold Voltage Technique 235 11.5.2 Dynamic Power Technique 235 11.6 Random Access Memory (RAM) Circuits for Low Power 236 11.6.1 Low-Power Techniques for SRAM 236 11.6.2 Low-Power Techniques for DRAM 237 11.7 VLSI Design Methodologies for Low Power 237 11.7.1 Low-Power Physical Design 237 11.7.2 Low-Power Gate Level Design 237 11.7.2.1 Technology Mapping and Logic Minimization 238 11.7.2.2 Reduction of Spurious Transitions 238 11.7.2.3 Power Reduction by Precomputation 238 11.7.3 Low-Power Architecture Level Design 238 11.8 Power Reduction by Algorithmic Level 239 11.8.1 Lowering in Switched Capacitance 239 11.8.2 Lowering in Switching Activities 239 11.9 Power Estimation Technique 239 11.9.1 Circuit Level Tool 239 11.9.2 Gate Level 240 11.9.3 Architectural Level 240 11.9.4 Behavioral Level 240 11.10 Low-Power Flood Sensor Design 240 11.11 Low-Power VCO Design 241 11.12 Low-Power Gilbert Mixer Design 241 11.13 Conclusion 243 References 243 12 GaN Technology Analysis as a Greater Mobile Semiconductor: An Overview 247Biyyapu Sai Vamsi, Tarun Chaudhary, Deepti Kakkar, Amit Tiwari and Manish Sharma 12.1 Introduction 248 12.2 Research and Collected Data 250 12.3 Studies Reviewed and Findings 255 12.4 Conclusion 266 References 266 13 Multilevel Distributed Energy Efficient Clustering Protocol for Relay Node Selection in Three-Tiered Architecture 269Deepti Kakkar, Gurjot Kaur and Aradhana Tirkey 13.1 Introduction 270 13.1.1 Overview 270 13.1.2 Routing Challenges and Design Issues 271 13.1.3 Heterogeneous Wireless Sensor Networks (HWSNs) 272 13.1.3.1 Clustering in WSN 273 13.1.4 Relay Node Selection Scheme 274 13.1.5 Genetic Algorithm 275 13.1.6 Problem Definition and Motivation 275 13.1.7 Proposed Work 276 13.2 Implementation of Proposed Relay Node Selection Based on GA 276 13.2.1 Network Model 276 13.2.2 Heterogenous Network Model 277 13.2.3 Radio Energy Dissipation Model 279 13.2.4 GA-Based Relay Node Selection 279 13.2.5 Steady State Phase or Data Communication Phase 282 13.3 Results of Simulation For Energy Consumption, Lifetime and Throughput of Network 282 13.3.1 Simulation Setup 282 13.3.2 Comparison of Residual Energy Consumption 284 13.3.3 Comparison of Lifetime of Network 284 13.3.4 Comparison of Throughput at BS 286 13.4 Conclusion and Future Scope 287 References 288 14 Privacy and Security of Smart Systems 291K. Suresh Kumar, D. Prabakaran, R. Senthil Kumaran and I. Yamuna 14.1 Smart Systems—An Overview 291 14.2 Security and Privacy Challenges in Smart Systems 292 14.2.1 Botnet Activities in Smart Systems 294 14.2.2 Threats of Nonhuman-Operated Cars 294 14.2.3 Privacy Issues of Virtual Reality 294 14.3 Case Studies—Security Breaches in Smart Systems 294 14.3.1 Breaching Smart Surveillance Cameras 295 14.3.2 Hacking Smart Televisions 295 14.3.3 Hacked Smart Bulbs 295 14.3.4 Vulnerable Smart Homes 296 14.3.5 Identity Stealing using Smart Coffee Machines 296 14.4 Existing Security and Privacy Protection Technologies 296 14.4.1 Cryptography 297 14.4.2 Biometric 299 14.4.3 Block Chain Technology 301 14.5 Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and Artificial Intelligence 301 14.5.1 Machine Learning in Smart Systems 301 14.5.2 Genetic Algorithm 302 14.5.3 Deep Learning in Smart Systems 303 14.5.4 Artificial Intelligence in Smart Systems 303 14.6 Security Requirement for Smart Systems 303 14.6.1 Thwarting of Data Leakage and Falsifications 304 14.6.2 Identification and Prevention of Device Tampering 304 14.6.3 Light Weight Encryption Algorithm for Authentication 304 14.6.4 Access Restrictions to Users 305 14.6.5 Incident Response for Entire Systems 305 14.7 Instruction to Build Strong Privacy Policy 305 14.7.1 Privacy Policy 305 14.7.2 Definition 306 14.7.3 Key Reasons Why There Is a Need for Privacy Policy 306 14.8 Role of Internet in Smart Systems 306 14.8.1 Home Automation 307 14.8.2 Agriculture 307 14.8.3 Industry 308 14.8.4 Health & Lifestyle 309 14.9 Frameworks, Algorithms, and Protocols for Security Enhancements 310 14.9.1 Framework for the Internet of Things by Cryptography 311 14.9.2 Protocols for Security Enhancements 312 14.10 Design Principles of Privacy Enhancing Methodologies 312 14.11 Conclusion 313 References 314 15 Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain Technologies for Smart City 317Jagendra Singh, Mohammad Sajid, Suneet Kumar Gupta and Raza Abbas Haidri 15.1 Introduction 318 15.2 Standard for Designing Smart City and Society 322 15.2.1 Scalability 322 15.2.2 Intelligent Health Care 322 15.2.3 Flexible and Interoperable 322 15.2.4 Safeguard Infrastructure 322 15.2.5 Robust Environment 323 15.2.6 Distribution and Sources of Energy 323 15.2.7 Intelligent Infrastructure 323 15.2.8 Choice-Based Backing System 323 15.2.9 Monitoring of Behavior 323 15.3 Blockchain and Artificial Intelligence 323 15.4 Contributions and Literature Study 324 15.5 Conclusion 328 References 329 16 Android Application for School Bus Tracking System 331S. Sriram 16.1 Introduction 331 16.2 Application Methods for Access 332 16.2.1 Driver Portal Screen 333 16.2.2 Parent Portal Screen 334 16.2.3 Teachers Portal Screen 334 16.3 GPS Data Processing Methodology 335 16.4 GPS Working Process 336 16.5 System Implementation 336 16.6 Result and Discussion 336 16.6.1 Reasons to Utilize Android Application for School Bus Tracking System 337 16.6.1.1 Perfect Child Security 337 16.6.1.2 Elaborate Operational Efficiency 337 16.6.1.3 Valid Timely Maintenance 338 16.6.1.4 Automating Attendance Management 338 16.6.1.5 Better Staff Management 338 16.6.1.6 Addressing Environmental Concerns 338 16.7 Conclusion 338 References 339About the Editors 341 Index 343

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Book SynopsisThis book tells the story of how remarkable serendipitous discoveries by radio astronomers changed our understanding of the Universe. It gives various examples of the unexpected ways in which real-life scientific research often advances, for general readers interested in astronomy and those interested in the history of modern scientific research.Trade Review'This is a wonderful book, accessible to most college undergraduates! Its photographs and biographical sketches introduce some of the world's most competent, best-informed radio astronomers, and reveal how these researchers almost always lost their way, repeatedly, before ultimately arriving at a deeper understanding of the Universe. In describing this process, Kellermann and Bouton also depict the Cosmos, as observed today, and sketch how it may have evolved over the eons.' Martin Harwit, Professor Emeritus of Astronomy, Cornell University'This book presents a history of radio astronomy from the unique perspective of authors close to important developments in the field. It not only describes the historical developments but provides a wealth of entertaining stories. Kellermann was on the scene or one degree removed from the events described as a PhD student of John Bolton, a leading pioneers in radio astronomy after World War II. These stories, which are related in colorful detail and accompanied by copious photographs, are told with such a flourish that makes the book hard to put down. The conclusions provide an object lesson about the nature of scientific discovery and how science really works. Scientists, students, and people who influence which instruments are built and who gets to use them will enjoy and benefit from reading this book.' James M. Moran, D. H. Menzel Professor of Astrophysics Emeritus, Harvard University and Senior Scientist, SAOTable of ContentsForeword; Preface; Introduction; 1. A new window on the universe; 2. Radio emission from the sun and stars; 3. Radio galaxies; 4. Quasars and AGN; 5. Radio astronomy, cosmology, and cosmic evolution; 6. The Cosmic Microwave Background; 7. Interplanetary scintillations, pulsars, neutron stars, and fast radio bursts; 8. Interstellar atoms, molecules, and cosmic masers; 9. Radio studies of the moon and planets; 10. Testing gravity; 11. If you build it, they will come; 12. Expecting the unexpected; End notes; Glossary: Abbreviations and acronyms; Bibliography and suggested reading; Index.

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Book SynopsisAn Introduction to Global Media for the Twenty-First Century provides a thorough introduction to the field of global media today. The book presents the key changes taking place as the global media landscape evolves, and the main theories of the field, that explain these developments.Tracing, first, the formative development of an international and global media landscape throughout the 20th century from the telegraph, television and film export, and transnational television to the Internet, the book then focuses on developments in the 21st century. This includes: the digitization of the global media and communications sector; the popularization of the Internet and digital infrastructure such as the smartphone and platforms; the emergence of global online media and services; the production and distribution of digital media content; and the exploitation of user data. Case studies illustrate key developments throughout the book.The book shows how the field is characterized by a contTrade ReviewWith this book, Ole J. Mjøs makes a vital contribution to global media studies, by drawing attention to continuity as well as change in the rise of digital platforms and social media. His judicious use of case studies and breadth of scholarship make it clear that we need to apprehend the recent past in global media scholarship in order to better understand current trends. * Terry Flew, Professor of Digital Communication and Culture, The University of Sydney, Australia, and author of Understanding Global Media (Bloomsbury, 2018) *This rigorous, illuminating book both traces the historical development of the international and global media landscape, as well as helps us to make sense of this development by discussing key theoretical traditions. Ole J. Mjøs' accessible writing style and impressive knowledge of the field make this an indispensable guide for anyone interested in global media. * Thomas Poell, Professor of Data, Culture & Institutions, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and co-author of The Platform Society (2018) and Platforms and Cultural Production (2021) *This richly detailed text on global media in the digital age by Ole J. Mjøs, with its compelling case studies, is an extremely useful aid for undergraduate and postgraduate students as well as researchers. Highly recommended. * Daya Thussu, Professor of International Communication, Hong Kong Baptist University, and author of International Communication: Continuity and Change (3rd edition 2019). *Table of ContentsDedication Acknowledgement Case Studies List of Tables 1. Introduction Part I: Key Developments: Industry, Infrastructure, Content, and Audiences 2. The Emergence of a Global Media and Communications Landscape: From the Telegraph to the Internet 3. The Popularization and Consolidation of the Global Online Environment: The Internet, Social Media, and Search Engines 4. Media Companies, Content and Branding in the Global Digital Age: Platforms, Distribution, and Production Part II: Key Theoretical Traditions: The Continuity of Themes and Concerns 5. The Role of Media and Communications in Development: Modernization, Progress, and Social Change 6. The Power of Media and Communications: Imperialism, Influence, and Domination 7. The Power of Media Audiences and Users: Empowerment and Autonomy 8. The Dimensions of Globalization in the Context of Media and Communications Index

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Book SynopsisExplore how the metaverse is changing our lives in this fast-paced, informative, and fresh take on where technology is leading usIn Interconnected Realities, Leslie Shannon, Head of Trend and Innovation Scouting at Nokia, delivers an energizing and optimistic new take on the Metaverse. Starting with metaverse realms already in existence today, the book explores the purpose that each independent platform serves, as well as how all these disparate realms will ultimately be stitched together to permanently transform our personal and business lives. You'll read about: The different metaverses: social, wellness, service, enterprise, gaming, and web3The future of augmented and virtual realitiesHow the metaverse is already woven into our daily livesExploring the purpose of the metaverse A singularly insightful and informed exploration of a fascinating subject at the intersection of technology, business, and society, Interconnected Realities is an essential resource for executives, busienss leTable of ContentsPreface Why Are We Here? Chapter 1 Introduction to the Metaverse Chapter 2 The Social Metaverse Chapter 3 The Wellness Metaverse Chapter 4 The Service and Social Good Metaverse Chapter 5 The Gaming Metaverse Chapter 6 The Web3 Metaverse Chapter 7 The Enterprise Metaverse Chapter 8 Today’s Metaverse-Adjacent Consumer Augmented Reality Chapter 9 Metaverse Gamechangers Chapter 10 Our Metaverse Superpowers Epilogue Interconnected Realities About the Author Index

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Book SynopsisErica Stanford is a crypto and future of money expert. The founder and CEO of the UK's most recommended crypto networking and events organization, Crypto Curry Club, she publishes the weekly Crypto Currier industry newsletter as well as Blockchain Industry Review. The advisor to several crypto start-ups, she is an in-demand speaker and commentator on the potential and use cases of digital currencies. She is the guest associate lecturer in cryptocurrency at Warwick Business School and has featured in The Express, Finance News, Coin Rivet and on the BBC. She is based in London, England.Trade Review"An accessible guide to the confusing and fast-growing world of crypto scams. If you're thinking of investing in cryptocurrency, read this first!" * Jamie Bartlett, host of BBC podcast The Missing Cryptoqueen, author of The People Vs Tech, The Dark Net, Radicals and The Missing Cryptoqueen, presenter and journalist *"Crypto has proved the quickest get-rich scheme in all history. Unfortunately, the easiest people to rip off are those hoping to get rich quick, so scam after inevitable scam has preyed on the sector. Erica Stanford's page turner tells their bitter, but compelling stories." * Dominic Frisby, comedian, actor, MoneyWeek columnist and author of Daylight Robbery *"Erica Stanford covers everything that is oh so wrong and oh so right about the transformational world of cryptocurrencies. Prepare to laugh, cringe or be spooked. This book combines technology, business, mystery, fantasy and popular culture in a fascinating and enlightening way. And the best part: it's all true." * Anthony Day, Blockchain Partner, IBM, and host of Blockchain Won’t Save the World podcast *"Fascinating read on the boom days of crypto's Initial Coin Offerings, analysing the hype that threatened to overshadow the technology. Erica Stanford captures the mood and energy of the time in this greatly entertaining and insightful work." * Caroline Casey, Vice President, Innovation and Consumer Experience, Europe, Mastercard *"In what other book could you read about the biggest Ponzi schemes in the world, espionage, an $800 billion bubble, fake death, cryptoqueens, gambling and porn - literally 50 shades of the dodgiest grey with regulators and the FBI in hot pursuit? Erica Stanford brilliantly analyses the future of crypto in a world where the real future including security-backed tokens and CBDC's is only just beginning." * Bob Wigley, Chair UK Finance, Co-Chair, Cross Market Operational Resilience Group, Bank of England, Board Member, DIT and UK Home Office, NED, adjunct professor and author of Born Digital *"The is a marvellous romp through the crazy world of cryptocurrency and its wackier elements. But as well as the fun, we get a glimpse into what might one day give the global financial system a run for its money." * Mike Butcher MBE, Editor-at-Large, TechCrunch *"Crypto Wars is a fascinating and gripping account of human nature and its demons emerging from the frontiers of the crypto economy. It is mandatory reading for investors, regulators and builders of our financial future" * Lex Sokolin, fintech futurist and philosopher, Founder, The Fintech Blueprint, and Head Economist, ConsenSys *"This book is essential reading, especially for anyone thinking of dipping even their little toe into cryptocurrency." * Sara Vaughan, innovator and creator of global brands with purpose, positive change maker *"Erica Stanford takes readers through the complicated history of crypto hacks, scams and pump and dump schemes with such vivid detail and engaging narrative, you'll find it hard to put the book down." * Leslie Lamb, Head of Institutional Sales, Amber Group, and host of the Crypto Unstacked podcast *"As the market booms it's timely that someone has done justice to the extraordinary story of crypto - this unputdownable book captures the fun and the ups and the downs. It's a mesmeric read." * Charlie Kerrigan, Partner and Global Head of Fintech, CMS *"Erica Stanford's entertaining exploration of the world of scams, grifts, frauds and fantasies serves as a reminder that while on the one hand there is nothing new under the sun, on the other hand we have barely begun to understand the impact of cryptocurrency." * David Birch, author of The Currency Cold War and international adviser and commentator on digital financial services *

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Book SynopsisRanges widely and deeply across William Blake's oeuvre to show how his post-Newtonian vision of space-time anticipates Einsteinian relativity.

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Book Synopsis''If you want to see what that future might look like, Duncan''s book is a fun place to start''NPR''Intensely readable, downright terrifying, and surprisingly uplifting'' Vanity Fair ''5 books not to miss . . . A fascinating work of imaginative futurology''USA TodayOne of Time magazine''s ''32 Books You Need to Read This Summer'' - ''a riveting read'' One of David Baldacci and Elizabeth Acevedo''s best summer reads, on USA Today''s Today programme ''A refreshing variation on the will-intelligent-robots-bring-Armageddon genre . . . this colourful mixture of expert futurology and quirky speculation does not disappoint'' Kirkus ReviewsWhat robot and AI systems are being built and imagined right now? What do they say about us, their creators? Will they usher in a fantastic new future, or destroy us? What do some of our greatest thinkers, from physiciTrade ReviewA refreshing variation on the will-intelligent-robots-bring-Armageddon genre . . . this colorful mixture of expert futurology and quirky speculation does not disappoint. * Kirkus *Duncan writes the way good teachers teach, conversational, yet informed . . . [he] is a popularizer and storyteller. * USA Today *A riveting read. * Time Magazine *A brilliant chronicle of encounters with our future selves. -- Andrei Codrescu, bestselling author and NPR commentator'Intensely readable, downright terrifying, and surprisingly uplifting.' * Vanity Fair *'A fascinating work of imaginative futurology, a science journalist takes a look at our current technologies and anticipates the human-robot future that could await us - one full of warrior bots, politician bots, doctor bots and sex bots.' -- Barbara VanDenburgh * ‘5 Books Not to Miss’, USA Today *One of the best summer reads of 2019. -- David Baldacci and Elizabeth Acevedo * USA Today’s Today programme *

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Book SynopsisLeemon McHenry argues that Whitehead's metaphysics provides a more adequate basis for achieving a unification of physical theory than a traditional substance metaphysics, drawing on Maxwell, Einstein, Quine, Russell and Broad.

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Book SynopsisScientists have identified southern China as a likely epicenter for viral pandemics, a place where new viruses emerge out of intensively farmed landscapes and human--animal interactions. In Virulent Zones, Lyle Fearnley documents the global plans to stop the next influenza pandemic at its source, accompanying virologists and veterinarians as they track lethal viruses to China''s largest freshwater lake, Poyang Lake. Revealing how scientific research and expert agency operate outside the laboratory, he shows that the search for origins is less a linear process of discovery than a constant displacement toward new questions about cause and context. As scientists strive to understand the environments from which the influenza virus emerges, the unexpected scale of duck farming systems and unusual practices such as breeding wild geese unsettle research objects, push scientific inquiry in new directions, and throw expert authority into question. Drawing on fieldwork with global health Trade Review“Readers will come away with a newly visceral understanding of the phrase One Health, as they journey with scientists and epidemiologists through the bodies and ecologies of animal viruses in China. This is a book that rearranges one's sense of scale and time, with a slow and massive build to the sharpness of crisis and the paradoxical enormous scale of the microscopic at play in every scene.” -- Hannah Landecker, Professor of Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles“Virulent Zones tells an intricate story about ways the sciences interlace with geopolitics, with profound impacts on public health at many scales. Lyle Fearnley also provides new perspective on how the sciences advance, both geographically and conceptually, through displacement rather than discovery. This important book will be of critical interest to anthropologists and historians of science, scientists, and those working to build transnational scientific and governance capacity.” -- Kim Fortun, author of * Advocacy after Bhopal: Environmentalism, Disaster, New Global Orders *“Lyle Fearnley’s Virulent Zones offers a gripping anthropological account of the search for the origins of influenza pandemics in China…. Virulent Zones is an outstanding scholarly work as it unmasks the mechanism of virus hunting and disease control in China at a time of marketization and globalization. It allows for an alternative understanding of the interplay of science and everyday life. It is highly recommended reading not only for anthropologists but also for anyone interested in public health in contemporary China.” -- Qiliang He * East Asian Science, Technology and Society *"[A] compelling argument for the move away from older microevolutionary theories of pathogenesis, based on competition of hosts and parasites, toward a more systemic and rigorous reckoning—a dynamic configuration—of how environments and animal populations (human and nonhuman) connect up to promote viral innovation. . . . We can read [it] with profit to learn more about our current predicament, to see how historical perceptions and responses are repeated or modified as we come to terms with the pandemic that confronts us today." -- Warwick Anderson * Public Books *“Virulent Zones reads like a detective novel uncanny in its timeliness to collective conditions today, as it follows the travails of scientists across continents, trying to locate the origins of viral pandemics.” -- Emily Ng * Somatosphere *“Virulent Zones would make an excellent addition to any course covering topics in global health, medical anthropology, the production of scientific knowledge, networks, and expertise, or the history of medicine and public health.... Those who want to know more about pandemic planning and viral surveillance in the wake of COVID-19 will also find this an invaluable resource.” -- Theresa MacPhail * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *“Virulent Zones shows how science and geopolitics intersect and how this has an important impact on global health. As such, it is a key text for medical anthropologists and sociologists, historians of science, STS researchers, and those working in global health.” -- Giulia De Togni * New Genetics and Society *“Lyle Fearnley’s Virulent Zones . . . is a timely and reflexive ethnographic account of global focus on China as the ‘epicenter’ of new zoonotic diseases. . . . This book kicks off an important and enthusiastic discussion about global health and China.” -- Shao-hua Liu * Journal of Anthropological Research *“Virulent Zones is an impressively timely book. . . . [Some remaining] questions indicate the rich potential of the ideas articulated so lucidly by Fearnley in this excellent book.” -- Mary Augusta Brazelton * Journal of Asian Studies *“Virulent Zones is an excellent, informative book that serves as a welcome and valuable addition to the growing literature on the anthropology of epidemics. . . . It also serves as an important contribution to the anthropology of science, human-animal interactions, the environment, agriculture, and China.” -- Katherine A. Mason * Anthropological Quarterly *“[Fearnley’s] analysis goes beyond a classic medical anthropology approach; he navigates between different areas and topics of social studies (sciences, expertise, international relations, rurality, etc.) to forge alliances between different fields of knowledge, and to work across the classic divisions. This is crucial to address the complexity of emerging diseases.” -- Muriel Figuié * Review Of Agriculatural Food And Environmental Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction 1 Part I. Ecology 1. The Origins of Pandemics 27 2. Pathogenic Reservoirs 48 Part II. Landscape 3. Livestock Revolutions 65 4. Wild-Goose Chase 97 Part III. Territory 5. Affinity and Access 125 6. Office Vets and Duck Doctors 156 Conclusion. Vanishing Points 191 Notes 213 Bibliography 249 Index 271

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Book SynopsisWhat happens when screen time is all the time?In the early 1990s, the phrase screen time emerged to scare parents about the dangers of too much TV for kids. Screen time was something to fret over, police, and judge in a low-grade moral panic. Now, screen time has become a metric not only for good parenting, but for our adult lives as well. There's even an app for it! In the streaming eraand with streaming made nearly ubiquitous during COVID-19almost every aspect of our day is mediated by these bright surfaces. Whether it was ever the real villain in the first place, or merely a convenient proxy for unaddressed familial, social, and institutional failures, screen time is now all the time. Avidly Reads Screen Time is a funny, insightful work of cultural criticism and history about how we define screens, and how they now define us. From Mad Men to iCarly, Vine to FaceTime, binge-watching to doom-scrolling, Phillip Maciak leads us on a sometimes heartwarming, sometimes harrowing tour of Trade Review"Original and thought-provoking. Maciak’s willingness to defend screen time refreshes. Readers will want to tune in to this." * Publishers Weekly *"A witty, intimate meditation on the way we watch now from Phillip Maciak, an author of the celebrated Dear TV column. Hopscotching elegantly from Twin Peaks to bedtime doomscrolling, Zoom school to Vine, Maciak explores the deep paradoxes of ‘screen time,’ the mirror we all gaze into, at once together and alone." * Emily Nussbaum, Pulitzer Prize winning author of I Like to Watch: Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution *"What a timely and important contribution to the study of the present! Maciak beautifully synthesizes scholarship, art, and his personal experiences of the past decades, teasing apart some of the skeins that get knotted together around that ubiquitous modern experience (and source of anxiety), screen time. Maciak puts aside the scolding that haunts today's parents (and scrollers), and instead shows the complex and sometimes even beautiful ways technology has changed the way we learn, play, communicate, fight, create, and connect, reframing our habits and providing some wonderful cultural criticism along the way. An essential text for our streaming, scrolling era." * Lydia Kiesling, author of The Golden State, A Novel *"Alas, we are creatures made of screens! But beheld in Maciak’s shrewd, tender gaze, our relationship with these pulsing surfaces that situate our lives loses the flavor of a diagnosis—in its place, wit, and curiosity. This book offers a roomy haven for working out what it means to live and grow up in a modern age, honoring the tangle of feelings—bad, euphoric—that accompany our most sacred rituals, from appointment television to all that scrolling. It prompted me to continue wondering about the screens we take for granted, what they offer us and why we return." * Lauren Michele Jackson, contributing writer, The New Yorker *"Phillip Maciak is one of the best TV critics alive right now, full stop. Whether he’s writing about Girls or Station Eleven or Bluey, his criticism is always characterized by wit, insight, and a remarkable propensity for close-reading. So yes, I was over the moon to learn about his new book of cultural criticism and history, Avidly Reads Screen Time, about how we define screens and how they define us. There are three Mad Men screen caps within the book’s first 30 pages, so, yeah, it’s gonna be ridiculously good." * The Millions *"Screen Time is a book about this televisual unconscious, about parenting, about a world that children will consume long before they know what they’re digesting—that formed us when we were still children—and about trying to understand the selves we only belatedly discover ourselves to have already always been. https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/phillip-maciaks-avidly-reads-screen-time-a-symposium/" -- Jorge Cotte, Aaron Bady, Lili Loofbourow, Jane Hu * LA Review of Books *

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Book SynopsisIn this moment of climate precarity, Victorian studies scholar Barbara Leckie considers the climate crisis as a problem of time. Spanning the long nineteenth century through our current moment, her interdisciplinary treatment of climate change at once rethinks time and illustrates that the time for climate action is now. Climate Change, Interrupted argues that linear, progress-inflected temporalities are not adequate to a crisis that defies their terms. Instead, this book advances a theory and practice of interruption to rethink prevailing temporal frameworks. At the same time, it models the anachronistic, time-blending, and time-layering temporality it advances. In a series of experimental chapters informed by the unlikely trio of Walter Benjamin, Donna Haraway, and Virginia Woolf, Leckie reinflects and cowrites the traditions and knowledges of the long nineteenth century and the current period in the spirit of climate action collaboration. The current moment demands as many approaches as possible, invites us to take risks, and asks scholars and activists adept at storytelling to participate in the conversation. Climate Change, Interrupted, accordingly, invests in interruption to tell a different story of the climate crisis.Trade Review"Climate Change, Interrupted is a moving and voracious experiment that inspires more than it alarms. I so appreciate the capacious and unexpected circles it draws, and Leckie's sage and spirited company on every page."—Maggie Nelson, author of On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint"What a treat to read such brilliantly surprising readings of Benjamin, Eliot, and Shelley, braided together in an exquisitely crafted experimental work. Leckie makes a powerful case for the crucial role of the humanities in the climate crisis."—Caroline Levine, author of Forms: Whole, Rhythm, Hierarchy, Network"Highly original, boldly conceived, and extremely thought-provoking. The genuine honesty and directness of Leckie's voice, and the approachability of her experimentation, will ensure this book finds a wide audience."—Kate Flint, author of Flash! Photography, Writing, and Surprising Illumination"This is a dazzling piece of work, and a joy to read—deeply adventurous and undisciplined in the best sense of that term."—Jesse Oak Taylor, coeditor of Anthropocene Reading: Literary History in Geologic Times"The staggering originality of Barbara Leckie's Climate Change, Interrupted: Representation and the Remaking of Time rests upon the title's most innocuous term: representation.... Climate Change, Interrupted unforgettably activates its own claims on an aesthetic level."—Shawna Ross, Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment

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Book SynopsisContrary to optimistic visions of a free internet for all, the problem of the ‘digital divide’ – the disparity between those with access to internet technology and those without – has persisted for close to twenty-five years.In this textbook, Jan van Dijk considers the state of digital inequality and what we can do to tackle it. Through an accessible framework based on empirical research, he explores the motivations and challenges of seeking access and the development of requisite digital skills. He addresses key questions such as: Does digital inequality reduce or reinforce existing, traditional inequalities? Does it create new, previously unknown social inequalities? While digital inequality affects all aspects of society and the problem is here to stay, Van Dijk outlines policies we can put in place to mitigate it.The Digital Divide is required reading for students and scholars of media, communication, sociology, and related disciplines, as well as for policymakers.Trade Review“Van Dijk continues his twenty-five-year leadership in digital divide research, from motivations and attitudes, access to adoption, use and skills, through to outcomes and solutions. His integrative model organizes these issues into a thoughtful, critical and readable story.”Ronald Rice, University of California, Santa Barbara “Jan van Dijk can be considered the godfather of digital divide theory. In this book, he brings his earlier work forward into a world that has changed beyond what even he could imagine. Building on existing research and new theoretical developments, he shows that digital divides are changing shape and are likely getting worse. Anyone interested in why, what and who we should be worried about in increasingly digital societies has to read this book.”Ellen J. Helsper, author of The Digital Disconnect: Social Causes and Consequences of Digital Inequalities“The book is rich conceptually and provides frameworks and categorisations to explain every step of the digital media appropriation process... a welcome resource for students and academics as a reference on the evolution of research on the digital divide since the mid-nineties.”Information, Communication & Society“The Digital Divide is an excellent reference for those being introduced to the subject and for those who have long been interested in the issue. I recommend it as a tool and look forward to using it myself in this strange, terrible and awe-inspiring year, and in many years to come.”PrometheusTable of ContentsAcknowledgements1 What is the Digital Divide?2 Research and Theory of the Digital Divide3 Motivation and Attitude4 Physical Access5 Digital and 21st-Century Skills6 Usage Inequality7 Outcomes8 Social and Digital Inequality9 Solutions to Soften the Digital DivideReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisA groundbreaking reflection on the process by which one arrives at an ethological theory How do humans study the complex worlds of animals without imposing their own societal and scientific gaze upon them? The biologist Amotz Zahavi stakes the controversial claim that Arabian babblers are said to raise themselves up each day to dance and tend to one another in the early morning sun. Such a claim will provoke the interest and intellectual curiosity of a young philosopher and psychologist recognizing that the best way for her to observe the practices of scientists at work is to join them on their terrain. Embedding herself in the field alongside ethologists in the Negev desert, Vinciane Despret deftly depicts and reflects on the process by which scientists construct their theories within the milieu of the animals they study. Along the way, and not without humor, Despret analyzes a variety of theories posited by many well-known thinkers, including Zahavi, who devoted his life to the interpretation, companionship, and conservation of the Arabian babbler bird, and naturalists such as Charles Darwin and Pierre Kropotkin. Trade Review"The naturalist’s eye guides the philosopher’s reflection in Vinciane Despret’s delicate study of philosophical anthropology and ethology in dialogue with Isabelle Stengers and Bruno Latour. In a beautiful translation by jeffrey bussolini, Despret explores the origin story of Amotz Zahavi’s ‘handicap principle,’ a kind of species-specific potlatch (display and gaze), touching on problems of anthropomorphism, zoomorphism, and animal behavior. Underlining the ‘influence of the observer,’ and including the conflict between mathematical models and embedded interpretation, Despret offers a fascinating inquiry into the human and the animal."—Babette Babich, Fordham University"It is with this book that Vinciane Despret introduced her unique research style: follow scientists with the same care that they follow their animals and select among animals those that render their scientists most interesting! This is how she taught her readers to escape the stultifying ‘voice over’ of so many nature narratives. Be ready for quite a dance."—Bruno LatourTable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsTranslator’s Introductionjeffrey bussoliniIntroductionPart I. The Ethological Debates1. The Theoretical Context: The Two Paradoxes of the Theory of EvolutionAltruismSexual Selection2. Rituals Between Altruism and Reproductive FunctionPart II. The Dance of the Babbler3. The Arabian Babbler4. Models and Methods: Outline of a Field Study5. Narratives and Metaphors6. Models and FictionsConclusionsNotes

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Book SynopsisA revealing genealogy of image-recognition techniques and technologies Today’s most advanced neural networks and sophisticated image-analysis methods come from 1950s and ’60s Cold War culture—and many biases and ways of understanding the world from that era persist along with them. Aerial surveillance and reconnaissance shaped all of the technologies that we now refer to as computer vision, including facial recognition. The Birth of Computer Vision uncovers these histories and finds connections between the algorithms, people, and politics at the core of automating perception today.James E. Dobson reveals how new forms of computerized surveillance systems, high-tech policing, and automated decision-making systems have become entangled, functioning together as a new technological apparatus of social control. Tracing the development of a series of important computer-vision algorithms, he uncovers the ideas, worrisome military origins, and lingering goals reproduced within the code and the products based on it, examining how they became linked to one another and repurposed for domestic and commercial uses. Dobson includes analysis of the Shakey Project, which produced the first semi-autonomous robot, and the impact of student protest in the early 1970s at Stanford University, as well as recovering the computer vision–related aspects of Frank Rosenblatt’s Perceptron as the crucial link between machine learning and computer vision.Motivated by the ongoing use of these major algorithms and methods, The Birth of Computer Vision chronicles the foundations of computer vision and artificial intelligence, its major transformations, and the questionable legacy of its origins. Cover alt text: Two overlapping circles in cream and violet, with black background. Top is a printed circuit with camera eye; below a person at a 1977 computer.Trade Review"A key technology of our time, computer vision is embedded in both our professional and everyday lives in numerous ways—from helping doctors diagnose diseases to enabling organizations to obtain accurate information about remote natural disaster zones and refugee camps to allowing billions of people to capture better images with their phone cameras. Focusing on the United States from the 1950s to the 1970s, James E. Dobson offers the first book tracing the development of computer vision. Combining historical research and theoretical analysis, The Birth of Computer Vision is an invaluable contribution to the fields of media theory, software studies, and algorithm studies."—Dr. Lev Manovich, author of Cultural Analytics"In this timely and eye-opening book, James E. Dobson provides a penetrating analysis of the opportunities and challenges of facial recognition and other computer vision technology by excavating its formation from the sediment of history, tracing its connections to the military industrial complex of the Cold War, and critically examining the notable successes and failures of embryonic research efforts and prototypes."—David J. Gunkel, author of Deconstruction

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Book SynopsisAn archaeology of innovation is the first monograph-length investigation of innovation and the innovation process from an archaeological perspective. It interrogates the idea of innovation that permeates our popular media and our political and scientific discourse, setting this against the long-term perspective that only archaeology can offer. Case studies span the entire breadth of human history, from our earliest hominin ancestors to the contemporary world. The book argues that the present narrow focus on pushing the adoption of technical innovations ignores the complex interplay of social, technological and environmental systems that underlies truly innovative societies; the inherent connections between new technologies, technologists and social structure that give them meaning and make them valuable; and the significance and value of conservative social practices that lead to the frequent rejection of innovations.Trade Review'Whether you are a social archaeologist or not, this book is a must-read for anyone studying innovations and change, but especially anyone interested in human complexity and how we were, and always will be, connected in a flux.'Ana Catarina Basílio, European Journal of Archaeology'This is a book that deserves to be widely read, and the ideas inside discussed and debated not only in archaeology but across fields [...] It is an invaluable contribution.'James L. Flexner, Archaeology in Oceania'Frieman has produced an extremely valuable piece of work for which praise is due [...] The discussion firmly situates innovation as something worth considering in its own right, and not simply as the means to the end of technological change. Instead, innovation is conceptualised as a social process within which material, human, structural and historical actors dynamically and uniquely interact in myriad ways.' Adam Sutton, Archäologische Informationen -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction: loomings1 Innovation as discourse2 Messy narratives/flexible methodologies3 Invention as process4 Power, influence and adoption5 Pass it on6 Tradition, continuity and resistance7 Create/innovateConclusion: the widening gyreIndex

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Book SynopsisOffers an original contribution to the field by focusing on epistemic tensions in socio-technical systems.Table of Contents1. Introduction: Tense Thinking and the Myths of an Algorithmic New Life 2. The Pursuit of Posthuman Security 3. Overstepping and the Navigation of the Perceived Limits of Algorithmic Thinking 4. (Dreaming of) Super Cognizers and the Stretching of the Known 5. The Presences of Nonknowledge 6. Conclusion: Algorithmic Thinking and the Will to Automate

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Book SynopsisPeople often believe that we can overcome the profound environmental and climate crises we face by smart systems, green innovations and more recycling. However, the quest for complex technological solutions, which rely on increasingly exotic and scarce materials, makes this unlikely. A best-seller in France, this English language edition introduces readers to an alternative perspective on how we should be marshalling our resources to preserve the planet and secure our future. Bihouix skilfully goes against the grain to argue that ‘high’ technology will not solve global problems and envisages a different approach to build a more resilient and sustainable society.Table of ContentsPrologue ~ The mad dance of the shrimps; Part I ~ The rise and fall of ‘engineering miracle-workers’; Part II ~ The principles of simple technologies; Part III ~ Daily life in the era of simple technologies; Part IV ~ Is ‘transition’ possible?; Epilogue ~ A dream if there ever was one.

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Book SynopsisEPUB and EPDF available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. We tend to hold people responsible for their choices, but not for what they can’t control: their nature, genes or biological makeup. This thought-provoking collection redefines the boundaries of moral responsibility. It shows how epigenetics reveals connections between our genetic make-up and our environment. The essays challenge established notions of human nature and the nature/nurture divide and suggest a shift in focus from individual to collective responsibility. Uncovering the links between our genetic makeup, environment and experiences, this is an important contribution to ongoing debates on ethics, genetics and responsibility.Table of Contents1. Epigenetics, Bioethics and a Developmental Outlook on Life 2. Epigenetics and Forward-Looking Collective Responsibility 3. Luck, Epigenetics and the Worth of Collectives 4. Pictures at an Exhibition: Epigenetics, Harm and the Non-Identity Problem 5. Epigenetics, Parenthood and Responsibility for Children 6. AI and Epigenetic Responsibility 7. Responsibility and the Microbiome

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