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981) Walkaway: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Hubert, Seth, and their ultra-rich heiress friend Natalie are getting a little old to hang out at the 'Communist parties,' techno-raveups in abandoned industrial spaces, full of insta-printed drugs and toys. And Natalie was finished, years ago, with her overcontrolling zillionaire dad. And now that anyone can manufacture food, clothing, shelter with equipment comparable to a computer printer, there seems to be little reason to to stick with the world...
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Human attention is in the highest demand it has ever been. The drastic increase in available information has compelled individuals to find a way to sift through the media that is literally at their fingertips. Content recommendation systems have emerged as the technological solution to this social and informational problem, but they've also created a bigger crisis in confirming our biases by showing us only, and exactly, what it predicts we want to...
984) The Battle of Versailles: the night American fashion stumbled into the spotlight and made history
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Conceived as a fundraiser for the restoration of King Louis XIV's palace, the world's elite gathered in Versailles' grand theater to view a fashion extravaganza of the best that French and American designers had to offer ... What they saw would forever alter the history of fashion. At the Battle of Versailles five Americans--Oscar de la Renta, Bill Blass, Anne Klein, Halston, and Stephen Burrows--faced off against the five French designers considered...
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
An absolutely essential read, written by a leading expert, for anyone who wants to understand young people's use of social media. "What is new about how teenagers communicate through services such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram? Do social media affect the quality of teens' lives? In this eye-opening book, youth culture and technology expert Danah Boyd uncovers some of the major myths regarding teens' use of social media. She explores tropes about...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"The grid is an accident of history and of culture, in no way intrinsic to how we produce, deliver and consume electrical power. Yet this is the system the United States ended up with, a jerry-built structure now so rickety and near collapse that a strong wind or a hot day can bring it to a grinding halt. The grid is now under threat from a new source: renewable and variable energy, which puts stress on its logics as much as its components. In entertaining,...
Author
Language
English
Description
Effectively measuring the usability of any product requires choosing the right metric, applying it, and effectively using the information it reveals. Measuring the User Experience provides the first single source of practical information to enable usability professionals and product developers to do just that. Authors Tullis and Albert organize dozens of metrics into six categories: performance, issues-based, self-reported, web navigation, derived,...
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Deftly weaving finance, politics, business, and the global human experience into one tight narrative, a tour-de-force account of 2020, the year that changed everything--from the acclaimed author of Crashed. The shocks of 2020 have been great and small, disrupting the world economy, international relations and the daily lives of virtually everyone on the planet. Never before has the entire world economy contracted by 20 percent in a matter of weeks...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Rage revenue-addicted news companies are plagued by shoddy reporting, sensationalism, groupthink, and brain-dead partisan tribalism. Newsrooms rely on emotion-driven blabber to entrance conflict-addled super users. In 'Broken News,' Chris Stirewalt, celebrated as one of America's sharpest political analysts in print and on television, employs his trademark wit and insight to give readers an inside look at these problems. He explains that these companies...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Adrian Daub's What Tech Calls Thinking is a lively dismantling of the ideas that form the intellectual bedrock of Silicon Valley. Equally important to Silicon Valley's world-altering innovation are the language and ideas it uses to explain and justify itself. And often, those fancy new ideas are simply old motifs playing dress-up in a hoodie. From the myth of dropping out to the war cry of "disruption," Daub locates the Valley's supposedly original,...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
This book posits that our national leaders have drifted into treating the pandemic as though it were an unavoidable natural catastrophe, repeating a cycle of panic followed by neglect. So a group of practitioners and scholars from many backgrounds came together determined to discover and learn lessons from this latest world war.
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Chapter 6 - Make Assumptions Explicit; Overview; Revealing Assumptions Isn't Easy; Discussing Solutions, not Assumptions; Released Product is No Place to Learn What Stakeholders Need; Nonsensical Artifacts Generate Useful Results; Good Assumptions are Hard to Find; Ass. U. Me-Implicit Assumptions Make Us All Look Stupid; We Really Want to Believe; We Don't Know Anybody Else's Assumptions Either; Risk Factors; Insincerity; Not Getting to Yes; Summary;...
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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Description
"Having conversations about race is uncomfortable. But for progress between individuals (and our communities) to happen, we need to be able to speak openly and honestly. Podcast hosts of The Kinswomen Yseult and Hannah use their own friendship and experiences from different racial backgrounds to offer guidance on navigating these layered conversations. In Real Friends Talk About Race, the duo share their two perspectives on the ways in which culture,...
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Polish
Description
Wykorzystaj dane z sieci do w?asnych potrzeb! Internet to nic innego jak gigantyczny zbiór danych. Ka?dy, kto znajdzie sposób na ich umiej?tne wykorzystanie, ma szans? zbudowa? aplikacj?, która odniesie?wiatowy sukces. Serwisy randkowe, portale spo?eczno?ciowe, porównywarki cen - to tylko drobna cz??? serwisów, które mo?esz wykorzysta? przy tworzeniu nowej us?ugi. Jak analizowa? dane i wyci?gn?? wnioski? Na wiele podobnych pyta? odpowiada...
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Social impact communication is quickly become a mandatory skill for leaders of modern businesses and nonprofits, at all levels of an organization. Yet using strategy, language and influence to advance game-changing societal breakthroughs isn't something most people learn in college. This book provides a pathway for empathy, clarity and persuasive communication to advance the social impact work that can help people, their families and society. Too...
996) Superman vs. the Ku Klux Klan: the true story of how the iconic superhero battled the men of hate
Author
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Jerry usually sat in darkened theaters alone as he absorbed stories, tracked dialogue, and marveled at the characters. After the movies he would walk to the newsstands on St. Claire Avenue to pick up a pulp-fiction novel or a zine. Soaking in every line of narrative and dialogue, he would read the books and magazines cover to cover--then read them again. Turning to his secondhand typewriter, he would dash off letters to the editors, critiquing the...
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Español
Description
Una reflexión sobre el devenir de una de las áreas profesionales en mayor expansión: la gestión comunicativa ante la nueva configuración social. Ese es el tesoro que guarda El futuro de la comunicación, un manual de necesaria lectura que nace del diálogo académico y profesional de los mejores referentes de nuestro país como son Elena GutiérrezGarcía, Jordi Rodríguez Virgili, Ángel Alloza, Luis Arroyo, Carlos Barrera, Jorge...
Series
Design for social responsibility volume 12
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Design for Wellbeing charts the development and application of design research to improve the personal and societal wellbeing and happiness of people. It draws together contributions from internationally leading academics and designers to demonstrate the latest thinking and research on the design of products, technologies, environments, services and experiences for wellbeing. Part 1 starts by conceptualizing wellbeing and takes an in-depth look at...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Jean-Benoit Nadeau and Julie Barlow spent a decade traveling back and forth to Paris as well as living there. Yet one important lesson never seemed to sink in: how to communicate comfortably with the French, even when you speak their language. In The Bonjour Effect Jean-Benoit and Julie chronicle the lessons they learned after they returned to France to live, for a year, with their twin daughters. They offer up all the lessons they learned and explain,...
Author
Series
Routledge library editions. Television volume 10
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
The years following the Cultural Revolution saw the arrival of television as part of China's effort to 'modernize' and open up to the West. Endorsed by the Deng Xiaoping regime as a 'bridge' between government and the people, television became at once the official mouthpiece of the Communist Party and the most popular form of entertainment for Chinese people living in the cities. But the authorities failed to realize the unmatched cultural power of...
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