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Coders: Who They Are, What They Think and How They Are Changing Our World
Coders: Who They Are, What They Think and How They Are Changing Our World

Facebook’s algorithms shaping the news. Uber’s cars flocking the streets. Revolution on Twitter and romance on Tinder. We live in a world constructed of computer code. Coders – software programmers – are the people who built it for us. And yet their worlds and minds are little known to outsiders.

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Green, Pervasive, and Cloud Computing: 13th International Conference, GPC 2018, Hangzhou, China, May 11-13, 2018, Revised Selected Papers (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (11204))
Green, Pervasive, and Cloud Computing: 13th International Conference, GPC 2018, Hangzhou, China, May 11-13, 2018, Revised Selected Papers (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (11204))
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Green, Pervasive, and Cloud Computing, GPC 2018, held in Hangzhou, China, in May 2018.

The 35 full papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 101 initial submissions. They are organized in the following...
Time Series Analysis of Discourse: Method and Case Studies (Routledge Studies in Linguistics)
Time Series Analysis of Discourse: Method and Case Studies (Routledge Studies in Linguistics)

This volume serves as a comprehensive introduction to Time Series Analysis (TSA), used commonly in financial and engineering sciences, to demonstrate its potential to complement qualitative approaches in discourse analysis research. The book begins by discussing how time has previously been conceptualized in the literature, drawing...

The Routledge Companion to Twenty-First Century Literary Fiction (Routledge Literature Companions)
The Routledge Companion to Twenty-First Century Literary Fiction (Routledge Literature Companions)

The study of contemporary fiction is a fascinating yet challenging one. Contemporary fiction has immediate relevance to popular culture, the news, scholarly organizations, and education – where it is found on the syllabus in schools and universities – but it also offers challenges. What is ‘contemporary’? How...

The Great Firewall of China: How to Build and Control an Alternative Version of the Internet
The Great Firewall of China: How to Build and Control an Alternative Version of the Internet
Once little more than a glorified porn filter, China’s ‘Great Firewall’ has evolved into the most sophisticated system of online censorship in the world. Even as the Chinese internet grows and online businesses thrive, speech is controlled, dissent quashed, and any attempts to organize outside the official...
Propaganda in the Information Age
Propaganda in the Information Age

Propaganda in the Information Age is a collaborative volume which updates Herman and Chomsky’s propaganda model for the twenty-first-century media landscape and makes the case for the continuing relevance of their original ideas. It includes an exclusive interview with Noam Chomsky himself.

2018 marks 30...

Where the Lost Dogs Go: A Story of Love, Search, and the Power of Reunion
Where the Lost Dogs Go: A Story of Love, Search, and the Power of Reunion
From a New York Times best-selling author, an important and heartfelt exploration into the world of lost dogs and the power of reunion

One in six dogs go missing at some point in their lives, leaving bereft owners to search high and low, hang missing posters, check shelters, and hope for good news....
Hitler's Pawn: The Boy Assassin and the Holocaust
Hitler's Pawn: The Boy Assassin and the Holocaust
A remarkable story of a forgotten seventeen–year–old Jew who was blamed by the Nazis for the anti–Semitic violence and terror known as the Kristallnacht, the pogrom still seen as an initiating event of the Holocaust

After learning about Nazi persecution of his family, Herschel Grynszpan...
Second Nature: How Parents Can Use Neuroscience to Help Kids Develop Empathy, Creativity, and Self-Control
Second Nature: How Parents Can Use Neuroscience to Help Kids Develop Empathy, Creativity, and Self-Control

Use Neuroscience to Raise an Awesome Person?Starting Now

Searching for a roadmap to raise a successful child who makes a positive difference in this world? Neuroscientist and mother Erin Clabough teaches that to thrive as adults, children need to learn self-regulation, a master life skill founded in empathy,...

Digital Information Ecosystems: Smart Press (Information Systems, Web and Pervasive Computing)
Digital Information Ecosystems: Smart Press (Information Systems, Web and Pervasive Computing)

Digital information, particularly for online newsgathering and reporting, is an industry fraught with uncertainty and rapid innovation. Digital Information Ecosystems: Smart Press crosses academic knowledge with research by media groups to understand this evolution and analyze the future of the sector, including the imminent...

God, Do You Really Care?: Finding Strength When He Seems Distant
God, Do You Really Care?: Finding Strength When He Seems Distant
When the Hits Just Keep On Comin' There are small hits: The car won't start. You lose something valuable. It's raining on your five-hundred-person outdoor event. And there are big hits: She's diagnosed with cancer. You're being laid off. They're getting divorced. Regardless of magnitude, each trial causes us to...
The Search for Why: A Revolutionary New Model for Understanding Others, Improving Communication, and Healing Division
The Search for Why: A Revolutionary New Model for Understanding Others, Improving Communication, and Healing Division
EVER WONDERED WHY PEOPLE REALLY DO WHAT THEY DO? (AND WHAT WE COULD ACCOMPLISH IF WE ONLY KNEW?)

We need a clear-eyed look at what’s happening in society right now. Misinformation, fake news, and politicization is affecting how we as a society come to grips with a global pandemic, economic inequality, and...
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