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IL: MG - BL: 8.7 - AR Pts: 5
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"From the New York Times-bestselling author of Where Good Ideas Come From and Everything Bad Is Good for You, a new look at the power and legacy of great ideas. In this illustrated volume, Steven Johnson explores the history of innovation over centuries, tracing facets of modern life (refrigeration, clocks, and eyeglass lenses, to name a few) from their creation by hobbyists, amateurs, and entrepreneurs to their unintended historical consequences....
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Friedman and Mandelbaum describe how America faces four major challenges--globalization, the revolution in information technology, the nation's chronic deficits, and its pattern of energy consumption--and how it is failing to meet them. The end of the cold war blinded the nation to the need to address these issues; but Mandelbaum and Friedman show how our history provides the key to doing so, and explain how the paralysis of our political system and...
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"Co-Winner of the Silver Medal in Business Technology, Axiom Business Book Awards" "One of the Financial Times' Summer Books of 2019: Business" "One of the Financial Times' Best Books of 2019: Technology" "12 must-read books for 2019 as recommended by Tech Crunch's Extra Crunch readers" "One of Five Books' Best Economics Books of 2019" "University of Chicago 2019 Recommended Reading" "One of Handelsblatt's Best Technology Books of 2019" "One of Época...
4) Sympathy
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Pursuing an online relationship with a Japanese writer whose life strangely parallels her own, New York newcomer Alice inadvertently triggers revelations and sexual encounters that affect three families in different world regions.
5) Our table
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
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AD 520L
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"Violet longs for the time when her family was connected: before life, distractions, and technology pulled them all away from each other. They used to gather at the table, with food and love, to make memories, share their lives, and revel in time spent together. But now her family has been drifting apart, and with nobody to gather around it, the table grows smaller and smaller. Can Violet remind her family of the warmth of time spent together, and...
7) Data-ism: the revolution transforming decision making, consumer behavior, and almost everything else
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A technology reporter for the "New York Times" traces the rise of Big Data and explains how individuals and institutions will need to exploit, protect, and manage their data to stay competitive in the coming years.
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"Combining a journalist's investigative eye with her unborn second child as an experimental guinea pig, Baby, Unplugged draws on Sophie Brickman's own experiences as a journalist and parent to try to discover what aspects of technology are actually helpful, which are making us crazy, and most importantly, how we might learn to trust ourselves and our instincts again when it comes to raising children."--
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"Drawing upon an incredible range of cutting-edge science, real-life examples, and personal experience, Simon Roberts explores the complexity of even the simplest of tasks that humans perform every day and explains how, with a greater awareness of the processes at work, we can tap into our full potential and excel in any area of our lives"--
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Since it became widely available for public use in the early 1990s, the Internet has proven to be amazingly useful for facilitating communication, distributing information, and sharing knowledge. Human society has already been changed by the Internet, and as new technologies develop, even more opportunities will be available to people online. However, some people have concerns about technology and privacy, the availability of new technology to everyone,...
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AD 560L
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"As important as screens are in our lives, we all need to unplug, especially children. This active, encouraging picture book offers young children and families an easy way to set boundaries and limits for screen time, and helps readers find enjoyable ways to spend time without screens, such as playing, moving, singing, and having fun with friends. Children also learn basic internet safety, like only chatting online with people you know in real...
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Examining such disciplines as education, journalism, encyclopedia creation, museum curation, photography and broadcasting, an award-winning writer explores how humans have attained, stored, and disseminated knowledge.
"From the creation of the first encyclopedia to Wikipedia, from ancient museums to modern kindergarten classes--this is award winning writer Simon Winchester's brilliant and all-encompassing look at how humans acquire, retain, and pass...
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Minimalism is the art of knowing how much is just enough. Digital minimalism applies this idea to our personal technology. It's the key to living a focused life in an increasingly noisy world. Digital minimalists are all around us. They're the calm, happy people who can hold long conversations without furtive glances at their phones. They can get lost in a good book, a woodworking project, or a leisurely morning run. They can have fun with friends...
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Included in Backchannel's (WIRED.com) "Top Tech Books of 2017"
An "important" book on the "pervasive influence of Silicon Valley on our economy, culture and politics."
—New York Times
How the titans of tech's embrace of economic disruption and a rampant libertarian ideology is fracturing America and making it a meaner place
In The Know-It-Alls former New York Times technology columnist Noam...
An "important" book on the "pervasive influence of Silicon Valley on our economy, culture and politics."
—New York Times
How the titans of tech's embrace of economic disruption and a rampant libertarian ideology is fracturing America and making it a meaner place
In The Know-It-Alls former New York Times technology columnist Noam...
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In this witty, often terrifying work of cultural criticism, Postman chronicles our transformation into a Technopoly: a society that no longer merely uses technology as a support system but instead is shaped by it. According to Postman, technology is rapidly gaining sovereignty over social institutions and national life to become self-justifying, self-perpetuating, and omnipresent. He warns that this will have radical consequences for the meanings...
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"A deeply reflective primer on creating meaningful connections, rebuilding abundant communities, and living in a way that engages our full humanity in an age of unprecedented anxiety and loneliness-from the author of The Tech-Wise Family. Our greatest need is to be recognized-to be seen, loved, and embedded in rich relationships with those around us. But for the last century, we've displaced that need with the ease of technology. We've dreamed of...
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