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The Decameron Project
HOLLINGTON29 New Stories from the Pandemic
Engels | 295 pagina's | Scribner, London | 2020
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Eileen Brady Saddled with murder
A Dr. Kate Vet mystery
Dierenarts en amateurdetective Kate Turner heeft haar handen vol aan twee vriendjes, een bloeiende praktijk en een strafrechtelijk onderzoek
Engels | 370 pagina's | Poisoned Pen Press, Naperville | 2020
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Jill Lepore If then
how one data company invented the future
The Simulmatics Corporation, founded in 1959, mined data, targeted voters, accelerated news, manipulated consumers, destabilized politics, and disordered knowledge--decades before Facebook, Google, Amazon, and Cambridge Analytica. Silicon Valley likes to imagine it has no past but the scientists of Simulmatics are the long-dead grandfathers of Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk. Borrowing from psychological warfare, they used computers to predict and direct human behavior, deploying their "People Machine"...
Engels | 415 pagina's | John Murray, London | 2020
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Caste
the origins of our discontents
"As we go about our daily lives, caste is the wordless usher in a darkened theater, flashlight cast down in the aisles, guiding us to our assigned seats for a performance. The hierarchy of caste is not about feelings or morality. It is about power--which groups have it and which do not. In this book, Isabel Wilkerson gives us a portrait of an unseen phenomenon in America as she explores, through an immersive, deeply researched narrative and stories about real people, how America today and throughout...
Engels | 476 pagina's | Random House, New York | 2020
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2020