The Twittering Machine is an unflinching view into the calamities of digital life: the circus of online trolling, flourishing alt-right subcultures, pervasive corporate surveillance, and the virtual data mines of Facebook and Google where we spend considerable portions of our free time.
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In Epidemic Illusions, Eugene Richardson, a physician and an anthropologist, contends that public health practices—from epidemiological modeling and outbreak containment to Big Data and causal inference—play an essential role in perpetuating a range of global inequities.
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The Package King tears down the Brown Wall surrounding one of America's most admired companies-United Parcel Service (UPS). How did a company that began as a bicycle messenger service in Seattle, Washington become a global behemoth? Allen reveals the damage that UPS wrought in its rise to power and how
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As isolated individuals, debtors have little influence. But as a bloc, we can leverage our debts and devise new tactics to challenge the corporate creditor class and help win reparative, universal public goods. Individually, our debts overwhelm us. But together, our debts can make us powerful - says the Debt
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The meteoric rise of the largest unregulated financial market in the world - for contemporary art - is driven by a few passionate, guileful, and very hard-nosed dealers. Shnayerson chronicles their rise to power and the artists they brought along with them, incidentally providing an insight into the structural transformation
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Bruder and Maharidge reveal their peripheral, yet crucial, involvement in Snowden's disclosures and detail the effects knowledge of vast surveillance mechanisms has on journalists. They also provide ways for individuals to enhance their online privacy and decrease their digital footprint.
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Since 2004, Israel has launched eight devastating “operations” against Gaza’s largely defenseless population. Thousands have perished, and tens of thousands have been left homeless. In the meantime, Israel has subjected Gaza to a merciless illegal blockade. What has befallen Gaza is a man-made humanitarian disaster.
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Dunford and Neu provide a clear and comprehensive critique of Just War theories and the R2P doctrine, showing how their distorting frameworks justify Western intervention while ignoring the systemic causes that led to the crises in the first place.
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This collection of essays advances a class analysis of the law, showing how capitalism shapes the law and how the law in turn acts to advance the interests of the capitalist class.
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