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Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
Finalist for The Los Angles Times Book Prize in Science & Technology
Finalist for the Helen Bernstein Award for Excellence in Journalism
Most Anticipated Book by The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times • A Next Big Idea Book Club
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"We are approaching a critical threshold in the history of our species. Everything is about to change. Soon you will live surrounded by AIs. They will organise your life, operate your business, and run core government services. You will live in a world of DNA printers and quantum computers, engineered pathogens and autonomous weapons, robot assistants and abundant energy. None of us are prepared. As co-founder of the pioneering AI company DeepMind,...
Author
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"This just in: Becoming a savvy news consumer is more important than ever! People are spending more time on the internet, where they're exposed to fake news and clickbait. And as major news events such as the COVID-19 pandemic have shown us, the spread of misinformation puts lives at risk. Breaking News: Why Media Matters explores the history of the media industry, the important role it plays today and the challenges it faces. It also gives kids...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The trauma that our world experienced in recent years--as result of both the pandemic and societal tensions that threaten to overwhelm us--has been unprecedented and is not going away anytime soon. It is clear that existing political and economic systems are not enough to bring the change that the world needs. In this book, Rainn Wilson explores the possibility and hope for a spiritual revolution, a "Soul Boom" in order to address today's greatest...
Author
Publisher
Albert Phillips Jr
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Every year, millions of Black teenagers like you work to navigate the American job market. Unfortunately, courageous and resilient young people are often under-prepared and face various barriers due to systemic inequities-making them less likely to gain and excel in meaningful employment opportunities. Additionally, most "how to get a job" books provide a race-neutral, one-size-fits-all model that does not speak to the unique realities and challenges...
Author
Publisher
Verso
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"This is a call to arms about how to bring the big online platforms to their knees. It concerns the question of interoperability: the way that Facebook, Twitter etc make it very difficult for you to move and own your data. Doctorow shows that this is not a problem of technology but of law, business and apathy in face of growing monopolies. He covers ground such as anti-trust, and how the platforms deal with take down orders. Through this he shows...
Author
Publisher
Kairos
Pub. Date
1996
Language
Español
Description
La inteligencia emocional puede ser fomentada y fortalecida en todos nosotros. Nos permite tomar conciencia de nuestras emociones, comprender los sentimientos de los demás, tolerar las presiones y frustraciones que soportamos en el trabajo, acentuar nuestra capacidad de trabajar en equipo y adoptar una actitud empática y social, que nos brindará mayores posibilidades de desarrollo personal.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"In 1956, the New York Times prophesied that once global warming really kicked in, we could see parrots in the Antarctic. In 2010, when science deniers had control of the climate story, Senator James Inhofe and his family built an igloo on the Washington Mall and plunked a sign on top: AL GORE'S NEW HOME: HONK IF YOU LOVE CLIMATE CHANGE. In The Parrot and the Igloo, best-selling author David Lipsky tells the astonishing story of how we moved from...
Author
Publisher
Sentinel, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"From the author of Irreversible Damage, an investigation into a mental health industry that is harming, not healing, American children In virtually every way that can be measured, Gen Z's mental health is worse than that of previous generations. Youth suicide rates are climbing, antidepressant prescriptions for children are common, and the proliferation of mental health diagnoses has not helped the staggering number of kids who are lonely, lost,...
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Everybody has a body, and each body is different. Sometimes the differences mean certain kids have challenges. In this book you can meet some kids who face challenges and find out about their differences--as well as all the things everybody has in common.
"This photo picture book looks at differences in bodies, with photos of children with many different challenges including various physical disparities, learning differences, and medical conditions"--...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"An utterly original and entertaining investigation into one of the most unrecognized but influential forces in modern American urban and social life--the humble parking spot. You may not yet realize it, but parking has a death grip on life in America. All too often, quite literally: tragically, each year many Americans are killed by their fellow citizens over parking spots. But even when we don't resort to violence, we routinely do ridiculous things...
Author
Publisher
BookBaby
Pub. Date
2022]
Language
Español
Description
"¿Vivir? ¿Para qué?... Y en nombre de quien. Pregunta existencial que plantea Lucido del Alba a través de todos sus escritos y en particular en esta historia donde todo está vacío. El protagonista esta convencido de que el vacío no es exterior, y se debate en la búsqueda de una respuesta inexistente. Deduciendo que este vacío, es el único que puede albergarnos"--Contraportada.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press, an imprint of St. Martin's Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
""I am an eighties baby who grew to hate school. I never fully understood why. Until now. Until Bettina Love unapologetically and painstakingly chronicled the last forty years of education 'reform' in this landmark book. I hated school because it warred on me. I hated school because I loved to dream." -Ibram X. Kendi, New York Times bestselling author of How to be an Antiracist. In the tradition of Michelle Alexander, an unflinching reckoning with...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"By the time they reach kindergarten, most kids have learned that "fat" is bad. As they get older, kids learn to pursue thinness in order to survive in a world that ties our body size to our value. Multibillion-dollar industries thrive on consumers believing that we don't want to be fat. Our weight-centric medical system pushes "weight loss" as a prescription, while ignoring social determinants of health and reinforcing negative stereotypes about...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press, an imprint of St. Martin's Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"James Beard Award-winning author Kim Foster reveals a new portrait of hunger and humanity in America. Food is a conduit for connection; we envision smiling families gathered around a table--eating, happy, content. But what happens when poverty, mental illness, homelessness, and addiction claim a seat at the table? In The Meth Lunches, James Beard award-winning writer Kim Foster peers behind the polished visions of perfectly curated dinners and charming...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"In her first book, How to Do Nothing, Jenny Odell wrote about the importance of disconnecting from the "attention economy" to spend time in quiet contemplation. But what if you don't have time to spend? In order to answer this seemingly simple question, Odell took a deep dive into the fundamental structure of our society and found that the clock we live by was built for profit, not people. This is why our lives, even in leisure, have come to seem...
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"From the creator of Your Fat Friend, an explosive indictment on the systemic and cultural issues facing plus-sized people that will move us toward creating an agenda for fat justice"--
"Anti-fatness is everywhere. In What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat, Aubrey Gordon unearths the cultural attitudes and social systems that have led to people being denied basic needs because they are fat and calls for social justice movements to be inclusive...
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