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Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism
Safiya Umoja Noble · NYU Press
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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A revealing look at how negative biases against women of color are embedded in search engine results and algorithms Run a Google search for "black girls" - what will you find? "Big Booty" and other sexually explicit terms are likely to come up as top search terms. But,... |
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What the Eyes Don't See: A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City
MONA HANNA-ATTISHA · One World
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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The dramatic story of the signature environmental disaster of our time and an inspiring tale of relentless citizen resistance in the face of corrupt power
Flint was already a troubled city in 2014 when the state of Michigan - in the name of austerity - shifted the source of its water... |
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Adcreep: The Case Against Modern Marketing
Mark Bartholomew · Stanford Law Books
Pages: 248
Format: Hardcover
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Advertising is everywhere. By some estimates, the average American is exposed to over 3,000 advertisements each day. Whether we realize it or not, "adcreep" -- modern marketing's march to create a world where advertising can be expected anywhere and anytime -- has come, transforming... |
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Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know
Malcolm Gladwell · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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Malcolm Gladwell, host of the podcast Revisionist History and author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Outliers, offers a powerful examination of our interactions with strangers--and why they often go wrong.
How did Fidel Castro fool the CIA for a generation? Why did Neville... |
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Small Gas Engine Repair, Fourth Edition
PAUL DEMPSEY · MCGRAW-HILL EDUCATION
Pages: 288
Format: Print book
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The bestselling step-by-step guide to gas engine maintenance and repair - updated for today's do-it-yourselferThe Fourth Edition of Small Gas Engine Repair shows readers how to troubleshoot and repair virtually any type of small gas engine used in garden equipment, chain saws, pumps,... |
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Citizen Reporters: S.S. McClure, Ida Tarbell, and the Magazine That Rewrote America
Stephanie Gorton · Ecco
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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A fascinating history of the rise and fall of influential Gilded Age magazine McClure's and the two unlikely outsiders at its helm - as well as a timely, full-throated defense of investigative journalism in America
The president of the United States made headlines around the world... |
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Open Concept Houses
FRANCESC ZAMORA · Harper Design
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of the successful 150 Best series comes the debut entry in the forward-thinking Open Concept Houses series, filled with nearly 500 pages of color photos - sure to become the ultimate resource for this fast-growing trend in home design and renovation. One of the hottest... |
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Superpower: One Man's Quest to Transform American Energy
Russell Gold · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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The author of The Boom, "the best all-around book yet on fracking" (San Francisco Chronicle) , turns his attention to renewable energy pioneer Michael Skelly, whose innovations, struggle, and persistence represent the groundbreaking changes underway in American... |
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