Category: Social Science | Reading Level: very good
"A clear, compelling guide to some of the most pressing debates in technology today." - Bill Gates, from the foreword From Microsoft's President and one of the tech industry's wisest thinkers, a frank and thoughtful reckoning with how to balance enormous promise and existential risk as the digitization ...Show more
Category: Social Science | Series: Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History Ser. | Reading Level: very good
This collection of essays explains and encourages new reflection on Paul Rabinow's pioneering project to anthropologize the West. His goal is to exoticize the Western constitution of reality, emphasize those domains most taken for granted as universal, and show how their claims to truth are linked to pa ...Show more
Category: Social Science | Reading Level: very good
In January 2012, the hacker collective Anonymous brought down the FBI website in response to planned American laws against internet piracy. In 2011, LulzSec, a sister organisation, broke into and blocked computer systems at VISA, Mastercard and PayPal. The groups have infiltrated the networks of totalit ...Show more
Category: Medicine | Reading Level: very good
This book explores the ways in which anorexic women use their eating to control their bodies. It argues that the female body in modern Western culture is understood as open and accessible and female appetite as dangerous and voracious. Anorexia attempts to resist both these constructions in the creation ...Show more
Category: Social Science | Reading Level: very good
This highly acclaimed work, in which Pierre Bourdieu turns hisattention to the academic world and offers a brilliant analysis ofmodern intellectual culture, is now available in paperback. Theacademy is shown to be not just a realm of dialogue and debate, butalso a sphere of power in which reputations an ...Show more
Category: Social Science | Series: Inquiries in Social Construction Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Much discussion in recent years has centred on the status of the self, identity and subjectivity in the light of powerful arguments about the social origins of personhood. The Social Selfpresents many dimensions of the debate, spanning psychology, philosophy, politics and feminist theory, and provides a ...Show more
Category: Social Science | Reading Level: very good
Sydney in the 1970s and 1980s was a world of limited choice, one where we all watched the same television programs and the household phone was at the heart of allnetworks people belonged to: family, school, church and the neighbourhood. The arrival of the internet promised a utopian, creative and democr ...Show more
Category: Social Science | Reading Level: very good
"David Epstein manages to make me thoroughly enjoy the experience of being told that everything I thought about something was wrong. I loved Range." Malcolm Gladwell, bestselling author of Outliers.Range is the ground-breaking and exhilarating exploration into how to be successful in the 21st Century, f ...Show more
Category: Social Science | Reading Level: very good
Category: Social Science | Reading Level: near fine
On the Age of Disruption This is an age of increasing disruption of all sorts-one that is now having significant political impacts in even the most stable, advanced democracies. On President Trump I do not know whether Donald Trump's presidency will succeed or not. But what I do know is that the issues ...Show more
Category: Social Science | Series: Pelican Ser. | Reading Level: good