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The Laundromat and the Four Elements

by Shelby R Ward ...

Series Book 2 - The Ebonwick Chronicles
Nav and Robert are settling into their apartment above The Velvet Mansion. Since they started working in the antiques store, they've discovered a magical grimoire that seems to move on its own and will do anything to get Nav's attention. They've made friends with the girls that live next door, and they're going on their first date! Nav discovers more about the mysterious grimoire, while Robert ... Read more

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Nav and Robert are settling into their apartment above The Velvet Mansion. Since they started working in the antiques store, they've discovered a magical grimoire that seems to move on its own and will do anything to get Nav's attention. They've made friends with the girls that live next door, and they're going on their first date! Nav discovers more about the mysterious grimoire, while Robert
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Future Spaces of Power

The Cultural Politics of Digital and Outer Spaces

Edited by Caroline Alphin, E. Leigh McKagen, Shelby E. Ward ...

Series series Critical Futures: Creative Interventions and Revolutionary Possibilities
Future Spaces of Power explores political, cultural, and societal narratives of future space(s) on a global scale to complicate the cultural logic of systemic futures that exist outside the boundaries of dominant political imaginaries.Contributors critically engage with alternative visions found in literature, film, and other cultural artifacts that encourage us to either live with or escape from ... Read more

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Future Spaces of Power explores political, cultural, and societal narratives of future space(s) on a global scale to complicate the cultural logic of systemic futures that exist outside the boundaries of dominant political imaginaries.Contributors critically engage with alternative visions found in literature, film, and other cultural artifacts that encourage us to either live with or escape from
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A World Without Work

Technology, Automation, and How We Should Respond

by Daniel Susskind ...

A World Without Work: A Visionary Account of How AI Will Transform the World of WorkFrom mechanical looms to computers, new technologies have always provoked panic about workers being replaced by machines. For centuries, such fears have been misplaced, but as Daniel Susskind demonstrates in A World Without Work, this time is different. Breakthroughs in artificial intelligence mean that all kinds ... Read more

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A World Without Work: A Visionary Account of How AI Will Transform the World of WorkFrom mechanical looms to computers, new technologies have always provoked panic about workers being replaced by machines. For centuries, such fears have been misplaced, but as Daniel Susskind demonstrates in A World Without Work, this time is different. Breakthroughs in artificial intelligence mean that all kinds
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Daisy and the Trouble with Chocolate

A funny story for 5-7 year olds from the bestselling author of OI FROG

by Kes Gray, Nick Sharratt, Garry Parsons ...

Illustrated by Nick Sharratt, Garry Parsons ...

Series Book 12 - A Daisy Story
Daisy is SO excited! She's been picked to look after the class hamsters, Pickle and Pops, over the Easter holidays - AND her mum's taking her to Chocolate Land!!!Trouble is, the two things probably shouldn't mix...The totally troublesome and laugh-out-loud funny tale from the bestselling Daisy series. ... Read more

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Daisy is SO excited! She's been picked to look after the class hamsters, Pickle and Pops, over the Easter holidays - AND her mum's taking her to Chocolate Land!!!Trouble is, the two things probably shouldn't mix...The totally troublesome and laugh-out-loud funny tale from the bestselling Daisy series.
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Whose Global Village?

Rethinking How Technology Shapes Our World

by Ramesh Srinivasan ...

This critical reassessment of digital proliferation calls for a new approach to technology that includes marginalized, non-western communities.In the digital age, technology has shrunk the physical world into a "global village," where we all seem to be connected as an online community. Yet while we think of platforms such as Twitter and Facebook as open and accessible to all, they are in fact ... Read more

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This critical reassessment of digital proliferation calls for a new approach to technology that includes marginalized, non-western communities.In the digital age, technology has shrunk the physical world into a "global village," where we all seem to be connected as an online community. Yet while we think of platforms such as Twitter and Facebook as open and accessible to all, they are in fact
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Jack and the Snackstalk: A Branches Book (Princess Pink and the Land of Fake-Believe #4)

by Noah Z. Jones ...

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Series Book 4 - Princess Pink and the Land of Fake-Believe
Princess Pink climbs up a yummy snackstalk -- but will she be able to escape the GIANT and get back down?This series is part of Scholastic's early chapter book line called Branches, which is aimed at newly independent readers. With easy-to-read text, high-interest content, fast-paced plots, and illustrations on every page, these books will boost reading confidence and stamina. Branches books help ... Read more

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Princess Pink climbs up a yummy snackstalk -- but will she be able to escape the GIANT and get back down?This series is part of Scholastic's early chapter book line called Branches, which is aimed at newly independent readers. With easy-to-read text, high-interest content, fast-paced plots, and illustrations on every page, these books will boost reading confidence and stamina. Branches books help
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The Information Society

Cyber Dreams and Digital Nightmares

by Robert Hassan ...

Series series Digital Media and Society
What are we to make of the information society? Many prominent theorists have argued it to be the most profound and comprehensive transformation of economy, culture and politics since the rise of the industrial way of life in the 18th century. Some saw its arrival in a positive light, where the dreams of democracy, of ‘connectivity’ and ‘efficiency’ constituted a break with the old ways. But other ... Read more

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What are we to make of the information society? Many prominent theorists have argued it to be the most profound and comprehensive transformation of economy, culture and politics since the rise of the industrial way of life in the 18th century. Some saw its arrival in a positive light, where the dreams of democracy, of ‘connectivity’ and ‘efficiency’ constituted a break with the old ways. But other
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Seven Ethics Against Capitalism

Towards a Planetary Commons

by Oli Mould ...

Capitalism has become so dominant that it is difficult to ever imagine a world in which its injustices and inequalities are not violently present. In this ambitious and compelling book, Oli Mould turns his diagnosis of capitalism's perversions towards defining the new set of ethics we need to succeed in organizing a more just society.In the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, capitalism has been ... Read more

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Capitalism has become so dominant that it is difficult to ever imagine a world in which its injustices and inequalities are not violently present. In this ambitious and compelling book, Oli Mould turns his diagnosis of capitalism's perversions towards defining the new set of ethics we need to succeed in organizing a more just society.In the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, capitalism has been
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Awaken (Northern Witch #2)

Northern Witch, #2

by K.S. Marsden ...

Series Book 2 - Northern Witch
Magic always demands a price… and some choices can never be undone.Mark survived his first Winter Trials, but life is far from returning to normal. The world of witches is larger, darker and far more dangerous than he ever imagined. As his powers grow stronger, so do the secrets surrounding him — and the people he loves.After everything that happened with Damian, Mark is still trying to understand ... Read more

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Magic always demands a price… and some choices can never be undone.Mark survived his first Winter Trials, but life is far from returning to normal. The world of witches is larger, darker and far more dangerous than he ever imagined. As his powers grow stronger, so do the secrets surrounding him — and the people he loves.After everything that happened with Damian, Mark is still trying to understand
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Against Reduction

Designing a Human Future with Machines

by Noelani Arista, Sasha Costanza-Chock, Vafa Ghazavi, Suzanne Kite ...

Provocative, hopeful essays imagine a future that is not reduced to algorithms.What is human flourishing in an age of machine intelligence, when many claim that the world’s most complex problems can be reduced to narrow technical questions? Does more computing make us more intelligent, or simply more computationally powerful? We need not always resist reduction; our ability to simplify helps us ... Read more

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Provocative, hopeful essays imagine a future that is not reduced to algorithms.What is human flourishing in an age of machine intelligence, when many claim that the world’s most complex problems can be reduced to narrow technical questions? Does more computing make us more intelligent, or simply more computationally powerful? We need not always resist reduction; our ability to simplify helps us
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When Science Meets Power

by Geoff Mulgan ...

Science and politics have collaborated throughout human history, and science is repeatedly invoked today in political debates, from pandemic management to climate change. But the relationship between the two is muddled and muddied.Leading policy analyst Geoff Mulgan here calls attention to the growing frictions caused by the expanding authority of science, which sometimes helps politics but often ... Read more

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Science and politics have collaborated throughout human history, and science is repeatedly invoked today in political debates, from pandemic management to climate change. But the relationship between the two is muddled and muddied.Leading policy analyst Geoff Mulgan here calls attention to the growing frictions caused by the expanding authority of science, which sometimes helps politics but often
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Digital Labor

The Internet as Playground and Factory

Edited by Trebor Scholz ...

Digital Labor calls on the reader to examine the shifting sites of labor markets to the Internet through the lens of their political, technological, and historical making. Internet users currently create most of the content that makes up the web: they search, link, tweet, and post updates—leaving their "deep" data exposed. Meanwhile, governments listen in, and big corporations track, analyze, and ... Read more

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Digital Labor calls on the reader to examine the shifting sites of labor markets to the Internet through the lens of their political, technological, and historical making. Internet users currently create most of the content that makes up the web: they search, link, tweet, and post updates—leaving their "deep" data exposed. Meanwhile, governments listen in, and big corporations track, analyze, and
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