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1) Big time
Author
Publisher
Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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2024 Reading Challenge: Book about time or has a measure of time in the title
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Description
The New York Times best-selling author of The Quiet Boy returns with a speculative, corporate espionage thriller that takes the adage "Time is money," and makes it literally, frighteningly so.
Author
Publisher
Duke University Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The Other Side of Empathy argues that empathy itself is a culturally created and maintained affective ideology deployed to make sense of a world that has been irrevocably distorted by colonization and technology. Understanding empathy culture, and empathy as an ideology allows for an exploration of its arbitrariness, cultural contradictions, and limits. An analysis of "human zoos," as presented in colonial photography and in their digital afterlife,...
Author
Publisher
Westland Non-Fiction
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Over two decades, and across two different political regimes, the world's largest democracy combined the rise of cheap mobile phones, cheap data and a unique digital ID system to create an unprecedented revolution in digital public goods. This included the rise of path-breaking fintech systems like Unified Payments Interface (UPI), the creation of a new kind of welfare state based on digital direct benefit transfers and interlinked e-governance systems...
Publisher
Yen Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Yokohama Station has swallowed 99% of mainland Japan. With help from Keiha Nijo of the Dodger Alliance, Hiroto has followed the Professor's whispered intimations to Exit 42 in the mountainous interior of Yokohama Station. There, in the heart of the beast, an ancient monitor flickers to life, and an image of the Profesor in his youth, a haunting digital simulacrum, awakens from its slumber. And just nearby, there is a button--one that, when pressed,...
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