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The Costs of Connection

The Costs of Connection

How Data Is Colonizing Human Life and Appropriating It for Capitalism

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Nick Couldry, Ulises A. Mejias
Nick Couldry, Ulises A. Mejias

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83 books

Non Fiction

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Roslyn
Furiously Happy
Empireland
Calypso
In Order To Live A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom
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The War of Art
The Social Contract

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18 books

Politics Economics

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Roslyn
Liberalism Disavowed: Communitarianism and State Capitalism in Singapore
Superior: The Return of Race Science
Happy City
Gate of the Sun
Gaza in Crisis: Reflections on Israel's War Against the Palestinians
The Botany of Desire

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18 books

Science

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Roslyn
The Hidden Life of Trees
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Hello World: Being Human in the Age of Algorithms
Psychology of Everyday Things
The Botany of Desire
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

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17,841 books

My Library

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Nitin Rughoonauth
Fermi Remembered
Goedel's Way: Exploits into an undecidable world
Brave Genius: A Scientist, a Philosopher, and Their Daring Adventures from the French Resistance to the Nobel Prize
Debate en torno a la etica del discurso de Apel: Diálogo filosófico Norte-Sur desde América Latina
Love and math : the heart of hidden reality
The Road to Reality
The Large, the Small and the Human Mind

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326 books

Nonfiction

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Adam
Things Might Go Terribly, Horribly Wrong: A Guide to Life Liberated from Anxiety
Debt: The First 5,000 Years
No god but God
Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks
The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail - But Some Don't
Rob Neyer's Big Book of Baseball Blunders: A Complete Guide to the Worst Decisions and Stupidest Moments in Baseball History
Crossworld

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41 books

Economics

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Adam
Griftopia
Race and the Invisible Hand : How White Networks Exclude Black Men from Blue-Collar Jobs
Debt: The First 5,000 Years
Capital in the Twenty-First Century
A Random Walk Down Wall Street
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Economics rules : the rights and wrongs of the dismal science

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28 books

Technology

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Adam
The United States of Anonymous: How the First Amendment Shaped Online Speech
Ghost Work
Calling Bullshit : The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World
The Internet Is Not the Anwer
Silicon Values
Behind the Screen
Hard Drive

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7 books

Data Science

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Adam
Calling Bullshit : The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World
The Alignment Problem
The Midrange Theory
Data versus Democracy: How Big Data Algorithms Shape Opinions and Alter the Course of History
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
Beautiful Evidence

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118 books

Mathematics Science And Technology

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David A. Lee
The Alchemy of Us
The Intelligibility of Nature: How Science Makes Sense of the World
The Space Barons : Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the Quest to Colonize the Cosmos
The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease
Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13
Systemic action research: A strategy for whole system change