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This graphic history traces spying and surveillance from legends to the present. In The Machine Never Blinks, the story of surveillance is presented from its earliest days, to help you more fully understand today's headlines about every-increasing, constant, and unrelenting monitoring and global data collection. It's a threat to your rights, privacy, dignity, and sanity. This book spans surveillance from the Trojan Horse, through 9/11 and to the so-called War on Terror, which enabled the exponential growth of government and corporate intercepts and databases. It also explains spying as entertainment (reality TV) and convenience (smart speakers). Take a look around... Who's watching you right now?
At last, a way to improve your Tagalog! Written by Joi Barrios as the continuation of her best-selling Tagalog for Beginners book, Intermediate Tagalog is the first intermediate-level book designed specifically for people who already speak or understand some basic Tagalog and now wish to achieve greater fluency in speaking, reading and writing standard Filipino--the national language of the Philippines. The carefully-constructed lessons in this book point out common grammatical errors that English speakers make when speaking Tagalog, and present "real-life" conversations demonstrating how the language is spoken in Manila today. Extensive cultural notes are provided, along with exercises and ...
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Une histoire richement documentée de la surveillance et la télésurveillance de l'Antiquité à nos jours, depuis le cheval de Troie jusqu'à Facebook. La Machine ne cligne jamais des yeux revient sur les origines de la surveillance et de l'espionnage. Nous vivons dans une société où micro, caméras, cookies, big data, cartes à puces et GPS récoltent nos données, avec ou sans notre consentement. Quel en est l'impact sur notre vie privée, et notre dignité ?
Polish-born English novelist Joseph Conrad is one of the great modern writers of England. His novels reflect his concerns with the complex individual, and how sympathy and imagination can blur clear judgmentwhich is essential to life. The character development in Conrad's books is engaging and powerful.Critic August Nemo selected seven short stories from this author for your entertainment:The IdiotsAn Outpost of ProgressAmy FosterYouthAn AnarchistThe Secret SharerThe Return
Contains the novels Lord Jim, Nostromo and The Secret Agent, together with a selection of Conrad's superb short stories.
Joseph Conrad (1857–1924) was a major English novelist whose classic works of fiction depict the challenges to the human condition posed by the demands of duty and honour. Written in English, his third language after Polish and French, these works are excellent examples of Conrad’s poetic prose and exotic style. This selected collection includes ‘Heart of Darkness’, ‘Lord Jim’, ‘Nostromo’ and ‘The Secret Agent’ in a single volume, and is an essential edition for collectors, students and general lovers of Joseph Conrad.
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