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Summary of Sheera Frenkel and Cecilia Kang’s An Ugly Truth
Buy now to get the main key ideas from Sheera Frenkel and Cecilia Kang’s An Ugly Truth In An Ugly Truth (2021), Sheera Frenkel and Cecilia Kang document Facebook’s ongoing battles and fight for domination. They reveal how the biggest social media network worldwide played a role in the Myanmar genocide and other horrific events, facilitated foreign interference in the 2016 US election, allowed access to private data without users’ consent, and shared their information with other apps. It is true that Mark Zuckerberg’s tech giant has positively contributed to societies and communities in various ways, but Facebook has constantly faced challenges and caused controversies due to its privacy abuse and lack of misinformation censorship. Many opponents have tried to take it down over the years, yet Zuckerberg never fails to give his business the right push to rise and thrive again.
The White Book
Shortlisted for the Man Booker International 2018 From the author of The Vegetarian, winner of the Man Booker International Prize 2016 From the author of The Vegetarian and Human Acts comes a book like no other. The White Book is a meditation on colour, beginning with a list of white things. It is a book about mourning, rebirth and the tenacity of the human spirit. It is a stunning investigation of the fragility, beauty and strangeness of life. Translated from the Korean by Deborah Smith.
The Chinese Medical Ministries of Kang Cheng and Shi Meiyu, 1872-1937
This is the first full length study of the medical ministries of Kang Cheng and Shi Meiyu. Know in English speaking countries as Drs. Ida Kahn and Mary Stone, these two Chinese women opened a small Western style medical practice for women and children inthe Jiujiang, China in 1896. At its broadest level, this study contributes to the development of a transnational women's history, deepening our understanding about how ideas about women have traveled across boundaries.
Heaven
“A raw, tender portrait of adolescent misery, reminiscent of Elena Ferrante’s fiction.” —NPR From the bestselling author of Breasts and Eggs, a sharp and illuminating novel about the impact of violence and the power of solidarity. Tormented by his peers because of his lazy eye, Kawakami’s protagonist suffers in silence. His only respite comes thanks to his friendship with a girl who is also the victim of relentless teasing. But what is the nature of a friendship if your shared bond is terror? Unflinching yet tender, intimate and multi-layered, Heaven is yet another dazzling testament to Kawakami’s uncontainable talent. “An argument in favor of meaning, of beauty, of life.” ...
The Avengers
The long-awaited final collection of Avengers issues by the legendary team of writer Kurt Busiek and artist George Perez finds Earth's Mightiest Heroes on the outs! They've shared the same brain patterns -- and loved the same woman. Now, Wonder Man and the Vision go head-to-head!
Information Science and Applications
This book presents selected papers from the 10th International Conference on Information Science and Applications (ICISA 2019), held on December 16–18, 2019, in Seoul, Korea, and provides a snapshot of the latest issues regarding technical convergence and convergences of security technologies. It explores how information science is at the core of most current research as well as industrial and commercial activities. The respective chapters cover a broad range of topics, including ubiquitous computing, networks and information systems, multimedia and visualization, middleware and operating systems, security and privacy, data mining and artificial intelligence, software engineering and web technology, as well as applications and problems related to technology convergence, which are reviewed and illustrated with the aid of case studies. Researchers in academia, industry, and at institutes focusing on information science and technology will gain a deeper understanding of the current state of the art in information strategies and technologies for convergence security.
Chinese Mythology
In Chinese Mythology, Anne Birrell provides English translations of some 300 representative myth narratives selected from over 100 classical texts, many of which have never before been translated into any Western language. Organizing the narratives according to themes and motifs common to world mythology, Birrell addresses issues of source, dating, attribution, textural variants, multiforms, and context. Drawing on exhaustive work in comparative mythology, she surveys the development of Chinese myth studies, summarizes the contribution of Chinese and Japanese scholars to the study of Chinese myth since the 1920s, and examines special aspects of traditional approaches to Chinese myth. The result is an unprecedented guide to the study of Chinese myth for specialists and nonspecialists alike.
