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History and Current Events November 2020
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If then : how the Simulmatics Corporation invented the future
by Jill Lepore
The Pulitzer Prize-finalist author of These Truths traces the Cold War origins of today’s data-driven world to the Simulmatics Corporation, describing how its scientists mined data, targeted voters, manipulated consumers, and destabilized politics decades before the era of Silicon Valley. Illustrations. Tour.
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| Stakes Is High: Life After the American Dream by Mychal Denzel SmithWhat it is: an incisive collection of essays exploring the limitations and contradictions of the American Dream, from the New York Times bestselling author of Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching.
Is it for you? Mychal Denzel Smith's impassioned treatise offers a clear-eyed perspective on how the Trump presidency has exacerbated long-standing inequities in American society.
The big question: "Is the potential for the American Dream worth enduring the brutality of American life?" |
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Deepfakes : the coming infocalypse
by Nina Schick
"In a world of deepfakes, it will soon be impossible to tell what is real and what isn't. As advances in artificial intelligence, video creation, and online trolling continue, deepfakes pose not only a real threat to democracy -- they threaten to take voter manipulation to unprecedented new heights. This crisis of misinformation which we now face has since been dubbed the "Infocalypse." In DEEPFAKES, investigative journalist Nina Schick uses her expertise from working in the field to reveal shocking examples of deepfakery and explain the dangerous political consequences of the Infocalypse, both in terms of national security and what it means for public trust in politics. This all-too-timely book also unveils what this all means for us as individuals, howdeepfakes will be used to intimidate and to silence, for revenge and fraud, and just how truly unprepared governments and tech companies are for what's coming"
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Just us : an American conversation
by Claudia Rankine
A collection of essays, poems, and images examine the power of whiteness in everyday interactions and urges readers to begin the conversation and discover what it takes to breach the silence and violence
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The Third Rainbow Girl : The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia
by Emma Copley Eisenberg
An investigation into the 1980 murder of two women in Pocahontas County, West Virginia, recreates the events of the tragedy, the targeting of vulnerable suspects and the history of mysterious violence that continues to overshadow the region. 60,000 first printing.
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| Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David GrannWhat it's about: In 1920s Oklahoma, a series of murders at the Osage Indian Reservation prompted an investigation by the nascent FBI led by a young J. Edgar Hoover.
Why it matters: Journalist David Grann's extensively researched National Book Award finalist spotlights a little-known slice of Native American history by illuminating the disturbing conspiracies, corruption, and prejudice at the heart of the case. |
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| Lady Killers: Deadly Women Throughout History by Tori Telfer; illustrations by Dame Darcy What it is: a lively yet gruesome history of famous women serial killers.
Featuring: profiles of "The Blood Countess," "The Giggling Grandma," "High Priestess of the Bluebeard Clique," and more, written in a humorous and chatty tone that will appeal to fans of My Favorite Murder.
Art alert: Detailed black and white pen-and-ink illustrations by alternative cartoonist Dame Darcy accompany each chapter. |
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