ZUBOFF: In my 2002 book, “The Support Economy,” I looked at the challenges to capitalism in shifting from a mass to an individual-oriented structure of consumption. When did you start worrying that the tech giants driving it were becoming more interested in exploiting us than serving us? GAZETTE: The digital revolution began with great promise. The Gazette recently interviewed Zuboff about her belief that surveillance capitalism, a term she coined in 2014, is undermining personal autonomy and eroding democracy - and the ways she says society can fight back. In her new book, “The Age of Surveillance Capitalism,” Zuboff offers a disturbing picture of how Silicon Valley and other corporations are mining users’ information to predict and shape their behavior. But Shoshana Zuboff, professor emerita at Harvard Business School, warns that their lights, bells, and whistles have made us blind and deaf to the ways high-tech giants exploit our personal data for their own ends. The continuing advances of the digital revolution can be dazzling.
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Grown Ups by Marian Keyes5/24/2023 There should be a word to describe the sadness and satisfaction you feel when you read the last page of a Marian Keyes novel: the ending is perfect but you still want more, more, more." -Liane Moriarty, bestselling author of Big Little Lies "Messy, tangled, complex humans who reminded me that few of us ever really sort out our lives at all." -Jojo Moyes, bestselling author of Me Before You "Sensitive, funny, wonderful, immensely touching." -Nigella Lawson "I LOVED Grown Ups so much. I will be missing those gorgeous vibrant characters for many weeks to come. Advance Praise for Grown Ups : "I loved every word of Grown Ups. Ghosts dolly alderton amazon5/24/2023 Shortly after Max’s profession of love, he stopped answering the narrator’s calls and text messages. During a date in Albyn Square, where Nina grew up, Max told her that he loved her. 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The effective Lovecrafian technique of weaving real historical people like Jack London, Clark Ashton Smith, Ambrose Bierce and Lovecraft himself into the story works well as always (there's even an audacious mention of a story by "Leiber") and genuine books you could find in a big city library are mingled with the usual suggestive made-up titles. There are obviously heavy doses of Leiber autobiography here, beginning with the fact that the haunted building is the same as where he actually lived. OUR LADY OF DARKNESS first appeared in 1977, in a shorter form as "The Pale Brown Thing," in THE MAGAZINE OF FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION. but getting there was an astounding trip. True, the ending did seem a bit of a letdown the final materialization was more bizarre than convincing and its dismissal was rather too easy (that incantation was just ludicrous). OUR LADY OF DARKNESS has several moments that gave me that delicious cold jolt, several original concepts and carefully worked out theories, and some of Fritz Leiber's quirkiest writing. I was surprised and pleased, as it's been too long since I found a story that had this effect. This book pretty much seized me by the shirt front, yanked me in and wouldn't let me go. The red dust road5/23/2023 Red Dust Road is a fantastic, probing and heart-warming read’ – Independent Part of the Picador Collection, a new series showcasing the best of modern literature. ‘Like the best memoirs, this one is written with novelistic and poetic flair. Taking the reader from Glasgow to Lagos and beyond, Red Dust Road is a heart-stopping story of parents and siblings, friends and strangers, belonging and beliefs, biology and destiny. Like the best memoirs, this one is written with novelistic and poetic flair. In a book remarkable for its warmth and candour, Kay discovers that inheritance is about much more than genes: that we are shaped by songs as much as by cells, and that what triumphs, ultimately, is love. Author(s): Jackie Kay Biography Biography & Memoir. From the moment when, as a little girl, she realizes that her skin is a different colour from that of her beloved mum and dad, to the tracing and finding of her birth parents, her Highland mother and Nigerian father, Jackie Kay’s journey in Red Dust Road is one of unexpected twists, turns and deep emotions. She writes poetry, it turns out, and has obviously attracted. A new Picador Classics edition of the acclaimed biography of Scots Makar Jackie Kay, now with an introduction by Nicola Sturgeon. But the point about it is that it has no end. I knew nothing about Jackie Kay before opening this book, so it was a bit of a leap in the dark. CELEBRATING 50 YEARS OF PICADOR BOOKS You think adoption is a story which has an end. 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Henry has anything but the perfect home life, his relationship with his dad is fractured, his This conte mporary novel follows Henry who is a high school junior, who has been experiencing alien abductions, which has wrapped his sense of realit y. This week I will be talking about We Are the Ants by Shaun David Hutchinson. All The Things You Are by M. Jules Aedin5/23/2023 The great characters are combined with an interesting plot and sizzling sexual tension. Aedin has delivered another fabulous and whimsical story that is chock full of sexy myths and clever references. I knew from the great cover this would be a delightful and fun romp. But when the plan goes wrong and Charlie ends up in a love coma, Vincent is put on trial for his slutty bunny ways! Now his only hope is for love to conquer all-including death-and come winging his way. 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Now, this special restored edition presents the original manuscript as the author prepared it to be published.įeaturing a personal foreword by Patrick Hemingway, Ernest’s sole surviving son, and an introduction by grandson of the author, Seán Hemingway, editor of this edition, the book also includes a number of unfinished, never-before-published Paris sketches revealing experiences that Hemingway had with his son, Jack, and his first wife Hadley. Since Hemingway’s personal papers were released in 1979, scholars have examined the changes made to the text before publication. Published posthumously in 1964, A Moveable Feast remains one of Ernest Hemingway’s most enduring works. Ernest Hemingway’s classic memoir of Paris in the 1920s, now available in a restored edition, includes the original manuscript along with insightful recollections and unfinished sketches. |