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The Savior Generals
How Five Great Commanders Saved Wars That Were Lost-From Ancient Greece to Iraq
Traces the stories of Themistocles, Belisarius, William Tecumseh Sherman, Matthew Ridgway, and David Petraeus, evaluating their pivotal military roles and the controversies that marked their careers.
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Spam
A Shadow History of the Internet
Spam emails — those commonplace nuisances in inboxes around the world — are a surprisingly complex phenomenon, part of a global criminal infrastructure in which we are all, unwittingly, entangled.
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Present Shock
When Everything Happens Now
The author of Life, Inc. examines the pros and cons of today's digitally driven, real-time world, explaining how to safeguard against the vulnerabilities of instant-experience media while maximizing its benefits.
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Big Data
A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think
This revelatory exploration of big data, which refers to our newfound ability to crunch vast amounts of information, analyze it instantly and draw profound and surprising conclusions from it, discusses how it will change our lives and what we can do to protect ourselves from its hazards.
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To Save Everything, Click Here
The Folly of Technological Solutionism
Arguing that technology is changing the way we understand human society, the award-winning author of The Net Delusion discusses how the disciplines of politics, culture, public debate, morality and humanism will be affected when we delegate much of the responsibility for them to technology.
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Netflixed
The Epic Battle for America's Eyeballs
In Netflixed, Gina Keating traces Netflix's rise throughout a decade-long war against Blockbuster. Keating analyzes its polarizing founders while evaluating how the company has become subject to competition with and marketing by cable companies and telecoms.
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Distant Witness
Social Media, the Arab Spring and a Journalism Revolution
Andy Carvin had unusual access to the people and events of the Arab Spring: from NPR headquarters in DC, he built a highly active twitter community of revolutionaries, witnesses and reporters. In this blend of memoir and history, he shares stories of the Arab Spring while exploring the benefits and difficulties of reporting from a distance.
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Kill Anything That Moves
The Real American War in Vietnam
Based on classified documents and interviews, a controversial history of the Vietnam War argues that American acts of violence against millions of Vietnamese civilians were a pervasive and systematic part of the war.
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On The Map
A Mind-Expanding Exploration Of The Way The World Looks
The award-winning author of Just My Type examines the pivotal relationship between mapping and civilization, demonstrating the unique ways that maps relate and realign history in an account that also shares engaging cartography stories and map lore.
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The Generals
American Military Command from World War II to Today
The Generals describes the values, strategic thinking and leadership qualities of military leaders from World War II to the present day and how the widening separation between performance and accountability has not resulted in any recent Marshalls, Eisenhowers or Pattons.
