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Who Should We Be Online A Social Epistemology for the Internet


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2022 | ISBN: 0190089180 | English | 280 pages | True EPUB | 1 MB
Global inequalities and our social identities shape who we are, who we can be online, and what we know. From social media to search engines to Wikipedia, the internet is thoroughly embedded in how we produce, find, and share knowledge around the world. Who Should We Be Online? examines the challenges of the online world using numerous epistemological approaches. Tackling problems of online content moderation, fake news, and hoaxes, Frost-Arnold locates the role that sexism, racism, and other forms of oppression play in creating and sharing knowledge online.

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Who Needs Gay Bars Bar-Hopping through America’s Endangered LGBTQ+ Places


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English | ISBN: 1503629201 | 2023 | 448 pages | PDF | 20 MB
Gay bars have been closing by the hundreds. The story goes that increasing mainstream acceptance of LGBTQ+ people, plus dating apps like Grindr and Tinder, have rendered these spaces obsolete. Beyond that, rampant gentrification in big cities has pushed gay bars out of the neighborhoods they helped make hip. Who Needs Gay Bars? considers these narratives, accepting that the answer for some might be: maybe nobody. And yet…

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Europe’s Last Summer. Who Started the Great War in 1914


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Random House | 2004 | ISBN: 0375411569 | English | 350 pages | PDF | 106.01 MB
Author David Fromkin provides an intelligently written and deeply researched of the political situation and diplomatic relations that unfolded in Europe in the summer of 1914. There are many key and novel insights in Fromkin’s book. One is the conclusion that Germany sought war with Russia out of fear that Russia’s growing economic and military power coupled with its vast population would allow it to surpass Germany in a short period of time. Fromkin shows how German generals, seeing war as inevitable, manipulated events to precipitate a conflict waged on their own terms. Moving deftly between diplomats, generals, and rulers across Europe, he makes the complex diplomatic negotiations accessible and immediate. Examining the actions of individuals amid larger historical forces, this is a gripping historical narrative and a dramatic reassessment of a key moment in the twentieth-century.

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Doctor Who A Brief History of Time Lords


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English | 2017 | pages: 160 | ISBN: 006266686X | EPUB | 149,7 mb
THE book the Time Lords (including the Doctor) read when studying at the Academy, the full-color in-world history that pieces together the true story of Gallifrey from the many and contradictory accounts that survived the Last Great Time War.

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Inventors and Scientists (Women Who Made History)


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English | July 30, 2019 | ISBN: 1538243067 | 48 pages | EPUB | 14 Mb
Women have always made great contributions to science, and some of the greatest inventors in history were women, but for far too long many of these individuals weren’t recognized for their accomplishments. For example, even today, many people don’t know it was a woman, English mathematician Ada Lovelace, who wrote the first computer program. Readers of this accessible volume will learn about Lovelace and many other inspiring women who changed the course of history through their inventions and contributions to science.

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Who Owns Outer Space


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English | 2023 | ISBN: 1108497837 | 428 Pages | PDF (True) | 9 MB
From Space debris to asteroid strikes to anti-satellite weapons, humanity’s rapid expansion into Space raises major environmental, safety, and security challenges. In this book, Michael Byers and Aaron Boley, an international lawyer and an astrophysicist, identify and interrogate these challenges and propose actionable solutions. They explore essential questions from, ‘How do we ensure all of humanity benefits from the development of Space, and not just the world’s richest people?’ to ‘Is it possible to avoid war in Space?’ Byers and Boley explain the essential aspects of Space science, international law, and global governance in a fully transdisciplinary and highly accessible way. Addressing the latest and emerging developments in Space, they equip readers with the knowledge and tools to engage in current and critically important legal, policy, and scientific debates concerning the future development of Space. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

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The Man Who Bent Light Father of Fibre Optics


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English | ISBN: 8195256600 | 2022 | 290 pages | EPUB | 6 MB
The father of fiber optics, Narinder Singh Kapany was far more than your typical multi-hyphenate. Inventor, art collector, sculptor, farmer, entrepreneur, teacher, and a successful businessman, Dr Kapany was what Fortune magazine in its 1999 issue called, ‘one of the seven unsung heroes of the 20th century’. An insightful and inspirational life story, this memoir chronicles his 90 remarkable years. Charming, idiosyncratic, and highly engaging, The Man who Bent Light serves up enough variety and verve to celebrate the lives of a half-dozen individuals. But there is only one Narinder Singh Kapany, and his life, illuminated in his singular memoir, is a life like no other.

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