by Caroline Criado Perez (2019)
The international sensation and Royal Society Science Book Prize winner. Caroline Criado Perez uncovers how built-in data gender bias impacts every aspect of daily life—from medical trials and smartphone sizes to car crash safety dummies and office temperatures—proving that male defaults systematically fail half the global population.
Frank Miele
Intelligence, Race, And Genetics: Conversations With Arthur R. Jensen is an essential work by Frank Miele (2004), examining critical themes of civil rights, racial justice, and human resilience. A cornerstone selection on the acclaimed #BlackLivesMatter reading list, it offers profound social commentary, historical resonance, and transformative insight.
Ed Yong
Winner of the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction. Pulitzer Prize-winning science journalist Ed Yong takes readers on an astonishing journey beyond human perception, revealing the sensory bubbles ('Umwelt') of beetles tracking wildfires, turtles sensing magnetic fields, and elephants hearing sub-audible seismic rumbles.
Cal Thomas and Bob Beckel
Inspired by their popular USA Today column, conservative Cal Thomas and liberal Bob Beckel show politicians of both stripes how to get beyond partisanship, restore civility, and move our country forward. Thomas and Beckel are a unique pair in today's political climate—pundits from opposite sides who not only talk to each other but work together to find common ground on some of the most divisive issues facing us, from the war in Iraq to gay marriage to the Patriot Act. Common Ground unmasks the hypocrisy of many of the issues, organizations, and individuals who created and deepened the partisan divide at the center of American politics, and makes a strategic case for why this bickering must stop.Throughout, Thomas and Beckel explode conventional wisdom and offer surprising new conclusions:The Red State/Blue State divide: Myth!A "common ground" presidential candidate can win in 2008: Reality!"Polarizers" like Ann Coulter and Michael Moore are the future of political debate: Myth!Major-party politics faces extinction: Reality! These guys should know. For years Beckel and Thomas contributed to the climate of polarization in Washington . . . and they admit it. "We're two guys who spent a lot of years in the polarizing business, but on opposing sides," they write. "We helped write the game plan, and we have participated in everything from getting money out of true believers to appearing on television to help spread the contentious message. In many cases, we wrote the message. We know the gig, and it's just about up."In this much-needed book, Thomas and Beckel go beyond their column to offer a sobering overview of the current political divide and its corrosive effect on us all.They also explain how bipartisanship and consensus politics are not only good for the day-to-day democratic process but essential for our nation's future well-being.Entertaining and informative, funny and healing, Common Ground is must reading for all concerned citizens.
M.I. Franklin
"Contemporary Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) are now an inescapable part of everyday life as well as an integral element to large scale political-economic change. In this close-up study of pioneering and longstanding Internet discussion forums, M.I. Franklin explores the practice of everyday life online. The author traces the online practices and discussion content produced by postcolonial and diasporic communities as they (re)articulate gendered, political, ethnic and cultural dimensions to life for postcolonial societies on-the-ground. In a neoliberal global era, however, possibilities for intercultural and intracultural empowerment evident in the postcolonial politics of representation of these communities have to contend with new and entrenched political-economic and sociocultural pressures from all sides. Franklin argues that these Pacific traversals in public, open cyberspace trace another possible future for the Internet; more hospitable and equitable than the one currently being put in place by large corporations." "This book will be of interest to students of international relations/international political economy, anthropology, cultural studies, science and technology studies."--Jacket.