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Book Synopsis High-tech Betrayal by : Victor Gary Devinatz
Download or read book High-tech Betrayal written by Victor Gary Devinatz and published by MSU Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on seven months of working at a medical electronics factory, dispels myths that the new high-technology factories are better or safer places to work than auto factories and steel mills. Also offers a perspective on trying to organize workers in a small non-union factory in the early 1980s. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Book Synopsis Silicon Valley and the Environmental Inequalities of High-Tech Urbanism by : Jason A. Heppler
Download or read book Silicon Valley and the Environmental Inequalities of High-Tech Urbanism written by Jason A. Heppler and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2024-04-23 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the half century after World War II, California’s Santa Clara Valley transformed from a rolling landscape of fields and orchards into the nation’s most consequential high-tech industrial corridor. How Santa Clara Valley became Silicon Valley and came to embody both the triumphs and the failures of a new vision of the American West is the question Jason A. Heppler explores in this book. A revealing look at the significance of nature in social, cultural, and economic conceptions of place, the book is also a case study on the origins of American environmentalism and debates about urban and suburban sustainability. Between 1950 and 1990, business and community leaders pursued a new vision of the landscape stretching from Palo Alto to San Jose—a vision that melded the bucolic naturalism of orchards, pleasant weather, and green spaces with the metropolitan promise of modern industry, government-funded research, and technology. Heppler describes the success of a new, clean, future-facing economy, coupled with a pleasant, green environment, in drawing people to Silicon Valley. And in this overwhelming success, he also locates the rapidly emerging faults created by competing ideas about forming these idyllic communities—specifically, widespread environmental degradation and increasing social stratification. Cities organized around high-tech industries, suburban growth, and urban expansion were, as Heppler shows, crucibles for empowering elites, worsening human health, and spreading pollution. What do “nature” and “place” mean, and who gets to define these terms? Key to Heppler’s work is the idea that these questions reflect and determine what, and who, matters in any conversation about the environment. Silicon Valley and the Environmental Inequalities of High-Tech Urbanism vividly traces that idea through the linked histories of Silicon Valley and environmentalism in the West.
Download or read book Don't Be Evil written by Rana Foroohar and published by Currency. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A penetrating indictment of how today’s largest tech companies are hijacking our data, our livelihoods, our social fabric, and our minds—from an acclaimed Financial Times columnist and CNN analyst WINNER OF THE PORCHLIGHT BUSINESS BOOK AWARD • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND EVENING STANDARD “Don’t be evil” was enshrined as Google’s original corporate mantra back in its early days, when the company’s cheerful logo still conveyed the utopian vision for a future in which technology would inevitably make the world better, safer, and more prosperous. Unfortunately, it’s been quite a while since Google, or the majority of the Big Tech companies, lived up to this founding philosophy. Today, the utopia they sought to create is looking more dystopian than ever: from digital surveillance and the loss of privacy to the spreading of misinformation and hate speech to predatory algorithms targeting the weak and vulnerable to products that have been engineered to manipulate our desires. How did we get here? How did these once-scrappy and idealistic enterprises become rapacious monopolies with the power to corrupt our elections, co-opt all our data, and control the largest single chunk of corporate wealth—while evading all semblance of regulation and taxes? In Don’t Be Evil, Financial Times global business columnist Rana Foroohar tells the story of how Big Tech lost its soul—and ate our lunch. Through her skilled reporting and unparalleled access—won through nearly thirty years covering business and technology—she shows the true extent to which behemoths like Google, Facebook, Apple, and Amazon are monetizing both our data and our attention, without us seeing a penny of those exorbitant profits. Finally, Foroohar lays out a plan for how we can resist, by creating a framework that fosters innovation while also protecting us from the dark side of digital technology. Praise for Don’t Be Evil “At first sight, Don’t Be Evil looks like it’s doing for Google what muckraking journalist Ida Tarbell did for Standard Oil over a century ago. But this whip-smart, highly readable book’s scope turns out to be much broader. Worried about the monopolistic tendencies of big tech? The addictive apps on your iPhone? The role Facebook played in Donald Trump’s election? Foroohar will leave you even more worried, but a lot better informed.”—Niall Ferguson, Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford, and author of The Square and the Tower
Download or read book Betrayal written by Bill Gertz and published by Regnery Publishing. This book was released on 2001-09-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argues that the Clinton administration played politics at the expense of national security, in technology deals with Russia and China
Book Synopsis Development Betrayed by : Richard B Norgaard
Download or read book Development Betrayed written by Richard B Norgaard and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-05-18 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modernity promised control over nature through science, material abundance through technology and effective government through rational, social organization. Instead of leading to this promised land it has brought us to the brink of environmental and cultural disaster. Why has there been this gap between modernity's aspirations and its achievements? Development Betrayed offers a powerful answer to this question. Development with its unshakeable commitment to the idea of progress, is rooted in modernism and has been betrayed by each of its major tenets. Attempts to control nature have led to the brink of environmental catastrophe. Western technologies have proved inappropriate for the needs of the South, and governments are unable to respond effectively to the crises that have resulted. Offering a thorough and lively critiques of the ideas behind development, Richard Norgaard also offers an alternative co-evolutionary paradigm, in which development is portrayed as a co-evolution between cultural and ecological systems. Rather than a future with all peoples merging to one best way of knowing and doing things, he envisions a future of a patchwork quilt of cultures with real possibilities for harmony.
Book Synopsis Conservatives Betrayed by : Richard A. Viguerie
Download or read book Conservatives Betrayed written by Richard A. Viguerie and published by Bonus Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2006 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A call to action by the Republican conservative who urged the GOP to implement a conservative agenda immediately after the November 2004 election argues that Republicans must adhere to conservative policies in order to meet such ends as the outlawing of abortion, tax reduction, and the protection of American interests overseas.
Book Synopsis America Betrayed by : Dewey Goldsmith
Download or read book America Betrayed written by Dewey Goldsmith and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2008-07 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Journey to Fellowship A study of Biblical FELLOWSHIP Do you understand it? The misuse, misunderstanding and blatant abuse of this term has left a debris field decades wide in its wake! Men (and women) of nearly every religious faction have hijacked this Bible term in efforts to legitimize the division of brothers and sisters in Christ. It has been equally abused by those who would place all "sincere" worshippers under the universal umbrella of the Lord's church. The ability of the church to do its God-given work effectively rides on better understanding of Biblical fellowship. This book is an effort to allow "God-breathed" words to say all they were intended to say without regard to historic church practice or past prejudice. Some may regard this as sure passage on the ship of liberalism. To this writer (a strict constructionist), the apostolic truth trumps all man-made divisions, practices and doctrines. Search the scriptures! DON BOUNDS
Book Synopsis Environment Betrayed by : Edward C. Krug
Download or read book Environment Betrayed written by Edward C. Krug and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2012-05-30 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this collection of articles, an environmental scientist traces a journey through the wilderness of environmental politics. In his travels, Dr. Edward Krug developed a unique perspective on vital areas of the environmental issues, making him critical of both sides of the environmental debate. "Environment Betrayed" delves into numerous environmental issues and into environmentalism itself, presenting both Dr. Krug's opinions and the well-documented opinions of others who were active participants in the environmental arena. Dr. Krug has worked as an environmental scientist since the early eighties, and much of the research and information included here originated in the eighties and nineties. Despite this gap of time, defenders of modern Western civilization don't seem to recognize the nature of the environmental war, let alone many of its details. By raising issues, environmentalists also define the battlefield-that is, the context of thought. Krug cites credible sources on both sides of the debate with varying perspectives on where things stand in this conflict. Only by gaining a clear understanding of what's at stake can we truly grasp the numerous environmental issues swirling around us and what they will mean for our future.
Download or read book A Time to Betray written by Reza Kahlili and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-02-12 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A true story as exhilarating as a great spy thriller, as turbulent as today’s headlines from the Middle East, A Time to Betray reveals what no other previous CIA operative’s memoir possibly could: the inner workings of the notorious Revolutionary Guards of Iran, as witnessed by an Iranian man inside their ranks who spied for the American government. It is a human story, a chronicle of family and friendships torn apart by a terror-mongering regime, and how the adult choices of three childhood mates during the Islamic Republic yielded divisive and tragic fates. And it is the stunningly courageous account of one man’s decades-long commitment to lead a shocking double life informing on the beloved country of his birth, a place that once offered the promise of freedom and enlightenment—but instead ruled by murderous violence and spirit-crushing oppression. Reza Kahlili grew up in Tehran surrounded by his close-knit family and two spirited boyhood friends. The Iran of his youth allowed Reza to think and act freely, and even indulge a penchant for rebellious pranks in the face of the local mullahs. His political and personal freedoms flourished while he studied computer science at the University of Southern California in the 1970s. But his carefree time in America was cut short with the sudden death of his father, and Reza returned home to find a country on the cusp of change. The revolution of 1979 plunged Iran into a dark age of religious fundamentalism under the Ayatollah Khomeini, and Reza, clinging to the hope of a Persian Renaissance, joined the Revolutionary Guards, an elite force at the beck and call of the Ayatollah. But as Khomeini’s tyrannies unfolded, as his fellow countrymen turned on each other, and after the horror he witnessed inside Evin Prison, a shattered and disillusioned Reza returned to America to dangerously become “Wally,” a spy for the CIA. In the wake of an Iranian election that sparked global outrage, at a time when Iran’s nuclear program holds the world’s anxious attention, the revelations inside A Time to Betray could not be more powerful or timely. Now resigned from his secretive life to reclaim precious time with his loved ones, Reza Kahlili documents scenes from history with heart-wrenching clarity, as he supplies vital information from the Iran-Iraq War, the Marine barracks bombings in Beirut, the catastrophes of Pan Am Flight 103, the scandal of the Iran-Contra affair, and more . . . a chain of incredible events that culminates in a nation’s fight for freedom that continues to this very day.
Book Synopsis Seduced and Betrayed by : Milford Bateman
Download or read book Seduced and Betrayed written by Milford Bateman and published by University of New Mexico Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributors to this multidisciplinary volume consider the origins, evolution, and outcomes of microfinance from a variety of perspectives and contend that it has been an unsuccessful approach to development.
Book Synopsis A People Betrayed by : Linda Melvern
Download or read book A People Betrayed written by Linda Melvern and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-07-25 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following thirty years of research, including research into recently declassified government archives, this newly revised and expanded edition of Linda Melvern's classic of investigative journalism reveals how policymakers continue to refuse to properly acknowledge their responsibilities under international law. The new edition includes copious new material reckoning with the information that came to light during the 2022 trial of Félicien Kabuga, the alleged financier of the genocide. This new evidence feeds not only into a revised chronology and a wholly new section on the build-up to the genocide, but also into a new appendix that lists the six major genocide memorial sites in Rwanda along with now-incontrovertible details of the massacres that occurred there. Throughout it all, Melvern reveals in unmatched detail the scale, speed, and intensity of the unfolding genocide, and she exposes the Western governments and individuals who could have prevented what was happening if only they had chosen to act. What emerges is a shocking indictment of how Rwanda was ignored in 1994 and of how it is misremembered in the West today-an indictment that renders all the more poignant Melvern's accounts of the unrecognised heroism of those who stayed on during the violence, from volunteer peacekeepers to NGO workers.
Download or read book Betrayed by Blood written by Beth Dranoff and published by Carina Press. This book was released on 2017-07-24 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beth Dranoff is back with the second installment of her Mark of the Moon series Shapeshifting. Falling in love. Two things that aren’t as easy as they look. There are definite perks to being a shifter. Sharp claws, soft fur, sexy creature-friends-with-benefits…but other things aren’t so great. Like, say, being dragged into an apocalyptic war between the species, waged by a she-demon who wants to end the world. Meanwhile, things are getting hot and heavy between me and Sam Harding, lieutenant in the local shifter pack. Sam is definitely the commitment type—if only I could be sure that I am, too. I don’t want to lose him, but am I ready for forever? Yeah, when this is over, I will absolutely get my life—love and otherwise—together. That is, if I manage to live through this mess. This book is approximately 85,000 words
Download or read book Betrayed written by Jeanette Windle and published by Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2008 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After anthropologist Vicki Andrews launches an investigation into her sister's death in Guatemala, she uncovers corruption buried so deep that crossing international lines may cost her her life.
Book Synopsis The Blood She Betrayed by : Cheryse Durrant
Download or read book The Blood She Betrayed written by Cheryse Durrant and published by Clan Destine Press. This book was released on 2018-11-01 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thrust into the technology-driven Earthlands, Shahkara must find the ancient Elnara death lantern - the only thing that can save her homeworld from the heart-devouring Taloners. She enlists the help of geeky billionaire Max McCalden, but soon finds that, as a half-Taloner herself, her blood demands what she knows she can't have - a human heart. Shahkara longs for love, but as deadly enemies attack at every turn, will her lust for Max destroy them both? Or will she find the strength to free both worlds from a threat more horrific than the demons that share her blood?
Book Synopsis Betrayed by a Kiss by : Kris Rafferty
Download or read book Betrayed by a Kiss written by Kris Rafferty and published by Entangled: Select Suspense. This book was released on 2016-08-29 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marnie Somerville is sure Dane MacLain is just another bad guy. Her job as resident investigator at Whitman Enterprises is to track down the owners of delinquent accounts, but something about Dane’s case is off, and Marnie can’t resist a good mystery. The secret files and cover-up she finds after hacking her boss’s computer are more than she expected, and now she’s fleeing her former employer...right into Dane’s arms. Former detective Dane MacLain has spent the last year gathering intel against Whitman Enterprises, the company he believes is responsible for his wife’s death. When a beautiful and intense woman shows up with information, Dane is willing to accept all she has to offer, especially when the help comes in such a sexy package. Caught in a deadly cat-and-mouse chase, Dane must do everything he can to protect Marnie as they run for their lives. The An Unlikely Hero series is best enjoyed in order: Reading order: Book #1 - Betrayed by a Kiss Book #2 - Tempted by a Touch Book #3 – Seduced by Sin
Book Synopsis Seduced and Betrayed (The Hollywood Nights Series, Book 2) by : Candace Schuler
Download or read book Seduced and Betrayed (The Hollywood Nights Series, Book 2) written by Candace Schuler and published by ePublishing Works!. This book was released on 2012-07-16 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten years ago, Zeke Blackstone was a smokin' hot bad boy actor, and his co-star, 18-year-old Ariel Cameron, was America's TV sweetheart. Their chemistry was instant. Now, twenty-five years later, Zeke is still smokin' hot, Ariel is one of the most respected actresses in America, and neither has willingly occupied the same room together since their divorce. But their beloved daughter is getting married and all she asks is that her estranged parents "make nice" for the wedding. Thrown together for the wedding festivities, the act of "making nice" turns into "something more," and the wildfire attraction between Zeke and Ariel reignites, stronger than ever. REVIEWS: "A poignant tale of tempestuous love that even time cannot defuse." ~Romantic Times "...true-to-life characters who forge a bond strong enough to carry them into the future." ~A Little Romance "A terrific love story..." ~Rendezvous THE HOLLYWOOD NIGHTS, in series order Lovers & Strangers Seduced & Betrayed Passion & Scandal OTHER TITLES by Candace Schuler One Night With You (The Heart of the City, Book 1) The Night Remembers (Heart of the City, Book 2) All Night Long (Heart of the City, Book 3)
Download or read book Betrayed written by Richard O. Mayne and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In January 1944, Vice Admiral Percy Walker Nelles was fired from his position as head of the Royal Canadian Navy. Betrayed reveals the true story behind the dismissal: a divisive power struggle between two elite groups within the RCN pitted the navy's regular officers against a small group of self-appointed spokesmen for the voluntary naval reserve. Threats of public scandal, mass insurrection, and political intimidation caused one of the worst breakdowns ever in Canadian civil-military relations. This fascinating investigation into the machinations of a divided navy tackles important questions of military professionalism, leadership, and identity.
