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    A Theory of the Private Without Secrecy

    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    Thoughts are free - but they are no longer secret. Today, our data is automatically stored and analyzed by algorithms ”behind the cloud” - where we no longer have control over our data. Our most private and secret information is entrusted to the internet and permanently collected, stacked and linked to our digital twins. With and without our consent. "Privacy is dead", as Mark Zuckerberg put it ... Read more

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  • A Comprehensive Guide to Greenwashing Phenomena, Contexts, and Trends

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  • Digital Universe

    The Global Telecommunication Revolution

    by Peter B. Seel ...
    An illuminating examination of the benefits and drawbacks of global, digital communicationIn this newly revised Second Edition of Digital Universe: The Global Telecommunication Revolution, journalism and digital telecommunication expert Peter B. Seel delivers a fascinating and insightful exploration of digital communication technologies and their substantial effects on contemporary life. This book ... Read more

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    by Peter B. Seel ...
    For the student and general reader, a tour of the digital universe that offers critical observations and new perspectives on human communication and intelligence.Traces the development and diffusion of digital information and communication technologies, providing an analysis of trans-cultural effects among developed and developing nationsProvides a balanced analysis of the pros and cons of the ... Read more

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  • Managing Sustainable Luxury and Digitalization

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    Series series Routledge Studies in Luxury Management
    This book offers new transdisciplinary perspectives on luxury, exploring the topical phenomenon of digitally retouched (censored) and blockchain-secured (sensored) luxury watches and outlining implications that emerge for the field of luxury studies and managerial practice.Based on a cross-disciplinary approach, the book integrates theoretical and empirical perspectives to advance the readers’ ... Read more

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    The Eagles of Bastogne

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    by Martin King ...
    Narrated by Martin King, Peter Noble ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 1 min

    " . . . those wanting a deep dive into the specific role played by the 101st Airborne Division will find this book perfect for that purpose.” —The Journal of America's Military PastThere are few names in the annals of military history that evoke such emotion, and in some cases controversy, as the small Belgian town of Bastogne. The 101st Airborne are the best known defenders of Bastogne, but they ... Read more

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    A parallel army lives on the margins of the Iraq war—nearly 100,000 armed men, invisible yet in plain sight, doing jobs the overstretched and understaffed military can't or won't do. The U.S. media call them "security contractors." They call themselves "mercs," and they operate under their own rules.Washington Post reporter Steve Fainaru traveled with several groups of security contractors to find ... Read more

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  • The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google

    Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google

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    From the creators of the theory of ethical blindness comes an investigation into how corporate scandals happen, revealing the common pattern behind them and how your organization can avoid themToo often, the stories of corporate scandals are narrated like Hollywood movies in which once-celebrated CEOs are unmasked as sociopaths and ultimately convicted for their crimes. What we fail to realize, ... Read more

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  • Delete

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    Delete looks at the surprising phenomenon of perfect remembering in the digital age, and reveals why we must reintroduce our capacity to forget. Digital technology empowers us as never before, yet it has unforeseen consequences as well. Potentially humiliating content on Facebook is enshrined in cyberspace for future employers to see. Google remembers everything we've searched for and when. The ... Read more

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  • Smart Cities: Big Data, Civic Hackers, and the Quest for a New Utopia

    Big Data, Civic Hackers, and the Quest for a New Utopia

    An unflinching look at the aspiring city-builders of our smart, mobile, connected future.We live in a world defined by urbanization and digital ubiquity, where mobile broadband connections outnumber fixed ones, machines dominate a new "internet of things," and more people live in cities than in the countryside.In Smart Cities, urbanist and technology expert Anthony Townsend takes a broad ... Read more

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  • Exposed

    Desire and Disobedience in the Digital Age

    Social media compile data on users, retailers mine information on consumers, Internet giants create dossiers of who we know and what we do, and intelligence agencies collect all this plus billions of communications daily. Exploiting our boundless desire to access everything all the time, digital technology is breaking down whatever boundaries still exist between the state, the market, and the ... Read more

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