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Data by Design

Visualization and Power from Abolition to the Dawn of Data Science

by Lauren F. Klein ...

How the history of data visualization holds the key to designing a more just future.From maps of colonial empires to charts of national trade, data visualization has long been used to consolidate knowledge and power. But just as often, it has been used to uncover oppression and bring about change. Data by Design journeys across continents and over centuries to expose the power of visualization—and ... Read more

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How the history of data visualization holds the key to designing a more just future.From maps of colonial empires to charts of national trade, data visualization has long been used to consolidate knowledge and power. But just as often, it has been used to uncover oppression and bring about change. Data by Design journeys across continents and over centuries to expose the power of visualization—and
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Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 98 (July 2018)

by John Joseph Adams, James Beamon, Genevieve Valentine, Caroline M. Yoachim, Carrie Vaughn, Naomi Novik, Adam-Troy Castro, G.V. Anderson, Jay Lake, JY Yang ...

Series Book 98 - Lightspeed Magazine
LIGHTSPEED is an online science fiction and fantasy magazine. In its pages, you will find science fiction: from near-future, sociological soft SF, to far-future, star-spanning hard SF--and fantasy: from epic fantasy, sword-and-sorcery, and contemporary urban tales, to magical realism, science-fantasy, and folktales.This month's cover art is by Saleha Chowdhury, illustrating a brand-new fantasy ... Read more

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LIGHTSPEED is an online science fiction and fantasy magazine. In its pages, you will find science fiction: from near-future, sociological soft SF, to far-future, star-spanning hard SF--and fantasy: from epic fantasy, sword-and-sorcery, and contemporary urban tales, to magical realism, science-fantasy, and folktales.This month's cover art is by Saleha Chowdhury, illustrating a brand-new fantasy
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Building Education and Research

Edited by Jay Yang, Weilen P. Chang ...

Series series CIB
Building Education and Research explores this new active area of research in a series of papers by internationally acclaimed experts, presented at the CIB W89 International Conference on Building Education and Research held in July 1998 (BEAR `98) in Brisbane, Australia. Sponsored in collaboratio jointly by the Queensland University of Technology, the Conseil International du Batiment (CIB) and ... Read more

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Building Education and Research explores this new active area of research in a series of papers by internationally acclaimed experts, presented at the CIB W89 International Conference on Building Education and Research held in July 1998 (BEAR `98) in Brisbane, Australia. Sponsored in collaboratio jointly by the Queensland University of Technology, the Conseil International du Batiment (CIB) and
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The Long List Anthology Volume 9

More Stories From the Hugo Award Long List

by David Steffen, Chelle Parker, Hal Y. Zhang, Mary Robinette Kowal, Suzanne Palmer, Suzanne Palmer, Ai Jiang, P.A. Cornell, John Wiswell, R.S.A. Garcia, Yoon Ha Lee0, Sunyi Dean1, Rachael K. Jones2, Isabel J. Kim3, Eliza Chan4, Fiona Moore5, Lu Qiucha6, Alex Fox7, Cao Baiyu8, Stella Jiayue Zhu9, C.L. Polk0, Wole Talabi1, Yang Wanqing2, Jay Zhang3, Eugenia Triantafyllou4 ...

Series Book 9 - The Long List Anthology Series
Every year, supporting members of WorldCon (one of the largest speculative fiction conventions on the planet) nominate their favorite stories first published during the previous year for the prestigious Hugo Awards, the top six most popular of which make the final ballot in each category. Those works that do not make the final ballot are colloquially referred to as "the long list." This anthology ... Read more

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Every year, supporting members of WorldCon (one of the largest speculative fiction conventions on the planet) nominate their favorite stories first published during the previous year for the prestigious Hugo Awards, the top six most popular of which make the final ballot in each category. Those works that do not make the final ballot are colloquially referred to as "the long list." This anthology
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Zachary Ying and the Dragon Emperor

by Xiran Jay Zhao ...

Narrated by Eric Yang ...

Series series Zachary Ying
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8 hours 48 min

Percy Jackson meets Tristan Strong in this hilarious middle grade “edge-of-your-seat adventure” (James Ponti, New York Times bestselling author of City Spies) that follows a young boy as he journeys across China to seal the underworld shut and save the mortal realm.Zachary Ying never had many opportunities to learn about his Chinese heritage. His single mom was busy enough making sure they got by, ... Read more

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Percy Jackson meets Tristan Strong in this hilarious middle grade “edge-of-your-seat adventure” (James Ponti, New York Times bestselling author of City Spies) that follows a young boy as he journeys across China to seal the underworld shut and save the mortal realm.Zachary Ying never had many opportunities to learn about his Chinese heritage. His single mom was busy enough making sure they got by,
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Communication, Culture, and Making Meaning in the City

Ethnographic Engagements in Urban Environments

by Eric Aoki, Shawn Sobers, Kathleen M. German, Julia Aoki, Ryan M. Lescure, Emma Agusita, Craig L. Engstrom, Ayaka Yoshimizu, Jon Dovey, Jolene Mairs Dyer, Martin Whiteford, Joy Yang Jiao, Joanna Zielinska ...

As communicative, cultural, and political spaces, cities present a vast array of racial, ethnic, national, sexual, and socioeconomic experiences around which human communities take shape. This shaping forms a germinal point of mass cultural life. City planners decide where buildings and neighborhoods are developed, which ultimately affects who residents interact with, how they get there, and why ... Read more

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As communicative, cultural, and political spaces, cities present a vast array of racial, ethnic, national, sexual, and socioeconomic experiences around which human communities take shape. This shaping forms a germinal point of mass cultural life. City planners decide where buildings and neighborhoods are developed, which ultimately affects who residents interact with, how they get there, and why
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The Long List Anthology Volume 8

More Stories From the Hugo Award Nomination List

by David Steffen, Elizabeth Bear, Meg Elison, John Wiswell, Aliette de Bodard, C.L. Polk, Mary Robinette Kowal, Premee Mohamed, Cat Rambo, Aimee Ogden, Kel Coleman, Suzan Palumbo, P. Djèlí Clark, Sam J. Miller, Marie Vibbert, Gautam Bhatia, A.T. Greenblatt, P H Lee, E. Lily Yu, Han Song, Xueting C. Ni, Lauren Ring, Arula Ratnakar ...

Series Book 8 - The Long List Anthology
This is the eighth annual edition of the Long List Anthology. Every year, supporting members of WorldCon nominate their favorite stories first published during the selected year to determine the top five in each category for the final Hugo Award ballot. This is an anthology collecting more of the stories from that nomination list to reach more readers.The Long List Anthology volume 8 collects 21 ... Read more

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This is the eighth annual edition of the Long List Anthology. Every year, supporting members of WorldCon nominate their favorite stories first published during the selected year to determine the top five in each category for the final Hugo Award ballot. This is an anthology collecting more of the stories from that nomination list to reach more readers.The Long List Anthology volume 8 collects 21
... Read more
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The Marvellers

by Dhonielle Clayton ...

Narrated by Joniece Abbott-Pratt ...

Series Audiobook 1 - The Conjureverse Series
Unabridged

10 hours 48 min

Dhonielle Clayton makes her middle-grade debut with a fantasy adventure set in a global magic school in the sky **—**an instant New York Times and #1 Indie Bestseller!"The Marvellers deserves the highest compliment I can give a book: I want to live in this world." —Rick Riordan, #1 New York Times bestselling–author"Listeners will enjoy this fresh take on a new fantastical world in which ki... ... Read more

$26.99 USD

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Dhonielle Clayton makes her middle-grade debut with a fantasy adventure set in a global magic school in the sky **—**an instant New York Times and #1 Indie Bestseller!"The Marvellers deserves the highest compliment I can give a book: I want to live in this world." —Rick Riordan, #1 New York Times bestselling–author"Listeners will enjoy this fresh take on a new fantastical world in which ki...
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The Memory Thieves

by Dhonielle Clayton ...

Narrated by Joniece Abbott-Pratt ...

Series Audiobook 2 - The Conjureverse Series
Unabridged

11 hours 11 min

The fantasy adventure sequel to the instant New York Times and #1 Indie Bestseller, The Marvellers by Dhonielle Clayton! Return for Year Two at the global magic school in the sky in The Memory Thieves."The Marvellers deserves the highest compliment I can give a book: I want to live in this world." —Rick Riordan, #1 New York Times bestselling–authorEager to wield their stapiers for Marvel Combat, . ... Read more

$26.99 USD

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The fantasy adventure sequel to the instant New York Times and #1 Indie Bestseller, The Marvellers by Dhonielle Clayton! Return for Year Two at the global magic school in the sky in The Memory Thieves."The Marvellers deserves the highest compliment I can give a book: I want to live in this world." —Rick Riordan, #1 New York Times bestselling–authorEager to wield their stapiers for Marvel Combat, .
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The Dragon Griaule

by Lucius Shepard ...

More than twenty-five years ago, Lucius Shepard introduced us to a remarkable fictional world, a world separated from our own “by the thinnest margin of possibility.” There, in the mythical Carbonales Valley, Shepard found the setting for “The Man Who Painted the Dragon Griaule,” the classic account of an artist—Meric Cattanay—and his decades long effort to paint—and kill—a dormant, not quite dead ... Read more

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More than twenty-five years ago, Lucius Shepard introduced us to a remarkable fictional world, a world separated from our own “by the thinnest margin of possibility.” There, in the mythical Carbonales Valley, Shepard found the setting for “The Man Who Painted the Dragon Griaule,” the classic account of an artist—Meric Cattanay—and his decades long effort to paint—and kill—a dormant, not quite dead
... Read more
Diabolical Plots Year Five

by David Steffen, Matt Dovey, D.A. Xiaolin Spires, Chris Kuriata, Beth Cato, Anaea Lay, Mari Ness, Joanne Rixon, Eleanor R. Wood, Tonya Liburd, Nicole Givens Kurtz, Samantha Mills, P.G. Galalis, Rajiv Moté, Stewart Moore, R.D. Landau, Marie L. Vibbert, Nin Harris, Nickolas Furr, T.J. Berg, Nicole Crucial, Forrest Brazeal, Steven Fischer, K.S. Dearsley, Holly Heisey ...

Series series Diabolical Plots Anthology Series
This anthology collects 26 original stories that will run in the fifth year of Diabolical Plots, an online magazine of science fiction and fantasy. A metrics-driven approach for utopia, a fantastical YouTube challenge, a Lovecraftian Millennial thinkpiece, correspondence with a professor at a magical school, time trains, magical idols in a magicless place. The stories vary from humorous to tragic ... Read more

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This anthology collects 26 original stories that will run in the fifth year of Diabolical Plots, an online magazine of science fiction and fantasy. A metrics-driven approach for utopia, a fantastical YouTube challenge, a Lovecraftian Millennial thinkpiece, correspondence with a professor at a magical school, time trains, magical idols in a magicless place. The stories vary from humorous to tragic
... Read more
The Long List Anthology Volume 6

More Stories From the Hugo Award Nomination List

by David Steffen, Elizabeth Bear, Yoon Ha Lee, Ellen Klages, Aimee Ogden, John Chu, Fonda Lee, Brooke Bolander, A.T. Greenblatt, T. Kingfisher, Mary Robinette Kowal, Sam J. Miller, Karen Osborne, A.C. Wise, Mimi Mondal, JY Neon Yang, G.V. Anderson, M. Evan MacGriogair, Suzanne Palmer ...

Series Book 6 - The Long List Anthology Series
This is the sixth annual edition of the Long List Anthology. Every year, supporting members of WorldCon nominate their favorite stories first published during the previous year to determine the top five in each category for the final Hugo Award ballot. This is an anthology collecting more of the stories from that nomination list to get them to more readersThe Long List Anthology Volume 5 collects ... Read more

$5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

This is the sixth annual edition of the Long List Anthology. Every year, supporting members of WorldCon nominate their favorite stories first published during the previous year to determine the top five in each category for the final Hugo Award ballot. This is an anthology collecting more of the stories from that nomination list to get them to more readersThe Long List Anthology Volume 5 collects
... Read more

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