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1) The giver
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English
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Given his lifetime assignment at the Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas becomes the receiver of memories shared by only one other in his community and discovers the terrible truth about the society in which he lives.
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English
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"This is the perfect time for a modern-day Scarlet Letter--a radically empathetic book about public shaming, and about shaming as a form of social control. It has become such a big part of our lives it has begun to feel weird and empty when there isn't anyone to be furious about. Whole careers are being ruined by one mistake. A transgression is revealed. Our collective outrage at it has the force of a hurricane. Then we all quickly forget about it...
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Shadow children volume 6
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Language
English
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In a society that allows families to have only two children, third child Matthias joins the Population Police to infiltrate their system.
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Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Holly details what makes us sick, keeps us out of our power, and what is possible when we remove alcohol and destroy our belief system around it. The result is her company, Tempest, which provides the education to address the root cause of addiction, the tools to break the cycle of addiction, and the community necessary to build a life free from alcohol. -- adapted from jacket.
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Darwin volume 2
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
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Greg Bear’s Nebula Award–winning novel, Darwin’s Radio, painted a chilling portrait of humankind on the threshold of a radical leap in evolution—one that would alter our species forever. Now Bear continues his provocative tale of the human race confronted by an uncertain future, where “survival of the fittest” takes on astonishing and controversial new dimensions.
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10) Amatka
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Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
216 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
A government worker on a research assignment in the colony of Amatka, where the citizens are monitored for signs of subversion, discovers a threat to the colony that is being covered up by its administration and begins a very risky investigation.
11) Dead lines
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Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2004.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
246 pages ; 25 cm
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English
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English
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"Ola Olajide, a celebrated journalist at Womxxxn magazine, is set to marry the love of her life in one month's time. Young, beautiful, and successful--she and her fiancé Michael are considered the "couple goals" of their social network and seem to have it all. That is, until one morning when they both wake up to the same message: "Oh my god, have you seen The List?" It began as a crowdsourced collection of names and somehow morphed into an anonymous...
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Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
383 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
You are under surveillance right now... your cell phone provider tracks your location, your online and in-store purchasing patterns are recorded, Facebook can determine your sexual orientation without you ever mentioning it. Corporations use surveillance to manipulate the prices we're offered; governments use surveillance to discriminate, censor, and put people in danger worldwide. Schneier shows what we can do to reform our government surveillance...
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Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"This book deals with two very large and often amorphous concepts: privacy and surveillance in the context of both government and the marketplace. Both concepts have undergone changes over the millennia of recorded human history, and those changes have dramatically sped up and expanded over the past few centuries, starting with the widespread use of the printing press in the mid- to late-15th century when books and newspapers began to proliferate...
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St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 310 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), map ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Surveillance State tells the detailed story of how China's Communist Party is building a new kind of political control: shaping the will of the people through the sophisticated--and often brutal--harnessing of data. It is a story born in Silicon Valley and America's "War on Terror," and now playing out in alarming ways on China's remote Central Asian frontier. As a minority separatist movement strains against Party control, China's leaders have built...
19) Donbass
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (122 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Ukrainian
Description
In the Donbass region of Eastern Ukraine, mid-2010s: a hybrid war takes place, involving an open armed conflict alongside killings and robberies on a mass scale perpetrated by Russian-separatist gangs. In the Donbass, war is called peace, propaganda is uttered as truth, and hatred is declared to be love. Life is suffused with fear and suspicion. What is real and what is fake news?
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