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A Dangerous Age, Gilchrist's first novel in more than a decade, tells the story of the women of the Hand family, three cousins in a Southern dynasty rich with history and tradition who are no strangers to either controversy or sadness. By turns humorous and heartbreaking, the novel is a celebration of the strength of these women, and of others like them. Gilchrist "gives this novel a humanity easily embraced by the reader. [Her] trademark supple prose and droll sense of humor are on full display." —Booklist, (starred review) more...
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A witty, adrenalin-fuelled manifesto for universal values by the maverick Slovenian philosopher and cultural critic Zizek, "master of the counterintuitive observation" (The New Yorker). In this combative new work, renowned theorist Slavoj Zizek takes on the reigning postmodern agenda with a manifesto for several "lost causes." From reasserting class struggle as the underlying reality of global capitalism to a defense of the emancipatory legacy of Christianity against New Age spiritualism, Zizek confronts the failures of contemporary theory and proposes unexpected resolutions. more...
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In his latest book, Zittrain, co-founder of Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society, argues that the Internet’s current trajectory is one of lost opportunity. The Net's salvation, he contends, lies in the hands of its millions of users. Drawing on generative technologies like Wikipedia that have so far survived their own successes, this book shows how to develop new technologies and social structures that allow users to work creatively and collaboratively, participate in solutions, and become true “netizens.” “This book is fundamental. It will define the debate about the future of the Internet, long after we haven't stopped it. Absolutely required reading.”—Lawrence Lessig, Stanford Law School more...
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