![]() ![]() Vast wealth and power are accumulated in ominous new “behavioral futures markets,” where predictions about our behavior are bought and sold, and the production of goods and services is subordinated to a new “means of behavioral modification.” Zuboff vividly brings to life the consequences as surveillance capitalism advances from Silicon Valley into every economic sector. The stakes could not be higher: a global architecture of behavior modification threatens human nature in the twenty-first century just as industrial capitalism disfigured the natural world in the twentieth. ![]() ![]() In this masterwork of original thinking and research, Shoshana Zuboff provides startling insights into the phenomenon that she has named surveillance capitalism. The challenges to humanity posed by the digital future, the first detailed examination of the unprecedented form of power called “surveillance capitalism,” and the quest by powerful corporations to predict and control our behavior. ![]()
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![]() ![]() What follows is the careful unfolding of a plot crafted with origamilike precision. Weep, though, is a city still reeling from the aftermath of a brutal war, and hidden there is a girl named Sarai and her four companions, all of whom have singular talents and devastating secrets. When a group of warriors from that very place come seeking help, Lazlo, never before a man of action, may actually see his dream fulfilled. But Lazlo, reader of fairy tales, longs to learn more about a distant, nearly mythical city, called Weep after its true name was stolen. Lazlo Strange, an orphaned infant who grew up to be a librarian, has had a quiet first two decades of life. ![]() Her latest, first in a two-book set, certainly delivers on that, and there’s something quietly magical at play here. (here's the text in case the image is hard to read)īy now, fans of Laini Taylor know what to expect: beautiful prose, strange and whimsical fantasy worlds, sympathetic monsters, and wrenching, star-crossed romance. ![]() ![]() ![]() In Washington Square, she opts for the third person, employing a stylised voice that’s appropriate for the period. This is partly due to the manner in which she has deployed perspective. ![]() ![]() Zone Eight alternates between the ‘present’ of 2093 and letters from a powerful government scientist to his distant confidant - illuminating the readers as to how 2093’s state of affairs came to be with prescient and devastating logic.Ī post shared by Hanya Yanagihara a testament to Yanagihara’s narrative control that things don’t become convoluted. We find a young and ostensibly fragile wife and her husband, living under the pressure of constant surveillance, their advancement in life halted by virtue of their connections to enemies of the state. This book, Zone Eight, is twice as long as the other two and here, Yanagihara renders her most worryingly detailed picture. In 2093, after a series of plagues, America finds itself in the grip of a totalitarian regime. 1993 has a more funereal atmosphere, as New York’s gay community attempts to rebuild amid the ashes of the AIDS epidemic. Another is its trajectory of devolution: the New York of 1893 is presented as a paragon of tolerance (in love, at least), though beset with aggressors that lie beyond the frontier of ‘The Free States’. This is what lends To Paradise some of its ghostly and affecting emotional triggers: the past is never quite in the past. ![]() ![]() ![]() Jared bullied her before she went to France for a year, but she comes back a badass. Jared didn’t make Tate’s life miserable, and she never became depressed or suicidal. There were no sexual assaults or threats of it and no physical abuse. I’ve read hundreds of books since then! So this is very memorable. I read it in 2014 and was surprised how much I still remembered from it. We’re going to go head to head, because neither of us wants to back down. I’m not interested in avoiding him or turning the other cheek anymore. I’m hoping that after a year of breathing room, he’s moved on and forgotten all about me.īut even if he hasn’t changed, I have. Now I’m back to finish up high school and get the hell out of here forever. I spent a year studying abroad and bathed in the freedom of life without Jared. I worried about what was around every corner and behind every door. His pranks and rumors got more sadistic as time wore on, and I made myself sick trying to hide from him. ![]() ![]() I’ve been humiliated, shut out, and gossiped about all through high school. But then, one summer, he turned on me and has made it his mission to screw up my life at every opportunity. We’re neighbors, and once, we were best friends. He would never refer to me so informally, if he referred to me at all. Very steamy love to hate to love YA/NA romance ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This might account for the ‘serviceable but not thrilling’ aspect of Time. He’s been writing since 1991, so 60 books (not to mention five non-fiction books) divided by 30 years is two books a year. That he cranked out the four volumes of this trilogy in four years while also putting out six other novels (and two non-fiction books) in that time says something. At this point I have a sense that Baxter might be a workhorse author, like Stephen King or Tom Clancy (or John Grisham or …). I did check out (in the library sense) Space and will check it out (in the giving it a look sense), but it’s possible I’ll put it down and move on. I enjoyed the first book, but I can’t say I was hugely whelmed. Each of the books tells a separate story in a separate universe. Time is the first of the Manifold trilogy (which has a fourth book, Phase Space) the second and third books are Space (2000) and Origin (2001). (There are SF authors I’ve only met in short story collections. Per his Wiki bibliography, he’s written only a half-dozen short stories, also none of which I’ve read. It’s my first exposure to Baxter, who has written 60 science fiction novels - none of which I’ve read. ![]() ![]() Yesterday, courtesy of Cloud Library, I finished Manifold: Time (1999), by Stephen Baxter. ![]() ![]() Hauntingly beautiful, intensely eerie, and highly readable, Malum Discordiae is an unputdownable dark academia, paranormal romance overflowing with dark magic, forbidden love, and intense passion. Unable to stay away, Graeme finds himself in an impossible situation that can only spell trouble for the star-crossed lovers. When Cassius Corbin returns home six years after his mother’s murder, his plans include finding the long-lost magical folio stolen from his family and attending Tennebrose University: Not getting cozy with the enemy.Įver since the night Graeme Hewitt unwittingly got in bed with the enemy, the moody, blue-eyed boy has taken up residence in his mind rent-free, to his complete and utter disgust. Nothing and no one could ever hope to unite the two families. ![]() ![]() Forever jaded by the deaths of their loved ones, the Corbin necromancers and the Hewitt weather witches remain locked in a bitter, centuries-long blood feud with no end in sight. ![]() ![]() ![]() It's only when Gwyneth Rhys-the woman he loved and then lost after his family banished him-holds out her hand to help him that he is able make the difficult journey and try to piece together his fractured family. But now his father is dead, the Ware family is broken, and as the heir he is being called home. ![]() He enlisted in the fight against Napoleon and didn't look back for six years. But at 22, he discovered his whole world was an elaborate illusion, and when Devlin publicly called his family to account for it, he was exiled as a traitor. They were kind, gracious, and shared the beauty of Ravenwood, their grand country estate, by hosting lavish parties for the entire countryside. The handsome and charismatic earl of Stratton, Caleb Ware, has been exposed to the ton for his clandestine affairs-by his own son.Īs a child, Devlin Ware thought his family stood for all that was right and good in the world. ![]() ![]() citizen, and Christianity (specifically the influence of Kierkegaard and the modern Protestant theologians) took the place of socialism as Auden's central preoccupation. In 1939, he immigrated to America and later became a U.S. He was the best known of a group of British writers of Marxist sympathies who hoped that socialism might be the answer to the economic and political problems of the period. The Collected Poetry Of W H Auden by Auden,w.h. Auden (1907- ), an English poet and dramatist whose most influential work was written during the 1930s. from W H Auden: The Collected Poems published by Faber & Faber in the Uk and Random House in the USA, copyright 1976, 1991, 2007 the Estate of W H Auden, reprinted by permission of The Wylie Agency (UK) Ltd for the Estate of W H Auden. Includes a special message to members by Stephen Spender. Item #161530 The revised edition of this classic, signed by Barth on a tissue-guarded free preliminary page. ![]() Auden endowed poetry in the English language with a new face. ![]() ![]() Silk moire end papers satin place-holder ribbon and all edges gilt. Auden endowed poetry in the English language with a new face. Red leather with elaborate gilt decoration and lettering to covers and spine. ![]() and Edweard Mendelson (Editor)įranklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1976. ![]() ![]() ![]() Mari apprentice’s with her mother but fears the power of the moon as she is only half-Earth Walker. No one must know or they both will be banished from their tribe. Mari, the product of their union, must hide her Companion features with clay and dye her wheat-colored hair dark. Her father was a Companion, a man whose tribe killed him for loving an Earth Walker. Mari has a secret that she must keep from the tribe with her mother’s help: she is only half Earth Walker. These washings must take place every three days to keep the tribe mentally healthy. When it comes to the men, it cures them of Night Fever (madness). ![]() When it comes to women, it cures them of melancholia. The Moon Woman is responsible for using the power of the moon to “Wash” the other members of the tribe. She lives in a burrow with her mother, Leda, the Moon Woman of her tribe of Earth Walkers. There are definitely going to be parts you don’t understand at first but make sense later as they all come together. Let’s get to the meat of the novel…įirst thing you need to know: just like the byline says, these are “tales of a new world.” So there’s going to be confusion. I can already tell based on some of what you had to say when I mentioned I was reading it. My opinion on this book is not going to be popular. This review can be found on my Blog, TeacherofYA’s Tumblr, or my Goodreads pageįirst of all, I must recognize the beauty of this cover. Title: Moon Chosen (Tales of a New World, #1) ![]() ![]() There are no deliveries on Saturdays, Sundays or Bank Holidays. Join The Very Hungry Caterpillar for a celebration of Christmas & all the ways to wish the ones you love a Merry Christmas. These times are an estimation, not a guarantee. 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