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1) The giver
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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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"For years, Holly Whitaker wore her workaholic-party-girl persona as a badge of honor, while privately feeling increasingly miserable. She believed that if she could just eat cleaner, save more money, and be more perfect, her life would finally snap into place. Yet all of her attempts to fix herself just added up to more chaos and the chaos added up to more pain and so she added more wine. When she finally had enough and started looking around for...
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Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
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xiii, 284 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
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"This gripping book traces the evolution of brainwashing from its beginnings in torture and religious conversion into the age of neuroscience and social media. When Pavlov introduced scientific approaches, his research was enthusiastically supported by Lenin and Stalin, setting the stage for major breakthroughs in tools for social, political, and religious control. Tracing these developments through many of the past century's major conflagrations,...
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Riverhead Books, a member of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
2015.
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290 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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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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W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2015]
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383 pages ; 24 cm
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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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Giver quartet graphic novels volume 1
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2019]
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176 pages, 7 unnumbered pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm
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Jonas' life assignment is as the Receiver of Memory, where he will apprentice the Giver and become a storehouse of all the things humanity left behind when it entered utopia: color, emotion, and even more complicated secrets.
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City Lights Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
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320 pages cm.
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"A searing critique of state violence and intolerance in the United States today, Henry Giroux examines how hot-button issues and events reveal the nation's drift toward totalitarian forms of social control. From police violence in black communities to meteoric rise of Donald Trump, Giroux parses the trends and flashpoints to understand the underlying politics and social forces impacting America today"--
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One Standard Press
Pub. Date
c2012
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xv, 212 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
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"In Fifteen Steps to Corporate Feudalism, Dennis Marker provides a step-by- step account of how and why the US middle class has been working harder than ever and is still losing ground. This examination of fifteen specific policies promoted by conservatives and the superrich and implemented through the vice grip of fear, anger, and greed reveals that the decline of the middle class is no accident. The Occupy movement has exposed some outgrowths of...
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Crown
Pub. Date
[2024]
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xxvii, 368 pages ; 25 cm
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"A sweeping exposae of the U.S. government's alliance with data brokers, tech companies, and advertisers, and how their efforts are reshaping surveillance and privacy as we know it. Our modern world is awash in surveillance. Most of us are dimly aware ofthis-ever get the sense that an ad is "following" you around the internet?-but we don't understand the extent to which the technology embedded in our phones, computers, cars, and homes is part of a...
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2014
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772 p. ; 22 cm.
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The Giver: 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. -- Gathering blue: Lame and suddenly orphaned, Kira is mysteriously removed from her squalid village to live in the palatial Council Edifice, where she is expected to use her gifts as a weaver to do the bidding of the all-powerful Guardians....
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Perfectos mentirosos volume 2
Publisher
Montena
Pub. Date
[2022]
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380 pages ; 22 cm.
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"El desenlace de Perfectos mentirosos. Un final que nos dejará sin aliento, una historia con muchas mentiras, pasiones y odios. En Tangus, una de las universidades más elitistas del mundo, todo gira en torno a un trío irresistible: los hermanos Cash. Son vacilones y astutos, pero insoportablemente atractivos y poderosos. Lo que no saben es que Jude tiene un plan: sacar a la luz sus más oscuros y perversos secretos, esos tan bien escondidos tras...
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