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2015.
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English
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"From the internationally bestselling author of The Psychopath Test, a captivating and brilliant exploration of one of our world's most overlooked forces. For the past three years, Jon Ronson has been immersing himself in the world of modern-day public shaming-meeting famous shamees, shamers, and bystanders who have been impacted. This is the perfect time for a modern-day Scarlet Letter-a radically empathetic book about public shaming, and about...
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2019.
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English
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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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Darwin series volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 21
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English
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In the decade since women began giving birth to a new human species, Homo sapiens novus, the world has been in turmoil as these "new" humans battle for survival against those who feel threatened by this leap in evolution.
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Shadow children volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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In a future where the Population Police enforce the law limiting a family to only two children, Luke has lived all his twelve years in isolation and fear on his family's farm, until another "third" convinces him that the government is wrong.
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Basic Books
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"How games are being harnessed as instruments of exploitation—and what we can do about it Warehouse workers pack boxes while a virtual dragon races across their screen. If they beat their colleagues, they get an award. If not, they can be fired. Uber presents exhausted drivers with challenges to keep them driving. China scores its citizens so they behave well, and games with in-app purchases use achievements to empty your wallet. Points, badges,...
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English
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"In this sensational, page-turning debut novel, a high-profile female journalist's world is upended when her fiancae's name turns up in a viral social media post-a nuanced, daring, and timely exploration of the real-world impact of online life, from award-winning journalist and internationally bestselling author, Yomi Adegoke"--
"Ola Olajide, a celebrated journalist at Womxxxn magazine, is set to marry the love of her life in one month’s time....
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AK Press
Pub. Date
2005.
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English
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“The very notion of the domination of nature by man stems from the very real domination of human by human.” With this succinct formulation, Murray Bookchin launches his most ambitious work, The Ecology of Freedom. An engaging and extremely readable book of breathtaking scope, its inspired synthesis of ecology, anthropology and political theory traces our conflicting legacies of hierarchy and freedom from the first emergence of human culture to...
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ReferencePoint Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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"The rise of so-called cancel culture has enable voices on social media to express disapproval for people's words or actions. Individuals can be 'canceled' for racist statements, sexual misconduct, or other perceived misbehavior. [This book] looks at this phenomenon and the controversy over whether it often goes too far"--Provided by publisher.
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Threshold Editions-Mercury Radio Arts
Pub. Date
2013
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English
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The battle lines in this bitter rivalry are as old as civilization itself: On one side, an unlikely band of ordinary Americans ready to make their last stand in defense of self-rule, freedom, and liberty, and on the other, an elite cabal of self-styled tyrants who believe that unlimited power should be wielded only by the chosen few. That group, led by an aging, trillionaire puppet-master named Aaron Doyle, will stop at nothing to destroy the myth...
10) Hyperion
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On the world called Hyperion, beyond the law of the Hegemony of Man, there waits the creature called the Shrike. There are those who worship it. There are those who fear it. And there are those who have vowed to destroy it. In the Valley of Time Tombs, where huge brooding structures move backward through time, the Shrike waits for them all. On the eve of Armageddon, with the entire galaxy at war, seven pilgrims set forth on a final voyage to Hyperion....
11) Ink
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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In Saintstone everyone gets tattoos recording their deeds from birth until death, and the ink lets every other citizen know your triumphs as well as your sins; so when Leora's father dies and she sees glimpses a symbol of a horrible crime on the back of his neck she is horrified, and sure it is a mistake--and in her efforts to find out the truth she discovers the lengths that Saintstone will go to preserve its "perfect" society.
There are no secrets...
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"The devolution of the Sullivan Institute, from psychoanalytic organization to insular, radical cult. In the middle of the Ozzie and Harriet 1950s, the birth control pill was introduced and a maverick psychoanalytic institute, the Sullivan Institute for Research in Psychoanalysis, opened its doors in New York City. Its founders, Saul Newton and Jane Pearce, wanted to start a revolution, one grounded in ideals of creative expression, sexual liberation,...
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City Lights Publishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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A blistering critique of how America's drift toward authoritarian intolerance is dividing the nation and intensifying social and political conflicts.
"From hatemongering tactics in the run-up to the 2016 presidential race, to the increasing number of mass shootings, to excessive police violence, evidence that America is at war with itself is everywhere around us. The question is not whether or not it's happening, but how to understand what's driving...
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Ickonic Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"David Icke has become world-famous for his work exposing today's fast-unfolding global dystopia more than three decades before it became reality. They laughed then. But he didn't stop there. He went further. Icke knew that the world of the 'seen' was only a reflection of something far, far, deeper that ultimately originates with a non-human force in another reality. They laughed then, too, even many who call themselves 'alternative' thinkers. But...
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W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2015]
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English
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Reveals the unsettling ways in which corporations and governments track and monitor everyday activities, profiling the technological, legal, and social solutions available for enabling better privacy and avoiding cybercrime.
18) El dador
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Series
Publisher
Editorial Everest, S.A
Pub. Date
1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7
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Español
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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.
19) The giver
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Giver quartet volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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Living in a "perfect" world without social ills, a boy approaches the time when he will receive a life assignment from the Elders, but his selection leads him to a mysterious man known as the Giver, who reveals the dark secrets behind the utopian facade.
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Regnery Publishing
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"Big Intel recounts the dramatic story of the rise and Cold War heroics of the FBI and the American intelligence apparatus followed by its unfortunate slide into Marxist-influenced deep state dysfunction as BIG INTEL became BAD INTEL"--
"Big Intel recounts the dramatic story of the rise and Cold War heroics of the FBI and the American intelligence apparatus followed by its unfortunate slide into Marxist-influenced Deep State dysfunction as BIG INTEL...
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