She looks at a number of case studies related to privacy, net neutrality, filtering and copyright. In this compelling account, Monica Horten confronts the deepening cooperation between large companies and the State. They are manipulating governments and policy-makers, blocking and filtering content, and retaining and storing personal data at the cost of individual access and privacy. "How are political decisions influencing the future direction of internet communication? As the interests of powerful businesses become more embedded in the online world, so these corporations seek greater exemption from liability. The closing of the net / Monica Horten Book Bib IDīook, Online - Google BooksĬambridge Malden, MA : Polity Press, 2016
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It seems so obvious after you say it, but rather than realizing that, I just kept thinking, I've never read anything like this before. Wikipedia told me that Wolfe modeled his writing after Thackeray and Dickens. Towards the end, I had to listen in private, so that my sobbing wouldn’t embarrass the neighbors or lead to a meltdown at work. This is one of the audios I listened to while I walked to work, so the neighborhoods of Eugene had the dubious privilege of waking to my shrieks and hysterical cackling for many mornings in April because of Tom Wolfe. This book made me scream and gasp and stop, sit, and stare. I just want to read it over and over again, mystery intact. How does it happen? How does someone put something this perfect together? And I don’t even want to know. The idea of writing such a beautiful book kills me. I’m pretty sure he’s gotten it, but just in case, my wish is out there. But, I wish on Tom Wolfe a lifetime supply of sex and ice cream because of this book. Anybody! Not that I’m recommending everyone start stalking him. I hope Tom Wolfe has gotten anybody he’s ever wanted – x-ray, lemon tart, girls with any shade of lipstick imaginable, men with impressive sternocleidomastoid muscles. I hope women (or men) invented a time machine to travel back in time and lay young Tom Wolfe because of this book. I hope women have put down this book, thrown on some lingerie, and walked over to his apartment – unless Wolfe is gay, in which case, I hope men have done the lingerie thing. I hope Tom Wolfe has gotten so laid because of this book. Campbell Award for Best New Writer and has gone on to author the Hugo, Nebula, Alex and Locus Award-winning Wayward Children series, the October Daye series, the InCryptid series, and other works including darker fiction as Mira Grant. Seanan McGuire is an unmatched storyteller, the first person to appear five times on the same Hugo ballot in 2013. We’ll be holding the sales to 80% capacity, so people who feel safer distancing will be able to do so. Per a request from Seanan, _ masks will be required_ for this event. The library has free parking, and is physically accessible. After three books are signed, fans with more will be asked to go to the back of the line. Books purchased in advance will be brought to the event for pickup.Īt the event Seanan is happy to sign personal books (not bought at this reading) but with a limit of three at a time. Seanan will be signing books purchased in advance and books purchased at the library the night of the event.īooks can be purchased through Eventbrite, or through the Main Point Books website. Tickets are free but required for entry to the event. This is a live, in-person event at the Tredyffrin Public Library. Main Point Books and our partner Tredyffrin Public Library welcome Seanan McGuire and her new novel, “Seasonal Fears,” a companion to her award-winning “Middlegame.” She’ll be joined by special guest A.C. “It seems they changed their mind after reading the manuscript!” “Until now the position of the two children was that it would not be published,” said Jaime Abello, director of the Gabo Foundation. The tale of Ana Magdalena Bach, a middle-aged woman who has an erotic affair while visiting a tropical island to lay flowers on her mother’s grave, was allegedly the first chapter Márquez was working on.īut after the internationally acclaimed author affectionately known as Gabo died in 2014, it was believed the work would remain unseen as his family was thought to be uncomfortable publishing an unfinished work. Speculation has surrounded the unpublished title ever since 1999 when García Márquez published a short story in the Colombian magazine Cambio. “I had heard rumours of some manuscripts, but nothing more than rumours. “No?! A Gabriel García Márquez book?” said Juan Moreno Blanco, a professor at the Universidad del Valle in Cali, Colombia, who was lost for words at the news. Longing to be normal, Gabriella enrols in a strict day school, only to find herself balancing two very different lives. Alongside her ever expanding set of siblings and half-siblings, numerous pets and her father's rag-tag admirers, Gabriella navigates a chaotic childhood of wild bohemian parties and fluctuating levels of poverty. Gabriella lives in a damp, ramshackle, book-strewn farmhouse in Norfolk with her tempestuous poet father and unconventional mother. ' A funny, though sometimes melancholy, story of irresponsible and drunken bohemianism. To write well and with such open-hearted affection is an achievement' Observer The classic story of a chaotic, creative family But over time, “I started getting more and more involved in green finance projects,” he says. Policy, he hoped, would give him the opportunity to have a global impact.Īfter college, he was hired as a project assistant at the Inter-American Development Bank, doing administrative tasks. “In Mozambique, I was working with local communities, and I got to see firsthand the impact of climate: how farmers were being affected by droughts and floods, and how the Global South was experiencing the consequences of climate change,” says Lopez. He considered becoming a doctor, but after doing volunteer work in Mozambique, he switched his focus to policy. Lopez always knew he wanted to help people, but he wasn’t always sure what approach to take. A soon-to-be graduate of the MA in Climate and Society program at Columbia Climate School, Lopez is already working full time as the director of partnerships and capacity building at the Morgan Stanley Institute for Sustainable Investing. Johan Lopez’s goal is to make the world a better place. He plans to leverage sustainable finance to promote investments that are good for people and the planet. Johan Lopez will graduate from the MA in Climate and Society program in August. My advice is to stop trying to “network” in the traditional business sense, and instead just try to build up the number and depth of your friendships, where the friendship itself is its own reward. Here’s a collection of my favourite quotes from the book: Network or Friendships? It’s the classic start-up story many of us dream of: a couple of friends get together and quit their jobs on the back on a single idea, they make it through the good times and bad times and desperate times to somehow scale it up to a billion dollar company within 10 years. Tony Hsieh is the CEO of Zappos, which is now wholly owned by Amazon and sells a wide range of items online, but made it’s start selling shoes online. Here are my notes on the book “Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose” by Tony Hsieh In my neighborhood alone, hundreds upon hundreds of us are weaving our roots into the soil like knitters on a mission. Red oaks are one of the most common trees in North America. I am proud to say that I’m a northern red oak, also known as Quercus rubra. Maybe we’ve met? Oak tree near the elementary school? Big, but not too? Sweet shade in the summer, fine color in the fall? Nonetheless, if you find yourself standing near a particularly friendly-looking tree on a particularly lucky-feeling day, it can’t hurt to listen up.Īnd if all you hear is the whisper of leaves, don’t worry. They probably don’t know that trees can talk. Perhaps you’re wondering why the fact that trees talk wasn’t covered in science class, during those Mother Nature Is Our Friend lessons.ĭon’t blame your teachers. The next minute you’re turning us into tables and tongue depressors. Trees have a rather complicated relationship with people, after all. So do we ever talk to people? Actually talk, that most people-y of people skills? There’s that sycamore down at the corner. We talk to flashy butterflies and bashful moths.īirds? They’re delightful. Trees do talk to some folks, the ones we know we can trust. Photosynthesize.Īnd just try to get a tree to tell a good joke. That’s not to say we can’t do amazing things, things you’ll probably never do.Ĭradle downy owlets. It is, and it’s also a novel about a big old guy violating a spindly child over and over and over. Rebecca Solnit, for instance, wrote a cringe-inducing and hilarious essay, “Men Explain Lolita to Me,” including these lines: “A nice liberal man came along and explained to me this book was actually an allegory as though I hadn’t thought of that yet. Last year’s 60th anniversary of the publication of “Lolita” prompted some serious soul-searching and critical revision, most forcefully from female writers and critics. “There is compassion in Nabokov, but it is far outweighed by lofty or morose disdain.” I would argue that the first real fissure in the adulatory critical wall hailing the “literary giant” came in 1990, in George Steiner’s erudite assessment of the first volume of Brian Boyd’s Nabokov biography, “Vladimir Nabokov: The Russian Years.” Writing in The New Yorker, Steiner perceived, a lack of generosity of spirit in Boyd’s subject: “Nabokov’s case seems to entail a deep-lying inhumanity, or, more precisely, unhumanity,” Steiner wrote. I just spent the better part of three years with Nabokov, preparing a book about his friendship and eventual blood feud with Wilson. But that is the way it was more than 40 years ago. Through today’s lens it is hard to fathom that TV programing was limited. “Featuring interviews with Wilkins, Stanley and other key figures close to the show.”Ĭourtesy of John Stanley and Garfield Lane Productions “When a theater owner in Oakland wanted Bob to make an appearance, and Bob asked me to check it out and thus began my venture to where I am today.” From his experience bringing Wilkins and Stanley out of retirement and back into the spotlight, Wyrsch made his very first documentary in 2013 called ‘Watch Horror Films, Keep America Strong.’ “It’s a journey back through those years,” he said. He noted that it was because of his interest in the show and his later association with Wilkins and Stanley that he got into the documentary film field. He took a few minutes to chat with this reporter about the TV show ‘Creature Features’ and its hosts Bob Wilkins and John Stanley. The choices were limited but shows like ‘Creature Features’ provided a full show,” said Tom Wyrsch, producer-filmaker of ‘Haunted Sonoma County,’ now playing at select local theaters. “And that was when there was no 24-hour TV HBO or Showtime. |