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From the invention of scripts and alphabets to the long misunderstood "talking drums" of Africa, James Gleick tells the story of information technologies that changed the very nature of human consciousness. He also provides portraits of the key figures contributing to the inexorable development of our modern understanding of information, including Charles Babbage, Ada Byron, Samuel Morse, Alan Turing, and Claude Shannon.
1102) The revenge of geography: what the map tells us about coming conflicts and the battle against fate
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2012.
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In this “ambitious and challenging” (The New York Review of Books) work, the bestselling author of Monsoon and Balkan Ghosts offers a revelatory prism through which to view global upheavals and to understand what lies ahead for continents and countries around the world.
In The Revenge of Geography, Robert D. Kaplan builds on the insights, discoveries, and theories...
In The Revenge of Geography, Robert D. Kaplan builds on the insights, discoveries, and theories...
1103) Mparntwe: Sacred Sites
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Ronin Films
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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Focuses on the sacred sites in and around Mparntwe (Alice Springs) in central Australia, and the struggle of the Arrernte people to identify, document and preserve these sites in the face of rapid urban expansion and property development. Max Stuart, Thomas Stevens, Doris Stuart and other Elders talk about the importance of the sites in and around the city in terms of traditional Dreaming. They reflect on their sense of loss as sites are desecrated...
1104) Coming Clean
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Cinedigm
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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Examines addiction through the eyes of recovering addicts and political leaders, as they come together to bring the profiteers to justice and rebuild in the wake of the deadliest drug epidemic in our history.
1105) Between Fire and Water
Publisher
Pragda
Pub. Date
2020.
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Español
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Camilo is a young black man adopted by an indigenous couple in rural Colombia. He is the only Black person in his community and has always felt different. For years, he has been wondering about his biological parents. The indigenous Quillasinga-governor gives him Ayahuasca, a sacred remedy for spiritual guidance. During this transcendent experience, Camilo has visions of his biological mother. Supported by his adoptive father, Camilo embarks on a...
1107) Maizidian
Publisher
Cinedigm
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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Through the eyes of Greek photographer George Doupas, this beautifully shot documentary captures the experiences of nine expats from the U.S., Italy, Brazil, and beyond during the Covid-19 pandemic in China.
1108) The Last American Colony
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Giant Pictures
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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This documentary reveals an invisible island -- Puerto Rico. Told through personal and criminal experiences, Juan Segarra examines the island's relationship to the US, and embraces the territory's independence movement. He joins Los Macheteros, a group committed to armed struggle. Moments of resistance are woven into the narrative providing a history of Puerto Rico's quest for liberty.
1109) Mele Murals
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Center for Asian American Media
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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A documentary about the transformative power of art through the unlikely union of graffiti and ancient Hawaiian culture. At the center of this story are the artists Estria Miyashiro (aka Estria) and John Hina (aka Prime), and a group of Native Hawaiian youth from the rural community of Waimea, HI. Together they create a mural that addresses the ill effects of environmental changes and encroaching modernization on their native culture.
1110) Seeking Asylum
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Giant Pictures
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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During one of the most uncertain times in United States history, filmmakers Rae Ceretto and Kelly Scott follow one woman's journey as she searches for protection for her and kids. SEEKING ASYLUM bears witness to the endless deterrents migrants face when petitioning for asylum in the United States and examines why asylum is an integral part of the American Dream.
1111) The Healthcare Divide
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PBS
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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An investigation with NPR into growing inequities in American healthcare exposed by COVID-19. How pressure for profit and uneven government support is widening the divide between rich and poor hospitals and endangering care for the most needy.
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"An eminent sociologist--and coauthor, with Aziz Ansari, of the #1 New York Times bestseller Modern Romance--makes the provocative case that the future of democratic societies rests not only on shared values but also on shared "social infrastructure": the libraries, childcare centers, bookstores, coffee shops, pools, and parks that promote crucial, sometimes life-saving connections between people who might otherwise fail to find common cause"--
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In this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities, in search of a better life. From 1915 to 1970, this exodus of almost six million people changed the face of America.
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"One of America's finest reporters and essayists explores the powerful currents beneath the roiled waters of a nation coming apart. Across the country, men "of God" glorify materialism, a gluttony of the soul, while citing Scripture and preparing for civil war--a firestorm they long for as an absolution and exaltation. Lies, greed, and glorification of war boom through microphones at hipster megachurches that once upon a time might have preached peace...
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A breakout writer at The New Yorker examines the fractures at the center of contemporary culture with verve, deftness, and intellectual ferocity--for readers who've wondered what Susan Sontag would have been like if she had brain damage from the internet.
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"From Tim Wu, author of the award-winning The Master Switch and who coined the phrase "net neutrality"--A revelatory look at the rise of "attention harvesting," and its transformative effect on our society and our selves. Attention merchant: an industrial-scale harvester of human attention. A firm whose business model is the mass capture of attention for resale to advertisers. In nearly every moment of our waking lives, we face a barrage of advertising...
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2008.
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Based on exhaustive research and interviews with driving experts and traffic officials around the globe, Traffic gets under the hood of the everyday activity of driving to uncover the surprisingly complex web of physical, psychological, and technical factors that explain how traffic works, why we drive the way we do, and what our driving says about us. Vanderbilt examines the perceptual limits and cognitive underpinnings that make us worse drivers...
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“One of the 50 Best Nonfiction Books of the Last 25 Years”—Slate
On New Year’s Day 2013, two-time Pulitzer Prize–winner Gene Weingarten asked three strangers to, literally, pluck a day, month, and year from a hat. That day—chosen completely at random—turned out to be Sunday, December 28, 1986, by any conventional measure a most ordinary day. Weingarten spent the next six years proving that...
On New Year’s Day 2013, two-time Pulitzer Prize–winner Gene Weingarten asked three strangers to, literally, pluck a day, month, and year from a hat. That day—chosen completely at random—turned out to be Sunday, December 28, 1986, by any conventional measure a most ordinary day. Weingarten spent the next six years proving that...
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