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  Dream States - Smart Cities...

  John Lorinc

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  WINNER OF THE 2022 WRITERS’ TRUST BALSILLIE PRIZE FOR PUBLIC POLICY
  		 
  Is the ‘smart city’ the utopia we’ve been waiting for?
  		 
  The promise of the so-called smart city has been at the forefront of urban planning and development since the early 2010s, and the tech industry that supplies smart city software and hardware is now worth hundreds of billions a year.
  		 
  But the ideas and approaches underpinning smart city tech raise tough and important questions about the future of urban communities, surveillance, automation, and public participation. The smart city era, moreover, belongs firmly in a longer historical narrative about cities — one defined by utopian ideologies, architectural visions, and technological fantasies.
  		 
  Smart streetlights, water and air quality tracking, autonomous vehicles: with examples from all over the world, including New York, Los Angeles, Boston, Portland, and Chicago, Dream States unpacks the world of smart city tech, but also situates this important shift in city-building into a broader story about why we still dream about perfect places.
  		 
  “John Lorinc’s incisive analysis in Dream States reminds us that the search for urban utopia is not new. Throughout the book, Lorinc underscores the fact that a gamut of urban innovations – from smart city megaprojects to e-government to pandemic preparedness tools – only provide promise when scrutinized together with the political, economic, social, and physical complexities of urban life.” – Shauna Brail, University of Toronto
  		 
  “Dream States: Smart Cities, Technology, and the Pursuit of Urban Utopias takes us on a fascinating journey across world cities to show how technology has shaped them in the past and how smart city technology will reshape them in the future. This book is essential reading for policy makers, researchers, and practitioners interested in understanding the opportunities and challenges of smart city technology and what it means for city building.” – Enid Slack, University of Toronto School of Cities
  		 
  “Utopia may be the oldest grift in the city-building business, but Dream States shows that technology is a timeless tool for turning the most ordinary of urban dreams – clean air and water, safe streets, and decent homes – into reality. As digital dilettantes try to sell us on a software overhaul, John Lorinc provides us an indispensable and flawless guide to the must-haves and never-agains of the smart city.” – Anthony Townsend, Urbanist in Residence, Cornell Tech, author of Smart Cities

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  Attachment Unveiled:...

  AHMED MUSA

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  Attachment Unveiled: Understanding Relationship Dynamics - Exploring the Bonds That Shape Us explores the complex network of human interactions and how important attachment patterns are in determining how we interact with others. The main ideas of attachment theory are explained at the beginning of this interesting study, which follows how it changes from early childhood events to the complicated relationships adults have. 
  The book explains in detail the four main attachment styles—disorganized, avoidant, nervous, and secure—and how they greatly affect how we feel, act, and talk to others in different relationship settings. The author encourages readers to consider their attachment types and identify trends affecting their relationships through interesting anecdotes, realistic situations, and insightful assessments. 
  Furthermore, Attachment Unveiled provides doable tactics for creating stronger bonds, stressing the value of self-awareness, empathy, and clear communication. This book is very helpful for anyone who wants to learn more about the complicated nature of human connection, whether they want to make new relationships better, understand how things worked in the past, or build new relationships. By learning about the basic forces that shape our relationships, readers will be able to build deeper and more enjoyable ones.

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  Used by the Olympic Tennis Star...

  Archer Vale

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  My tennis idol taught me a lesson. He revealed the filthy, beautiful truth about the Olympics. 
  What have I become? What happened to my dignity? 
  I kneel in bed, drooling while a star tennis player uses my body to warm up for his next match. Men are shouting in the halls outside…they sound angry. 
  The bedframe creaks as panic pulses through my veins. If they come inside, they’ll see the foul things I’ve been doing for my sports hero. 
  They’ll see how I serve my master. 
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  CONTAINS EXPLICIT GAY SEXUAL CONTENT. 
  For exclusive stories, visit www.ArcherVale.com.

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  News and Democratic Citizens in...

  Johanna Dunaway, Kathleen Searles

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  Though people frequently use mobile technologies for news consumption, evidence from several fields shows that smaller screens and slower connection speeds pose major limitations for meaningful reading. In News and Democratic Citizens in the Mobile Era, Johanna Dunaway and Kathleen Searles demonstrate the effects of mobile devices on news attention, engagement, and recall, and identify a key cognitive mechanism underlying these effects: cognitive effort. They advance a theory that is both old and new: the costs of information-seeking curb participatory behaviors unless the benefits outweigh them. For news consumers in the mobile era, for example, mobile devices increase the time, economic, and cognitive costs associated with information-seeking. Only for a small few do the benefits of attending to the news on mobile devices outweigh the costs. 
   
   
   
  Dunaway and Searles argue that attention, engagement, and recall suffer when people consume news on mobile devices. They then investigate the implications of these effects for the news industry and for an informed democratic citizenry. Drawing on both laboratory and real-world studies, Dunaway and Searles bring the psychophysiology of news consumption to bear on the question of what we could lose in an information environment characterized by a dramatic shift in reliance on mobile devices.

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  Deluge - Gaza and Israel from...

  Jamie Stern-Weiner

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  In September 2023, US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan boasted that the Middle East "is quieter today than it has been in two decades." One week later, unprecedented violence in Gaza and Israel shattered the status quo and shocked the world.
  Hamas's Operation Al-Aqsa Deluge punctured delusions of stability as hundreds of militants burst forth from the Gaza prison camp. In the ensuing carnage and firefights, 1,200 Israelis were killed and hundreds more taken hostage.
  Israel's retaliation turned the besieged enclave into a howling wasteland. Nearly 20,000 people were killed in two months, including more than 7,000 children, and over 60 percent of homes were damaged or destroyed. Israel targeted the wounded and infirm, newborns and near-dead, as Gaza's healthcare system—hospitals, clinics, ambulances, medical personnel—came under a systematic attack unprecedented in the annals of modern warfare.
  The Hamas massacre and the Israeli extermination campaign which followed together mark a historic turning point in the Israel-Palestine conflict. The reverberations have also shaken politics far beyond, not least in Europe and the United States, where gigantic, round-the-clock protests for Palestinian rights pitted politicians against the public and exposed a growing statist authoritarianism.
  In this groundbreaking book—the first published about the 2023 Gaza war—leading Palestinian, Israeli, and international authorities put these momentous developments in context and provide an initial taking-stock.
  Why did Hamas attack? What is Israel trying to achieve? Did this catastrophe have to happen? And is there a way forward? The book's expert contributors address these and other questions, which have never been more urgent.

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  INTERESTING STORYBOOK FOR...

  Angela Jenkins

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  Are you looking for some interesting bedtime stories?Does your kid love to read fiction?Do you want to develop the reading skill of your kid? 
  If yes, you are going to have this incredible "Interesting Storybook for Inquisitive Kids" to satisfy your kid's curious nature. 
  Stories have always been and will continue to be an integral element of human culture. We learn about one another, our pasts, and our cultures via stories. New stories are being lived, recounted, and created every day, whether for amusement or to chronicle a real-life incident. Even if there were only one story for every person who had ever lived, there would still be billions of stories around the globe; it would be impossible to count them all. 
  Bedtime stories are beneficial because they aid in the formation of ties, the promotion of reading, the development of speaking and language skills, and the inspiration of creativity. Reading bedtime stories to kids is critical to a child's development. As Philip Pullman rightly puts it, "After nourishment, shelter, and companionship, stories are what we need the most in the world." Telling stories helps children develop their reading skills, excellent writing, sentence construction, imagination, creativity, and communication skills. 
  By reading this book, the kids will be able toImprove their reading comprehension.Enhance their imaginative power.Learn some important life lessons.Learn some moral lessons.Become better human beings. 
  If you really wish to bring a positive change in your kid's life, click the "Buy Now" button and gift a valuable book to your kid.

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