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  Like a Thief in Broad Daylight -...

  Slavoj Žižek

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  In recent years, techno-scientific progress has started to utterly transform our world-changing it almost beyond recognition. In this extraordinary new book, renowned philosopher Slavoj Zizek turns to look at the brave new world of Big Tech, revealing how, with each new wave of innovation, we find ourselves moving closer and closer to a bizarrely literal realization of Marx's prediction that "all that is solid melts into air." With the automation of work, the virtualization of money, the dissipation of class communities, and the rise of immaterial, intellectual labor, the global capitalist edifice is beginning to crumble, more quickly than ever before—and it is now on the verge of vanishing entirely. 
  But what will come next? Against a backdrop of constant socio-technological upheaval, how could any kind of authentic change take place? In such a context, Zizek argues, there can be no great social triumph—because lasting revolution has already come into the scene, like a thief in broad daylight, stealing into sight right before our very eyes. What we must do now is wake up and see it. 
  Urgent as ever, Like a Thief in Broad Daylight illuminates the new dangers as well as the radical possibilities thrown up by today's technological and scientific advances, and their electrifying implications for us all.

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  List Building Guide

  Jody Walter

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  List Building Guide: Learn Proven and Effective Guides on How to Create Big Email Lists that Can Be Transformed into IncomeAffiliate marketers or any business owner are using different styles of squeeze pages and opt-in form combinations on their sites to capture potential prospects. You are able to generate the web opt-in forms from the autoresponder provider user dashboard and it is used for embedding into your squeeze page template either as a javascript or HTML code.Every moment when a visitor enters their name and email address into your squeeze page opt-in form, they are instantly added to your mailing list system and instantly become an active subscriber you can follow up with them later on.With the method of list building, you can potentially transform the confirmed subscribers into buyers, since once your potential prospect has been added to your mailing list, you are able to establish a relationship with them, that will encourage sales as well as repeat sales (which will add up more sales profit for the long run).In this audiobook, you will Learn Proven and Effective Guides on How to Create Big Email Lists that Can Be Transformed into Income! So what are you waiting for, download a copy of the List Building Guide today!

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  The Science of Deception -...

  Michael Pettit

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  During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Americans were fascinated with fraud. P. T. Barnum artfully exploited the American yen for deception, and even Mark Twain championed it, arguing that lying was virtuous insofar as it provided the glue for all interpersonal intercourse. But deception was not used solely to delight, and many fell prey to the schemes of con men and the wiles of spirit mediums. As a result, a number of experimental psychologists set themselves the task of identifying and eliminating the illusions engendered by modern, commercial life. By the 1920s, however, many of these same psychologists had come to depend on deliberate misdirection and deceitful stimuli to support their own experiments. The Science of Deception explores this paradox, weaving together the story of deception in American commercial culture with its growing use in the discipline of psychology. Michael Pettit reveals how deception came to be something that psychologists not only studied but also employed to establish their authority. They developed a host of tools—the lie detector, psychotherapy, an array of personality tests, and more—for making deception more transparent in the courts and elsewhere. Pettit’s study illuminates the intimate connections between the scientific discipline and the marketplace during a crucial period in the development of market culture. With its broad research and engaging tales of treachery, The Science of Deception will appeal to scholars and general readers alike.

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  The Wanderer - An Alaska Wolf's...

  Tom Walker

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  The Wanderer is the first book ever to chart a wolf's movement, almost to the day, for an extended period of time. Informed by unique access to research and field notes, award-winning author, photographer, and naturalist Tom Walker shares the story of Wolf 258, nicknamed "the Wanderer," part of a research project that studied wolves in Alaska's Yukon–Charley Rivers National Preserve for more than two decades. A GPS collar recorded the animal's coordinates once a day as it moved through the wilderness. To the amazement of all, the Wanderer traveled more than 2,700 miles in less than six months. To tell this story, Walker had unparalleled access to research and field notes, including the cooperation of the biologist who first collared the Wanderer and the wolf researcher now assigned to Yukon–Charley.The Wanderer recounts the compelling life of one particular wolf, while examining the broader complexity of the species as a whole and its struggle for survival. Walker explores not only the natural history of wolves, but the relationship of people—Indigenous, pioneers and settlers, biologists, politicians—to this predator, shedding light on the long northern traditions of trapping and hunting, the tangled politics of wolf management, and the futility of borders to contain large mammals.

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  Taking the Land to Make the City...

  Mary P. Ryan

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  This historical study shows how San Francisco and Baltimore were central to American expansion through the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.   The history of the United States is often told as a movement westward, beginning at the Atlantic coast and following farmers across the continent. But early settlements and towns sprung up along the Pacific as well as the Atlantic, as Spaniards and Englishmen took Indian land and converted it into private property. In this ambitious study of historical geography and urban development, Mary P. Ryan reframes the story of American expansion.   Baltimore and San Francisco share common roots as early coastal trading centers immersed in the international circulation of goods and ideas. Ryan traces their beginnings back to the first human habitation of each area, showing how the juggernaut toward capitalism and nation-building could not commence until Europeans had taken the land for city building. She then recounts how Mexican ayuntamientos and Anglo-American city councils pioneered a prescient form of municipal sovereignty that served as both a crucible for democracy and a handmaid of capitalism.   Moving into the nineteenth century, Ryan shows how the citizens of Baltimore and San Francisco molded the shape of the modern city: the gridded downtown, rudimentary streetcar suburbs, and outlying great parks. This history culminates in the era of the Civil War when the economic engines of cities helped forge the East and the West into one nation.

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  The Sceptical Chymist

  Robert Boyle

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  "The Sceptical Chymist" is a book written by Robert Boyle, a renowned 17th-century natural philosopher, in 1661. In this book, Boyle challenges the conventional beliefs about chemistry and the nature of matter that were prevalent during his time. 
  Boyle argues that the traditional theories of alchemy and Aristotelian philosophy are flawed and insufficient in explaining the nature of matter. He proposes a new approach to chemistry that emphasizes empirical observation, experimentation, and the use of the scientific method. Boyle's work laid the foundation for modern chemistry by introducing the concept of elements and the notion that chemical reactions occur due to the rearrangement of atoms. 
  Moreover, "The Sceptical Chymist" also contains philosophical arguments about the nature of science and the role of experimentation in scientific inquiry. Boyle critiques the prevailing notion that science should be based solely on deductive reasoning and argues that empirical evidence should be given greater weight in scientific investigations. 
  Overall, "The Sceptical Chymist" is a landmark work in the history of science, as it helped to establish chemistry as a scientific discipline and paved the way for the development of modern scientific methods

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