Why software isn’t perfect, as seen through the stories of software developers at a run-of-the-mill tech companyContrary to much of the popular discourse, not all technology is seamless and awesome; some of it is simply “good enough...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 21-May-2024, Hardback, Kirjastus: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691257150)
Why software isn’t perfect, as seen through the stories of software developers at a run-of-the-mill tech companyContrary to much of the popular discourse, not all technology is seamless and awesome; some of it is simply “good enough...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 14-Nov-2023, Hardback, Kirjastus: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691245034)
How Mexican and Latinx hackers apply concepts from coding to their lived experiences In Code Work, Héctor Beltrán examines Mexican and Latinx coders personal strategies of self-making as they navigate a transnational economy of tech work....Loe edasi...
How Mexican and Latinx hackers apply concepts from coding to their lived experiences In Code Work, Héctor Beltrán examines Mexican and Latinx coders personal strategies of self-making as they navigate a transnational economy of tech work....Loe edasi...
How craigslist champions openness, democracy, and other vanishing principles of the early webBegun by Craig Newmark as an e-mail to some friends about cool events happening around San Francisco, craigslist is now the leading classif...Loe edasi...
A revealing look at Jewish men and women who secretly explore the outside world, in person and online, while remaining in their ultra-Orthodox religious communities What would you do if you questioned your religious faith, but revea...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Nov-2021, Hardback, Kirjastus: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691199276)
The origins and development of the modern American emergency stateFrom pandemic disease, to the disasters associated with global warming, to cyberattacks, today we face an increasing array of catastrophic threats. It is striking tha...Loe edasi...
In the middle decades of the twentieth century, in the wake of economic depression, war, and in the midst of the Cold War, an array of technical experts and government officials developed a substantial body of expertise to contain and manage the dis...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Sep-2020, Hardback, Kirjastus: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691179483)
A vivid look at Chinas shifting place in the global political economy of technology production How did Chinas mass manufacturing and copycat production become transformed, in the global tech imagination, from something holding the nation back to...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 26-May-2020, Hardback, Kirjastus: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691169903)
This book concerns a cohort of ultra-orthodox Jews based in the greater New York area who, while retaining membership and close familial and other ties with their strictly observant communities, seek out secular knowledge about the world on the down...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 04-Feb-2020, Hardback, Kirjastus: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691188904)
How craigslist champions openness, democracy, and other vanishing principles of the early webBegun by Craig Newmark as an e-mail to some friends about cool events happening around San Francisco, craigslist is now the leading classifi...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 10-Dec-2019, Hardback, Kirjastus: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691182070)
A firsthand look at efforts to improve diversity in software and hackerspace communitiesHacking, as a mode of technical and cultural production, is commonly celebrated for its extraordinary freedoms of creation and circulation. Yet s...Loe edasi...
A firsthand look at efforts to improve diversity in software and hackerspace communitiesHacking, as a mode of technical and cultural production, is commonly celebrated for its extraordinary freedoms of creation and circulation. Yet s...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 03-Sep-2019, Hardback, Kirjastus: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691186597)
An in-depth look at the people and institutions connected with the Itaipu Dam, the worlds biggest producer of renewable energyHydropolitics is a groundbreaking investigation of the worlds largest power plant and the ways the energy we use shapes p...Loe edasi...
An in-depth look at the people and institutions connected with the Itaipoe Dam, the worlds biggest producer of renewable energy, Hydropolitics is a groundbreaking investigation of the worlds largest power plant and the ways energy shapes politics...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 25-Jun-2019, Hardback, Kirjastus: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691182605)
A gripping account of the Russian visionaries who are pursuing human immortalityAs long as we have known death, we have dreamed of life without end. In The Future of Immortality, Anya Bernstein explores the contemporary Russia...Loe edasi...
A gripping account of the Russian visionaries who are pursuing human immortalityAs long as we have known death, we have dreamed of life without end. In The Future of Immortality, Anya Bernstein explores the contemporary Russia...Loe edasi...
A vivid look at how India has developed the idea of entrepreneurial citizens as leaders mobilizing society and how people try to live that promiseCan entrepreneurs develop a nation, serve the poor, and pursue creative freedom, all wh...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 12-Mar-2019, Hardback, Kirjastus: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691175133)
A vivid look at how India has developed the idea of entrepreneurial citizens as leaders mobilizing society and how people try to live that promiseCan entrepreneurs develop a nation, serve the poor, and pursue creative freedom, all wh...Loe edasi...
