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Food Biopreservation

by Parnasree Sadhukhan e Tanmay Sarkar

~~60,50€~~ 54,45€ 10% OFF

 This book explores the chemistry and practical application of natural food preservation techniques using biopreservatives sourced from microorganisms, plants and animals. It highlights key bioactive agents including bacteriocins, lysozyme, lactoferrin, chitosan, essential oils and plant extracts and their roles in enhancing food safety, extending shelf life and maintaining quality across diverse food systems such as dairy, meat, seafood and fresh produce. Designed for both academic and industry professionals, the book offers targeted solutions tailored to specific food matrices, including optimal concentration ranges and storage conditions. It also explores the mechanisms of action behind these agents while addressing critical challenges such as regulatory compliance, safety assessments and consumer acceptance. In response to growing demand for clean-label and sustainable preservation methods, the book introduces emerging technologies like nanoencapsulation, synergistic biopreservative combinations, active packaging innovations and the use of food industry by-products. Backed by current market data indicating growth in the biopreservatives sector, it positions natural preservation as a compelling alternative to chemical additives - one that supports both environmental stewardship and public health.
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Nanotechnology In Pharmaceutical Aerosol Science And Pulmonary Delivery

~~268,90€~~ 242,01€ 10% OFF

 Nanotechnology in Pharmaceutical Aerosol Science and Pulmonary Delivery presents a comprehensive reference dedicated to the intersection of nanotechnology and inhalation drug delivery. Edited by internationally recognized experts Professors Heidi M. Mansour and Anthony J. Hickey, this authoritative volume explores the design, development, and evaluation of inhaled nanomedicines for targeted pulmonary therapy. Bringing together contributions from leading researchers across academia, industry, and regulatory sectors, the book covers a wide spectrum of topicsfrom the physicochemical properties of nanomaterials and formulation strategies, to advanced in vitro and in vivo models, biopharmaceutical classification, and regulatory perspectives. Chapters delve into cutting-edge applications including nanoliposomes, nanocrystals, dendrimers, exosomes, and inhaled biologics, with a strong emphasis on translational science and therapeutic innovation. It serves as an essential resource for pharmaceutical scientists, nanotechnologists, biomedical scientists, clinicians, industrial scientists, and regulatory professionals. In addition, it serves as a valuable scientific resource for educators and students.
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Chlorinated Solvents - A Forensic Evaluation

by David P Megson e Robert D Morrison

~~240,09€~~ 216,08€ 10% OFF

 The second edition of Chlorinated Solvents: A Forensic Evaluation provides a continuation and update of environmental forensic techniques described in the 2013 first edition for age dating and identifying the location of chlorinated solvent releases. A focus on the integration of the forensic advancements in contaminant modeling, solvent concentration gradients, phytoscreening, molar ratio analysis, dendroecology, compound specific isotope analysis and forensic timestamps are described in multiple chapters. Chlorinated solvents examined in this expanded edition include trichloroethylene, tetrachloroethylene, methyl chloroform, carbon tetrachloride and methylene chloride. Practical methods available to an investigator to optimize sampling locations and media selection and non-traditional analytical techniques for forensic purposes are explained and illustrated in numerous case studies. The incorporation of generic forensic techniques with unique diagnostic stabilizers and manufacturing impurities provides the reader with the state-of-the-art forensic tools and methodologies for designing and conducting a successful forensic solvent investigation. Extensive references and detailed appendices are included to provide users with the resources to refine the use of these techniques in investigations. This edition delivers the researcher, practitioner and regulator an indispensable reference to assist them in designing and implementing a forensic investigation for age dating and source identification of a chlorinated solvent release.
10 Amazing Inventions

by Jack Goldstein

4,41€ + 10% CARD

 Runtime: 31 minutesWhat are the ten contenders for the best invention of all time? Which single technological development has led to the human race taking a bigger leap that any other? Is it NASA's Curiosity Rover, the end result of more than 60 years of space exploration, the summation of so many different technological strands? Or is it the internet as Redditors would no doubt suggest? Could it be the clock, counting down the days until our technological singularity?
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Henry Ford - Mass Production And The Model T

by 50minutes

24,99€ + 10% CARD

 Keen to learn but short on time? Get to grips with the life of Henry Ford in next to no time with this concise guide.50Minutes.com provides a clear and engaging analysis of the life and career of Henry Ford. Prior to the early 20th century, a car was a luxury that only a privileged few could afford, but this all changed thanks to Ford. His moving assembly line drastically reduced the cost of vehicles such as the Ford Model T, and he raised wages so that workers could buy the cars they built. His innovations changed the face of industry, and paved the way for mass production and consumption.In just 50 minutes you will:• Learn about Ford's early life and career before founding the Ford Motor Company• Understand the success of his production line and the Ford Model T• Discover the impact of his innovations on American industry and societyABOUT 50MINUTES.COM|History & Culture50MINUTES.COM will enable you to quickly understand the main events, people, conflicts and discoveries from world history that have shaped the world we live in today. Our publications present the key information on a wide variety of topics in a quick and accessible way that is guaranteed to save you time on your journey of discovery.
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Things Fall Together - A Guide To The New Materials Revolution

by Skylar Tibbits

24,99€ + 10% CARD

 This audiobook narrated by Christopher Ragland delivers a manifesto for the dawning age of active materials Things in life tend to fall apart. Cars break down. Buildings fall into disrepair. Personal items deteriorate. Yet today's researchers are exploiting newly understood properties of matter to program materials that physically sense, adapt, and fall together instead of apart. These materials open new directions for industrial innovation and challenge us to rethink the way we build and collaborate with our environment. Things Fall Together is a provocative guide to this emerging, often mind-bending reality, presenting a bold vision for harnessing the intelligence embedded in the material world. Drawing on his pioneering work on self-assembly and programmable material technologies, Skylar Tibbits lays out the core, frequently counterintuitive ideas and strategies that animate this new approach to design and innovation. From furniture that builds itself to shoes printed flat that jump into shape to islands that grow themselves, he describes how matter can compute and exhibit behaviors that we typically associate with biological organisms, and challenges our fundamental assumptions about what physical materials can do and how we can interact with them. Intelligent products today often rely on electronics, batteries, and complicated mechanisms. Tibbits offers a different approach, showing how we can design simple and elegant material intelligence that may one day animate and improve itself—and along the way help us build a more sustainable future. Compelling and beautifully designed, Things Fall Together provides an insider's perspective on the materials revolution that lies ahead, revealing the spectacular possibilities for designing active materials that can self-assemble, collaborate, and one day even evolve and design on their own.
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Beginner'S Guide To Storytel

by Sukirti Sharma

2,99€ + 10% CARD

 Here's a detailed guide on how Storytel app works.
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Zenimal - Shedding Stuff, Consensus And Btc

by Bryan B. Solstin

9,49€ + 10% CARD

 Shedding stuff is preparation for something more important. Zenimal begins with meditation and ends with Bitcoin. Meditation builds consensus skills. Consensus is scalable. Money is a macro consensus. Bitcoin is the most resilient macro consensus. Satoshi Nakamoto'Äôs breakthrough solved the double spend problem. When Satoshi claimed the solution, the cypherpunk community didn'Äôt believe him. We now know Satoshi Nakamoto'Äôs invention is more than resilient. Bitcoin is the pristine decentralized, cryptocurrency comprising: 21 million Bitcoin scarcity asset x 100 million sats, and a decentralized network.¬†Satoshi combined multiple technologies: Merkle trees, private key cryptography, public key cryptography and the novel blockchain integrated with a proof-of-work detailed in his white paper. Satoshi combined all these elements into a decentralized solution solving the double spend problem. Bitcoin is macro consensus without intermediaries. Unlike fiat, Bitcoin is incorruptible.
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God, Technology, And The Christian Life

by Tony Reinke

19,60€ + 10% CARD

 What Does God Think about Technology? From smartphones to self-driving cars to space travel, new technologies can inspire us. But the breakneck pace of change can also frighten us. So how do Christians walk by faith through the innovations of Silicon Valley? And how does God relate to our most powerful innovators? To build a biblical theology of technology, journalist and tech optimist Tony Reinke examines nine key texts from Scripture to show how the world's discoveries are divinely orchestrated. Ultimately, what we believe about God determines how we respond to human invention. With the help of several theologians and inventors throughout history, Reinke dispels twelve common myths in the church and offers fourteen ethical convictions to help Christians live by faith in the age of big tech.
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Kay'S Incredible Inventions - A Fascinating And Fantastically Funny Guide To Inventions That Changed The World (And Some That Definitely Didn''T)

by Adam Kay

8,28€ + 10% CARD

 Brought to you by Puffin. Have you ever thought about the fact that before the fridge you''d have had maggots in your margarine? Ever thought about what you might use to wipe your bum before loo roll was a thing? And what about what everybody did before computers?! In this third hilarious book from Adam Kay and Henry Paker you''ll learn about all of these and more. Full of funny findings and disgusting discoveries, you''ll uncover important inventions that changed the world and saved lives like electricity and the internet, and captivating creations that absolutely did not (but are still a lot of fun) like smell o vision and trampolines. An A to Kay to Z of the best, grosest and frankly most ridiculous inventions in the world. Praise for Kay''s Anatomy: ''An enjoyably gross look at the human body. Hours of gruesome fun guaranteed'' i ''Like listening to a teacher who makes pupils fall about'' Sunday Times ''Totally brilliant!'' Jacqueline Wilson Praise for Kay''s Marvellous Medicine: ''A ridiculously funny read that will delight, gross out and educate all at the same time'' Independent ''Educational and entertaining. It should be on the national curriculum!'' Harry Hill ''Completely marvellous and very funny'' BookTrust ©2023 Adam Kay (P)2023 Penguin Audio
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Internet Of Things For Smart Buildings - Leverage Iot For Smarter Insights For Buildings In The New And Built Environments

by Harry G. Smeenk

35,32€ + 10% CARD

 Harness the full potential of IoT in your building to improve living standards, energy efficiency, and morePurchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBook<h4>Key Features</h4><ul><li>Discover how IoT solutions transform mechanical and electrical control systems into smart systems</li><li>Unlock new revenue potential, operational efficiencies, and improved occupant''s quality of life</li><li>Explore industry thought leadership through author-led real-world applications and use cases</li></ul><h4>Book Description</h4>Imagine working in a building with smart features and tenant applications that allow you to monitor, manage, and control every aspect of your user experience. Internet of Things for Smart Buildings is a comprehensive guide that will help you achieve that with smart building architecture, ecosystems, technologies, and key components that create a smart building.In this audiobook, you''ll start by examining all the building systems and applications that can be automated with IoT devices. You''ll learn about different apps to improve efficiency, reduce consumption, and improve occupant satisfaction. You''ll explore IoT sensors, devices, computing platforms, analytics software, user interfaces, and connectivity options, along with common challenges you might encounter while developing the architecture.You''ll also discover how to piece different components together to develop smart buildings with the help of use cases and examples and get to grips with the various IoT stacks. After finding out where to start developing the requirements for your project, you''ll uncover a recommended methodology to understand your current building systems and a process for determining what needs to be modified, along with new technology requirements.By the end of the audiobook, you''ll be able to design and build your own smart building initiative, turning your city into a smart city with one building at a time.<h4>What you will learn</h4><ul><li>Discover what''s a smart building and how IoT enables smart solutions</li><li>Uncover how IoT can make mechanical and electrical systems smart</li><li>Understand how IoT improves workflow tasks, operations, and maintenance</li><li>Explore the components and technology that make a smart building</li><li>Recognize how to put together components to deploy smart applications</li><li>Build your smart building stack to design and develop smart solutions</li></ul><h4>Who this book is for</h4>This audiobook is for architects, mechanical, electrical, and HVAC engineers, system integrators, facility, and operations personnel, and others looking to implement IoT solutions to make their buildings smart. Basic understanding of various mechanical and electrical building systems including HVAC, security, fire alarms, communications, and data networks as well as the operations and maintenance requirements is a prerequisite.
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Unprocessed - How The Food We Eat Is Fuelling Our Mental Health Crisis

by Kimberley Wilson

11,96€ + 10% CARD

 Brought to you by Penguin. We all know that as a nation our mental health is in crisis. But what most don''t know is that a critical ingredient in this debate, and a crucial part of the solution - what we eat - is being ignored. Nutrition has more influence on what we feel, who we become and how we behave than we could ever have imagined. It affects everything from our decision-making to aggression and violence. Yet mental health disorders are overwhelmingly treated as ''mind'' problems as if the physical brain - and how we feed it - is irrelevant. Someone suffering from depression is more likely to be asked about their relationship with their mother than their relationship with food. In this eye-opening and impassioned book, psychologist Kimberley Wilson draws on startling new research - as well as her own work in prisons, schools and hospitals around the country - to reveal the role of food and nutrients in brain development and mental health: from how the food a woman eats during pregnancy influences the size of her baby''s brain, and hunger makes you mean; to how nutrient deficiencies change your personality. We must also recognise poor nutrition as a social injustice, with the poorest and most vulnerable being systematically ignored. We need to talk about what our food is doing to our brains. And we need decisive action, not over rehearsed soundbites and empty promises, from those in power - because if we don''t, things can only get worse. © Kimberley WIlson 2023 (P) Penguin Audio 2023
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Chip War - The Fight For The World''S Most Critical Technology

by Chris Miller

30,91€ + 10% CARD

 A Simon & Schuster audiobook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every listener.
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Eniac - The Triumphs And Tragedies Of The World’S First Computer

by Scott Mccartney

22,03€ + 10% CARD

 The true father of the modern computer was not John von Neumann, as he is generally credited. That honor belongs to the two men, John Mauchly and Presper Eckert, who built the world''s first programmable computer: the legendary ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer).Their three-year race to create the ENIAC is a compelling tale of brilliance and misfortune that has never been told before.Mauchly and Eckert developed a revolutionary vision: to make electricity "think." Funded by the US Army, the team they led constructed a behemoth the size of a three-bedroom apartment. It weighed thirty tons, cost nearly half a million dollars—plus $650 an hour to run—and had eighteen thousand vacuum tubes with miles of wiring. But in 1945, the ENIAC was the cutting edge in technology and a herald of the digital age to come,blazing a trail to the next generation of computers that quickly followed.Based on original interviews with surviving participants and the first study of Mauchly and Eckert''s personal papers,ENIACis a dramatic human story and a vital contribution to the history of technology that restores to the two inventors the legacy they deserve.
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I'D Rather Be In Charge - A Legendary Business Leader’S Roadmap For Achieving Pride, Power, And Joy At Work

by Charlotte Beers

18,72€ + 10% CARD

 Throughout her illustrious career, Charlotte Beers has been a CEO, a chairman, an undersecretary of state, and the first woman to appear on the cover of Fortune magazine. But none of those titles compare to what Charlotte is called today: a teacher, educating women across the United States and Europe on how to break the glass ceiling in what she calls "the era of forging ahead for women." Now, Charlotte shares her extensive knowledge and experience in I’d Rather Be in Charge, detailing concrete solutions to the most serious issue facing working women today: though exceptionally qualified, willing, and ready for the challenge, many are not yet in positions of influence and leadership in the industries they represent. Told in an intimate and honest style, I’d Rather Be in Charge is part personal history, part pragmatic guide, as Charlotte describes her own experiences, stories from her students, and lessons from her peers. By chronicling both successes and mistakes, Charlotte illustrates the universal message that finding your own personal style of leadership is the only way to take charge and find meaning and joy in the ever-evolving workplace of today. I’d Rather Be in Charge is a breakthrough book, a master class for women who are ready to learn how to shatter the glass ceiling, reach the corner office, and—above all—develop their highest self in the workplace and beyond.
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Troublemakers - Silicon Valley''S Coming Of Age

by Leslie Berlin

33,11€ + 10% CARD

 Acclaimed historian Leslie Berlin’s "deeply researched and dramatic narrative of Silicon Valley’s early years…is a meticulously told…compelling history" (The New York Times) of the men and women who chased innovation, and ended up changing the world. Troublemakers is the gripping tale of seven exceptional men and women, pioneers of Silicon Valley in the 1970s and early 1980s. Together, they worked across generations, industries, and companies to bring technology from Pentagon offices and university laboratories to the rest of us. In doing so, they changed the world. "In this vigorous account…a sturdy, skillfully constructed work" (Kirkus Reviews), historian Leslie Berlin introduces the people and stories behind the birth of the Internet and the microprocessor, as well as Apple, Atari, Genentech, Xerox PARC, ROLM, ASK, and the iconic venture capital firms Sequoia Capital and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. In the space of only seven years, five major industries—personal computing, video games, biotechnology, modern venture capital, and advanced semiconductor logic—were born. "There is much to learn from Berlin’s account, particularly that Silicon Valley has long provided the backdrop where technology, elite education, institutional capital, and entrepreneurship collide with incredible force" (The Christian Science Monitor). Featured among well-known Silicon Valley innovators are Mike Markkula, the underappreciated chairman of Apple who owned one-third of the company; Bob Taylor, who masterminded the personal computer; software entrepreneur Sandra Kurtzig, the first woman to take a technology company public; Bob Swanson, the cofounder of Genentech; Al Alcorn, the Atari engineer behind the first successful video game; Fawn Alvarez, who rose from the factory line to the executive suite; and Niels Reimers, the Stanford administrator who changed how university innovations reach the public. Together, these troublemakers rewrote the rules and invented the future.
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Clean Meat - How Growing Meat Without Animals Will Revolutionize Dinner And The World

by Paul Shapiro

22,07€ + 10% CARD

 Paul Shapiro gives you a front-row seat for the wild story of the race to create and commercialize cleaner, safer, sustainable meat—real meat—without the animals. From the entrepreneurial visionaries to the scientists’ workshops to the big business boardrooms—Shapiro details that quest for clean meat and other animal products and examines the debate raging around it. Since the dawn of Homo sapiens some quarter million years ago, animals have satiated our species’ desire for meat. But with a growing global population and demand for meat, eggs, dairy, leather, and more, raising such massive numbers of farm animals is woefully inefficient and takes an enormous toll on the planet, public health, and certainly the animals themselves. But what if we could have our meat and eat it, too? The next great scientific revolution is underway—discovering new ways to create enough food for the world’s ever-growing, ever-hungry population. Enter clean meat—real, actual meat grown (or brewed!) from animal cells—as well as other clean foods that ditch animal cells altogether and are simply built from the molecule up. Also called lab-grown meat, cultured meat, or cell-based meat, this race promises promise to bring about another domestication. Whereas our ancestors domesticated wild animals into livestock, today we’re beginning to domesticate their cells, leaving the animals out of the equation. From one single cell of a cow, you could feed an entire village. And the story of this coming "second domestication" is anything but tame.
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Kochland - The Secret History Of Koch Industries And Corporate Power In America

by Christopher Leonard

38,64€ + 10% CARD

 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2019 * WINNER OF THE J ANTHONY LUKAS WORK-IN-PROGRESS AWARD * FINANCIAL TIMES’ BEST BOOKS OF 2019 * NPR FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2019 * FINALIST FOR THE FINACIAL TIMES/MCKINSEY BUSINESS BOOK OF 2019 * KIRKUS REVIEWS BEST BOOKS OF 2019 * SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL BEST BOOKS OF 2019 "Superb…Among the best books ever written about an American corporation." —Bryan Burrough, The New York Times Book Review Just as Steve Coll told the story of globalization through ExxonMobil and Andrew Ross Sorkin told the story of Wall Street excess through Too Big to Fail, Christopher Leonard’s Kochland uses the extraordinary account of how one of the biggest private companies in the world grew to be that big to tell the story of modern corporate America. The annual revenue of Koch Industries is bigger than that of Goldman Sachs, Facebook, and US Steel combined. Koch is everywhere: from the fertilizers that make our food to the chemicals that make our pipes to the synthetics that make our carpets and diapers to the Wall Street trading in all these commodities. But few people know much about Koch Industries and that’s because the billionaire Koch brothers have wanted it that way. For five decades, CEO Charles Koch has kept Koch Industries quietly operating in deepest secrecy, with a view toward very, very long-term profits. He’s a genius businessman: patient with earnings, able to learn from his mistakes, determined that his employees develop a reverence for free-market ruthlessness, and a master disrupter. These strategies made him and his brother David together richer than Bill Gates. But there’s another side to this story. If you want to understand how we killed the unions in this country, how we widened the income divide, stalled progress on climate change, and how our corporations bought the influence industry, all you have to do is read this book. Seven years in the making, Kochland "is a dazzling feat of investigative reporting and epic narrative writing, a tour de force that takes the reader deep inside the rise of a vastly powerful family corporation that has come to influence American workers, markets, elections, and the very ideas debated in our public square. Leonard’s work is fair and meticulous, even as it reveals the Kochs as industrial Citizens Kane of our time" (Steve Coll, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Private Empire).
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Idealist - Aaron Swartz And The Rise Of Free Culture On The Internet

by Justin Peters

28,70€ + 10% CARD

 This smart, "riveting" (Los Angeles Times) history of the Internet free culture movement and its larger effects on society—and the life and shocking suicide of Aaron Swartz, a founding developer of Reddit and Creative Commons—written by Slate correspondent Justin Peters "captures Swartz flawlessly" (The New York Times Book Review). Aaron Swartz was a zealous young advocate for the free exchange of information and creative content online. He committed suicide in 2013 after being indicted by the government for illegally downloading millions of academic articles from a nonprofit online database. From the age of fifteen, when Swartz, a computer prodigy, worked with Lawrence Lessig to launch Creative Commons, to his years as a fighter for copyright reform and open information, to his work leading the protests against the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), to his posthumous status as a cultural icon, Swartz’s life was inextricably connected to the free culture movement. Now Justin Peters examines Swartz’s life in the context of 200 years of struggle over the control of information. In vivid, accessible prose, The Idealist situates Swartz in the context of other "data moralists" past and present, from lexicographer Noah Webster to ebook pioneer Michael Hart to NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. In the process, the book explores the history of copyright statutes and the public domain; examines archivists’ ongoing quest to build the "library of the future"; and charts the rise of open access, the copyleft movement, and other ideologies that have come to challenge protectionist intellectual property policies. Peters also breaks down the government’s case against Swartz and explains how we reached the point where federally funded academic research came to be considered private property, and downloading that material in bulk came to be considered a federal crime. The Idealist is "an excellent survey of the intellectual property battlefield, and a sobering memorial to its most tragic victim" (The Boston Globe) and an essential look at the impact of the free culture movement on our daily lives and on generations to come.
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Enchanted Objects - Design, Human Desire, And The Internet Of Things

by David Rose

22,07€ + 10% CARD

 In the tradition of Who Owns the Future, an MIT Media Lab scientist imagines how everyday objects can intuit our needs, improve our lives, and form "an ethereal interconnection of gadgets and human desires that...will pervade our lives in the very near future" (The Wall Street Journal). We are now standing at the precipice of the next transformative development, a world in which technology becomes more human. Soon, connected technology will be embedded in hundreds of everyday objects we already use: our cars, wallets, watches, umbrellas, even our trash cans. These objects will respond to our needs, come to know us, and even learn to think ahead on our behalf. David Rose calls these devices—which are just beginning to creep into the marketplace—Enchanted Objects. In Rose’s vision of the future, technology atomizes, combining itself with the objects that make up the very fabric of daily living. Such innovations will be woven into the background of our environment, enhancing human relationships, channeling desires for omniscience, long life, and creative expression. The enchanted objects of fairy tales and science fiction will enter real life. Groundbreaking, timely, and provocative, Enchanted Objects is a "delightful" (The New York Times) blueprint for a better future, where efficient solutions come hand in hand with technology that delights our senses. It is essential reading for designers, technologists, entrepreneurs, business leaders, and anyone who wishes to take a glimpse into the future.
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Public Parts - How Sharing In The Digital Age Improves The Way We Work And Live

by Jeff Jarvis

27,60€ + 10% CARD

 International bestselling author and optimistic internet thinker Jeff Jarvis examines the way the Internet has changed the way we form communities, create identities, engage in commerce, and live our lives. A visionary and optimistic thinker examines the tension between privacy and publicness that is transforming how we form communities, create identities, do business, and live our lives. Thanks to the internet, we now live—more and more—in public. More than 750 million people (and half of all Americans) use Facebook, where we share a billion times a day. The collective voice of Twitter echoes instantly 100 million times daily, from Tahrir Square to the Mall of America, on subjects that range from democratic reform to unfolding natural disasters to celebrity gossip. New tools let us share our photos, videos, purchases, knowledge, friendships, locations, and lives. Yet change brings fear, and many people—nostalgic for a more homogeneous mass culture and provoked by well-meaning advocates for privacy—despair that the internet and how we share there is making us dumber, crasser, distracted, and vulnerable to threats of all kinds. But not Jeff Jarvis. In this shibboleth-destroying book, Public Parts argues persuasively and personally that the internet and our new sense of publicness are, in fact, doing the opposite. Jarvis travels back in time to show the amazing parallels of fear and resistance that met the advent of other innovations such as the camera and the printing press. The internet, he argues, will change business, society, and life as profoundly as Gutenberg’s invention, shifting power from old institutions to us all. Based on extensive interviews, Public Parts introduces us to the men and women building a new industry based on sharing. Some of them have become household names—Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, Google’s Eric Schmidt, and Twitter’s Evan Williams. Others may soon be recognized as the industrialists, philosophers, and designers of our future. Jarvis explores the promising ways in which the internet and publicness allow us to collaborate, think, ways—how we manufacture and market, buy and sell, organize and govern, teach and learn. He also examines the necessity as well as the limits of privacy in an effort to understand and thus protect it. This new and open era has already profoundly disrupted economies, industries, laws, ethics, childhood, and many other facets of our daily lives. But the change has just begun. The shape of the future is not assured. The amazing new tools of publicness can be used to good ends and bad. The choices—and the responsibilities—lie with us. Jarvis makes an urgent case that the future of the internet—what one technologist calls "the eighth continent"—requires as much protection as the physical space we share, the air we breathe, and the rights we afford one another. It is a space of the public, for the public, and by the public. It needs protection and respect from all of us. As Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said in the wake of the uprisings in the Middle East, "If people around the world are going to come together every day online and have a safe and productive experience, we need a shared vision to guide us." Jeff Jarvis has that vision and will be that guide.
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Moon Hoax? - Conspiracy Theories On Trial

by Thomas Eversberg

16,51€ + 10% CARD

 This audiobook is about the American moon landings—and about the doubts expressed ever since concerning the reality of these landings. Were the images of men on the moon really just a huge and cleverly executed hoax? Eversberg explains the best-known claims and conspiracy theories, and analyzes the evidence with the help of detailed full-color images, as well as numerous film documents that can be accessed directly from the bonus PDF included with this audiobook. He addresses both the persistent older claims and more recently devised doubts.The audiobook will inform and entertain a wide range of readers interested in space exploration and tells a gripping story covering physics, politics, and history.
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People'S History Of Computing In The United States

by Joy Lisi Rankin

25,35€ + 10% CARD

 Silicon Valley gets all the credit for digital creativity, but this account of the pre-PC world, when computing meant more than using mature consumer technology, challenges that triumphalism.The invention of the personal computer liberated users from corporate mainframes and brought computing into homes. But throughout the 1960s and 1970s, a diverse group of teachers and students working together on academic computing systems conducted many of the activities we now recognize as personal and social computing. Their networks were centered in New Hampshire, Minnesota, and Illinois, but they connected far-flung users. Joy Rankin draws on detailed records to explore how users exchanged messages, programmed music and poems, fostered communities, and developed computer games like The Oregon Trail. These unsung pioneers helped shape our digital world, just as much as the inventors, garage hobbyists, and eccentric billionaires of Palo Alto.By imagining computing as an interactive commons, the early denizens of the digital realm seeded today’s debate about whether the internet should be a public utility and laid the groundwork for the concept of net neutrality. Rankin offers a radical precedent for a more democratic digital culture, and new models for the next generation of activists, educators, coders, and makers.
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Salt, Sugar, Fat - How The Food Giants Hooked Us

by Michael Moss

11,04€ + 10% CARD

 In China, for the first time, the people who weigh too much now outnumber those who weigh too little. In Mexico, the obesity rate has tripled in the past three decades. This title exposes the practices of some of the recognisable (and profitable) companies and brands of the last half century.
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