![]() ![]() She knows Ben gets really obsessed with whatever he's working on, and she asks what the latest project is.Even that late, she finds Ben still buried in his books. After tennis, Christy had dinner with a friend, so she doesn't get home until around 11:00PM.(Sounds kind of dangerous, don' t you think?). ![]() Maybe he can spend a few class periods trying to give his students "a sampling, a taste of what life in Nazi Germany might have been like" (4.3). He thinks about it: maybe the only way Ben's students would understand is if they were somehow in a similar situation.None of the books seem to have the answers he's looking for, though. Ben's wife Christy played tennis with a friend tonight, so Ben spends hours reading.The more you know, the more you can teach, right?.He feels bad that he couldn't give his students answers to their questions about the Nazis and the German people in history class, so he stops by the library on his way home and picks up a bunch of books on the topic. ![]()
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In her debut picture book, Hughes brings an uncanny humor to her painterly illustrations. But will civilization get comfortable with her? Now she lives in the comfort of civilization. She's puzzled by their behavior and their insistence on living in these strange concrete structures: there's no green here, no animals, no trees, no rivers. That is, until she is snared by some very strange animals that look oddly like her, but they don't talk right, eat right, or play correctly. She is unashamedly, irrefutably, irrepressibly wild. In this beautiful picture book by Emily Hughes, we meet a little girl who has known nothing but nature from birth-she was taught to talk by birds, to eat by bears, and to play by foxes. 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Minimal development of supporting characters and a lack of narrative tension mar Byrd’s (the Friends for a Season series) effort to chronicle a teenage girl’s maturation in her Christian faith. ![]() ![]() ![]() The social institutions of the digital world use and control us to obtain economic results, hence the title ‘surveillance capitalism’. ‘The fact that what is called the technological development of modern times has been so largely oriented economically to profit-making is one of the fundamental facts of the history of technology’ (22). ![]() Zuboff takes up this urgency a few centuries later to remind us that the use of digital tools is neither neutral nor innocuous, but responds to the economic design of those who own these tools. The old books of political philosophy that proposed to free the individual from social institutions, as Jean-Jacques Rousseau and his disciples did in their day, also had a warning tone. 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