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Popular Culture March 2018
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Everybody lies : big data, new data, and what the Internet can tell us about who we really are
by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
The New York Times op-ed columnist and former Google data scientist presents an insider's look at what today's vast, instantly available amounts of information can reveal about our world.
Everybody Lies offers fascinating, surprising, and sometimes laugh-out-loud insights into everything from economics to ethics to sports to race to sex, gender and more, all drawn from the world of big data. What percentage of white voters didn’t vote for Barack Obama because he’s black? Does where you go to school effect how successful you are in life? Do parents secretly favor boy children over girls? Do violent films affect the crime rate? Can you beat the stock market? How regularly do we lie about our sex lives and who’s more self-conscious about sex, men or women?
Investigating these questions and a host of others, Seth Stephens-Davidowitz offers revelations that can help us understand ourselves and our lives better. Drawing on studies and experiments on how we really live and think, he demonstrates in fascinating and often funny ways the extent to which all the world is indeed a lab.
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Feel free : essays
by Zadie Smith
In a collection of essays arranged into five sections—In the World, In the Audience, In the Gallery, On the Bookshelf, and Feel Free—the best-selling author of Swing Time discusses important questions about our world that readers will immediately recognize.
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Welcome homeless : one man's journey of discovering the meaning of home
by Alan Graham
Homeless. No other word better describes our modern-day suffering. It reveals one of our deepest and most painful conditions—not having a sense of belonging. However, Alan Graham, founder of Mobile Loaves & Fishes and Community First Village, is improving the quality of life for a large quantity of people through sharing his personal story of becoming more human through humanizing others. Graham believes the more we can give people dignity, the power of choice, and genuine community, the better we’ll be able to offer solutions that will have impact on the world at large. And while his missionary work is focused on giving a home to the physically homeless, he also wants to transform the lives of every living person by shifting the paradigm in understanding what it means to be “home.” In Welcome Homeless, Graham delves deep into what it means to be connected to God, the earth, and each other. In doing so, he shows us the home we’ve all longed for but never had.
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Rebel : my life outside the lines
by Nick Nolte
The Academy Award-nominated actor famed for such films as Rich Man, Poor Man and 48 Hrs. traces the story of his life and career, touching on subjects ranging from his relationships and addiction struggles to his method-acting approaches and his experiences as a father.
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| Life in Motion: An Unlikely Ballerina by Misty CopelandWhat it is: the memoir of ballet dancer Misty Copeland, who became the first African-American principal ballerina in the history of the American Ballet Theatre.
What's inside: candid tales of Copeland's difficult upbringing, her first experience with ballet at age 13, and her rise to stardom.
You might also like: Jenifer Ringer's Dancing Through It; David Hallberg's A Body of Work. |
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| Hamilton: The Revolution by Lin-Manuel MirandaWhat it is: The Hamilton libretto, complete with annotations, photos, and commentary from Lin-Manuel Miranda, the Tony Award-winning composer-lyricist-star behind the beloved musical based on founding father Alexander Hamilton.
Who it's for: Anyone who wants to get behind the scenes of the hip-hop musical with the diverse cast -- whether or not you've been lucky enough to see it.
Fair warning: Reading this book might make you all the more desperate to score tickets to be in the room where it happens. |
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