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Pět severských her
Antologie současné severské dramatiky zahrnuje pět titulů pěti autorů střední a mladší generace, které vznikly v průběhu posledních deseti let.
Maria Blomová: Zatracený Dalarňani
Ve hře švédské dramatičky se při příležitosti otcových sedmdesátin poprvé po delší době scházejí sestry Gunilla, Eivor a Carina. První dvě strávily celý život v rodném kraji Dalarna, zatímco třetí se odstěhovala do Stockholmu. Jejich touhy, nenaplněné naděje a zklamání je mimoto spojují s třemi sestrami ze stejnojmenného Čechovova dramatu; bolestná emocionální konfrontace, ke které mezi nimi dojde, zase do jisté míry evokuje směs lásky a nenávisti charakterizující vzájemný vztah protagonistek slavných Šepotů a výkřiků Ingmara Bergmana.
Lars Saabye Christensen: Chet tady nezahraje
Komorní drama Chet tady nezahraje, jehož titul odkazuje na slavného amerického trumpetistu Cheta Bakera, sleduje příběh mladého saxofonisty Daniela a klade otázku, zda umělec je, či není oprávněn obětovat umění soukromý život svůj i život svých blízkých. Způsob, jakým norský dramatik na tuto otázku hledá odpověď, je originální: zatímco sám vypráví hudebníkův příběh z pozice nezaujatého pozorovatele, předmět jeho zájmu ho komentuje z „druhého břehu“: v okamžiku, kdy hra začíná, je totiž Daniel už několik hodin mrtvý.
Auaur Ava Ólafsdóttir: Farářův černý pes
Islandská spisovatelka, básnířka a dramatička zde líčí setkání ovdovělé matky s jejími dvěma dcerami, synem a zetěm, které má nečekaný, tragikomický průběh. Z rodinné skříně vypadnou nepříjemní kostlivci, kteří způsobí, že všichni zúčastnění musí zcela přehodnotit své představy a názory. Ukáže se totiž, že nic není tak, jak se zdálo. (Název hry odkazuje na islandské rčení, naznačující, že prvotní dojem často klame.) K odhalení toho, jak je to ve skutečnosti a jaký je skutečný charakter jednotlivých postav, přispívají choreografické vstupy, které jsou organickou součástí díla.
Sirkku Peltolová: Finský kůň
Finský kůň (2004), hra přední současné finské dramatičky a uznávané divadelní režisérky, je první část volné trilogie (další části se jmenují Do garsonky s máti nejdu a Teplokrevníci). Podává tragikomický obraz současného finského venkova, kde rurální, rodinný způsob života, symbolizovaný houževnatým finským koňským plemenem v titulu dramatu, nevratně ustupuje duchu bruselské úřednické byrokracie a mladá, „moderní“ generace, která před finskými koňmi dává přednost silným a rychlým motocyklům, stále hůř hledá společný jazyk s generací svých otců a matek, dosud vyznávajících tradiční hodnoty.
Jokum Rohde: Pinocchiův popel
Hra dánského dramatika, za niž autor získal prestižní Reumertovu cenu v kategorii Dramatik roku, obsahuje prvky thrilleru, detektivky i absurdního a černého humoru, v popředí však stojí zásadní společenská témata. Autor v ní líčí fantastický, bradburyovsky přízračný, a přesto ne nereálný svět, ve kterém platí zákaz umění. Všechna nalezená umělecká díla se veřejně pálí na hranicích a těm, kdo zákaz poruší, hrozí drakonické tresty, useknutím ruky počínaje a popravou konče…
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Innocent Man
John Grisham's first work of non-fiction, an exploration of small town justice gone terribly awry, is his most extraordinary legal thriller yet. In the major league draft of 1971, the first player chosen from the State of Oklahoma was Ron Williamson. When he signed with the Oakland A's, he said goodbye to his hometown of Ada and left to pursue his dreams of big league glory. Six years later he was back, his dreams broken by a bad arm and bad habits - drinking, drugs and women. He began to show signs of mental illness. Unable to keep a job, he moved in with his mother and slept 20 hours a day on her sofa.In 1982, a 21 year-old cocktail waitress in Ada named Debra Sue Carter was raped and murdered, and for five years the police could not solve the crime. For reasons that were never clear, they suspected Ron Williamson and his friend Dennis Fritz. The two were finally arrested in 1987 and charged with capital murder. With no physical evidence, the prosecution's case was built on junk science and the testimony of jailhouse snitches and convicts. Dennis Fritz was found guilty and given a life sentence. Ron Williamson was sent to Death Row. If you believe that in America you are innocent until proven guilty, this book will shock you. If you believe in the death penalty, this book will disturb you. If you believe the criminal justice system is fair, this book will infuriate you.
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Lacná kniha Stezkami záhadných zvířat (-90%)
Vzrušující výpravy po stopách neznámých zvřat Dávno neplatí Cuvierův názor ze začátku 19. století, že všechna velká zvířata žijící na této planetě byla již objevena a popsána. Stále jsou objevovány nové druhy živočichů, velkých i malých. A průběžně získáváme i další informace o těch, u nichž se skutečnost mísí s legendami, která stále halí závoj tajemství a o jejichž případné existenci je teprve nutno získat průkazná fakta. Následkem neustálého šíření negativních civilizačních vlivů a ničení životního prostředí mohou však některá dosud neznámá zvířata vyhynout dřív, než je vůbec budeme schopni poznat. Co je pravdy na tom, že v nepřístupné močálovité oblasti Džiundu na hranicích Zambie, Angoly a Demokratické republiky Kongo žije tajemný létající tvor kongamato, připomínající ptakoještěra, jehož se domorodci tak obávají? Co se skrývá za pověstmi o obrovité kočkovité šelmě, nazývané mngwa, jejíž oběti byly svědecky doloženy i policejními úředníky? Skrývají hlubiny oceánu gigantické chobotnice, o něž se mezi vědci vedou stálé spory? Jaký žralok představuje legendární havajskou nestvůru niuhiho, na jehož lov vyjížděli jednou za rok sami havajští králové? A kolik neznámých a dloho záhadných zvířat, opředených místnímu zkazkami, se již podařilo úspěšně odhalit a zařadit je do zoologického systému? Odpovědi na tyto a mnoho dalších otázek vás čekají v této knize, shrnující autorovy bohaté zkušenosti, získané nejen dlouholetým osobním stykem se zkušenými výzkumníky, ale i během mnoha jeho vlastních expedic. Ing. Jaroslav Mareš (1937) Vystudoval zahraniční obchod na Vysoké škole ekonomické v Praze a hned po promoci nastoupil do obchodního úseku Československých aerolinií. Dlouhodobé působil jako ředitel zastoupení společnosti v Íránu a později v Kanadě. Procestoval všechny kontinenty včetně Tichomoří a navštívil přes sto samostatných států (kdyby se započítaly i státy tvořící například Malajsii, Indii, Austrálii, Brazílii, Mexiko nebo USA, bylo by jich přes sto padesát). Již od dětství se zajímal o přírodu a této své lásce zůstal věrný dodnes. Je objevitelem největšího dravého brouka světa, kterého popsal pod jménem Manticora imperator. Na studium tohoto rodu se specializoval a později popsal další nové druhy a poddruhy. Během svých cest se dostal do odlehlých, civilizací téměř nedotčených oblastí. Navštívil proslulá naleziště dinosaurů a udržuje styky s předními světovými paleontology, zorganizoval i výzkumné expedice za několika vědě dosud neznámými zvířaty. V roce 1983 se stal členem Mezinárodní kryptozoologické společnosti (ISC), založené při Národním muzeu USA (Smithsonian Institution) ve Washingtonu. Tato kniha je již dvacátá druhá. Mezi jeho úspěšné tituly patří mimo jiné: Hledání Ztraceného světa, Legendární příšery a skutečná zvířata, Záhada dinosaurů, Hrůza zvaná Kurupira, Gladiátoři druhohor, rozsáhlá vědecká publikace Manticora (anglicky), Kurupira – zlověstné tajemství, Legendární opolidé, Smrt ve sloní trávě, Šepot buše, Ve stínu baobabu a V říši tygra. Publikoval též množství článků v různých časopisech a mnohokrát vystupoval v televizních a rozhlasových pořadech.
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The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún
The world first publication of a previously unknown work by J.R.R. Tolkien, which tells the epic story of the Norse hero, Sigurd, the dragon-slayer, the revenge of his wife, Gudrun, and the Fall of the Nibelungs. "Many years ago, J.R.R. Tolkien composed his own version, now published for the first time, of the great legend of Northern antiquity, in two closely related poems to which he gave the titles The New Lay of the Volsungs and The New Lay of Gudrun. In the Lay of the Volsungs is told the ancestry of the great hero Sigurd, the slayer of Fafnir most celebrated of dragons, whose treasure he took for his own; of his awakening of the Valkyrie Brynhild who slept surrounded by a wall of fire, and of their betrothal; and of his coming to the court of the great princes who were named the Niflungs (or Nibelungs), with whom he entered into blood-brotherhood. In that court there sprang great love but also great hate, brought about by the power of the enchantress, mother of the Niflungs, skilled in the arts of magic, of shape-changing and potions of forgetfulness. In scenes of dramatic intensity, of confusion of identity, thwarted passion, jealousy and bitter strife, the tragedy of Sigurd and Brynhild, of Gunnar the Niflung and Gudrun his sister, mounts to its end in the murder of Sigurd at the hands of his blood-brothers, the suicide of Brynhild, and the despair of Gudrun. In the Lay of Gudrun her fate after the death of Sigurd is told, her marriage against her will to the mighty Atli, ruler of the Huns (the Attila of history), his murder of her brothers the Niflung lords, and her hideous revenge. Deriving his version primarily from his close study of the ancient poetry of Norway and Iceland known as the Poetic Edda (and where no old poetry exists, from the later prose work the Volsunga Saga), J.R.R. Tolkien employed a verse-form of short stanzas whose lines embody in English the exacting alliterative rhythms and the concentrated energy of the poems of the Edda." -- Christopher Tolkien
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Shards of Earth
This high-stakes space-based adventure will be perfect for those who loved Children of Time, also by Adrian Tchaikovsky.
The war is over. Its heroes forgotten. Until one chance discovery . . .
Idris has neither aged nor slept since they remade his mind in the war. And one of humanity's heroes now scrapes by on a freelance salvage vessel, to avoid the attention of greater powers.
Eighty years ago, Earth was destroyed by an alien enemy. Many escaped, but millions more died. So mankind created enhanced humans such as Idris - who could communicate mind-to-mind with our aggressors. Then these 'Architects' simply disappeared and Idris and his kind became obsolete.
Now, Idris and his crew have something strange, abandoned in space. It's clearly the work of the Architects - but are they really returning? And if so, why? Hunted by gangsters, cults and governments, Idris and his crew race across the galaxy as they search for answers. For they now possess something of incalculable value, and many would kill to obtain it.
Shards of Earth is the first thrilling instalment in the Final Architecture trilogy - by the Arthur C. Clarke award-winning novelist Adrian Tchaikovsky.
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Masters of the Air
'Seconds after Brady's plane was hit, the Hundredth's entire formation was broken up and scattered by swarms of single-engine planes, and by rockets launched by twin-engine planes that flew parallel'
Meet the Flying Fortresses of the American Eighth Air Force, Britain's Lancaster comrades, who helped to bring down the Nazis
Historian and World War II expert Donald Miller brings us the story of the bomber boys who brought the war to Hitler's doorstep. Unlike ground soldiers they slept on clean beds, drank beer in local pubs, and danced to the swing music of the travelling Air Force bands. But they were also an elite group of fighters who put their lives on the line in the most dangerous role of all.
Miller takes readers from the adrenaline filled battles in the sky, to the airbases across England, the German prison camps, and onto the ground to understand the devastation faced by civilians.
Drawn from interviews, oral histories, and American, British and German archives, Masters of the Air is the authoritative, deeply moving and important account of the world's first and only bomber war.
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Rudolf Nureyev: The Life (Film Tie-in for The White Crow)
Born on a train in Stalin's Russia, Rudolf Nureyev was ballet's first pop icon. No other dancer of our time has generated the same excitement - both on and off stage.
Nureyev's achievements and conquests became legendary: he rose out of Tatar peasant poverty to become the Kirov's thrilling maverick star; slept with his beloved mentor's wife; defected to the West in 1961; sparked Rudimania across the globe; established the most rhapsodic partnership in dance history with the middle-aged Margot Fonteyn; reinvented male technique; gatecrashed modern dance; moulded new stars; and staged Russia's unknown ballet masterpieces in the West. He and his life were simply astonishing.
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Road Trip Journal Shore Stephen
Stephen Shore is one of the most influential photographers of the twentieth century, best known for his photographs of vernacular America taken in the early 1970s two bodies of work entitled American Surfaces and Uncommon Places. These projects paved
the way for future photographers of the 'ordinary' and 'everyday' such as Martin Parr, Thomas Struth, and Nan Goldin. Shore is one of the most important artists working today, and his prints are included in collections of eminent museums and galleri
es around the world.
On July 3, 1973, Stephen Shore set out on the road again. This road trip marked an important point in his career, as he was coming to the tail end of American Surfaces and embarking on a body of work that is known as Uncommon Pl
aces. While traveling, in addition to taking photographs, Shore also distributed a set of postcards that he had made and printed himself. While passing through Amarillo, Texas, Shore selected ten of his own photographs of places of note, such as Doug
's Barb-B-Que and the Potter County Court House, and designed the back of the cards to look like a typical generic postcard. He sent these images to a well-known postcard printer and ordered 5,600 copies of each card. Then, driving from town to town,
Shore surreptitiously inserted his own cards into postcard racks in stores across the country, mixing his own work with 'real' postcards and giving unsuspecting shopkeepers new stock free of charge.
In a deadpan, unemotional style, Shore's month-lo
ng journal itemizes where he stayed, what he ate, which television programs he watched, what photographs he took, how many miles he drove, and how many postcards he distributed on each day of his trip. The journal also includes postcards of the towns
where he stayed as well as some of his own photographs alongside hotel, restaurant, and gas station receipts. As he traveled, recording his experiences in his journal, Shore photographed the towns and cities through which he passed, the people he me
t, the food he ate, the beds he slept in, and even the toilets he 'encountered', from New York to California and back again.
A Road Trip Journal marks the turning point between two major bodies of work in Shore's career and includes some classic por
traits from this pioneering color photographer. Each page of the journal is reproduced exactly and bound in a book that matches the format of the original book down to its cover. Following this, every photograph taken over the course of the trip is a
lso featured, whether a perfect composition or a slightly fogged negative of the same scene. A map marks Shore's journey and his own text on the history of the road trip in America is also included. The book also contains reproductions of a number of
postcards that Shore made on his trip, allowing the reader the chance to tear them out and use them, or keep them as a piece of 1970s Shore memorabilia.
A Road Trip Journal is a highly collectible publication for any photo book collector, photograp
hy enthusiast or student, or anyone with an interest in American culture of the 1970s. This limited edition book numbered and signed by the photographer is an exciting addition to Phaidon's ever-growing, highly popular Shore list.
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Privacy is Power
As the data economy grows in power, Carissa Veliz exposes how our privacy is eroded by big tech and governments, why that matters and what we can do about it.
The moment you check your phone in the morning you are giving away your data. Before you've even switched off your alarm, a whole host of organisations have been alerted to when you woke up, where you slept, and with whom. As you check the weather, scroll through your 'suggested friends' on Facebook, you continually compromise your privacy.
Without your permission, or even your awareness, tech companies are harvesting your information, your location, your likes, your habits, and sharing it amongst themselves. They're not just selling your data. They're selling the power to influence you. Even when you've explicitly asked them not to. And it's not just you. It's all your contacts too.
Digital technology is stealing our personal data and with it our power to make free choices. To reclaim that power and democracy, we must protect our privacy.
What can we do? So much is at stake. Our phones, our TVs, even our washing machines are spies in our own homes. We need new regulation. We need to pressure policy-makers for red lines on the data economy. And we need to stop sharing and to adopt privacy-friendly alternatives to Google, Facebook and other online platforms.
Short, terrifying, practical: Privacy is Power highlights the implications of our laid-back attitude to data and sets out how we can take back control.
If you liked The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, you'll love Privacy is Power because it provides a philosophical perspective on the politics of privacy, and it offers a very practical outlook, both for policymakers and ordinary citizens.
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Lacná kniha Cosi parlo Zarathustra (-90%)
Scritta tra il 1883 e il 1885, questa l'opera in cui la provocazione di Nietzsche assume la forma compiuta di un messaggio oracolare. Contro la mediocrit che si traveste da morale, la metafisica che bestemmia il mondo, la cultura sepolta delle carte, l'ascetismo alleato della morte... a favore dell'amicizia con se stessi, maturata dallo sdoppiamento nella solitudine, di una vita che sappia trovare in se' il suo scopo, di una volont che si afferma gioiosa, di una saggezza dal piede leggero...
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The Malay Archipelago
'I slept very comfortably with half a dozen smoke-dried human skulls suspended over my head' The great Victorian scientist's heroic adventures across South-East Asia, from Singapore to the wilds of New Guinea, encountering head-hunters, jungles, birds of paradise and new discoveries that would change the world. A new series of twenty distinctive, unforgettable Penguin Classics in a beautiful new design and pocket-sized format, with coloured jackets echoing Penguin's original covers.
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Ewen Spencer: While you Were Sleeping 1998 - 2000
End of a century...
In the late 1990s as a graduate from art school I began making pictures for my beloved Sleazenation magazine and in particular for the infamous listing pages to the rear of the magazine that were called "Savoir Vivre" (loosely translated as to know how to live!) The images were made in B&W and were immensely candid and full of characters that seems to be everywhere at that time.
The images on the pages were essentially describing to those that liked to go clubbing what they actually looked like, what those in the provinces who desired the decadent lifestyle of the urban cool could eventually look like and for the international reader in the fashion capitals of Paris, Milan and Rome it kept them wondering what on earth was going on. London was at the epicentre of a cultural boom. Small clubs, parties and discos where a plenty in venues from North to South and I was in a minicab and night bus taking in 3-4 of an evening. My weekends were a write off and I slept most of Monday trying to recover...Here are the spoils for while my young son was sleeping I was involved in capturing a period in time that was filled with love, lust and messy authenticity, carefree and devoid of today's global, big tech cynicism. Nothing here was perceived or played out. It was done with wide eyed hope and wonder and I'm not sure we can ever return to this place or at least not for a good while. As my world as a photographer has expanded throughout the capitals of Europe and across the Atlantic shooting campaigns and fashion editorials for V magazine, POP and Vogue Hommes I can look at these pictures with perhaps some greater objectivity. My son, now in his early 20s sits beside me and discusses those times and how they differ from today as he negotiates the beginning of his creative journey.
These pictures aren't about Teds, Skinheads, Northern Soul, Acid House or Jungle and Garage, they're not about Nu Metal or South London blackout clubs...but they are all here alongside high street carpet clubs because here in the UK we know how to throw a party, we work hard and play hard, grace under pressure, street style into high fashion To quote Ray Davies I ask, 'Where have all the good times gone'?
I remain friends with many of the characters that were my colleagues at sleazenation at that time. Steve Beale and Justin Quirk were the irreverent editorial team eventually cherry picked by Emap and Conde Naste to become significant editors and creatives respectively. The Photo editor who gave me my break out of art school was Steve Lazarides who went on a few years later to represent and champion a graffiti artist called Banksy, The Magazines firebrand designer was for a while Scott King who immediately won awards for his controversial front covers and designs. I clearly remember meeting Wolfgang Tillmans at one of his exhibition openings in Herald Street in what must have been 1999. He raved about the pictures we had been making for the magazine and enjoyed the overall subversive sentiment. I was enthused and still am to this day. I'd suggest many of these collaborators to work alongside one another to help articulate and visualise this group of pictures into a book. Most of the images have never been seen before and I believe an international audience would be hungry for the authenticity found in an era that perhaps should have known better. I'm glad we didn't .
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A Man & His Car: Iconic Cars and Stories from the Men Who Love Them
Man-about-town and NYC men's style fixture Matt Hranek is back with his second book, A Man & His Car. Here is a beautiful homage to an object of men's obsession, told in firsthand and original interviews. Jay Leno, a major car collector and the host of Jay Leno's Garage, shares the story of his oldest car, a 1955 Buick Roadmaster that he bought for $350, which he literally slept in before getting his break in L.A.
Kevin Costner reveals that he got so attached to the iconic Shelby Mustang he drove in the movie Bull Durham, he bought it for his own personal collection. Franz von Holzhausen, chief designer at Tesla, who worked hand in hand with Elon Musk to design the Tesla Model S prototype, says that his love of cars started when he was two (as evidenced by a picture of him sitting in a high chair drawing a car). And as for Snoop Dogg and his 1965 Cadillac "Snoop DeVille" convertible--do we even need to explain? A Man & His Car includes visits to some of the most exclusive collections in the world--from that of the Petersen Automotive Museum to those of car manufacturers from Fiat to Ford--giving us access to Steve McQueen's favorite car, a 1956 Jaguar XKSS; the 1971 DeTomaso Pantera that Elvis purchased for his then-girlfriend Linda Thompson (and which has two bullet holes in the steering wheel and one in the driver's-side floorpan from when, after an altercation with Thompson, Presley fired three rounds into the interior when the car wouldn't start); and a super-rare, 24-karat-gold-plated 1980 DeLorean DMC-12, a model that was sold exclusively to American Express Gold Card members through the 1980 American Express catalog, for an astronomical $85,000 (equivalent to more than $250,000 today).
Exquisite photos of each car accompany each story, and since cars naturally hold more detail than watches, there will be more photos in this book--of the cars head-on, of their hood ornaments and wheels, and of course full-body shots. With Hranek's storytelling, the cars become more than just vehicles for transportation and status symbols; they represent pop-culture moments, pioneering achievements, heirlooms, friendships, and more.
Hear the Wind Sing
Hear the Wind Sing is Murakami's first novel, available for the first time in English outside Japan. In Hear the Wind Sing the narrator is home from college on his summer break. He spends his time drinking beer and smoking in J's Bar with the Rat, listening to the radio, thinking about writing and the women he has slept with, and pursuing a relationship with a girl with nine fingers. The story of the narrator, the Rat and J continues in Pinball, 1973.
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Ghosts: Vintage Minis
A high-pitched laugh echoes in an empty church. Servants discover their master dead in his bed, the only sign of disturbance an open window. The coffin of a woman hanged as a witch is found to be empty.
A bed that hasn't been slept in is crumpled and distressed come the morning. A skeletal figure creeps closer and closer to the house where an unsuspecting family lie sleeping. In these chilling tales of the supernatural, M.
R. James proves he truly is the master of the ghost story. Selected from the book Ghost Stories by M.R.
JamesVINTAGE MINIS: GREAT MINDS. BIG IDEAS. LITTLE BOOKS.
A series of short books by the world's greatest writers on the experiences that make us humanAlso in the Vintage Minis series:Drinking by John CheeverSummer by Laurie LeeFriendship by Rose TremainLove by Jeanette Winterson
Privacy is Power
As surveillance creeps into every corner of our lives, Carissa Veliz exposes how our personal data is giving too much power to big tech and governments, why that matters, and what we can do about it. Have you ever been denied insurance, a loan, or a job? Have you had your credit card number stolen? Do you have to wait too long when you call customer service? Have you paid more for a product than one of your friends? Have you been harassed online? Have you noticed politics becoming more divisive in your country? You might have the data economy to thank for all that and more. The moment you check your phone in the morning you are giving away your data.
Before you've even switched off your alarm, a whole host of organisations have been alerted to when you woke up, where you slept, and with whom. Our phones, our TVs, even our washing machines are spies in our own homes. Without your permission, or even your awareness, tech companies are harvesting your location, your likes, your habits, your relationships, your fears, your medical issues, and sharing it amongst themselves, as well as with governments and a multitude of data vultures.
They're not just selling your data. They're selling the power to influence you and decide for you. Even when you've explicitly asked them not to.
And it's not just you. It's all your contacts too, all your fellow citizens. Privacy is as collective as it is personal.
Digital technology is stealing our personal data and with it our power to make free choices. To reclaim that power, and our democracy, we must take back control of our personal data. Surveillance is undermining equality.
We are being treated differently on the basis of our data. What can we do? The stakes are high. We need to understand the power of data better.
We need to start protecting our privacy. And we need regulation. We need to pressure our representatives.
It is time to pull the plug on the surveillance economy. Insightful, terrifying, practical: Privacy is Power highlights the implications of our laid-back attitude to data and sets out how we can take back control. If you liked The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, you'll love Privacy is Power because it provides a philosophical perspective on the politics of privacy, and offers very practical solutions, both for policymakers and ordinary citizens.
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Commissioning Contemporary Art
This handbook provides the definitive guide to commissioning contemporary art. Every step and stage is revealed and demystified from the initial invitation to an artist to the financing of a project, from the drafting of contracts to the final siting and installation of works, from the care and preservation of commissioned pieces to their interpretation and publicity. Combining theoretical and conceptual considerations with practical ones, Buck and McCleans lively and instructive text is supplemented with copious quotations and insights from some of the best-known artists, curators, commissioners and museum directors of today, including Nicholas Serota, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Jeff Koons, Vito Acconci, Mark Wallinger, Anish Kapoor, RoseLee Goldberg, Thomas Krens, Anne Pasternak, Barbara Gladstone, Mera Rubell, and Olafur Eliasson, to provide a detailed and informed how-to guide to the commissioning process.
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The Turn of the Key
IT WAS THE DREAM JOB. IT WOULD BECOME HER WORST NIGHTMARE.
'So clever and original . . . from the first gripping page to the last shocking twist' ERIN KELLY, author of He Said/She Said
'Ruth Ware just gets better and better. The Turn of the Key is her most compelling and addictive to date; I read this in a two sitting frenzy, barely able to turn the pages fast enough' Lisa Jewell, author of The People Upstairs
When Rowan stumbles across the advert, it seems like too good an opportunity to miss: a live-in nanny position, with a very generous salary. And when she arrives at Heatherbrae House, she is smitten by the luxurious 'smart' home fitted out with all modern conveniences by a picture-perfect family.
What she doesn't know is that she's stepping into a nightmare - one that will end with a child dead and her in cell awaiting trial for murder.
She knows she's made mistakes. But she's not guilty - at least not of murder. Which means someone else is...
'Will hold you captive until the brilliant ending' SHARI LAPENA, author of Someone We Know
Full of chilling menace and sinister secrets, The Turn of the Key is a gripping modern-day haunted house novel that will keep you reading through the night.
Everyone loves Ruth Ware's binge-worthy psychological thrillers:
'The queen of creepy crime' Metro
'Eerie and tense, this left me so spooked that I slept with the light on!' Prima
'Powerfully atmospheric, unguessably twisty...I devoured it' Louise Candlish, bestselling author of Our House
'Dark and dramatic...part murder mystery, part family drama, altogether riveting' A.J. Finn, author of The Woman in the Window
'Creepy, engrossing, and oh-so-hard to put down' JP Delaney, author of The Girl Before
'One of the best thriller writers around' Independent
'Agatha Christie meets The Girl on the Train' The Sun
'Dark, unsettling, brilliant' HEAT
'Deliciously dark and spooky' Sunday Mirror
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Haunted Mansion
Welcome, foolish mortals, to the Haunted Mansion - enter if you dare! You might think that no one lives in this elegant house on the hill...but then where's that creepy organ music coming from? Are its iron gates meant to keep people out...or keep something in? Get ready to meet the 999 spooks of the Haunted Mansion. But be warned, they're looking for the 1000th! Legendary ghouls like Madame Leota, the Hatbox ghost, Constance the Bride and the Hitchhiking Ghosts lie in wait and could appear at any moment. But poor Danny is trapped inside and just wants to escape the foreboding abode - is there anyone he can trust to help him? Marvel brings the chilling fan-favorite Haunted Mansion attraction to (after) life in the latest spine-tingling Disney Kingdoms adventure! COLLECTING: Haunted Mansion 1-5
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