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Influence Empire: The Story of Tencent and China's Tech Ambition
In 2017, a company known as Tencent overtook Facebook to become the world's fifth largest company. It was a watershed moment, a wake-up call for those in the West accustomed to regarding the global tech industry through the prism of Silicon Valley: Facebook, Google, Apple and Microsoft.
Yet to many of the two billion-plus people who live just across the Pacific Ocean, it came as no surprise at all.
Founded by the enigmatic billionaire Pony Ma, the firm that began life as a simple text-message operator invested in and created some of China's most iconic games en route to dreaming up WeChat - the Swiss Army knife super-app that combines messaging, shopping and entertainment. Through billions of dollars of global investments in marquee names from Fortnite to Tesla and a horde of start-ups, Ma's company went on to build a near-unparalleled empire of influence.
In this fascinating narrative - crammed with insider interviews and exclusive details - Lulu Chen tells the story of how Tencent created the golden era of Chinese technology, and delves into key battles involving Didi, Meituan and Alibaba. It's a chronicle of critical junctures and asks just what it takes to be a successful entrepreneur in China.
Soft Water Hard Stone
The official companion to the 2021 New Museum Triennial, a global survey exhibition of today's up-and-coming artists
The much-anticipated fifth New Museum's Triennial exhibition, opening in October 2021, volume, curated by Jamillah James and Margot Norton, is a signature survey of emerging artists from around the world. In this moment of profound change, where structures once thought to be stable have been revealed to be precarious, the New Museum's highly anticipated 2021 Triennial, curated by Jamillah James and Margot Norton, showcases 40 artists and collectives re-imagining traditional models, materials, and techniques beyond established institutional paradigms. Their works explore states of transformation, calling attention to the malleability of structures and the fluid and adaptable potential of both technological and organic media. This book includes essays by prominent curators and interviews with each of the artists and collectives featured in the exhibition.
Accompanies the New Museum's much-anticipated fifth Triennial exhibition, opening in October 2021 in New York City, spotlighting an exciting group of 40 artists and collectives, each selected for their ability to invoke ideas of global concern - including the questioning of accepted narratives and imagining new creative paths for the future.
Welcome to Forever
A sweeping, psychedelic romance of two men caught in a looping world of artificial realities, edited memories, secretive cabals and conspiracies to push humanity to the next step in its evolution.
For fans of Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow, Ubik, The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Evangelion.
Fox is a memory editor – one of the best – gifted with the skill to create real life in the digital world. When he wakes up in Field of Reeds Center for Memory Reconstruction with no idea how he got there, the therapists tell him he was a victim in a terrorist bombing by Khadija Banks, the pioneer of memory editing technology turned revolutionary. A bombing which shredded the memory archives of all its victims, including his husband Gabe.
Thrust into reconstructions of his memories exploded from the fragments that survived the blast, Fox tries to rebuild his life, his marriage and himself. But he quickly realises his world is changing, unreliable, and echoing around itself over and over.
As he unearths endless cycles of meeting Gabe, falling in love and breaking up, Fox digs deep into his past, his time in the refugee nation of Aaru, and the exact nature of his relationship with Khadija. Because, in a world tearing itself apart to forget all its sadness, saving the man he loves might be the key to saving us all.
Its Mine
‘Crypto’, a loose term that means many things to different people, only entered the public consciousness within the last five years or so, now evident by the volume of public discussion, commentary and analysis spread across every conceivable media outlet.
Cryptography has been around for millennia, but Bitcoin only arose in 2009, and it was the spark that has taken crypto from a small group of enthusiasts into a many-tentacled creature, now attaching itself to an astonishing number of projects across all manner of applications, challenging both public and private power centres and long-established norms as it spreads. Starting with the emergence of cryptocurrencies, a whole new host of life-forms have emerged – NFTs, the metaverse, Defi, Web3 and DAOs – all of them changing the very notion of ownership.
It’s Mine digs into the history and concept of ‘ownership’, which ecosystems nurture it, and where we are now. Filled with anecdotes, observations and interviews, the book takes an entertaining and accessible look at how Bitcoin made its mark, how its technology is being re-purposed to enable a revolution, and (in non-technical terms) how it all works. It explores how these new crypto ‘life-forms’ will interact with the rest of the virtual and physical world, while making some very rich and some very poor.
What We Owe Each Other
One of the world's most influential economists sets out the basis for a new social contract fit for the 21st century
This landmark study by Minouche Shafik, Director of the LSE, draws on evidence from across the globe to show that the social contract - how we pool risks, share resources and balance individual and collective responsibility - shapes not just our wealth and opportunities but the very fabric of our lives. And yet societies everywhere are failing to adapt to the global upheavals of technology, demography and climate, leading to a breakdown in mutual trust the world over.
Brilliantly lucid and accessible, What We Owe Each Other draws on a wealth of evidence and learning to outline the basic principles that every society must adopt to meet these challenges. Reshaping the social contract will have profound implications for gender equality, education, healthcare provision, the role of business and the future of work. This book will equip every reader to understand and play their part in this urgent and necessary transformation.
The Oxford Companion to Wine
Everything you could possibly want to know about wine, in one fully up-to-date A-Z volume!
The Oxford Companion to Wine is a uniquely comprehensive and in-depth A-Z reference book on every aspect of wine: more than 4,000 entries covering topics from history through geography, geology, soil science, viticulture, winemaking, packaging, academia, technology, and regulations to people and places, tasting, writing, and the language of wine. The system of cross-references takes the reader from one entry to another, showing how all these topics are interconnected in the fascinating story of wine in its most traditional and modern forms.
This new fifth edition, which benefits from the knowledge and experience of over one hundred new contributors, all experts in their field or geographical region, is expanded by 272 new entries, and every existing entry has been reviewed, updated, and polished. The text is more international than ever, written for wine lovers of every persuasion, including those who love wine but want to know more in order to increase their enjoyment of this endlessly fascinating liquid, and those who are intent on studying wine, professionally or privately. This is a huge treasure trove of knowledge, for the first time breaking the barrier of one million words, but the alphabetical format and the links between the entries make it easily navigable, and the language, while not shying away from complex science, is intended to open the door to every curious reader looking for answers on every question they have ever wanted to ask about wine.
Lacná kniha Nigella asztalánál - Az otthoni főzés öröme (-90%)
"A könyvben olyan ételek szerepelnek, amelyeket a saját konyhámban, az otthonom kényelmében szoktam készíteni, és nap mint nap a családom - és immár az olvasók - asztalára kerülnek. Ezek a fogások azt az ízvilágot tükrözik, amelyet mindig is szerettem. Nem igényelnek olyan technológiát, tudást vagy szakértelmet, amivel egy egyszerű halandó ne rendelkezne. Az élet épp elég bonyolult - legalább a főzés legyen egyszerű."
Nigella Lawson
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Moody
'Amy's book is everything I should have learned at school. It is a reminder to empower ourselves, in a world that still sadly lacks so much knowledge around women's health, by getting to know our own bodies more intimately - with the help of technology built by women' Emma Gannon
'Moody is a fascinating and friendly guide for you to understand you better.' Melissa Hemsley
'Knowledge is power and this book equips you with the power to unlock potential and happiness.' Poppy Jamie, author of Happy Not Perfect
There is a secret inside you which, once you understand it fully, has the capacity to unlock untold potential. Once you learn the science of your hormones, you will be able to harness it forever.
Hormones were something Amy Thomson, founder and CEO of leading women's health app and tech service Moody, never paid attention to, until one day her periods stopped and what had been an inconvenience each month became a barometer for her body's health and mental happiness.
When she discovered that her hormonal burnout was driven by stress, she quit her job and focused on trying to understand how her body worked, to establish why and how she had pushed herself too far.
In this guide, Amy shares the research and science behind how our hormones work for twenty-first-century survival, how understanding them can help you build better and healthier routines, and why the systems and cycles inside us are an invisible but powerful force.
With insights from nutritionists, gynaecologists, endocrinologists, personal trainers and others, Moody provides a holistic and practical blueprint for understanding your hormones and optimising your life around them.
The Digital Republic
A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK TO READ IN 2022
The Digital Republic is the definitive guide to the great political question of our time: how can freedom and democracy survive in a world of powerful digital technologies?
Not long ago, the tech industry was widely admired and the internet was regarded as a tonic for freedom and democracy. Not anymore. Every day, the headlines blaze with reports of racist algorithms, data leaks, and social media platforms festering with falsehood and hate. In The Digital Republic, acclaimed author Jamie Susskind argues that these problems are not the fault of a few bad apples at the top of the industry. They are the result of our failure to govern technology properly, a failure derived from decades of muddled ideas and wishful thinking.
The Digital Republic charts a new course, with new legal standards, new public bodies and institutions, new duties on platforms, new rights and regulators, and new codes of conduct for people in the tech industry. Inspired by the great political essays of the past, and steeped in the traditions of republican thought, it offers a vision of a different type of society: a digital republic in which human and technological flourishing go hand in hand.
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Monets Minutes
A stunning exploration of the vital links between Claude Monet’s Impressionism and the time technologies that helped define modernity in the nineteenth century.
Monet’s Minutes is a revelatory account charting the relationship between the works of Claude Monet (1840–1926)?founder of French Impressionism and one of the world’s best-known painters?and the modern experience of time. André Dombrowski illuminates Monet’s celebration of instantaneity in the context of the late nineteenth-century time technologies that underwrote it.
Monet’s version of Impressionism demonstrated an acute awareness of the particularly modern pressures of time, but until now scholars have not examined the histories and technologies of time and timekeeping that informed Impressionism’s major stylistic shifts. Arguing that the fascination with instantaneity rejected the dulling cultures of newly routinized and standardized time, Monet’s Minutes traces the evolution of Monet’s art to what were then seismic shifts in the shape of time itself.
In each chapter, Dombrowski focuses on the connections between a set of Monet’s works and a specific technology or experience of time, while providing the voices of period critics responding to Impressionism. Grounded in exceptional research and analyses, this book offers new interpretations of key paintings by Monet and a fresh perspective on late nineteenth-century art, society, and modern temporality.
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Moderní lékové formy
Učebnice farmaceutické technologie, které v České republice a na Slovensku dosud vyšly, pocházejí z autorské dílny učitelů a absolventů Farmaceutické fakulty v Bratislavě, která byla dlouhou dobu společnou a jedinou v Československu. Nejnovější z
nich je učebnice Technologie léků autorů Chalabama a kol. z roku 1997. Její základ tvoří klasické lékové formy a z části pojednává o některých moderních lékových formách.
Marián Žabka, Rainer H. Müller, Gesine E. Hildebrand
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PRECHAZIME NA MS WINDOWS 2000
V první kapitole najdete stručný popis nového systému a důvody, proč přejít na Windows 2000. Druhá kapitola se obšírněji věnuje instalaci a zejména upgradu z Windows NT 4.0. Kapitola třetí popisuje konfiguraci serveru Windows 2000 a jednotlivé konfi
gurační metody, důraz přitom klade na práci s Microsoft Management Console, kterou budete zřejmě v praxi při správě systému používat nejčastěji. Konfiguraci disků, oddílů a svazků najdete v kapitole čtvrté.
Pro chod Windows 2000 jsou nejdůležitější s
lužby DHCP a DNS. Proto se jim podrobně věnují samostatné kapitoly pět a šest. Práce se zřejmě nejvýznamnější novinkou Windows 2000 Active Directory je popsána v posledních třech kapitolách od instalace přes konfiguraci a vytváření logické i fyzi
cké struktury až po správu uživatelů pomocí skupinové politiky.
Kniha je určena všem profesionálům, kteří dosud měli na starosti správu, technickou podporu, školení nebo vývoj pro Windows NT a nyní je totéž čeká v organizacích přecházejících nebo z
važujících přechod na Windows 2000. Protože pro úspěšný upgrade a poznání nového systému není účelné procházet stohy kompletní dokumentace navíc v době, kdy tato literatura není ještě k dispozici, je kniha Přecházíme na Windows 2000 psána přímo s o
hledem na tyto čtenáře, jimž shrnuje vše podstatné, co potřebují znát. Dílo z pera zkušeného odborníka na technologie Microsoftu, který pracuje s novým systémem již od nejranějších beta-verzí, je zaměřeno ryze prakticky, takže po pochopení nového pří
stupu již budete moci se sítí Windows 2000 pracovat podle konkrétních návodů, tipů a rad.
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Zabudnutý vesmír
Cyklus poviedok Zabudnutý vesmír popisuje cez konkrétne ľudské osudy život v jednej z mnohých kolonizačných vetiev, ktorá sa pomocou hyperpriestorovej technológie dostane do vzdialenej časti vesmíru a natrvalo tam uviazne. Ľudia sa snažia prežiť, vytvoriť si nový domov a pôvodnú kolísku ľudstva - Zem (kam sa nedokážu vrátiť) - začínajú postupne pokladať za mýtus.
Poviedky Antona Stiffela sú rozdelené na priamu líniu a voľne nadväzujúcu líniu. Osobitnou kapitolou sú samostatné poviedky, ktoré nám predostierajú farbisté, spektakulárne či katastrofické príbehy zo Zeme, Slnečnej sústavy a Mliečnej dráhy.
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Obrazy, Texty, Sentencie 3 - Bosá v priesvitných šatách
Verše v obrazoch
Jedinečné spojenie krásy obrazu a slova.
Verše Kamila Peteraja na ilustráciách Martina Augustína.
Dielo je výsledkom spolupráce autorského tandemu - renomovaného poéta Kamila Peteraja a uznávaného výtvarníka Martina Augustína. Kamil Peteraj najprv rukou napísal úryvky básní na nepopísané vzácne japonské papiere a výtvarník Martin Augustín k nim dokomponoval obrazy. Vzniklo tak unikátne umelecké dielo, ktoré predstavuje dva zážitky v jednom: radosť a potešenie z krásnych slov na vizuálne nádhernom, originálnom pozadí.
Špeciálna limitovaná ponuka
Jedinečná limitovaná edícia vychádza v celkovom náklade 450 ks. K dispozícii sú 3 rôzne dvojice originálnych signovaných grafických listov, každá dvojica v náklade 150 ks. Jednotlivé grafické listy majú rozmery 49 x 69 cm a sú vytlačené najmodernejšou technológiou na špeciálnom papieri.
Bonus - brožúra s rozšíreným dielom
Ku každej dvojici grafických listov je pripojená knižka s názvom Bosá v priesvitných šatách s rozsahom 40 strán, ktorá obsahuje osemnásť ilustrácií Martina Augustína a prepisov básní Kamila Peteraja. Dvojica autorov pripojila aj doslov.
Súborné dielo v reprezentatívnych doskách
Grafické listy a kniha sú uložené v špeciálnych doskách so zlatou razbou a stužkami na zviazanie. Do rúk sa vám tak dostane dielo s vysokou umeleckou hodnotou v reprezentatívnom vyhotovení.
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Obrazy, Texty, Sentencie 1 - Bosá v priesvitných šatách
Jedinečné spojenie krásy obrazu a slova.
Verše Kamila Peteraja na ilustráciách Martina Augustína.
Dielo je výsledkom spolupráce autorského tandemu - renomovaného poéta Kamila Peteraja a uznávaného výtvarníka Martina Augustína. Kamil Peteraj najprv rukou napísal úryvky básní na nepopísané vzácne japonské papiere a výtvarník Martin Augustín k nim dokomponoval obrazy. Vzniklo tak unikátne umelecké dielo, ktoré predstavuje dva zážitky v jednom: radosť a potešenie z krásnych slov na vizuálne nádhernom, originálnom pozadí.
Špeciálna limitovaná ponuka
Jedinečná limitovaná edícia vychádza v celkovom náklade 450 ks. K dispozícii sú 3 rôzne dvojice originálnych signovaných grafických listov, každá dvojica v náklade 150 ks. Jednotlivé grafické listy majú rozmery 49 x 69 cm a sú vytlačené najmodernejšou technológiou na špeciálnom papieri.
Bonus - brožúra s rozšíreným dielom
Ku každej dvojici grafických listov je pripojená knižka s názvom Bosá v priesvitných šatách s rozsahom 40 strán, ktorá obsahuje osemnásť ilustrácií Martina Augustína a prepisov básní Kamila Peteraja. Dvojica autorov pripojila aj doslov.
Súborné dielo v reprezentatívnych doskách
Grafické listy a kniha sú uložené v špeciálnych doskách so zlatou razbou a stužkami na zviazanie. Do rúk sa vám tak dostane dielo s vysokou umeleckou hodnotou v reprezentatívnom vyhotovení.
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System Error
A forward-thinking manifesto from three Stanford professors which reveals how big tech's obsession with optimization and efficiency has sacrificed fundamental human values and outlines steps we can take to change course, renew our democracy, and save ourselves.
In no more than the blink of an eye, a naive optimism about technology's liberating potential has given way to a dystopian obsession with biased algorithms, surveillance capitalism, and job-displacing robots. Yet too few of us see any alternative to accepting the onward march of technology. We have simply accepted a technological future designed for us by technologists, the venture capitalists who fund them, and the politicians who give them free rein.
It doesn't need to be this way.
System Error exposes the root of our current predicament: how big tech's relentless focus on optimization is driving a future that reinforces discrimination, erodes privacy, displaces workers, and pollutes the information we get.
Armed with an understanding of how technologists think and exercise their power, three Stanford professors - a philosopher working at the intersection of tech and ethics, a political scientist who served under Obama, and the director of the undergraduate Computer Science program at Stanford (also an early Google engineer) - reveal how we can hold that power to account.
As the dominance of big tech becomes an explosive societal conundrum, they share their provocative insights and concrete solutions to help everyone understand what is happening, what is at stake, and what we can do to control technology instead of letting it control us.
Od kompasu k GPS
Snaha vědět, kde jsme a kudy se vydat na cestu, provází člověka od nepaměti.
Tato kniha provází čtenáře od počátečních snah o tvorbu map a orientaci v nejbližším okolí, až k moderním zařízením pro navigaci a vyhledávání. Přes radionavigaci se dostává k historii námořní a letecké navigace. Ukazuje snahu o její využití nejen v mírových dobách, ale jak to u lidstva bývá, i v časech válečných konfliktů. Pozornost věnuje také období studené války, které s sebou nese množství zajímavých skutečností a událostí. Od počátečních snah o poznání kosmu se postupně dostává k možnostem současných navigačních technologií a nahlíží také do budoucnosti. Je překvapivé, kolik informací o sobě a svých zvycích bez obav předáváme neznámým subjektům výměnou za snadnou orientaci v prostoru a jednoduché plánování cest. Možná tento fakt inspiruje k otázce "Stojí to za to?". Čtenáře určitě zaujmou um a invence vložené do navigačních technologiích, které dnes používáme s takovou samozřejmostí.
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Coming Wave
We are approaching a critical threshold in the history of our species. Everything is about to change.
Soon you will live surrounded by AIs. They will organise your life, operate your business, and run core government services. You will live in a world of DNA printers and quantum computers, engineered pathogens and autonomous weapons, robot assistants and abundant energy.
None of us are prepared.
As co-founder of the pioneering AI company DeepMind, part of Google, Mustafa Suleyman has been at the centre of this revolution. The coming decade, he argues, will be defined by this wave of powerful, fast-proliferating new technologies.
In The Coming Wave, Suleyman shows how these forces will create immense prosperity but also threaten the nation-state, the foundation of global order. As our fragile governments sleepwalk into disaster, we face an existential dilemma: unprecedented harms on one side, the threat of overbearing surveillance on the other.
Can we forge a narrow path between catastrophe and dystopia?
This groundbreaking book from the ultimate AI insider establishes “the containment problem”—the task of maintaining control over powerful technologies—as the essential challenge of our age.
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Appliance
From the Costa Award winner, a highly inventive and and humane novel about our relationship with technology and our addiction to innovation.
'Are they paying you extra for this? You'd better be getting something. For the inconvenience, I mean. Here for the whole weekend is what they said. What if we'd had guests? They never asked. And in any case what are the dangers? Being tested like lab rats, we are. Did they even try to provide any assurance it was all perfectly-'
This is the prototype. The first step to a new future.
A future that will be easy and abundant. A future in which distance is no longer a barrier to human contact. And all it takes is a simple transport unit, in every home, every street, every town. Quick. Clean. Easy. A future driven by data, not emotion.
And so begins the journey of a new technology that will soon change the world and everyone in it - the sceptics and the converts, the innocents and the evangelists. A scientific wonder that quickly becomes an everyday aspect of life.
But what of our inherent messiness? In a world preoccupied with progress, what will happen to the things that make us human: the memories, the fears, the love, the blood, the contradictions, the mortality? As we push for a sense of perfection, what do we stand to lose?
Questioning, innovative and shot through with a rich humanity, Appliance is much more than a novel. It examines our faith in technology, our hunger for new things and the rapid changes affecting all our lives. It challenges us to stop and reflect on the future we want, the systems we trust, and what really matters to us.
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