Tag: Fight

Broken Code Inside Facebook and the Fight to Expose Its Harmful Secrets [Audiobook]


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English | ASIN: B0BW4WDNCT | 2023 | 10 hours and 17 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 299 MB
Author: Jeff Horwitz
Narrator: Jeff Horwitz

By an award-winning technology reporter for The Wall Street Journal, a behind-the-scenes look at the manipulative tactics Facebook used to grow its business, how it distorted the way we connect online, and the company insiders who found the courage to speak out Once the unrivaled titan of social media, Facebook held a singular place in culture and politics. Along with its sister platforms Instagram and WhatsApp, it was a daily destination for billions of users around the world. Inside and outside the company, Facebook extolled its products as bringing people closer together and giving them voice.

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The Miami Times and the Fight for Equality Race, Sport, and the Black Press, 1948-1958


Free Download Yanela G. McLeod, "The Miami Times and the Fight for Equality: Race, Sport, and the Black Press, 1948-1958 "
English | ISBN: 149857663X | 2018 | 198 pages | EPUB | 23 MB
This book helps inject the Miami Times into the historical narrative of the Civil Rights Movement in Florida by highlighting its role in Rice v Arnold, a 1949 lawsuit filed by black recreational golfers in Miami to oppose segregation on the city’s public golf course. Founded in 1923 by Bahamian-born H.E.S. Reeves who ran the newspaper with his son Garth C. Reeves Sr., the newspaper financially and editorially supported efforts to desegregate Miami schools, beaches, residential communities, public transportation systems and sports complexes. Its support of the Rice v Arnold legal challenge is but one example that demonstrates how the newspaper, as a conduit of social change, worked with other Miami community leaders to improve conditions for the city’s black population.

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Hongkongers’ Fight for Freedom Voices from the 2019 Anti-Extradition Movement


Free Download Nam Kiu Tsing, "Hongkongers’ Fight for Freedom: Voices from the 2019 Anti-Extradition Movement "
English | ISBN: 9004538895 | 2023 | 158 pages | PDF | 21 MB
Hongkongers’ Fight for Freedom: Voices From the 2019 Anti-Extradition Movement documents this momentous episode through the voices of its participants. It explains why normally acquiescent Hongkongers joined the Movement en masse, and it conveys the emotions and sense of identity that emerged.

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Desegregation and the Rhetorical Fight for African American Citizenship Rights The RhetoricalLegal Dynamics of With A


Free Download Sally Paulson, "Desegregation and the Rhetorical Fight for African American Citizenship Rights: The Rhetorical/Legal Dynamics of "With A"
English | ISBN: 1498565263 | 2018 | 216 pages | EPUB | 306 KB
Focusing on the NAACP’s twentieth-century attempt to overturn the "separate but equal" doctrine through school desegregation cases, Desegregation and the Rhetorical Fight for African American Citizenship Rights analyzes the rhetorical/legal dynamics inherent in the struggle to determine African American citizenship rights. This book begins by identifying the fundamental dialectical tension existing within all American citizenship rights between the Declaration of Independence’s guarantee of "ideal equality" to all citizens as opposed to the Constitution’s privileging of local, "practical" decision-making through Article IV Sect. 2, the "privileges and immunities" clause. It contends that as a consequence of that dynamic, American citizenship rights are rhetorical concepts produced through argument grounded in "all the available means of persuasion," including logical, emotional, and ethical appeals. Ultimately, this book demonstrates that the school desegregation issue came down to a question of credibility/ethics. Recommended for scholars interested in communication, law, history, political science, and cultural studies.

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Katamari Damacy (Boss Fight Books)


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English | 2018 | pages: 64 | ISBN: 1940535174 | EPUB | 2,0 mb
The universe falls into chaos. The moon and the stars vanish from the night sky. The son of a fickle deity must restore balance to the cosmos… by pushing a sticky ball around and picking up every toothpick, tree, and skyscraper in its path. A Descriptionline this wild could only describe "nah… nah nah nah nah nah nah nah" Katamari Damacy, the irresistible little cult game turned cultural juggernaut. But the 2004 release of Katamari almost didn’t get the ball rolling. Reviewers worldwide weren’t sure how to classify it and initial sales numbers were low. Those who actually played it, though, were won over by its novel gameplay, goofy surrealism, and catchy soundtrack. Pushed into the mainstream by its passionate fans, Katamari remains one of the best video game examples of pure anarchic fun. Based on new interviews with Katamari creator Keita Takahashi himself, game designer and writer L. E. Hall explores the unlikely story of the game’s development, its unexpected success, and its lasting cultural impact. Along the way, she uncovers Katamari’s deep roots in Japanese culture, in contemporary art, and in the transformative power of play itself.

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The Ruhr 1943 The RAF’s brutal fight for Germany’s industrial heartland (Air Campaign)


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English | October 26, 2021 | ISBN: 1472846567 | 96 pages | MOBI | 23 Mb
This illustrated study explores, in detail, the RAF’s first concentrated air campaign of World War II against one of the hardest and most important targets in Germany – the industrial heartland of the Ruhr that kept Hitler’s war machine running.

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A Time to Fight Reclaiming a Fair and Just America


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English | 2008 | pages: 272 | ISBN: 0767928350, 0767928369 | EPUB | 0,4 mb
Jim Webb-the bestselling author and now the celebrated, outspoken U.S. Senator from Virginia-presents a clear-eyed, hard-hitting plan of attack for putting government to work for the people, rather than special interests, and for restoring the country’s standing around the world.

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