Автор: Reich Rob, Sahami Mehran, Weinstein Jeremy M. Название: System Error: Where Big Tech Went Wrong and How We Can Reboot ISBN: 006306488X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780063064881 Издательство: HarperCollins USA Рейтинг: Цена: 2925.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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System Error is a triumph: an analysis of the critical challenges facing our digital society that is as accessible as it is sophisticated. -- Anne-Marie Slaughter, CEO of New America
A forward-thinking manifesto from three Stanford professors--experts who have worked at ground zero of the tech revolution for decades--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 naпve 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. This optimization mindset substitutes what companies care about for the values that we as a democratic society might choose to prioritize. Well-intentioned optimizers fail to measure all that is meaningful and, when their creative disruptions achieve great scale, they impose their values upon the rest of us.
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.
Troubled by the values that permeate the university's student body and its culture, they worked together to chart a new path forward, creating a popular course to transform how tomorrow's technologists approach their profession. Now, 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.
Автор: Mehran, Marsha Название: Rosewater and Soda Bread ISBN: 081297249X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780812972498 Издательство: Random House (USA) Рейтинг: Цена: 1471.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Автор: Mehran, Marsha Название: Pomegranate soup ISBN: 0099478927 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099478928 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 1319.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: For the inhabitants of the damp little Irish town of Ballinacroagh, the repertoire of gastronomic delights has never extended farther than the limp meals of the local inn`s carvery. But things are about to change when the beautiful Aminpour sisters - Marjan, Bahar and Layla - arrive, determined to share the magic of their kitchen with the locals.
Автор: Jacqueline Belloni, Mehran Mostafavi, Melanie Spotheim-Maurizot, Thierry Douki Название: Radiation Chemistry: From basics to applications in material and life sciences ISBN: 2759803171 ISBN-13(EAN): 9782759803170 Издательство: Walter de Gruyter Рейтинг: Цена: 51115.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Автор: Kamrava Mehran Название: Qatar: Small State, Big Politics ISBN: 0801452090 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780801452093 Издательство: Wiley EDC Рейтинг: Цена: 6006.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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The Persian Gulf state of Qatar has fewer than 2 million inhabitants, virtually no potable water, and has been an independent nation only since 1971. Yet its enormous oil and gas wealth has permitted the ruling al Thani family to exert a disproportionately large influence on regional and even international politics. Qatar is, as Mehran Kamrava explains in this knowledgeable and incisive account of the emirate, a "tiny giant": although severely lacking in most measures of state power, it is highly influential in diplomatic, cultural, and economic spheres.
Kamrava presents Qatar as an experimental country, building a new society while exerting what he calls "subtle power." It is both the headquarters of the global media network Al Jazeera and the site of the U.S. Central Command's Forward Headquarters and the Combined Air Operations Center. Qatar has been a major player during the European financial crisis, it has become a showplace for renowned architects, several U.S. universities have established campuses there, and it will host the FIFA World Cup in 2022. Qatar's effective use of its subtle power, Kamrava argues, challenges how we understand the role of small states in the global system. Given the Gulf state's outsized influence on regional and international affairs, this book is a critical and timely account of contemporary Qatari politics and society.
Автор: Kamrava Mehran Название: Nuclear Question in the Middle East ISBN: 0199327807 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199327805 Издательство: Oxford Academ Цена: 9380.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The nuclear age is coming to the Middle East. Understanding the scope and motivations for this development and its implications for global security is essential. The last decade has witnessed an explosion of popular and scholarly attention focussed on nuclear issues around the globe and especially in the Middle East. These studies fall into one of four general categories. They tend to focus either on the security and military aspects of nuclear weapons, or on the sources and mechanisms for proliferation and means of reversing it, or nuclear energy, or the logics driving state policymakers toward adopting the nuclear option. The Nuclear Question in the Middle East is the first book of its kind to combine thematic and theoretical discussions regarding nuclear weapons and nuclear energy with case studies from across the region. What are the key domestic drivers of nuclear behaviour and decision-making in the Middle East? How are the states of the Gulf Cooperation Council seeking to employ nuclear energy to further guarantee and expedite their hyper-growth of recent decades? Are there ideal models emerging in this regard that others might emulate in the foreseeable future, and, if so, what consequences is this development likely to have for other civilian nuclear aspirants? These region-wide themes form the backdrop against which specific case studies are examined.
Автор: Jacqueline Belloni, Mehran Mostafavi, Melanie Spotheim-Maurizot, Thierry Douki Название: Radiation Chemistry: From basics to applications in material and life sciences ISBN: 2759800245 ISBN-13(EAN): 9782759800247 Издательство: Walter de Gruyter Рейтинг: Цена: 27893.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Автор: Mehran Kamrava Название: The new voices of Islam : ISBN: 0520250990 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780520250994 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 9144.00 р. Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка.
Описание: Aims to bring together the writings of 13 of the renowned Muslim thinkers. This book presents their essays which include overviews of Islam, its core principles, and the relationship between Islam, democracy, and civil rights; and works by feminist intellectuals. It also places the life of each thinker in national and historical context.
Описание: The Great Game in West Asia examines the strategic competition between Iran and Turkey for power and influence in the South Caucasus. As much of the world's attention has been diverted to conflicts and flashpoints near and far, a new great game has been unravelling between Iran and Turkey in the South Caucasus.
Описание: This book examines Islamization of the law in the Islamic Republic of Iran and surveys the evolution of institutions, processes, and policies of the regime.
Автор: Mousapoor Mehran Название: Industrial Water Tube Boiler Design ISBN: 3110756617 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783110756616 Издательство: Walter de Gruyter Рейтинг: Цена: 37244.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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This book consists of steps for the thermal & mechanical design of d-type water tube boilers. It provides the reader with guidance for burner, fan size, and capacity selection, furnace thermal and dimensional design, super heater primary thermal and mechanical design, and boiler bank and economizer design. Calculations of the methods and effi ciency are also described.
Mr Mehran Mousapoor, m.mousapoor@gmail.com
Автор: Kamrava, Mehran Название: Triumph and despair ISBN: 1787388034 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781787388031 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 5544.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: In breathtakingly original prose, Elise Bohan argues that we`re hurtling towards a superhuman future - or, if we blunder, extinction. The only way out of our existential crises, from global warming to the risks posed by nuclear weapons, novel and bioengineered pathogens and unaligned AI, is up. We`ll need more technology to safeguard our future.
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