How Data Happened: A History From the Age of Reason to the Age of Algorithms 9781324006749, 9781324006732

How Data Happened 9781324006749, 9781324006732

A sweeping history of data and its technical, political, and ethical impact on our world. From facial recognition—capab

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How Data Happened 9781324006749

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The Age of Reason 9781501744273

The period between the Peace of Utrecht and the French Revolution is brought into focus in this essay.

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Work: A Deep History, from the Stone Age to the Age of Robots 9780525561767, 2020040535, 9780525561750

Work defines who we are. It determines our status, and dictates how, where, and with whom we spend most of our time. It

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A History of Western Philosophy (vol. 5): Philosophy from the Age of Positivism to the Age of Analysis [1.0]

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Statehood and Governance in the History of the West 100-1700: From Rome to the Age of Reason 1685071449, 9781685071448

"The subject is historical and cultural, and focuses on the unfolding of the big movements and people that have sha

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Fallen Giants: A History of Himalayan Mountaineering from the Age of Empire to the Age of Extremes 9780300142662

The first successful ascent of Mount Everest in 1953 by Sir Edmund Hillary and his Sherpa teammate Tenzing Norgay is a f

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The Gilded Age: A History From Beginning to End

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The Substance of Civilization: Materials and Human History from the Stone Age to the Age of Silicon [1 ed.]

The story of human civilization can be read most deeply in the materials we have found or created, used or abused. They

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A History of the Goddess: From the Ice Age to the Bible 1634243048, 9781634243049

Before the rise of monotheism, the early Hebrews were pagan and God had a wife, the Mother Goddess. The Bible tells the

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