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The feed : a novel / by Windo, Nick Clark,author.(CARDINAL)356408;
The Feed is an instantaneous link to all information and global events. Every interaction, every emotion, every image can be shared through it. Tom and Kate use the Feed, but Tom has resisted its addiction, which makes him suspect to his family. After all, his father created it. When the Feed collapses after a horrific tragedy, people are scavenging to survive. Finding food is truly a matter of life and death; minor ailments now kill. Then Tom and Kate's young daughter, Bea, goes missing. How do you begin to look for someone in a world without technology?
Subjects: Survival fiction.; Dystopian fiction.; Science fiction.; Mass media; Families; Missing children; Technology and civilization;
Available copies: 8 / Total copies: 9
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The African American student's guide to STEM careers / by Palmer, Robert T.,author.(CARDINAL)397669; Arroyo, Andrew T.,author.(CARDINAL)596323; Flowers, Alonzo M.,author.(CARDINAL)414644;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Science; Technology; Engineering; Mathematics; Minorities; African Americans; African American students.; African Americans;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Dismissed : tackling the biases that undermine our health care / by Marshall, Angela,MD,author.; Palokoff, Kathy,1953-author.;
A primary care doctor examines the ways that such factors as race, gender, sexual orientation, age, and income have a negative impact on medical outcomes and offers solutions for overcoming systemic medical bias.Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-285) and index.
Subjects: Discrimination in medical care; Sex discrimination in medicine; Minorities; Sexual minorities; LGBTQ+ people.; Sexual minorities.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Subject to display : reframing race in contemporary installation art / by González, Jennifer A.(CARDINAL)275351;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-277) and index.Introduction : subject to display -- James Luna : artifacts and fictions -- Fred Wilson : material museology -- Amalia Mesa-Bains : divine allegories -- Pepón Osorio : no limits -- Renée Green : genealogies of contact.Over the past two decades, artists James Luna, Fred Wilson, Amalia Mesa-Bains, Pepon Osorio, and Renée Green have had a profound impact on the meaning and practice of installation art in the United States. In Subject to Display, Jennifer Gonzalez offers the first sustained analysis of their contribution, linking the history and legacy of race discourse to innovations in contemporary art. Race, writes Gonzalez, is a social discourse that has a visual history. The collection and display of bodies, images, and artifacts in museums and elsewhere is a primary means by which a nation tells the story of its past and locates the cultures of its citizens in the present. All of the five American installation artists Gonzalez considers have explored the practice of putting human subjects and their cultures on display by staging elaborate dioramas or site-specific interventions in galleries and museums; in doing so, they have created powerful social commentary of the politics of space or power of display in settings that mimic the very spaces that they critique. These artists' installations have not only contributed to the transformation of contemporary art and museum culture, they have also linked Latino, African American, and Native American subjects to the broader spectrum of historical colonialism, race dominance, and visual culture. From Luna's museum installation of his own body and belongings as "artifacts" and Wilson's provocative juxtapositions of museum objects to Mesa-Bains's allegorical home altars, Osorio's condensed spaces (bedrooms, living rooms; barbershops, prison cells) and Green's genealogies of cultural contact, the theoretical and critical endeavors of these artists demonstrate how race discourse is grounded in a visual technology of display.
Subjects: Installations (Art); Art, American; Art, American; Minority artists; Race in art.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Radicalized / by Doctorow, Cory,author.;
A timely collection of novellas connected by social, technological, and economic visions of today and what America could be in the near, near future.
Subjects: Dystopian fiction.; Science fiction.; Novellas.; Science fiction, American.;
Available copies: 11 / Total copies: 12
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Sing you home : a novel / by Picoult, Jodi,1966-author.;
Every life has a soundtrack. All you have to do is listen. Music has set the tone for most of Zoe Baxter's life. There's the melody that reminds her of the summer she spent rubbing baby oil on her stomach in pursuit of the perfect tan. A dance beat that makes her think of using a fake ID to slip into a nightclub. A dirge that marked the years she spent trying to get pregnant. For better or for worse, music is the language of memory. It is also the language of love. In the aftermath of a series of personal tragedies, Zoe throws herself into her career as a music therapist. When an unexpected friendship slowly blossoms into love, she makes plans for a new life, but to her shock and inevitable rage, some people—even those she loves and trusts most—don't want that to happen. Sing You Home is about identity, love, marriage, and parenthood. It's about people wanting to do the right thing for the greater good, even as they work to fulfill their own personal desires and dreams. And it's about what happens when the outside world brutally calls into question the very thing closest to our hearts: family.
Subjects: Medical fiction.; Domestic fiction.; Fiction.; Music therapists.; Lesbian couples.; Divorced people; Frozen human embryos.; Human reproductive technology; Human reproductive technology; Sexual minorities.; Therapist and patient; Psychotherapist and patient; Medical ethics; Homosexuality; Gay & lesbian interest.; Lesbian couples; Lesbians; Lesbian mothers.; Lesbian couples.; Divorced people.; Assisted reproductive technology.; LGBTQ+ people.; Sexual minorities.; Homosexuality.; Lesbians.; Lesbian parents.; Lesbian fiction.;
Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 1
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The new digital age : reshaping the future of people, nations and business / by Schmidt, J. Eric,1955-(CARDINAL)405225; Cohen, Jared,1981-(CARDINAL)482325;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-301) and index.Our Future Selves -- The Future of Identity, Citizenship and Reporting -- The Future of States -- The Future of Revolution -- The Future of Conflict, Combat and Intervention -- The Future of Reconstruction -- The Future of Terrorism.In collaboration, two leading global thinkers from in technology and foreign affairs from Google give readers their widely anticipated, transformational vision of the future: a world where everyone is connected, a world full of challenges and benefits that are ours to meet and to harness. With their combined knowledge and experiences, the authors are uniquely positioned to take on some of the toughest questions about our future: Who will be more powerful in the future, the citizen or the state? Will technology make terrorism easier or harder to carry out? What is the relationship between privacy and security, and how much will we have to give up to be part of the new digital age? In this they combine observation and insight to outline the promise and peril awaiting us in the coming decades. This is a forward-thinking account of where our world is headed and what this means for people, states and businesses. With the confidence and clarity of visionaries, the authors illustrate just how much we have to look forward to, and beware of, as the greatest information and technology revolution in human history continues to evolve. On individual, community and state levels, across every geographical and socioeconomic spectrum, they reveal the dramatic developments both good and bad, that will transform both our everyday lives and our understanding of self and society, as technology advances and our virtual identities become more and more fundamentally real. As their nuanced vision of the near future unfolds, an urban professional takes his driverless car to work, attends meetings via hologram and dispenses housekeeping robots by voice; a Congolese fisherwoman uses her smart phone to monitor market demand and coordinate sales (saving on costly refrigeration and preventing overfishing); the potential arises for "virtual statehood" and "Internet asylum" to liberate political dissidents and oppressed minorities, but also for tech-savvy autocracies (and perhaps democracies) to exploit their citizens' mobile devices for ever more ubiquitous surveillance. Along the way, we meet a cadre of international figures, including Julian Assange, who explain their own visions of our technology-saturated future. This book is an analysis of how our hyper-connected world will soon look.
Subjects: Digital electronics; Digital electronics; Digital media; Digital media; Information technology; Information technology; Computers and civilization; Technology and civilization;
Available copies: 8 / Total copies: 11
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Baby making for everybody : family building and fertility for LGBTQ+ and solo parents / by Rachlin, Ray,author.(CARDINAL)872650; Goodman, Marea,author.(CARDINAL)872283;
Includes bibliographical references and index."In Baby Making for Everybody, queer millennial midwives Ray Rachlin and Marea Goodman use their professional expertise to demystify the dizzying process of pursuing parenthood as queer and solo people, offering concrete, gender-affirming advice on topics like tracking fertility, choosing a sperm donor, legal considerations, IVF, IUI, adoption, navigating gender and pregnancy, and more. The result is a much-needed how-to guide for every aspect of the complicated, messy, and glorious process of building a family as an LGBTQ+ or solo parent. Combining practical information with personal narratives and first person community wisdom, this book provides prospective parents with the information they need to grow their families outside of a traditional heterosexual nuclear family model"--
Subjects: Self-help publications.; Human reproductive technology; Pregnancy; Human reproduction; Sexual minority parents.; Same-sex parents.; Sexual minorities' families.; Assisted reproductive technology.; LGBTQ+ parents.;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 6
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The siege of Tyre : Alexander the Great and the gateway to empire / by Guenther, David A.,author.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-212) and index.The Siege of Tyre: Alexander the Great and the Gateway to Empire by David A. Guenther is the first book-length treatment of this critical and fascinating campaign, featuring catapults, triremes, religious invocations, close combat, and marvels of engineering, including a massive manmade causeway from the mainland to the island. The siege is thoroughly analyzed from the standpoint of what is plausible given the nature of the technology of the time and what we now know of the geology and physical fortifications of ancient Tyre. The book begins with the background leading up to the siege: Alexander's army, his invasion of Asia Minor, the sieges of Miletus and Halicarnassus, and the battles of the Granicus and Issus. It also describes the culture, people, cities, and economy of ancient Phoenicia to place the story of the siege in a broader context. Critical to the siege were the evolving technologies in the ancient Mediterranean world, including innovations in catapult design, military engineering, and naval architecture. Guenther also takes into account recent scientific discoveries about the geology of the ancient seabed around Tyre and its effect on the siege. Finally, the book points out possible gender-biased views on topics such as sacred temple prostitution among the ancient Phoenicians and the fate of women in besieged cities of the ancient world. An engrossing blend of ancient wonder and historical and technological analysis, The Siege of Tyre is the remarkable story of Alexander the Great's "masterpiece."
Subjects: Alexander, the Great, 356 B.C.-323 B.C.; Sieges;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The Chinese in America : a narrative history / by Chang, Iris,author.(CARDINAL)392689;
Includes bibliographical references and index.The old country: Imperial China in the nineteenth century -- America : a new hope -- "Never fear, and you will be lucky" : journey and arrival in San Francisco -- Gold rushers on Gold Mountain -- Building the transcontinental railroad -- Life on the western frontier -- Spreading across America -- Rumblings of hatred -- The Chinese Exclusion Act -- Work and survival in the early twentieth century -- A new generation is born -- Chinese America during the Great Depression -- "The most important historical event of our times" : World War II -- "A mass inquisition" : the Cold War, the Chinese Civil War, and McCarthyism -- New arrivals, new lives : the chaotic 1960s -- The Taiwanese Americans -- The bamboo curtain rises : mainlanders and model minorities -- Decade of fear : the 1990s -- High tech vs. low tech -- An uncertain future.Iris Chang, the daughter of second-wave Chinese immigrants, has written a narrative that encompasses the entire history of one of the fastest growing ethnic groups in the United States, an epic story that spans 150 years and continues to the present day. Chang takes a fresh look at what it means to be an American and draws a complex portrait of the many accomplishments of the Chinese in their adopted country, from building the transcontinental railroad to major scientific and technological advances. A sensitive, deeply moving story of individuals whose lives have shaped and been shaped by this history, The Chinese in America is a saga of raw human tenacity and a testament to the determination of a people to forge an identity and destiny in a strange land.
Subjects: History.; Chinese Americans;
Available copies: 10 / Total copies: 10
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