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This book is about how we can build back truth online. It provides
solutions so that we can repair our existing social media platforms
and build better ones that prioritize value over profit, strengthen
community ties and promote access to trustworthy information. This
book explains the problem of misinformation within the larger
context of "information disorder." It provides a road map with six
paths forward to understand how platforms are designed to exploit
us, learn to embrace agency in our interactions with digital
spaces, build tools to reduce harmful practices, require platform
companies to prioritize the public good, repair journalism and
strengthen curation to promote trusted content and create new
healthier digital public squares. This book presents a
comprehensive and connected strategy on how we can reduce
misinformation and build back truth. New, experimental models that
are ethically designed to build community and promote trustworthy
content are having some early successes. We know that human social
networks -- online and off-- magnify whatever they are seeded with.
They are not neutral. We also know that to repair our systems we
need to repair their design. We are being joined in the fight by
some of the best and brightest minds of our current generation as
they flee big tech companies in search of vocations that value
integrity and public values. The problem of misinformation is not
insurmountable. We can fix this.
"The most critical dimension of desegregation in our region is
found in the attitudes of members of the dominant white
communities. Melvin Tumin, a sociology professor at Princeton
University, and eleven associates...have done a first-rate job
mapping this vital dimension in an opinion study of citizens of
Guilford County, North Carolina...the best effort yet to plumb
citizens' attitudes on this agonizing modern problem."--Reading
Guide, Law Library of University of Virginia. Originally published
in 1958. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest
print-on-demand technology to again make available previously
out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton
University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of
these important books while presenting them in durable paperback
and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is
to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in
the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press
since its founding in 1905.
Fiona Hill and other U.S. public servants have been recognized as
Guardians of the Year in TIME's 2019 Person of the Year issue. From
the KGB to the Kremlin: a multidimensional portrait of the man at
war with the West. Where do Vladimir Putin's ideas come from? How
does he look at the outside world? What does he want, and how far
is he willing to go? The great lesson of the outbreak of World War
I in 1914 was the danger of misreading the statements, actions, and
intentions of the adversary. Today, Vladimir Putin has become the
greatest challenge to European security and the global world order
in decades. Russia's 8,000 nuclear weapons underscore the huge
risks of not understanding who Putin is. Featuring five new
chapters, this new edition dispels potentially dangerous
misconceptions about Putin and offers a clear-eyed look at his
objectives. It presents Putin as a reflection of deeply ingrained
Russian ways of thinking as well as his unique personal background
and experience. Praise for the first edition: "If you want to begin
to understand Russia today, read this book."-Sir John Scarlett,
former chief of the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) "For
anyone wishing to understand Russia's evolution since the breakup
of the Soviet Union and its trajectory since then, the book you
hold in your hand is an essential guide."-John McLaughlin, former
deputy director of U.S. Central Intelligence "Of the many
biographies of Vladimir Putin that have appeared in recent years,
this one is the most useful."-Foreign Affairs "This is not just
another Putin biography. It is a psychological portrait."-The
Financial Times Q: Do you have time to read books? If so, which
ones would you recommend? "My goodness, let's see. There's Mr.
Putin, by Fiona Hill and Clifford Gaddy. Insightful."-Vice
President Joseph Biden in Joe Biden: The Rolling Stone Interview.
This timely collection of essays examines the impact of the
historic Good Friday Agreement, which all parties are still
debating, and offers a theoretical understanding of the processes
and forces at work in making and implementing the Agreement. The
authors analyze the changes in Northern Ireland that were produced
and have followed from the Agreement. The complete text of the
Agreement is included.
A good friend once said about Chase Sargent that he's "a very
intelligent man, but he sure does tick people off sometimes."
Sargent doesn't disagree. He may have made some people mad, but he
wishes he had done it more often to get this point across:
"Leadership-in all aspects of life-is sorely lacking." The second
edition of From Buddy to Boss: Effective Fire Service Leadership
reinforces the fact that the fire service is screaming for leaders
as men and women discover that leadership is important to their
existence and success. Being a firefighter can be tiring and
frustrating, but it can be rewarding. It's not only about the job,
"but also about raising kids, managing your life, and trying to be
a good person, attached to God, country, family, and friends," says
the author. Many leaders today are surrounded by external politics,
hidden agendas, ?scal constraints, and manipulative people.
Consider these factors when navigating your career. Sargent knows
from decades of experience that simply reaching the top of the
organizational ladder does not make you a good leader. Before he
went into teaching this subject, "It became apparent very quickly
that the leadership and human resources training being provided was
as scarce as water in a desert and that the ?re service was
thirsty." This new second edition includes must-read topics on
leadership lessons from the War in Iraq, knowing death in the fire
service, and providing leadership in large-scale disasters. This
book will change your life.
Migrant children separated from their parents. A scheme to defraud
Cook County using property tax breaks. An undisclosed thirty-year
business relationship between city officials in Baltimore. These
are the sorts of headlines regularly generated by offices of
inspector general (OIGs) - bureaucratic units dedicated to
government accountability that are commonly independent of the
agencies they are charged with overseeing. In 1976, OIGs were
virtually unheard of and were largely at the federal level, but
today there are more than 170 OIGs overseeing state and local
government entities. Why have OIGs been so widely adopted, and what
do they do? How do they contribute to accountability, and what are
their limitations? In The Power of Accountability Robin J. Kempf
sets out to address these questions with empirical data and to
examine the conflicts that have led to variations in the design and
implementation of OIGs. In doing so she explores the power of the
concept of the inspector general: an institutional model for
keeping subnational government units accountable to the public. As
more and more government entities have created offices of inspector
general, practitioners in this developing field have recommended an
archetypal structure for these agencies that assures their
authority and independence. Why then, The Power of Accountability
asks, have so many states and localities incorporated significant
deviations from this recommended model in their design? Through an
extensive review of government websites, laws, and ordinances;
original surveys of the identified OIGs; legislative histories; and
interviews with thirty-eight OIG staff in eight states, Kempf
analyzes why OIGs have proliferated, why and how they work
differently in various jurisdictions, and what effect these
variations in design have on the effectiveness of OIGs as a
mechanism of accountability. The ever-expanding call for
accountability in government drives the increasing demand for
offices of inspector general, which necessarily entails intense
political maneuvering. The Power of Accountability is a uniquely
useful resource for judging whether, under what circumstances, and
how well OIGs fulfill their intended purpose and serve the public
interest.
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With contributions from seven of Mexico's finest journalists, this
is reportage at its bravest and most necessary - it has the power
to change the world's view of their country, and by the force of
its truth, to start to heal the country's many sorrows. Supported
the Arts Council Grant's for the Arts Programme and by PEN Promotes
Veering between carnival and apocalypse, Mexico has in the last ten
years become the epicentre of the international drug trade. The
so-called "war on drugs" has been a brutal and chaotic failure
(more than 160,000 lives have been lost). The drug cartels and the
forces of law and order are often in collusion, corruption is
everywhere. Life is cheap and inconvenient people - the poor, the
unlucky, the honest or the inquisitive - can be "disappeared"
leaving not a trace behind (in September 2015, more than 26,798
were officially registered as "not located"). Yet people in all
walks of life have refused to give up. Diego Enrique Osorno and
Juan Villoro tell stories of teenage prostitution and Mexico's
street children. Anabel Hernandez and Emiliano Ruiz Parra give
chilling accounts of the "disappearance" of forty-three students
and the murder of a self-educated land lawyer. Sergio Gonzalez
Rodriguez and Marcela Turati dissect the impact of the violence on
the victims and those left behind, while Lydia Cacho contributes a
journal of what it is like to live every day of your life under
threat of death. Reading these accounts we begin to understand the
true nature of the meltdown of democracy, obscured by lurid
headlines, and the sheer physical and intellectual courage needed
to oppose it.
For the past thirty years, Howard Caygill has been a distinctive
and radical voice in continental philosophy. For the first time,
this volume gathers together Caygill's most significant
philosophical essays, the majority of which are not freely
available and many of which are previously unpublished. Here, a
major philosopher is at work, offering rich, rigorous and
politically-engaged readings of canonical and lesser-known figures
and texts. From Kant and Frantz Fanon to Herman Kahn, founder of
the Hudson Institute, Caygill uncovers the untapped resources that
the history of philosophy provides for contemporary thought, whilst
critically pushing beyond the limits of the tradition. Divided into
two parts, the first part of the collection reveals the
philosophical backdrop to Caygill's acclaimed study of political
resistance, On Resistance: A Philosophy of Defiance (2015), whilst
the second part sees Caygill further develop his account of
resistance through wide-ranging analyses of contemporary culture.
Exploring numerous subjects, including Nietzsche, metaphysics,
radical politics, and digital resistance, to name but a few, Force
and Understanding introduces readers to the orienting themes of
Caygill's thought and provides the opportunity to engage with one
of the most astute, learned, and critical philosophical minds
around.
The first complete account of the fiercely guarded secrets of
London's clandestine interrogation center, operated by the British
Secret Service from 1940 to 1948 Behind the locked doors of three
mansions in London's exclusive Kensington Palace Gardens
neighborhood, the British Secret Service established a highly
secret prison in 1940: the London Cage. Here recalcitrant German
prisoners of war were subjected to "special intelligence
treatment." The stakes were high: the war's outcome could hinge on
obtaining information German prisoners were determined to withhold.
After the war, high-ranking Nazi war criminals were housed in the
Cage, revamped as an important center for investigating German war
crimes. This riveting book reveals the full details of operations
at the London Cage and subsequent efforts to hide them. Helen Fry's
extraordinary original research uncovers the grim picture of
prisoners' daily lives and of systemic Soviet-style mistreatment.
The author also provides sensational evidence to counter official
denials concerning the use of "truth drugs" and "enhanced
interrogation" techniques. Bringing dark secrets to light, this
groundbreaking book at last provides an objective and complete
history of the London Cage.
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