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Political Science & Current Events LIGHTS OUT: A Cyberattack, A Nation Unprepared, Surviving the Aftermath by TED KOPPEL n this tour de force of investigative reporting, renowned broadcast journalist Ted Koppel reveals that a major cyberattack on America’s power grid is not only possible but likely and that the United States is shockingly unprepared. With urgency and authority, Koppel examines a threat unique to our time and evaluates potential ways to prepare for a catastrophe that is all but inevitable.
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“A bold enumeration of the challenges posed by the digital age; an appeal to safeguard new instruments of human flourishing by studying the ways in which they could be exploited.”—Henry A. Kissinger
Crown • HC • 978-0-553-41996-2 • 288 pp. • $26.00
THE REAL COST OF FRACKING How America’s Shale Gas Boom Is Threatening Our Families, Pets, and Food by MICHELLE BAMBERGER and ROBERT OSWALD Foreword by SANDRA STEINGRABER r. Michelle Bamberger, a veterinarian, and Dr. Robert Oswald, a pharmacologist, combine their expertise to show how fracking poses a dire threat to the air we breathe, the water we drink, and even our food supply.
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“In this cool, disarming and persuasive indictment of fracking’s widespread negative consequences, the authors provide an important addition to an ongoing debate.”—Kirkus Reviews, starred review
Beacon Press • TR • 978-0-8070-8141-9 • 248 pp. • $18.00
HACKER, HOAXER, WHISTLEBLOWER, SPY The Many Faces of Anonymous by GABRIELLA COLEMAN ix years ago, anthropologist Gabriella Coleman set out to study the rise of Anonymous just as some of its members were turning to political protest and dangerous disruption. Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy is filled with insights into the meaning of digital activism and little understood facets of culture in the Internet age.
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“An engrossing, accessible, and intelligent study illuminating the ambiguities of Anonymous and its implications for the future of online political activism.” —Times Literary Supplement
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Verso • TR • 978-1-78168-983-7 • 480 pp. • $19.95
INEQUALITY AND THE 1%
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by DANNY DORLING n Inequality and the 1% leading social thinker Danny Dorling lays bare the extent and true cost of the division in our society and shows that inequality is the greatest threat we face and why we must urgently redress the balance.
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“Dorling asks questions about inequality that fast become unswervable: can we afford the superrich? Can society prosper? Can we realize our potential?” —Zoe Williams, The Guardian
Verso • TR • 978-1-78478-207-8 256 pp. • $15.95
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