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From award-winning journalist Kara Swisher comes a witty, scathing, but fair accounting of the tech industry and its founders who wanted to change the world but broke it instead. While tech titans bragged they would "move fast and break things," Kara Swisher was moving faster and breaking news. Covering the explosion of the digital sector in the early 1990s, she developed a long track record of digging up and reporting the truth of this new world order. Her consistent scoops drove one CEO to accuse her of "listening in the heating ducts" and for Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg to once say: "It is a constant joke in the Valley when people write memos for them to say, 'I hope Kara never sees this.'" Burn Book is part memoir, part history and, most of all, a necessary recounting of tech's most powerful players. This is the inside story we've all been waiting for of modern Silicon Valley and the biggest boom in wealth creation in the history of the world. While still in college, Swisher got her start at The Washington Post , where she became one of the few people in journalism interested in the emerging field of tech. She was among the first to recognize the potential of the internet, accurately predicting that "everything that could be digitized, would be digitized." She went on to work for The Wall Story Journal , joining with Walt Mossberg to start the groundbreaking AllThingsD conference, as well as pioneering online tech sites. It's only a slight exaggeration to say Swisher has interviewed everyone. Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Bob Iger, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Meg Whitman, Peter Thiel, and Mark Zuckerberg are just a few who Swisher made sweat--figuratively and, in one famous case, literally. Despite the damage she chronicles, Swisher remains optimistic about tech's potential to help solve problems and not just create them. She calls upon the industry to make better, more thoughtful choices, even as a new set of powerful AI tools are poised to change the world yet again. At its heart, this book is a love story to, for, and about tech from someone who knows it better than anyone. Burn Book includes soaring tales of innovation and brilliant entrepreneurs, as well as Silicon Valley's much more complex history of striving, success, and failure. The book details how the commercial internet came into being and how, for all it has given the world, it now sits at the center of global power, creating a clear and present danger to humanity.

Wie empfinden die Angehörigen der deutsch-türkischen Community ihr Leben in zwei Kulturen, was bedeutet Heimat für sie? 30 Menschen, die den Aufstieg in der deutschen Gesellschaft geschafft haben, teilweise deutschlandweit bekannt sind, darunter Journalisten, Wissenschaftler, Politiker und Persönlichkeiten aus Kultur und Sport geben in kurzen Interviews Auskunft über ihre Sicht auf das Leben in Deutschland. Was hat sie geprägt, was macht ihre Identität aus, wie beurteilen sie die Haltung der Mehrheitsgesellschaft, wie die Haltung der türkischen Community und was ist zu tun, um den gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhalt zu stärken? Nach einem kurzen biografischen Abriss werden individuell zugeschnittene, offene Fragen gestellt, die die Interviewten sehr persönlich beantworten und dabei naturgemä ︢zu unterschiedlichen Ansichten kommen. (2)

"An unflinching investigation reveals the human rights abuses behind the Congo's cobalt mining operation-and the moral implications that affect us all. Cobalt Red is the searing, first-ever exposé of the immense toll taken on the people and environment of the Democratic Republic of the Congo by cobalt mining, as told through the testimonies of the Congolese people themselves. Activist and researcher Siddharth Kara has traveled deep into cobalt territory to document the testimonies of the people living, working, and dying for cobalt. To uncover the truth about brutal mining practices, Kara investigated militia-controlled mining areas, traced the supply chain of child-mined cobalt from toxic pit to consumer-facing tech giants, and gathered shocking testimonies of people who endure immense suffering and even die mining cobalt. Cobalt is an essential component to every lithium-ion rechargeable battery made today, the batteries that power our smartphones, tablets, laptops, and electric vehicles. More than 70 percent of the world's supply of cobalt is mined in the Congo, often by peasants and children in sub-human conditions. Billions of people in the world cannot conduct their daily lives without participating in a human rights and environmental catastrophe in the Congo. In this stark and crucial book, Kara argues that we must all care about what is happening in the Congo-because we are all implicated."

Introduction -- Introduction to FDL and the Nature of FDL Claims -- Multinational Corporate Groups, Their Position in International Law and Regulating Multinational Corporate Groups -- Comparative Analysis of Substantive Legal Grounds for FDL -- A Comparative Analysis of FDL under Private International Law -- Conclusion.

A History of the Present: Methodology -- "It in no way makes you safer": Contemporary Policing and Remaking the City -- "All they could to help": Imaging, Diagnosing, and Transforming Indian Tuberculosis and the City -- "All traces of his footsteps are fast being obliterated": Fictioning and Controlling Land and Life -- "Just bury them and be done with it": Managing Affect and Producing the Past.