Apocalypse How?. Technology and the Threat of Disaster, Paperback - Oliver Letwin

An urgent and eye-opening examination of how technology is leaving society open to myriad catastrophic threats.

An urgent and eye-opening examination of how technology is leaving society open to myriad catastrophic threats.

If a 'robot' could do your job quicker than you and better than you for no pay, would you still be employed? Today it's travel agents, data-analyst...

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How the KGB has plotted with mounting violence since 1999 to subdue the Ukrainians and how the population resisted through "Maidan" revolutions and...

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On 17 July 2014 Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17 was shot down amid unrest in Ukraine, a conflict that led to a NATO-Russia standoff and the onset of...

Barry Gibson is desperate for something exciting to happen to him like in his comic books. His twin sister, Megan is sick of listening to his wild ...

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China vs America is a powerful call to correct the collision course on which the great powers of the world are currently embarked before it is too ...

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With an updated introduction and new epilogue, this is full of stories of the people, towns and communities affected by air pollution, from London'...

An examination of the rapidly evolving state of political risk, and how to navigate it by former U.S. secretary of state Condoleezza Rice and Amy Z...

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A critical history of the Conservative Party that analyses the often-conflicting ideas held by leading figures within the party over recent years. ...

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Collective Trauma, Collective Healing is a guide for mental health professionals working in response to large-scale political violence or natural d...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: J. B. WoodAuthor: Todd HewlinAuthor: Thomas LahIndustry after industry is becoming technology driven as software rapidly ea...

Reducere. How did China undergo its meteoric rise from a technological backwater into a military superpower in outer space? This amazing transition began in ...

This book examines the contours of the US-China confrontation and its future trajectories. It delineates the two major causes of the friction in Si...

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The terrifying new role of technology in a world at war

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Publisher: Penguin Books LtdAuthor(s): Oliver UbertiNumber of pages: 216Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 196 x 253 x 24Cover type: HardbackRedesco...

We think vulnerability still matters when considering how people are put at risk from hazards and this book shows why in a series of thematic chapt...

Shows how RFID has transformed the supply chain over the last decade and examines the manufacturing, logistics and retail aspects of RFID. The auth...

Dark Pools is the pacy, revealing, and profoundly chilling tale of how global markets have been hijacked by trading robots - many so self-directed ...

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Publisher: Rutgers University PressAuthor(s): Albert FuNumber of pages: 188Collection: Nature, Society, and CulturePublication date: 2022Dimensions...

Searching for a needle in a haystack is an important task in several contexts of data analysis and decision-making. Examples include identifying th...

Exploring how the Enlightenment continues to operate as a guiding principle in Western politics, this title reveals how the pressing threats to fre...

The things that airlines, aircraft manufacturers, and the FAA arenot sharing with the public. This book is the result of the author'sdoctoral resea...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Danielle Shawn KurinIllustration(s): 24 Halftones, black and white; 24 Illustrations, black and whiteNumb...

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Planet Earth is f**ked. Decades of gas-guzzling and plastic parasites have brought the Earth to its knees. Entire species are disappearing, the ice...

When Lauren left to go travelling, she thought she would instantly become a glamorous backpacker. But after being mugged, scammed, caught up in a t...

Presents the Global Action for Fall Armyworm Control, FAO's new initiative aimed at mobilizing USD 500 million from 2020 to 2022, for radical, dire...

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Veteran worrier, author of To Be a Machine and father-of-two, Mark O'Connell, meets the anarchists, environmentalists, far-right nut-jobs and super...

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