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How to be a great online searcher, demonstrated with step-by-step searches for answers to a series of intriguing questions (for example, "Is that plant poisonous?"). We all know how to look up something online by typing words into a search engine. We do this so often that we have made the most famous search engine a verb: We Google it - "Japan population" or "Nobel Peace Prize" or "poison ivy" or whatever we want to know. But knowing how to Google something doesn't make us search experts; there's much more we can do to access the massive collective knowledge available online.

El 24 de marzo de 1976 ocurrió lo que muchos esperaban: Isabel Perón, la recordada "Evita", fue detenida, sacada de la Casa Rosada y trasladada a Neuquén. La Junta de Comandantes, que designó como presidente de facto a Jorge Rafael Videla, asumió el poder, comenzando así el audodenominado "Proceso de Reorganización Nacional".

A guide to the world’s most delightful, useful, and useless information (and how it came to exist)—a hilarious and insightful book for fans of Randall Munroe’s WHAT IF?, from the creator of @depthsofwikipedia Wikipedia is a splendidly extensive record of everything that matters, and also...

La entrega inicial de la fascinante historia de la nación más poderosa de la Tierra. Enfocada en los inicios de la población en su actual territorio, este audiolibro relata la historia de aquellas tribus primigenias antes de la llegada de los europeos, que vivían en sociedades bajo un régimen patriarcal, se regían por leyes, construían viviendas, practicaban la agricultura, explotaban algunos metales y poseían rudimentarias industrias.

This program is read by the author A concise but wide-ranging personal history of the internet from—for the first time—the point of view of the user In a shockingly short amount of time, the internet has bound people around the world together and torn us apart and changed not just the way we...

Big Tech Tyrants boast riches beyond emperors of old but act like juveniles who don't want to grow up. They are modern-day robber barons. Big Tech Tyrants don't know the meaning of privacy, when it comes to you. They try to make you believe they will give their products away for free as a service to society, when really, they are vacuuming your personal data. They use this data to discover your deepest secrets. Big Tech Tyrants is an eye-opening, must-listen book for anyone living in the 21st century.

The gripping account of six young doctors enlisted to fight COVID-19, an engrossing, eye-opening book in the tradition of both Sheri Fink’s Five Days at Memorial and Scott Turow’s One L. In March 2020, soon-to-graduate medical students in New York City were nervously awaiting “match day”...

The internet seems to have brought the world together only so we can tear each other apart. Social media platforms have become toxic and polarizing environments. Many of us are overwhelmed and disillusioned by the endless online conflict and negativity. How did we get here, and what can we do about it? The internet is changing not only how we communicate but also what we communicate. Pastor and former radio host Douglas Bursch provides a spiritual examination of why social media divides people and how Christians can address polarization through a ministry of peacemaking.

An Almost Famous–like memoir for the twenty-first century: Pitchfork’s founder opens up about running the most influential, and infamous, music publication of the internet age. In 1996, as legacy media slowly went digital, a nineteen-year-old Minneapolitan named Ryan Schreiber fired up his...

Fueron una serie de campañas militares realizadas bajo orden del Papado, que impulsó a los países de Europa Occidental a ir tras la conquista de Tierra Santa. Esta guerra religiosa tuvo lugar entre los siglos XI y XII a lo largo de tres cruzadas en donde los turcos perdieron su territorio en un inicio a mano de los europeos y luego fueron en busca de la reconquista de Jerusalén.

In today's digitally driven world, disaster is only a click away. A rogue tweet can bring down a business; an army of trolls can run a celebrity off-line; and virtual harassment might cause real psychological damage. Shame Nation is the first book to both explore the fascinating phenomenon of online shaming and offer practical guidance and inspiring advice on how to prevent and protect against cyber blunders and faceless bullies. Author and acclaimed Internet safety expert Sue Scheff unveils all sides of an issue that is only becoming more relevant day.

Chaos and order clash in this riveting exploration of crime and punishment on the Internet. Once considered a borderless and chaotic virtual landscape, the Internet is now home to the forces of international law and order. It's not just computer hackers and cyber crooks who lurk in the dark corners of the Web - the cops are there, too. In The Internet Police, Ars Technica editor Nate Anderson takes readers on a behind-the-screens tour of landmark cybercrime cases, revealing how criminals continue to find digital and legal loopholes even as police hurry to cinch them closed.

The Well was conceived during the Orwellian year of 1984, yet instead of heralding Big Brother, it became a boundary-breaking cultural invention that helped change our world.

In Digital Vertigo, Andrew Keen illuminates today's social media revolution as the most wrenching cultural transformation since the Industrial Revolution. Fusing a fast-paced historical narrative with front-line stories from today's online networking revolution, and critiques of "social" companies like Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn, Keen argues that this social media transformation is weakening, disorienting, and dividing us rather than establishing the dawn of a new egalitarian and communal age.

From the author of Hugo and NAACP Image Award finalist Riot Baby, an original memoir in essays that interrogates how the relationship between race and the internet has evolved over three decades When Tochi Onyebuchi realized his acclaimed science fiction and fantasy career had been centrally...

La milenaria, compleja y convulsa historia de China, acaso uno de los procesos históricos más llamativos de todo el planeta, estudiada con precisión y detalle en un período que comprende desde las Guerras del Opio, a la lucha entre Mao Zedong y Chang Kai-Shek y la posterior proclamación del comunismo y el nacimiento de la nueva República Popular China.

La dolorosa y humillante final de Alemania tras la I Guerra Mundial, la hiperinflación económica y el odio hacia la nueva república instaurada, fueron la razón perfecta para que un hombre desconocido hasta entonces, Adolf Hitler, logrará posicionar su agresiva retórica incendiaria, militarista y antisemita, como el emblema del tristemente célebre Partido Nacional Socialista.

Internet tiene aspectos positivos y negativos. Depende de nosotros cómo lo utilicemos. No debemos involucrarnos en ninguna actividad del mundo virtual que nos coloque en una posición falsa y nos abrace públicamente. Esta historia real presenta un ciber-delito con adolescentes que utilizan las estafas de las citas en línea.

Egipto es considerado una de las cunas de la civilización y su vasta historia ha llamado desde siempre la atención de todas las ramas del saber. Las ciclópeas y enigmáticas pirámides, la esfinge y otros monumentos son sólo algunas muestras de su fascinante historia que se remonta al 10000 a.C. y en la cual convergieron distintas culturas, entre las etapas denominadas Predinástico y Período Tardío.

Gracias a sus características geográficas y climáticas, la riqueza espectacular de su cultura, y al encanto natural de sus gentes, Brasil es concebido como un auténtico paraíso sobre la tierra. Sin embargo, su historia debió atravesar toda suerte de momentos difíciles. En este audiolibro, le contamos los orígenes del país, hasta la llegada y asentamiento de los europeos.