Zimmerman Library Jan-June 2017 New Non-Fiction Books Books are listed in Dewey GENERALITIES Decimal order. 000 Generalities Kavanaugh, Beatrice. Computing and the 100 Philosophy & Psychology internet. Broomall, Pa.: Mason Crest, [2017]. 200 Religion "Since it became widely available for public use 300 Social Sciences in the early 1990s, the Internet has proven to be amazingly useful for facilitating communication, 400 Language distributing information, and sharing 500 Science knowledge. Human society has already been 600 Health & Medicine changed by the Internet and as new technologies 700 Arts develop, even more opportunities will be 800 Literature available to people online. However, some 900 History & Geography people have concerns about technology and 920 Biographies privacy, the availability of new technology to Professional Reading everyone, and whether information shown on the web might . influence people or cultures in a negative way. This book will look at the role that the Internet and computer technologies play in society, and consider some of the questions that are raised by its development"--Amazon. com. 004 KAV Gonzales, Andrea. Girl code: gaming, going viral, and getting it done. 1st ed. New York, NY: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2017]. The authors, who met at a summer 1 computer programming camp for girls, share Crysdale, Joy, 1952-. Fearless female journalists. their knowledge of gaming, programming, and Toronto, ON: Second Story Press, c2010. the tech industry, and provide advice on getting Profiles ten female journalists who have taken into the field of computer programming. 005. 1 risks to report news and succeed in the field, GON including Mary Ann Shadd Cary, Nellie Bly, Doris Anderson, Farida Nekzad, Thembi O'Neil, Cathy. Weapons of math destruction: Ngubane, and Katie Couric. 070. 922 CRY how big data increases inequality and threatens democracy. 1st ed. New York: Crown, [2016]. Campbell, Mike. Amelia Earhart: The Truth at Argues that algorithms used to sort résumés, last. 2nd edition. Mechanichsburg, PA:: Sunbury grant or deny loans, monitor our health, and Press, 2016. 092 EARHART other uses, are unregulated, reinforce discrimination, and threaten to undermine democracy. 005. 7 ONE 100 PSYCHOLOGY & PHILOSOPHY Dormehl, Luke. Thinking machines: the quest for artificial intelligence--and where it's taking Levitin, Daniel J. Weaponized lies: how to think us next. New York, N. Y.: A TarcherPerigee critically in the post-truth era. New York, N. Y.: Book, [2017]. "Technology journalist Luke Dutton, [2016]. "It's raining bad data, half- Dormehl takes you through the history of AI and truths, and fake news out there - and some of how it makes up the foundations of the this nonsense is having devastation machines that think for us today"--Provided by consequences. Daniel J. Levitin shows how publisher. 006. 3 DOR corporate and government reports, statistics, and news stories can mislead, and reveals the Li, Xianyao. China's museums. [Beijing]: China way lying weasels use them. What makes lies Intercontinental Press, [2004]. Provides an dangerous is the certainty with which people are introduction to China's national treasures and prone to believe them. Here is how to fix that. "-- museums, profiling fifty-seven protected cultural Page [4] of cover. 153. 42 LEV sights. 069. 0951 XIA Yang, Hu, 1980-. Chinese publishing: homeland Sloman, Steven A. The knowledge illusion: why of printing. 1st ed. Beijing: China we never think alone. New York: Riverhead Intercontinental Press, 2010. 070. 5 HU Books, 2017. Ignorance and the community of knowledge -- What we know -- Why we think -- Kovach, Bill. Blur: how to know what's true in How we think -- Why we think what isn't so -- the age of information overload. Pbk. ed. New Thinking with our bodies and the world -- York: Bloomsbury, 2011, c2010. How to know Thinking with other people -- Thinking with what to believe anymore -- We have been here technology -- Thinking about science -- Thinking before -- The way of skeptical knowing: the about politics -- The new definition of smart -- tradecraft of verification -- Completeness: what Making people smart -- Making smarter decisions is here and what is missing? -- Sources: where -- Appraising ignorance and illusion. Cognitive did this come from? -- Evidence and the science explains how the human brain relies on journalism of verification -- Assertion, the intelligence and knowledge of others in order affirmation: where's the evidence? -- How to to overcome its shortcomings of being error find what really matters -- What we need from prone, irrational, and often ignorant. 153. 42 SLO the "next journalism" -- Epilogue: the new way of knowing. Offers techniques for sifting through Siegel, Daniel J. , 1957-. Brainstorm: the power the vast amount of information that exists in the and purpose of the teenage brain. 1st trade pbk. twenty-first century, and determining which ed. 2015. New York: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin, sources are reliable and who should be trusted. a member of Penguin Group (USA), 2015. 070. 9 KOV Discusses a number of ways that the teenage brain processes information. 155. 5 SIE 2 Duckworth, Angela. Grit: the power of passion and nationalism in the Gulf -- Modern-day and perseverance. New York: Scribner, 2016. "In religion, philosophy, and nationalism -- this must-read book for anyone striving to Modern-day religion, philosophy, and succeed, pioneering psychologist Angela nationalism in North Africa -- Important figures Duckworth shows parents, educators, athletes, in religion, philosophy, and nationalism across students, and business people--both seasoned the Middle East. "Religion, philosophy, and and new--that the secret to outstanding nationalism across the Middle East are often in achievement is not talent but a focused the news, and often are depicted as uniform persistence called "grit. " Why do some people despite the varied cultures in the region. This succeed and others fail? Sharing new insights book examines the historical role religion and from her landmark research on grit, MacArthur philosophy have played in different countries in "genius" Angela Duckworth explains why talent the Middle East and their influences on political is hardly a guarantor of success. Rather, other and cultural relations today. Important factors can be even more crucial such as historical and contemporary figures in religious identifying our passions and following through and nationalist movements will also be on our commitments. Drawing on her own examined on a per-country basis."-- powerful story as the daughter of a scientist who Amazon.201.72 GRI frequently bemoaned her lack of smarts, Duckworth describes her winding path through Marsico, Katie, 1980-. Christianity. Ann Arbor, teaching, business consulting, and neuroscience, Mich.: Cherry Lake Pub., [2017]. Looks at which led to the hypothesis that what really Christianity through the perspectives of history, drives success is not "genius" but a special blend geography, civics, and economics.230 MAR of passion and long-term perseverance. As a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, Coddington, Andrew. Martyrdom: Christians in Duckworth created her own "character lab" and the Roman empire. 1st ed. New York: Cavendish set out to test her theory. Here, she takes readers Square, 2017.Humble beginning -- The roots of into the field to visit teachers working in some of Christianity -- Rome and Christianity: a cultural the toughest schools, cadets struggling through clash -- Pagan policies of persecution -- their first days at West Point, and young finalists Defending the faith -- Constantine and the new in the National Spelling Bee. She also mines Christian empire. "Mankind has an inglorious fascinating insights from history and shows what history of using people of different nationalities can be gleaned from modern experiments in or religions as scapegoats for failure. In the early peak performance. Finally, she shares what she's centuries of the Common Era, the wrath of the learned from interviewing dozens of high ruling state fell on those who followed the new achievers--from JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon religion of Christianity. This book describes the to the cartoon editor of The New Yorker to foundations of these periodic crackdowns, Seattle Seahawks Coach Pete Carroll. Winningly provides a timeline of the persecutions, and personal, insightful, and even life-changing, Grit outlines the aftermath of nearly three centuries is a book about what goes through your head of torture and martyrdom."--Amazon.272.1 COD when you fall down, and how that--not talent or luck--makes all the difference"--. 158. 1 DUC Bartolotta, Kenneth. The Inquisition: the quest for absolute religious power. New York, NY: Lucent Press, 2017.Describes the origins, methods, victims, martyrs, origins, goals, and 200 RELIGION historical context of the medieval Inquisition, including the Spanish Inquisition, as well as the Griffiths, Katie. Religion, philosophy, and Roman Inquisition's targeting of scientists.272.2 nationalism across the Middle East. New York: BAR Cavendish Square Pub., 2017.The history of religion, philosophy, and nationalism across the Middle East -- Modern-day religion, philosophy, 3 Boehme, Gerry. Heresy: the Spanish Inquisition. 1st ed. New York: Cavendish Square, 300 SOCIAL SCIENCES 2017."The Inquisition was used by the Catholic Church to suppress heresy long before the start of the Spanish Inquisition in 1478. The Graves, Lucas, 1970-. Deciding what's true: