By Wanda Deschamps (November 9, 2020) Trampled by Unicorns: Big Tech's Empathy Problem and How to Fix It, Maelle Gavet, Wiley, October 6, 2020, 224 pp., $29.69 Globalization and proliferation of technology. This is what I grew up hearing my late father talk about. His name is Walter J. Kontak. He was a political science professor at St. Francis Xavier University … [Read more...] about Trampled by Unicorns: Big Tech’s Empathy Problem
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No Justice in the Shadows: The Crime-based Deportation Machine
by Evan Adamson (September 3, 2020) No Justice in the Shadows: How America Criminalizes Immigrants, Alina Das, Bold Type Books, April 14, 2020, 272 pp., $33.12 A hard but necessary read, No Justice in the Shadows by NYU law professor, Alina Das, encourages empathy while stressing fundamental rights for immigrants under American law. When reading … [Read more...] about No Justice in the Shadows: The Crime-based Deportation Machine
Unleashed: The true challenge of leadership
By Sharon Broughton (September 2, 2020) Unleashed: The unapologetic leader’s guide to empowering everyone around you, Frances Frei and Anne Morriss, Harvard Business Review Press, June 2, 2020 Hardcover, 240 pp., $37.01 It’s not about you. That’s the one thing to know about being a leader, say Frances Frei and Anne Morriss, authors … [Read more...] about Unleashed: The true challenge of leadership
The Power of Disability: A book about life
by Wanda Deschamps (June 9, 2020) The Power of Disability: 10 Lessons for Surviving, Thriving, and Changing the World, Al Etmanksi, Berrett-Koehler Publishers, February 5, 2020, 216 pp., $23.46 Power and disability conflated by a book title. Our society conditions us to believe that disability renders individuals powerless therefore The Power of … [Read more...] about The Power of Disability: A book about life
A for Anonymous: The rise of hacktivism and the Anonymous collective
By Evan Adamson, May 4, 2020 A for Anonymous: How a Mysterious Hacker Collective Transformed the World, David Kushner, Koren Shadmi (artist), Bold Type Books, March 31, 2020, 128 pp., $19.85 The birth and metamorphosis of what we now know as the hacking collective Anonymous is Rolling Stone contributing editor David Kushner’s most recent work. Koren … [Read more...] about A for Anonymous: The rise of hacktivism and the Anonymous collective