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Careless People [electronic resource] : A Story of Where I Used to Work

Sarah Wynn-Williams, a young diplomat from New Zealand, pitched for her dream job. She saw Facebook’s potential and knew it could change the world for the better. But, when she got there and rose to its top ranks, things turned out a little different.From wild schemes cooked up on private jets to risking prison abroad, Careless People exposes both the personal and political fallout when boundless power and a rotten culture take hold. In a gripping and often absurd narrative, Wynn-Williams rubs shoulders with Mark Zuckerberg, Sheryl Sandberg and world leaders, revealing what really goes on among the global elite – and the consequences this has for all of us.Candid and entertaining, this is an intimate memoir set amid powerful forces. As all our lives are upended by technology and those who control it, Careless People will change how you see the world.
Údar: Wynn-Williams, Sarah
Foilsithe: [Place of publication not identified] : Macmillan, 2025
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Smartphone Nation [electronic resource] : Why We're All Addicted to Screens and What You Can Do About It

The tools and understanding you need to protect yourself, and your family.Smartphone Nation will transform the way you – and your children – understand your devices and how they affect you. In this practical, agenda-setting book, Dr Kaitlyn Regehr – one of the UK's leading experts on digital literacy – sets out how you can keep the advantages of the internet whilst identifying often hidden dangers and stepping away when you’re over-reliant.This life-changing guide provides practical tips, clear takeaways and tested strategies to empower you to take back control of your digital life. Covering misogyny, pornography, body image, advertising, violence and more, Dr Kaitlyn Regehr explains echo chambers, the attention economy, and why we are still so unprotected when it comes to digital media.You’ll learn how to game your algorithm, how to limit targeted advertising, how to catch misinformation and how to improve your digital nutrition.Essential reading for parents and anyone who has ever worried about how compulsively they check their phone, Smartphone Nation will equip you not only to survive in the digital space, but to thrive.
Údar: Regehr, Kaitlyn
Foilsithe: [Place of publication not identified] : Bluebird, 2025
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Sleep Reset [electronic resource] : The New Tools of Rest & Recovery

Featuring 15 bonus sleep tracks read by the author.How is your sleep right now? Restless nights, bleary-eyed mornings or full-blown insomnia? The good news is that even in tough times, your sleep is never truly broken.Packed with the latest rest and recovery strategies, and supported by the latest sleep science, Sleep Reset is the definite five-week programme for better sleep. Using Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy techniques, breathwork exercises and meditation practices, you will feel empowered to:- Get back in touch with the most evolved sleep tech on this planet - your inner body clock- Support your nervous system to reduce sleep stress and calm your racing mind- Identify the most common sleep problems and access the tools you need to fix them- Rebuild your sleep confidence and improve your sleep healthThrough this day-to-night roadmap for better sleep, learn how to be your own best sleep coach and get back on track - for life.
Údar: Pennicotte-Collier, Natalie
Foilsithe: [Place of publication not identified] : Ebury Digital, 2024
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The Future [electronic resource]

The new novel from the Women’s Prize-winning, bestselling author of The Power, The Future is a white-knuckle tour de force and dazzling exploration of the world we have made and where we are going.The Future is where the money is.The Future is a few billionaires leading the world to destruction.The Future is a handful of friends hatching a daring plan.The Future is the greatest heist ever? Or the cataclysmic end of civilisation…The Future is here.‘A rollicking, fun-packed thriller with juicy stakes, constantly escalating twists, and a cast of characters who feel like they already exist somewhere out there in our fragile, free-wheeling present’ Alastair Reynolds, author of Eversion
Údar: Alderman, Naomi
Foilsithe: [Place of publication not identified] : Fourth Estate, 2023
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The Catastrophic Friendship Fails of Lottie Brooks [electronic resource]

Lottie Brooks is back for spring term at secondary school and with her best friends Jess and Molly at her side, she can face anything.No more trying to impress mean girls Amber and Poppy. And absolutely no more being nicknamed Cucumber Girl.Plus, the spring musical means Lottie can dazzle her mega-crush Daniel with her talent as a singing crustacean. But her friendship with Jess and Molly seems to be going off the rails however much she tries to keep them all together.What's she going to do? Three isn't really a crowd . . . is it?
Údar: Kirby, Katie
Foilsithe: [Place of publication not identified] : Puffin, 2022
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Permanent Record [electronic resource]

In 2013, twenty-nine-year-old Edward Snowden shocked the world when he broke with the American intelligence establishment and revealed that the United States government was secretly pursuing the means to collect every single phone call, text message, and email. The result would be an unprecedented system of mass surveillance with the ability to pry into the private lives of every person on earth. Six years later, Snowden reveals for the very first time how he helped to build this system and why he was moved to expose it.Spanning the bucolic Beltway suburbs of his childhood and the clandestine CIA and NSA postings of his adulthood, Permanent Record is the extraordinary account of a bright young man who grew up online – a man who became a spy, a whistleblower, and, in exile, the Internet’s conscience. Written with wit, grace, passion, and an unflinching candor, Permanent Record is a crucial memoir of our digital age and destined to be a classic.
Údar: Snowden, Edward
Foilsithe: [Place of publication not identified] : Macmillan Digital Audio, 2019
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The Fifth Risk [electronic resource] : Undoing Democracy

'The election happened ... And then there was radio silence.'The morning after Trump was elected president, the people who ran the US Department of Energy - an agency that deals with some of the most powerful risks facing humanity - waited to welcome the incoming administration's transition team. Nobody appeared. Across the US government, the same thing happened: nothing.People don't notice when stuff goes right. That is the stuff government does. It manages everything that underpins our lives from funding free school meals, to policing rogue nuclear activity, to predicting extreme weather events. It steps in where private investment fears to tread, innovates and creates knowledge, assesses extreme long-term risk. And now, government is under attack. By its own leaders.In The Fifth Risk, Michael Lewis reveals the combustible cocktail of wilful ignorance and venality that is fuelling the destruction of a country's fabric. All of this, Lewis shows, exposes America and the world to the biggest risk of all. It is what you never learned that might have saved you.
Údar: Lewis, Michael
Foilsithe: [Place of publication not identified] : Allen Lane, 2018
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The Collapsing Empire [electronic resource]

Does the biggest threat lie within?In the far future, humanity has left Earth to create a glorious empire. Now this interstellar network of worlds faces disaster - but can three individuals save their people?The empire''s outposts are utterly dependent on each other for resources, a safeguard against war, and a way its rulers can exert control. This relies on extra-dimensional pathways between the stars, connecting worlds. But 'The Flow' is changing course, which could plunge every colony into fatal isolation.A scientist will risk his life to inform the empire's ruler. A scion of a Merchant House stumbles upon conspirators seeking power. And the new Empress of the Interdependency must battle lies, rebellion and treason. Yet as they work to save a civilization on the brink of collapse, others have very different plans . . . The Collapsing Empire is an exciting space opera from John Scalzi.
Údar: Scalzi, John
Foilsithe: [Place of publication not identified] : Tor, 2017
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The power / Naomi Alderman.

Suddenly - tomorrow or the day after - teenage girls find that with a flick of their fingers, they can inflict agonizing pain and even death. With this single twist, the four lives at the heart of Naomi Alderman's extraordinary, visceral novel are utterly transformed.
In 'The Power', the world is a recognisable place: there's a rich Nigerian kid who larks around the family pool; a foster girl whose religious parents hide their true nature; a local American politician; a tough London girl from a tricky family. But something vital has changed, causing their lives to converge with devastating effect. Teenage girls now have immense physical power - they can cause agonising pain and even death. And, with this small twist of nature, the world changes utterly.
Údar: Alderman, Naomi
Foilsithe: UK : Viking, 2016.
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The Innovators [electronic resource] : How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution

Following his blockbuster biography of Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson’s New York Times bestselling and critically acclaimed The Innovators is a “riveting, propulsive, and at times deeply moving” (The Atlantic) story of the people who created the computer and the Internet.What were the talents that allowed certain inventors and entrepreneurs to turn their visionary ideas into disruptive realities? What led to their creative leaps? Why did some succeed and others fail? The Innovators is a masterly saga of collaborative genius destined to be the standard history of the digital revolution—and an indispensable guide to how innovation really happens. Isaacson begins the adventure with Ada Lovelace, Lord Byron’s daughter, who pioneered computer programming in the 1840s. He explores the fascinating personalities that created our current digital revolution, such as Vannevar Bush, Alan Turing, John von Neumann, J.C.R. Licklider, Doug Engelbart, Robert Noyce, Bill Gates, Steve Wozniak, Steve Jobs, Tim Berners-Lee, and Larry Page. This is the story of how their minds worked and what made them so inventive. It’s also a narrative of how their ability to collaborate and master the art of teamwork made them even more creative. For an era that seeks to foster innovation, creativity, and teamwork, The Innovators is “a sweeping and surprisingly tenderhearted history of the digital age” (The New York Times).
Údar: Isaacson, Walter
Foilsithe: [Place of publication not identified] : Simon & Schuster Audio, 2014
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Quiet [electronic resource] : The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

She gives introverts the tools to better understand themselves and take full advantage of their strengths.Passionately argued, superbly researched, and filled with real stories, Quiet will permanently change how we see introverts - and how you see yourself.
Údar: Cain, Susan
Foilsithe: [Place of publication not identified] : Penguin, 2012
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