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"A bold call to reexamine how our government operates -- and sometimes fails to-from President Obama's former deputy chief technology officer and the founder of Code for America. Just when we most need our government to work-to decarbonize our infrastructure and economy, to help the vulnerable through a pandemic, to defend ourselves against global threats -- it is faltering. Government at all levels has limped into the digital age, offering online...
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x, 587 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
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"The remarkable life of one of the most influential men of the greatest generation, James B. Conant--a savvy architect of the nuclear age and the Cold War--told by his granddaughter, New York Times bestselling author Jennet Conant. James Bryant Conant was a towering figure. He was at the center of the mammoth threats and challenges of the twentieth century. As a young eminent chemist, he supervised the production of poison gas in WWI. As a controversial...
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321 pages ; 22 cm
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"Rising prosperity was supposed to bring democracy to China, yet the Communist Party's political monopoly endures. How? Minxin Pei looks to the surveillance state. Though renowned for high-tech repression, the Chinese surveillance state is also a hugely labor-intensive project. Pei delves into the human sources of coercion at the heart of CCP power."--
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