If Then: How Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future, Lepore Jill

Автор: Lepore Jill
Название: The Secret History of Wonder Woman
ISBN: 0804173400 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780804173407
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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A riveting work of historical detection revealing that the origin of Wonder Woman, one of the world's most iconic superheroes, hides within it a fascinating family storyand a crucial history of twentieth-century feminism

Harvard historian andNew Yorkerstaff writer Jill Lepore has uncovered an astonishing trove of documents, including the never-before-seen private papers of William Moulton Marston, Wonder Woman's creator. Beginning in his undergraduate years at Harvard, Marston was influenced by early suffragists and feminists, starting with Emmeline Pankhurst, who was banned from speaking on campus in 1911, when Marston was a freshman. In the 1920s, Marston and his wife, Sadie Elizabeth Holloway, brought into their home Olive Byrne, the niece of Margaret Sanger, one of the most influential feminists of the twentieth century.

The Marston family story is a tale of drama, intrigue, and irony. In the 1930s, Marston and Byrne wrote a regular column forFamily Circlecelebrating conventional family life, even as they themselves pursued lives of extraordinary nonconformity. Marston, internationally known as an expert on truthhe invented the lie detector testlived a life of secrets, only to spill them on the pages of Wonder Woman.

The Secret History of Wonder Womanis a tour de force of intellectual and cultural history.

Wonder Woman, Lepore argues, is the missing link in the history of the struggle for women's rightsa chain of events that begins with the women's suffrage campaigns of the early 1900s and ends with the troubled place of feminism a century later.

This edition includes a new afterword with fresh revelations based on never before seen letters and photographs from the Marston family's papers.

With 161 illustrations and 16 pages in full color

Автор: Lepore Jill
Название: If Then: How Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future
ISBN: 1631496107 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781631496103
Издательство: Wiley
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The Simulmatics Corporation, launched during the Cold War, mined data, targeted voters, manipulated consumers, destabilized politics, and disordered knowledge--decades before Facebook, Google, and Cambridge Analytica. Jill Lepore, best-selling author of These Truths, came across the company's papers in MIT's archives and set out to tell this forgotten history, the long-lost backstory to the methods, and the arrogance, of Silicon Valley.

Founded in 1959 by some of the nation's leading social scientists--"the best and the brightest, fatally brilliant, Icaruses with wings of feathers and wax, flying to the sun"--Simulmatics proposed to predict and manipulate the future by way of the computer simulation of human behavior. In summers, with their wives and children in tow, the company's scientists met on the beach in Long Island under a geodesic, honeycombed dome, where they built a "People Machine" that aimed to model everything from buying a dishwasher to counterinsurgency to casting a vote. Deploying their "People Machine" from New York, Washington, Cambridge, and even Saigon, Simulmatics' clients included the John F. Kennedy presidential campaign, the New York Times, the Department of Defense, and dozens of major manufacturers: Simulmatics had a hand in everything from political races to the Vietnam War to the Johnson administration's ill-fated attempt to predict race riots. The company's collapse was almost as rapid as its ascent, a collapse that involved failed marriages, a suspicious death, and bankruptcy. Exposed for false claims, and even accused of war crimes, it closed its doors in 1970 and all but vanished. Until Lepore came across the records of its remains.

The scientists of Simulmatics believed they had invented "the A-bomb of the social sciences." They did not predict that it would take decades to detonate, like a long-buried grenade. But, in the early years of the twenty-first century, that bomb did detonate, creating a world in which corporations collect data and model behavior and target messages about the most ordinary of decisions, leaving people all over the world, long before the global pandemic, crushed by feelings of helplessness. This history has a past; If Then is its cautionary tale.

Автор: Blanken Leo J., Rothstein Hy S., Lepore Jason J.
Название: Assessing War: The Challenge of Measuring Success and Failure
ISBN: 1626162468 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781626162464
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Описание: Drawing on decades of acquired expertise, this book examines wartime assessment in both theory and practice and, through alternative dimensions of assessment such as justice and proportionality, the war of ideas and economics.

Автор: Lepore, Jill
Название: If, Then
ISBN: 1529386152 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781529386158
Издательство: Little Brown
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Описание: A brilliant, revelatory account of the Cold War origins of the data-mad, algorithmic twenty-first century, from the acclaimed and internationally bestselling author.

Автор: Lepore, Jill
Название: If, Then
ISBN: 1529386179 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781529386172
Издательство: Little Brown
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Описание: A brilliant, revelatory account of the Cold War origins of the data-mad, algorithmic twenty-first century, from the acclaimed and internationally bestselling author.

Автор: Lepore, Jill
Название: If, Then
ISBN: 1529386160 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781529386165
Издательство: Little Brown
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Описание: Through templates and real-world examples, this step-by-step guide clearly illustrates what good and bad data look like, in order to help students get going quickly and build an effective survey around a research question. In each chapter, survey-based challenges are linked to the broader research issues, maintaining the important theoretical context to the learning process.

Автор: Lepore, Jill
Название: This america: the case for the nation
ISBN: 1529386144 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781529386141
Издательство: Little Brown
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Описание: Picked as a Bill Clinton Book of 2019`Lepore is that rare combination in modern life of intellect, originality and style` Amanda Foreman`A thoughtful and passionate defence of her vision of American patriotism` New York Times

Автор: Supersummary
Название: Study Guide: The Name Of War by Jill Lepore (SuperSummary)
ISBN: 1704837596 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781704837598
Издательство: Неизвестно
Цена: 13730.00 T
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Описание: SuperSummary, a modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, offers high-quality study guides for challenging works of literature. This 67-page guide for "The Name Of War" by Jill Lepore includes detailed chapter summaries and analysis covering 8 chapters, as well as several more in-depth sections of expert-written literary analysis. Featured content includes commentary on major characters, 25 important quotes, essay topics, and key themes like The Effect of Bias on War and How Words Change History.

Автор: Lepore, Jill
Название: This america: the case for the nation
ISBN: 152938611X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781529386110
Издательство: Little Brown
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Описание: `A thoughtful and passionate defence of her vision of American patriotism` New York TimesFrom the acclaimed historian comes this urgent manifesto on the dilemma of nationalism and the erosion of liberalism in the twenty-first century.