PAGES SEPARATING FROM BINDING, BUT HELD TOGETHER BY THREAD AT SPINE EDGE OF COVERS. OUR COPY HAS THE SAME COVER AS STOCK PHOTO SHOWN. IT WAS PHOTOGRAPHED BY 75 OF THE WORLD'S LEADING PHOTOJOURNALISTS ON ONE DAY, MAY 17, 1991. PHOTOS ARE LOVELY!

A Day in the Life of Ireland: Photographed by 75 of the World's Leading Photojournalists on One Day, May 17, 1991

Arts & Photography

Collins Publishers

Collins1

Erwitt, Jennifer

Photography & Video

Collins Pub San Francisco

Photographs taken throughout Italy show children, nurses, performers, fashion models, clergy, police, soldiers, farmers, and fishermen

A Day in the Life of Italy: Photographed by 100 of the World's Leading Photojournalists on One Day, April 27, 1990

The images and stories captured in The Human Face of Big Data are the result of an extraordinary artistic, technical, and logistical juggling act aimed at capturing the human face of the Big Data Revolution. Big Data is defined as the real time collection, analyses, and visualization of vast amounts of the information. In the hands of Data Scientists this raw information is fueling a revolution which many people believe may have as big an impact on humanity going forward as the Internet has over the past two decades. Its enable us to sense, measure, and understand aspects of our existence in ways never before possible. The Human Face of Big Data captures, in glorious photographs and moving essays, an extraordinary revolution sweeping, almost invisibly, through business, academia, government, healthcare, and everyday life. It's already enabling us to provide a healthier life for our children. To provide our seniors with independence while keeping them safe. To help us conserve precious resources like water and energy. To alert us to tiny changes in our health, weeks or years before we develop a life-threatening illness. To peer into our own individual genetic makeup. To create new forms of life. And soon, as many predict, to re-engineer our own species. And we've barely scratched the surface . . . Over the past decade, Rick Smolan and Jennifer Erwitt, co-founders of Against All Odds Productions, have produced a series of ambitious global projects in collaboration with hundreds of the world's leading photographers, writers, and graphic designers. Their Day in the Life projects were credited for creating a mass market for large-format illustrated books (rare was the coffee table book without one). Today their projects aim at sparking global conversations about emerging topics ranging from the Internet (24 Hours in Cyberspace), to Microprocessors (One Digital Day), to how the human race is learning to heal itself, (The Power to Heal) to the global water crisis (Blue Planet Run). This year Smolan and Erwitt dispatched photographers and writers in every corner of the globe to explore the world of “Big Data” and to determine if it truly does, as many in the field claim, represent a brand new toolset for humanity, helping address the biggest challenges facing our species. The book features 10 essays by noted writers:Introduction: OCEANS OF DATA by Dan Gardner Chapter 1: REFLECTIONS IN A DIGITAL MIRROR by Juan Enriquez, CEO, Biotechnomomy Chapter 2: OUR DATA OURSELVES by Kate Green, the Economist Chapter 3: QUANTIFYING MYSELF by AJ Jacobs, Esquire Chapter 4: DARK DATA by Marc Goodman, Future Crime Institute Chapter 5: THE SENTIENT SENSOR MESH by Susan Karlin, Fast Company Chapter 6: TAKING THE PULSE OF THE PLANET by Esther Dyson, EDventure Chapter 7: CITIZEN SCIENCE by Gareth Cook, the Boston Globe Chapter 8: A DEMOGRAPH OF ONE by Michael Malone, Forbes magazine Chapter 9: THE ART OF DATA by Aaron Koblin, Google Artist in Residence Chapter 10: DATA DRIVEN by Jonathan Harris, Cowbird The book will also feature stunning info graphics from NIGEL HOLMES.1) GOOGLING GOOGLE: all the ways Google uses Data to help humanity 2) DATA IS THE NEW OIL 3) THE WORLD ACCORDING TO TWITTER 4) AUCTIONING EYEBALLS: The world of Internet advertising 5) FACEBOOK: A Billion Friends

The Human Face of Big Data

Science & Math

Smolan, Rick

Technology

Against All Odds Productions

"A powerful collection of personal journeys through words, images, music, and videos that shows how much progress still lies ahead in the quest for dignity and equality.” —Walter Isaacson, author of Benjamin Franklin: An American Life and Steve Jobs From the creator of the bestselling Day in the Life series comes an extraordinary illustrated book showing how much progress has been made in America over the last 100 years against hatred, bigotry, racism, and injustice—and how much more work remains to be done. The Good Fight vividly depicts the human face of America's sporadically violent, often triumphant, always risky struggle to fulfill the promise of freedom and equality for all. Fought in the streets, the courthouse, and the corridors of Congress, it is a story that has become America's own morality play, illustrated here through more than 180 memorable photographs, nearly 60 embedded videos, over a dozen compelling essays plus examples of music and lyrics that rallied America's resistance to injustice. For those who wish to eradicate bigotry and intolerance in America, The Good Fight is a call to action. It shows us how much we as a nation have accomplished; it also reminds us of the fragility of our success and how quickly this hard-fought progress can slip away if we do not remain vigilant. In addition, The Good Fight features a smartphone app (THE GOOD FIGHT VIEWER) that enables readers to point their smartphones or tablets at over 60 photos to immediately stream online video clips, including TED Talks, that vividly bring each story to life. This timely book captures the struggles—and the successes—experienced by women, African Americans, Native Americans, Jews, Muslims, the LGBTQ community, Latinos, Asian Americans, and the disabled. Along with the eloquent images and graphics, The Good Fight includes short guest essays from individuals representing each group. The writers include: <ul>
<li>George Takei, Star Trek television and film star</li>
<li>Bret Stephens, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for The New York Times
</li>
<li>Todd Brewster, award-winning journalist, bestselling author, and historian</li>
<li>Bryan Stevenson, bestselling author and founder of the Equal Justice Initiative</li>
<li>Cleve Jones, best-selling author and creator of the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt</li>
<li>Jonathan Broder, award-winning journalist, formerly of the Chicago Tribune, NPR and Newsweek
</li>
<li>Ray Suarez, best-selling author and former correspondent for PBS NewsHour and NPR’s Talk of the Nation
</li>
<li>Charles Ramsey, former DC Police Chief and President’s Task Force on 21st Century Policing</li>
<li>Aimee Mullins, actress and Paralympics world-record holder</li>
<li>Zak Ebrahim, bestselling author and speaker on nonviolence</li>
<li>Wajahat Ali, New York Times columnist and creative director of Affinis Labs</li>
<li>Tiffany Shlain, Emmy-nominated filmmaker and founder of The Webby Awards</li>
<li>Mat Johnson, bestselling author and recipient of the United States Artists James Baldwin Fellowship</li>
<li>Richard Bernstein, bestselling author, former Time Bureau Chief and New York Times correspondent</li>
</ul>

The Good Fight: America's Ongoing Struggle for Justice

History

Americas

Blue Planet Run provides readers with an extraordinary look at the water problems facing humanity and some of the hopeful solutions being pursued by large and small companies, but entrepreneurs and activists, and by nongovernmental organizations and foundations. By the end of the book, readers are left to form their own conclusions as to whether or how the human race is capable of taking the steps necessary to solve this global crisis before it's too late. Blue Planet Run is two books in one: First, it is about an extraordinary 15,000-mile relay race - the longest relay race in human history - in which 20 athletes spent 95 days running around the globe to spread awareness of the world's water crisis. Secondly, it is a showcase of powerful, inspiring, disturbing and hopeful images captured by leading photojournalists around the world who documented the human face of the crisis and its possible solutions. The result of these two parallel projects is the book you hold in your hands. One hundred percent of the royalties from this book will be used to provide clean water to people around the world who desperately need it.

Blue Planet Run: The Race to Provide Safe Drinking Water to the World

Politics & Social Sciences

Sociology

Earth Aware Editions

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