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Florida Straits

By: Tom D. McKinnon

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While searching for the lost treasure ship La Madelena in the Florida Keys, Stephen Caffey and Tyler Caitland witness an event that propels them into a murderous scheme of deceit, greed and seduction. Caught between corrupt government officials and the wrath of a wealthy Cuban ex-patriot attempting to overthrow the Cuban Communist Party, Stephen and Tyler race against time to locate the forgotten treasure while desperately trying to escape the deadly tram closing in on them.

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226

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iUniverse

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0595160913

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9780595160914

Traffic

Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us)

By: Tom Vanderbilt

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Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us)

By: Tom Vanderbilt

Driving is a fact of life. We are all spending more and more time on the road, and traffic is an issue we face everyday. This book will make you think about it in a whole new light. We have always had a passion for cars and driving. Now Traffic offers us an exceptionally rich understanding of that passion. Vanderbilt explains why traffic jams form, outlines the unintended consequences of our attempts to engineer safety and even identifies the most common mistakes drivers make in parking lots. Based on exhaustive research and interviews with driving experts and traffic officials around the globe, Traffic gets under the hood of the quotidian activity of driving to uncover the surprisingly complex web of physical, psychological and technical factors that explain how traffic works.

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418

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Vintage Canada

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0307373177

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9780307373175

Techlash

Who Makes the Rules in the Digital Gilded Age?

By: Tom Wheeler

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Who Makes the Rules in the Digital Gilded Age?

By: Tom Wheeler

Hailed by Publishers Weekly as "a potent primer on the need to rein in big tech" and Kirkus Reviews as "a rock-solid plan for controlling the tech giants," readers will be energized by Tom Wheeler's vision of digital governance. Featured on Barack Obama's 11/3/23 list of "What I’m Reading on the Rise of Artificial Intelligence" An accessible and visionary book that connects the experiences of the late 19th century’s industrial Gilded Age with its echoes in the 21st century digital Gilded Age. Hailed by Ken Burns as one of the foremost “explainers” of technology and its effect throughout history, Tom Wheeler now turns his gaze to the public impact of entrepreneurial innovation. In Techlash, he connects the experiences of the late 19th century’s industrial Gilded Age with its echoes in the 21st century digital Gilded Age. In both cases, technology innovation and the great wealth that it created ran up against the public interest and the rights of others. As with the industrial revolution and the Gilded Age that it created, new digital technology has changed commerce and culture, creating great wealth in the process, all while being essentially unsupervised. Warning that today is not the “Fourth Industrial Revolution” some envision, Wheeler calls for a new era of public interest oversight that leaves behind industrial era regulatory ideas to embrace a new process of agile, supervised and enforced code setting that protects consumers and competition while encouraging continued innovation. Wheeler combines insights from his experience at the highest echelons of business and government to create a compelling portrait of the need to balance entrepreneurial innovation with the public good.

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Brookings Institution Press

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081573994X

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9780815739944

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