Victor Loux Bookmarks Tag: book

68 bookmarks tagged “book

Weapons of Math Destruction by Cathy O'Neil | PenguinRandomHouse.com

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Longlisted for the National Book Award New York Times Bestseller A former Wall Street quant sounds an alarm on the mathematical models that pervade modern...

Organizational Ethnography: Studying the Complexity of Everyday Life

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“The road to revelatory findings begins […] with starting to realise what is new and surprising to us as strangers to the field”

User Story Mapping - O'Reilly Media

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User story mapping is a valuable tool for software development, once you understand why and how to use it. This insightful book examines how this often misunderstood technique can help your team stay focused on users and their needs without getting...

Punk: An Aesthetic

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Text by Jon Savage, William Gibson, Gee Vaucher and Linder Sterling, Edited by Johan Kugelberg - Rizzoli New York - Rizzoli New York

The World's Tiniest Countries and the Eccentrics Who Rule Them | WIRED

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Never heard of the Imperial Kingdom of Calsahara? The Conch Republic? The Principality of Sealand? You’re not alone.​ Léo Delafontaine hadn’t either until 2012, when he visited the Republic of Saugeais, a self-proclaimed micronation in eastern France. He’s since become fascinated with “countries” unrecognized by world governments and organizations. His book Micronations​ documents independent states that are just as varied and interesting as their official counterparts.

(Thomas Piketty) Capital Man - The Chronicle of Higher Education

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“[…] Too much energy has been and still is being wasted on pure theoretical speculation without a clear specification of the economic facts one is trying to explain or the social and political problems one is trying to resolve."