Listen up, warns January in this arresting work: everyone is watching, and nothing is deleted for keeps.
Some sound advice: assume everything you do on the Internet is seen or collected by someone other than your intended audience, out of malice or opportunism, pure and simple.
Readers who pay any attention will finish January’s tour of Internet snooping with some measure of paranoia. His point is not to frighten but to inform, and he provides tips on how to avoid some of the more egregious snoops (easy-peasy: “switch from Google to DuckDuckGo”). He opens with a look at the history of privacy in the United States, how it has always seemed an inalienable right, and how it is enshrined in the Fourth Amendment regarding unreasonable searches. “But US judicial and legal systems have not kept pace with the quickly changing world of technology.” Namely, people will get away with any loophole until the law plugs the hole. January writes in a clear, frank style that also contains some artful foreboding. His examples of intrusive data collection touch everyone. Although the United States does not have such laws, the European Union requires Facebook to comply with requests for disclosure. On the other hand, some behavior seems conspicuously naïve. “Hackers stole nude photos of Jennifer Lawrence and other celebrities by breaking into their iCloud accounts.” Forget about diamonds; it’s digitized nude pictures that are forever.
Listen up, warns January in this arresting work: everyone is watching, and nothing is deleted for keeps. (Nonfiction. 12-18)Pub Date: Sept. 1, 2015
ISBN: 978-1-4677-2517-0
Page Count: 96
Publisher: Twenty-First Century/Lerner
Review Posted Online: June 5, 2015
Kirkus Reviews Issue: June 15, 2015
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BOOK REVIEW
While this book does not serve as an introduction to Darwin’s life and ideas, readers wanting to know more will discover two...
This rich, insightful portrait of Charles and Emma Darwin’s marriage explores a dimension of the naturalist’s life that has heretofore been largely ignored.
Emma was devoutly religious while Charles’s agnosticism increased as he delved deeper into his studies of natural history, but they did not let this difference come between them. While unable to agree with Charles’s theory that essentially eliminated God from the process of creation, Emma remained open-minded and supportive, even reading drafts of The Origin of Species and suggesting improvements. Using excerpts from correspondence, diaries and journals, Heiligman portrays a relationship grounded in mutual respect. The narrative conveys a vivid sense of what life was like in Victorian England, particularly the high infant mortality rate that marred the Darwins’ happiness and the challenges Charles faced in deciding to publish his controversial theory.
While this book does not serve as an introduction to Darwin’s life and ideas, readers wanting to know more will discover two brilliant thinkers whose marital dialectic will provide rich fodder for discussions of science and faith. (introduction, source notes, bibliography, index) (Biography. 12 & up)Pub Date: Feb. 1, 2009
ISBN: 978-0-8050-8721-5
Page Count: 320
Publisher: Henry Holt
Review Posted Online: May 19, 2010
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Dec. 15, 2008
From 1600 to the 1800s, sugar drove the economies of Europe, the Americas, Asia and Africa and did more “to reshape the world than any ruler, empire, or war had ever done.” Millions of people were taken from Africa and enslaved to work the sugar plantations throughout the Caribbean, worked to death to supply the demand for sugar in Europe. Aronson and Budhos make a case for Africans as not just victims but “true global citizens….the heralds of [our] interconnected world,” and they explain how, ironically, the Age of Sugar became the Age of Freedom. Maps, photographs and archival illustrations, all with captions that are informative in their own right, richly complement the text, and superb documentation and an essay addressed to teachers round out the fascinating volume. Covering 10,000 years of history and ranging the world, the story is made personal by the authors’ own family stories, their passion for the subject and their conviction that young people are up to the challenge of complex, well-written narrative history. (timelines, Web guide to color images, acknowledgments, notes and sources, bibliography, index) (Nonfiction. 12 & up)
Pub Date: Oct. 1, 2010
ISBN: 978-0-618-57492-6
Page Count: 176
Publisher: Clarion Books
Review Posted Online: Dec. 22, 2010
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Sept. 1, 2010
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