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Wants to read European Integration and Supranational Governance

Wants to read Italian Literature: A Very Short Introduction

Wants to read The Wizard and the Prophet: Two Remarkable Scientists and Their Dueling Visions to Shape Tomorrow's World

Wants to read Philosophy of Technology: An Introduction

Rated All Systems Red 6/10

Rated A esperança de Pandora: ensaios sobre a realidade dos estudos científicos 8/10

Rated Ancillary Justice 6/10

This book is well-written and creates a rich world, but I did not really connect with it. Certainly not enough to continue the series. Nevertheless, it is easy to see why so many people loved it.

Rated Engenharia de Software Moderna 10/10

Rated Introdução ao Processo Civil Alemão 7/10

Rated Computational Thinking 8/10

Rated Il Diritto Islamico 6/10

Wants to read Fire in the Valley: The Making of The Personal Computer

Rated Macbeth 10/10

Rated Sei donne che hanno cambiato il mondo: Le grandi scienziate della fisica del XX secolo 6/10

Ho trovato questo libro per caso quando cercava qualcosa in Kindle Unlimited per praticare l’italiano. Non fu una scelta sbagliata: il linguaggio è accessibile, le storie raccontate sono coinvolgenti, e il testo dimostra non solo l’importanza di queste scienziate ma anche la passione della scrittrice per il tema. Ogni capitolo di questo libro presenta la vita di una scienziata specifica, narrando la sua biografia in contesto storico. Purtroppo, questo approccio non lascia molto spazio per spiegare la scienza stessa, eccetto nel capitolo dedicato a Hedy Lamarr, in cui c’è una chiara illustrazione del brevetto che questa attrice ha ottenuto. Forse, introdurre la scienza ci aiuterebbe a tracciare un ritratto più completo di queste donne, per cui la scienza è stata una dimensione così importante della vita. Nonostante, Gabriella Greison ha scritto un libro utile non solo per capire meglio la storia delle scienze ma anche per imparare con gli errori e ingiustizie del passato.

Rated Excession 8/10

Rated Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need 8/10

Rated The Fated Sky 8/10

Rated Debugging: The 9 Indispensable Rules for Finding Even the Most Elusive Software and Hardware Problems 8/10

Wants to read Thick: And Other Essays

Wants to read Operation Bounce House

Wants to read Land

Rated Crítica da faculdade de julgar 10/10

Rated How Artifacts Afford: The Power and Politics of Everyday Things 10/10

Affordances are frequently mentioned in the design and STS literatures. There is no consensus about the content of this term, even though there are multiple attempts to theorise it. The author proposes shifting the focus from "what are the affordances?" to how artefacts afford and under what circumstances, and examines approaches for implementing this vision.<br/><br/>The author attempts to make sense of the current mess, providing a coherent account that attends to the political and social contexts in which technologies operate. In addition, the text presents useful techniques for deploying the concept. Curiously, this successful approach shows the limits of "affordance" as a concept: it allows us to understand modes of interaction with technological artefacts, but even a formulation as elegant as the one presented in this book is still centred on individual artefacts (such as apps, devices, or even platforms). As such, recent attempts to take affordances beyond their use case as a design tool seem misguided. This, of course, is not a problem with the book, which does an excellent job of showing how affordances can be a powerful tool for critical design and engagement with designed artefacts.<br/>

Wants to read All the Pieces Matter: The Inside Story of The Wire

Wants to read The Radiant Dark