social control

Explores the hidden history of surveillance, from controlling slaves in the old South to implementing early criminal justice, tracking immigrants, and monitoring the poor as part of modern social work, and discusses the role computers and new technology play in American surveillance.

The charitable sector is one of the fastest-growing industries in the global economy. Nearly half of the more than 85,000 private foundations in the United States have come into being since the year 2000. This deluge of philanthropy has helped create a world where billionaires wield more power over education policy, global agriculture, and global health than ever before. Far from being selfless, plutocratic philanthropy may be the ultimate profit-making tool. Author and academic Linsey McGoey puts this new golden age of philanthropy under the microscope--paying particular attention to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. As large charitable organizations replace governments as the providers of social welfare, their largesse becomes suspect. The businesses fronting the money often create the very economic instability and inequality the foundations are purported to solve.

Given his lifetime assignment at the Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas becomes the receiver of memories shared by only one other in his community and discovers the terrible truth about the society in which he lives.

Desiree Six Haven trusts the Protectorate, which arranges everyone's career, mate, dreams, even the dates of their deaths, until her childhood friend, Darian, a convict escaped from the Terrorscape, arrives with devastating information.

Given his lifetime assignment at the Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas becomes the receiver of memories shared by only one other in his community and discovers the terrible truth about the society in which he lives.

Author presents a history of testing and tells why Americans are preoccupied with testing.

Traces the history of the American crowd in the United States from anti-colonial revolts to the crowds of the twenty-first century that fill sports arenas, commercial centers, and workplaces, describing how crowds have aided in the establishment of democracy, civil rights, and free speech rights, and discussing more dangerous forms such as lynch mobs and anti-immigrant riots.

Scientists Kaye Lang and Mitch Rafelson, parents of Stella, a genetically-enhanced child born as a result of mutations in the human genome caused by the SHEVA virus, lose the struggle to keep their daughter safe from a repressive government that wants to control the virus children by isolating them from the general population.