15 Books To Inspire You To Break New Ground
Here’s a list of 15 books recommeded by, or connected to, speakers and the topics they covered in our Breaking New Ground series of The Sessions.
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Far Gone by John Rwothomack
A profoundly moving play for one actor which tells the story of a young boy's journey from childhood innocence to child soldier, seen through the eyes of those that love him – and those that betray him. Inspired by John Rwothomack's own real-life experience of nearly being kidnapped by the LRA.
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12 Bytes by Jeanette Winterson
Drawing on her years of thinking and reading about Artificial Intelligence in its bewildering manifestations, Jeanette Winterson looks to history, religion, myth, literature, politics and, of course, computer science, to help us understand the radical changes to the way we live and love that are happening now.
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Calling Bullsh*t: The Art of Scepticism in a Data-Driven World by Carl T Bergstrom & Jevin D West
Based on a popular course at the University of Washington, Calling Bullshit gives us the tools to see through the obfuscations, deliberate and careless, that dominate every realm of our lives.
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Data Feminism by Catherine D'Ignazio and Lauren F. Klein
A new way of thinking about data science and data ethics that is informed by the ideas of intersectional feminism.
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Immersive Theatre and Audience Experience: Space, Game and Story in The Work of Punchdrunk by Rose Biggin
This book is the first full-length monograph to focus on Punchdrunk, the internationally-renowned theatre company known for its pioneering approach to immersive theatre.
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How To Talk To Robots by Tabitha GoldStaub
How To Talk To Robots, is your girls guide to Artificial Intelligence. Entrepreneur Tabitha Goldstaub welcomes you into the AI world with a warm embrace. She brilliantly breaks down the tech-bro barriers offering a straightforward introduction and makes clear the enormous benefits of understanding AI.
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So You've Been Publicly Shamed by Jon Ronson
The rise of social media has seen a great renaissance in public shaming. Justice has been democratized. The silent majority are getting a voice. But what are we doing with that voice? We are mercilessly finding people’s faults, and defining the boundaries of normality by ruining the lives of those outside it. We are using shame as a form of social control.
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Men Who Hate Women by Laura Bates
In this urgent and groundbreaking book, Laura Bates, bestselling author and founder of The Everyday Sexism Project, goes undercover to expose vast misogynist networks and communities. It’s a deep dive into the worldwide extremism nobody talks about.
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Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World by Timothy Morton
Insisting that we have to reinvent how we think to even begin to comprehend the world we now live in, Hyperobjects takes the first steps, outlining a genuinely postmodern ecological approach to thought and action.
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The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism is a deeply-reasoned examination of the threat of unprecedented power free from democratic oversight. As it explores this new capitalism's impact on society, politics, business, and technology, it exposes the struggles that will decide both the next chapter of capitalism and the meaning of information civilization.
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Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez
From government policy and medical research, to technology, workplaces, and the media. Invisible Women reveals how in a world built for and by men we are systematically ignoring half of the population, often with disastrous consequences.
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We Are Bellingcat: An Intelligence Agency for the People by Eliot Higgins
Bellingcat, the home-grown investigative unit, is redefining the way we think about news, politics and the digital future. Here, their founder – a high-school dropout on a kitchen laptop – tells the story of how they created a whole new category of information-gathering, galvanising citizen journalists across the globe to expose war crimes and pick apart disinformation, using just their computers.
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The Viewpoints Book A Practical Guide to Viewpoints and Composition by Anne Bogart & Tina Landau
Acclaimed theatre directors Anne Bogart and Tina Landau introduce the history, terminology and philosophy of Viewpoints, and offer a step-by-step recipe for using it as both a training tool and a rehearsal technique.
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Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly
et amid the civil rights movement, the never-before-told true story of NASA’s African-American female mathematicians who played a crucial role in America’s space program.
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The Science of Storytelling by Will Storr
Applying dazzling psychological research and cutting-edge neuroscience to the foundations of our myths and archetypes,Will Storr shows how we can use these tools to tell better stories – and make sense of our chaotic modern world.
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