James Ball Bücher

Autor James Ball ist ein waschechter Musik-Nerd. In „Isn't it ironic“ gibt er fundierte Antworten auf Fragen, die in bekannten Songs gestellt werden. Von den Beatles bis zu Beyoncé – dieses Buch ist ein wilder Ritt durch die Geschichte des Pops und das ideale Geschenk für alle Musikliebhaber und um-die-Ecke-Denker. „What is love?“, “How soon is now?”, “Who let the dogs out?” – es sind die großen Fragen, die das Leben stellt und manchmal Sängerinnen oder Sänger von berühmten Pop-Songs. Mit feinem Witz und Augenzwinkern gibt Journalist und Autor James Ball darauf wissenschaftlich fundierte Antworten. Aus Liedern von Stars wie Elvis, den Beatles, aber auch von The Verve oder Rihana erfährt man existenziell Wichtiges für alle Lebenslagen. Darunter auch: ob man einen Menschen mit einem Lied töten kann (Gloria Gaynor), was wirklich ironisch ist (Alanis Morisette), wer die Welt regiert (Beyoncé). Das perfekte Geschenk für Liebhaber von Pop-Musik und für alle neugierigen Leser.

Addressing the immediate concerns of parents after an autism diagnosis, this guide outlines essential components of an ideal program for young children with autism. It presents various proven techniques and provides tools for parents to evaluate their suitability for their child and family. Additionally, it offers a practical how-to for creating an Individual Family Service Plan (IFSP) and facilitating a smooth transition into public school programs, ensuring a supportive environment for children with autism.

An important new polemic from the Provocations series. Ball and Greenway examine how the `blagocracy' has come to rule Britain, and why that needs to change.

`The book is a delight' The Economist The History of the World, but not as you know it.

'A fascinating exposé of the world behind your screen. Timely, often disturbing, and so important' Caroline Criado Perez, author of Invisible Women 'Takes us beyond Zuckerberg, Bezos et al to a murkier world where we discover how everything online works and who benefits from it. Fascinating, engaging and important' Observer 'Could not be more timely' Spectator The internet is a network of physical cables and connections, a web of wires enmeshing the world, linking huge data centres to one another and eventually to us. All are owned by someone, financed by someone, regulated by someone. We refer to the internet as abstract from reality. By doing so, we obscure where the real power lies. In this powerful and necessary book, James Ball sets out on a global journey into the inner workings of the system. From the computer scientists to the cable guys, the billionaire investors to the ad men, the intelligence agencies to the regulators, these are the real-life figures powering the internet and pulling the strings of our society. Ball brilliantly shows how an invention once hailed as a democratising force has concentrated power in places it already existed - that the system, in other words, remains the same as it did before.

WikiLeaks is the most challenging journalistic phenomenon to have emerged in the digital era. It has provoked anger and enthusiasm in equal measure, from across the political and journalistic spectrum. WikiLeaks poses a series of questions to the status quo in politics, journalism and to the ways we understand political communication. It has compromised the foreign policy operations of the most powerful state in the world, broken stories comparable to great historic scoops like the Pentagon Papers, and caused the mighty international news organizations to collaborate with this tiny editorial outfit. Yet it may also be on the verge of extinction. This is the first book to examine WikiLeaks fully and critically and its place in the contemporary news environment. The authors combine inside knowledge with the latest media research and analysis to argue that the significance of Wikileaks is that it is part of the shift in the nature of news to a network system that is contestable and unstable. Welcome to Wiki World and a new age of uncertainty.

Exploring the intersection of lowbrow pop culture with high-level science and philosophy, this engaging work by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ball combines humor and insight. Through clever analysis, the author uncovers how these seemingly disparate realms influence and inform each other, offering readers a unique perspective on contemporary culture.

A book of hilarious and fascinating answers to the most famous questions posed in pop songs, using data, facts and science.