The entanglements of people and data, code and space, knowledge and power: how data and algorithms shape the world—and shape us within that world.\nWith the emergence of a post-truth world, we have witnessed the dissolution of the common ground on which truth claims were negotiated, individual agency enacted, and public spheres shaped. What happens when, as Nietzsche claimed, there are no facts, but only interpretations? In this book, Mark Shepard examines the entanglements of people and data, code and space, knowledge and power that have produced an uncommon ground—a disaggregated public sphere where the extraction of behavioral data and their subsequent processing and sale have led to the emergence of micropublics of ever-finer granularity.\nShepard explores how these new post-truth territories are propagated through machine learning systems and social networks, which shape the public and private spaces of everyday life. He traces the balkanization and proliferation of online news and the targeted distribution of carefully crafted information through social media. He examines post-truth practices, showing how truth claims are embedded in techniques by which the world is observed, recorded, documented, and measured. Finally, he shows how these practices play out, at scales from the translocality of the home to the planetary reach of the COVID-19 pandemic—with stops along the way at an urban minimarket, an upscale neighborhood for the one percent, a Toronto waterfront district, and a national election.

There Are No Facts: Attentive Algorithms, Extractive Data Practices, and the Quantification of Everyday Life

Politics & Social Sciences

Shepard, Mark

Philosophy

The MIT Press

Part Ernest Hemingway, part Grizzly Adams, and part down-home philosopher, Mark Shepard is 100% American. His story of near-death experiences, hunting adventures, tournament fishing competitions, family bonds, and an overarching love for the outdoors will entertain, inform, and inspire everyone from like-minded outdoorsmen to urban homebodies.Mark's career includes stints as a commercial fisherman (beginning at age 14), farmer, steelworker, bartender, bodyguard, professional bass fisherman, lure designer, and master fishing guide. And through it all, his work ethic, sense of humor, love of people, and respect for all of God's creatures shines like a beacon on the America our founding fathers envisioned.

A Guiding Life: Living, Fishing and Hunting the American Dream

Sports & Outdoors

Hunting & Fishing

Erewhon Press

What became of the Gandhian tradition in India following the death of Mahatma Gandhi? Did it quietly die away? Or were there still Indians who believed in his philosophy and methods, committed to continuing his work? These were the questions that sent journalist Mark Shepard to India in 1978-79, where he found that the tradition begun by Gandhi was very much alive in such individuals, groups, and movements as: -- an acclaimed saint who collected over four million acres in gifts of land for the poor -- a leader of a nationwide protest movement that helped topple India's ruling party in the mid-1970s -- a Peace Army that fought riots with nonviolence -- a "Hug the Trees!" movement that physically blocked excessive logging in the Himalayas -- a People's Court that even tried cases of murder and government corruption -- a development center that was helping 400 villages rise from poverty -- a nationwide movement of villages in which all land was held in common and decisions were made by unanimous consent ///////////////////////////////////////////////// Mark Shepard is the author of "Mahatma Gandhi and His Myths," "The Community of the Ark," and "Gandhi Today," called by the American Library Association's Booklist "a masterpiece of committed reporting." His writings on social alternatives have appeared in over 30 publications in the United States, Canada, England, Norway, Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Japan, and India. 

Gandhi Today: The Story of Mahatma Gandhi's Successors

Social Sciences

Seven Locks Press

Mahatma Gandhi is one of the least understood figures of all time -- even among his admirers. In this Annual Gandhi Lecture for the International Association of Gandhian Studies, Mark Shepard tackles some persistently wrong-headed views of Gandhi, offering us a more accurate picture of the man and his nonviolence. ///////////////////////////////////////////////// Mark Shepard is the author of "Mahatma Gandhi and His Myths," "The Community of the Ark," and "Gandhi Today," called by the American Library Association's Booklist "a masterpiece of committed reporting." His writings on social alternatives have appeared in over 30 publications in the United States, Canada, England, Norway, Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Japan, and India. 

Mahatma Gandhi and His Myths

Simple Productions

France's Community of the Ark is one of the past century's most successful experiments in utopian living. Founded by Lanza del Vasto, a Christian disciple of Mahatma Gandhi, it offers an inspiring model for a nonviolent society. Mark Shepard shared the life of this remarkable community for six weeks in 1979 and reported on what he found. ///////////////////////////////////////////////// Mark Shepard is the author of "Mahatma Gandhi and His Myths," "The Community of the Ark," and "Gandhi Today," called by the American Library Association's Booklist "a masterpiece of committed reporting." His writings on social alternatives have appeared in over 30 publications in the United States, Canada, England, Norway, Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Japan, and India. 

The Community of the Ark: A Visit to the Utopian Communities of Lanza del Vasto and His Disciples of Gandhi

Religion & Spirituality

Occult & Paranormal

What became of the Gandhian tradition in India following the death of Mahatma Gandhi? Did it quietly die away? Or were there still Indians who believed in his philosophy and methods, committed to continuing his work? These were the questions that sent journalist Mark Shepard to India in 1978-79, where he found that the tradition begun by Gandhi was very much alive in such individuals, groups, and movements as: -- an acclaimed saint who collected over four million acres in gifts of land for the poor -- a leader of a nationwide protest movement that helped topple India's ruling party in the mid-1970s -- a Peace Army that fought riots with nonviolence -- a "Hug the Trees!" movement that physically blocked excessive logging in the Himalayas -- a People's Court that even tried cases of murder and government corruption -- a development center that was helping 400 villages rise from poverty -- a nationwide movement of villages in which all land was held in common and decisions were made by unanimous consent ///////////////////////////////////////////////// Mark Shepard is the author of "Mahatma Gandhi and His Myths," "The Community of the Ark," and "Gandhi Today," called by the American Library Association's Booklist "a masterpiece of committed reporting." His writings on social alternatives have appeared in over 30 publications in the United States, Canada, England, Norway, Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Japan, and India.

Gandhi Today: A Report on India's Gandhi Movement and Its Experiments in Nonviolence and Small Scale Alternatives

Business & Money

Economics

The Community of the Ark: A Visit With Mahatma Gandhi's Disciples in the West

Biographies & Memoirs

Ocean Tree Books

Bully Free Me. Bully Free Us!: How to Bullyproof Yourself from the Inside Out

Self-Help

Personal Transformation

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Bullying victims are made, not born. Get of of the ranks of the targets and step into your own power peacefully! Author Mark Shepard, a former bullying victim, suffered for years at the hands of bullies until he learned how to Bully Proof himself. You'll learn: >How to keep your cool and self respect no matter what names a bully calls you. >The secret every bully has... >6 Powerful Mind sets that make you immune to any verbal or emotional bullying. >10 Bully-Proofers that put YOU in control. >How to make yoursel into a "Friend Magnet" >4 Powerful ways  to use words to harmlessly turn any attack without escalating or lowering yourself to the bully's level. Packed with proven tips, tools, tactics, techniques and resources that work from the classroom to the boardroom. www.BullyingPreventionNow.com

The Bully Proof Kid: Bullying Prevention From The Inside Out

Children's Books

Education & Reference

Written as a companion to the bestseller, Restoration Agriculture, this book will help farmers capture water in areas they want to, and avoid having water flow immediately to the low point. The result? Less water expense, healthier crops and livestock, and less erosion ... just to name a few. What you will read in this book is a distillation of over 25 years of on-the-ground experience working with and modifying the Yeomans' Keyline Plan. From the back yard suburbs to 10,000-acre ranches and everywhere in between, from permafrost mountainsides just shy of the Arctic Circle, to equatorial boulder fields of East Africa, areas with 300 inches of rain per year to those with less than 3 inches, I have personally installed systems based on the Keyline design methodology and its modified forms.What you will read in this book is tried and true. It is intended to give a sufficient background to any landowner so that they can optimize their water resource for higher site productivity, have greater drought resistance and just as importantly, to know deep in their heart that they have made even one little piece of earth a little more life-filled, livable and green.

Water for Any Farm: Applying Restoration Agriculture Water Management Methods on Your Farm

Industries

Acres U.S.A., Inc.

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