People and Society

Society is made up of people, groups, networks, institutions, organisations and systems. These aspects of society may include local, national and international patterns of relationships. People belong to informal and formal groups, and within and between these groups there are patterns of interactions.

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The World Is Flat 3.0: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Random House Reader's Circle)

by: Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows

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The Mysterious Benedict Society

by: Trenton Lee Stewart

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The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilous Journey

by: Trenton Lee Stewart

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Biography.com: Biography.com is the online destination of A&E.s popular, award-winning documentary series, Biography, and the new digital network, The Biography Channel. Biography.com features a searchable biographical database of 25,000 famous names, Born On This Day, Top 10 lists, TV listings, Biography Magazine

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Biography - Beethoven: The Sound and the Fury (A&E DVD Archives)

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Biography - William Shakespeare: Life of Drama (A&E DVD Archives)

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Biography - Bill Gates: Sultan of Software (A&E DVD Archives)

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Biography - Anne Frank: The Life of a Young Girl (A&E DVD Archives)

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Talking to bureaucracies considered as a corporate fitness factor: Seth Godin eloquently describes the fitness factor that makes a restaurant suited to getting placement in an airport: they have to be run by corporations whose primary skill is dealing with bureaucracies. I wonder why this competency appears to exclude a comparable competency in preparing edible food? Have you noticed that most airports feature the same restaurants? It's not an accident. The people who run these chains have organized themselves to be good at dealing with municipal organizations. Same thing goes for design firms, creative firms, accountants etc. that deal with large corporations. The art and skill of working with bureaucrats...
Visualization of US consumer spending: Here's a nice dataviz of US consumer spending as of April 2009. How depressing is that minuscule slice labelled "reading"? How The Average U.S. Consumer Spends Their Paycheck (via Sociological Images)...
Bletchley Park codebreakers recognized by British government: The codebreakers of Britain's Bletchley Park have finally been officially recognized by the UK government for their critical contributions winning WWII. Now, if we can only get the British government to put some money into preserving the shockingly decayed site itself... "These people made an enormous contribution to the outcome of World War Two, the 20th century and freedom in the West," said Simon Greenish, director of the Bletchley Park Trust. "After many years of having to keep their critical wartime work top secret, it is tremendous that this contribution has finally achieved recognition." Heroes of Bletchley included Tommy Flowers, who built one of the world's first programmable computers, Colossus, largely using his own funds, and Dr Alan Turing, who designed the bombe cryptanalysis machines. Flowers received an MBE and an award of £1,000 for his work while Turing was arrested for homosexuality in 1952 and committed suicide shortly afterwards, having received no official recognition for his work in his lifetime. Government honours veterans of Bletchley Park at last (via /.) Previously:Bletchley Park snubbed by Brit govt, no love for birthplace of ... Bletchley Park kicks so much ass - Boing Boing Brit academics call for Bletchley Park funding - Boing Boing Hams of Bletchley Park - Boing Boing PGP and others team up to renovate Bletchley Park - Boing Boing Bletchley Park's Colossus codebreaker to race modern PC in ... Pocket Enigma Machine in a CD jewel case - Boing Boing...