President Barack Obama, in his 2011 State of the Union Address, called America "the nation of Edison and the Wright brothers" and "of Google and Facebook." U.S. Chief Information Officer, Steven VanRoekel, said that America has become a "Facebook nation" that demands increased transparency and interactivity from the federal government. Facebook as a nation in 2012 would be the third largest country in the world with over 900 million citizens, after China and India. This book portrays the social media ecosystem as a world of increasing Total Information Awareness, which is essentially a civilian version of the controversial Total Information Awareness program unveiled in 2002 by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) at the U.S. Department of Defense. Back in the 60's, DARPA initiated and funded the research and development of Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET) that went online in 1969. The success of ARPANET gave rise to the global commercial Internet in the 90's and the new generation of Fortune 500 companies today including Amazon.com, Google, eBay, and Yahoo!. As if life comes full circle in the 21st century, private businesses and the ubiquity of social networks such as Facebook, Google+, Twitter, and YouTube are creating the technologies and infrastructures necessary for the DARPA-proposed Total Information Awareness program.WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange called Facebook "the most appalling spying machine that has ever been invented." Indeed, military and civilian technologies have interwoven into every fabric of our society, as Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg said, "We exist at the intersection of technology and social issues." This book offers discourse and practical advice on the privacy issue in the age of big data, the rise of Facebook nation, and Total Information Awareness. Opening with President Ronald Reagan's 1984 National Security Decision Directive and ending with George Orwell's novel 1984, the author takes us on a roller-coaster ride through Facebook's botched IPO, Carrier IQ, Kony 2012, SOPA/PIPA blackout, cyber bullying, crime fighting, and a host of other timely issues facing our Facebook nation. Social media strategists, information architects, social scientists, policymakers, and academic scholars in the Program in Science, Technology, and Society (STS) will find this book a valuable asset.

The International Symposium on Wastewater Reclamation and Reuse was organized by the IAWPRC Water Reuse Group and the Universidad Politecnico de Cataluno in response to the growing worldwide awareness of the advantages and importance of wastewater reuse in both the developed and the developing world. Evidence from schemes in many parts of the world, in particular arid or semi-arid countries, has shown that treated wastewater can safely perform many of the functions carried out by unpolluted water, often providing a much needed supplement to unreliable fresh water supplies. The proceedings of the conference are published here under the seven technical themes of the symposium which discuss all aspects of water reclamation including water quality and the possible effect on public health as well as the technology, management, planning and applications for treated water. These topics are then examined further in the 28 selected papers by authorities on the subject from around the world to provide a study of water reclamation essential for anyone working in this field.

Probes the many questions raised by surrogate motherhood, including the medical, legal, and emotional implications, and explores the challenge surrogacy poses to traditional beliefs about motherhood