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  Vaporware Inc - How Silicon...

  David Karpf

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  A critical reexamination of techno-optimism’s empty promises, and how the lessons of the past can help us regain control of our future. 
  For thirty years, Silicon Valley leaders have promised dramatic technological innovation as long as we—the public, journalists, regulators, and policymakers—keep out of the way. The results have been great for Silicon Valley but haven’t gone so well for the rest of us. Venture capitalists and the companies they fund have amassed wealth, status, and political power, but their bold visions have amounted to little more than vaporware. 
   
  In Vaporware, Inc., political scientist and tech commentator David Karpf looks back at the history of the digital future to understand the ideological project of techno-optimism, and why it has gone so wrong for the rest of us. With sharp wit and keen insight, Karpf debunks the myths and traces how tech billionaires amassed power by selling the idea of the future. Eye-opening and essential, Vaporware, Inc. is a critical reappraisal of how Silicon Valley works, and how we can make it work better.

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  Addiction Becomes Normal - On...

  Jaeyoon Park

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  Addiction is now seen as an ordinary feature of human nature, an idea that introduces new doubts about the meaning of our desires. 
    
  Over the last forty years, a variety of developments in American science, politics, and culture have reimagined addiction in their own ways, but they share an important understanding: increasingly, addiction is described as normal, the natural result of a body that has been exposed to potent stimuli. This shift in thinking suggests that addiction is a condition latent in all of us, a common response to a society rich in thrills. 
    
  In Addiction Becomes Normal, Jaeyoon Park provides a history and critical analysis of the normalization of addiction in late-modern American society. By exploring addiction science, diagnostic manuals, judicial reform, and public health policy, he shows how seeing addiction as normal has flourished in recent decades and is supported throughout cultural life in the United States by the language of wellness, psychotherapy, and more. Building on Michel Foucault’s depiction of the human figure, Park argues that this shift reflects the emergence of a new American subject, one formed by the accretion of experiences. This view of the human subject challenges the idea that our compulsions reflect our characters, wills, or spirits. For if addiction is an extreme but ordinary attachment, and if compulsive consumption resembles healthy behavior, then desire is no longer an expression of the soul so much as the pursuit of a past reward. A perceptive work of recent history and political theory, Addiction Becomes Normal raises new questions about what it means to be human in America today.

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  Demystifying PANS PANDAS - A...

  MD Nancy O'Hara

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  Demystifying PANS/PANDAS is a unique and long overdue resource in the field of pediatric neurobehavioral health, providing a comprehensive overview of the “three-pronged approach” to assessment and care, conventional and naturopathic interventions, a trove of case studies, and plenty of clinical pearls along the way. 
  Even more importantly, this book provides a roadmap for practitioners and families feeling confused and isolated by this condition, empowering them to make better decisions and sparking a greater conversation about this devastating illness.

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  Analytics the Right Way - A...

  Tim Wilson, Dr. Joe Sutherland

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  Organizations have more data at their fingertips than ever, and their ability to put that data to productive use should be a key source of sustainable competitive advantage. Yet, business leaders looking to tap into a steady and manageable stream of "actionable insights" often, instead, get blasted with a deluge of dashboards, chart-filled slide decks, and opaque machine learning jargon that leaves them asking, "So what?" 
   
   
   
  Analytics the Right Way is a guide for these leaders. It provides a clear and practical approach to putting analytics to productive use with a three-part framework that brings together the realities of the modern business environment with the deep truths underpinning statistics, computer science, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. The result: a pragmatic and actionable guide for delivering clarity, order, and business impact to an organization's use of data and analytics. 
   
   
   
  The book uses real-world examples from the authors' direct experiences—working inside organizations, as external consultants, and as educators—to empower the listener to put foundational analytical and statistical concepts to effective use in a business context.

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  Life Among The Ants

  Vance Randolph

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  Beneath our feet lies a world of farmers, builders, soldiers, nurses, and explorers. 
   
  In Life Among the Ants, Vance Randolph offers an engaging introduction to the remarkable biology and social organization of one of nature’s most successful insects. 
   
  Beginning with the ant’s anatomy, senses, and internal systems, Randolph explains how queens establish new colonies, how ants develop through complete metamorphosis, and how workers, soldiers, and other specialized castes cooperate to keep their communities alive. 
   
  The journey continues through some of the ant world’s most fascinating societies. Discover harvesting ants that gather and store seeds, leaf-cutting ants that cultivate fungus, honey ants that preserve food within living members of the colony, and ants that tend aphids for their sweet honeydew. Randolph also examines army ants, territorial conflict, and the extraordinary behavior of species that raid neighboring colonies. 
   
  Originally published as an accessible work of popular science, Life Among the Ants combines natural history with vivid observations of cooperation, adaptation, survival, and social behavior. 
   
  Narrated by Kris Keppeler, this classic exploration offers curious listeners an illuminating glimpse into the complex civilizations thriving just beneath the surface of the natural world.

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  Return to the Medium - Science...

  Ylia Callan

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Journey beyond the familiar boundaries of life in Return to the Medium, a groundbreaking exploration of consciousness, spirit, and the afterlife. Blending rigorous science with profound spiritual insight, this audiobook invites listeners to explore the threshold between life and death, uncovering the hidden patterns that shape our existence.  
   
  From near-death experiences and soul journeys to the physics of light and vibration, each chapter illuminates the reflective medium connecting all life. Discover transformative stories, visionary accounts, and practical practices that help us live with greater awareness, acceptance, and connection to the cosmos.  
   
  Whether you seek understanding, comfort, or inspiration, this audiobook offers a bridge between science, spirit, and the eternal mystery that lies beyond.

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