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  How to Make a Killing - Blood...

  Tom Mueller

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  Six decades ago, visionary doctors achieved the impossible: the humble kidney, acknowledged since ancient times to be as essential to life as the heart, became the first human organ to be successfully replaced with a machine. Yet huge dialysis corporations, ambitious doctor-entrepreneurs, and Beltway lobbyists soon turned this medical miracle into an early experiment in for-profit medicine—and one of the nation's worst healthcare catastrophes. 
   
   
   
  With powerful insight and on-the-ground reporting, Tom Mueller introduces an unforgettable cast of characters. Heroic patients risk their lives to blow the whistle on how they've been mistreated. An unpaid activist living in a south Georgia trailer park fights to save patients from involuntary discharge from their lifesaving care. Industry insiders put their careers on the line to speak out about the endemic wrongs and pervasive inequality they've witnessed—and about dialysis executives who dress as musketeers and Star Wars characters to exhort their employees to more aggressive profit-seeking. 
   
   
   
  How to Make a Killing reveals dialysis as a microcosm of American medicine and poses a vital challenge: find a way to fix dialysis, and we'll have a fighting chance of fixing our country's dysfunctional healthcare system as a whole, restoring patients, not profits, as its true purpose.

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  The Self-Healing Codebase - A...

  Michael Patterson

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. You know the feeling. You push a branch after hours of focused work, confident the logic is sound, and minutes later a notification arrives. The build failed, not because of your logic, but because of a missing semicolon in a file you did not touch, a dependency that quietly shifted overnight, or a type mismatch the compiler suddenly decided was a hard error. You spend the next 45 minutes fixing something a machine could have resolved in seconds. Multiply that by every developer, every day, and the scale is staggering. This book shows you how to stop paying that tax, with systems that detect, diagnose, fix, and verify build errors without a human ever opening the logs. 
   
  This book is not a dense machine learning monograph, and it is not a marketing brochure for a single vendor's tool. What you need is a practical, field-tested guide to building systems that fix their own build errors. Every prompt template and architecture decision has been tested in production by teams already shipping self-healing codebases. 
   
  Inside, you'll discover: 
  • The cycle of detection, diagnosis, remediation, and verification 
  • How AI actually understands code, and how to feed it what it needs 
  • The tool landscape, from Cursor AI and Copilot to Devin 
  • How to design your first self-healing pipeline in a single weekend 
  • Prompt engineering for build error resolution that works 
  • Error classification, safety gates, and multi-agent architectures 
  • How to integrate with CI/CD, measure what matters, and build trust 
   
  The technology is ready, the patterns are proven, and the only missing piece is your decision to start. A single engineer can set up a basic pipeline in days and start fixing the most common, time-consuming errors immediately.

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  A New Concept of the Universe

  Walter Russell

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  *Walter Russell's* *A New Concept of the Universe* offers a revolutionary perspective on the nature of reality, blending science, philosophy, and metaphysics to present a unified model of the cosmos. In this groundbreaking work, Russell challenges conventional scientific theories about atomic structure, energy, and matter, proposing instead a dynamic, rhythmic universe governed by principles of balance and unity. He emphasizes the interconnectedness of all things, where opposites such as light and darkness, motion and stillness, continually interplay to sustain the cosmic order. Russell's work seeks to bridge the gap between science and spirituality, offering readers a profound understanding of the universe's underlying intelligence and the role of consciousness in shaping reality. Through this book, he invites readers to reconsider humanity's place in the cosmos and embrace a more holistic vision of existence.

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  Resilience - The Science of...

  Steven M. Southwick, Dennis S....

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  Life presents us all with challenges. Most of us at some point will be struck by major traumas such as the sudden death of a loved one, a debilitating disease, or a natural disaster. What differentiates us is how we respond. In this important book, three experts in trauma and resilience answer key questions such as What helps people adapt to life’s most challenging situations?, How can you build up your own resilience?, and What do we know about the science of resilience? Combining cutting-edge scientific research with the personal experiences of individuals who have survived some of the most traumatic events imaginable, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, this book provides a practical resource that can be used time and time again. The experts describe ten key resilience factors, including facing fear, optimism, and role models, through the experiences and personal reflections of highly resilient survivors. Each resilience factor will help anyone to adapt and grow from stressful life events and will bring hope and inspiration for overcoming adversity.

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  Soul Mechanics - The Hidden...

  Marcus Riauka

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. SOUL MECHANICS is a contemplative cosmology that begins with a single crack in the physical world: the one thing science has never explained — why there is any experience at all — and follows that crack all the way down. 
  Across thirteen chapters, it builds a single, unflinching architecture. Why is there something rather than nothing? Why would a perfect, complete consciousness fracture itself on purpose? What is a soul, what does death actually remove, why does the world contain suffering, and what survives when everything — every star, every life, the whole rendered cosmos — finally dissolves? 
  The answer offered here is strange and oddly intimate: that you are not a brief spark thrown off by matter, but the fundamental awareness looking out through a single, unrepeatable angle. That the universe is something consciousness is doing — and you are one of the places it is being done. That you forgot you were the whole, on purpose, beautifully, so that the remembering could be real. 
  This is not mysticism dressed as certainty. Nothing here is offered as proof — only as a fit, a shape the deepest questions seem to require, where physics, information theory, and the contemplative traditions of every continent keep arriving at the same door by roads that never crossed. 
  From the hard problem of consciousness to the great dissolution and back to a single word — I AM — SOUL MECHANICS is for anyone who has ever felt that the solid story of the world does not quite close, and wanted to stand at the edge of the crack and feel the larger space behind it. 
  As above, so below.

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  Silicon Empires - The Fight for...

  Nick Srnicek

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  Since the emergence of ChatGPT, generative AI has been heralded as a technology poised to revolutionize our world. But beyond the hype and hyperbole, who truly wields power over this transformative technology?In Silicon Empires, Nick Srnicek explores the geopolitical economy of artificial intelligence, revealing how a handful of powerful corporations and states are engaged in a monumental struggle to control its future. Srnicek moves beyond the headlines to lay bare the elaborate strategies that these silicon empires—from tech giants to great powers—are deploying to capture the immense value of AI.This incisive analysis uncovers the deep-seated tensions between corporate ambitions and national interests, and the profound consequences of this new era of technological competition. As the race for AI supremacy accelerates, Srnicek compellingly demonstrates that the decisions being made in the boardrooms of Silicon Valley and the halls of government will shape the distribution of wealth and power on a global scale for decades to come.This book is essential listening for anyone who wants to understand the critical battle for the future of AI.

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