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  Owning the Sun - A People's...

  Alexander Zaitchik

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  Owning the Sun tells the story of one of the most contentious fights in human history: the legal right to control the production of lifesaving medicines. Medical science began as a discipline geared toward the betterment of all human life, but the merging of research with intellectual property and the rise of the pharmaceutical industry warped and eventually undermined its ethical foundations. Why does the US government fund the development of medical science in the name of the public, only to relinquish exclusive rights to drug companies, and how does such a system impoverish us, weaken our responses to global crises, and, as in the case of AIDS and COVID-19, put the world at risk? 
   
   
    
  Outlining how generations of public health and science advocates have attempted to hold the line against Big Pharma and their allies in government, Alexander Zaitchik's first-in-kind history documents the rise of medical monopoly in the United States and its subsequent globalization. From the controversial arrival of patent-wielding German drug firms in the late nineteenth century, to present-day coordination between industry and philanthropic organizations—including the influential Gates Foundation—that stymie international efforts to vaccinate the world against COVID-19, Owning the Sun tells one of the most important and least understood histories of our time.

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  If It's Smart It's Vulnerable

  Mikko Hypponen

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  All our devices and gadgets—from our refrigerators to our home security systems, vacuum cleaners, and stereos—are going online, just like our computers did. But once we've successfully connected our devices to the internet, do we have any hope of keeping them, and ourselves, safe from the dangers that lurk beneath the digital waters? 
   
   
   
  In If It's Smart, It's Vulnerable, veteran cybersecurity professional Mikko Hypponen delivers an eye-opening exploration of the best—and worst—things the internet has given us. From instant connectivity between any two points on the globe to organized ransomware gangs, the net truly has been a mixed blessing. In this book, the author explores the transformative potential of the future of the internet, as well as those things that threaten its continued existence: government surveillance, censorship, organized crime, and more. 
   
   
   
  Listeners will also find: insightful discussions of how law enforcement and intelligence agencies operate on the internet; fulsome treatments of how money became data and the impact of the widespread use of mobile supercomputing technology; explorations of how the internet has changed the world, for better and for worse; and engaging stories from Mikko's thirty-year career in infosec.

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  The Shortest History of the...

  Riley Black

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  Despite their cultural influence, the grand narrative of the dinosaur story is rarely told. Most of us have heard of Stegosaurus and Tyrannosaurus, but these two dinosaurs lived more than eighty million years apart—a greater span of time than the entire post-T. rex history of the planet. Furthermore, we often know even less about the environments these animals lived in. 
   
   
   
  The Shortest History of the Dinosaurs tells the full story, a 230-million-year epic of small beginnings, spectacular golden periods, and eventual global domination—before an unthinkable asteroid event brought everything to a screeching halt. We learn that, for millions of years in the Triassic, dinosaurs were dog-sized—but slowly developing evolutionary traits like feathers and warm-bloodedness. In the Jurassic Period, these traits—and others like laying eggs and growing specialized air sacs—led to an era of rapid growth in dinosaur population and physical size. As Pangea continued to break apart, during the Cretaceous Period, dinosaurs traversed the globe, adapting to air and water—before a six-mile-wide asteroid hit Central America. 
   
   
   
  Using fossil discoveries and fresh understandings of genetics and evolution, author Riley Black reveals the startling relationships dinosaurs shared with each other, the land they lived on, other animal species, and the earth.

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  Death Glitch - How...

  Tamara Kneese

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  An accessible yet erudite deep dive into how platforms are remaking experiences of death 
   
   
    
  Since the internet's earliest days, people have died and mourned online. In quiet corners of past iterations of the web, the dead linger. But attempts at preserving the data of the dead are often ill-fated, for websites and devices decay and die, just as people do. Death disrupts technologists' plans for platforms. It reveals how digital production is always collaborative, undermining the entrepreneurial platform economy and highlighting the flaws of techno-solutionism. 
   
   
    
  Big Tech has authority not only over people's lives but over their experiences of death as well. Ordinary users and workers, though, advocate for changes to tech companies' policies around death. Drawing on internet histories along with interviews with founders of digital afterlife startups, caretakers of illness blogs, and transhumanist tinkerers, the technology scholar Tamara Kneese takes listeners on a vibrant tour of the ways that platforms and people work together to care for digital remains. What happens when commercial platforms encounter the messiness of mortality?

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  How to use Pinterest

  Shawn Jones

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  Learn how to use Pinterest.

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  CompTIA A+ & Security+...

  Josh Russell

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  Master the CompTIA A+ & Security+ Exams with Confidence — Your All-in-One Certification Powerhouse 
  CompTIA A+ & Security+ Certification Guide is the ultimate 2-in-1 study companion engineered to fast-track your path to IT success. Whether you're aiming to crush exams 220-1101, 220-1102, or the new SY0-701, this elegant and comprehensive manual is your launchpad to a thriving tech career. 
  🧠 What You’ll Get Inside:✅ 250+ Practice Questions — Simulate real exam scenarios with expertly crafted questions and detailed explanations.✅ Clear, Concise Lessons — Learn core concepts with zero fluff. Every section is designed for clarity and recall.✅ Real-World Applications — Bridge theory to practice with career-boosting strategies and security insights that matter.✅ Up-to-Date Content — Fully aligned with the latest CompTIA objectives, including emerging tech and cybersecurity trends. 
  💼 Who This Book Is For: 
  New to IT? Already working in the field? This guide meets you where you are. Perfect for students, career-changers, and pros ready to validate their skills and elevate their roles.

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