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  Machine See Machine Do - How...

  Patrick K. Lin

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  “When today’s technology relies on yesterday’s data, it will simply mirror our past mistakes and biases.” 
  AI and other high-tech tools embed and reinforce America’s history of prejudice and exclusion — even when they are used with the best intentions. Patrick K. Lin’s Machine See, Machine Do: How Technology Mirrors Bias in Our Criminal Justice System takes a deep and thorough look into the use of technology in the criminal justice system, and investigates the instances of coded bias present at every level. 
  In this book, you’ll learn how algorithms and high-tech tools are used in unexpected ways: suggesting which neighborhoods to police, predicting whether someone is more or less likely to commit a crime, and determining how long someone’s prison sentence should be. 
  Machine See, Machine Do takes you on an eye-opening journey of discovery, encouraging you to think twice about our current system of justice and the technology that supposedly makes it more “objective” and “fair.” If you are someone who cares deeply about criminal justice reform, is curious about the role of technology in our day-to-day lives, and ultimately believes we should aspire to make both of these spaces more ethical and safe, this book is for you.

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  Informatics - Health Biomedical...

  Phil Gilberts

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  Informatics integrates principles from various disciplines such as computer science, information theory, cognitive science, and social science to analyze and understand complex systems of information. 
    
  It involves the design, implementation, and application of computational solutions to real-world problems, focusing on both the technical aspects of computing systems and the human aspects of information processing and interaction. Informatics encompasses diverse areas such as bioinformatics, health informatics, business informatics, and geographic information systems, reflecting its broad applicability across different domains. 
    
  Through the study of informatics, individuals learn to harness the power of data and technology to enhance decision-making, improve processes, and drive innovation in various fields.

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  Wildlife Conservation in a...

  Jedediah F. Brodie, Eric S....

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  Human-induced climate change is emerging as one of the gravest threats to biodiversity in history, and while a vast amount of literature on the ecological impact of climate change exists, very little has been dedicated to the management of wildlife populations and communities in the wake of unprecedented habitat changes. Wildlife Conservation in a Changing Climate is an essential resource, bringing together leaders in the fields of climate change ecology, wildlife population dynamics, and environmental policy to examine the impacts of climate change on populations of terrestrial vertebrates. Chapters assess the details of climate change ecology, including demographic implications for individual populations, evolutionary responses, impacts on movement patterns, alterations of species interactions, and predicting impacts across regions. The contributors also present a number of strategies by which conservationists and wildlife managers can counter or mitigate the impacts of climate change as well as increase the resilience of wildlife populations to such changes. A seminal contribution to the fields of ecology and conservation biology, Wildlife Conservation in a Changing Climate will serve as the spark that ignites a new direction of discussions about and action on the ecology and conservation of wildlife in a changing climate.

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  Workbook: The Body Code -...

  Liam Daniels

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  Note: This audiobook is included (for free) inside its respective print and e-book versions. 
  Are you looking to regain your life's vitality physically, emotionally, and mentally to create a harmonious balance in your life? 
  Have you tried to find healing through contemporary methods, but nothing seems to be working the way you expect it to? 
  Or do you simply want to be the healthiest and happiest possible version of yourself? 
  If your answer to any of these is “yes,” good news is just a click away.  
  In his original book, Bradley Nelson explains the Body Code in great detail, guiding you step by step on how you should go about bringing healing, not only to yourself but to others as well. Whether it is physical or emotional pain, it all comes down to six categories of imbalance and how you can go about identifying them. 
  In this workbook, you’ll find detailed summaries of all of Nelson’s chapters, conveniently divided into subsections, as well as additional tips, supplementary information, interactive exercises, and questions that will bridge the gap between his method and your own life. 
  In Workbook: The Body Code, you’ll:Get a deeper understanding of how your body works and how something as simple as a trapped emotion can affect various aspects of your life.Discover why modern Western medicine isn’t ideal for treating many medical conditions.Learn how you can practice the Body Code to identify and correct these imbalances.Interactively apply Dr. Nelson's teachings through activities and exercises featured in this workbook. 
  …and much more! 
  Disclaimer: This is an unofficial, third-party, plagiarism-free workbook for Dr. Bradley Nelson's book The Body Code. Please note that it is NOT the original book.

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  Better Never to Have Been - The...

  David Benatar

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  Most people believe that they were either benefited or at least not harmed by being brought into existence. Thus, if they ever do reflect on whether they should bring others into existence—rather than having children without even thinking about whether they should—they presume that they do them no harm. Better Never to Have Been challenges these assumptions. David Benatar argues that coming into existence is always a serious harm. Those who never exist cannot be deprived. However, by coming into existence one does suffer quite serious harms that could not have befallen one had one not come into existence. Drawing on the relevant psychological literature, the author shows that there are a number of well-documented features of human psychology that explain why people systematically overestimate the quality of their lives and why they are thus resistant to the suggestion that they were seriously harmed by being brought into existence. The author then argues for the "anti-natal" view—that it is always wrong to have children—and he shows that combining the anti-natal view with common pro-choice views about fetal moral status yield a "pro-death" view about abortion. Although counter-intuitive for many, that implication is defended, not least by showing that it solves many conundrums of moral theory about population.

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  Step into the Metaverse - How...

  Mark van Rijmenam

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  In Step into the Metaverse, Dr. Mark van Rijmenam delivers a startlingly insightful discussion about how the world as we know it will fundamentally change as the physical and the digital worlds merge into the metaverse, impacting the everyday experiences of people, companies, and societies. The author maps out the extraordinary opportunities and challenges facing business leaders, consumers, regulators, policymakers, and other metaverse stakeholders trying to navigate the future of the Internet. 
   
   
   
  In the metaverse, you can be who you want to be, where you want to be, and companies and consumers are only restricted by their own creativity how they can benefit from the immersive internet. With engaging commentary on issues ranging from avatars, identity, and digital fashion to non-fungible tokens (NFTs), blockchain, and the economics of the metaverse, this book also offers: discussions on the importance of an open and interoperable metaverse build on the web 3.0 paradigm if we want to reign in the control of Big Tech over our identity, data, and lives; explorations of the enormous—and largely untapped—potential for metaverse entertainment; and considerations related to the dangers of an always-on, immersive internet, including data breaches, avatar imposters, mental health issues, corporate and state surveillance, and the need for metaverse law.

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