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  Data Equals - Democratic...

  Colin Koopman

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  An expansive vision for data equality that goes beyond algorithmic fairness. 
   
  When we gave algorithms power over our world, we hoped that the apparent neutrality of machine thinking would create a more egalitarian age. Yet we are more divided than ever, staring down threats to democracy itself. In Data Equals, Colin Koopman argues that data technologies fail us so often because we built them around a deficient notion of equality. 
   
  It is not enough, Koopman explains, that algorithms engage everyone’s data with the same measuring stick. The data themselves are all too often structured in ways that obscure and exacerbate stratifying distinctions. Koopman contends that we must also work to ensure that those people subject to computational assessment enter data systems on equal terms. Part philosophical argument, part practical guide (replete with case studies from education technology), Data Equals offers novel methods for realizing democratic equality in a digital age.

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  The Madness Pill - One Doctor's...

  Justin Garson

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  A rollicking history of the life and work of an unheralded genius: Dr. Solomon Snyder, whose experiments with mind-altering drugs helped change the way we think about the causes and treatments of schizophrenia. This program is read by the author.In the 1950s, the field of psychiatry had nothing to show for itself. While polio was being cured, antibiotics were being discovered, and cancer research was developing, the mental health world had no wins. Asylums were full and nobody had figured out how to fix insanity—specifically schizophrenia, the severest mental illness. Scientists became convinced that if they could engineer a pill to create madness, then they could cure it.Centered around Solomon Snyder, the psychiatrist who ultimately did identify the madness pill, and the community of doctors and researchers he worked with, THE MADNESS PILL recounts the drug-fueled quest to cure schizophrenia. A wunderkind who started medical school at 19, Snyder worked steadily for decades to replicate the illness, ultimately finding in 1970 that amphetamines could trigger a schizophrenia-like state by flooding the brain with dopamine. Five years later, he went on to discover the dopamine receptor and proved that antipsychotic drugs work by disabling dopamine neurons. Snyder’s dopamine hypothesis inspired a generation of researchers to part ways with psychoanalysis and look for the biological basis of schizophrenia and other mental disorders.Using first-hand research and interviews, THE MADNESS PILL is at once a raucous history and insightful portrait of a remarkable scientist who turned psychiatry into a respected science by transforming how mental illness is treated.A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin’s Press

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  SLEEP Smarter - Unlocking the...

  Alex Somerset

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  Découvrez les secrets du meilleur sommeil de votre vie 
  Les nuits blanches vous laisse-t-elles épuisée et déconcentrée ? Imaginez que vous vous réveillez tous les jours en vous sentant rajeuni et prêt à affronter le monde. Dans cet audioguide transformateur, vous découvrirez les secrets pour obtenir le sommeil réparateur dont vous avez toujours rêvé, en en faisant une réalité à votre portée. 
  Le guide du livre audio souligne l’impact significatif de l’alimentation et de l’exercice sur la qualité du sommeil. Vous apprendrez quels aliments manger et éviter, les meilleurs moments pour faire de l’exercice et comment aligner votre mode de vie sur vos besoins en matière de sommeil. Des techniques éprouvées de gestion du stress, notamment la méditation, le yoga et la thérapie cognitivo-comportementale pour l’insomnie (TCC-I), sont également couvertes, vous aidant à atteindre un esprit paisible et des nuits paisibles. 
  Personnalisez votre parcours de sommeil avec la dernière technologie de suivi du sommeil, qui vous permet de surveiller vos progrès et de faire des ajustements pour des avantages à long terme. Avec ce guide, vous embarquerez pour un voyage vers des journées vibrantes alimentées par des nuits reposantes. 
  Adoptez le pouvoir révolutionnaire d’un meilleur sommeil et faites le premier pas vers une meilleure santé et plus heureuse. Que vous soyez aux prises avec des problèmes de sommeil ou que vous cherchiez simplement à améliorer la qualité de votre sommeil, cet audioguide fournit les outils et les informations dont vous avez besoin pour apporter des changements durables et profiter du meilleur sommeil de votre vie.

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  We Are All Whalers - The Plight...

  Michael J. Moore

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  Relating his experiences caring for endangered whales, a veterinarian and marine scientist shows we can all share in the salvation of these imperiled animals. 
  The image most of us have of whalers includes harpoons and intentional trauma. Yet eating commercially caught seafood leads to whales’ entanglement and slow death in rope and nets, and the global shipping routes that bring us readily available goods often lead to death by collision. We—all of us—are whalers, marine scientist and veterinarian Michael J. Moore contends. But we do not have to be. 
  Drawing on over forty years of fieldwork with humpback, pilot, fin, and, in particular, North Atlantic right whales—a species whose population has declined more than 20 percent since 2017—Moore takes us with him as he performs whale necropsies on animals stranded on beaches, in his independent research alongside whalers using explosive harpoons, and as he tracks injured whales to deliver sedatives. The whales’ plight is a complex, confounding, and disturbing one. We learn of existing but poorly enforced conservation laws and of perennial (and often failed) efforts to balance the push for fisheries profit versus the protection of endangered species caught by accident. 
  But despite these challenges, Moore’s tale is an optimistic one. He shows us how technologies for ropeless fishing and the acoustic tracking of whale migrations make a dramatic difference. And he looks ahead with hope as our growing understanding of these extraordinary creatures fuels an ever-stronger drive for change. 
  For more information on Moore’s book and research, please visit his webpage at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

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  CST Exam Review - Certified...

  Harland Voss

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  ⭐⭐ Simplified Guide & Explanations Included ⭐⭐ 
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  Goldeneye 007

  Alyse Knorr

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  Bond—James Bond. In the 80s and 90s, the debonair superspy's games failed to live up to the giddy thrills of his films. That all changed when British studio Rare unleashed GoldenEye 007 in 1997. In basements and college dorms across the world, friends bumped shoulders while shooting, knifing, exploding, and slapping each other's digital faces in the Nintendo 64 game that would redefine the modern first-person shooter genre and become the most badass party game of its generation. 
   
   
    
  But GoldenEye's success was far from a sure thing. For years of development, GoldenEye's team of rookie developers were shooting in the dark with no sense of what the N64 or its controller would be like, and the game's relentless violence horrified higher-ups at squeaky clean Nintendo. As development lagged far behind the debut of the tie-in film GoldenEye, the game nearly came out an entire Bond movie too late. 
   
   
    
  Through extensive interviews with GoldenEye's creators, writer and scholar Alyse Knorr traces the story of how this unlikely licensed game reinvigorated a franchise and a genre. Learn all the stories behind how this iconic title was developed, and why GoldenEye 007 has continued to kick the living daylights out of every other Bond game since.

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