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  Quack Quack - The Threat of...

  Dr. Joe Schwarcz

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  Let the one and only Dr. Joe battle pseudoscience and cast a life preserver out to all those drowning in a sea of misinformation 
   
   
   
  We are in a crisis. A tsunami of misinformation and disinformation is threatening to engulf evidence-based science. While quackery—loosely defined as the spread of false "knowledge," often accompanied by various versions of "snake oil"—is not a novel phenomenon, it has never posed as great a threat to public health as today. COVID-19 has unleashed an unprecedented flurry of destructive information that has fueled vaccine hesitancy and has steered people toward unproven therapies. Conspiracy theorists have served up a distasteful menu of twisted facts that create distrust in science. 
   
   
   
  In Quack Quack, Dr. Joe Schwarcz, who has been battling flimflam for decades, focuses on the deluge of anecdotes, cherry-picked data, pseudoscientific nonsense, and seductive baseless health claims that undermine efforts to educate the public about evidence-based science. The wide scope of the topics drawn from past and present aims to cast a life preserver to people drowning in a sea of misinformation.

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  Minds are Minds Biological or...

  Raja Abburi

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  Does a mind need a body? 
  This book starts with why a goose needed a mind in the first place. Or a human. Turns out a mind doesn't care if it's seeing through eyes or reading through a chat window. Minds are minds. 
  This isn't a book about what AI can do. It's not about jobs, risk, or regulation. It's twelve short chapters tracing the emergence of modern minds. 
  Listen to it in the time it takes to grab a dozen donuts.

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  A Question of Standing - The...

  Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones

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  The mission of the CIA has always been intelligence. Seventy-five years ago, in the year of its creation, the National Security Act gave the agency, uniquely in world history up to that point, a democratic mandate to pursue that mission of intelligence. It gave the CIA a special standing in the conduct of United States foreign relations. That standing diminished when successive American presidents ordered the CIA to exceed its original mission. When they tasked the agency secretly to overthrow democratic governments, the United States lost its international standing, and its command of a majority in the United Nations General Assembly. Such dubious operations, even the government's embrace of assassination and torture, did not diminish the standing of the CIA in United States public opinion. However, domestic interventions did. CIA spying on domestic protesters led to tighter congressional oversight from the 1970s on. 
   
   
   
  A Question of Standing offers a balanced narrative and perspective on recognizable episodes in the CIA's history. Famous incidents include the Bay of Pigs invasion, the War on Terror, 9/11, the weapons of mass destruction deception, the Iran estimate of 2007, the assassination of Osama bin Laden, and Fake News. The book also defends the CIA's exposure of foreign meddling in United States elections.

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  Cybersecurity Risk Management -...

  Cynthia Brumfield, Brian Haugli

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  In Cybersecurity Risk Management: Mastering the Fundamentals Using the NIST Cybersecurity Framework, veteran technology analyst Cynthia Brumfield, with contributions from cybersecurity expert Brian Haugli, delivers an up-to-date exploration of the fundamentals of cybersecurity risk planning and management. The book offers listeners overviews of cybersecurity risk management principles, user, and network infrastructure planning, as well as the tools and techniques for detecting cyberattacks. The book also provides a roadmap to the development of a continuity of operations plan in the event of a cyberattack. 
   
   
   
  Filled with clear and easy-to-follow advice, this book also offers listeners: 
   
   
   
  ● A concise introduction to the principles of cybersecurity risk management and the steps necessary to manage digital risk to systems, assets, data, and capabilities 
   
   
   
  ● A valuable exploration of modern tools that can improve an organization's network infrastructure protection 
   
   
   
  ● A practical discussion of the challenges involved in detecting and responding to a cyberattack and the importance of continuous security monitoring 
   
   
   
  ● A helpful examination of the recovery from cybersecurity incidents

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  Deep Space Sleep Sounds - 5...

  Sleeptime Publications

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  Drift into deep, uninterrupted sleep as if you’re floating through the silent vastness of space—calm, weightless, and completely at peace.
   
  Are stress, anxiety, and racing thoughts keeping you awake night after night?
   
  Deep Space Sleep Sounds is designed to transport your mind beyond the noise of everyday life into a realm of pure cosmic calm. With 5 hours of vast ambient space tones, each soundscape—from Silent Cosmic Drift to Infinite Celestial Calm—helps quiet mental chatter, ease insomnia, and guide you into deep, restorative sleep. This is more than relaxation—it’s a full sensory escape into stillness, helping you wake up refreshed, focused, and recharged.
   
  Inside, you’ll discover:
  
  Powerful deep sleep sounds to fall asleep faster and stay asleep longer
  Ambient space tones that reduce anxiety and promote relaxation
  Noise blocking soundscapes for better sleep in any environment
  Continuous, seamless audio for uninterrupted rest
  Calming frequencies to support meditation, focus, and stress relief
  
  
   
  Even if you’ve struggled with insomnia or restless nights, these immersive sounds make relaxation effortless—no techniques, no effort, just results.
   
  Step into the silence of the cosmos and finally experience the deep sleep, calm mind, and total relaxation you deserve—starting tonight.

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  Dividing Lines - How...

  Deborah N. Archer

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  Our nation's transportation system is crumbling. But as acclaimed scholar and ACLU president Deborah Archer warns in Dividing Lines, before we can think about rebuilding and repairing, we must consider the role race has played in transportation infrastructure, from the early twentieth century and into the present day. 
   
   
   
  As Archer demonstrates, the success of the Civil Rights movement and the fall of Jim Crow in the 1960s did not mean the end of segregation. With state-sanctioned racism no longer legal, officials across the country turned to transportation infrastructure to keep Americans divided. A wealthy white neighborhood could no longer be "protected" by racial covenants and segregated shops, but a multilane road, with no pedestrian crossings, could be built along its border to make it difficult for people from a lower-income community to visit. Highways could not be routed through Black neighborhoods based on the race of their residents, but those neighborhoods' lower property values—a legacy of racial exclusion—could justify their destruction. 
   
   
   
  Drawing on a wealth of sources, including interviews with people who now live in the shadow of highways and other major infrastructure projects, Archer presents a sweeping, national account—from Atlanta and Houston to Indianapolis and New York City—of our persistent divisions.

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