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  Cybersecurity - Cybersecurity...

  Alex Foster

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  Do you worry about the increasing risks to your internet security? Do you want to be resilient and confident while you traverse the digital world? Look no further—welcome to "Cybersecurity: Cybersecurity Essentials- Safeguarding Your Digital World." This comprehensive book is your go-to resource for comprehending, preventing, and fending off cyber threats in today's linked world. 
  You'll take a voyage through the complex world of cybersecurity with this book. This book provides the essential knowledge and resources to strengthen your digital defenses, from fundamental ideas to the most advanced tactics. This book is appropriate for a broad spectrum of users, be it an individual looking to safeguard personal data or a professional looking to improve security inside your firm. 
  Envision possessing the confidence to maneuver across the digital terrain, aware that you are equipped to thwart hackers at every opportunity. "Cybersecurity: Cybersecurity Essentials- Safeguarding Your Digital World" provides you with practical knowledge through valuable insights, real-world examples, and doable techniques. You will learn how to determine and counteract different kinds of online threats, secure your devices, make secure passwords, and cultivate a cybersecurity mentality that will enable you to take charge of your online presence.

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  The Life and Death of Ryan White...

  Paul M. Renfro

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  In the 1980s, as HIV/AIDS ravaged queer communities and communities of color in the United States and beyond, a straight white teenager named Ryan White emerged as the face of the epidemic. Diagnosed with hemophilia at birth, Ryan contracted HIV through contaminated blood products. In 1985, he became a household name after he was barred from attending his Indiana middle school. As Ryan appeared on nightly news broadcasts and graced the covers of popular magazines, he was embraced by music icons and well-known athletes, achieving a curious kind of stardom. Analyzing his struggle and celebrity, Paul M. Renfro's powerful biography grapples with the contested meanings of Ryan's life, death, and afterlives. 
   
   
   
  As Renfro argues, Ryan's fight to attend school forced the American public to reckon with prevailing misconceptions about the AIDS epidemic. Yet his story also reinforced the hierarchies at the heart of the AIDS crisis. Because the "innocent" Ryan had contracted HIV "through no fault of his own," as many put it, his story was sometimes used to blame presumably "guilty" populations for spreading the virus. Reexamining Ryan's story through this lens, Renfro reveals how the consequences of this stigma continue to pervade policy and cultural understandings of HIV/AIDS today.

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  The Shortest History of AI - The...

  Toby Walsh

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  Since Alan Turing first posed the question "Can machines think?" artificial intelligence has evolved from a speculative idea to a transformative force. The Shortest History of AI traces this evolution, from Ada Lovelace's visionary work to IBM's groundbreaking defeat of the chess world champion and the revolutionary emergence of ChatGPT. It also explores AI's cultural journey, touching on classics such as Frankenstein, A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and 2001: A Space Odyssey. 
   
  Revealing how many "overnight" successes were decades in the making, this accessible and illuminating book helps us to understand how AI functions by explaining the six key ideas that animate it: it searches for answers using predetermined symbols and means-end analysis; it bases its answers on what sort of response it thinks it will get; it follows a set of rules in order to simulate human expertise; it copies the human brain by learning from experience; it uses reinforcement learning, rewarding its own successes and punishing itself for its failures; and it uses Bayes' theorem to calculate the probability of a cause based on its effect. 
   
  Fast-paced and rich with facts, The Shortest History of AI equips listeners to understand where we've been—and where we're headed.

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  Stories That F*cking Matter -...

  Garrett McClure, Steven LeVine

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  A well-crafted story has the power to literally mold reality, win over hearts and change minds! 
  But what makes up a great, expertly constructed story? What’s the difference between a good story and really f*cking great story? 
  In this book, PR and media industry experts Steven Le Vine and Garrett McClure share their secret formula and winning playbooks from over two decades of proven success in earned, owned and paid media. 
  This book reveals proven and effective PR & Media strategies, insider tips and growth hacks to tell a story that f*cking matters in order to cut through the noise of today’s fragmented media landscape and get seen and heard. 
  Get an insider’s behind-the-scenes look into the world of PR, delivering proven methods and strategies along the way for entrepreneurs and experts (such as speakers, authors, coaches, solopreneurs) to take media outreach into their own hands, tell a f'n good story, make headlines, and succeed at growing their brands and businesses. 
  Inside:The 3 pillars of the Stories That F*cking Matter™ model of epic storytellingHow business stars Steve Jobs, Richard Branson, Bruce Springsteen, Sheryl Sandberg and Tony Robbins used the STFM™ modelWhy you should not be afraid to show your vulnerability — find out how to do it the right wayHow to quickly grab your slice of the audience’s attention in today’s ‘attention economy”The insider tip of “Trendjacking” to capitalize on trending topics to increase the media exposureThe step-by-step process to turn reporters, producers and other journalists into your partners to get covered by the media and grow your businessAdvanced storytelling and media growth hacks to quickly earn the exposure, credibility and trust you need and deserve 
  Learn to create a lasting impression through the tried-and-true technique of expert storytelling that gets media attention today.

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  Studies in Pessimism

  Arthur Schopenhauer

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  Arthur Schopenhauer, an early 19th century philosopher, made significant contributions to metaphysics, ethics, and aesthetics. His work also informed theories of evolution and psychology, largely through his theory of the will to power – a concept which Nietzsche famously adopted and developed. Despite this, he is today, as he was during his life, overshadowed by his contemporary, Hegel. Schopenhauer's social/psychological views, put forth in this work and in others, are directly derived from his metaphysics, which was strongly influenced by Eastern thought. His pessimism forms an interesting and perhaps questionable contrast with his obvious joy in self-expression, both in the elegance of his prose and in his practice of playing the flute nightly.His brilliance, poetry, and crushing pessimism can be seen immediately in this work, as for example in this claim from the first chapter: "The pleasure in this world, it has been said, outweighs the pain; or, at any rate, there is an even balance between the two. If the reader wishes to see shortly whether this statement is true, let him compare the respective feelings of two animals, one of which is engaged in eating the other." We see also, in this work, his misogyny, as for example in his claim that "as lions are provided with claws and teeth, and elephants and boars with tusks, . . . so Nature has equipped woman, for her defence and protection, with the arts of dissimulation; and all the power which Nature has conferred upon man in the shape of physical strength and reason, has been bestowed upon women in this form." Given his opening comment, the translator, T.B. Saunders, seems to have been at least somewhat sympathetic to this perspective. - Summary by D.E. Wittkower

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  Cybernetics for Beginners -...

  May Sherry

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  Cybernetics for Beginners: Understanding the Science of Systems and Control is your gateway into the fascinating world of cybernetics, the interdisciplinary study that connects systems, control, communication, and feedback across both natural and technological domains. Whether you're curious about how living organisms maintain stability, how machines learn and adapt, or how societies function as complex systems, this book provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to these concepts. 
  Starting with the foundational ideas of cybernetics, the book traces the historical development of the field, from the pioneering work of Norbert Wiener to its modern applications in robotics, artificial intelligence, and social systems. You'll explore key concepts like feedback loops, self-organization, and complex adaptive systems, gaining insight into how they apply to everything from biology and engineering to management and economics. 
  Designed for beginners, Cybernetics for Beginners offers clear explanations, practical examples, and real-world applications, making complex ideas easy to understand and relevant to our increasingly interconnected world. Whether you're a student, a professional, or simply a curious reader, this book will equip you with the knowledge to see the world through the lens of cybernetics—revealing the underlying systems that shape our lives, our technology, and our future. 
   

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