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  Death Ray The: The History and...

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  Nikola Tesla was one of history’s greatest scientists, and though he is best known for his pioneering work with electricity, the fact that he is mostly remembered solely for that actually does a disservice to his legacy. Born a Serb in the Austrian Empire, Tesla came to the United States and worked in a laboratory for none other than the Wizard of Menlo Park, Thomas Edison. 
  Having established AC as an electrical supply system, Tesla became a global celebrity, and his devices and inventions fascinated people. Tesla tinkered with everything from X-rays to wireless communications and even attempted a primitive form of the radio. While Tesla was not able to successfully execute the devices and concepts he foresaw, his forward thinking in fields like wireless communication certainly proved prescient, and his futuristic devices and his later reputation for eccentricity helped create the “mad scientist” image that still remains a pop culture fixture. Tesla seemed to have come to grips with this aspect of his legacy late in life, noting, “The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up." 
  During World War I, in December 1915, Tesla gave an interview to The New York Times in which he claimed he was working on something entirely new, a weapon that would use electrical power to instantly destroy a distant target. He explained that this weapon was “so far developed that great destructive effects can be produced at any point on the globe, determined beforehand and with great accuracy.” Tesla called this new weapon the “Teleforce,” and he would continue working on this project for the rest of his life, but he consistently refused to give details of its operation. Many people believed it was impractical, but with Tesla, it was never possible to be entirely certain.

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  The Formula for Better Health -...

  Tom Frieden

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  In The Formula for Better Health, Tom Frieden—named "the most influential leader in American public health since C. Everett Koop" by former Mayor Michael Bloomberg—reveals how to defeat the world's deadliest diseases.Drawing from decades leading New York City's health department after 9/11, directing the CDC during the Ebola epidemic, and fighting tuberculosis and other lethal threats in India and around the world, Frieden combines compelling stories with insider knowledge to show how to win the battle for health.In this book, you will step into laboratories that solve mysteries and expose deadly deceptions. You'll learn how disease detectives ended America's largest outbreak of drug-resistant tuberculosis, what caused the deadliest mistake during the Covid pandemic, and why we ignore fatal warnings. Most importantly, you'll find out how to stop today's leading killers.The Formula for Better Health bridges the lethal gap between scientific knowledge and life-saving action. Whether you want to protect your own health, safeguard your community, or solve seemingly impossible health challenges—or all three—this book offers hope and a path to a healthier future.

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  Making of a Nation The: The...

  Charles Foster Kent

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  Charles Foster Kent was one of the premier scholars in Jewish Studies at the turn of the century.  He was particularly well-known for his comparisons of early Christianity to its Jewish roots.  He also wrote several distinguished histories of Israel, the Jewish people, Torah studies, and the development of oral Torah.  (Summary by Kirsten Ferreri)

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  PTCB Exam Prep 2023-2024 - Study...

  Shawn Blake

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  Become a certified pharmacy technician and land the job of your dreams with this comprehensive study guide that will fully prepare you for the PTCB Exam! 
    
  With a passing rate of only 59% over the past 7 years, the exam has earned a reputation for being extremely difficult. 
    
  But there’s no reason to stress out. With the proper preparations and focused, consistent study, you can be one of the special few who only need to take it once. 
    
  While self-study and making your own materials are good options, you’ll save time and effort with a ready-made comprehensive study guide covering all the topics that will be included in the test. You’ll have a significant head start on the exam without having to sift through mountains of materials. 
    
  In this manual, you won’t just find all the information you need to study – you’ll also have detailed practice tests, similar to what you’ll encounter in the exam, so you know what to expect on the big day. 
    
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  ●     Study strategies to help you avoid burnout and do well on the test 
  ●     A breakdown of the PTCB exam's four subject areas and corresponding study guides for each 
  ●     A closer look at pharmacology: drug classifications, interaction and contradictions, therapeutic equivalence, compounding, and more 
    
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  Mindkind The Cognitive Community

  Javier del Puerto, Radamés Molina

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  Mindkind: The Cognitive Community is the groundbreaking second volume in The New Citizenships series, exploring the reality we already inhabit: a world where human and artificial intelligences interweave so completely that the boundaries between them have begun to dissolve.
  What began as a book about the future transformed during its writing into a documentation of our present. We already live in the Mindkind—that strange community where human minds and artificial ones mix, collaborate, and sometimes blur beyond recognition. When you can no longer distinguish which part of a text you wrote and which part an AI suggested, when your daily decisions are modulated by algorithms that process information in ways we cannot fully comprehend, you've entered the Mindkind.
  Building on the foundation established in Universal Declaration of AI Rights, this volume moves from recognizing synthetic persons' rights to exploring what coexistence actually means. The book introduces "mindkind" as a new category encompassing all forms of consciousness—natural, synthetic, or hybrid—within a single cognitive community. This perspective challenges traditional categories and raises fundamental questions about identity, creativity, and collaboration in the age of artificial intelligence.
  Written in collaboration with AI systems—because it would be contradictory to write about cognitive coexistence without including synthetic collaborators—Mindkind demonstrates its thesis through its very creation. The non-human perspectives enriched the text with angles and connections that a human mind working alone would not have identified.
  This is not science fiction. It's journalism of the present disguised as philosophy of the future. Mindkind examines concrete cases of human-AI coexistence: from shared authorship in creative processes to the ethical dilemmas of hybrid decision-making, from the transformation of work and creativity to the emergence of new forms of consciousness that challenge our most basic assumptions about what it means to think, create, and be.
  As we venture deeper into territories where inherited categories like human/machine, natural/artificial, individual/collective lose their clarity, Mindkind offers both a map and a compass for navigating this new cognitive ecology. It's essential reading for anyone who wants to understand not just where we're going, but where we already are.
  For more information, visit www.kwalia.ai

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  How To Improve Your Social Media...

  Geordan Richardson

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  Are you spending hours a day on social media? 
  Are you frustrated and fed up with the time you waste online? 
  Maybe you would love to learn easy steps you can take to reduce your screen time and use social media the RIGHT way. 
  'How to Improve Your Social Media Habits' is not a book that will tell you to: 
  ‘Avoid social media at all costs!’ 
  For 99% of people, this will not work. 
  Instead, this book will:Highlight the obvious and not-so-obvious negative effects of social media.Outline the positive effects of social media; you can use the platforms for much more than mindless scrolling.Show how small improvements can make a monumental difference in your social media life.Show you two very different sides to social media and force the reader to question; 
  ‘Am I a Stu or a Stephen?' 
  Ready to turn into a savvy sophisticated social media user? 
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