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  Cyberpsychology - Mind and...

  Juan Moisés De La Serna

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  This book addresses the new branch called Cyberpsychology, which shows how there has been a change in the person-technology relationship, analyzing how new developments affect the day-to-day life of the person, as well as the mental health of its users. All this backed by an extensive bibliography on the latest research conducted in this area. 
  The objective of the book will serve as a first approach to the up and coming branch of psychology known as Cyberpsychology. 
  So, it treats the most relevant topics offering results of the latest studies conducted this past two years across the globe about this subject. 
  All this explained with simple and easy to read language, away from technical terms explaining each concept so it can truly work as an initiation guide.

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  Evolutionary Spirituality:...

  Connie Barlow, Michael Dowd

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  It's possible that evolution might not only be reconciled with religion, but in fact become the very foundation of a rich, new spiritual vision.

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  From Outside - selected essays

  Kollibri terre Sonnenblume

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  In this collection of essays from 2016-2021, the author explores a variety of themes including the environment, war, agriculture, settler colonialism, racism, patriarchy, media criticism, green energy, collapse and the nature of civilization itself. Sylistically, the selections vary from reporting to analysis to personal story telling. They previously appeared on Counterpunch, Resilience, Green Social Thought and other online venues, but this is their first time in print.

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  Our Robots Ourselves - Robotics...

  David A. Mindell

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  From drones to Mars rovers-an exploration of the most innovative use of robots today and a provocative argument for the crucial role of humans in our increasingly technological future  
  In Our Robots, Ourselves, David Mindell offers a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at the cutting edge of robotics today, debunking commonly held myths and exploring the rapidly changing relationships between humans and machines. Drawing on firsthand experience, extensive interviews, and the latest research from MIT and elsewhere, Mindell takes us to extreme environments-high atmosphere, deep ocean, and outer space-to reveal where the most advanced robotics already exist. In these environments, scientists use robots to discover new information about ancient civilizations, to map some of the world's largest geological features, and even to "commute" to Mars to conduct daily experiments. But these tools of air, sea, and space also forecast the dangers, ethical quandaries, and unintended consequences of a future in which robotics and automation suffuse our everyday lives.  
  Mindell argues that the stark lines we've drawn between human and not human, manual and automated, aren't helpful for understanding our relationship with robotics. Brilliantly researched and accessibly written, Our Robots, Ourselves clarifies misconceptions about the autonomous robot, offering instead a hopeful message about what he calls "rich human presence" at the center of the technological landscape we are now.

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  The Healers - A History of...

  David Hamilton

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  A medical history of Scotland, including practices, innovations, politics, diseases and pandemics, from medieval times to the twentieth century.   Scotland offers almost unique opportunities for medical historians. For a conventional history, there is a rich stock of famous doctors and their discoveries. There are also the contributions of four ancient universities and three equally old colleges of physicians and surgeons. For historians of public health there is the famous struggle against the problems of the industrial revolution and the lives and works of the great sanitary reformers in Glasgow and Edinburgh. For the social historian there are equal opportunities in the diversity of the health care in the Highlands and Lowlands, the rich traditions of Scottish folk medicine and the interactions of Scottish and English medical practice. Much else can be learnt in relating Scotland's great innovative periods to her cultural and political state at the time.  In this book, author David Hamilton explores new sources and evaluates the rich history of medicinal practices in Scotland. Thus, for historians both of medicine and of Scotland, this study is necessary to more fully understand the country's history.

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  The View from the Vue

  Larry Karp

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  “We called it THE VUE, and without a doubt, that was the most complimentary nickname Bellevue Hospital ever had.” So begins The View from the Vue, an “entertaining, colorful recall” (Publishers Weekly) of life a half-century ago at New York City’s medical court of last resort.   Between 1959 and 1965, Dr. Larry Karp served as medical student, intern, and resident physician at Bellevue. During these six years, he came to know and understand the people who wended their way through the dingy hallways and roach-infested subterranean passages, and inhabited the sparsely furnished wards of the fabulous hospital whose origins date back to 1811. It’s not surprising that Dr. Karp has never been able to forget The Vue. Writing in a style both human and humorous, he recalls some of the astonishingly funny and dramatic events he lived through, involving bizarre patients and grotesque working conditions. In the process, he gives us a clear picture of what it was like at Bellevue in the early sixties . . . for both doctors and patients.

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