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by Grace M. Cho (Author)A powerful account of a Korean American daughter's exploration of food and family history to understand her mother's schizophrenia.Author BiographyGrace M. Cho is the author of Tastes Like War, a 2021 National Book Awards finalist, and Haunting the Korean Diaspora: Shame, Secrecy, and the Forgotten War, which received a 2010 book award from the American Sociological Association. Her writings have appeared in journals such as the New Inquiry, Poem Memoir Story, Contexts...

Discrimination and Disparities - Hardcover

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by Thomas Sowell (Author)An enlarged edition of Thomas Sowell's brilliant examination of the origins of economic disparitiesEconomic and other outcomes differ vastly among individuals, groups, and nations. Many explanations have been offered for the differences. Some believe that those with less fortunate outcomes are victims of genetics. Others believe that those who are less fortunate are victims of the more fortunate.Discrimination and Disparities gathers a wide array of empirical evidence...

Beyond Fintech: The Broader Impact of Technology on Society

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Report copyright infringementby Nurudeen D. Nurudeen (Author)In a world where technology is rapidly reshaping every facet of our lives, from the way we communicate to how we work, "Beyond Fintech: The Broader Impact of Technology on Society" offers an insightful exploration into the profound effects of technological advancements across various sectors. This compelling book delves into the evolution of finance, the transformation of healthcare, the future of education, and the rise of smart ci...

Control, Optimization, and Mathematical Modeling of Complex Systems

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Report copyright infringementby Mikhail Posypkin (Guest Editor), Andrey Gorshenin (Guest Editor), Vladimir Titarev (Guest Editor)Complex systems have long been an integral part of modern life and can be encountered everywhere. Undertaking a comprehensive study of such systems is a challenging problem, one which is impossible to solve without the use of contemporary mathematical modeling techniques. Mathematical models form the basis for the optimal design and control of complex systems. The p...

The Ultimate GDPR Practitioner Guide: Demystifying Privacy & Data Protection

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Report copyright infringementby Stephen R. Massey (Author)The Ultimate GDPR Practitioner Guide provides those tasked with implementing Data Protection processes, useful information on how to achieve compliance with GDPR. The book is crammed with advice, guidance and templates and also includes a copy of the full regulation text and the supporting recitals. Topics include: - The Data Protection Officer - Data Protection Policy - Data Protection / Privacy Notices - Data Protection Impact Assess...

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Report copyright infringementby Litang Cui (Editor), Michael H. Prosser (Editor)Social Media in Asia is a collection of essays about fourteen countries in the Asia-Pacific region. Most authors are from that region, too. As communication via social media is commonplace among people all over the world, analyzing social media use is crucial for intercultural understanding. Featuring essays about fourteen countries in the Asia-Pacific region, this book provides fresh perspectives at cultural dial...

The Time Traveler's Guide to Regency Britain: A Handbook for Visitors to 1789-1830 - Paperback

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by Ian Mortimer (Author)A vivid and immersive history of Georgian England that gives its reader a firsthand experience of life as it was truly lived during the era of Jane Austen, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and the Duke of Wellington. This is the age of Jane Austen and the Romantic poets; the paintings of John Constable and the gardens of Humphry Repton; the sartorial elegance of Beau Brummell and the poetic license of Lord Byron; Britain's military triumphs at Trafalgar and Waterloo; the threat o...

Righteous Rebels [Revised Edition]: AIDS Healthcare Foundation's Crusade to Change the World - Hardcover

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by Patrick Range McDonald (Author)In a riveting portrait of the world's largest HIV/AIDS medical-care provider, award-winning journalist Patrick Range McDonald reveals AIDS Healthcare Foundation's unlikely rise from a feisty grassroots organization during the height of 1980s AIDS crisis to its position today as a global leader in the fight to control HIV and AIDS. This untold story highlights AHF's bold history of activism, its hard-charging advocacy on the behalf of vulnerable people, and it...

Garwulf's Corner: An Odyssey Into Diablo and the World Beyond the Video Game

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Report copyright infringementby Robert B. Marks (Author)At the dawn of the 21st Century, the video game industry experienced a period of wild creativity, fighting for recognition as an art form while making the transformation into a media juggernaut. And as it did, Garwulf's Corner was there, watching and commentating. One of the earliest, if not the first, video game issues columns on the Internet, Garwulf's Corner ran every two weeks from 2000 to 2002 on Diabloii.net. Written by Robert B. M...

The Future of the Mind: The New Minds Eye

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Report copyright infringementby Jack Huber (Author)Our lives are increasingly spent online. Work, friends, games, reading - all are increasingly digital and virtual. Google Glass is next. How are these extraordinary changes affecting our brains, our minds and the way we think, talk and relate? Parents, scientists, doom-mongers and sociologists are among the many people speculating about what is going to become of us as we become increasingly absorbed by electronic media and ever more remote f...

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Report copyright infringementby Jan Yager (Author)Birthday Tracker and Journal is a special place to record important birthdays for family, friends, and others, month by month. It includes an informative introduction on birthday celebration traditions and lists birthday birthstones and flowers by month for gift-giving considerations. There is also a place to keep track of birthday cards or presents that you send, or receive, lined blank pages for your birthday reflections, and a place for bir...

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The Sociology Instructional Design Model

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Report copyright infringementby Yolanda El Etan (Author)EQ, IQ, and Social Intelligence IQ When I looked up the word IQ, or intelligent quotient, I came across a test that is used to measure a subject's ability to confront situations that they might confront in life. However, Many people think of IQ as a learner's ability to do intellectual or academic tasks. It is the computation of intelligence (Encyclopedia Britannica 2006). EQ is based on the concept of knowing oneself through emotions be...

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Report copyright infringementby John Mair (Editor), Richard Lance Keeble (Editor)With contributions by: Peter Barron, Director, External Affairs Europe, Middle East and Africa, Google, former Editor of Newsnight Dan Bennett, PhD student, War Studies Department, King's College, London Teodora Beleaga, student at Coventry University Paul Bradshaw, Visiting Professor, City University, and Andy Brightwell, blogger Sean Carson, MA Journalism student, Coventry University Denis Chabrol, publisher an...

Stars That Pause: 2,000 Years of Asian UFO Encounters & Lore

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Report copyright infringementby Yi Izzy Yu (Author), John Yu Branscum (Author)Reality-warping Asian science fiction that just happens to be nonfiction.In 11th-century China, pilgrims would journey to Pishe Lake to witness objects that flew up nightly, shot out dazzling beams of light, then vanished at impossible speeds.In the 18th century, a high-ranking Chinese official was led by two luminous orbs away from the mountains, where female beings transported him inside one-beginning an odyssey t...

The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry - Paperback

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by Jon Ronson (Author)In this madcap journey, a bestselling journalist investigates psychopaths and the industry of doctors, scientists, and everyone else who studies them. The Psychopath Test is a fascinating journey through the minds of madness. Jon Ronson's exploration of a potential hoax being played on the world's top neurologists takes him, unexpectedly, into the heart of the madness industry. An influential psychologist who is convinced that many important CEOs and politicians are, i...

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Report copyright infringementby Ted Hart (Author)The DAF Revolution: Making a Difference in Our Modern World is the first comprehensive guide to how donor-advised funds (DAFs) are transforming philanthropy. Drawing on insights from more than 120 experts in philanthropy, law, finance, and nonprofit management, author Ted Hart provides a clear and practical roadmap for donors, advisors, and nonprofits to understand, use, and maximize the fastest-growing, most versatile giving vehicle today.DAFs...

Makes Me Wanna Holler: A Young Black Man in America - Paperback

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by Nathan McCall (Author)NATIONAL BESTSELLER - One of our most visceral and important memoirs on race in America, this is the story of Nathan McCall, who began life as a smart kid in a close, protective family in a black working-class neighborhood. Yet by the age of fifteen, McCall was packing a gun and embarking on a criminal career that five years later would land him in prison for armed robbery. In these pages, McCall chronicles his passage from the street to the prison yard--and, later,...

Demystifying the World of Nursery Rhymes: An Interview with Artificial Intelligence (ChatGPT)

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Report copyright infringementby Iveta Ongley (Author)Demystifying the World of Nursery Rhymes: An Interview with Artificial Intelligence is a fascinating exploration of the origins, meanings, and controversies surrounding the beloved nursery rhymes that have been passed down from generation to generation. In this enlightening book, the author presents a collection of thought-provoking questions and insightful answers from ChatGPT, an AI language model trained by OpenAI, that provide a deeper ...

The Complete Modern Blacksmith - Paperback

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by Alexander Weygers (Author)Teach yourself the lost arts of blacksmithing, tool design, and tool repair. Design, forge, and fix your own tools, hardware, and household accessories with master craftsman and teacher Alexander G. Weygers. The Complete Modern Blacksmith contains clear, step-by-step instructions and hundreds of the author's own detailed drawings, bringing scores of time-honored techniques to modern artisans - experienced craftsmen and beginners alike. This unique resource brin...

Hey There Socialite! How to Become a Social Freak and a Social Data Genius and Guru

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Report copyright infringementby Margaret Sanders (Author)There are a couple of ways that becoming a social data genius can help a person. The first way is by simply allowing for them to know important things about persons in general. The second way that there is a huge number of jobs that look for persons who can understand social data. This can include everything from persons who study academic fields, to persons who are working in things like marketing. Knowing social data will encourage pe...

Liberal Education: Analog Dreams in a Digital Age

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Report copyright infringementby Karim Dharamsi (Editor), David Clemis (Editor)The essays in this collection contemplate the various intersections and barriers between artificial intelligence along with the values and practices of liberal education. For the proponents of liberal education as a core component of undergraduate education, the study of literature, history, philosophy, and the social sciences, like their objects and their forms of practice, are perceived to be about what is essenti...

Exposed: The Harrowing Story of a Mother's Undercover Work with the FBI to Save Children from Internet Sex Predators

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Report copyright infringementby R. Stephanie Good (Author)Think your child is safe surfing the Web? Think again, says R. Stephanie Good in this chilling expose and personal memoir about her efforts with the FBI to bust child sex predators. Posing as a young girl, Stephanie has helped the federal government catch everyone from common perverts to Fortune 1000 executives, even an executive from a children's cable television channel. Stephanie reveals the near-tragic personal story that compelled...

Child Abuse on the Internet: Breaking the Silence

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Report copyright infringementby Carlos A. Arnaldo (Editor) Child pornography and the sexual abuse of children through misuse of the media and the Internet are complex yet closely related issues. Not only do they necessitate complex solutions, they also demand a social response from all sectors of society. This volume records the response of these various sectors and shows how individuals and organizations can cooperate effectively. It describes the major work being carried out in some African...

Theomedia: The Media of God and the Digital Age

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Report copyright infringementby Andrew J. Byers (Author)The church is unsure of itself in the twenty-first century's media culture. Some Christians denounce digital media while others embrace the latest gadgets and apps as soon as they appear. Many of us are stumbling along amidst the tweets, status updates, podcasts, and blog posts, wondering if we have ventured into a realm beyond the scope of biblical wisdom. Though there is such a thing as "new media," Andrew Byers reminds us that the act...

Fun and Software: Exploring Pleasure, Paradox and Pain in Computing

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Report copyright infringementby Olga Goriunova (Editor)Fun and Software offers the untold story of fun as constitutive of the culture and aesthetics of computing. Fun in computing is a mode of thinking, making and experiencing. It invokes and convolutes the question of rationalism and logical reason, addresses the sensibilities and experience of computation and attests to its creative drives. By exploring topics as diverse as the pleasure and pain of the programmer, geek wit, affects of play ...

Tweeting to Freedom: An Encyclopedia of Citizen Protests and Uprisings around the World

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Report copyright infringementby William Willis (Author), Anthony Fellow (Author)This book provides an insightful and comprehensive look at the issues regarding the use of the Internet and social media by activists in more than 30 countries--and how many governments in these countries are trying to blunt these efforts to promote freedom. The innovators who created social media might never have imagined the possibility: that activists living in countries where oppressive conditions are the norm...

If the World Were a Village: A Book about the World's People - Paperback

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by David J. Smith (Author), Shelagh Armstrong (Illustrator)The 2nd Edition of the best-selling book which has sold over 400 000 copies in 17 languages - updated with new content and insights about the world's people.First published to wide acclaim in 2002, this eye-opening book has since become a classic, promoting "world-mindedness" by imagining the world's population - all 6.8 billion of us - as a village of just 100 people. Now, If the World Were a Village has been newly revised with updat...

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Report copyright infringementby Gwen Swan (Author)In "Innovating Societies: The Rise of Social Smart Contracts," Gwen Swan explores thegroundbreaking intersection of blockchain technology and societal transformation. As our worldbecomes increasingly digital, traditional governance and social structures face unprecedentedchallenges and opportunities. Swan delves into how social smart contracts-self-executingagreements coded on blockchain platforms-are poised to revolutionize the way communitie...

Logic, Action and Cognition: Essays in Philosophical Logic

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Report copyright infringementby Eva Ejerhed (Editor), Sten Lindstrc6m (Editor)Preface; E. Ejerhed, S. Lindström. 1: Action. On Action and Agency; R. Hilpinen. Delta Logic and Brown's Logic of Ability; K. Segerberg. Action and Deontology; J. Czelakowski. Prima Facie Oughtness vs. Oughtness All Things Considered in Deontic Logic: A Chisholmian Approach; L. Åqvist. Wise Choice: On Dynamic Decision-Making Without Independence; W. Rabinowicz. 2: Belief Change. Closure-Invariant Rationality Postula...

Soar: A Cognitive Architecture in Perspective: A Tribute to Allen Newell

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Report copyright infringementby J. a. Michon (Editor), Aladin Akyr]rek (Editor), Aladin Akyrurek (Editor)Introduction; J.A. Michon, A. Akyürek, Groningen Soar Research Group. Allen Newell: A Portrait; J.A. Michon. Unified Theories of Cognition and the Role of Soar; A. Newell. On a Computational Model of Human Planning; A. Akyürek. Means-Ends Planning: An Example Soar System; A. Akyürek. Multitasking in Driving; J. Aasman, J.A. Michon. Flattening Goal Hierarchies; J. Aasman, A. Akyürek. Knowle...

Partitioned Representations: A Study in Mental Representation, Language Understanding and Linguistic Structure

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Report copyright infringementby John Dinsmore (Author), J. Dinsmore (Author)One: Nuts and Bolts.- 1. Mental Representation.- Symbolism: The Classical Paradigm.- Cracks in the Symbolic Paradigm.- Connectionism: The Other Paradigm.- Methods of Models.- Assessing Theories of Mental Representation.- 2. Partitioned Representations.- General Overview.- The Contents of Spaces.- Parochial Reasoning.- Primary Contexts.- Partitioned Semantics.- Coherence.- Consolidation.- Secondary Contexts.- A Typolog...