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GVN Releasing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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Tells the story of the police investigation and subsequent trial of Kermit Gosnell, a physician and abortion provider, who was convicted of killing four people, including three infants born alive during abortion procedures he performed.
322) Biting the hands that feed us: how fewer, smarter laws would make our food system more sustainable
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Publisher
Island Press
Pub. Date
[2016].
Language
English
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"Food waste, hunger, inhumane livestock conditions, disappearing fish stocks--these are exactly the kind of issues we expect food regulations to combat. Yet, today in the United States, laws exist at all levels of government that actually make these problems worse. Baylen Linnekin argues that, too often, government rules handcuff America's most sustainable farmers, producers, sellers, and consumers, while rewarding those whose practices are anything...
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Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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"What jobs should be automated? How should our legal systems handle autonomous systems? How likely is the emergence of suprahuman intelligence? A.I. is the future of science, technology, and business--and there is no person better qualified or situated to explore that future than Max Tegmark. What has A.I. brought us? Where will it lead us? The story of A.I. is the story of intelligence--of life processes as they evolve from bacteria (1.0) to humans...
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Publisher
Blue Rider Press, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"A riveting, chilling tale of how a group of ragtag activists infiltrated one of the most secure nuclear weapons sites in the United States, told alongside a broader history of America's nuclear stewardship, from the early stages of the Manhattan Project to our country's never-ending investment in nuclear weaponry. On Saturday, July 28, 2012, three senior citizens broke into one of the most secure nuclear weapons facilities in the world. An eighty-two-year-old...
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Publisher
Regan Arts
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
-- Unjustifiable Means forces the spotlight back onto how America lost its way and exposes those responsible for torturing innocent men under the guise of national security--individuals who have yet to be held accountable for their actions.
Fallon has exclusive insider information on the decision to implement “Enhanced Interrogation Techniques,” and the backchannels and deception employed to legalize these methods and hide them from the public’s...
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Publisher
Bold Type Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The Navy SEALs are, for most Americans, the ultimate heroes. Their 2011 killing of Osama Bin Laden was celebrated as a victory in the War on Terror. Former SEALs rake in thousands of dollars as leadership consultants for American corporations. And young men who want to join the military dream of serving in their elite ranks. But as recent revelations, like the uproar around former SEAL Eddie Gallagher, have shown, the SEALs have lost their bearings....
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Publisher
Melville House
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"An Independent and New Statesman Book of the Year Beyond the familiar online world that most of us inhabit--a world of Google, Facebook, and Twitter--lies a vast and often hidden network of sites, communities, and cultures where freedom is pushed to its limits, and where people can be anyone, or do anything, they want. This is the world of Bitcoin and Silk Road, of radicalism and pornography. This is the Dark Net. In this important and revealing...
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Publisher
North Atlantic Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
This nonfiction book makes the case sensitively for both vegetarianism and veganism with gorgeous artwork and a clear, firm stance about the needs of animals and the peril to the greater environment. A separate section entitled "What Else Can We Do?" suggests ways children can learn more about the vegetarian and vegan lifestyles.
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Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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In 2010, one of the most consequential Court decisions in American political history gave wealthy corporations the right to spend unlimited money to influence elections. Justice Anthony Kennedy's majority opinion treated corruption as nothing more than explicit bribery, a narrow conception later echoed by Chief Justice Roberts in deciding McCutcheon volume FEC in 2014. With unlimited spending transforming American politics for the worse, warns Zephyr...
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Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"If our genes are, to a great extent, our destiny, then what would happen if mankind could engineer and alter the very essence of our DNA coding? Millions might be spared the devastating effects of hereditary disease or the challenges of disability, whether it was the pain of sickle-cell anemia to the ravages of Huntington's disease. But this power to 'play God' also raises major ethical questions and poses threats for potential misuse. For decades,...
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Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Informed by decades of research and on-the-ground experience advising governments and tech companies, Foolproof is the definitive guide to navigating the misinformation age. From fake news to conspiracy theories, from inflammatory memes to misleading headlines, misinformation has swiftly become the defining problem of our era. The crisis threatens the integrity of our democracies, our ability to cultivate trusting relationships, even our physical...
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Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"The tech elite have a plan to survive the apocalypse: they want to leave us all behind. Five mysterious billionaires summoned theorist Douglas Rushkoff to a desert resort for a private talk. The topic? How to survive the "Event": the societal catastrophe they know is coming. Rushkoff came to understand that these men were under the influence of The Mindset, a Silicon Valley-style certainty that they and their cohort can break the laws of physics,...
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Publisher
Moody Publishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Parenting strategies you can be proud of. You know the feeling. You got frustrated, desperate, or overwhelmed and you reacted before you could think it through. Whether its bribery, yelling, counting to three, or threats of punishment you didnt mean to make, reacting never feels good. But if you can learn to act with intentionality, youll feel proud of your parenting and be amazed at the results. Dr. Kathy Koch will teach you proven strategies for...
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Publisher
Broadleaf Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
The stories we read as children shape us for the rest of our lives-- but it's never too late to discover that transformative spark of hope that children's classics can ignite within us. Perkins invites us to explore the promise of seven timeless children's novels, and shows how they provide mirrors to our innermost selves, and open windows to other world. She shows that reading (or re-reading) these books as adults can help us build virtue, unmask...
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