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Is there a way to end North America’s opioid epidemic? In The Age of Fentanyl , Brodie Ramin tells the story of the opioid crisis, showing us the disease and cure from his perspective as an addiction doctor working on the front lines. We meet his patients, hear from other addiction experts, and learn about the science and medicine of opioid addiction and its treatments. He shows us how addiction can be prevented, how knowledge can reduce stigma, and how epidemics can be beaten. Dr. Ramin brings the hopeful message that just as patients and health care workers rallied together to fight HIV one generation ago, a coalition of patients, advocates, scientists, doctors, and nurses is once again finding solutions and making plans to stem the overdose deaths, block the spread of fentanyl, and end the epidemic.
Technologies of Speculation
An inquiry into what we can know in an age of surveillance and algorithms Knitting together contemporary technologies of datafication to reveal a broader, underlying shift in what counts as knowledge, Technologies of Speculation reframes today’s major moral and political controversies around algorithms and artificial intelligence. How many times we toss and turn in our sleep, our voluminous social media activity and location data, our average resting heart rate and body temperature: new technologies of state and self-surveillance promise to re-enlighten the black boxes of our bodies and minds. But Sun-ha Hong suggests that the burden to know and to digest this information at alarming rates is stripping away the liberal subject that ‘knows for themselves’, and risks undermining the pursuit of a rational public. What we choose to track, and what kind of data is extracted from us, shapes a society in which my own experience and sensation is increasingly overruled by data-driven systems. From the rapidly growing Quantified Self community to large-scale dragnet data collection in the name of counter-terrorism and drone warfare, Hong argues that data’s promise of objective truth results in new cultures of speculation. In his analysis of the Snowden affair, Hong demonstrates an entirely new way of thinking through what we could know, and the political and philosophical stakes of the belief that data equates to knowledge. When we simply cannot process all the data at our fingertips, he argues, we look past the inconvenient and the complicated to favor the comprehensible. In the process, racial stereotypes and other longstanding prejudices re-enter our newest technologies by the back door. Hong reveals the moral and philosophical equations embedded into the algorithmic eye that now follows us all.
Haunted Houses
Ghostwriters Nancy Roberts and Taryn Plumb spin fascinating tales about 26 haunted houses all over America. Based on stories told by first-hand witnesses, these stories of ghostly goings-on will keep you on the edge of your seat—and possibly up all night! Read about San Diego’s Whaley House, whose former residents maintain an active presence, as does Yankee Jim, a hanging victim over whose gallows the house was built. Learn about the house in Massachusetts that once belonged to eccentric millionaire and brilliant inventor John Hammond, Jr.—whose practice in spiritualism, say some, continues long after his death. And relive the terrifying battle that claimed the lives of 1,700 Confederate soldiers whose battlefield became their final resting place on Tennessee’s Carnton Plantation.
A Long Stride
The history of Johnnie Walker, tracing its roots back to 1820, is also the history of Scotch whisky. But who was John Walker – the man who started the story? And how did his business grow from the shelves of a small grocery shop in Kilmarnock to become the world’s No. 1 Scotch?
A Long Stride tells the story of how John Walker and a succession of ingenious and progressive business leaders embraced their Scottish roots to walk confidently on an international stage. By doing things their own way, Johnnie Walker overturned the conventions of late Victorian and Edwardian Britain, survived two world wars and the Great Depression, coming back stronger each time, to become the first truly global whisky brand, revolutionising the world of advertising along the way. Ultimately the story is a testament to how an obsession with quality and a relentless drive to always move forward created a Scotch whisky loved in every corner of the world
Het Urantia Boek
Het Urantia Boek , voor het eerst door de Urantia Foundation gepubliceerd in 1955, presenteert ons de oorsprong, geschiedenis en bestemming der mensheid. Het beantwoordt vragen over God, over het leven in het bewoonde universum, over de geschiedenis en toekomst van deze wereld. En het bevat een opbeurend verhaal over het leven en onderricht van Jezus. Het Urantia Boek schets onze relatie met God de Vader. Alle mensen zijn de zonen en dochters van een liefhebbende God en derhalve broers en zussen in de familie van God. Het boek verschaft een nieuwe geestelijke waarheid voor moderne mannen en vrouwen en een weg naar een persoonlijke relatie met God. Voortbouwend op het religieuze erfgoed deze wereld beschrijft Het Urantia Boek een eindeloze bestemming voor de mensheid. Het leert dat levend geloof de sleutel is tot persoonlijke geestelijke vooruitgang en eeuwige overleving. Tevens beschrijft het Gods plan voor de progressieve evolutie van het individu, de menselijke samenleving en het universum als geheel. Over de hele wereld hebben vele mensen gezegd dat het lezen van Het Urantia Boek hen zeer heeft geïnspireerd om diepere niveaus van geestelijke groei te bereiken. Het heeft hen een nieuwe betekenis aan het leven gegeven en de wens om de mensheid te dienen.
Cartea Urantia
Cartea Urantia, publicată pentru prima dată în 1955, afirmă a fi fost prezentată de fiinţe celeste ca o revelaţie pentru planeta noastră, Urantia.Scrierile Cărţii Urantia ne învaţă despre geneza, istoria, şi destinul omenirii şi despre relaţia noastră cu Dumnezeu Tatăl. Ele prezintă o descriere unică şi provocatoare o vieţii şI învăţăturilor lui Iisus. Ele deschid spiritului uman orizonturi noi în ceea ce priveşte timpul şi eternitatea, şi oferă detalii inedite referitoare la aventura noastră ascendentă într-un univers primitor şi bine administrat.Cartea Urantia integrează clar şi concis ştiinţă, filozofie, şI religie. Cei care o citesc şi studiază cred că  această carte poate influenţa semnificativ gîndirea religioasă şI filozofică a oamenilor din întreaga lume.Cartea Urantia nu este o “religie.” Ea se bazează pe moştenirea religioasă din trecut şi prezent, şi încurajează o credinţă personală şi plină de viaţă.Cititorii din întreaga lume ne-au comunicat că lectura Cărţii Urantia i-a afectat în mod profund şi de multe ori le-a schimbat viaţa. I-a inspirat către un reînnoit spor spiritual şi le-a mărit capacitatea de a aprecia viaţa umană.Vă încurajăm să vă angajaţi în lectură şi să descoperiţi voi înşivă mesajul ei înălţator.