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The Ministry for the Future

Author : Kim Stanley Robinson
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0356508854
Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (565 download)

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Download or read book The Ministry for the Future written by Kim Stanley Robinson and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVOURITE READS OF THE YEAR 'If I could get policymakers and citizens everywhere to read just one book this year, it would be Kim Stanley Robinson's The Ministry for the Future' Ezra Klein, Vox 'A great read' Bill Gates The Ministry for the Future is a masterpiece of the imagination, using fictional eyewitness accounts to tell the story of how climate change will affect us all. Its setting is not a desolate, postapocalyptic world, but a future that is almost upon us. Chosen by Barack Obama as one of his favorite books of the year, this extraordinary novel from visionary writer Kim Stanley Robinson will change the way you think about the climate crisis. 'A novel that presents a rousing vision of how we might unite to overcome the greatest challenge of our time' TED.com 'A breathtaking look at the challenges that face our planet in all their sprawling magnitude and also in their intimate, individual moments of humanity' Booklist (starred review) 'Gutsy, humane . . . a must-read for anyone worried about the future of the planet' Publishers Weekly (starred review) 'A sweeping epic about climate change and humanity's efforts to try and turn the tide before it's too late' Polygon (Best of the Year) 'Steely, visionary optimism' Guardian

Into the Gray Zone

Author : Adrian Owen
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501135201
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Into the Gray Zone written by Adrian Owen and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-06-20 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "From renowned neuroscientist Adrian Owen comes a thrilling, heartbreaking tale of discovery in one of the least-understood scientific frontiers: the twilight region between full consciousness and brain death. People who inhabit this middle region called the 'gray zone' have sustained traumatic brain injuries or are the victims of stroke or degenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's. Many are oblivious to the outside world, and their doctors and families often believe they're incapable of thought. But a sizable number of patients--as many as twenty percent--are experiencing something different: intact minds adrift within damaged brains and bodies. In 2006, Adrian Owen led a team that discovered this lost population and made medical history, provoking an ongoing debate among scientists, physicians, and philosophers about the meaning, value, and purpose of life. In Into the Gray Zone, we follow Owen as he pushes forward the boundaries of science, using a variety of sophisticated brain scans, auditory prompts, and even Alfred Hitchcock film clips to not only 'find' patients who are trapped inside their heads but to actually communicate with them and elicit answers to moving questions, such as 'Are you in pain?' and 'Do you want to go on living?' and 'Are you happy?' (Many gray zone patients do, in fact, claim to be satisfied with their quality of life.) Into the Gray Zone shines a fascinating light on how we think, remember, and pay attention. And it shows us how the field of brain-computer interfaces is about to explode, radically changing prognoses for people with impaired brain function and creating, for all of us, the tantalizing possibility of telepathy and augmented intelligence. Ultimately; this is not just a spellbinding story of scientific discovery but a deeply human, affirming book that causes us to wonder anew at the indomitable bonds of love."--Jacket.

Managing the Gray Areas

Author : Jerry Manas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781932735116
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (351 download)

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Download or read book Managing the Gray Areas written by Jerry Manas and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Grey Area

Author : Scott Jacques
Publisher : UCL Press
ISBN 13 : 1787355888
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (873 download)

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Download or read book Grey Area written by Scott Jacques and published by UCL Press. This book was released on 2019-05-01 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coffeeshops are the most famous example of Dutch tolerance. But in fact, these cannabis distributors are highly regulated. Coffeeshops are permitted to break the law, but not the rules. On the premises, there cannot be minors, hard drugs or more than 500 grams. Nor can a coffeeshop advertise, cause nuisance or sell over five grams to a person in a day. These rules are enforced by surprise police checks, with violation punishable by closure. In Grey Area, Scott Jacques examines the regulations with a huge stash of data, which he collected during two years of fieldwork in Amsterdam. How do coffeeshop owners and staff obey the rules? How are the rules broken? Why so? To what effect? The stories and statistics show that order in the midst of smoke is key to Dutch drug policy, vaporising the idea that prohibition is better than regulation. Grey Area is a timely contribution in light of the blazing reform to cannabis policy worldwide. Praise for Grey Area ‘This book is original and highly topical. Logical and well structured, the discussion is firmly located in a large body of contemporary theory. The writing style is conversational, open and accessible. The quality, amount and depth of the empirical work that Jacques has undertaken made me feel that I was there, visiting the coffeeshops with him. Rarely have I seen something as careful and detailed as this work.’ Ronald V. Clarke, Rutgers University, USA 'This book examines the intricacies of operating between law and rules in Amsterdam coffeeshops. Based on an extensive fieldwork, it is arguably the most comprehensive criminological analysis of the issue to date. This is an important work, from an excellent writer, that I warmly recommend to both students and researchers.’ Kim Møller, Malmö University, Sweden

The Gray Zone: A Novel

Author : Daphna Edwards Ziman
Publisher : Greenleaf Book Group
ISBN 13 : 1608322319
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book The Gray Zone: A Novel written by Daphna Edwards Ziman and published by Greenleaf Book Group. This book was released on 2011-06 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To flee an abusive household, Kelly Jensen becomes an elusive identity thief. To save herself and her children, she steals the heart of one man and must stop another's-cold. Shaped by a brutal and orphaned childhood, abused and sexually exploited, Kelly Jensen has become a daring and seductive criminal, a beautiful and bewitching master of disguise and identity theft, in order to protect the lives of her children and to bring down a ruthless underworld subjecting foster children to white slavery.

China's Maritime Gray Zone Operations

Author : Andrew S. Erickson
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
ISBN 13 : 159114695X
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book China's Maritime Gray Zone Operations written by Andrew S. Erickson and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2019-03-15 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China’s maritime “gray zone” operations represent a new challenge for the U.S. Navy and the sea services of our allies, partners, and friends in maritime East Asia. There, Beijing is waging what some Chinese sources term a “war without gunsmoke.” Already winning in important areas, China could gain far more if left unchecked. One of China’s greatest advantages thus far has been foreign difficulty in understanding the situation, let alone determining an effective response. With contributions from some of the world’s leading subject matter experts, this volume aims to close that gap by explaining the forces and doctrines driving China’s paranaval expansion, operating in the “gray zone” between war and peace. The book covers China’s major maritime forces beyond core gray-hulled Navy units, with particular focus on China’s second and third sea forces: the “white-hulled” Coast Guard and “blue-hulled” Maritime Militia. Increasingly, these paranaval forces, and the “gray zone” in which they typically operate, are on the frontlines of China’s seaward expansion.

The Gray Area

Author : Glen Brunswick
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781582404851
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (48 download)

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Download or read book The Gray Area written by Glen Brunswick and published by . This book was released on 2005-06-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After his execution for double-crossing a drug cartel, Rudy Chance -- a brutal, corrupt cop and womanizer -- expects he'll wind up in Hell. Instead, he finds himself in the Gray Area, where he is forced to combat evil for an afterlife police force in order to gain a shot at redemption. Given extraordinary powers, Chance hunts down the wicked to condemn and the worthy to heal. But can he control his own dark side, or will it lead him to eternal damnation?

Managing in the Gray

Author : Joseph L. Badaracco Jr.
Publisher : Harvard Business Review Press
ISBN 13 : 1633691756
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (336 download)

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Download or read book Managing in the Gray written by Joseph L. Badaracco Jr. and published by Harvard Business Review Press. This book was released on 2016-08-16 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to Resolve the Really Hard Problems Every manager makes tough calls—it comes with the job. And the hardest decisions are the “gray areas”—situations where you and your team have worked hard to find an answer, you’ve done the best analysis you can, and you still don’t know what to do. But you have to make a decision. You have to choose, commit, act, and live with the consequences and persuade others to follow your lead. Gray areas test your skills as a manager, your judgment, and even your humanity. How do you get these decisions right? In Managing in the Gray, Joseph Badaracco offers a powerful, practical, and even radical way to resolve these problems. Picking up where conventional tools of analysis leave off, this book provides tools for judgment in the form of five revealing questions. Asking yourself these five questions provides a simple yet profound way to broaden your thinking, sharpen your judgment, and develop a fresh perspective. What makes these questions so valuable is that they have truly stood the test of time—they’ve guided countless men and women, across many centuries and cultures, to resolve the hardest questions of work, responsibility, and life. You can use the five-question framework on your own or with others on your team to help you cut through complexities, understand critical trade-offs, and develop workable solutions for even the grayest issues.

No Grey Areas

Author : Joseph N. Gagliano
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780997124811
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (248 download)

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Download or read book No Grey Areas written by Joseph N. Gagliano and published by . This book was released on 2016-01-18 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1994, Joseph N. Gagliano calmly sat back, put his hands behind his head and smiled as the NCAA clocked ticked down the remaining last seconds of the game. It was the third game in a row Joe had bet on where the point spread had to land on a specific number. With millions at stake, was he nervous? Not at all. As the buzzer sounded on the 3rd game, his duffle bags were filled with millions in cash. How? Joe had fixed the outcome of the games. No Grey Areas tells the incredible, true story of the man who orchestrated the largest sports point shaving betting scam in sport's history. But that is only where the story begins... It is always the cover up, not the crime, where white collar criminals get caught. Joe was caught, convicted and served time in Federal prison for his role in coordinating and financing the 1994 ASU point shaving scandal. His journey continued as Joe came out prison in late 2000 with a passion to clear his name and a desire to remove perceptions held by others of him. He embarked on an aggressive path to success; building a sizeable chain of full service car washes, making millions in real estate, living a life of luxury, and even buying a private jet just to get to his yacht in San Diego quicker. But the story does not end there.... A few years later, the 2008 financial collapse engulfed the world and because of Joe's "grey areas" a banking deal landed him in prison for a 2nd term. Labeled a 2-time felon, he made some brilliant and yet morally questionable decisions while searching for the true meaning of success. Inside these pages, you'll get a backstage pass on what it was like to slowly fall into the "grey areas" of scandal, greed, corruption, money, and business. Joe's honest, detailed telling of this life of infamy, history, and successes along with the consequences of his decisions will amaze and inspire you. No Grey Areas is a riveting read, filled with all the elements of a great non-fiction book, except that is a TRUE story. Reminiscent of The Wolf of Wall Street and MoneyBall, this gripping personal life story will carry the reader through the internal struggles of poor life choices and fortune squandered. It is a captivating journey of morally questionable decisions, and the pursuit of freedom, all during a harrowing ride to redemption.

Making Art Work

Author : W. Patrick Mccray
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262359502
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (623 download)

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Download or read book Making Art Work written by W. Patrick Mccray and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2020-10-20 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The creative collaborations of engineers, artists, scientists, and curators over the past fifty years. Artwork as opposed to experiment? Engineer versus artist? We often see two different cultural realms separated by impervious walls. But some fifty years ago, the borders between technology and art began to be breached. In this book, W. Patrick McCray shows how in this era, artists eagerly collaborated with engineers and scientists to explore new technologies and create visually and sonically compelling multimedia works. This art emerged from corporate laboratories, artists' studios, publishing houses, art galleries, and university campuses. Many of the biggest stars of the art world--Robert Rauschenberg, Yvonne Rainer, Andy Warhol, Carolee Schneemann, and John Cage--participated, but the technologists who contributed essential expertise and aesthetic input often went unrecognized.

No Gray Area

Author : Michael Kempf
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
ISBN 13 : 1662420196
Total Pages : 131 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (624 download)

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Download or read book No Gray Area written by Michael Kempf and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2021-04-28 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Violence in America would have been an appropriate title. Speaking of American slavery, both black and white, leaves little room for the imagination. Freedom is...

Which Country Has the World's Best Health Care?

Author : Ezekiel J. Emanuel
Publisher : PublicAffairs
ISBN 13 : 1541797728
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (417 download)

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Download or read book Which Country Has the World's Best Health Care? written by Ezekiel J. Emanuel and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2020-06-16 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The preeminent doctor and bioethicist Ezekiel Emanuel is repeatedly asked one question: Which country has the best healthcare? He set off to find an answer. The US spends more than any other nation, nearly $4 trillion, on healthcare. Yet, for all that expense, the US is not ranked #1 -- not even close. In Which Country Has the World's Best Healthcare? Ezekiel Emanuel profiles eleven of the world's healthcare systems in pursuit of the best or at least where excellence can be found. Using a unique comparative structure, the book allows healthcare professionals, patients, and policymakers alike to know which systems perform well, and why, and which face endemic problems. From Taiwan to Germany, Australia to Switzerland, the most inventive healthcare providers tackle a global set of challenges -- in pursuit of the best healthcare in the world.

Grey Area

Author : Will Self
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408838516
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Grey Area written by Will Self and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-09-11 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grey Area, like all of Will Self's fiction, is funny, bizarre and disturbing. From a London where every waiter is an aspiring writer to a supply teacher killed by the colossal philistinism of his pupils, this is a truly inimitable showcase of short stories.

The Defender's Dilemma

Author : Elisabeth Braw
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0844750417
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (447 download)

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Download or read book The Defender's Dilemma written by Elisabeth Braw and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-02-21 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National security threats facing the West are fundamentally changing. In this book, Elisabeth Braw offers the first sustained analysis of how new tactics in the gray zone between war and peace dangerously weaken liberal democracies. She discusses the breadth of gray-zone aggression and presents strategies for better defense against it.

Gray Area of Transportation Operations

Author : United States. Interstate Commerce Commission. Bureau of Transport Economics and Statistics
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)

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Download or read book Gray Area of Transportation Operations written by United States. Interstate Commerce Commission. Bureau of Transport Economics and Statistics and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Gray Area Phenomena

Author : Max G. Manwaring
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429715838
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (297 download)

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Download or read book Gray Area Phenomena written by Max G. Manwaring and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-04-11 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses the challenge of international narcotics control by applying "the Manwaring paradigm." The paradigm is the basis for an improved strategy and theory of engagement for weak governments of the developing world, built around the concept of the "gray area phenomenon."

Unraveling the Gray Area Problem

Author : Luke Griffith
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501773089
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Unraveling the Gray Area Problem written by Luke Griffith and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2023-12-15 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Unraveling the Gray Area Problem, Luke Griffith examines the US role in why the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty took almost a decade to negotiate and then failed in just thirty years. The INF Treaty enhanced Western security by prohibiting US and Russian ground-based missiles with maximum ranges of 500 to 5,500 kilometers. Significantly, it eliminated hundreds of Soviet SS-20 missiles, which could annihilate targets throughout Eurasia in minutes. Through close scrutiny of US theater nuclear policy from 1977 to 1987, Griffith describes the Carter administration's masterminding of the dual-track decision of December 1979, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) initiative that led to the INF Treaty. The Reagan administration, in turn, overcame bureaucratic infighting, Soviet intransigence, and political obstacles at home and abroad to achieve a satisfactory outcome in the INF negotiations. Disagreements between the US and Russia undermined the INF Treaty and led to its dissolution in 2019. Meanwhile, the US is developing a new generation of ground-based, INF-type missiles that will have an operational value on the battlefield. Griffith urges policymakers to consider the utility of INF-type missiles in new arms control negotiations. Understanding the scope and consistency of US arms control policy across the Carter and Reagan administrations offers important lessons for policymakers in the twenty-first century.