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Intro -- Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Chapter 1: How Opioids Work -- Chapter 2: Understanding Addiction -- Chapter 3: Consequences of Opioid Abuse -- Chapter 4: Seeking Treatment -- Chapter 5: Living in Recovery -- Glossary -- For More Information -- For Further Reading -- Index -- About the Author -- Backcover.

Intro -- Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Chapter 1: A Long History of Inequality -- Chapter 2: Everyday Inequality -- Chapter 3: The Toxicity of Racial Inequality -- Chapter 4: Surviving and Thriving -- Chapter 5: Standing Up Against Inequality -- Glossary -- For More Information -- For Further Reading -- Index -- About the Author -- backcover.

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction: Whence Atheism? Whither God? -- The (Recent!) past Is a Foreign Country -- My Hypothesis -- Methodological Considerations -- The Limits and Scope of This Project -- Chapter One: Atheism and Narrative -- Preliminaries and Boundaries -- How Atheism Became Possible: Schools of Interpretation -- Ideological Interpretations -- Practical (Circumstantial) Interpretations -- The Ideological and the Practical as Reciprocal Influences -- Contrarian Hybrid Interpretations -- Charles Taylor and the Problem of Modernity -- Summary of the Remaining Questions -- Summary of My Answer and Argument -- Chapter Two: Modern Atheism as a Technocultural Phenomenon I: Correlation -- Refining the Question -- The Development of Western Atheism -- Technology, Economy, Urbanity, and Labor as Mutual Forces -- The Emergence of Presence and Absence Discourse -- The Emergence of Disenchantment, Modernity, and Secularization Discourse(s) -- The Argument so Far -- Chapter Three: Modern Atheism as a Technocultural Phenomenon II: Causation -- Summary of Remaining Argument -- Tools from the Philosophy of Technology and Labor -- Jacques Ellul on Technique -- Martin Heidegger on the Destining of Revealing -- Karl Marx on Labor and Estrangement -- Herbert Marcuse on One-Dimensional Humanity -- Summary of These Analytical Tools -- God in the Mirror of the World: The Migration of Divine Presence -- The Cosmos Preborn: The Ancient World -- The Cosmos Born: The World of Late Antiquity -- The Cosmos Come of Age: The Modern World -- The World in the Mirror of Modern Labor and Technology -- Phenomenological Analysis -- Narrative Manifestation -- Excursus on Film -- Presence, Absence, and the Metaphysics of Sight and Sound -- The Argument as Deflationary for Atheism.

"A bold and moving exploration of the American elite that exposes how the ruling class-even when well-intentioned-perpetuates cycles of wealth, power, and injustice Growing up on New York City's Upper East Side, Nick McDonell was surrounded by luxury-sailing lessons in the Hamptons, school galas at the Met, and holidays on private jets. It was this rarified life that he explored in his early novels, but then left behind as a war correspondent in Iraq and Afghanistan. In Quiet Street, McDonell returns to the sidewalks of his youth, exhuming his own upbringing, and those of his wealthy peers, with bracing honesty. Through summer safaris and winter ski trips, ill-omened handshakes and schoolyard microaggressions, fox-hunting rituals and sexually precocious tweens, McDonell examines the ruling class in painstaking detail, documenting how wealth and power are hoarded, encoded, and passed down from one generation to the next. Crucially, he also demonstrates how outsiders-the poor, the non-white, the suburban-are kept in the dark. Searing and precise yet always deeply human, Quiet Street examines the problem of America's one-percenters, whose vision of a more just world never materializes. Who are these people, how do they hold on to power, and what would it take for them to share it? Quiet Street pursues these questions through the highly personal, but universal, experience of growing up and coming to terms with the culture that made you"--

"In today's world, the acceleration of megatrends - increasing longevity and the explosion of technology among many others - are transforming life as we now know it. In The Perennials, bestselling author of 2030 Mauro Guillén unpacks a sweeping societal shift triggered by demographic and technological transformation. Guillén argues that outmoded terms like Boomers, Gen X, Millennials, and Gen Z have long been used to pigeonhole us into rigid categories and life stages, artificially preventing people from reaching their full potential. A new postgenerational workforce known as "perennials" - individuals who are not pitted against each other either by their age or experience - makes it possible to liberate scores of people from the constraints of the sequential model of life and level the playing field so that everyone has a chance at living a rewarding life. Guillén unveils how this generational revolution will impact young people just entering the workforce as well as those who are living and working longer. This multigenerational revolution is already happening and Mauro Guillén identifies the specific cultural, organizational and policy changes that need to be made in order to switch to a new template and usher in a new era of innovation powered by the perennials"--

"This book focuses on recent and emerging techniques for enhancement of smart healthcare, smart communication, and smart transportation system. It covers topics ranging from Machine learning techniques, Internet of Things, Security aspects of medical documents, Performance of various protocols used in the communication and transportation environment, Simulation of systems for real time applications and its overall analysis. Applications such as transportation system, stock market prediction, smart cities and vehicular communication are dealt with. Features: Covers three important aspects of smart cities i.e. healthcare, smart communication and information, and smart transportation technologies. Discusses on various security aspects of medical documents and the data preserving mechanisms. Provides better solution using IoT techniques for healthcare, transportation and communication systems. Includes the implementation example, various datasets, experimental results and simulation procedures. Offers solution for various disease prediction systems with intelligent techniques. This book is aimed at researchers and graduate students in computer science, electrical engineering, and data analytics"--

"A witty, winning, and revelatory personal narrative of the author's transition from sightedness to blindness and his quest to learn all he can about blindness as a distinct and rich culture all its own We meet Andrew Leland as he's suspended in the strange liminal state of the soon-to-be blind: He's midway through his life with retinitis pigmentosa, a condition that ushers those who live with it from complete sightedness to complete blindness over a period of years, even decades. He grew up with full vision, but starting in his teenage years, his sight began to degrade from the outside in, such that he now sees the world as if through a narrow tube. Soon-but without knowing exactly when-he will likely have no vision left. Full of apprehension but also dogged curiosity, Leland embarks on a sweeping exploration of the state of being that awaits him: not only the physical experience of blindness but also its language, internal debates, politics, and customs. He also negotiates his changing relationships with his wife and son, and with his own sense of self, as he moves from sighted to semi-sighted to blind, from his mainstream, "typical" life to one with a disability. Part memoir, part historical and cultural investigation, The Country of the Blind represents Leland's determination not to merely survive this transition, but to grow from it-to seek out and revel in that which makes blindness enlightening. His story reveals essential lessons for all of us, from accepting uncertainty and embracing change to connecting with others across difference. Thought-provoking and brimming with warmth and humor, The Country of the Blind is at once a deeply personal journey and an intellectually exhilarating tour of a way of being that most of us have never paused to consider-and from which we have much to learn"--

"Timothy McVeigh wanted to start a movement. After the Oklahoma City bombing, the Gulf War veteran expressed no regrets. Jeffrey Toobin details how McVeigh's principles and tactics have flourished in the decades since his death in 2001, reaching an apotheosis on January 6 when hundreds of rioters stormed the Capitol. Based on nearly a million previously unreleased tapes, photographs, and documents, including detailed communications between McVeigh and his lawyers, as well as interviews with such key figures as Bill Clinton, Toobin reveals how the story of Timothy McVeigh and the Oklahoma City bombing is not only a powerful retelling of one of the great outrages of our time, but a warning for our future"--