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"John Mark Keyes and Wendy Gordon have charted here a complete life cycle of legislation. It begins by discussing what legislation is and what it does, as well as the purposes for which it is used. It then addresses the drafting of legislative texts and the processes for transforming them into law. It goes on to explain how legislation is found, understood, and applied, including the interpretive principles and techniques for resolving disputes about its meaning and application. Among the works dealing with the Canadian system of written laws, it is one of the most comprehensive in scope, encompassing both how legislation is made and how it is interpreted and applied."--

Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Foundations -- What Stories Will We Tell about COVID-19? -- Liberty and Health? -- Fear -- The Economics of Illiberalism -- How to Get Healthier and Wealthier during a Crisis -- Decision-Making in an Age of Social Media -- Borders in an Age of Pandemics -- UFOs, COVID-19, and the Return of Radical Uncertainty -- Why Do We Tell the Stories We Tell? -- The History of Soccer, the Butterfly Effect, and Public Health -- The Ongoing Challenge of Race -- Not in the Name of Public Health -- Health and the Opportunity to Think Freely -- Thinking in Groups or Thinking for Ourselves: In Praise of Iconoclasm -- The Challenge of Slow-Burning Threats -- The Ineluctable Role of the Faceless Bureaucrat -- Sectarianism and the Public's Health -- Health in an Era of Resurgent Great Power Conflict -- "For Our Own Good" -- Heresies -- Why Health? -- The Spherical Cow Problem -- Public Health and the Temptations of Power -- Not Our Place -- The Radical Importance of Acknowledging Progress -- Who's Left? -- Too Far, or Not Far Enough? -- A Case against Moralism in Public Health -- Resisting the Allure of Moral Grandstanding -- Resisting Our Suburban Impulses -- Checking Our Blind Spots -- We Need to Talk about Class -- Public Health and Tradition -- My Bias in Favor of Living -- Hopes -- Mercy and Our Present Moment -- A Case for Good Faith Argument -- "One Does Have Joys" -- A Playbook for Balancing the Moral and Empirical Cases for Health -- The False Choice of Diversity and Inclusion versus the Pursuit of Excellence -- Our Place in the Natural Order of Things -- What Do We Want from Our Political System? -- The Role of Experts and Community Voices Both -- The Aesthetics of a Healthier World -- Intellectual Cross-Training toward a Healthier World -- The Incredible Potential of New Technology -- The Consent of the Governed.

"This book analyzes the impact that large socio-economic inequalities have on how we relate to each other emotionally and intellectually. How, the question is, could these inequalities not influence the goods we aspire to or the content of what we imagine to be (or what could be) the case? How could they not influence our capacity to empathize with those who are either higher or lower on the socio-economic ladder? The book thus sets itself the task of proving that the impact of inequality reaches far beyond measurable differences of income or capital. Inequalities have emotional impacts and influence our aspirational, imaginative, and empathic capacities. Further, the study suggests that feelings do not just passively register given inequalities but serve themselves as engines of social differentiation."

Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I: The Consequentialist Moral Cosmology -- 1. God and Morality in the Seventeenth Century -- 2. Virtue and the Divine Life: Henry More's Moral Theology -- 3. Teleology Transformed: Richard Cumberland's Perfectionistic Natural Law -- Epilogue to Part I -- Part II: Evil and the Divine Consequentialist -- 4. Evil and the Consequentialist Moral Cosmology: Pierre Bayle and British Ethics -- 5. The Ethics of Archbishop William King's De origine mali -- 6. Shaftesbury the Theologian: Virtue as Friendship with God -- 7. Theodicy and the Moral Affections in Francis Hutcheson -- Epilogue to Part II -- Part III: The Anglican Utilitarian Synthesis -- 8. John Gay's "Preliminary Dissertation" -- 9. Edmund Law and the Anglican Utilitarian Tradition -- Epilogue to Part III -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index.

Intro -- Contents -- Introduction: Praisesongs and Descants -- Overture: Talk, Talk -- Part I: Sounds -- Is There God after Prince? -- The Last Psychedelic Band -- Karaoke for the People -- The Everyday Disaster -- What We Fight about When We Fight about Doctor Wu -- Part II: Ceremonies -- Love in the Ruins -- Circumstance -- Joy Rounds First -- Loving John -- The Impostor -- Part III: Kids -- Easy -- Our Noise -- Where I Want to Be -- Ghost Stories -- Rhapsody for the Crash Years -- Part IV: Sentences -- So-Called Normal People -- Say Chi City -- Our Man in the Fifteenth -- Hollow -- Killing Joke -- Part V: Ends -- My Thoughts Are Murder -- Mercy Hours -- In the Maze -- Anthony and Carmela Get Vaccinated -- Afterword: Exit Wounds -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index.

"The rapid growth of IoT and its applications in smart cities pose significant challenges for academic scholars. The increasing number of interconnected devices and the massive amounts of data they generate strain traditional networks, leading to inefficiencies and security vulnerabilities. Additionally, the centralized control plane in Software Defined Networks (SDN) presents a single point of failure, hindering network performance, while IoT devices themselves are susceptible to attacks, compromising user data and privacy. To address these pressing issues, Network-Enabled IoT Applications for Smart City Services offers a compelling solution. Edited by Dr. K. Hemant Kumar Reddy, Dr. Diptendu SinhaRoy, Mir wajahat Hussain and Tapas Mishra, this book advocates leveraging SDN to handle high-frequency data streams effectively. It also proposes the integration of blockchain technology to enhance security and reliability in IoT applications, offering a roadmap for scholars to improve network efficiency, security, and reliability in IoT and smart city domains. With their extensive expertise, the authors provide academic scholars with a comprehensive and innovative resource that inspires further research and development in this evolving field, enabling them to make significant contributions to the advancement of IoT and smart city technologies."--

"Convergence of Cloud Computing, AI, and Agricultural Science explores the transformative potential of integrating cutting-edge technologies into the field of agriculture. With the rapid advancements in cloud computing, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and the Internet of Things (IoT), this research presents a comprehensive framework for monitoring agriculture farms remotely using a smart cloud-based system. The book delves into the application of AI-based machine learning models, such as the Support Vector Machine (SVM), to accurately classify and process the collected data. This advanced research reference book also explores how digital information can provide farmers with information about international markets, enabling them to make informed decisions regarding their crops. With its academic tone and in-depth exploration of cloud computing in smart agriculture, this book serves as an essential resource for researchers, academics, and professionals in the fields of agriculture, computer science, and environmental science. By examining the convergence of cloud computing, AI, and agricultural science, it provides a roadmap for harnessing technology to revolutionize farming practices and ensure sustainable agri-food systems in the digital era."--