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A Civil Action is the searing, compelling tale of a legal system gone awry—one in which greed and power fight an unending struggle against justice. Yet it is also the story of how one man can ultimately make a difference. Representing the bereaved parents, the unlikeliest of heroes emerges: a young, flamboyant Porsche-driving lawyer who hopes to win millions of dollars and ends up nearly losing everything, including his sanity.

Classical Academic Press proudly presents the audiobook version of the reissued 2024 edition of Norms and Nobility: A Treatise on Education (published by Rowman & Littlefield), thoughtfully read by Dr. Christopher Perrin. This classic text, written by renowned author David Hicks, is a provocative reappraisal of classical education that offers a workable program for contemporary school reform.

Are you making the most of the Social Security benefits you’ve spent a lifetime earning? Social Security is one of the most important and often misunderstood parts of financial planning in the U.S. Whether retirement is years away or just around the corner, claiming benefits without a strategy could cost you tens of thousands over your lifetime. This comprehensive, listener-friendly guide demystifies Social Security and shows you how to optimize benefits for retirement, disability, and survivor protection.

When scholars and policymakers consider how technological advances affect the rise and fall of great powers, they draw on theories that center on the moment of innovation—the eureka moment that sparks astonishing technological feats. In this book, Jeffrey Ding offers a different explanation of how technological revolutions affect competition among great powers.

On balance, will AI help humanity or harm it? AI could revolutionize science, medicine, and technology, and deliver us a world of abundance and better health. Or it could be a disaster, leading to the downfall of democracy, or even our extinction. In Taming Silicon Valley, Gary Marcus, one of the most trusted voices in AI, explains that we still have a choice. And that the decisions we make now about AI will shape our next century.

Bestselling author, human rights activist, political scientist, and filmmaker Jason Jones draws from his heart-pounding, boots-on-the-ground stories in war-torn countries and leaves no stone unturned in exposing the real narrative of our time that the media often ignores.

The book “The Engagement Specialist: Pandemics—Strategies for Success—staying calm throughout the storm” is based on the notion to help organizations, nations, and communities successfully responding, mitigating and recovering from pandemics and national disasters. This book highlights all key leaders who engaged in developing National Pandemic Preparedness & Response plans and their role in building Healthcare capacity for local pandemic agencies.

With poetic grit and unfiltered honesty, Fisher chronicles his backbreaking daily grind on the Atlantic Ocean, only to be blindsided by the cold fist of bureaucracy: the ice-hearted Pease Port Authority. Ultimately, his 30 years as a commercial fisherman collapses simply because of a clerical misstep that the Authority, blind to his desperate pleas, refuses to ignore.

Every year, millions of public school students are suspended. This overused punishment removes students from the classroom, but it does not improve their behavior. Instead, suspension disrupts their education, harming the students, their families, and their schools. Black students suffer most within this broken system, experiencing a far greater risk of school punishment and the significant harms that accompany it. Many activists and scholars have considered how school punishment increases racial inequity, but few have thought to ask why.

In Organizational Betrayal, educational researcher Charol Shakeshaft advocates a system-wide approach for safeguarding K–12 students against educator sexual misconduct. Based on decades of inquiry into cases of student abuse in educational systems, the work reveals that sexual abuse of children in US K–12 schools is more prevalent than we'd like to believe. Examining the root causes and contexts, Shakeshaft concludes that school cultures and institutional structures are often complicit in cases of sexual misconduct.

The purpose of this book is to provide the best practical methods for each of the following objectives: 1. Eliminating the Paid Terrorists 2. Eliminating All Traitor Support for the Foreign Invasion 3. Capturing and Deporting All Foreign Invaders 4. Limiting Future Immigration 5. Ensuring Citizen Rights and Prosperity 6. Maintaining Our National Culture and Stability This publication discusses all reforms and actions; with legal justifications and practical implementation. Furthermore, the Appendix provides the complete list of all actions, with short descriptions, as easy reference. **This...

Climate of Contempt offers a voter-centric, bottom-up explanation of national climate and energy politics, one that pinpoints bitter partisanship as the key impediment to transitioning to a net zero carbon future.

Desde mediados de la década de 2000, la inteligencia artificial (IA) se ha expandido a gran velocidad a nivel mundial, como campo académico y como industria. De manera crítica, advierte cómo la IA altera la forma en que el mundo es visto y entendido, e impulsa un cambio hacia gobiernos antidemocráticos, una mayor desigualdad y enormes daños medioambientales. De hecho, la creación de los sistemas de IA contemporáneos dependen de la explotación de los recursos energéticos y minerales del planeta, de la mano de obra barata y de los datos a gran escala.

Desde mediados de la década de 2000, la inteligencia artificial (IA) se ha expandido a gran velocidad a nivel mundial, como campo académico y como industria. De manera crítica, advierte cómo la IA altera la forma en que el mundo es visto y entendido, e impulsa un cambio hacia gobiernos antidemocráticos, una mayor desigualdad y enormes daños medioambientales. De hecho, la creación de los sistemas de IA contemporáneos dependen de la explotación de los recursos energéticos y minerales del planeta, de la mano de obra barata y de los datos a gran escala.

Desde mediados de la década de 2000, la inteligencia artificial (IA) se ha expandido a gran velocidad a nivel mundial, como campo académico y como industria. De manera crítica, advierte cómo la IA altera la forma en que el mundo es visto y entendido, e impulsa un cambio hacia gobiernos antidemocráticos, una mayor desigualdad y enormes daños medioambientales. De hecho, la creación de los sistemas de IA contemporáneos dependen de la explotación de los recursos energéticos y minerales del planeta, de la mano de obra barata y de los datos a gran escala.

Der Beruf von Jana Ringwald spielt sich im Verborgenen ab. Die dunkle Seite des Internets, das Darknet, ist ihr Ermittlungsumfeld. Es hat sie zu Deutschlands Cyberstaatsanwältin gemacht. Jana Ringwald hat sich auf eine persönliche Reise begeben, wie heute eine innovative und erfolgversprechende Strafverfolgung aussehen kann.

What if the next time you needed urgent medical care, no one was there to help you? You call an ambulance, but none are available. You rush to the ER, only to find exhausted nurses managing impossible patient loads. The system is stretched beyond its limits, and when it finally breaks, it will not just affect hospitals—it will affect you. This is not just a healthcare industry problem. It impacts everyone who will one day need medical care—including your family, colleagues, and loved ones.Why This Book Matters—Even If You Don’t Work in Healthcare The crisis in healthcare staffing is...

In On Natural Capital, renowned Cambridge economist Sir Partha Dasgupta lays out a seminal and groundbreaking new approach to economics. Challenging everything that has come before, he asks, what if we were to put a value on nature just as we value everything else? An urgent call to transform the focus and structures of global economics, On Natural Capital is a bold and groundbreaking book that could, truly, change everything.

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