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Rise and kill first : the secret history of Israel's targeted assassinations / by Bergman, Ronen,author.; Hope, Ronnie,translator.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 637-725) and index.Presents an assessment of Israel's state-sponsored assassination programs that evaluates the protective beliefs that are instituted into every Israeli citizen, the role of assassination in the state's history, and the ethical challenges of Israel's policies on targeted killings.
Subjects: Targeted killing;
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Say Anarcha : a young woman, a devious surgeon, and the harrowing birth of modern women's health / by Hallman, J. C.,author.;
Includes bibliographic key to online citations and index."In 1846, a young surgeon, J. Marion Sims ("The Father of Gynecology"), began several years of experimental surgeries on a young enslaved woman known as Anarcha ("The Mother of Gynecology"). This series of procedures--performed without anesthesia and resulting in Anarcha's so-called "cure"--forever altered the path of women's health. Despite brutal practices and failed techniques, Sims proclaimed himself the curer of obstetric fistula, a horrific condition that had stymied the medical world for centuries. Parlaying supposed success to the founding of a new hospital in New York City--where he conducted additional dangerous experiments on Irish women--Sims went on to a profitable career treating gentry and royalty in Europe, becoming one of the world's first celebrity surgeons. Medical text after medical text hailed Anarcha as a pivotal figure in the history of medicine, but little was recorded about the woman herself. Through extensive research, author J. C. Hallman has unearthed the first evidence ever found of Anarcha's life that did not come from Sims's suspect reports. With incredible tenacity, Hallman traced Anarcha's path from her beginnings on a Southern plantation to the backyard clinic where she was subjected to scores of painful surgical experiments, to her years after in Richmond and New York City, and to her final resting place in a lonely Virginia forest. When Hallman first set out to find Anarcha, the world was just beginning to grapple with the history of white supremacy and its connection to racial health disparities exposed by COVID-19 and the disproportionate number of Black women who die while giving birth. In telling the stories of the "Mother" and "Father" of gynecology, Say Anarcha excavates the history of a heroic enslaved woman and deconstructs the biographical smokescreen of a surgeon whom history has falsely enshrined as a heroic pioneer. Kin in spirit to The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Hallman's dual biographical narratives tell a single story that corrects errors calcified in history and illuminates the sacrifice of a young woman who changed the world only to be forgotten by it-until now"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Jackson, Anarcha, approximately 1821-1869.; Sims, J. Marion (James Marion), 1813-1883.; Enslaved women; Fistula, Vesico-vaginal; Gynecologists; Gynecology; Human experimentation in medicine; Medical ethics;
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How to Use ChatGPT and Generative AI to Help Create Content. by PACKT Publishing (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Originally produced by PACKT Publishing in 2023.Learn to use cutting-edge language models ChatGPT, Dalle-2, and Midjourney to create high-quality written content and generative art in this course. Discover how to fine-tune these models for specific tasks and explore the ethical implications and future-proofing strategies for using AI in your work.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Education films.; Science.; Technical education.; Instructional films.; Computer science.;
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Press [videorecording] / by Bartlett, Mike,1980-screenwriter.; Burford, Priyanga,actor.; Chaplin, Ben,actor.; Riley, Charlotte,actor.; Suchet, David,actor.; BBC Studios,production company.; Deep Indigo Productions,production company.; Lookout Point (Firm),production company.; PBS Distribution (Firm),film distributor.; Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.),broadcaster.;
Charlotte Riley, Ben Chaplin, Priyanga Burford, David Suchet.Set in the world of newspapers in London, it's past riven by hacking scandals, it's present at the mercy of the digital age and the 24-hour news cycle, it's future uncertain, this razor sharp and observant drama explores the current, turbulent media landscape and the ethical dilemmas that journalists and editors face each day.14A.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; stereo.
Subjects: Fiction television programs.; Television mini-series.; Television programs.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; British newspapers; Journalism; Newspaper editors; Reporters and reporting;
For private home use only.
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The kids' book of questions / by Stock, Gregory.;
Poses thought-provoking questions to the reader about such issues as trust, fear, ethics, family problems, social pressures, and friendship.LSC
Subjects: Children; Conduct of life; Children's questions and answers.;
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Archive [videorecording] / by Ferdinando, Peter,actor.; Glover, Richard(Actor),actor.; Herd, Philip,film producer.; James, Theo,1984-actor,film producer.; Jones, Toby,1967-actor.; Martin, Stacy,1991-actor.; Mitra, Rhona,1976-actor.; Palfrey, Cora,film producer.; Rothery, Gavin,film director,screenwriter.; Williams, Lia,actor.; Head Gear Films,production company.; Hero Squared,production company.; Independent (Firm),presenter,production company.; LipSync Productions,presenter.; Metrol Technology,production company.; Quickfire Films,presenter.; Untapped (Firm),production company.; Vertical Entertainment (Firm),publisher.; XYZ Films,presenter.;
Director of photography, Laurie Rose ; editor, Adam Biskupski ; music, Steven Price.Theo James, Stacy Martin, Rhona Mitra, Peter Ferdinando, Richard Glover, Lia Williams, Toby Jones.In the near future, George Almore is working on a true human-equivalent AI. When his wife is tragically killed in a car accident, he becomes obsessed with the impossible: bringing her back to life. Her memories have been preserved thanks to the Archive, but only for so long. In a race against time, George must defy scientific and ethical boundaries to save the one he loves most.14A.Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby digital 5.1, Dolby digital 2.0.
Subjects: Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Science fiction films.; Feature films.; Artificial intelligence; Future life; Wives;
For private home use only.
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Lucky loser : how Donald Trump squandered his father's fortune and created the illusion of success / by Buettner, Russ,author.; Craig, Susanne,author.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 457-500) and index."Soon after announcing his first campaign for the US presidency, Donald J. Trump [said] ... that life 'has not been easy for me. It has not been easy for me.' Building on a narrative he had been telling for decades, he spun a hardscrabble fable of how he parlayed a small loan from his father into a multi-billion-dollar business and real estate empire. This feat, he argued, made him singularly qualified to lead the country. Except: None of it was true. Born to a rich father who made him the beneficiary of his own highly lucrative investments, Trump received the equivalent of more than $500 million today via means that required no business expertise whatsoever. Drawing on over twenty years' worth of Trump's confidential tax information -- including the tax returns he tried to conceal -- alongside business records and interviews with Trump insiders, New York Times investigative reporters Russ Buettner and Susanne Craig track Trump's financial rise and fall, and rise and fall again. For decades, he squanders his fortunes on money-losing businesses, only to be saved yet again by financial serendipity. He tacks his name above the door of every building, while taking out huge loans he'll never repay. He obsesses over appearances, while ignoring threats to the bottom line and mounting costly lawsuits against city officials. He tarnishes the value of his name by allowing anyone with a big enough check to use it, and cheats the television producer who not only rescues him from bankruptcy but casts him as a business savant -- the public image that will carry him to the White House"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; Trump, Donald, 1946-; Trump, Donald, 1946-; Trump, Donald, 1946-; Trump, Donald, 1946-; Trump family.; Trump Organization (New York, N.Y.); Businesspeople; Corporations; Fathers and sons; Presidents; Presidents; Wealth;
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Genetics for dummies / by Robinson, T. R.(Tara Rodden),author.; Spock, Lisa Cushman,author.;
"Are you a student of the sciences? Into research? Curious about how genetics affects your life? Then this book is for you! Here's a no-nonsense guide to help you understand genetics without boggling your mind. Get an overview of the basics, including cell biology and how traits are inherited. Delve into DNA, explore how genetics affects your health, see how gene therapy works, and understand the ethical issues involved with the field. This updated edition covers recent developments, trends, applications, and much more."--
Subjects: Handbooks and manuals.; Genetics; Medical genetics; Human genetics;
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Back in the land of the living : a novel / by Crocker, Eva,author.;
Back in the Land of the Living brings us a year in the life of Marcy, a young queer woman who moves to Montreal in the fall of 2019 after making a mess of her life in St. John's. Alone in a big city on the brink of lockdown, Marcy finds herself working an assortment of odd and sometimes dangerous, sometimes ethically questionable jobs, and swept up in a tumultuous romance with a charismatic woman. As friends, loyalties, and philosophies collide, Marcy tries to carve out a future amidst the intertwined crises of late capitalism, the climate apocalypse, and the Covid-19 pandemic.
Subjects: Bildungsromans.; Lesbian fiction.; Novels.; COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-; Interpersonal relations; Lesbians;
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Pet, pet, slap / by Battershill, Andrew,1988-author.;
"Pillow Wilson, a past-his-prime boxer, trains for his last title shot. Shenanigans ensue. Having recently undergone an ethical awakening, Pillow has converted to veganism and is in the middle of trying to rehome his menagerie of exotic pets (including Jersey Joe the sloth and Rigoberto the shark) in humane animal shelters. His roommate, Sherlock Holmes, has recently faked his own death by waterfall, and has now gone incognito and is Pillow's in-house doping expert. The thing is, Pillow doesn't feel all that motivated to train for his next big fight, and he's further distracted from his training when his car and pet shark mysteriously disappear. Luckily, Sherlock is a master of deduction. What follows is part underdog sports story, part work of Neozoological Surrealism, and part existential mystery novel."--
Subjects: Magic realist fiction.; Noir fiction.; Novels.; Boxers (Sports); Exotic animal owners; Exotic animals;
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