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A crack in creation : gene editing and the unthinkable power to control evolution / by Doudna, Jennifer A.,author.; Sternberg, Samuel H.,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Genetic engineering; Genetic code.; Genetics;

Tripped : Nazi Germany, the CIA, and the dawn of the psychedelic age / by Ohler, Norman,author.; Yarbrough, Marshall,translator.; translation of:Ohler, Norman.Stärkste Stoff.English.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Berlin 1945. Following the fall of the Third Reich, drug use--long kept under control by the Nazis' strict anti-drug laws--is rampant throughout the city. Split into four sectors, Berlin's drug policies are being enforced under the individual jurisdictions of each allied power--the Soviet Union, Britain, France, and the US. In the American zone, Arthur J. Giuliani of the nascent Federal Bureau of Narcotics is tasked with learning about the Nazis' anti-drug laws and bringing home anything that might prove "useful" to the United States. Five years later, Harvard professor Dr. Henry Beecher began work with the US government to uncover the research behind the Nazis psychedelics program. Begun as an attempt to find a "truth serum" and experiment with mind control, the Nazi study initially involved mescaline, but quickly expanded to include LSD. Originally created for medical purposes by Swiss pharmaceutical Sandoz, the Nazis coopted the drug for their mind control military research--research that, following the war, the US was desperate to acquire. This research birthed MKUltra, the CIA's notorious brainwashing and psychological torture program during the 1950s and 1960s, and ultimately shaped US drug policy regarding psychedelics for over half a century. Based on extensive archival research on both sides of the Atlantic, TRIPPED is a wild, unconventional postwar history, a spiritual sequel to Norman Ohler's New York Times bestseller BLITZED. Revealing the close relationship and hidden connections between the Nazis and the early days of drugs in America, Ohler shares how this secret history held back therapeutic research of psychedelic drugs for decades and eventually became part of the foundation of America's War on Drugs"--
Subjects: United States. Central Intelligence Agency.; Brainwashing; Brainwashing; Drug control; Drug control; LSD (Drug); LSD (Drug);

Your brain [videorecording] / by Alvarado, David(David Anthony),television director,television producer.; Berlin, Heather,host.; Bicks, Michael,television director,television producer,screenwriter.; Strachan, Anna Lee,television director,television producer,screenwriter.; Sussberg, Jason,television director,television producer,screenwriter.; PBS Distribution (Firm),distributor.; Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.),broadcaster.;
Host, Heather Berlin."How does your brain create your reality? Are you in control, or is your brain controlling you? Discover the surprising answers based on the latest research in this journey into the human brain with neuroscientist Heather Berlin. Your brain - for centuries a black box - is slowly giving up its secrets to modern neuroscience, shedding light on big questions that go to the very heart of who you are." --container.E.Described video for the blind and visually impaired.Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).DVD ; wide screen presentation ; stereophonic.
Subjects: Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Nonfiction television programs.; Documentary television programs.; Educational television programs.; Science television programs.; Brain.; Neurosciences.;
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Like lava in my veins / by Barnes, Derrick.; Martinbrough, Shawn.;
"Bobby Beacon has trouble controlling his hot temper at his superhero school."--
Subjects: Superhero fiction.; Picture books.; Temper; Superheroes; Schools;

The infiltrator [videorecording] / by Aubrey, Juliet,1969-actor.; Cranston, Bryan,1956-actor.; Dukakis, Olympia,actor.; Furman, Brad,film director.; Furman, Ellen Brown,screenwriter.; Kruger, Diane,1976-actor.; Leguizamo, John,actor.; Motion picture adaptation of (work):Mazur, Robert.Infiltrator.; Broad Green Pictures (Firm),publisher.; Mongrel Media.;
Bryan Cranston, John Leguizamo, Diane Kruger, Olympia Dukakis, Juliet Aubrey.A U.S. Customs official uncovers a money laundering scheme involving Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.MPAA Rating: R; for strong violence, language throughout, some sexual content and drug material.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Biographical films.; Crime films.; Feature films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Escobar, Pablo; Medellín Cartel; Cocaine industry; Drug control; Drug dealers; Money laundering;
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Surveillance state : inside China's quest to launch a new era of social control / by Chin, Josh,author.; Lin, Liza,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Josh Chin and Liza Lin's Surveillance State is a groundbreaking work of investigative nonfiction on life in China's burgeoning surveillance state People living in democracies have for decades drawn comfort from the notion that their form of government, for all its flaws, is the best history has managed to produce. Surveillance State documents with startling detail how even as China's Communist Party pays lip service to democracy as a core value of "socialism with Chinese characteristics," it is striving for something new: a political model that shapes the will of the people not through the ballot box but through the sophisticated-and often brutal-harnessing of data. On the country's remote Central Asian frontier, where a separatist movement strains against Party control, China's leaders have built a dystopian police state that keeps millions under the constant gaze of security forces armed with AI. Across the country in the city of Hangzhou, the government is weaving a digital utopia, where tech giants help optimize the friction out of daily life. Award-winning journalists Josh Chin and Liza Lin take readers on a journey through both places, and several in between, as they document the Party's ambitious push-aided, in some cases, by American technology-to engineer a new society around the power of digital surveillance. China is hardly alone. As faith in democratic principles wavers, advances in surveillance have upended debate about the balance between security and liberty in countries around the globe, including the US. Succeed or fail, the Chinese experiment has implications for people everywhere"--
Subjects: Artificial intelligence; Electronic surveillance; Internal security; Social control;

A world away / by Baker, Clair.; Wilson, Drew(Illustrator); Tweedie, Wendy.; Reis-Frankfort, Tamar.;
This book focuses on: er, ir, ur, or and ear
Subjects: Readers (Publications); Dyslexia-friendly books.; R-Controlled Vowels. ; Phonics.; Decodable books.; Reading; English language; English language; Friendship; Quakers; Siblings; Grandparents; Photography;

Taking charge of your fertility : the definitive guide to natural birth control, pregnancy achievement, and reproductive health / by Weschler, Toni,1955-;
Includes bibliographical references and index.LSC
Subjects: Natural family planning.; Conception.; Fertility, Human.;

Make : Fusion 360 for makers : design your own digital models for 3D printing and CNC fabrication / by Cline, Lydia Sloan,author.;
Subjects: Fusion 360.; Computer-aided design.; Machine-tools; Makerspaces.; Three-dimensional modeling.; Three-dimensional printing.;

No more nice girls : gender, power, and why it's time to stop playing by the rules / by McKeon, Lauren,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."In the age of girl bosses, Beyoncé, and Black Widow, we like to tell our little girls they can be anything they want when they grow up, except they'll have to work twice as hard, be told to "play nice," and face countless double standards that curb their personal, political, and economic power. Today, long after the rise of girl power in the 90s, the failed promise of a female president, and the ubiquity of feminist-branded everything, women are still a surprisingly, depressingly long way from gender and racial equality. It's worth asking: Why do we keep trying to win a game we were never meant to play in the first place? Award-winning journalist and author Lauren McKeon examines the varied ways in which our institutions are designed to keep women and other marginalized genders at a disadvantage and shows us why we need more than parity, visible diversity, and lone female CEOs to change this power game. She uncovers new models of power-- ones the patriarchy doesn't get to define-- by talking to lawyers insisting on gender-neutral change rooms in courthouses, programmers creating apps to track the breakdown of men and women being quoted in the news media, educators illustrating tampon packaging with pictures of black bodies, mixed martial artists teaching young girls self-empowerment, entrepreneurs prioritizing trauma-informed office cultures, and many other women doing power differently. As the toxic, divisive, and hyper-masculine style of leadership gains ground, threatening democracy here and abroad, McKeon underscores why it's time to stop playing by the rules of a rigged game. No More Nice Girls charts a hopeful and potent path forward for how to disrupt the standard (very male) vision of power, ditch convention, and build a more equitable world for everyone."--
Subjects: Equality.; Feminism.; Power (Social sciences); Sex discrimination against women.; Social control.; Women; Women's rights.;

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