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"Se a roda do tempo não para de girar e as relações estão ficando cada vez mais complexas, surgem questionamentos sobre novas formas de propriedade relacionadas a ativos digitais, problemas relativos ao exercício de liberdades comunicativas em plataformas sociais, bem como o evidente recrudescimento dos direitos dos consumidores no mercado de consumo digital, em grande parte direcionado para crianças e adolescentes, aproveitando da baixa fiscalização no ambiente virtual. Para além disso, questões bioéticas e relacionadas a proteção de dados pessoais perpassam o noticiário trazendo situações que ainda não foram sindicadas pelo Poder Judiciário, que parece não dispor de toda...
"Sendo o Direito destinado à disciplina da liberdade, da conduta humana, para protegê-la, e proteger dela bens tidos como relevantes, o advento de agentes inteligentes capazes de interferir na vida, na liberdade e na propriedade de terceiros suscita a questão de saber como se dará a disciplina de sua atividade. Se e quando adquirirem consciência, colocar-se-á, por igual, indagação relacionada à possibilidade de serem explorados, maltratados ou destruídos; vale dizer, se têm dignidade. Mas, mesmo bem antes disso, já se suscitam problemas atrelados ao uso de sistemas dotados de uma inteligência mais restrita, que já auxiliam na condução de veículos, na tomada de decisões por ...
This resource combines hundreds of exquisite Netter images including several new paintings created especially for this book, with concise summaries of the most current medical thinking on common diseases/conditions, diagnostics, treatments, and protocols.
Was a monstrous killer brought to justice or an innocent mother condemned? On an April night in 1989, Jo Ann Parks survived a house fire that claimed the lives of her three small children. Though the fire at first seemed a tragic accident, investigators soon reported finding evidence proving that Parks had sabotaged wiring, set several fires herself, and even barricade her four-year-old son inside a closet to prevent his escape. Though she insisted she did nothing wrong, Jo Ann Parks received a life sentence without parole based on the power of forensic fire science that convincingly proved her guilt. But more than a quarter century later, a revolution in the science of fire has exposed many...
Open wide! Dentists care for people's teeth. Give readers the inside scoop on what it's like to be a dentist. Readers will learn what dentists do, the tools they use, and how people get this exciting job.
A circus picture book with a difference. Debra Barr-Smith's beautiful and lively monoprints and on-site ringside sketches are used to illustrate entertaining and enduring life lessons for children and adults of all ages.
What will it be like to live in Lagos 100 years after Nigeria gained independence from the British? In 2010, eight writers came together to contribute stories to an anthology on fictional / futuristic takes on the city of Lagos via a workshop tagged LAGOS_2060, conceived to commemorate Nigeria's golden jubilee. The anthology that grew out of the workshop is telling in the different versions of the future it foretells. In LAGOS_2060 - an unusual scenario planning exercise achieved through the power and magic of a creative writing programme - there are climate change induced natural disasters actively plugged by doomsday preachers of the day, there are serious government institutions involved ...
Named a Best Book of 2018 by the Financial Times and Fortune, this "thrilling" (Bill Gates) New York Times bestseller exposes how a "modern Gatsby" swindled over $5 billion with the aid of Goldman Sachs in "the heist of the century" (Axios). Now a #1 international bestseller, Billion Dollar Whale is "an epic tale of white-collar crime on a global scale" (Publishers Weekly), revealing how a young social climber from Malaysia pulled off one of the biggest heists in history. In 2009, a chubby, mild-mannered graduate of the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business named Jho Low set in motion a fraud of unprecedented gall and magnitude--one that would come to symbolize the next gre...
An epic trip across America with much-loved national treasure and comedy legend, Billy Connolly Billy Connolly has spent much of his life in the United States, where he now lives. It's a country he knows and loves a great deal, but even someone as well-travelled as Billy can always discover new things about such a vast nation. So he's off on the move again, this time via the tracks of the great railroads that helped to build the country. Billy's adventure takes him on an incredible trip through the backyard of America, tracing the routes taken by the first European settlers westwards from Chicago to California, then back down south and eastwards through Arizona, Texas, Alabama and finally New York, over 6,000 miles and 26 states later. It's a journey through a country you don't get to see from 30,000 feet in the air - the real America of friendly people with fascinating tales to tell which not only give us an insight into their lives, but also into the life of their great homeland. And it's a journey that couldn't be shared with a more entertaining companion. Hop aboard and join Billy on a trip you'll never forget. Update: Type size issue in ebook now fixed.