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"The New York Times bestselling business journalist Christopher Leonard infiltrates one of America's most mysterious institutions--the Federal Reserve--to show how its policies over the past ten years have accelerated income inequality and put our country's economic stability at risk"--
"Between the joy of being a protected, cherished child and the contentment of being a free, independent adult is the fun, the frustration, the confusion, the boredom, the excitement, the despondence, and the elation of a teenager." - Barbara Cage The teenage years fundamentally transform the lives of young people -- as well as the roles played by their parents. In the midst of so many changes, the most meaningful things can sometimes go unsaid. It's particularly important at times like these to keep open the lines of communication... to give parents an opportunity to share their hopes, advice, and life experiences; to empower teenagers with some well-deserved encouragement as they find their...
How games are being harnessed as instruments of exploitation—and what we can do about it Warehouse workers pack boxes while a virtual dragon races across their screen. If they beat their colleagues, they get an award. If not, they can be fired. Uber presents exhausted drivers with challenges to keep them driving. China scores its citizens so they behave well, and games with in-app purchases use achievements to empty your wallet. Points, badges, and leaderboards are creeping into every aspect of modern life. In You’ve Been Played, game designer Adrian Hon delivers a blistering takedown of how corporations, schools, and governments use games and gamification as tools for profit and coercion. These are games that we often have no choice but to play, where losing has heavy penalties. You’ve Been Played is a scathing indictment of a tech-driven world that wants to convince us that misery is fun, and a call to arms for anyone who hopes to preserve their dignity and autonomy.
Emergency General Surgery has become a cornerstone of Acute Care Surgery over the past decade. Once the scope of community general surgeons, the growing complexity of patients with acute surgical diseases has increasingly driven their care to tertiary referral centers. The aging population confounds this problem further as these patients present with more complex comorbidities, life-threatening physiology, and progressively severe anatomic disease severity. To ensure better outcomes, the practice has evolved to focus on evidence-based practice management guidelines in order to standardize care and optimize outcomes. The purpose of this text is to be a comprehensive volume for patients with a...
Self-Publishing: The Ultimate Guide On How to Self-Publish a Book, Learn the Easiest and Most Effective Ways on How You Can Publish Your Book Without a Traditional Publisher If you have looked into publishing your book before, you are probably aware of the traditional way to publish books. You also probably have a basic idea that you can actually self-publish your own work. Although going through the traditional way will give a better chance of your book being read by people, it's usually a long process and may take about a year or even longer from the time you submitted the manuscript to the time it gets produced and published. This is the reason why more and more authors have taken the sel...