Kirjahaku

Now is an important time in human history. Viral outbreaks threaten lives and make headlines. We see new diseases appear and spread across the planet. We map our genetic code. And we now share the planet with lifeforms of our own creation.A global communication system keeps us informed. But a global system of trade agreements plays a very important role we do not hear so much about. These trade agreements govern, among other things, patent protection for intellectual property.When a nation accepts a trade agreement treating medicines as intellectual property, it can find itself ill-equipped to confront public health crises like outbreaks of viruses and disease. Genetic material, too, can become protected intellectual property, although the courts of different nations disagree on just what material and how protected it might be. Once the subject of futuristic science fiction novels, the commodification and ownership of human genetic material has become our reality in the 21st century.The two essays in this booklet address the ethical concerns as well as the practical, administrative realities for the offices and courts where governments make decisions that affect all of us; our health, our genetic code, and our future.

Three Years Dreaming may the only book of its kind, a three-year memoir told entirely in dreams. Dreams follow their own logic, creating unusual narratives where the impossible becomes commonplace.The dream journal is a candid, intimate record of events that never happened. Dive into the forgotten life we live when we are not awake. Experience the unconscious. Dream. And when it ends the only way a dream really can, you will have survived the journey.This book holds three chapters, each containing a year of dreams.

Consider two substances, each with a body of research confirming its toxicity to human beings. People consume one of the substances for pleasure, and the other for its supposed health benefits. The World Health Organization actively bands nations together to reduce the marketability and consumption of the former, yet promotes the latter as an effective health measure. The essays in this book examine the policies governing these two substances: tobacco and fluoride. Tobacco control policies have gained significant traction as nations around the world evaluate the success of Australia's recent laws concerning cigarette packaging. Given impetus by the World Health Organization's Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, these policies have met with little public resistance, their sole opponents the companies which manufacture tobacco products. At the same time, another movement has gained traction: the opposition to adding fluoride to municipal water systems. Though the World Health Organization advocates fluoridation, a growing number of researchers and voters have called its touted benefits into question. Unlike tobacco, the efforts to eliminate fluoride have met resistance from the medical establishment.What is the future of these two substances, each known to have harmful effects on human beings and yet viewed so differently in the court of public opinion? The two essays in this book will answer that question.

The FCC's 2015 Open Internet Order reclassified high-speed broadband Internet access as a telecommunications service subject to common carriage requirements under Title II of the Telecommunications Act of 1996. This change resulted from decades of technological convergence, litigation, and increasing popular and political pressure. The Order's service requirements and ban on paid prioritization, though contentious, paved the way for the FCC's vision of nationwide broadband. But the future of net neutrality and the 2015 Order remain uncertain. Since the Order's enactment in 2015, changes in FCC leadership have followed in the wake of the 2016 presidential election. What will happen next?This booklet is now updated with the February 2017 essay "Two Years of Net Neutrality: A Policy Analysis Follow-Up". It updates court decisions which were pending at the time of the original essay. It also reviews the litigation the FCC used to enforce the 2015 Order, and it addresses the changes in the FCC's leadership since the Order's enactment.

Meet Meteor Mags. She's a space pirate, tobacco smuggler, pole dancer, and rock'n'roll rebel. Mags blazes through the Solar System in a series of anarchist adventures with her foul-mouthed nephew, Tarzi, and her adorably indestructible cat, Patches. Rock out with Meteor Mags, her best friend Celina, and her band the Psycho 78s on the asteroid mining frontier of the near future, where mayhem abounds and the heroes aren't always good Join Mags as she confronts a telepathic kraken in an asteroid laboratory Struggle for your life against a robotic Mags Travel back in time to witness the life-changing events of her childhood Smuggle cigarettes into Canada and shoot semi-automatic weapons at scumbags Paperback edition includes black-and-white drawings, Asteroid Underground interviews, and four short stories: The Western Route, Red Metal at Dawn, The Curtain of Fire, and Daughter of Lightning.These stories all appear in the Meteor Mags: Omnibus Edition

From cyberspace to outer space, public policy shapes our lives, our planet, and our future. The ten essays collected in Laws That Shape Our Lives examine such controversial policy measures as net neutrality, tobacco packaging, water fluoridation, same-sex marriage, and the patenting of biological & genetic material. Written in an academic style based on research and primary source documents, Laws That Shape Our Lives presents a comprehensive analysis of the history, major points of debate, and the current state of affairs of these topics and more. Laws That Shape Our Lives takes a look at public policy on the municipal, state, national, and international levels where decisions are made which affect us all. Whether you are a student of public administration or simply interested in getting a sense of the bigger picture, Laws That Shape Our Lives will provide an informative and in-depth experience of the world of public policy.

This book is a minimalist design experiment. The text consists of a single 100-word sentence printed as one word per page.

Two Hundred is a scrapbook filled with artifacts from the author's twenties and thirties, including otherwise unpublished poems, sketches, memoirs, song lyrics, and dreams.

Blind Alley Blues blasts off from where The Lost Crew of the Volya IX ended.Join Meteor Mags and her criminal crew on a suicide mission to Ceres, and help them steal the biggest guns in the Solar System Bang your head as the Psycho 78s play their most nefarious concert of all time, and find out how the band originally got together Run for your life in the tornado that terrifies an entire asteroid And grab all the ammo you can carry, because you are rocking the Asteroid Belt with Meteor Mags and Patches

Adonvdo Yona (Bear Spirit) Mountain: An Ancestral Awakening is the memoir of a man who received a spiritual promise when he was younger and goes on to discover his American Indian roots as the path to turn this promise into a reality. The author shares the details of his life with his rediscovered indigenous culture, as he acquires an ancient Pleistocene period American Indian site where he experiences a mystical awakening. It is an adventure story which captivates the reader and leads them to look forward to the next phase. Readers will enjoy learning about the authors spiritual life and how he was able to reconnect his ancestral past to his present and future as he studies, preserves and protects this archaeological treasure.

On the asteroid mining frontier of the near future, a hell-raising space pirate and her indestructible calico cat rage against the forces of law and order, "liberating" cargo and racking up a massive body count-until they come face-to-face with an alien invasion Join Meteor Mags and her criminal crew, the hard-rocking Psycho 78s, in fifteen tales of interplanetary piracy and total destruction. Run for your life in the tornado that wipes out Ceres Thrill to the savage mating rituals practiced by the evil space lizards Learn how to smuggle cigarettes and shoot pool with the solar system's number one dancer Witness the unearthly energies of the machine that transforms Patches the cat, and merge your mind with a telepathic space kraken From rescuing a pirate radio DJ in a hail of bullets to dancing naked with a tribe of Russian space monkeys, Mags and her outlaw friends rock the Belt. But how long can they survive when everyone on Earth wants them dead? Get ready for asteroids, anarchy, and excessive ammunition, because Meteor Mags and Patches are back-bigger, badder, and louder than ever Paperback edition includes black-and-white art plus Asteroid Underground articles and interviews with the crew.

An interplanetary biologist locks himself in a fortified research lab with an alien octopus, stranding his teammates outside in the path of a ferocious hurricane on a water-covered world. The animal already killed one of them, and the scientist-commandos must get inside to confront it, or die in the storm. But the octopus has plans of its own, because it just discovered a new species, too: humans.The 34-page mini-paperback includes the short story Never See the Night and five poems.

Two lucid dreamers meet in recurring dreams, fall in love, and conceive a dream baby; but the unreality of the dream world leads them to distrust each other-with nightmarish results.A paranoid exploration of two minds dreaming the same dream, and fighting to control it.

Four Action-Packed Stories Full of Anarchy, Asteroids, and Excessive Ammunition Continue The Adventures of Meteor Mags and Patches Hoist the Jolly Roger and Get Ready to Rock Rings of Ceres: A hell-raising space pirate and her indestructible calico cat return to a decimated asteroid civilization to rescue friends and kick ass, but they get caught up in violent riots between the desperate citizens of Ceres and the mercenary security forces guarding the mining corporations.Jam Room: Meteor Mags leads a jam session with the teenagers who want to start a punk band called Dumpster Kittens The Battle of Vesta 4: Meteor Mags and her fun-loving crew throw the birthday party of a lifetime-until death rains down from the sky Mosh at the rock'n'roll party of the century as the Psycho 78s record their new album Flee in terror as Club Assteroid falls under the dragons' assault from space Discover the underground caverns of Vesta and join the resistance Take one last hell ride aboard the Queen Anne before it all goes up in flame Strap on your battle armor and get ready for the most brutal, barbaric, blood-soaked fight of your life: the Battle of Vesta 4 Hunted to Extinction: Meteor Mags and Patches undertake one last hunt to exterminate the space lizards from our solar system. Their journey reveals the fate of Tarzi's parents, a tragedy that connects our criminal crew to a powerful potential ally. Plus, Mags gets a new ship, and it's got even more kick-ass stolen technology to help her plunder the System Her club might have been destroyed, but Meteor Mags and her friends will never accept defeat so long as they live.May not be suitable for children or carbon-based life.

Municipalities can revitalize their communities and improve their finances by taking the future of broadband into their own hands. This book will help them understand how to do it. Drawing on case studies from public administrators and peer-reviewed literature, this book identifies the factors that determine success or failure for a publicly owned broadband network.The political dimension of municipal broadband largely defines whether public networks are legally possible to build in any given state. But it takes more than favorable legislation to make a network successful. Public administrators must also consider other dimensions of the problem: social, technological, financial, planning, and business models.This multi-faceted problem does have solutions, and local governments across the nation have risen to the challenge of finding them. By learning from past triumphs and tragedies, administrators of future projects can steer projects in the right direction from the very beginning. Although the status of Internet access as a public utility remains contested at the federal level, delivering it as such has become a reality for hundreds of municipalities in the United States.When cities build their own broadband networks and take control out of the hands of private ISPs, this public action threatens private monopolization. Private ISPs respond by lobbying state legislatures to enact laws restricting the growth of municipal broadband. In about half of the states in the nation, they have been successful. But a rising tide of hundreds of municipal networks resists the control of private ISPs, delivering more bandwidth and higher speeds at a lower cost than the corporate giants can (or want to) match.Municipal broadband has become a crucial component of a free and open Internet. This book examines the relation of municipal broadband to recent developments in net neutrality policy, including the 2015 Open Internet Order and the FCC's December 2017 vote to repeal certain provisions of the Order.

Presenting 50 original free-verse poems in a paperback companion to the audiobook Inner Planets, featuring a selection of works previously published in Animal Inside You, Anything Sounds Like a Symphony, Never See the Night, and two previously uncollected poems

Reprint of the original, first published in 1872. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1872. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.