<p><b>A short, concise and user-friendly guide to the essential procedures of conducting a meeting, written by the authors of <i>Robert's Rules of Order Newly Revised</i>, the only authorized edition of the classic work on parliamentary procedure</b><br /> <br /> Originally published in 1876, General Henry M. Robert's guide to smooth, orderly, and fairly conducted meetings has sold over six million copies in eleven editions. <i>Robert's Rules of Order</i> is the book on parliamentary proceedings, yet those not well versed on what has now become a rather thick document can find themselves lost-and delayed-while trying to locate the most important rules. The solution? <i>Robert's Rules of Order Newly Revised in Brief</i>.<br /> <br /> Written by the same authorship team behind the officially sanctioned <i>Robert's Rules of Order</i>, this short and user-friendly edition takes readers through the rules most often needed at meetings--from debates to amendments to nominations. With sample dialogues and a guide to using the complete edition, <i>Robert's Rules of Order Newly Revised in Brief</i> is the essential handbook for parliamentary proceedings.<br /> <br /></p>

Robert's Rules of Order Newly Revised In Brief, 3rd edition

Business & Money

Robert III, Henry M.

Honemann, Daniel H

Balch, Thomas J

Seabold, Daniel E.

Gerber, Shmuel

Business Culture

PublicAffairs

Genesis Machine

<p><div>What if the miracle that created mRNA vaccines is less a once-in-lifetime event and more the harbinger of the emerging age of synthetic biology? This fusion of biology and computers has a singular goal: to gain access to cells in order to write new--and possibly better--biological code.&nbsp;<br aria-hidden="true" /> <br /> <br /> Synthetic biology promises to reveal how life is created and how it can be re-created, enabling scientists to rewrite the rules of our reality. It could help us, for example, heal without prescription medications, grow meat without harvesting animals, or confront our looming climate catastrophe. Synthetic biology will determine the ways in which we conceive future generations and how we define family, how we identify disease and treat aging, where we make our homes, and how we nourish ourselves. Soon, we will program living, biological structures as though they were tiny computers.&nbsp;<br aria-hidden="true" /> <br /> <br /> But who should decide how to engineer living organisms? Whether engineered organisms should be planted, farmed, and released into the wild? Should there be limits to human enhancements? Amy Webb and Andrew Hessel's riveting examination of synthetic biology and the bioeconomy provide the background for thinking through the upcoming risks and moral dilemmas posed by redesigning life, as well as the vast opportunities waiting for us on the horizon.</div></p>

The Genesis Machine: Our Quest to Rewrite Life in the Age of Synthetic Biology

Webb, Amy

Hessel, Andrew

Industries

<p><div><b>A breakthrough investigation of synthetic biology: the promising and controversial technology platform that combines biology and artificial intelligence and has the potential to program biological systems like we program computers.</b></div> <div>&nbsp; <div>Synthetic biology is the technique that enables us not just to read and edit but also write DNA to program living biological structures as though they were tiny computers. Unlike cloning Dolly the sheep-which cut and copied existing genetic material-the future of synthetic biology might be something like an app store, where you could download and add new capabilities into any cell, microbe, plant, or animal.</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>This breakthrough science has the potential to mitigate, perhaps solve, humanity's immediate and longer-term existential challenges: climate change; the feeding, clothing, housing, and caring for billions of humans; fighting the next viral outbreak before it becomes a global pandemic; old age as a treatable pathology; bringing back extinct animals.</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>It could also be anarchic and socially destructive. With our governing structures created in an era before startling advances in technology, we are not prepared for a future in which life could be manipulated or programmed.</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>As futurist Amy Webb and synthetic biologist Andrew Hessel show in this book, within the next decade, we will need to make important decisions: whether to program novel viruses to fight diseases, what genetic privacy will look like, who will "own" living organisms, how companies should earn revenue from engineered cells, and how to contain a synthetic organism in a lab. <i>The Genesis Machine&#8203;</i> provides the background for us to understand and grapple with these issues, and think through the religious, philosophical, and ethical implications for the future.</div> </div></p>

<b>Through the vivid, true stories of five people who journeyed into and out of addiction, a renowned neuroscientist explains why the "disease model" of addiction is wrong and illuminates the path to recovery.</b><br><br>The psychiatric establishment and rehab industry in the Western world have branded addiction a brain disease. But in <i>The Biology of Desire</i>, cognitive neuroscientist and former addict Marc Lewis makes a convincing case that addiction is not a disease, and shows why the disease model has become an obstacle to healing.<br><br>Lewis reveals addiction as an unintended consequence of the brain doing what it's supposed to do-seek pleasure and relief-in a world that's not cooperating. As a result, most treatment based on the disease model fails. Lewis shows how treatment can be retooled to achieve lasting recovery. This is enlightening and optimistic reading for anyone who has wrestled with addiction either personally or professionally.<br><br>

The Biology of Desire: Why Addiction Is Not a Disease

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Lewis PhD, Marc

Mental Health

<b>In the 1940s, the brightest minds of the United States and Nazi Germany raced to West Africa with a single mission: to secure the essential ingredient of the atomic bomband to make sure nobody saw them doing it</b><br><br>Albert Einstein told President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1939 that the world's only supply of uniquely high-quality uranium orethe key ingredient for bomb could be found in the Katanga province of the Belgian Congo at the Shinkolobwe Mine. Once the US Manhattan Project was committed to developing atomic weapons for the war against Germany and Japan, the rush to procure this uranium became a top priorityone deemed vital to the welfare of the United States.”<br>But covertly exporting it from Africa posed a major risk: the ore had to travel via a spy-infested Angolan port or 1,500 miles by rail through the Congo, and then be shipped by boats or Pan Am Clippers to safety in the United States. It could be poached or smuggled at any point on the orders of Nazi Germany. To combat that threat, the US Office of Strategic Services sent in a team of intrepid spies, led by Wilbur Owings Dock” Hogue, to be America's eyes and ears and to protect its most precious and destructive cargo.<br><br>Packed with newly discovered details from American and British archives, this is the gripping, true story of the unsung heroism of a handful of good menand one womanin colonial Africa who risked their lives in the fight against fascism and helped deny Hitler his atomic bomb.<br>

Spies in the Congo: America's Atomic Mission in World War II

History

Williams, Susan

Africa

<b>Through the vivid, true stories of five people who journeyed into and out of addiction, a renowned neuroscientist explains why the "disease model" of addiction is wrong and illuminates the path to recovery.</b>The psychiatric establishment and rehab industry in the Western world have branded addiction a brain disease. But in <i>The Biology of Desire</i>, cognitive neuroscientist and former addict Marc Lewis makes a convincing case that addiction is not a disease, and shows why the disease model has become an obstacle to healing.Lewis reveals addiction as an unintended consequence of the brain doing what it's supposed to do-seek pleasure and relief-in a world that's not cooperating. As a result, most treatment based on the disease model fails. Lewis shows how treatment can be retooled to achieve lasting recovery. This is enlightening and optimistic reading for anyone who has wrestled with addiction either personally or professionally.

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