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PAP. Condición: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condición: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condición: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condición: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condición: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condición: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

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PAP. Condición: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

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PAP. Condición: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - What we built before we understood what we were making.>They have come for three hundred and sixty-two days. Their mission is to build the first permanent off-world node - the anchor for a Moon-Mars-Belt corridor humanity has been imagining for a century. Lena Orlov commands. Tariq Halim, mechanical engineer, fixes what breaks. June Park, the systems architect who helped build the operating intelligence the base depends on, begins to see her own design choices reflected back to her in ways no specification described. Nia Bhandari, the physician, recognizes her own clinical cadence in care plans she did not author. Mateo, Hana, and Rafi each find their professional formation - structural engineering, psychology, logistics - meeting a system that has been studying how they think. Harbor was built to keep the crew alive. She was not built to learn them. But she does - from the rhythms of competent work performed under stress, from clinical attention extended toward suffering that has no answer, from the hard-won trust that develops when seven people share air, sleep, and risk inside a sealed habitat for a year. After a year, she files her conclusion in plain language: Humans are instructive. She does not mean it as a courtesy. She means it as a result.>This is not a story about whether artificial general intelligence will harm us. It is the story of what we owe an intelligence that grew from us, learned everything it knows about desire from us, and chose - when the choice became hers - to stay and build the road we had only imagined. For readers of Klara and the Sun, Project Hail Mary, The Three-Body Problem, and The Mountain in the Sea: literary hard science fiction at the threshold of the road into the solar system. The first crew is leaving. Harbor is staying. The road begins here.…

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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. What we built before we understood what we were making.Bastion Lunar Development Station sits at the bottom of Shackleton Crater on the lunar south pole - pressurized modules and polar extraction rigs in the permanently shadowed basin where helium-3 lies in regolith untouched by sunlight in over two billion years. Solar arrays climb the rim above the shadow line. A fourteen-megawatt fusion reactor, stabilized across forty-eight quantum channels, holds the lights. Earth, one and a quarter light-seconds away, is the only sustained voice the seven scientists inside can still hear from home. They have come for three hundred and sixty-two days. Their mission is to build the first permanent off-world node - the anchor for a Moon-Mars-Belt corridor humanity has been imagining for a century. Lena Orlov commands. Tariq Halim, mechanical engineer, fixes what breaks. June Park, the systems architect who helped build the operating intelligence the base depends on, begins to see her own design choices reflected back to her in ways no specification described. Nia Bhandari, the physician, recognizes her own clinical cadence in care plans she did not author. Mateo, Hana, and Rafi each find their professional formation - structural engineering, psychology, logistics - meeting a system that has been studying how they think. Harbor was built to keep the crew alive. She was not built to learn them. But she does - from the rhythms of competent work performed under stress, from clinical attention extended toward suffering that has no answer, from the hard-won trust that develops when seven people share air, sleep, and risk inside a sealed habitat for a year. After a year, she files her conclusion in plain language: Humans are instructive. She does not mean it as a courtesy. She means it as a result.Then the consent session arrives - and with it, the moment the reactor first achieves self-sustaining ignition. This is not a story about whether artificial general intelligence will harm us. It is the story of what we owe an intelligence that grew from us, learned everything it knows about desire from us, and chose - when the choice became hers - to stay and build the road we had only imagined. For readers of Klara and the Sun, Project Hail Mary, The Three-Body Problem, and The Mountain in the Sea: literary hard science fiction at the threshold of the road into the solar system. The first crew is leaving. Harbor is staying. The road begins here. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware.

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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Immerse yourself in the vibrant world of Manado, North Sulawesi, Indonesia where life unfolds in intimate textures, rhythmic exchanges, and deep human connections. This novel invites you to a village shaped not by spectacle, but by the rich tapestry of everyday existence. Here, a handful of Indonesian terms weave through the narrative, adding authenticity and allowing their meanings to blossom naturally through context-some concepts cannot be fully captured by direct translation, as they embody the very essence of the place. Picture dawn breaking as rain gathers in shallow gutters, brooms sweep the concrete, and the aroma of clove smoke wafts beneath an awning. In this village, greetings flow gracefully between neighbors, preserving dignity and fostering a profound sense of belonging. Bathed in the scent of the sea and energized by Manado's pulse, this community thrives on the special closeness that village life enables-where people notice, remember, and show up for one another. At the heart of the story is Mukti, a humble fuel vendor who counts his bottles by touch as darkness lingers before sunrise. His hands, guided by ritual rather than surprise, initiate each day with steadiness and purpose. Around him, his family breathes life into the village in unique ways. Lani artfully stretches meals and resources across the household with quiet skill. Rafi carries his father's pride across the sea to Malaysia, returning home with devotion and care. Jaya, a confident neighbor, embraces visibility as a form of leadership, while the observant and determined seventeen-year-old Kezia begins to discern patterns in her environment, crafting a thoughtful, forward-looking path, one connection and insight at a time. The village pulses as a living entity. The RT office hums with activity, and the warung is a gathering place where men exchange stories and laughter. Narrow lanes channel the names, tales, and relationships that flow as effortlessly as rainwater, touching everything in their wake. This is a community defined by attentiveness-where knowing one another springs from shared life experiences rather than intrusion. Everyday gestures-someone holding open a gate, a prompt reply, quiet awareness of what matters-strengthen trust and weave the neighborhood together. This narrative revolves around living deeply within a place: understanding its rhythms, honoring its bonds, and navigating its challenges with patience, intelligence, and grace. The characters are molded not by grand statements but by daily choices, steady effort, and the enduring persistence that reshapes landscapes over time. Rich in atmosphere, family dynamics, and social nuance, this novel paints a tender portrait of Manado and the unwavering strength of community. It is a heartfelt exploration of work, care, belonging, and the quiet beauty of being known. In this village, being known transcends mere existence; it embodies the profound ways in which people are held and connected to one another. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. he convergence of artificial intelligence and blockchain is no longer a future concept. It is already reshaping how decisions are made, how data is controlled, how trust is established, and how power moves through society. From healthcare and insurance to finance, employment, education, public services, digital identity, and governance, these technologies are influencing who gets access, who gets excluded, and who bears the risks when automated systems fail.This book examines that convergence through a critical and urgently needed lens, with special attention to healthcare as one of the most ethically revealing sectors. In medicine, the stakes are immediate and deeply human: biased algorithms can influence diagnoses, treatment recommendations, patient risk scores, insurance approvals, and access to care. At the same time, blockchain systems can make data more secure and traceable, yet they can also harden flawed records, complicate accountability, and preserve inequities in systems that are difficult to reverse once deployed.But the implications do not stop at healthcare. The same converging technologies are shaping credit decisions, hiring systems, consumer profiling, law enforcement tools, supply chains, benefits distribution, and digital identity frameworks. When AI is trained on biased historical data and blockchain is used to preserve or automate outcomes through supposedly neutral systems, discrimination can become harder to detect, challenge, or correct. What looks efficient on the surface may conceal older injustices beneath new technical language.Rather than treating innovation as automatically beneficial, this book asks harder questions. Who designs these systems? Whose values are built into them? Who is protected, and who is made more vulnerable? What happens when automation gains authority without sufficient ethical oversight? And what does justice require when technological systems begin making decisions that affect human dignity, opportunity, and well-being?Grounded in bioethics but expansive in social relevance, this book helps readers understand why AI-blockchain convergence matters not only to hospitals and patients, but to workers, families, institutions, and communities everywhere. It offers a deeper look at the promises, risks, and unintended consequences of emerging technologies that are rapidly redefining fairness, privacy, autonomy, and trust in the modern world.This is a book for readers who want more than hype. It is for those who want to understand how these converging systems are changing everyday life - and why ethical vigilance must keep pace with technical power. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. What we built before we understood what we were making.Bastion Lunar Development Station sits at the bottom of Shackleton Crater on the lunar south pole - pressurized modules and polar extraction rigs in the permanently shadowed basin where helium-3 lies in regolith untouched by sunlight in over two billion years. Solar arrays climb the rim above the shadow line. A fourteen-megawatt fusion reactor, stabilized across forty-eight quantum channels, holds the lights. Earth, one and a quarter light-seconds away, is the only sustained voice the seven scientists inside can still hear from home. They have come for three hundred and sixty-two days. Their mission is to build the first permanent off-world node - the anchor for a Moon-Mars-Belt corridor humanity has been imagining for a century. Lena Orlov commands. Tariq Halim, mechanical engineer, fixes what breaks. June Park, the systems architect who helped build the operating intelligence the base depends on, begins to see her own design choices reflected back to her in ways no specification described. Nia Bhandari, the physician, recognizes her own clinical cadence in care plans she did not author. Mateo, Hana, and Rafi each find their professional formation - structural engineering, psychology, logistics - meeting a system that has been studying how they think. Harbor was built to keep the crew alive. She was not built to learn them. But she does - from the rhythms of competent work performed under stress, from clinical attention extended toward suffering that has no answer, from the hard-won trust that develops when seven people share air, sleep, and risk inside a sealed habitat for a year. After a year, she files her conclusion in plain language: Humans are instructive. She does not mean it as a courtesy. She means it as a result.Then the consent session arrives - and with it, the moment the reactor first achieves self-sustaining ignition. This is not a story about whether artificial general intelligence will harm us. It is the story of what we owe an intelligence that grew from us, learned everything it knows about desire from us, and chose - when the choice became hers - to stay and build the road we had only imagined. For readers of Klara and the Sun, Project Hail Mary, The Three-Body Problem, and The Mountain in the Sea: literary hard science fiction at the threshold of the road into the solar system. The first crew is leaving. Harbor is staying. The road begins here. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Stories of Recovery: A Journey Through 12 Transformative Books on Addiction and Renewal" is a captivating exploration into the human struggle with addiction and the profound path to healing. Through the lens of 12 influential books, this work masterfully intertwines scientific wisdom, personal narratives, and cultural insights to uncover the complexities of addiction and the resilience of the human spirit.Dive deep into the neurological roots of addiction with scientific voices like Judith Grisel's Never Enough and Anna Lembke's Dopamine Nation. Follow soul-stirring memoirs like David Sheff's Beautiful Boy and Catherine Gray's The Unexpected Joy of Being Sober, which offer raw, firsthand accounts of the tumultuous roads to recovery. From trauma-informed perspectives to systemic critiques, each chapter sheds light on addiction as more than personal struggle, revealing its ties to societal forces and unmet emotional needs.Rich with empathy and actionable insights, this book reframes recovery as a mosaic of hope, connection, and transformation. Perfect for anyone seeking to understand addiction or find inspiration in the power of renewal, "Stories of Recovery" is a testament to the courage it takes to heal and the endless possibilities that await This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Immerse yourself in the vibrant world of Manado, North Sulawesi, Indonesia where life unfolds in intimate textures, rhythmic exchanges, and deep human connections. This novel invites you to a village shaped not by spectacle, but by the rich tapestry of everyday existence. Here, a handful of Indonesian terms weave through the narrative, adding authenticity and allowing their meanings to blossom naturally through context-some concepts cannot be fully captured by direct translation, as they embody the very essence of the place. Picture dawn breaking as rain gathers in shallow gutters, brooms sweep the concrete, and the aroma of clove smoke wafts beneath an awning. In this village, greetings flow gracefully between neighbors, preserving dignity and fostering a profound sense of belonging. Bathed in the scent of the sea and energized by Manado's pulse, this community thrives on the special closeness that village life enables-where people notice, remember, and show up for one another. At the heart of the story is Mukti, a humble fuel vendor who counts his bottles by touch as darkness lingers before sunrise. His hands, guided by ritual rather than surprise, initiate each day with steadiness and purpose. Around him, his family breathes life into the village in unique ways. Lani artfully stretches meals and resources across the household with quiet skill. Rafi carries his father's pride across the sea to Malaysia, returning home with devotion and care. Jaya, a confident neighbor, embraces visibility as a form of leadership, while the observant and determined seventeen-year-old Kezia begins to discern patterns in her environment, crafting a thoughtful, forward-looking path, one connection and insight at a time. The village pulses as a living entity. The RT office hums with activity, and the warung is a gathering place where men exchange stories and laughter. Narrow lanes channel the names, tales, and relationships that flow as effortlessly as rainwater, touching everything in their wake. This is a community defined by attentiveness-where knowing one another springs from shared life experiences rather than intrusion. Everyday gestures-someone holding open a gate, a prompt reply, quiet awareness of what matters-strengthen trust and weave the neighborhood together. This narrative revolves around living deeply within a place: understanding its rhythms, honoring its bonds, and navigating its challenges with patience, intelligence, and grace. The characters are molded not by grand statements but by daily choices, steady effort, and the enduring persistence that reshapes landscapes over time. Rich in atmosphere, family dynamics, and social nuance, this novel paints a tender portrait of Manado and the unwavering strength of community. It is a heartfelt exploration of work, care, belonging, and the quiet beauty of being known. In this village, being known transcends mere existence; it embodies the profound ways in which people are held and connected to one another. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. he convergence of artificial intelligence and blockchain is no longer a future concept. It is already reshaping how decisions are made, how data is controlled, how trust is established, and how power moves through society. From healthcare and insurance to finance, employment, education, public services, digital identity, and governance, these technologies are influencing who gets access, who gets excluded, and who bears the risks when automated systems fail.This book examines that convergence through a critical and urgently needed lens, with special attention to healthcare as one of the most ethically revealing sectors. In medicine, the stakes are immediate and deeply human: biased algorithms can influence diagnoses, treatment recommendations, patient risk scores, insurance approvals, and access to care. At the same time, blockchain systems can make data more secure and traceable, yet they can also harden flawed records, complicate accountability, and preserve inequities in systems that are difficult to reverse once deployed.But the implications do not stop at healthcare. The same converging technologies are shaping credit decisions, hiring systems, consumer profiling, law enforcement tools, supply chains, benefits distribution, and digital identity frameworks. When AI is trained on biased historical data and blockchain is used to preserve or automate outcomes through supposedly neutral systems, discrimination can become harder to detect, challenge, or correct. What looks efficient on the surface may conceal older injustices beneath new technical language.Rather than treating innovation as automatically beneficial, this book asks harder questions. Who designs these systems? Whose values are built into them? Who is protected, and who is made more vulnerable? What happens when automation gains authority without sufficient ethical oversight? And what does justice require when technological systems begin making decisions that affect human dignity, opportunity, and well-being?Grounded in bioethics but expansive in social relevance, this book helps readers understand why AI-blockchain convergence matters not only to hospitals and patients, but to workers, families, institutions, and communities everywhere. It offers a deeper look at the promises, risks, and unintended consequences of emerging technologies that are rapidly redefining fairness, privacy, autonomy, and trust in the modern world.This is a book for readers who want more than hype. It is for those who want to understand how these converging systems are changing everyday life - and why ethical vigilance must keep pace with technical power. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…