Cole Spear is a mental health therapist who learns information about his father who died when he was 10 years old. As Cole delves into his father's past, he must confront unpleasant truths about his life and choices he has made.
The Genie in the Machine examines how computers are being used to automate the process of inventing, and explains the steps that high-tech companies, patent lawyers, inventors, and consumers should take to thrive in the upcoming Artificial Invention Age.
Telesychiatry is the delivery of mental health treatment, including counseling and therapy, through state-of-the-art video teleconferencing. With our world more connected than ever before, and thanks to encryption and software portals that make it possible to create HIPAA-compliant remote connections between providers and patients, you are only an Internet connection away from a qualified mental healthcare provider. This book makes the case for telepsychiatry as an effective, lower-cost, more convenient and flexible alternative to in-person treatment for suitable clients. Even now, telepsychiatry is achieving wider mainstream acceptance. This is a trend that will only grow in the future - a future in which telemental healthcare will inevitably play a significant role.
Here is a creative drink recipe guide that has all the latest, best tasting drink recipes ever compiled. The third edition of this book was the country's best-selling, independently published drink recipe guide! Compiled by well-known author and beverage consultant Robert Plotkin, this 4th edition contains over 2,600 alphabetically listed drink recipes. These drinks span the breadth of mixology, from classic cocktails and blended drinks, to infusions and the hottest cosmopolitans and martinis. You don't have to be an expert to make great drinks, just have the best drink guide. You will find dozens of infusions, 294 shooter drinks, 249 blended and ice cream drinks, 214 tropical drinks, and 256 martinis and Manhattans. This fourth edition also includes over 100 champagne drinks, lots more Bloody Mary variations, 45 mixed beer drinks, 22 Long Island Iced Teas, plus much more. We've even added special mixology comment boxes to help you make the best tasting cocktails ever!
This groundbreaking effort reveals our country's top bartenders' best efforts on creating and preparing America's greatest cocktails. With this unique combination of guide and website you'll find the coolest cocktails imaginable from exceptional bars across the country - each known for their mixology excellence. You'll be making drinks like the pros in no time. Whatever your drink favorites, with this book you'll be making a better version. It's loaded with insights and the website is continually updated so you will always have lots of bonus material to look through. If over 650 of the best drink recipes ever created aren't enough, you'll have access to even newer drink specialties and great spirits as they come to market whenever you visit the website. We provide all the inspiration and guidance you need to make the best drinks possible! Join Robert Plotkin on his quest to reveal the best drink recipes his unrivaled mixology chums could create, the hottest spirits available and his amazing expertise. You'll never again wonder why drinks made at home don't taste as good as those prepared at a great bar. Book jacket.
Both employees and employers in a wide variety of fields have benefited from computers and the Internet. Computers in the Workplace, Revised Edition is an updated resource that discusses how digital technology has affected business, addressing topics such as the systemization of work, the division of labor, outsourcing, and crowdsourcing. With computers being integrated into workplaces and making it possible for many people to work from anywhere with a laptop, this book is a must read for the professionals of today and tomorrow. Chapters include: Scientific Management: The Systematization of Work Manufacturing: From Line Workers to Robots Administrative Assistants: From Typist to Office Manager Managers: Business Information at Your Fingertips Computer Programmers: Creating Software for Creating Software Law: From Parchment to PCs Medicine: Doctors Enter the Digital Age How Computers Are Changing the Nature of Work.
Computers and Creativity, Revised Edition explores the many ways people use computers to create software, invent new machines, and express themselves through words, music, graphic art, and multimedia. This updated, full-color resource also explains how computers enable people to collaborate over space and time on a scale never before possible without the use of professional intermediaries. Additionally, it examines the ways in which computer-enabled creativity causes us to rethink copyright and patent law, providing legal protection for the creative works of both artists and inventors. Chapters include: Writing: Farewell to Pen and Paper Music: Personal Computer as Piano Video: Recording, Editing, and Creating Special Effects Programming: How Software Is Created Inventing: Using Computers to Drive Innovation Collaboration: Bringing People Together Over the Internet Disintermediation: Cutting Out the Middleman Intellectual Property: Protecting Creativity in the Digital World.
Written works, music, videos, and other content on the Internet are easily accessible to the general public, but is it considered ethically permissible to access, copy, and redistribute them? Is it right to look at someone else's documents on a home or school computer just because they are not protected by password? What about using a photograph from the Internet in a research paper without giving credit to the photographer? Computer Ethics, Revised Edition explores these questions and more, enabling students to differentiate between what is legally permissible and what is ethical in the context of computers and the Internet. Chapters include: Privacy: Does It Exist Online? Security: Challenges in the Information Society Anonymity: Advantages and Dangers of Anonymous Communication Virtual Worlds: Living Inside Your Computer Professional Ethics: When Is the Programmer Responsible? Copying: Does Ease of Copying Make It Right? Speech: The Internet as Library, Newspaper, Television, and Beyond Netiquette: Adding Formality to an Informal Medium.
Digital technology has caused governments, businesses, and individuals to rethink long-held notions of privacy and security. Although monitoring can be used to perform surveillance on criminal activity, it can also be used to spy on innocent individuals, if legal constraints are not in place. Privacy, Security, and Cyberspace, Revised Edition illustrates how digital privacy and security is often a cat-and-mouse game in which owners of computers and digital data constantly update their defenses in response to new threats, while hackers develop new ways to break through such defenses. Chapters include: Your Right to Privacy Computer Viruses: Invisible Threats to Privacy Spyware: Software Snooping on Your Private Data Phishing and Social Engineering: Confidence Games Go Online Your Personal Information Online: Everyone Is a Public Figure Now Identity Theft: Protecting Oneself against Impostors Keeping Your Data Secure: The Best Offense Is a Good Defense Databases, Privacy, and Security: Monitoring the "Online You.
Just as the assembly line automated the process of manufacturing, today's computers are automating the process of inventing. Software can automatically generate designs for everything from toothbrushes to antennas to automobile frames more quickly and inexpensively than ever before, thereby ushering in a new era of artificial invention. We stand poised to see the emergence of the 'digital renaissance artisan-a person who will have the ability to not only design new inventions at the touch of a button, but also to manufacture them automatically from the comfort of home. As Robert Plotkin reveals in this landmark book, our decisions about these inventions today will dictate who gets to control this powerful technology tomorrow. The Genie in the Machine offers the first-ever examination of the implications of artificial invention technology for patent law, the law of invention. Along with practical advice for inventors, high-tech companies, and patent lawyers, this forward-looking book provides concrete recommendations for reforming patent law in light of the growing importance of invention-automation technology.
Communication and Cyberspace, Revised Edition traces the history of communication technology and explores the many ways in which computers and the Internet are integral to modern day communication. Students will learn how communication technology has evolved and been integrated into professional fields such as business, education, and journalism. Covering the history of communication technology, this updated resource ultimately examines how staying connected to others and navigating daily life for people with disabilities has become easier with technological advancements. Chapters include: History of Electronic Communication: From Morse Code to Talking Through Your Computer Personal Communication: Staying in Touch with Friends and Family Business Communication: Beyond Interoffice Mail Education: The Modern Classroom Publishing and Journalism: The Printing Press Goes Online Accessibility: Accommodating People with Disabilities Freedom of Speech: Is There Anything You Cannot Say? From One-to-One to Many-to-Many: The Wide Reach of Computer Communication.
One hundred twenty five of the most delicious, thirst-quenching margarita recipes ever concocted in one irresistible collection. Explore some of the world's finest and most interesting tequilas.
Computers in Science and Mathematics, Revised Edition examines notable contributions to the advancement of computer technology, as well as the many ways in which scientists and mathematicians use computers in their daily work. This newly revised edition places a focus on the development of computer hardware and software, the theory underlying the design of computer systems, and the use of computers to advance science and mathematics. Computers in Science and Mathematics, Revised Edition also provides a history of computers as scientific and mathematical tools, followed by examples of how computers are used to solve an increasingly wide range of scientific and mathematical problems. Chapters include: Before Computers: Mechanizing Arithmetic, Counting, and Sorting Early Computers: Automating Computation Cryptography: Sending Secret Messages Mathematical Proofs: Computers Find Truth Simulation: Creating Worlds Inside a Computer Weather: Mapping the Past, Predicting the Future Computer-Inspired Biology: Making Computers from Living Things Biology-Inspired Computing: Learning from Nature Recent Developments.
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