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In the process, they fall into devastating lives of addiction. Harry and Marion are in love and want to open their own business; their friend Tyrone wants to escape life in the ghetto. To achieve these dreams, they buy a large amount of heroin, planning to get rich by selling it. Sara, Harry's lonely widowed mother, dreams of being on television.
Frances Rice, of Canada Free Press, called it "a bold new book that attacks Obama’s big-government agenda, and reaches out to town-hallers, tea partiers, independents, and anyone fed up with a federal government spiraling out of control.” [6]
Margaret Gunning wrote that the book is "utterly compelling, absorbing and remarkable in its intelligence, wit and flat-out honesty." [4] Lauren Winner wrote in her review in The New York Times: "It is a courageous thing to tell a life story in which you sometimes look unglued, and even more so to rewrite a memoir you've already published.
Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control is a 2019 non-fiction book by computer scientist Stuart J. Russell. It asserts that the risk to humanity from advanced artificial intelligence (AI) is a serious concern despite the uncertainty surrounding future progress in AI.
The story revolves around a simulated reality, exactly the same as our own, known as the Loop: created to simulate the emergence and evolution of life. It is in this alternate universe that the events of the previous novels, Ring and Spiral, took place. Loop is the only book in the series to have not been the basis of any Ring films.
The Gaslight Effect: How to spot and survive the hidden manipulation others use to control your life, is a book by psychologist Robin Stern which has been credited with popularizing the term "gaslighting". [1] [2] The book is based on Stern's experiences of treating patients within her practice. A foreword is provided by Naomi Wolf.
Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World (ISBN 978-0201483406) is a 1992 book by Kevin Kelly. Major themes in Out of Control are cybernetics , emergence , self-organization , complex systems , negentropy and chaos theory and it can be seen as a work of techno-utopianism .
Clare W. Graves (December 21, 1914 – January 3, 1986) was a professor of psychology and originator of the emergent cyclical theory of adult human development, aspects of which were later popularised as Spiral Dynamics.