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  Personal Knowledge - Towards a...

  Michael Polanyi

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  An expanded edition of the classic philosophical work that enquires into the nature and justification of scientific knowledge. 
   
  The publication of Personal Knowledge in 1958 shook the science world, as Michael Polanyi took aim at the long-standing ideals of rigid empiricism and rule-bound logic. Today, Personal Knowledge remains one of the most significant philosophy of science books of the twentieth century, bringing the crucial concepts of “tacit knowledge” and “personal knowledge” to the forefront of inquiry. 
   
  In this remarkable treatise, Polanyi attests that our personal experiences and ways of sharing knowledge have a profound effect on scientific discovery. He argues against the idea of the wholly dispassionate researcher, pointing out that even in the strictest of sciences, knowing is still an art, and that personal commitment and passion are logically necessary parts of research. In our technological age where fact is split from value and science from humanity, Polanyi’s work continues to advocate for the innate curiosity and scientific leaps of faith that drive our most dazzling ingenuity. 
   
  For this expanded edition, Polyani scholar Mary Jo Nye set the philosopher-scientist’s work into contemporary context, offering fresh insights and providing a helpful guide to critical terms in the work. Used in fields as diverse as religious studies, chemistry, economics, and anthropology, Polanyi’s view of knowledge creation is just as relevant to intellectual endeavors today as when it first made waves more than fifty years ago. 
   
  Praise for Personal Knowledge 
   
  “Polanyi’s monumental work . . . takes the shape of an orderly rejection of the false ideal of wholly explicit and wholly impersonal, so-called objective knowledge. The human mind, for him, is not an impersonal machine engaged in the manufacture of truth. In fact, Personal Knowledge represents a compelling critique of the positivist claim for total objectivity in scientific knowledge. . . . Polanyi, the scientist-philosopher, calls forth an enormous array of examples to show that the scientist himself is engaged in acts of personal acceptance and judgment in the very doing of science.” —Philosophy Today 
   
  “Rich in insights, groundbreaking in its interpretations, Personal Knowledge deserves to be better known.” —Science and Education

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  The Business of Dentistry

  Raj Rattan, George Manolescue

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  This book explores the interface between clinical dentistry and the management of a modern dental practice. It covers a range of business areas, including the principles of financial management and the use of financial ratios and indicators in relation to practice profitability. There will be an overview of modern marketing techniques including the concept of branding.

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  Data-Intensive Applications -...

  Brian Murray

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  “Data-Intensive Applications: Design, Development, and Deployment Strategies for Scalable and Reliable Systems” is a comprehensive guide to building robust and scalable applications in the era of big data. With the explosion of data in recent years, building applications that can handle massive amounts of data has become increasingly important. This book covers the entire lifecycle of data-intensive applications, from designing and developing the application to deploying it in a production environment. 
  The book begins with an introduction to the challenges and opportunities of building data-intensive applications. It then moves on to cover the key concepts and technologies used in building these applications, including distributed systems, data processing frameworks, and storage technologies. The book also covers best practices for designing and developing data-intensive applications, including how to handle data at scale, how to ensure reliability and fault tolerance, and how to optimize performance. 
  In addition, the book covers the deployment and management of data-intensive applications, including strategies for deploying applications in the cloud, managing infrastructure, and monitoring and debugging applications in production. The book also includes case studies and real-world examples from companies that have successfully built and deployed data-intensive applications. 
  Whether you are a software engineer, data scientist, or IT professional, this book will provide you with the knowledge and skills you need to build and deploy data-intensive applications that are scalable, reliable, and performant. 
   

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  Without Helmets or Shoulder Pads...

  Irvin Muchnick

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  “Football’s massive popularity is undeniable, as are the many reasons players and fans are drawn to the game. But what is also undeniable is the game’s brutality and the troubling aspects of football culture at all levels. To whatever extent the reader shares Irv Muchnick’s perspective and conclusions, the evidence and arguments he presents deserve thoughtful attention.” — Bob Costas, Emmy Award–winning sportscaster 
  		 
  “Muchnick’s jeremiad digs deeper than ever into the greed and hypocrisy of high school and college football, and the trail of broken bodies left in their wake. His information on the perils of conditioning is essential reading and might save your kid’s life.” — Robert Lipsyte, author of The Contender and SportsWorld
  		 
  Football’s concussion crisis is well known, with our Hall of Fame heroes behaving erratically and dying young. But did you know that kid players across the continent die every year before a single ball is snapped — just from extreme conditioning drills directed by all-powerful coaches? And then, when the unimaginable happens, the football world simply buries the evidence, pays off victims’ families, and moves on …
  		 
  Without Helmets or Shoulder Pads presents the shocking stories of young men struck down by exertional heatstroke and other, often unacknowledged, causes. Taking the conversation about football and public health to a new level with investigations of the sport’s underreported worst tragedies and cover-ups it makes the case that no matter how much we enjoy America’s most popular sport at elite levels it belongs out of our public schools and off our public fields.

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  Getting to the Heart of Science...

  Faith Kearns

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  Scientists today working on controversial issues from climate change to drought to COVID-19 are finding themselves more often in the middle of deeply traumatizing or polarized conflicts. It is no longer enough for scientists to communicate a scientific topic clearly. They must not only be experts in their fields of study, but also experts in navigating the thoughts, feelings, and opinions of members of the public they engage with, and with each other. And the conversations are growing more fraught. 
   
   
   
  In Getting to the Heart of Science Communication, Faith Kearns has penned a succinct guide for navigating the human relationships critical to the success of practice-based science. Using interviews and personal anecdotes, as well as her own insights as a field scientist, Kearns walks listeners through the evolution of science communication and how emotional and high-stakes issues have shaped communication. The meat of the book lies in the middle chapters, where Kearns offers key tools for communicators: listening, working with conflict, and understanding trauma, loss, and healing. She concludes the book with a substantive discussion on diversity, equity, and inclusion in science communication, and advice to listeners for handling their own emotional needs in an unpredictable career landscape.

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  The Art of Medicine - Healing...

  Herbert Ho Ping Kong

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  A renowned diagnostician shares stories of his patients and explores the importance of the human factor in medicine
  		 
  In The Art of Medicine, Toronto Western Hospital’s internist Dr. Herbert Ho Ping Kong draws on his vast dossier of personal cases and five decades as a clinician to examine the core principles of a patient-centered approach to diagnosis and treatment.
  		 
  While HPK, as he is fondly known, recognizes and applauds the many invaluable innovations in medical technology, he makes the point that as disease and its management grow increasingly complex, physicians must learn to develop an arsenal of more basic skills, actively using the arts of seeing, hearing, palpation, empathy, and advocacy to provide a more humane and holistic form of care.
  		 
  Aimed at medical practitioners, aspiring doctors, or anyone interested in health and medicine, this book also contains interviews with more than a dozen of HPK’s patients, as well as short essays that explore the thinking of his professional colleagues on the art of medicine.

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