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Biotech juggernaut: hope, hype, and hidden agendas of entrepreneurial bioscience, by Tina Stevens and Stuart Newman [NYMC Author].“Biotech Juggernaut: Hope, Hype, and Hidden Agendas of Entrepreneurial BioScience relates the intensifying effort of bioentrepreneurs to apply genetic engineering technologies to the human species and to extend the commercial reach of synthetic biology or “extreme genetic engineering.” In 1980, legal developments concerning patenting laws transformed scientific researchers into bioentrepreneurs. Often motivated to create profit-driven biotech start-up companies or to serve on their advisory boards, university researchers now commonly operate under serious conflicts of interest. These conflicts stand in the way of giving full consideration to the social and ethical consequences of the technologies they seek to develop. Too often, bioentrepreneurs have worked to obscure how these technologies could alter human evolution and to hide the social costs of keeping on this path. Tracing the rise and cultural politics of biotechnology from a critical perspective, Biotech Juggernaut aims to correct the informational imbalance between producers of biotechnologies on the one hand, and the intended consumers of these technologies and general society, on the other. It explains how the converging vectors of economic, political, social, and cultural elements driving biotechnology’s swift advance constitutes a juggernaut. It concludes with a reflection on whether it is possible for an informed public to halt what appears to be a runaway force.” — Publisher’s description |
TP248.2 S846b 2019 |
What is … CHOW? by Ari J. Markenson [NYMC Author] and Tammy Ward Woffendon.
“CHOW is an acronym frequently used by those in the health care industry to describe the regulatory process that often must be followed when a licensed or certified health care provider undergoes a “change of ownership.” Many businesses that operate in the health care industry will have at least one and maybe multiple “permits” or “provider numbers” issued by a governmental body. As a result, the CHOW process applicable to most, if not all, health care permits, licenses, certifications, and provider numbers is heavily regulated to ensure that any new owners satisfy the regulatory requirements that the “seller” met when it originally obtained the permit. This book is designed to give practitioners a general understanding of the CHOW process for operating licensure, certificate of need, and Medicare and Medicaid provider numbers. The book describes some general and specific elements of what can be, and in some cases is, required in a change of ownership process in these different contexts.” — Amazon.com |
KF3825.1 M345w 2018 |
Pre-clinical and clinical methods in brain trauma research, edited by Amit K. Srivastava and Charles S. Cox, Jr.; with NYMC contributor: Jonathan A. N. Fisher.
“This volume explores current viewpoints and knowledge gaps in the field of traumatic brain injury (TBI). The chapters in this book cover topics ranging from development of in vitro and animal TBI models, to diagnostic imaging and disease monitoring in patients. Designing pre-clinical and clinical trials is also discussed. In Neuromethods series style, chapters include the kind of detail and key advice from the specialists needed to get successful results in your laboratory. Practical and thorough, Pre-Clinical and Clinical Methods in Brain Trauma Research is a valuable resource for both scientists and clinical researchers interested in learning about important techniques and their applications in the field of TBI.” — Amazon.com
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WL25 P923 2018 |
Creativity, Inc.: overcoming the unseen forces that stand in the way of true inspiration, by Ed Catmull and Amy Wallace.““From Ed Catmull, co-founder (with Steve Jobs and John Lasseter) of Pixar Animation Studios, comes an incisive book about creativity in business–sure to appeal to readers of Daniel Pink, Tom Peters, and Chip and Dan Heath. Creativity, Inc. is a book for managers who want to lead their employees to new heights, a manual for anyone who strives for originality, and the first-ever, all-access trip into the nerve center of Pixar Animation–into the meetings, postmortems, and “Braintrust” sessions where some of the most successful films in history are made. It is, at heart, a book about how to build a creative culture–but it is also, as Pixar co-founder and president Ed Catmull writes, “an expression of the ideas that I believe make the best in us possible.” For nearly twenty years, Pixar has dominated the world of animation, producing such beloved films as the Toy Story trilogy, Monsters, Inc., Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, Up, and WALL-E, which have gone on to set box-office records and garner thirty Academy Awards. The joyousness of the storytelling, the inventive plots, the emotional authenticity: In some ways, Pixar movies are an object lesson in what creativity really is. Here, in this book, Catmull reveals the ideals and techniques that have made Pixar so widely admired–and so profitable. As a young man, Ed Catmull had a dream: to make the first computer-animated movie. He nurtured that dream as a Ph. D. student at the University of Utah, where many computer science pioneers got their start, and then forged a partnership with George Lucas that led, indirectly, to his founding Pixar with Steve Jobs and John Lasseter in 1986. Nine years later, Toy Story was released, changing animation forever. The essential ingredient in that movie’s success–and in the thirteen movies that followed–was the unique environment that Catmull and his colleagues built at Pixar, based on philosophies that protect the creative process and defy convention, such as: Give a good idea to a mediocre team, and they will screw it up.” — Publisher’s description |
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Dreyer’s English: an utterly correct guide to clarity and style, by Benjamin Dreyer.
“A witty, informative guide to writing from Random House’s longtime copy chief and one of Twitter’s leading language gurus. We all write, all the time: books, blogs, emails. Lots and lots of emails. And we all want to write better. Benjamin Dreyer is here to help. As Random House’s copy chief, Dreyer has upheld the standards of the legendary publisher for more than two decades. He is beloved by authors and editors alike–not to mention his followers on social media–for deconstructing the English language with playful erudition. Now he distills everything he has learned from the myriad books he has copyedited and overseen into a useful guide not just for writers but for everyone who wants to put their best prose foot forward. As authoritative as it is amusing, Dreyer’s English offers lessons on punctuation, from the underloved semicolon to the enigmatic en dash; the rules and nonrules of grammar, including why it’s OK to begin a sentence with ‘And’ or ‘But’ and to confidently split an infinitive; and why it’s best to avoid the doldrums of the Wan Intensifiers and Throat Clearers, including ‘very, ‘ ‘rather, ‘ ‘of course, ‘ and the dreaded ‘actually.’ Dreyer will let you know whether ‘alright’ is all right (sometimes) and even help you brush up on your spelling–though, as he notes, ‘The problem with mnemonic devices is that I can never remember them.’ And yes: ‘Only godless savages eschew the series comma.’ Chockful of advice, insider wisdom, and fun facts, this book will prove to be invaluable to everyone who wants to shore up their writing skills, mandatory for people who spend their time editing and shaping other people’s prose, and–perhaps best of all–an utter treat for anyone who simply revels in language.”– Book jacket. |
PN145 D799d 2019 |
