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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
From Technological Integration Versus Technological Interference From: i-Minds, 2nd edition View New Society Publishers	At the onset of the i-tech phenomenon, most of us first noted surface changes. For example, what we perceived as an emergent shallowness of information, a subtle lack of depth and length of …	Mari K Swingle	12	2019	$1.20 Add
From The Attention Economy From: i-Minds, 2nd edition View New Society Publishers	Tuning in at the moment is no longer sufficient. The media want our attention extended, continued, and reengaged after necessary absences such as work and sleep.	Mari K Swingle	12	2019	$1.20 Add
From The Biological Science What's Really Going on in Our Brains? From: i-Minds, 2nd edition View New Society Publishers	I am going to get down to the hard science: what really goes on in our brains when we overengage in i-tech. To this end, I will introduce modalities that permit us to examine the i-phenomenon at …	Mari K Swingle	21	2019	$2.10 Add
From The Good, the Bad, and the Neutral From: i-Minds, 2nd edition View New Society Publishers	In this chapter and those following, I will continue to build on these arguments but also build further upon the argument of the importance of people: that i-tech should not replace human …	Mari K Swingle	20	2019	$2.00 Add
From The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Esports and the Business of Gaming From: i-Minds, 2nd edition View New Society Publishers	We need more fun in our lives. But, when gaming morphs into obsession, replaces and supersedes multiple forms of physical and mental leisure activity, adversely starts to affect physical health, …	Mari K Swingle	16	2019	$1.60 Add
From The Killing Fields From: Fighting For Space View Arsenal Pulp Press	By the late 1990s, drug overdoses, HIV/AIDS, and an outbreak of hepatitis C were collectively killing more than one person in the Downtown Eastside every single day. Desperate for attention from …	Travis Lupick	28	2017	$0.56 Add
From The Narrowing of Minds From: i-Minds, 2nd edition View New Society Publishers	How do you measure creativity if you never find it in the first place? I have noticed over the past five to eight years is that youth are progressively less aware of their creative potential. …	Mari K Swingle	26	2019	$2.60 Add
From The Power of sound History and Biology From: i-Minds, 2nd edition View New Society Publishers	Dings, and bings, various ringtones, and device alert our brains. They make us react. Not merely attentionally but neurophysiologically as well. The two are strongly biologically attached. The …	Mari K Swingle	19	2019	$1.90 Add
From The Pull From: i-Minds, 2nd edition View New Society Publishers	The process of the medium, of i-tech itself, is what is attractive; it draws us in. And this draw, or pull effect, is what has the potential to alter behavior. For example, the central concept in …	Mari K Swingle	9	2019	$0.90 Add
From NEW! The Quarantine of the Opium Eater, Notes on Getting Well Dependence From: On Opium View Goose Lane Editions	This chapter describes the author’s dependance on the (taken as prescribed) opiods, and how these allow her to work and enjoy life in three chunks of five hours throughout the day. The …	Carlyn Zwarenstein	36	2021	$3.60 Add
From NEW! The Quarantine of the Opium Eater, Notes on Getting Well Independence From: On Opium View Goose Lane Editions	The author explores her relationship with her chronic pain and the tension between independence and dependence on prescription opiods, at first rationing relief. She parses the moral …	Carlyn Zwarenstein	32	2021	$3.20 Add
From NEW! The Quarantine of the Opium Eater, Notes on Getting Well Interdependence From: On Opium View Goose Lane Editions	This chapter explores community, including various methods of harm reduction and a conference in Portugal, where all drugs have been decriminalized. The author describes online support systems …	Carlyn Zwarenstein	58	2021	$5.80 Add
From The Shift From: i-Minds, 2nd edition View New Society Publishers	Every era has an innovation that changes the face of society: the way we think, the way we act and interact as individuals, as a community, and as a culture. As the innovation is introduced, it …	Mari K Swingle	11	2019	$1.10 Add
From The Story of Alpha From: i-Minds, 2nd edition View New Society Publishers	In this chapter, I will discuss my discovery of the signature for modern excess: a form of brain deregulation purely associated with excessive use of i-media.	Mari K Swingle	16	2019	$1.60 Add
From The Tipping point From: i-Minds, 2nd edition View New Society Publishers	There are other alterations in behavior that don’t quite qualify as illness, but ones we should also be watching: Of note are increases in self-orientation and self-concern. From …	Mari K Swingle	14	2019	$1.40 Add
From The Vancouver Agreement From: Fighting For Space View Arsenal Pulp Press	This chapter highlights the formation Vancouver Caucus, comprising of Mayor Philip Owen, Jenny Kwan and Dr Hedy Fry, and the subsequent signing of the Vancouver Agreement. The agreement about a …	Travis Lupick	27	2017	$0.54 Add