“…Snatch. Cerdos y diamantes…”

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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Conté: From Einstein's brain to Silkwood's bones: research on human tissue -- Biocommerce: the peple in the body -- The genetic gold rush and the perils of patenting -- Bleed and run -- The body betrays -- DNA dragnets: biosuveillance and the expansion of DNA identification -- Biocollectibles and body displays -- Postmortem poking: resurrecting the past though DNA tests -- Body snatching at the millenium: biocrime and legal remedies -- Sequestering the body from the market…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Intro -- Contents -- Introduction: Snatching the Good from the Jaws of the Best -- 1 Some Knowledge Wants to Be Free -- 2 The Variety of Authors and Their Content -- 3 The Open-Access Problem -- 4 Information on Wings: The History of Open Access -- 5 The Professoriate and Open Access -- 6 The Digital Disseminators -- 7 Alexandria in the Cloud: Promises and Pitfalls of Global Access -- 8 An Intellectual Aquifer: The Bulletin Board Goes Global -- 9 Finding What We Need: Searching and Filtering -- 10 Too Much Content? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Introduction: network neutrality, media reform and neoliberalism -- Chapter breakdown -- Knowledge and the neoliberal thought-collective : viewing network neutrality through the appropriate lens -- Open access : nascent moves to counter cable giant power in the late 1990s -- Knowing the net, 1: at a relative apex -- Knowing the net, 2: the fcc decides in cable's favor -- Erasures and emergences : net neutrality's ambivalent emergence -- Advocates, regulators, and the ersatz : defeat snatched from the jaws of victory -- The shifting political economics of net neutrality: a continuum, not a break -- Knowledge, access, and the currents flowing beneath -- Net neutrality as wrecking ball -- References…”

“…A long historical view is also taken of posthumous harm; that is, body-snatching in the late Georgian period, and organ-snatching at Alder Hey in the 1990s…”

“…On 15 March 1939, Helen Waldstein’s father snatched his stamped exit visa from a distracted clerk to escape from Prague with his wife and child. …”

“…The earliest Christians felt they could metaphorically overhear divine conversations between the Father, Son, and Spirit when reading the Old Testament. When these snatches of dialogue are connected and joined, they form a narrative about the unfolding interior divine life as understood by the nascent church. …”

“…Master the possibilities of the EV3 set as you build and program: The EXPLOR3R, a wheeled vehicle that uses sensors to navigate around a room and follow lines The FORMULA EV3 RACE CAR, a streamlined remote-controlled race car ANTY, a six-legged walking creature that adapts its behavior to its surroundings SK3TCHBOT, a robot that lets you play games on the EV3 screen The SNATCH3R, a robotic arm that can autonomously find, grab, lift, and move the infrared beacon LAVA R3X, a humanoid robot that walks and talks More than 150 building and programming challenges throughout encourage you to think creatively and apply what you've learned to invent your own robots. …”
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“…SEIZE THE ADVANTAGE IN THE GLOBAL WAR FOR MARKET SHARE Winner of the 2013 Small Business Book Award - Top 10 Overall The newest economic behemoth, China, is snatching market share from the U.S., Japan, and Europe at an alarming rate. …”

“…wisdom this remarkable book winds sinuous coil on coil around, in dexterously flexible prose (plus the occasionally interspersed pencil-sketch and snatch of verse) that when called on to do so adroitly tone-shifts from assured, Montaignian savoir faire to bursts of Kierkegaardian intensity. …”