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“…Applying a Marxist perspective, Preston argues that commodity fetishism, surveillance, and increasing productivity ushered in by the growth of AI, further alienates and exploits academic labour and commodifies learning and research. The text puts forward a solid theoretical framework and methodology for thinking about AI to inform critical and revolutionary pedagogies. …”

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“…Thereby, a sustained meditation on the meaning and means of realizing public good is put forward, which results in a solid Buddhist conception of diversity. …”

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“…Coverage includes– Essential electronics concepts: propagation, current, resistance, reactance, impedance, phase shifts, and more EMI principles and controls: loop area, uncontrolled differential currents, and common mode currents Controlling signal reflections: transmission lines, proper terminations, and trace layer design Power system stability (bypass capacitor decoupling): Traditional approaches, and techniques based on power-system impedance Eliminating forward crosstalk, and eliminating or controlling backwards crosstalk Power-system conditioning: power-system plane design and correct board stackups Lossy lines and eye diagrams: skin effects, dielectric absorption, and more Two full chapters of simulation illustrations –ideal for those without access to high-speed simulation tools…”

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“…Russell Ackoff and “in-the-trenches” education innovator Daniel Greenberg offer a radically new path forward. In the year’s most provocative conversation, they take on the very deepest questions about education: What should be its true purpose? …”