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The book emphasizes the importance of one's spiritual narrative as the ultimate truth amidst life's changes. It explores themes of love, joy, and transformation, suggesting that while these themes are universal, each individual's experience makes them unique. By understanding and articulating their spiritual story, readers can enhance their quality of life, decision-making, and priorities, leading to a clearer and more vibrant existence. This journey towards self-awareness ultimately fosters a deeper connection to one's purpose and the world.

The book emphasizes the transformative power of choices, asserting that they shape one's life more than circumstances or desires. It advocates for a continuous, mindful approach to decision-making, suggesting that awareness of personal goals enhances the quality of choices. By focusing on intentional choices in each moment, readers can cultivate a more fulfilling and constructive life.

Delving into the spiritual themes woven throughout the Beatles' music, this book examines the profound ideas reflected in their lyrics. It uncovers the band's philosophical influences and highlights how their songs resonate with universal truths, offering insights into love, peace, and consciousness. Through this exploration, readers gain a richer understanding of the Beatles' legacy and the timeless messages within their work.

Jeremy Packer and Joshua Reeves provide a critical account of the history and future of automation in warfare by highlighting the threats posed by the latest advances in media technology and artificial intelligence.

"Ever since the revelations of whistleblower Edward Snowden, we think about surveillance as the data-tracking digital technologies used by the likes of Google, the National Security Administration, and the military. But in reality, the state and allied institutions have a much longer history of using everyday citizens to spy and inform on their peers. [This book] shows how 'If You See Something, Say Something' is more than just a new homeland security program; it has been an essential civic responsibility throughout the history of the United States. From the town crier of Colonial America to the recruitment of youth through 'junior police, ' to the rise of Neighborhood Watch, AMBER Alerts, and Emergency 9-1-1, [the author] explores how ordinary citizens have been taught to carry out surveillance on their peers. Emphasizing the role humans play as 'seeing' and 'saying' subjects, he demonstrates how American society has continuously fostered cultures of vigilance, suspicion, meddling, snooping, and snitching. Tracing the evolution of police crowd-sourcing from 'Hue and Cry' posters and America's Most Wanted to police-affiliated social media, as well as the U.S.'s recurrent anxieties about political dissidents and ethnic minorities from the Red Scare to the War on Terror, [the author] teases out how vigilance toward neighbors has long been aligned with American ideals of patriotic and moral duty. Taking the long view of the history of the citizen spy, this book offers a ... perspective for those interested in how we arrived at our current moment in surveillance culture and contextualizes contemporary trends in policing."-- Provided by publisher

Has society ceded its self-governance to technogovernance? The Prison House of the Circuit presents a history of digital media using circuits and circuitry to understand how power operates in the contemporary era. Through the conceptual vocabulary of the circuit, it offers a provocative model for thinking about governance and media. The authors, writing as a collective, provide a model for collective research and a genealogical framework that interrogates the rise of digital society through the lens of Foucault's ideas of governance, circulation, and power. The book includes five in-depth case studies investigating the transition from analog media to electronic and digital forms: military telegraphy and human-machine incorporation, the establishment of national electronic biopolitical governance in World War I, media as the means of extending spatial and temporal policing, automobility as the mechanism uniting mobility and media, and visual augmentation from Middle Ages spectacles to digital heads-up displays. The Prison House of the Circuit ultimately demonstrates how contemporary media came to create frictionless circulation to maximize control, efficacy, and state power.