Mark Johnson Bücher

Während einer Geschäftskonferenz wird Jonatan Stark von einem Unbekannten kontaktiert: Entweder sorgt Jonatan dafür, dass die Konferenz zu einem bestimmten Ergebnis kommt, oder seine Ex-Freundin wird getötet. Zur gleichen Zeit recherchiert Journalistin Betty Lind im Fall eines exzentrischen IT-Unternehmers, der ein Flüchtlingsschiff samt Überfahrt nach Schweden finanziert hat. Da nimmt der schwedische Geheimdienst Kontakt zu ihr auf: Auf dem Schiff gibt es einen Passagier, der für die Friedensverhandlungen im Nahen Osten von größter Bedeutung ist. Jonatan und Betty stoßen auf undurchsichtige Allianzen, alle Spuren führen zu dem mysteriösen Passagier. Und es steht viel auf dem Spiel: nicht nur große Geschäfte, auch die nationale Sicherheit.

Politik ist ein schmutziges Geschäft. Manchmal ein tödliches.Für Schwedens Ministerpräsidenten steht es schlecht um die Wiederwahl, doch Anders Ekholm will die Wende schaffen: Mit einer weltweiten Energierevolution. Die Formel, mit der das möglich wäre, befindet sich im Besitz der Beraterfirma Lionshare. Deren Kunden: Mächtige Lobbyisten, die andere Interessen verfolgen. Daher schleust Ekholm seinen jungen Umweltreferenten Jonatan Stark bei Lionshare ein. Zur gleichen Zeit spielt man Ekholms Pressesprecherin Betty Lind eine Liste zu. Zahlreiche Vertraute des Präsidenten erhalten Schmiergelder, sie selbst angeblich auch. Betty folgt der Spur des Geldes – und stößt auf Lionshare.Als sich Bettys und Jonatans Wege kreuzen, wissen sie bereits, dass sich hinter Lionshares Hochglanzfassade Abgründe auftun. Aber sie ahnen nicht, was wirklich auf dem Spiel steht.

The narrative follows a young boy from Wisconsin afflicted with a mysterious, unprecedented disease, highlighting the innovative medical journey undertaken by dedicated doctors to save him. Through meticulous research and engaging storytelling, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists unveil the intersection of science and human resilience, offering insights into the evolving landscape of medicine. This compelling account not only sheds light on the challenges faced by the medical community but also emphasizes the profound impact of groundbreaking discoveries on individual lives.

Examining the British punk movement of the 1970s through a theological lens, this book offers a unique dialogue between theology and popular culture. It presents an innovative framework for understanding the life of Christ while engaging with contemporary theological trends. By intertwining punk's rebellious spirit with theological inquiry, it invites readers to reconsider the intersections between faith and cultural expressions, making it a thought-provoking exploration of both disciplines.

"There are books—few and far between—which carefully, delightfully, and genuinely turn your head inside out. This is one of them. It ranges over some central issues in Western philosophy and begins the long overdue job of giving us a radically new account of meaning, rationality, and objectivity."—Yaakov Garb, San Francisco Chronicle

All too often, we think of our minds and bodies separately. The reality couldn’t be more different: the fundamental fact about our mind is that it is embodied. We have a deep visceral, emotional, and qualitative relationship to the world—and any scientifically and philosophically satisfactory view of the mind must take into account the ways that cognition, meaning, language, action, and values are grounded in and shaped by that embodiment. This book gathers the best of philosopher Mark Johnson’s essays addressing questions of our embodiment as they deal with aesthetics—which, he argues, we need to rethink so that it takes into account the central role of body-based meaning. Viewed that way, the arts can give us profound insights into the processes of meaning making that underlie our conceptual systems and cultural practices. Johnson shows how our embodiment shapes our philosophy, science, morality, and art; what emerges is a view of humans as aesthetic, meaning-making creatures who draw on their deepest physical processes to make sense of the world around them.

Speech and language technologies continue to grow in importance as they are used to create natural and efficient interfaces between people and machines, and to automatically transcribe, extract, analyze, and route information from high-volume streams of spoken and written information. The workshops on Mathematical Foundations of Speech Processing and Natural Language Modeling were held in the Fall of 2000 at the University of Minnesota's NSF-sponsored Institute for Mathematics and Its Applications, as part of a "Mathematics in Multimedia" year-long program. Each workshop brought together researchers in the respective technologies on the one hand, and mathematicians and statisticians on the other hand, for an intensive week of cross-fertilization. There is a long history of benefit from introducing mathematical techniques and ideas to speech and language technologies. Examples include the source-channel paradigm, hidden Markov models, decision trees, exponential models and formal languages theory. It is likely that new mathematical techniques, or novel applications of existing techniques, will once again prove pivotal for moving the field forward. This volume consists of original contributions presented by participants during the two workshops. Topics include language modeling, prosody, acoustic-phonetic modeling, and statistical methodology.

The book explores the escalating threat of cyber crime to the digital economy, highlighting issues such as insider threats and sophisticated attacks. It emphasizes the critical need for cyber security and digital intelligence as essential defenses against these challenges. However, it notes that a limited number of users and decision makers fully grasp these concepts, underscoring a significant gap in understanding and preparedness within modern businesses.

A Childhood Stolen. An Innocence Betrayed. A Life Redeemed* A shocking and inspiring true account of addiction and recovery - in the tradition of The Kid and Ugly