Positing online users as 'sleepwalkers', Tony Sampson offers an original and compelling approach for understanding how social media platforms produce subjectivities. Drawing on a wide range of theorists, including A.N. Whitehead and Gabriel Tarde, he provides tools to track his sleepwalker through the 'dark refrain of social media': a refrain that spreads through viral platform architectures with a staccato-like repetition of shock events, rumours, conspiracy, misinformation, big lies, search engine weaponization, data voids, populist strongmen, immune system failures, and far-right hate speech. Sampson's sleepwalker is not a pre-programmed smartphone junkie, but a conceptual personae intended to dodge capture by data doubles and lookalikes. Sleepwalkers are neither asleep nor wide awake; they are a liminal experimentation in collective mimicry and self-other relationality. Their purpose is to stir up a new kind of community that emerges from the potentialities of revolutionary contagion. At a time in which social media is influencing more people than ever, A Sleepwalker's Guide to Social Media is an important reference for students and scholars of media theory, digital media and social media.

In this thought-provoking work, Tony D. Sampson presents a contagion theory fit for the age of networks. Unlike memes and microbial contagions, Virality does not restrict itself to biological analogies and medical metaphors. It instead points toward a theory of contagious assemblages, events, and affects. For Sampson, contagion is not necessarily a positive or negative force of encounter; it is how society comes together and relates. Sampson argues that a biological knowledge of contagion has been universally distributed by way of the rhetoric of fear used in the antivirus industry and other popular discourses surrounding network culture. This awareness is also detectable in concerns over too much connectivity, such as problems of global financial crisis and terrorism. Sampson's "virality" is as established as that of the biological meme and microbe but is not understood through representational thinking expressed in metaphors and analogies. Rather, Sampson interprets contagion theory through the social relationalities first established in Gabriel Tarde's microsociology and subsequently recognized in Gilles Deleuze's ontological worldview. According to Sampson, the reliance on representational thinking to explain the social behavior of networking--including that engaged in by nonhumans such as computers--allows language to overcategorize and limit analysis by imposing identities, oppositions, and resemblances on contagious phenomena. It is the power of these categories that impinges on social and cultural domains. Assemblage theory, on the other hand, is all about relationality and encounter, helping us to understand the viral as a positively sociological event, building from the molecular outward, long before it becomes biological.

It's about Lust. It's about Love. It's about Loyalty, Friendship, and Family. It's about Sexual Intrigue. It's About Time. Intricately interwoven within the plot is a wild and wacky look at life through the eyes of our own meek hero, Jim. With a backdrop of sexual intrigue and blackmail, Jim encounters Roland, a lawyer recently relocated from New York City. Through the course of a day, Jim learns about Roland's fall into degradation. Jim also takes a look at his own humdrum and un-eventful life. Roland's early morning call to Jim begging a ride to work begins a day of intrigue and suspense. Jim discovers that Roland was forced to leave his Manhattan law firm because of an unsavory blackmail scheme involving Roland's ex-wife. The Author shares with us his sage and witty reflections in this wacky romp through one day in the life of our humble hero. Along the way, both Jim and Roland come to discover what they really want from life and how to get it.

Since the 1970's Tony Sampson has been deeply involved with Dianetics and Scientology, having seen many times the miracles he describes in this, his newest book. His life long passion for philosophy and his quest for answers to man's most complex questions culminate within these pages.

This book covers all the pharmacology you need, from basic science pharmacology and pathophysiology, through to clinical pharmacology to therapeutics, in line with the integrated approach of new medical curricula. The first section covers the basic principles, and the rest is organised by body systems. The book ends with sections on toxicity and prescribing practice. Integrates basic science pharmacology, clinical pharmacology and therapeutics Brief review of pathophysiology of major diseases Case histories and multiple choice questions (and answers) Tabular presentation of all common drugs within each class Section on further reading Kinetics chapter simplified with more practical examples Includes more on genetic issues Drug tables made more concise to make information more accessible Fully updated to reflect current clinical practice

Once upon a time, neuroscience was born. A dazzling array of neurotechnologies emerged that, according to popular belief, have finally begun to unlock the secrets of the brain. But as the brain sciences now extend into all corners of cultural, social, political, and economic life, a yet newer world has taken shape: “neuroculture,” which goes further than ever before to tackle the profound ethical implications we face in consequence. The Assemblage Brain unveils a major new concept of sense making, one that challenges conventional scientific and philosophical understandings of the brain. Drawing on Deleuze and Guattari, Tony D. Sampson calls for a radical critical theory that operates in the interferences between philosophy, science, art, and politics. From this novel perspective the book is structured around two questions: “What can be done to a brain?” and “What can a brain do?” Sampson examines the rise of neuroeconomics in informing significant developments in computer work, marketing, and the neuropharmaceutical control of inattentiveness in the classroom. Moving beyond the neurocapitalist framework, he then reestablishes a place for proto-subjectivity in which biological and cultural distinctions are reintegrated in an understanding of the brain as an assemblage. The Assemblage Brain unravels the conventional image of thought that underpins many scientific and philosophical accounts of how sense is produced, providing a new view of our current time in which capitalism and the neurosciences endeavor to colonize the brain.

"Medical Pharmacology & Therapeutics, now in its fifth edition, offers medical students all they need to know to become safe and effective prescribers. It forms a complete, integrated resource for basic pharmaceutical science, pathophysiology, clinical pharmacology, and therapeutics. The fifth edition has been extensively revised and updated throughout. Key features include: Clear, disease-based approach, Presentation of how drugs are used in clinical practice, Succinct explanations of the major pathogenic mechanisms of each disease and consequent clinical signs and symptoms,Comprehensive reviews of major drug classes relevant to each disease, Structured approach to the principles of disease management – outlining core principles of drug choice and planning a therapeutic regimen for common diseases, Quick-reference drug compendia illustrating key similarities and differences among all BNF-listed drugs in each class, Comes with free e-book on StudentConsult, New sections on key and evolving topics, including prescribing safety and pharmacovigilance, Updated figures to further clarify complex areas, Over 800 revised multiple-choice and case-based questions for self-assessment. "--Résumé de l'éditeur.

Also Published with additions under the name: For Gods Sake Soteriology The Road To Redemption Read what Terri Ann Armstrong, author of: My Soul Has Spoken, has to say about For The Love of God: It is a story of self-discovery and rediscovery. Fascinating, thought provoking, and ?Ǫ intense! You [will] find good friends in this book; youll find a mans love for God, people and a love for life and all it has to offer. I recommend this book to everyone who needs a new book to curl up on the couch with at night. I loved it!

I hope you find enjoyment, humor, and wisdom in the Miracle Moments of my Life My story comes in many different segments and will have some segments that have interest to some and not to others. My involvement in Real Estate might interest some and not others. Some may wonder how I could have involved myself in what many have called a cult. How I could have rationalized that interest? On the other hand, there might be those who actually want to see how I viewed Scientology. And the miracles it has wrought on my life. Some might be interested in the early history of my family and of my life. There are indeed some interesting stories and characters that preceded me. Others might be interested in my life in foreign countries. In Iran as a kid, or in Korea as a solder. As I wrote my life story, I realized my life was, indeed, filled with Miracle Moments

China is an old culture. A proud culture as it should be. From this writers perspective, an exotic culture. Thus my adventure to China. I contacted China Highlights, a Chinese travel agency that I had found on the Internet at Chinahighlights.com. They had the itinerary I sought. Of course Beijing was on my list. I'd heard about the Terracotta Warriors in Xian. The sheer size of this excavation and what has been found is staggering and not to be missed. I had also recently heard about a modern engineering miracle, a train which protects the fragile high alpine environment as it hurtles at over a sixty miles an hour toward Tibet through the Himalayas. Tibet. The Himalayas. A high-speed train. All of these in one grand tour. Sounded great.