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How a broad range of new immensely powerful technologies is disrupting and transforming every corner of our reality--and why you must act and adapt Unsupervised: Navigating and Influencing a World Controlled by Powerful New Technologies examines the fast-emerging technologies and tools that are already starting to completely revolutionize our world. Beyond that, the book takes an in-depth look at how we have arrived at this dizzying point in our history,...
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Childfree Wealth
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
183 pages ; 23 cm
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English
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"Approximately 11% of the US over 55 are Childfree. Childfree is defined as not having kids and not planning on having kids. In this book, Portraits of Childfree Wealth, 26 people share their lives. Being Childfree does not automatically make you rich. You will read stories of struggle and strength. You will read stories of people who are broke, and people who have retired early and are rich. In the end, you will find that Childfree Wealth reflects...
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Packt Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
1st edition.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 volume)
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English
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Understand psychology-driven social engineering, arm yourself with potent strategies, and mitigate threats to your organization and personal data with this all-encompassing guide Key Features Gain insights into the open source intelligence (OSINT) methods used by attackers to harvest data Understand the evolving implications of social engineering on social networks Implement effective defensive strategies to mitigate the probability and impact of...
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Apress L. P
Pub. Date
2023
Physical Desc
1 online resource (229 p.)
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English
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Social impact communication is quickly become a mandatory skill for leaders of modern businesses and nonprofits, at all levels of an organization. Yet using strategy, language and influence to advance game-changing societal breakthroughs isn't something most people learn in college. This book provides a pathway for empathy, clarity and persuasive communication to advance the social impact work that can help people, their families and society. Too...
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Ascent Audio
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
[First edition].
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 audio file (3 hr., 18 min.)).
Language
English
Description
Generational distrust and ageism are seeping into organizations worldwide. Differences over communication style, technology preferences, identity, and politics are fueling harmful stereotypes and hurting team performance. It doesn't need to be this way. Smart leaders are harnessing age diversity and encouraging mutual learning, cross-generational collaboration, and a culture that embraces both similarities and differences across age groups. Multigenerational...
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Routledge
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
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English
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"This book is a practical guide for business professionals to develop and improve business intelligence and collective decision making within their organisation. It proposes a progressive reconfiguration of the traditional business operating system using a nature-inspired framework called swarm facilitation that enables and facilitates collective decision-making. Problem solving and decision making within organisations has followed the same rigid...
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Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
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xxii, 242 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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English
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"Recounting inspiring stories from the world's boldest thinkers, the author, media pioneer and curator of TED shows how generosity has the power to transform outrage back into optimism and offers a playbook for how to embark on our own generous acts" --NoveList Plus.
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Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
[First edition].
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 audio file (11 hr., 21 min.))
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English
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"Conversations about gender equity in the workplace accelerated in the 2010s, with debates inside Hollywood specifically pointing to broader systemic problems of employment disparities and exploitative labor practices. Compounded by the devastating #MeToo revelations, these problems led to a wide-scale call for change. The Value Gap traces female-driven filmmaking across development, financing, production, film festivals, marketing, and distribution,...
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Routledge
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (83 pages) : illustrations.
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English
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"Society 5.0 points toward a human-centred approach by the use of modern, advanced technologies and artificial intelligence. This book explores and offers an overview of knowledge management embraced in the current scenario of Society 5.0, shedding light on its importance in a society that is increasingly digital and interconnected. The book enhances current managerial and economic research by offering the "human" side of knowledge management (KM)...
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Johns Hopkins University Press
Pub. Date
2023.
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xviii, 218 pages : illustrations, maps, charts ; 24 cm
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English
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"By weaving his experiences with information on the rise of anti-science sentiment, how it was funneled into a movement, and how it has become a tool of far-right political figures around the world, the author opens readers' eyes to the dangerous world it creates. Even as he paints a picture of the world under a shadow of aggressive ignorance, he demonstrates his innate optimism, offering suggestions for how science denial can be met by other active...
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Vanderbilt University Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
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299 pages ; 23 cm
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English
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"Through the experiences and reflections of steelworkers, Jill Schennum demonstrates the significance of work, and particularly of industrial work, in giving meaning to people's lives, identities, and sense of worth. The importance of work space, time and social relations understood through workers' narratives and voices belies dominant interpretations of blue collar workers as alienated from their work, but well-paid and coopted by a middle-class...
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Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition, First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
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xiii, 386 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
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The story of the epic friendship between John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd, the golden era of improv, and the making of a comedic film classic that helped shape our popular culture.
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Louisiana State University Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
xi, 324 pages ; 24 cm.
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English
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"Dillon J. Carroll's Invisible Wounds examines the effects of military service, particularly combat, on the psyches and emotional well-being of Civil War soldiers-Black and white, North and South. Soldiers faced harsh military discipline, arduous marches, poor rations, debilitating diseases, and the terror of battle, all of which took a severe psychological toll. While mental collapses sometimes occurred during the war, the emotional damage soldiers...
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Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
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xiii, 433 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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"Americans conducted their lives with the presumption that everyone could make legal claims to textiles. This chapter explains that situation, exploring the customary practices that, by the time of the American Revolution, had cohered into legal principles, which allowed people without rights-even enslaved people and married women-to make claims to textiles in law, something they could not do with other forms of property"--
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University of Pennsylvania Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
284 pages ; 24 cm.
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English
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"Mastering Emotions examines the role emotions played in the power dynamics between enslaved people and slaveholders in the antebellum South. Drawing on a variety of sources, Mastering Emotions explores how emotions were deployed to both reinforce and resist enslavement, and the post-Emancipation reverberations of the emotional politics of slavery" --
"Emotions were central to the ways that slaveholders perpetuated slavery, as well as to the ways...
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