Download or read book Social Leadership written by Julian Stodd and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tokens written by Rachel O'Dwyer and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2023-10-03 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: **Longlisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year** --- Platform capitalism is coming for the money in your pocket Wherever you look, money is being re-placed by tokens. Digital platforms are issuing new kinds of money-like things: phone credit, shares, gift vouchers, game tokens, customer data—the list goes on. But what does it mean when online platforms become the new banks? What new types of control and discrimination emerge when money is tied to specific apps or actions, politics or identities? Tokens opens up this new and expanding world. Exploring the history of extra-monetary economies, Rachel O’Dwyer shows that private and grassroots tokens have always haunted the real economy. But as the large tech platforms issue new money-like instruments, tokens are suddenly everywhere. Amazon’s Turk workers are getting paid in gift cards. Online streamers trade in wishlists. Foreign remittances are sent via phone credit. Bitcoin, gift cards, NFTs, customer data, and game tokens are the new money in an evolving economy. It is a development challenging the balance of power between online empires and the state. Tokens may offer a flexible even subversive route to compensation. But for the platforms themselves they can be a means of amassing frightening new powers. An essential read for anyone concerned with digital money, inequality, and the future of the economy.
Download or read book Properties written by Douglas Edwards and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-05-12 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world is populated with many different objects, to which we often attribute properties: we say, for example, that grass is green, that the earth is spherical, that humans are animals, and that murder is wrong. We also take it that these properties are things in their own right: there is something in which being green, or spherical, or an animal, or wrong, consists, and that certain scientific or normative projects are engaged in uncovering the essences of such properties. In light of this, an important question arises: what kind of things should we take properties themselves to be? In Properties, Douglas Edwards gives an engaging, accessible, and up-to-date introduction to the many theories of properties available. Edwards charts the central positions in the debate over properties, including the views that properties are universals, that properties are constructed from tropes, and that properties are classes of objects, and assesses the benefits and disadvantages of each. Attempts to deny the existence of properties are also considered, along with ‘pluralist’ proposals, which aim to accommodate the different kinds of properties that are found in various philosophical debates. Properties is the ideal introduction to this topic and will be an invaluable resource for scholars and students wishing to learn more about the important roles that properties have played, and continue to play, in contemporary philosophy.
Download or read book Tokens of Affection written by Karen Kleiman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Postpartum depression is hard on a marriage. In their private practices, authors Karen Kleiman and Amy Wenzel often find themselves face-to-face with marriages that are suffocating, as if the depression has sucked the life out of a relationship that was only prepared for the anticipated joy of pending childbirth. What happens to marriage? Why do couples become angry, isolated, and disconnected? Tokens of Affection looks closely at marriages that have withstood the passing storm of depression and are now seeking, or in need of, direction back to their previous levels of functioning and connectedness. The reader is introduced to a model of collaboration that refers to 8 specific features, which guide postpartum couples back from depression. These features, framed as “Tokens,” are based on marital therapy literature and serve as a reminder that these are not just communication skill-building techniques; they are gift-giving gestures on behalf of their relationship. A reparative resource, Tokens of Affection helps couples find renewed harmony, a solid relational ground, and reconnection.
Download or read book The Power of Gifts written by Felicity Heal and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gifts are always with us: we use them positively to display affection and show gratitude for favours; we suspect that others give and accept them as douceurs and bribes. The gift also performed these roles in early modern English culture: and assumed a more significant role because networks of informal support and patronage were central to social and political behaviour. Favours, and their proper acknowledgement, were preoccupations of the age of Erasmus, Shakespeare, and Hobbes. As in modern society, giving and receiving was complex and full of the potential for social damage. 'Almost nothing', men of the Renaissance learned from that great classical guide to morality, Lucius Annaeus Seneca, 'is more disgraceful than the fact that we do not know how either to give or receive benefits'. The Power of Gifts is about those gifts and benefits - what they were, and how they were offered and received in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It shows that the mode of giving, as well as what was given, was crucial to social bonding and political success. The volume moves from a general consideration of the nature of the gift to an exploration of the politics of giving. In the latter chapters some of the well-known rituals of English court life - the New Year ceremony, royal progresses, diplomatic missions - are viewed through the prism of gift-exchange. Gifts to monarchs or their ministers could focus attention on the donor, those from the crown could offer some assurance of favour. These fundamentals remained the same throughout the century and a half before the Civil War, but the attitude of individual monarchs altered specific behaviour. Elizabeth expected to be wooed with gifts and dispensed benefits largely for service rendered, James I modelled giving as the largesse of the Renaissance prince, Charles I's gift-exchanges focused on the art collecting of his coterie. And always in both politics and the law courts there was the danger that gifts would be corroded, morphing from acceptable behaviour into bribes and corruption. The Power of Gifts explores prescriptive literature, pamphlets, correspondence, legal cases and financial records, to illuminate social attitudes and behaviour through a rich series of examples and case-studies.
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Download or read book Ad Hd Generation written by Cecilia Zuniga and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2010-02 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This holistic parenting book is aligned with current research and with the shifts that are apparent today in support of healthier living, a greener planet, and a peaceful world. It not only honors children's individuality and wholeness; it is filled with safe, effective, and reliable facts and holistic parenting tools that honor all aspects of children's being: their physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, and energetic bodies. This easy-to-read guidebook also has step-by-step, do-able practices that can be used immediately to strengthen overall family relationships so that parents and kids can settle into an open, flowing, and more loving space with each other. In AD/HD Generation, Dr. Lopez Zuniga challenges modern society's medical approach to children's functioning, proposing that its heavy reliance on intrusive drugs is both insufficient and dangerous for developing youngsters. Given the risks of stimulants and other prescription drugs, it is time to recognize the value of a holistic approach that includes a nurturing parent-child relationship, healthy lifestyle choices, and full support for children to grow into well-balanced adults. BOOK SUMMARY: Part One of the AD/HD Generation guidebook: * sifts through the history, causes, treatment issues, and controversies surrounding the AD/HD diagnosis today; and * reviews the history and benefits of a more holistic approach to health and wellness. Part Two of the AD/HD Generation guidebook: * provides valid, practical facts and information about holistic options, PLUS easy-to-use tools, charts, tables, and guidance for better understanding holistic parenting and supporting ALL children's wholeness and wellness. Here, you find answers to decide which tools and options might be supportive and do-able with your child right now. You get up-to-date, accurate information so you can make the best decisions for your family. Every chapter covers the history, safety, effectiveness, how-to, who to, and/or where to for each approach, plus handy tools that you can use with your child immediately. You will find both well known and less known approaches, plus appendices and lists of resources with additional information. In Part Two of AD/HD Generation, you get ten chapters and well over 200 pages with facts, tangible and practical tools, and resources for: * fine-tuning your parenting in nine key areas for positive change; * addressing challenging behaviors in ways that teach children to make responsible choices; * how to support children in learning & using essential life skills; * recognizing foods, additives, & other nutritional issues that influence children's moods & behavior; * the true impact of relaxation & exercise on children's wellbeing; * understanding & choosing digital technology that supports rather than distorts children's development; * balancing children's bodies & brains using therapies such as biofeedback, chiropractic, CranioSacral, Chinese acupuncture, & Tui na; plus exploring the influence of visual system, sensory scrambling, & sensory integration issues; * stabilizing children's body, brain, moods, & behavior using homeopathic remedies and herbs; * harmonizing children's body, brain, moods, & behavior with aromatherapy oils & flower essences; plus * ten tips for raising children to become healthy, conscientious, & responsible adults. AD/HD Generation: Holistic Ways to Support Children is an incredible fact-filled, comprehensive, easy to read guidebook and resource that you can use over and over again in support of your parenting and your children.
Download or read book The CISSP Prep Guide written by Ronald L. Krutz and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2004-04-12 with total page 1058 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This updated bestseller features new, more focused review material for the leading computer security certification-the Certified Information Systems Security Professional, or CISSP The first book on the market to offer comprehensive review material for the Information Systems Security Engineering Professional (ISSEP) subject concentration, a new CISSP credential that's now required for employees and contractors of the National Security Agency (NSA) and will likely be adopted soon by the FBI, CIA, Department of Defense, and Homeland Security Department The number of CISSPs is expected to grow by fifty percent in 2004 The CD-ROM includes the Boson-powered interactive test engine practice sets for CISSP and ISSEP
Download or read book Priority Nominalism written by Guido Imaguire and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-08-06 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph details a new solution to an old problem of metaphysics. It presents an improved version of Ostrich Nominalism to solve the Problem of Universals. This innovative approach allows one to resolve the different formulations of the Problem, which represents an important meta-metaphysical achievement. In order to accomplish this ambitious task, the author appeals to the notion and logic of ontological grounding. Instead of defending Quine’s original principle of ontological commitment, he proposes the principle of grounded ontological commitment. This represents an entirely new application of grounding. Some metaphysicians regard Ostrich Nominalism as a rejection of the problem rather than a proper solution to it. To counter this, the author presents solutions for each of the formulations. These include: the problem of predication, the problem of abstract reference, and the One Over Many as well as the Many Over One and the Similar but Different variants. This book will appeal to anyone interested in contemporary metaphysics. It will also serve as an ideal resource to scholars working on the history of philosophy. Many will recognize in the solution insights resembling those of traditional philosophers, especially of the Middle Ages.
Download or read book The Mundane Matter of the Mental Language written by J. Christopher Maloney and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering an explanation of the fundamental nature of thought, this book posits the idea that thinking involves the processing of mental representations that take the form of sentences in a covert language encoded in the mind. The theory relies on traditional categories of psychology, including such notions as belief and desire. It also draws upon and thus inherits some of the problems of artificial intelligence which it attempts to answer, including what bestows meaning or content upon a thought and what distinguishes genuine from simulated thought.
Download or read book Feeling Things written by Stephanie Downes and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This interdisciplinary essay collection investigates the various interactions of people, feelings, and things throughout premodern Europe. It focuses on the period before mass production, when limited literacy often prioritised material methods of communication. The subject of materiality has been of increasing significance in recent historical inquiry, alongside growing emphasis on the relationships between objects, emotions, and affect in archaeological and sociological research. The historical intersections between materiality and emotions, however, have remained under-theorised, particularly with respect to artefacts that have continuing resonance over extended periods of time or across cultural and geographical space. Feeling Things addresses the need to develop an appropriate cross-disciplinary theoretical framework for the analysis of objects and emotions in European history, with special attention to the need to track the shifting emotional valencies of objects from the past to the present, and from one place and cultural context to another. The collection draws together an international group of historians, art historians, curators, and literary scholars working on a variety of cultural, literary, visual, and material sources. Objects considered include books, letters, prosthetics, religious relics, shoes, stone, and textiles. Many of these have been preserved in international galleries, museums, and archives, while others have remained in their original locations, even as their contexts have changed over time. The chapters consider the ways in which emotions such as despair, fear, grief, hope, love, and wonder become inscribed in and ascribed to these items, producing 'emotional objects' of significance and agency. Such objects can be harnessed to create, affirm, or express individual relationships, as, for example, in religious devotion and practice, or in the construction of cultural, communal, and national identities.
Download or read book Information Security Architecture written by Jan Killmeyer and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2006-01-13 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Information Security Architecture, Second Edition incorporates the knowledge developed during the past decade that has pushed the information security life cycle from infancy to a more mature, understandable, and manageable state. It simplifies security by providing clear and organized methods and by guiding you to the most effective resources available. In addition to the components of a successful Information Security Architecture (ISA) detailed in the previous edition, this volume also discusses computer incident/emergency response. The book describes in detail every one of the eight ISA components. Each chapter provides an understanding of the component and details how it relates to the other components of the architecture. The text also outlines how to establish an effective plan to implement each piece of the ISA within an organization. The second edition has been modified to provide security novices with a primer on general security methods. It has also been expanded to provide veteran security professionals with an understanding of issues related to recent legislation, information assurance, and the latest technologies, vulnerabilities, and responses.
Download or read book Cambridge Business English Dictionary written by Roz Combley and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-11-10 with total page 993 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most up-to-date business English dictionary created specially for learners of English.
Download or read book Cybersecurity from Beginner to Paid Professional Part 1 written by Bolakale Aremu and published by AB Publisher LLC. This book was released on 2024-10-25 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you're ready to build a rock-solid foundation in cybersecurity, this book is the only one you'll need. Cybersecurity from Beginner to Paid Professional, Part 1 offers a friendly, accessible introduction to the world of cybersecurity. Whether you’re new to the field or looking to build your knowledge, this book shows you how cyber attackers operate and provides hands-on strategies for protecting yourself and your organization from online threats. It’s an ideal starting point for anyone, from computer science students to business professionals, with a focus on clarity over jargon. In this beginner’s guide, you’ll uncover various types of cyber attacks, the tactics used by hackers, and the defensive moves you can make to safeguard your digital assets. Through real-world examples and practical exercises, you’ll see what security pros do daily, what attacks look like from the cybercriminal’s perspective, and how to apply robust security measures to your devices and accounts. You’ll also get clear explanations on topics like malware, phishing, and social engineering attacks—plus practical tips on how to avoid common pitfalls. You'll learn how to secure your cloud accounts, prevent malicious software infections, and set up access controls to keep unauthorized users at bay. In this book, you'll discover how to: Spot phishing attempts in emails Understand SQL injection and how attackers exploit websites Safely examine malware within a controlled sandbox environment Use encryption and hashing to protect sensitive information Develop a personalized risk management strategy Today, cybersecurity isn’t optional, and attackers won’t wait around for you to read a technical manual. That’s why this book gets straight to the essentials, showing you how to think beyond antivirus software and make smarter, more secure choices to stay one step ahead of the threats.
Download or read book Information Systems Crossroads for Organization Management Accounting and Engineering written by Marco De Marco and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-06-14 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines a wide range of issues that characterize the current IT based innovation trends in organizations. It contains a collection of research papers focusing on themes of growing interest in the field of Information Systems, Organization Studies, Management, Accounting and Engineering. The book offers a multidisciplinary view on Information Systems with the aim of disseminating academic knowledge. It would be particularly relevant to IT practitioners such as information systems managers and IT consultants. The 12 sections cover a broad spectrum of topics including: eServices in Public and Private Sectors; Organizational Change and the Impact of ICT in Public and Private Sectors; Information and Knowledge Management; Human-Computer Interaction; Information Systems, Innovation Transfer, and New Business Models; Business Intelligence Systems, their Strategic Role and Organizational Impacts; New Ways to Work and Interact with the Internet; IS, IT and Security; Blending Design and Behavioral Research in Information Systems; Professional Skills, Certification of Curricula, Online Education and Communities; IS Design, IS Development, Metrics and Compliance; ICT4LAW: Information and communication technologies to help firms, public administrations, legislators and citizens to operate in a highly regulated world. The content of each section is based on a selection of original double-blind peer reviewed contributions.
Download or read book The Truth About Crypto written by Ric Edelman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-05-10 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A straightforward, practical guide to the newest frontier in investment strategy—crypto—from #1 New York Times bestselling author and personal finance expert Ric Edelman. Blockchain and bitcoin are here to stay—and as the Bank of England stated, this new technology could “transform the global financial system.” No wonder PWC says blockchain technology will add $2 trillion to the world’s $80 trillion economy by 2030. Indeed, blockchain technology and the digital assets it makes possible are revolutionary, the most profound innovation for commerce since the invention of the internet. And yet, the average investor—and the investment advisors who manage two-thirds of all their money—aren’t aware of all this, or of the incredible investment opportunities now available. Fortunately, Ric Edelman, one of the most influential experts in the financial field, shows investors how they can engage and thrive in today’s new investment marketplace. Featuring the prophetic insights you’d expect from one of most acclaimed financial advisors, The Truth About Crypto is fun to read and easy to understand—and most importantly gives readers the sound, practical advice we all need to succeed with this new asset class. Best of all, Edelman shows how blockchain works, the difference between digital currency and digital assets, and a comprehensive look at every aspect of the field. This book is a must-read guide if you want to achieve investment success today.
Download or read book HNAI Medals and Tokens Long Beach Auction Catalog 1100 written by Mark Van Winkle and published by Heritage Capital Corporation. This book was released on 2008-08 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
