Connected

Author : Nicholas A. Christakis,James H. Fowler
Publisher : Little, Brown Spark
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2009-09-28
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780316071345

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Connected by Nicholas A. Christakis,James H. Fowler Pdf

Celebrated scientists Nicholas Christakis and James Fowler explain the amazing power of social networks and our profound influence on one another's lives. Your colleague's husband's sister can make you fat, even if you don't know her. A happy neighbor has more impact on your happiness than a happy spouse. These startling revelations of how much we truly influence one another are revealed in the studies of Dr. Christakis and Fowler, which have repeatedly made front-page news nationwide. In Connected, the authors explain why emotions are contagious, how health behaviors spread, why the rich get richer, even how we find and choose our partners. Intriguing and entertaining, Connected overturns the notion of the individual and provides a revolutionary paradigm-that social networks influence our ideas, emotions, health, relationships, behavior, politics, and much more. It will change the way we think about every aspect of our lives.

Author : Jason Gruhl
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 37 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2019-02-05
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781611806311

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Everything Is Connected by Jason Gruhl Pdf

A magical meditation on the powerful idea that we are connected to everything and everyone. Playful illustrations and funny, rhyming text show readers all of the many ways we are linked to every big, small, hairy, slimy, snuggly, scaly, floppy, flappy, bristly, buzzy, beautiful creature on Earth. “One of Bala Kids’s inaugural releases, this waggish picture book takes its title to heart, emphasizing readers’ connection to an eclectic roundup of people, objects, and phenomena.“—Publishers Weekly “Jason Gruhl invokes Dr. Seuss with some light rhyming and brings up everything that entrances children—tarantulas, slime, comets, you name it. Ignasi Font’s visually complex and incredibly funny illustrations (a blobfish that looks like Squidward?) will keep kids observing even on the hundredth read. The book is destined to become a dharma classic.“—Tricycle Everything is connected. And since you are part of everything, you are connected to everything: to pharaohs, Ben Franklin, T. Rex, ancient Greece, to love and to poverty, hunger and peace!

Author : Dave Gray,Thomas Vander Wal
Publisher : "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2014-12-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781491919439

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The Connected Company by Dave Gray,Thomas Vander Wal Pdf

With a foreword by Alex Osterwalder. The future of work is already here. Customers are adopting disruptive technologies faster than your company can adapt. When your customers are delighted, they can amplify your message in ways that were never before possible. But when your company’s performance runs short of what you’ve promised, customers can seize control of your brand message, spreading their disappointment and frustration faster than you can keep up. To keep pace with today’s connected customers, your company must become a connected company. That means deeply engaging with workers, partners, and customers, changing how work is done, how you measure success, and how performance is rewarded. It requires a new way of thinking about your company: less like a machine to be controlled, and more like a complex, dynamic system that can learn and adapt over time. Connected companies have the advantage, because they learn and move faster than their competitors. While others work in isolation, they link into rich networks of possibility and expand their influence. Connected companies around the world are aggressively acquiring customers and disrupting the competition. In The Connected Company, we examine what they’re doing, how they’re doing it, and why it works. And we show you how your company can use the same principles to adapt—and thrive—in today’s ever-changing global marketplace.

Author : Warren Janzen
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781525558672

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TECHnically Connected by Warren Janzen Pdf

Keep your life and your team tethered while working in your virtual environment. Your team is not available to meet regularly face-to-face. You rely on technology to communicate and collaborate. While bringing you together, technology also separates. Work in a virtual environment can bring isolation, fragmentation, and that feeling of being distant. TECHnically Connected draws from research, interviews of those in both the for-profit and non-profit sectors, and over 15 years of personal leadership experience to bring you practical insights that will help your team thrive without the drive. The virtual environment creates new challenges to the typical elements of teaming. Warren reflects on what it means to work virtually and unpacks the critical insight that when you are separated, “how” you work as a team is even more important than “who” is on the team. With practical examples from his experience leading a Christian non-profit agency, Warren shows you how to build trust, work through conflict, lead meetings and bridge cultures while working from a distance.

Author : Roberto J. González
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520344211

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Connected by Roberto J. González Pdf

This is the true story of how, against all odds, a remote Mexican pueblo built its own autonomous cell phone network—without help from telecom companies or the government. Anthropologist Roberto J. González paints a vivid and nuanced picture of life in a Oaxaca mountain village and the collective tribulation, triumph, and tragedy the community experienced in pursuit of getting connected. In doing so, this book captures the challenges and contradictions facing Mexico's indigenous peoples today, as they struggle to wire themselves into the 21st century using mobile technologies, ingenuity, and sheer determination. It also holds a broader lesson about the great paradox of the digital age, by exploring how constant connection through virtual worlds can hinder our ability to communicate with those around us.

Author : Julia Hobsbawm
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2017-04-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781472926852

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Fully Connected by Julia Hobsbawm Pdf

Shortlisted for the CMI's Management Book of the Year Award 2018 and the Business Book Awards 2018 Twenty-five years after the arrival of the Internet, we are drowning in data and deadlines. Humans and machines are in fully connected overdrive - and starting to become entwined as never before. Truly, it is an Age of Overload. We can never have imagined that absorbing so much information while trying to maintain a healthy balance in our personal and professional lives could feel so complex, dissatisfying and unproductive. Something is missing. That something, Julia Hobsbawm argues in this ground-breaking book, is Social Health, a new blueprint for modern connectedness. She begins with the premise that much of what we think about healthy ways to live have not been updated any more than have most post-war modern institutions, which are themselves also struggling in the twenty-first century. In 1946, the World Health Organization defined 'health' as 'a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.' What we understood by 'social' in the middle of the last century now desperately needs an update. In Fully Connected Julia Hobsbawm takes us on a journey – often a personal one, 'from Telex to Twitter' – to illustrate how the answer to the Age of Overload can come from devising management-based systems which are both highly practical and yet intuitive, and which draw inspiration from the huge advances the world has made in tackling other kinds of health, specifically nutrition, exercise, and mental well-being. Drawing on the latest thinking in health and behavioural economics, social psychology, neuroscience, management and social network analysis, this book provides a cornucopia of case studies and ideas, to educate and inspire a new generation of managers, policymakers and anyone wanting to navigate through the rough seas of overload.

Author : Matthew A. Peeples
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780816535682

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Connected Communities by Matthew A. Peeples Pdf

New insights into how and why social identities formed and changed in the prehistoric past--Provided by publisher.

Author : Jonathan Davidson
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2023-12-05
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781805141662

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Connected by Jonathan Davidson Pdf

Connected - Walking with Nature by Jonathan Davidson demonstrates his love of the landscape and the inhabitants that call it home. Through his writing, art, and photography he shares short stories celebrating the natural world and how we can all share in the same joy. Davidson presents a variety of landscapes and experiences, and the journey of each story demonstrates that immersing yourself in the natural world is enhanced by taking your time and delighting at the joy of discovery. The marvel of nature amplified in his writing creates a feeling of wellbeing and of wanting more, and to encourage others to discover such pleasures for themselves. The beauty of the natural world is not just portrayed through his written work but also celebrated through his art and photography. These forms of expression come together to demonstrate the natural world in all its splendour and allows everyone to share this special place that is so clearly cherished by the author. The visual references along with the written word present a captivating picture of what can be experienced by all. Engaging with this book will encourage everyone to venture outside and walk with nature and tread lightly through the landscape.

Author : Michael Riera
Publisher : Da Capo Lifelong Books
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-27
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780738219561

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Staying Connected to Your Teenager, Revised Edition by Michael Riera Pdf

Sage advice to help frustrated parents reconnect with their teenagers and keep that connection strong, even in today's hectic world, now revised and updated

Author : Manfred Broy,Ingolf Krüger,Michael Meisinger
Publisher : Springer
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2006-10-04
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540376781

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Automotive Software-Connected Services in Mobile Networks by Manfred Broy,Ingolf Krüger,Michael Meisinger Pdf

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the First Automotive Software Workshop, ASWD 2004, held in San Diego, CA, USA in January 2004. The 10 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 26 lectures held at the workshop that brought together experts from industry and academia, working on highly complex, distributed, reactive software systems related to the automotive domain.

Author : Renate Nummela Caine
Publisher : Teachers College Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2011-04-08
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780807751893

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Natural Learning for a Connected World by Renate Nummela Caine Pdf

Why do video games fascinate kids so much that they will spend hours pursuing a difficult skill? Why don't they apply this kind of intensity to their school work? In their most penetrating and important work in years, these two leaders in the field of brain-based education build a bridge to the future of education with a dynamic model of teaching that works for all grade levels and in all cultural and ethnic groups. The authors' education model, the "Guided Experience Approach," is based on the way that biologists see learning as a totally natural, continuous interaction between perception and action. Natural Learning for a Connected World provides a practical, step-by-step description and successful examples from practice of this perception action cycle so that we can finally provide the learning environments essential for our children to thrive in the knowledge age.

Author : David Random
Publisher : Pageturner Press and Media
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1649087195

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Connected by David Random Pdf

There's been a murder. An eyewitness has come forward, and the killer has confessed. But there's a problem. The two are conjoined twins, literally joined at the hip since birth. For the police, keeping the murderer in custody means locking up his innocent brother along with him-an untenable situation. The frustrated legal system wrestles with how to prosecute a murderer who is apparently immune from punishment, as any attempt to exact justice would surely affect his conjoined twin. It appears there can be no satisfactory outcome. That is, until a surprising discovery is made.

Author : Charles Willsie,Gallus Thomann,George Jacobs Low,Henry Ingersoll Bowditch,Sir Isambard Owen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 902 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Alcohol
ISBN : COLUMBIA:CU02612453

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The Connection of Disease with Habits of Intemperance by Charles Willsie,Gallus Thomann,George Jacobs Low,Henry Ingersoll Bowditch,Sir Isambard Owen Pdf

Author : Stephen Spitalny
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Child development
ISBN : 9781105320828

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Connecting With Young Children: Educating the Will by Stephen Spitalny Pdf

Author : Sandra Golden
Publisher : Booktango
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2012-06-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781468906752

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Connection Made! by Sandra Golden Pdf

The story of internet sex addiction and how someone can get caught up in that world. This is a story which is sexy, and steamy and something that will have women talking. This pushes the boundries and talks about what is going on behind the doors of internet sex, and cheating spouses. What's out there can be very addictive. What's out there can invite you in and take over your life. Once you enter that world can you find something that you have been missing? Something you have always longed for? And once you find it can you let go of what you have? These are the questions that Maggie has to answer as she embarks on a search for a friend, a lover, or just someone who will listen. Someone who will make her laugh, someone who will love her unconditionally. The someone which we ALL are looking for. Can Maggie find it on the Internet? Read Maggie's story and see if she finally got that connection.