More Technology For The Rest Of Us

Author : Nancy D. Courtney
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2010-02-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781591589419

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More Technology for the Rest of Us by Nancy D. Courtney Pdf

In this valuable book, 11 chapters each overview a technology of interest to librarians working in the field today. From cloud computing to data curation to open-source software, the world of technology offers great opportunity—and potential frustration. Nancy Courtney and her team of IT experts have set out to enhance the former and alleviate the latter. More Technology for the Rest of Us: A Second Primer on Computing for the Non-IT Librarian follows up on Courtney's 2005 technology volume by tackling the most recent advances in IT. Each chapter describes a technology important to the library field, explains how it works in terms a non-IT professional can understand, and describes its uses. The essays in More Technology for the Rest of Us are not meant to make readers experts, but to provide a basic introduction to some of the current technologies impacting libraries and their patrons. Articles are brief and clearly written, and computer jargon is defined and explained. Each chapter lists references for further information, and there is a selected bibliography and glossary at the end of the book.

Author : Adam Alter
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780698402638

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Irresistible by Adam Alter Pdf

“Irresistible is a fascinating and much needed exploration of one of the most troubling phenomena of modern times.” —Malcolm Gladwell, author of New York Times bestsellers David and Goliath and Outliers “One of the most mesmerizing and important books I’ve read in quite some time. Alter brilliantly illuminates the new obsessions that are controlling our lives and offers the tools we need to rescue our businesses, our families, and our sanity.” —Adam Grant, New York Times bestselling author of Originals and Give and Take Welcome to the age of behavioral addiction—an age in which half of the American population is addicted to at least one behavior. We obsess over our emails, Instagram likes, and Facebook feeds; we binge on TV episodes and YouTube videos; we work longer hours each year; and we spend an average of three hours each day using our smartphones. Half of us would rather suffer a broken bone than a broken phone, and Millennial kids spend so much time in front of screens that they struggle to interact with real, live humans. In this revolutionary book, Adam Alter, a professor of psychology and marketing at NYU, tracks the rise of behavioral addiction, and explains why so many of today's products are irresistible. Though these miraculous products melt the miles that separate people across the globe, their extraordinary and sometimes damaging magnetism is no accident. The companies that design these products tweak them over time until they become almost impossible to resist. By reverse engineering behavioral addiction, Alter explains how we can harness addictive products for the good—to improve how we communicate with each other, spend and save our money, and set boundaries between work and play—and how we can mitigate their most damaging effects on our well-being, and the health and happiness of our children. Adam Alter's previous book, Drunk Tank Pink: And Other Unexpected Forces that Shape How We Think, Feel, and Behave is available in paperback from Penguin.

Author : Jean M. Twenge
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2017-08-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781501152023

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iGen by Jean M. Twenge Pdf

As seen in Time, USA TODAY, The Atlantic, The Wall Street Journal, and on CBS This Morning, BBC, PBS, CNN, and NPR, iGen is crucial reading to understand how the children, teens, and young adults born in the mid-1990s and later are vastly different from their Millennial predecessors, and from any other generation. With generational divides wider than ever, parents, educators, and employers have an urgent need to understand today’s rising generation of teens and young adults. Born in the mid-1990s up to the mid-2000s, iGen is the first generation to spend their entire adolescence in the age of the smartphone. With social media and texting replacing other activities, iGen spends less time with their friends in person—perhaps contributing to their unprecedented levels of anxiety, depression, and loneliness. But technology is not the only thing that makes iGen distinct from every generation before them; they are also different in how they spend their time, how they behave, and in their attitudes toward religion, sexuality, and politics. They socialize in completely new ways, reject once sacred social taboos, and want different things from their lives and careers. More than previous generations, they are obsessed with safety, focused on tolerance, and have no patience for inequality. With the first members of iGen just graduating from college, we all need to understand them: friends and family need to look out for them; businesses must figure out how to recruit them and sell to them; colleges and universities must know how to educate and guide them. And members of iGen also need to understand themselves as they communicate with their elders and explain their views to their older peers. Because where iGen goes, so goes our nation—and the world.

Author : Gary J. Beach
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781118660447

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The U.S. Technology Skills Gap by Gary J. Beach Pdf

Is a widening “skills gap” in science and math education threatening America’s future? That is the seminal question addressed in The U.S. Technology Skills Gap, a comprehensive 104-year review of math and science education in America. Some claim this “skills gap” is “equivalent to a permanent national recession” while others cite how the gap threatens America’s future economic, workforce employability and national security. This much is sure: America’s math and science skills gap is, or should be, an issue of concern for every business and information technology executive in the United States and The U.S Technology Skills Gap is the how-to-get involved guidebook for those executives laying out in a compelling chronologic format: The history of the science and math skills gap in America Explanation of why decades of astute warnings were ignored Inspiring examples of private company efforts to supplement public education A pragmatic 10-step action plan designed to solve the problem And a tantalizing theory of an obscure Japanese physicist that suggests America’s days as the global scientific leader are numbered Engaging and indispensable, The U.S. Technology Skills Gap is essential reading for those eager to see America remain a relevant global power in innovation and invention in the years ahead.

Author : Klaus Schwab
Publisher : Currency
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781524758875

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The Fourth Industrial Revolution by Klaus Schwab Pdf

World-renowned economist Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum, explains that we have an opportunity to shape the fourth industrial revolu­tion, which will fundamentally alter how we live and work. Schwab argues that this revolution is different in scale, scope and complexity from any that have come before. Characterized by a range of new technologies that are fusing the physical, digital and biological worlds, the developments are affecting all disciplines, economies, industries and governments, and even challenging ideas about what it means to be human. Artificial intelligence is already all around us, from supercomputers, drones and virtual assistants to 3D printing, DNA sequencing, smart thermostats, wear­able sensors and microchips smaller than a grain of sand. But this is just the beginning: nanomaterials 200 times stronger than steel and a million times thinner than a strand of hair and the first transplant of a 3D printed liver are already in development. Imagine “smart factories” in which global systems of manu­facturing are coordinated virtually, or implantable mobile phones made of biosynthetic materials. The fourth industrial revolution, says Schwab, is more significant, and its ramifications more profound, than in any prior period of human history. He outlines the key technologies driving this revolution and discusses the major impacts expected on government, business, civil society and individu­als. Schwab also offers bold ideas on how to harness these changes and shape a better future—one in which technology empowers people rather than replaces them; progress serves society rather than disrupts it; and in which innovators respect moral and ethical boundaries rather than cross them. We all have the opportunity to contribute to developing new frame­works that advance progress.

Author : Lloyd J. Dumas
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2010-09-02
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780313378898

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The Technology Trap by Lloyd J. Dumas Pdf

In this eye-opening book, author Lloyd J. Dumas argues that our capacity for developing ever more powerful technologies and the unavoidable fallibility of both machine and man will lead us towards a disaster of an unprecedented scale. Most of us assume that those in charge can always find a way to control any technology mankind creates, no matter how powerful. But in a world of imperfect human beings who are prone to error, emotion, and sometimes to malevolent behavior, this could be an arrogant—and disastrous—assumption. This book is filled with compelling, factual stories that illustrate how easy it is for situations to go terribly wrong, despite our best efforts to prevent any issue. The author is not advocating an anti-technology "return to nature," nor intending to highlight the marvels of our high-tech world. Instead, the objective is to reveal the potential for disaster that surrounds us in our modern world, elucidate how we arrived at this predicament, explain the nature and ubiquity of human fallibility, expose why proposed "solutions" to these Achilles heels cannot work, and suggest alternatives that could thwart human-induced technological disasters.

Author : Peter D. Hershock,Marietta Stepaniants,Roger T. Ames
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2003-10-31
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0824826477

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Technology and Cultural Values by Peter D. Hershock,Marietta Stepaniants,Roger T. Ames Pdf

Recent history makes clear that the quantum leaps being made in technology are the leading edge of a groundswell of paradigm shifts taking place in science, politics, economics, social institutions, and the expression of cultural values. Indeed it is the simultaneity and interdependence of these changes occurring in every dimension of human experience and endeavor that makes the present so historically distinctive. The essays gathered here give voice to perspectives on the always improvised relationship between technology and cultural values from Africa, the Americas, Asia, Australia, Europe, and the Pacific. Contributors: Syed Muhammad Naquib Al-Attas, Roger T. Ames,Yoko Arisaka, Carl Becker, Francesca Bray, James Buchanan, Arindam Chakrabarti, Frank W. Derringh, Rolf Elberfeld, Charles Ess, Andrew Feenberg, Susantha Goonatilake, H. Jiuan Heng, Peter Hershock, Thomas P. Kasulis, George Khushf, David Farrell Krell, Joel J. Kupperman, William R. LaFleur, Lois Ann Lorentzen, David Loy, Joseph Margolis, Hans-Georg Möller, Robert Cummings Neville, Peimin Ni, Monica Atieno Opole, Kuruvilla Pandikattu SJ, Helen Petrovsky, Ramon Sentmartí, Kristin Shrader-Frechette, Vasanthi Srinivasan, Marietta Stepaniants, Vyacheslav S. Stiopin, Henk ten Have, Paul B.Thompson, Mary Tiles, David B.Wong.

Author : Geoff Martz,Kim Magloire,Theodore Silver
Publisher : Princeton Review
Page : 642 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2010-12-07
Category : ACT Assessment
ISBN : 9780375427985

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Cracking the ACT by Geoff Martz,Kim Magloire,Theodore Silver Pdf

A guide to preparing for the ACT, based on the Princeton Review coaching course, offers advice on test-taking, specific suggestions for each section of the exam, and three full-length practice exams with answers and explanations.

Author : Geoff Martz,Kim Magloire,Theodore Silver
Publisher : Princeton Review
Page : 642 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2010-12-07
Category : ACT Assessment
ISBN : 9780375427992

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Cracking the Act 2011 by Geoff Martz,Kim Magloire,Theodore Silver Pdf

Presents a guide to preparing for the ACT based on the Princeton Review coaching course, with advice on test-taking, specific suggestions for each section of the exam, and four full-length practice exams with explanations.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Commerce
ISBN : IND:30000119792731

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International Competition in Services by Anonim Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations. Subcommittee on Multinational Corporations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : International business enterprises
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173025487293

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Multinational Corporations and United States Foreign Policy by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations. Subcommittee on Multinational Corporations Pdf

Author : Lawrence Shulman,Andrew Safyer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-14
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781317717683

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Supervision in Counseling by Lawrence Shulman,Andrew Safyer Pdf

A cross-disciplinary look at the latest research and effective approaches Clinical supervision is crucial for learning and provides valuable support and evaluation of expertise and knowledge regardless of the discipline. Supervision in Counseling: Interdisciplinary Issues and Research explores the latest conceptual and empirical research in the pursuit of effective education in counseling across a variety of disciplines. Field instruction and clinical supervision issues are addressed in social work, psychology, counseling and counselor education, nursing, and school psychology. Core elements are examined, including the development of the supervisor-supervisee working alliance and the parallel process in supervision. Supervision in Counseling: Interdisciplinary Issues and Research takes you beyond the standard narrow view of clinical supervision within a particular discipline, broadly focusing on research and practices that has value in all disciplines. Research and developments on organizational matters, ethical issues, legal issues, evaluation, relationship issues, models of supervision, and other developments are discussed in detail. The book includes helpful tables and figures and is extensively referenced. Topics in Supervision in Counseling: Interdisciplinary Issues and Research include: major developments in clinical supervision over the years a review of research literature in clinical supervision in counseling the working relationship between supervisor and practitioner challenges in remaining current in clinical supervision overview of literature on supervision in psychology clinical supervision as signature pedagogy for the mental health professions clinical supervision in nursing—inside and outside of the United States research on field instruction in social work much more Supervision in Counseling: Interdisciplinary Issues and Research is an important resource for anyone in the field of clinical supervision in various disciplines, such as social work, psychology, counseling and counselor education, nursing, and school psychology.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government Operations. Subcommittee on Intergovernmental Relations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Administrative agencies
ISBN : UCAL:$B643734

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Establish a Select Senate Committee on Technology and the Human Environment by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government Operations. Subcommittee on Intergovernmental Relations Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Technology. Task Force on Science Policy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Endowment of research
ISBN : UCR:31210018199040

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Research Funding as an Investment by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Technology. Task Force on Science Policy Pdf

Author : Frank R. Spellman
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2022-12-30
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781000811506

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The Science of Climate Migration by Frank R. Spellman Pdf

This book addresses the nexus between science and migration and examines how the two are inextricably intertwined. The Science of Climate Migration primarily addresses the science of global climate change and additionally examines how this change is more than a region being too hot, too cold, too dry, too wet, or too windy; rather it is also about heightened military tensions, political instability, and myriad other factors. History has shown that this change is felt most acutely in developing countries that are least equipped to adapt. This inability to adapt is considered to be a driver that motivates local residents to find “greener pastures” through migration. Further, the book discusses the increasing need for the implementation and utilization of non-polluting renewables for use in energy production as a means to stave off environmental crises. Features Examines how and why climate change effects and human migration are inextricably intertwined. Discusses the increasing need for the implementation of non-polluting renewables for use in energy production as a means to stave off environmental crises. Explains how wildlife is also sensitive to shifts in climate and how this in turn affects their migration as well.