Rethinking Possible

Author : Rebecca Faye Smith Galli
Publisher : She Writes Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781631522215

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Rethinking Possible by Rebecca Faye Smith Galli Pdf

Becky Galli was born into a family that valued the power of having a plan. With a pastor father and a stay-at-home mother, her 1960s southern upbringing was bucolic—even enviable. But when her brother, only seventeen, died in a waterskiing accident, the slow unraveling of her perfect family began. Though grief overwhelmed the family, twenty-year-old Galli forged onward with her life plans—marriage, career, and raising a family of her own—one she hoped would be as idyllic as the family she once knew. But life had less than ideal plans in store. There was her son’s degenerative, undiagnosed disease and subsequent death; followed by her daughter’s autism diagnosis; her separation; and then, nine days after the divorce was final, the onset of the transverse myelitis that would leave Galli paralyzed from the waist down. Despite such unspeakable tragedy, Galli maintained her belief in family, in faith, in loving unconditionally, and in learning to not only accept, but also embrace a life that had veered down a path far different from the one she had envisioned. At once heartbreaking and inspiring, Rethinking Possible is a story about the power of love over loss and the choices we all make that shape our lives —especially when forced to confront the unimaginable.

Author : Ric Merrifield
Publisher : Pearson Education
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2009-03-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780131366503

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Rethink (Chapter 2) by Ric Merrifield Pdf

This is the eBook version of the printed book. Read the following excerpt from Rethink, Chapter 2: The Thinking Behind Rethinking. When businesspeopletalk about the extraordinary productivity gains of the last decade, the lion’s share of credit typically goes to technology. I protest. Although it’s true that major advances in the machines and soft ware that gather, process, and distribute information have made possible whole new ways of organizing work in a company, business productivity owes just as much to operational design theory. In fact, innovative design concepts such as the time-and-motion studies of the early 1900s, the total quality management(TQM) programs of the ’80s, and the reengineering initiatives of the ’90s led to enormous gains in business efficiency. Today, we’re poised for another productivity breakthrough, but to take full advantage of it, we need a new and more powerful approach. This book offers precisely that--a groundbreaking way to lift productivity by maximizing the value of your company’s “whats.” Unit of Analysis: The Task In his landmark 1776 book, The Wealth of Nations, Scottish philosopher and economist Adam Smith called attention to a revolutionary development in the nature of work in his day. Machines were just beginning to replace manual labor, and most goods were still made by hand, with each worker performing all the operations needed to make the final product. Smith described a far more efficient procedure at a pin factory: One man draws out the wire, another straights it, a third cuts it, a fourth points it, a fifth grinds it at the top for receiving the head; to make the head requires two or three distinct operations... To continue reading, purchase and download now.

Author : Chris Peters,M.J. Broersma
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136241239

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Rethinking Journalism by Chris Peters,M.J. Broersma Pdf

There is no doubt, journalism faces challenging times. Since the turn of the millennium, the financial health of the news industry is failing, mainstream audiences are on the decline, and professional authority, credibility and autonomy are eroding. The outlook is bleak and it’s understandable that many are pessimistic. But this book argues that we have to rethink journalism fundamentally. Rather than just focus on the symptoms of the ‘crisis of journalism’, this collection tries to understand the structural transformation journalism is undergoing. It explores how the news media attempts to combat decreasing levels of trust, how emerging forms of news affect the established journalistic field, and how participatory culture creates new dialogues between journalists and audiences. Crucially, it does not treat these developments as distinct transformations. Instead, it considers how their interrelation accounts for both the tribulations of the news media and the need for contemporary journalism to redefine itself.

Author : Richard McElreath
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-03
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9781482253481

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Statistical Rethinking by Richard McElreath Pdf

Statistical Rethinking: A Bayesian Course with Examples in R and Stan builds readers’ knowledge of and confidence in statistical modeling. Reflecting the need for even minor programming in today’s model-based statistics, the book pushes readers to perform step-by-step calculations that are usually automated. This unique computational approach ensures that readers understand enough of the details to make reasonable choices and interpretations in their own modeling work. The text presents generalized linear multilevel models from a Bayesian perspective, relying on a simple logical interpretation of Bayesian probability and maximum entropy. It covers from the basics of regression to multilevel models. The author also discusses measurement error, missing data, and Gaussian process models for spatial and network autocorrelation. By using complete R code examples throughout, this book provides a practical foundation for performing statistical inference. Designed for both PhD students and seasoned professionals in the natural and social sciences, it prepares them for more advanced or specialized statistical modeling. Web Resource The book is accompanied by an R package (rethinking) that is available on the author’s website and GitHub. The two core functions (map and map2stan) of this package allow a variety of statistical models to be constructed from standard model formulas.

Author : Michael Ignatieff,Stefan Roch
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-20
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789633862704

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Rethinking Open society by Michael Ignatieff,Stefan Roch Pdf

The key values of the Open Society - freedom, justice, tolerance, democracy and respect for knowledge - are increasingly under threat in today's world. As an effort to uphold those values, this volume brings together some of the key political, social and economic thinkers of our time to re-examine the Open Society closely in terms of its history, its achievements and failures, and its future prospects. Based on the lecture series Rethinking Open Society, which took place between 2017 and 2018 at the Central European University, the volume is deeply embedded in the history and purpose of CEU, its Open Society mission, and its belief in educating sceptical but passionate citizens. This volume aims to inspire students, researchers and citizens around the world to critically engage with Open Society values and to defend them wherever they are at risk. The volume features contributions from, among others: Dorothee Bohle, Timothy Garton Ash, Jacques Rupnik, Steven Walt, Erica Benner, Robert Kaplan, Andras Sajo, Roger Scruton, Alina Mungiu-Pippidi, and Pierre Rosanvallon.

Author : Jan M. Broekman
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781788976626

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Rethinking Law and Language by Jan M. Broekman Pdf

The ‘law-language-law’ theme is deeply engraved in Occidental culture, more so than contemporary studies on the subject currently illustrate. This insightful book creates awareness of these cultural roots and shows how language and themes in law can be richer than studying a simple mutuality of motives. Rethinking Law and Language unveils today’s problems with the two faces of language: the analogue and the digital, on the basis of which our smart phones and Artificial Intelligence create modern life.

Author : George Fallis
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781553393344

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Rethinking Higher Education by George Fallis Pdf

The basic structure of universities and colleges in Ontario - one focused primarily on expansion and greater access and put in place in the 1960s - is outdated. The system is now large enough, the eligible age group for entering post-secondary studies is shrinking, and participation rates are as high as they are likely to go. In Rethinking Higher Education, George Fallis argues that policy-makers should shift their attention away from growth and towards improving and diversifying the range of programs available and creating new means of program delivery. He calls for increases in honours undergraduate programs and polytechnic education and envisions a group of research-intensive universities responsible for doctoral education. The existing design, Fallis contends, neglects the specific needs of graduate education and research, layering it on top of a system designed for undergraduate education. In addition, there is disconnection between Ontario's Ministry of Training, Colleges, and Universities and the research missions of the universities and colleges themselves. Fallis recommends that Ontario establish a system for documenting and assessing the quality of research published at universities. Thought-provoking and thoroughly argued, Rethinking Higher Education provides a detailed design for higher education in the twenty-first century.

Author : Christoph Gengnagel,Emilia Nagy,Rainer Stark
Publisher : Springer
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-18
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783319244396

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Rethink! Prototyping by Christoph Gengnagel,Emilia Nagy,Rainer Stark Pdf

In this book, the authors describe the findings derived from interaction and cooperation between scientific actors employing diverse practices. They reflect on distinct prototyping concepts and examine the transformation of development culture in their fusion to hybrid approaches and solutions. The products of tomorrow are going to be multifunctional, interactive systems – and already are to some degree today. Collaboration across multiple disciplines is the only way to grasp their complexity in design concepts. This underscores the importance of reconsidering the prototyping process for the development of these systems, particularly in transdisciplinary research teams. “Rethinking Prototyping – new hybrid concepts for prototyping” was a transdisciplinary project that took up this challenge. The aim of this programmatic rethinking was to come up with a general concept of prototyping by combining innovative prototyping concepts, which had been researched and developed in three sub-projects: “Hybrid Prototyping” developed new prototyping approaches to validate and evaluate holistically developed systems with their services, infrastructure and business models. “Blended Prototyping” addressed a new technique whereby prototypes for user interfaces of software applications can be generated from hand drawings and immediately be tested. “Beyond Prototyping” examined the issue of the prototype in connection with algorithmically generated design for producing tailor-made products.

Author : Carol Johnson,Vera Mackie,Tessa Morris-Suzuki
Publisher : ANU Press
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781925022599

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The Social Sciences in the Asian Century by Carol Johnson,Vera Mackie,Tessa Morris-Suzuki Pdf

In this collection of essays, we reflect on what it means to practise the social sciences in the twenty-first century. The book brings together leading social scientists from the Asia-Pacific region. We argue for the benefit of dialogue between the diverse theories and methods of social sciences in the region, the role of the social sciences in addressing real-world problems, the need to transcend national boundaries in addressing regional problems, and the challenges for an increasingly globalised higher education sector in the twenty-first century. The chapters are a combination of theoretical reflections and locally focused case studies of processes that are embedded in global dynamics and the changing geopolitics of knowledge. In an increasingly connected world, these reflections will be of global relevance

Author : Bernard Lietaer,Jacqui Dunne
Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013-02-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781609942960

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Rethinking Money by Bernard Lietaer,Jacqui Dunne Pdf

Many of the world's economic ills - short-termism, compulsory growth pressure, cyclical recessions, unrelenting concentration of wealth, and erosion of social capital can be traced to our competitive money system, in which there is built-in economic scarcity and never enough money for people to pay off their debts. We need an economic system that is both cooperative and competitive, with each balancing and complimenting the other. Lietaer and Dunne tell how such a balanced system can be created and, in fact, how it is already being built in many places around the world. Individual citizens, entrepreneurs, businesses, communities, and governments are creating new cooperative money systems that link unused resources with unmet needs. Over the past 30 years there has been a tremendous growth of cooperative currencies from fewer than 100 in 1980 to over 4,000 today. But we need many more of them spread more consistently all over the globe. We also need more large-scale cooperative currencies. The emergent cooperative currency movement needs to grow up. Dodging the dogma of both left or right Rethinking Money provides the roadmap for this to happen.

Author : Ali Bilgic
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136765353

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Rethinking Security in the Age of Migration by Ali Bilgic Pdf

Migration and especially irregular migration are politically sensitive and highly debated issues in the developed world, particularly in Europe. This book analyses irregular protection-seeking migration in Europe, with close attention to sub-Saharan migration into the EU, from the perspective of emancipatory security theory. Some individuals leave their countries because political, social, and economic structures largely fail to provide protection. This book examines how communities respond to migrants who seek protection and security, where migration is perceived as a source of insecurity by many in that community. The central aim of this critical analysis is to explore ideas and practices which can contribute to replacing the political structures of insecurity with emancipatory structures, where individuals (both irregular migrants and members of the receiving communities) enjoy security together, not opposed to each other. Drawing on the security dilemma, critical approaches to security, forced migration and trust, the book demonstrates how common life between two groups of individuals can be politically constructed, in tandem with limitations, risks, and possible handicaps of initiating such a construction in world politics. Rethinking Security in the Age of Migration will be of interest to students and scholars of migration studies, security studies, international relations, European politics and sociology.

Author : Robert D. Behn
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0815708629

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Rethinking Democratic Accountability by Robert D. Behn Pdf

Behn examines the weaknesses in our current systems of accountability for finances, fairness, and performance, and suggests a new model of accountablity for public management.

Author : Bob Boiko
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 1176 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2005-11-28
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780764583643

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Content Management Bible by Bob Boiko Pdf

Written by one of the leading experts in content managementsystems (CMS), this newly revised bestseller guides readers throughthe confusing-and often intimidating-task of building,implementing, running, and managing a CMS Updated to cover recent developments in online deliverysystems, as well as XML and related technologies Reflects valuable input from CMS users who attended theauthor's workshops, conferences, and courses An essential reference showing anyone involved in informationdelivery systems how to plan and implement a system that can handlelarge amounts of information and help achieve an organization'soverall goals

Author : Bill Bigelow
Publisher : Rethinking Schools
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780942961270

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Rethinking Our Classrooms by Bill Bigelow Pdf

Readings, resources, lesson plans, and reproducible student handouts aimed at teaching students to question the traditional ideas and images that interfere with social justice and community building.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : EQUATIONS
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Rethink Tourism in the Andamans - Research Report by Anonim Pdf