The Great Fragmentation

Author : Steve Sammartino
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780730312703

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The Great Fragmentation by Steve Sammartino Pdf

Doing business in the digital age The Great Fragmentation: And Why the Future of All Business is Small is a business survival manifesto for the technology revolution. As the world moves from the industrial era to the digital age, power is shifting and fragmenting. Power is no longer about might and ownership; power in a digital world is about access. Existing businesses need to understand this shift and position themselves to survive and thrive in an environment where entrepreneurs and start-ups enabled by access to technology are genuine threats. Author Steve Sammartino is widely regarded as a thought leader on the subject of technology and business, and helps companies transition from industrial-era thinking to the mindset and processes required to compete in today's digital marketplace. The Great Fragmentation shows how technological changes such as Big Data, gamification, crowdfunding, Bitcoin, 3D printing, social media, mashup culture and artisanal production will forever change business and the way we live our lives. Examine how the digital era has altered where we work, how we work, where we live and what we do Discover how the digital era has impacted social and economic structures, including educational systems, financial systems and government policy Understand that the social media and collecting 'friends' is just the tip of the iceberg in a digital business environment Weaving together insights from business, technology and anthropology, The Great Fragmentation provides both corporations and entrepreneurs with a playbook for the future of work, life and business in the digital era.

Author : Alessandro Roncaglia
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781108478441

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The Age of Fragmentation by Alessandro Roncaglia Pdf

A wide-ranging historical account and critical analysis of the global development of economics from 1940 to the present day.

Author : Harro van Asselt
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781782544982

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The Fragmentation of Global Climate Governance by Harro van Asselt Pdf

The fragmented state of global climate governance poses major challenges to policymakers and scholars alike. Through an in-depth examination of regime interactions between the international climate regime and three other regimes (on clean technology, b

Author : Warren Fahy
Publisher : Delacorte Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2009-06-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780440338574

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Fragment by Warren Fahy Pdf

Aboard a long-range research vessel, in the vast reaches of the South Pacific, the cast and crew of the reality show Sealife believe they have found a ratings bonanza. For a director dying for drama, a distress call from Henders Island—a mere blip on any radar—might be just the ticket. Until the first scientist sets foot on Henders—and the ultimate test of survival begins. For when they reach the island’s shores, the scientists are utterly unprepared for what they find—creatures unlike any ever recorded in natural history. This is not a lost world frozen in time; this is Earth as it might have looked after evolving on a separate path for half a billion years—a fragment of a lost continent, with an ecosystem that could topple ours like a house of cards.

Author : Kathleen A. Galvin,Robin S. Reid,Roy H. Behnke, Jr.,N. Thompson Hobbs
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2007-10-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781402049064

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Fragmentation in Semi-Arid and Arid Landscapes by Kathleen A. Galvin,Robin S. Reid,Roy H. Behnke, Jr.,N. Thompson Hobbs Pdf

With detailed data from nine sites around the world, the authors examine how the so-called ‘fragmentation’ of these fragile landscapes occurs and the consequences of this break-up for ecosystems and the people who depend on them. ‘Rangelands’ make up a quarter of the world’s landscape, and here, the case is developed that while fragmentation arises from different natural, social and economic conditions worldwide, it creates similar outcomes for human and natural systems.

Author : Kris McDaniel
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2017-08-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191030383

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The Fragmentation of Being by Kris McDaniel Pdf

The Fragmentation of Being offers answers to some of the most fundamental questions in ontology. There are many kinds of beings but are there also many kinds of being? The world contains a variety of objects, each of which, let us provisionally assume, exists, but do some objects exist in different ways? Do some objects enjoy more being or existence than other objects? Are there different ways in which one object might enjoy more being than another? Most contemporary metaphysicians would answer "no" to each of these questions. So widespread is this consensus that the questions this book addressed are rarely even raised let alone explicitly answered. But Kris McDaniel carefully examines a wide range of reasons for answering each of these questions with a "yes". In doing so, he connects these questions with many important metaphysical topics, including substance and accident, time and persistence, the nature of ontological categories, possibility and necessity, presence and absence, persons and value, ground and consequence, and essence and accident. In addition to discussing contemporary problems and theories, McDaniel also discusses the ontological views of many important figures in the history of philosophy, including Aquinas, Aristotle, Descartes, Heidegger, Husserl, Kant, Leibniz, Meinong, and many more.

Author : Arjun Tan,Robert C Reynolds
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2019-12-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789811208577

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Theory Of Satellite Fragmentation In Orbit by Arjun Tan,Robert C Reynolds Pdf

For over half a century, an increasing number of satellites have fragmented in orbit, creating a large amount of hazardous orbital debris which threaten the safety of useful functioning satellites and space missions. This book discusses the theory behind these fragmentations followed by studies of actual cases.The book begins with a survey of satellite fragmentations in orbit and the consequent formation of orbital debris in chronological order. Next, the fundamental physical processes underlying satellite fragmentations are outlined and the methods of analyzing satellite fragmentations presented. The rest of the book presents analyses of the major satellite fragmentation events including accidental and intentional breakups, those due to explosions and collisions, as well as those belonging to the unknown category.

Author : John A. Franklin,T. Katsabanis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2018-12-19
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781351432740

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Measurement of Blast Fragmentation by John A. Franklin,T. Katsabanis Pdf

A collection of workshop papers providing state-of-the-art reviews on all aspects of fragmentation, including photographic requirements, image enhancement, statistical treatment, and applications in quarrying, mining and minerals processing industries.

Author : Anna A. Lamari,Franco Montanari,Anna Novokhatko
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 734 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110621693

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Fragmentation in Ancient Greek Drama by Anna A. Lamari,Franco Montanari,Anna Novokhatko Pdf

This volume examines whether dramatic fragments should be approached as parts of a greater whole or as self-contained entities. It comprises contributions by a broad spectrum of international scholars: by young researchers working on fragmentary drama as well as by well-known experts in this field. The volume explores another kind of fragmentation that seems already to have been embraced by the ancient dramatists: quotations extracted from their context and immersed in a new whole, in which they work both as cohesive unities and detachable entities. Sections of poetic works circulated in antiquity not only as parts of a whole, but also independently, i.e. as component fractions, rather like quotations on facebook today. Fragmentation can thus be seen operating on the level of dissociation, but also on the level of cohesion. The volume investigates interpretive possibilities, quotation contexts, production and reception stages of fragmentary texts, looking into the ways dramatic fragments can either increase the depth of fragmentation or strengthen the intensity of cohesion.

Author : Wolfram Lacher
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780755600830

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Libya's Fragmentation by Wolfram Lacher Pdf

Shortlisted for the Conflict Research Society's 2021 Book of the Year Prize Shortlisted for the British-Kuwait Friendship Society 2021 Book Prize After the overthrow of the Qadhafi regime in 2011, Libya witnessed a dramatic breakdown of centralized power. Countless local factions carved up the country into a patchwork of spheres of influence. Almost no nationwide or even regional organizations emerged, and no national institutions survived the turbulent descent into renewed civil war. Only the leader of one armed coalition, Khalifa Haftar, managed to overcome competitors and centralize authority over eastern Libya. But tenacious resistance from armed groups in western Libya blocked Haftar's attempt to seize power in the capital Tripoli. Rarely does political fragmentation occur as radically as in Libya, where it has been the primary obstacle to the re-establishment of central authority. This book analyzes the forces that have shaped the country's trajectory since 2011. Confounding widely held assumptions about the role of Libya's tribes in the revolution, Wolfram Lacher shows how war transformed local communities and explains why Khalifa Haftar has been able to consolidate his sway over the northeast. Based on hundreds of interviews with key actors in the conflict, Lacher advances an approach to the study of civil wars that places the transformation of social ties at the centre of analysis.

Author : Sergei O. Prokofieff
Publisher : Temple Lodge Publishing
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781912230563

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Rudolf Steiner, Fragment of a Spiritual Biography by Sergei O. Prokofieff Pdf

Underlying Sergei O. Prokofieff’s life’s work was a fundamental research-theme to which he returned to repeatedly: the individuality of Rudolf Steiner as manifested through his past incarnations on Earth. Beginning in 1982, inspired by a visit to an exhibition on The Epic of Gilgamesh, Prokofieff planned a full-scale spiritual biography with the intention of finding an answer to the question: Who is Rudolf Steiner? In a sequence of five past incarnations – as indicated by Steiner himself – and culminating in the life of Rudolf Steiner, Prokofieff searched for the inner thread between the six stages of this great, all-encompassing life. His intention was to find not only the outer connections in this sequence but also the deeper, more esoteric stream that offers the key to the unique significance of this individuality. In 1984, Prokofieff began to write the first chapter about Rudolf Steiner’s incarnation as Enkidu in Sumer. Sadly, many obstacles in his path were to prevent him finalising the project. However, the author returned to the book in his final months, preparing a Preface that outlines its conception together with a summary chapter on Rudolf Steiner’s evolutionary journey. This precious ‘fragment’ of a biography features valuable additional material, including: a full introduction to the relationship of the anthroposophical movement to other occult streams of esoteric Christianity and their Masters; a detailed spiritual-scientific interpretation of the Epic of Gilgamesh that establishes Rudolf Steiner’s connection with the being of Jesus of Nazareth, and an exploration of Steiner’s relationship to the Nathan soul, the Luke Jesus child. Serious students of anthroposophy will welcome these final writings from the pen of one of Rudolf Steiner’s most faithful and insightful disciples.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Aging
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Old age assistance
ISBN : PURD:32754066744800

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Fragmentation of Services for the Elderly by United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Aging Pdf

Author : Vanessa Guignery,Wojciech Drąg
Publisher : Vernon Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2019-12-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781622736461

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The Poetics of Fragmentation in Contemporary British and American Fiction by Vanessa Guignery,Wojciech Drąg Pdf

The last decades have seen a revival of fragmentation in British and American works of fiction that deny linearity, coherence and continuity in favour of disruption, gaps and fissures. Authors such as Ali Smith, David Mitchell and David Shields have sought new ways of representing our global, media-saturated contemporary experience which differ from modernist and postmodernist experimentations from which the writers nevertheless draw inspiration. This volume aims to investigate some of the most important contributions to fragmentary literature from British and American writers since the 1990s, with a particular emphasis on texts released in the twenty-first century. The chapters within examine whether contemporary forms of literary fragmentation constitute a return to the modernist episteme or the fragmented literature of exhaustion of the 1960s, mark a continuity with postmodernist aesthetics or signal a deviation from past models and an attempt to reflect today’s accelerated culture of social media and over-communication. Contributors theorise and classify literary fragments, examine the relationship between fragmentation and the Zeitgeist (influenced by globalisation, media saturation and social networks), analyse the mechanics of multimodal and multimedial fictions, and consider the capacity of literary fragmentation to represent personal or collective trauma and to address ethical concerns. They also investigate the ways in which the architecture of the printed book is destabilised and how aesthetic processes involving fragmentation, bricolage and/or collage raise ontological, ethical and epistemological questions about the globalised contemporary world we live in and its relation to the self and the other. Besides the aforementioned authors, the volume makes reference to the works of J. G. Ballard, Julian Barnes, Mark Z. Danielewski, David Markson, Jonathan Safran Foer, David Foster Wallace, Jeanette Winterson and several others.

Author : James Arthur Rochelle,Leslie A. Lehmann,Joe Wisniewski
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9004113886

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Forest Fragmentation by James Arthur Rochelle,Leslie A. Lehmann,Joe Wisniewski Pdf

The book contains 15 chapters and provides an overview and synthesis of forest fragmentation and its influences on key ecological processes and vertebrate productivity. Land use practices and their effects on vertebrate populations and productivity are discussed and examples of several planning approaches to address landscape-level management effects are described.

Author : Ian Clark
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0198781660

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Globalization and Fragmentation by Ian Clark Pdf

Globalization and Fragmentation offers a succinct, original critique of the century's international developments. It sets out a challenging analysis of globalization as a process reflecting political relations both between and within states.