The Social Code

Author : Sadie Hayes
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-03
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781250035646

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The Social Code by Sadie Hayes Pdf

In a world where anyone can rise to the top, the only rule is... watch your back, in Sadie Hayes' The Social Code. Eighteen-year-old twins Adam and Amelia Dory learned the hard way to rely only on each other, growing up in a small town where they understood the meaning of coming from nothing. But everything changes when both are offered scholarships to Stanford University – and catapulted into the dazzling world of Silicon Valley, where anyone with a good enough idea can skyrocket to fame and fortune in the blink of an eye... Amelia is almost as pretty as she is smart – almost. A shy girl and genius, she is happiest alone in the computer lab, but her brother has other plans for her talents: A new company that will be the next Silicon Valley hit, and will thrust Amelia into the spotlight whether she likes it or not. Where Amelia's the brains, Adam's the ambition – he sees the privileged lifestyle of the Silicon Valley kids and wants a piece of what they have. He especially wants a piece of Lisa Bristol, the stunning daughter of one of the Valley's biggest tycoons. As Adam and Amelia begin to hatch their new company, they find themselves going from nothing to the verge of everything seemingly overnight. But no amount of prestige can prepare them for the envy, backstabbing and cool calculation of their new powerful peers. Welcome to Silicon Valley, where fortune, success – and betrayal – are only a breath away...

Author : Patrick Hanlon
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2006-01-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780743277976

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Primalbranding by Patrick Hanlon Pdf

The author explains why the most successful brands--whether products, services, or organizations--create a culture of belief, in which the consumer develops a powerful emotional attachment to the brand as the best of its kind.

Author : Marie Howley,Eileen Arnold
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2005-06-29
Category : Education
ISBN : 184642142X

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Revealing the Hidden Social Code by Marie Howley,Eileen Arnold Pdf

The Social Stories(TM) approach is widely acknowledged as a key technique for teaching social and life skills to children with autistic spectrum disorders. This text, endorsed by the originator of Social Stories(TM), Carol Gray, offers clear and comprehensive guidance for professionals, parents and carers on how to write successful and targeted Social Stories(TM) that will help develop the autistic spectrum child's understanding of social interaction. The book outlines the kinds of social challenges that people with ASD may experience and highlights the importance of learning social skills in meaningful contexts. An extended review of the guidelines for writing Social Stories(TM) will help writers to structure and develop their stories. The authors explain the key elements and highlight the potential difficulties that a writer may encounter, while providing encouragement and guidance through the various stages of what is often a challenging process. They include examples from their own professional experience, and suggest ways in which the Social Stories(TM) approach may enhance other strategies. Helpful advice on presentation and implementation is provided. Revealing the Hidden Social Code is essential reading for any professional, parent, carer or teacher wanting to employ Social Stories(TM) to develop social understanding in people with ASDs.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Cipher and telegraph codes
ISBN : NLS:V000568966

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The Social Code by Anonim Pdf

Author : Blueprint
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0985235241

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The Social Media Cheat Code by Blueprint Pdf

In The Social Media Cheat Code, hip-hop artist and author Blueprint reveals thirteen game-changing techniques for artists using social media that apply to any platform they choose to use. These techniques are easy to understand and designed to help them gain more followers, create more engagement, and make more money.

Author : Daniel J. Kevles,Leroy E. Hood
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0674136462

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The Code of Codes by Daniel J. Kevles,Leroy E. Hood Pdf

Provided by Horace Freeland Judson, author of the bestselling Eighth Day of Creation. The book's broad and balanced coverage and the expertise of its contributors make The Code of Codes the most comprehensive and compelling exploration available on this history-making project.

Author : Rob Kitchin,Martin Dodge
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780262042482

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Code/space by Rob Kitchin,Martin Dodge Pdf

The authors examine software from a spatial perspective, analyzing the dyadic relationship of software & space. The production of space, they argue, is increasingly dependent on code, & code is written to produce space.

Author : Chris York,Rafiel York
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780786489473

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Comic Books and the Cold War, 1946-1962 by Chris York,Rafiel York Pdf

Conventional wisdom holds that comic books of the post-World War II era are poorly drawn and poorly written publications, notable only for the furor they raised. Contributors to this thoughtful collection, however, demonstrate that these comics constitute complex cultural documents that create a dialogue between mainstream values and alternative beliefs that question or complicate the grand narratives of the era. Close analysis of individual titles, including EC comics, Superman, romance comics, and other, more obscure works, reveals the ways Cold War culture--from atomic anxieties and the nuclear family to communist hysteria and social inequalities--manifests itself in the comic books of the era. By illuminating the complexities of mid-century graphic novels, this study demonstrates that postwar popular culture was far from monolithic in its representation of American values and beliefs.

Author : Sandra Gonzalez-Bailon
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2017-12-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780262037075

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Decoding the Social World by Sandra Gonzalez-Bailon Pdf

How data science and the analysis of networks help us solve the puzzle of unintended consequences. Social life is full of paradoxes. Our intentional actions often trigger outcomes that we did not intend or even envision. How do we explain those unintended effects and what can we do to regulate them? In Decoding the Social World, Sandra González-Bailón explains how data science and digital traces help us solve the puzzle of unintended consequences—offering the solution to a social paradox that has intrigued thinkers for centuries. Communication has always been the force that makes a collection of people more than the sum of individuals, but only now can we explain why: digital technologies have made it possible to parse the information we generate by being social in new, imaginative ways. And yet we must look at that data, González-Bailón argues, through the lens of theories that capture the nature of social life. The technologies we use, in the end, are also a manifestation of the social world we inhabit. González-Bailón discusses how the unpredictability of social life relates to communication networks, social influence, and the unintended effects that derive from individual decisions. She describes how communication generates social dynamics in aggregate (leading to episodes of “collective effervescence”) and discusses the mechanisms that underlie large-scale diffusion, when information and behavior spread “like wildfire.” She applies the theory of networks to illuminate why collective outcomes can differ drastically even when they arise from the same individual actions. By opening the black box of unintended effects, González-Bailón identifies strategies for social intervention and discusses the policy implications—and how data science and evidence-based research embolden critical thinking in a world that is constantly changing.

Author : Matthew A. Russell,Mikhail Klassen
Publisher : O'Reilly Media
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2018-12-04
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781491973523

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Mining the Social Web by Matthew A. Russell,Mikhail Klassen Pdf

Mine the rich data tucked away in popular social websites such as Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Instagram. With the third edition of this popular guide, data scientists, analysts, and programmers will learn how to glean insights from social media—including who’s connecting with whom, what they’re talking about, and where they’re located—using Python code examples, Jupyter notebooks, or Docker containers. In part one, each standalone chapter focuses on one aspect of the social landscape, including each of the major social sites, as well as web pages, blogs and feeds, mailboxes, GitHub, and a newly added chapter covering Instagram. Part two provides a cookbook with two dozen bite-size recipes for solving particular issues with Twitter. Get a straightforward synopsis of the social web landscape Use Docker to easily run each chapter’s example code, packaged as a Jupyter notebook Adapt and contribute to the code’s open source GitHub repository Learn how to employ best-in-class Python 3 tools to slice and dice the data you collect Apply advanced mining techniques such as TFIDF, cosine similarity, collocation analysis, clique detection, and image recognition Build beautiful data visualizations with Python and JavaScript toolkits

Author : Charles Gobelet,Franco Franchignoni
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2006-01-02
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9782287297458

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Vocational Rehabilitation by Charles Gobelet,Franco Franchignoni Pdf

It gives us great pleasure to write the preface to this book, the second in the series of monographs produced by the European Academy of Rehabilitation Medicine. No part of medicine, no clinical intervention, is complete without thinking about its effect on the person’s life and the quality thereof. One of the most powerful determinants of this is work; a source not only of income, but of satisfaction and a sense of purpose and worth. The Academy, founded in 1969, is composed of senior European doctors spec- lising in Rehabilitation and Physical Medicine. It meets regularly to discuss matters of importance in the field, including teaching, research and ethical matters. It recognises that the ability of the speciality and of related ones to decrease dependency and increase autonomy and quality of life needs to be better known. Hence the production of these monographs. They will help readers access a vast amount of literature on the practice of rehabilitation and its effectiveness. They should be particularly useful to young doctors preparing for the European Boards certification in Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine as they are authoritative and cover subjects in depth. Topics covered in the series range from basic sciences to the most applied areas.

Author : Timothy Jost
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2004-12-16
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780335225996

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EBOOK: Health Care Coverage Determinations: An International Comparative Study by Timothy Jost Pdf

"A ground breaking set of case studies about how [health care] coverage decisions are made" Robert A. Berenson M.D. Senior Fellow at the Urban Institute, Washington D.C. and former Director of the Center for Health Plans and Providers of the Medicare program Developed countries are facing rapidly rising health care costs and one of the major factors driving health care cost growth is the continual development and diffusion of new, generally more expensive, health care technologies. This book contains: * A description of the institutions, procedures and criteria used by eight countries for assessing technologies for public insurance coverage * An analysis of the role of interest groups, and of the public interest, in these decision making processes * An examination of how particular technologies are treated differently by different countries, and why Based upon research from Australia, Canada, Germany, The Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, the United States of America and the United Kingdom, the contributors argue that although each of these countries is committed to evidence-based scientific assessment of technologies, in fact adoption of technologies is significantly affected by political considerations, and in particular by the influence of interest groups. Moreover, it offers recommendations as to how technology assessment for coverage policy can be improved to serve better the public interest. Health Care Coverage Determinations is essential reading for health policy makers, managers, researchers and students with an interest in health economics, health care provision and the politics affecting health care legislation. Contributors: Liliana Bulfone, Tanisha Carino, Peter C. Coyte, Anna García-Altés, Colleen M. Flood, Stefan Greß, Felix Gurtner, Anthony Harris, Timothy Stoltzfus Jost, Eric Nauenberg, Christopher Newdick, Dea Niebuhr, Guillaume Roduit, Heinz Rothgang, Frans F.H. Rutten, Dominique Sprumont, Juergen Wasem.

Author : Timothy Stoltzfus Jost
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2003-04-10
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780190288051

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Disentitlement? by Timothy Stoltzfus Jost Pdf

No developed nation relies exclusively on the private sector to finance health care for citizens. This book begins by exploring the deficiencies in private health insurance that account for this. It then recounts the history and examines the legal character of America's public health care entitlements - Medicare, Medicaid, and tax subsidies for employment-related health benefits. These programs are increasingly embattled, attacked by those advocating privatization (replacing public with private insurance); individualization (replacing group and community-based insurance with approaches based on individual choice within markets); and devolution (devolving authority over entitlements to state governments and to private entities). Jost critically analyzes this movement toward disentitlement. He also examines the primary models for structuring health care entitlements in other countries - general taxation-funded national health insurance and social insurance - and considers what we can learn from these models. The book concludes by describing what an American entitlement-based health care system could look like, and in particular how the legal characteristics of our entitlement programs could be structured to support the long-term sustainability of these vital programs.

Author : Gerhard Robbers
Publisher : Kluwer Law International B.V.
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-20
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789403523132

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Migration Law in Germany by Gerhard Robbers Pdf

Derived from the renowned multi-volume International Encyclopaedia of Laws, this monograph on the rules on immigration and right of residence of non-nationals in Germany examines the legal and administrative conditions for persons not having the citizenship of a State to enter the country and to stay and reside there. It provides a survey of the subject that is both usefully brief and sufficiently detailed to answer most questions likely to arise in any pertinent legal setting. It follows the common structure of all monographs appearing in the International Encyclopaedia for Migration Law, thus allowing easy comparison between the country studies. As migration and economic activities are often interlinked, the analysis pays particular attention to labour market access and regulation of self-employed activities for non-nationals. The book describes the status of such specific categories of persons as students, researchers, temporary workers, and asylum seekers, as well as the position of family members, detailing applicable legislation and providing practical information on administrative procedures, sanctions, and legal remedies and guarantees. The impact of international human rights law and various bilateral and multilateral agreements is considered, along with the broader application of national and local law to non-citizens in such areas as family relations, labour, social security, and education. Lawyers, scholars, practitioners, policymakers, government administrations, and non-governmental organizations involved in the development, practice and study of migration law will find this book indispensable. It will be welcomed by lawyers representing parties with interests in Germany and immigration specialists in both public and private organizations. Academics and researchers also will appreciate its value in the study of comparative trends and harmonization initiatives affecting migrants.

Author : Augusto Boal
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-29
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780429536649

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Games for Actors and Non-Actors by Augusto Boal Pdf

Games for Actors and Non-Actors is the classic and bestselling book by the founder of Theatre of the Oppressed, Augusto Boal. It sets out the principles and practice of Boal’s revolutionary method, showing how theatre can be used to transform and liberate everyone – actors and non-actors alike! This new third English edition includes recently uncovered interviews and essays from the 1970s, some of which featured in the earliest Portuguese edition of this book, and a new essay by the theatre director Sergio de Carvalho, which looks at Boal’s work in the context of Brazilian theatre and politics over the past fifty years. This is a vital handbook for theatre makers and activists of all kinds who want to deepen their understanding of the theory and practice of Boal’s Theatre of the Oppressed. It is also an excellent introduction for those new to the system.