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Book Synopsis A Week in the Future by : Catherine Helen Spence
Download or read book A Week in the Future written by Catherine Helen Spence and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A Week in the Future' is a science-fiction novel written by Catherine Helen Spence. The story revolves around a woman named Emily Bethel, who fell terminally ill and was given the choice to live for two more years in her current state, or travel a hundred years into the future and spend a week living there. She chose the latter and was whisked to the world of 1988.
Download or read book The 4 Day Week written by Andrew Barnes and published by Piatkus. This book was released on 2020-01-07 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SHORTLISTED FOR THE BUSINESS BOOK AWARDS 2021 In The 4 Day Week, entrepreneur and business innovator Andrew Barnes makes the case for the four-day work week as the answer to many of the ills of the 21st-century global economy. Barnes conducted an experiment in his own business, the New Zealand trust company Perpetual Guardian, and asked his staff to design a four-day week that would permit them to meet their existing productivity requirements on the same salary but with a 20% cut in work hours. The outcomes of this trial, which no business leader had previously attempted on these terms, were stunning. People were happier and healthier, more engaged in their personal lives, and more focused and productive in the office. The world of work has seen a dramatic shift in recent times: the former security and benefits associated with permanent employment are being displaced by the less stable gig economy. Barnes explains the dangers of a focus on flexibility at the expense of hard-won worker protections, and argues that with the four-day week, we can have the best of all worlds: optimal productivity, work-life balance, worker benefits and, at long last, a solution to pervasive economic inequities such as the gender pay gap and lack of diversity in business and governance. The 4 Day Week is a practical, how-to guide for business leaders and employees alike that is applicable to nearly every industry. Using qualitative and quantitative data from research gathered through the Perpetual Guardian trial and other sources by the University of Auckland and Auckland University of Technology, the book presents a step-by-step approach to preparing businesses for productivity-focused flexibility, from the necessary cultural conditions to the often complex legislative considerations. The story of Perpetual Guardian's unprecedented work experiment has made headlines around the world and stormed social media, reaching a global audience in more than seventy countries. A mix of trenchant analysis, personal observation and actionable advice, The 4 Day Week is an essential guide for leaders and workers seeking to make a change for the better in their work world.
Book Synopsis Journey To The Future by : Guy Dauncey
Download or read book Journey To The Future written by Guy Dauncey and published by Agio Publishing House. This book was released on 2015-12-01 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this blockbuster novel, young protagonist Patrick Wu visits a future world - Vancouver in 2032 - brimming with innovation and hope, where the climate crisis is being tackled, the solar revolution is underway and a new cooperative economy is taking shape. Dauncey's "brilliant book shows solutions to the climate crisis that offer a future rich in opportunity and joy" - scientist and award-winning broadcaster David Suzuki. Scientists, activists and politicians are enthusiastic in advance praise for Guy Dauncey's ecotopian novel, Journey To The Future. From Elizabeth May, NDP MP Murray Rankin and UK Green Party leader Caroline Lucas, to activists Tzeporah Berman, Angela Bischoff and Bill McKibben, and scientists David Suzuki, Andrew Weaver and Elisabet Sahtouris, the endorsements for Guy Dauncey's new book are united: Journey To The Future is a gamechanger that must be widely read. In this blockbuster novel, young protagonist Patrick Wu visits a future world - Vancouver in 2032 - brimming with innovation and hope, where the climate crisis is being tackled, the solar revolution is underway and a new cooperative economy is taking shape. But enormous danger still lurks. David R. Boyd, co-chair of Vancouver's Greenest City initiative, says Journey To The Future is "an imaginative tour de force, blending science, philosophy and fiction into a delightful story about how we can and must change the world." About the author, Guy Dauncey Guy Dauncey is a futurist who works to develop a positive vision of a sustainable future and to translate that vision into action. He is founder of the BC Sustainable Energy Association, and the author or co-author of ten books, including the award-winning Cancer: 101 Solutions to a Preventable Epidemic and The Climate Challenge: 101 Solutions to Global Warming. He is an Honorary Member of the Planning Institute of BC, a Fellow of the Findhorn Foundation in Scotland, and a powerful motivational speaker.
Book Synopsis The Naked Future by : Patrick Tucker
Download or read book The Naked Future written by Patrick Tucker and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-03-06 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A thorough yet thoroughly digestible book on the ubiquity of data gathering and the unraveling of personal privacy.” —Daniel Pink, author of Drive Thanks to recent advances in technology, prediction models for individual behavior grow more sophisticated by the day. Whether you’ll marry, commit a crime or fall victim to one, or contract a disease are becoming easily accessible facts. The naked future is upon us, and the implications are staggering. Patrick Tucker draws on fascinating stories from health care to urban planning to online dating. He shows how scientists can predict your behavior based on your friends’ Twitter updates, anticipate the weather a year from now, figure out the time of day you’re most likely to slip back into a bad habit, and guess how well you’ll do on a test before you take it. Tucker knows that the rise of Big Data is not always a good thing. But he also shows how we’ve gained tremendous benefits that we have yet to fully realize.
Author :United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Transportation and Related Agencies Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :61 pages Book Rating :4.6/5 (111 download)
Book Synopsis Amtrak's Future by : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Transportation and Related Agencies
Download or read book Amtrak's Future written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Transportation and Related Agencies and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Great To-Day and Greater Future by : Henry Ford
Download or read book The Great To-Day and Greater Future written by Henry Ford and published by Cosimo, Inc.. This book was released on 2006-11-01 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How big should a corporation be? Is there a limit to their size? Should corporations be regulated to serve the public interest? What are the dangers of monopoly? Should monopoly be restrained? Henry Ford, one of America's greatest business innovators, explored these concepts and others in this 1926 tome of business philosophy, and his discussions are still fresh, vital, and applicable today. Considered "insane" for the very innovations we hail as visionary today-the assembly line, reduced working hours, a minimum wage, the five-day work week-Ford's instruction is well worth examining by those looking to understand the American economy past and present. ALSO AVAILABLE FROM COSIMO CLASSICS: Ford's autobiography, My Life & Work. American entrepreneur, inventor, and philanthropist HENRY FORD (1863-1947) was born in Michigan and trained as a machinist and engineer before founding, in 1903, the Ford Motor Company.
Book Synopsis My Future Is in America by : Jocelyn Cohen
Download or read book My Future Is in America written by Jocelyn Cohen and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2005-12-01 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Masterful . . . gripping immigrant narratives. A must read for anyone interested in immigration, American history, or the Jewish experience in America.” -- Beth S. Wenger, Katz Family Chair in American Jewish History, University of Pennsylvania In 1942, the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research held a contest for the best autobiography by a Jewish immigrant on the theme “Why I Left the Old Country and What I Have Accomplished in America.” Chosen from over two hundred entries, and translated from Yiddish, the nine life stories in My Future Is in America provide a compelling portrait of American Jewish life at the turn of the twentieth century. The writers arrived in America in every decade from the 1890s to the 1920s. They include manual workers, shopkeepers, housewives, communal activists, and professionals from all parts of Eastern Europe. In their own words, the immigrant writers convey the complexities of the transition between the Old and New Worlds. An introduction places the writings in historical and literary context, and annotations explain historical and cultural allusions made by the writers. This unique volume introduces readers to the complex world of Yiddish-speaking immigrants while also elucidating important themes and topics of interest to those in immigration studies, ethnic studies, labor history, and literary studies. Published in conjunction with the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research “A treasure trove. . . .The masterful translations rendered by Cohen and Soyer capture the lyric, sophisticated and often times profound dimensions of the writers' contributions....belongs in every library collection, where it will update and complement classics like A Bintel Brief and World of Our Fathers—Mark A. Raider,author of American Jewish Womenand the Zionist Enterprise and The Plough Woman: Records of the Pioneer Women of Palestine
Download or read book Facing the Future written by Nuel Belnap and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2001-08-02 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is an important new theory of human action, a theory that assumes actions are founded on choices made by agents who face an open future. It is a theory that makes indeterminism not only intelligible but illuminating. Tools from philosophy of language and philosophical logic help generate a full-scale account of agents "seeing to it that." The authors then proceed to clarify a variety of action-related topics such as determinism vs. indeterminism, imperatives, promises, strategies, joint agency, "could have done otherwise," deontic constructions, and assertions about a not yet settled future.
Book Synopsis Transactions of the Conference on the Future of Public Health in the United States and the Education of Sanitarians by :
Download or read book Transactions of the Conference on the Future of Public Health in the United States and the Education of Sanitarians written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The First and Second Advent; Or, the Past and the Future with Reference to the Jew, the Gentile, and the Church of God by : Bourchier Wrey SAVILE
Download or read book The First and Second Advent; Or, the Past and the Future with Reference to the Jew, the Gentile, and the Church of God written by Bourchier Wrey SAVILE and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis 2020: Future Past Delivery by : Michael A. Peluso
Download or read book 2020: Future Past Delivery written by Michael A. Peluso and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-02-25 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: October 2020, it's been 14 years since the Frontier Freedom Act transformed the United States into 38 states and 9 militarized zones; the employment rate is 23.4%; and Harold Priest is about to make a phone call that will disconnect him from his reality sending him on a desperate journey to save his father and his sanity. 2020: Future Past Delivery asks the question what do you do when everyone tells you you're insane, but your senses tell you otherwise?
Book Synopsis Future Directions in Social Security: Impact of high cost of living by : United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Aging
Download or read book Future Directions in Social Security: Impact of high cost of living written by United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Aging and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Monitoring the Future, National Survey Results on Drug Use by :
Download or read book Monitoring the Future, National Survey Results on Drug Use written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Future for Planners by : Ben Clifford
Download or read book The Future for Planners written by Ben Clifford and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2024-08-21 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spatial planning is at a crossroads, with government reform undermining the traditional vision of state-employed planners making decisions about urban development in a unified public interest. Nearly half of UK planners are now employed in the private sector, with complex inter-relations between the sectors including supplying outsourced services to local authorities struggling with centrally-imposed budget cuts. Drawing on new empirical data from a major research project, ‘Working in the Public Interest’, this book reveals what it’s like to be a UK planner in the early 21st century, and how the profession can fulfil its potential for the benefit of society and the environment.
Book Synopsis National Survey Results on Drug Use from the Monitoring the Future Study by :
Download or read book National Survey Results on Drug Use from the Monitoring the Future Study written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Future of Marriage by : Jessie Bernard
Download or read book The Future of Marriage written by Jessie Bernard and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1982-01-01 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. Bernard examines recent research findings on the present nature of the marriage commitment and predicts a less restrictive role for women in future marriages.
Book Synopsis The Future of Success by : Robert B. Reich
Download or read book The Future of Success written by Robert B. Reich and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2002-01-08 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you think it’s getting harder to both make a living and make a life, economist and former secretary of labor Robert Reich agrees with you. Americans may be earning more than ever before, but we’re paying a steep price: we’re working longer, seeing our families less, and our communities are fragmenting. With the clarity and insight that are his hallmarks, Reich delineates what success has come to mean in our time. He demonstrates that although we have more choices as consumers, and investors, the choices themselves are undermining the rest of our lives. It is getting harder for people to be confident of what they will be earning next year, or even next month. At the same time, our society is splitting into socially stratified enclaves--the wealthier walled off and gated, the poorer isolated and ignored. Although the trends he discusses are powerful, they are not irreversible, and Reich makes provocative suggestions for how we might create a more balanced society and more satisfying lives. Some of his ideas may surprise you; all should spark a healthy–and essential–national debate.
