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Author : Dan A. Davidson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780962632150
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Shape Power written by Dan A. Davidson and published by . This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nicholas A. Christakis
Publisher : Little, Brown Spark
ISBN 13 : 031607134X
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (16 download)
Download or read book Connected written by Nicholas A. Christakis and published by Little, Brown Spark. This book was released on 2009-09-28 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrated scientists Nicholas Christakis and James Fowler explain the amazing power of social networks and our profound influence on one another's lives. Your colleague's husband's sister can make you fat, even if you don't know her. A happy neighbor has more impact on your happiness than a happy spouse. These startling revelations of how much we truly influence one another are revealed in the studies of Dr. Christakis and Fowler, which have repeatedly made front-page news nationwide. In Connected, the authors explain why emotions are contagious, how health behaviors spread, why the rich get richer, even how we find and choose our partners. Intriguing and entertaining, Connected overturns the notion of the individual and provides a revolutionary paradigm-that social networks influence our ideas, emotions, health, relationships, behavior, politics, and much more. It will change the way we think about every aspect of our lives.
Author : David Bainbridge
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 1468312944
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (683 download)
Download or read book Curvology written by David Bainbridge and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2015-11-09 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A zoologist explores the unique evolution of the female body in this fascinating study of social, historical, and biological influences. Humans are the only mammals whose females have curvy bodies. In Curvology, zoologist David Bainbridge uses his scientific know-how to explore this anatomical mystery. With wide ranging data and analysis, he delves into the social and psychological consequences of our fixation with curves and fat. Blending evolutionary biology, cultural observation, and cutting-edge psychology, Bainbridge critically synthesize the science and history of women’s body shape, from ancient homonids to the age of the selfie, offering insights into how women’s bodies became objects of fascination and raising awareness about what this scrutiny does to our brains. Packed with controversial and compelling findings that drive us to think about the significance of our curves and what they mean for future generations, Curvology offers not just a compelling collection of facts and studies, but a fascinating take on human evolution.
Author : Sarah S. Elkind
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807834890
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)
Download or read book How Local Politics Shape Federal Policy written by Sarah S. Elkind and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on five Los Angeles environmental policy debates between 1920 and 1950, Sarah Elkind investigates how practices in American municipal government gave business groups political legitimacy at the local level as well as unanticipated influence over
Author : Ron Klinger
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN 13 : 9780304357826
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (578 download)
Download or read book The Power of Shape written by Ron Klinger and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2002 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Average players tend to focus on point count for their bidding decisions, but the expert recognises that the shape of the hand also plays a vital role. Knowing the implications of shape will help you find the best contract more often, and will also strengthen your play and defence by revealing the pattern of the opponents' hands.Make use of this valuable information by following the recommendations in this exciting and original book and your partnership will be in great shape!
Author : Jeremiah D. Lambert
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262330997
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (623 download)
Download or read book The Power Brokers written by Jeremiah D. Lambert and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2015-08-28 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the interplay between government regulation and the private sector has shaped the electric industry, from its nineteenth-century origins to twenty-first-century market restructuring. For more than a century, the interplay between private, investor-owned electric utilities and government regulators has shaped the electric power industry in the United States. Provision of an essential service to largely dependent consumers invited government oversight and ever more sophisticated market intervention. The industry has sought to manage, co-opt, and profit from government regulation. In The Power Brokers, Jeremiah Lambert maps this complex interaction from the late nineteenth century to the present day. Lambert's narrative focuses on seven important industry players: Samuel Insull, the principal industry architect and prime mover; David Lilienthal, chairman of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), who waged a desperate battle for market share; Don Hodel, who presided over the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) in its failed attempt to launch a multi-plant nuclear power program; Paul Joskow, the MIT economics professor who foresaw a restructured and competitive electric power industry; Enron's Ken Lay, master of political influence and market-rigging; Amory Lovins, a pioneer proponent of sustainable power; and Jim Rogers, head of Duke Energy, a giant coal-fired utility threatened by decarbonization. Lambert tells how Insull built an empire in a regulatory vacuum, and how the government entered the electricity marketplace by making cheap hydropower available through the TVA. He describes the failed overreach of the BPA, the rise of competitive electricity markets, Enron's market manipulation, Lovins's radical vision of a decentralized industry powered by renewables, and Rogers's remarkable effort to influence cap-and-trade legislation. Lambert shows how the power industry has sought to use regulatory change to preserve or secure market dominance and how rogue players have gamed imperfectly restructured electricity markets. Integrating regulation and competition in this industry has proven a difficult experiment.
Author : Pablo Perez Ahumada
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 0822989751
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)
Download or read book Building Power to Shape Labor Policy written by Pablo Perez Ahumada and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2023-05-30 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During Chile’s shift to neoliberalism, the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet passed a swath of probusiness labor legislation. Subsequent labor reforms by democratically elected progressive administrations have sought to shift power back to workers, but this task has proven difficult. In Building Power to Shape Labor Policy, Pablo Pérez Ahumada explains why. Focusing on reforms to collective labor law, Pérez Ahumada argues that analyzing how both workers and employers mobilize power to influence government policies is crucial for understanding labor reform outcomes. He examines the relational character of power to explain how different types of power—structural, institutional, associational—interact with each other, and proposes a relational understanding of power and how it is balanced among competing social classes. While workers and employers both have a hand in shaping labor law, their influence is not equal. Analysis of recent events in Chile reveals how the balance of power and the lingering effects of neoliberalism manifest in labor reform.
Author : Čarna Brković
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1785334158
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (853 download)
Download or read book Managing Ambiguity written by Čarna Brković and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2017-07-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do people turn to personal connections to get things done? Exploring the role of favors in social welfare systems in postwar, postsocialist Bosnia and Herzegovina, this volume provides a new theoretical angle on links between ambiguity and power. It demonstrates that favors were not an instrumental tactic of survival, nor a way to reproduce oneself as a moral person. Instead, favors enabled the insertion of personal compassion into the heart of the organization of welfare. Managing Ambiguity follows how neoliberal insistence on local community, flexibility, and self-responsibility was translated into clientelist modes of relating and back, and how this fostered a specific mode of power.
Author : Arthur Fleischer
Publisher : Beard Books
ISBN 13 : 1587981629
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (879 download)
Download or read book Board Games written by Arthur Fleischer and published by Beard Books. This book was released on 2002 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reprint of a previously published book. It analyzes the metamorphosis in the role of directors of major companies and the new level of responsibility assumed in the board room.
Author : David Doherty
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197605001
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (976 download)
Download or read book Small Power written by David Doherty and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part 1. Local Party Organizations and the Electoral Landscape. Introduction -- Local Parties and their Leaders -- What Do Local Party Chairs Do? -- Chairs and Candidates: Recruiting and Support -- Local Parties and Election Outcomes -- Part 2. How Chairs View Candidates. Introduction to Part 2 -- Money, Commitment, and Community Ties -- Candidate Gender -- Candidate Race and Ethnicity -- Candidates' Policy Dispositions -- Small Power.
Author : Howard W. French
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0385353332
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (853 download)
Download or read book Everything Under the Heavens written by Howard W. French and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2017-03-14 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the former New York Times Asia correspondent and author of China's Second Continent, an incisive investigation of China's ideological development as it becomes an ever more aggressive player in regional and global diplomacy. For many years after its reform and opening in 1978, China maintained an attitude of false modesty about its ambitions. That role, reports Howard French, has been set aside. China has asserted its place among the global heavyweights, revealing its plans for pan-Asian dominance by building its navy, increasing territorial claims to areas like the South China Sea, and diplomatically bullying smaller players. Underlying this attitude is a strain of thinking that casts China's present-day actions in decidedly historical terms, as the path to restoring the dynastic glory of the past. If we understand how that historical identity relates to current actions, in ways ideological, philosophical, and even legal, we can learn to forecast just what kind of global power China stands to become--and to interact wisely with a future peer. Steeped in deeply researched history as well as on-the-ground reporting, this is French at his revelatory best.
Author : Jordan Ellenberg
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1984879065
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (848 download)
Download or read book Shape written by Jordan Ellenberg and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-05-25 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An instant New York Times Bestseller! “Unreasonably entertaining . . . reveals how geometric thinking can allow for everything from fairer American elections to better pandemic planning.” —The New York Times From the New York Times-bestselling author of How Not to Be Wrong—himself a world-class geometer—a far-ranging exploration of the power of geometry, which turns out to help us think better about practically everything. How should a democracy choose its representatives? How can you stop a pandemic from sweeping the world? How do computers learn to play Go, and why is learning Go so much easier for them than learning to read a sentence? Can ancient Greek proportions predict the stock market? (Sorry, no.) What should your kids learn in school if they really want to learn to think? All these are questions about geometry. For real. If you're like most people, geometry is a sterile and dimly remembered exercise you gladly left behind in the dust of ninth grade, along with your braces and active romantic interest in pop singers. If you recall any of it, it's plodding through a series of miniscule steps only to prove some fact about triangles that was obvious to you in the first place. That's not geometry. Okay, it is geometry, but only a tiny part, which has as much to do with geometry in all its flush modern richness as conjugating a verb has to do with a great novel. Shape reveals the geometry underneath some of the most important scientific, political, and philosophical problems we face. Geometry asks: Where are things? Which things are near each other? How can you get from one thing to another thing? Those are important questions. The word "geometry"comes from the Greek for "measuring the world." If anything, that's an undersell. Geometry doesn't just measure the world—it explains it. Shape shows us how.
Author : Jeremy Heimans
Publisher : Random House Canada
ISBN 13 : 0345816463
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (458 download)
Download or read book New Power written by Jeremy Heimans and published by Random House Canada. This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From two influential and visionary thinkers comes a big idea that is changing the way movements catch fire and ideas spread in our highly connected world. For the vast majority of human history, power has been held by the few. "Old power" is closed, inaccessible, and leader-driven. Once gained, it is jealously guarded, and the powerful spend it carefully, like currency. But the technological revolution of the past two decades has made possible a new form of power, one that operates differently, like a current. "New power" is made by many; it is open, participatory, often leaderless, and peer-driven. Like water or electricity, it is most forceful when it surges. The goal with new power is not to hoard it, but to channel it. New power is behind the rise of participatory communities like Facebook and YouTube, sharing services like Uber and Airbnb, and rapid-fire social movements like Brexit and #BlackLivesMatter. It explains the unlikely success of Barack Obama's 2008 campaign and the unlikelier victory of Donald Trump in 2016. And it gives ISIS its power to propagate its brand and distribute its violence. Even old power institutions like the Papacy, NASA, and LEGO have tapped into the strength of the crowd to stage improbable reinventions. In New Power, the business leaders/social visionaries Jeremy Heimans and Henry Timms provide the tools for using new power to successfully spread an idea or lead a movement in the twenty-first century. Drawing on examples from business, politics, and social justice, they explain the new world we live in--a world where connectivity has made change shocking and swift and a world in which everyone expects to participate.
Author : Ken'ichi Ōmae
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743236343
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (432 download)
Download or read book Triad Power written by Ken'ichi Ōmae and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2002-01-15 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Renowned business strategist Kenichi Ohmae's path breaking ideas on the globalization of industries and products have made headlines in leading financial newspapers and business publications on three continents. Now, in this eagerly awaited book, Ohmae integrates and expands his much discussed concepts. Ohmae explains that becoming an insider means nothing less than full membership in the indigenous business communities at each corner of the Triad.
Author : Sue Robinson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108419895
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)
Download or read book Networked News, Racial Divides written by Sue Robinson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracks power, privilege, and processes of community trust building in digitized media ecologies, focusing on public dialogues about racial inequality.
Author : Martin Puchner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0812998936
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (129 download)
Download or read book The Written World written by Martin Puchner and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The story of literature in sixteen acts, from Alexander the Great and the Iliad to ebooks and Harry Potter, this engaging book brings together remarkable people and surprising events to show how writing shaped cultures, religions, and the history of the world"--
Author : David Kennedy
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400889391
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book A World of Struggle written by David Kennedy and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How today's unjust global order is shaped by uncertain expert knowledge—and how to fix it A World of Struggle reveals the role of expert knowledge in our political and economic life. As politicians, citizens, and experts engage one another on a technocratic terrain of irresolvable argument and uncertain knowledge, a world of astonishing inequality and injustice is born. In this provocative book, David Kennedy draws on his experience working with international lawyers, human rights advocates, policy professionals, economic development specialists, military lawyers, and humanitarian strategists to provide a unique insider's perspective on the complexities of global governance. He describes the conflicts, unexamined assumptions, and assertions of power and entitlement that lie at the center of expert rule. Kennedy explores the history of intellectual innovation by which experts developed a sophisticated legal vocabulary for global management strangely detached from its distributive consequences. At the center of expert rule is struggle: myriad everyday disputes in which expertise drifts free of its moorings in analytic rigor and observable fact. He proposes tools to model and contest expert work and concludes with an in-depth examination of modern law in warfare as an example of sophisticated expertise in action. Charting a major new direction in global governance at a moment when the international order is ready for change, this critically important book explains how we can harness expert knowledge to remake an unjust world.
