Aaron Sorkin's Books

The Trial of the Chicago 7: The Screenplay

By: Aaron Sorkin

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Trial of the Chicago 7: The Screenplay

By: Aaron Sorkin

The brilliant screenplay of the Academy Award–nominated film The Trial of the Chicago 7 by Academy and Emmy Award–winning screenwriter and director Aaron Sorkin. Sorkin’s film dramatizes the 1969 trial of seven prominent anti-Vietnam War activists in Chicago. Originally there were eight defendants, but one, Bobby Seale, was severed from the trial by Judge Julius Hoffman—after Hoffman had ordered Seale bound and gagged in court. The defendants were a mix of counterculture revolutionaries such as Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin, and political activists such as Tom Hayden, Rennie Davis, and David Dellinger, the last a longtime pacifist who was a generation older than the others. Their lawyers argued that the right to free speech was on trial, whether that speech concerned lifestyles or politics. The Trial of the Chicago 7 stars Sacha Baron Cohen, Eddie Redmayne, Frank Langella, and Mark Rylance, among others, directed by Aaron Sorkin. This book is Sorkin’s screenplay, the first of his movie screenplays ever published.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

176

Publisher

Simon and Schuster

Published Date

ISBN 10

1982163259

ISBN 13

9781982163259

What's Next

A Backstage Pass to The West Wing, Its Cast and Crew, and Its Enduring Legacy of Service

By: Melissa Fitzgerald,Mary McCormack

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

What's Next

A Backstage Pass to The West Wing, Its Cast and Crew, and Its Enduring Legacy of Service

By: Melissa Fitzgerald,Mary McCormack

*INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER* A behind-the-scenes look into the creation and legacy of The West Wing as told by cast members Melissa Fitzgerald and Mary McCormack, with compelling insights from cast and crew exploring what made the show what it was and how its impassioned commitment to service has made the series and relationships behind it endure. Step back inside the world of President Jed Bartlet’s Oval Office with Fitzgerald and McCormack as they reunite the West Wing cast and crew in a lively and colorful “backstage pass” to the timeless series. This intimate, in-depth reflection reveals how The West Wing was conceived, and spotlights the army of people it took to produce it, the lifelong friendships it forged, and the service it inspired. From cast member origin stories to the collective cathartic farewell on the show’s final night of filming, What’s Next will delight readers with on-set and off-camera anecdotes that even West Wing superfans have never heard. Meanwhile, a deeper analysis of the show’s legacy through American culture, service, government, and civic life underscores how the series envisaged an American politics of decency and honor, creating an aspirational White House beyond the bounds of fictional television. What’s Next revisits beloved episodes with fresh, untold commentary; compiles poignant and hilarious stories from the show’s production; highlights initiatives supported by the cast, crew, and creators; and makes a powerful case for competent, empathetic leadership, hope, and optimism for whatever lies ahead.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

641

Publisher

Penguin

Published Date

ISBN 10

0593184556

ISBN 13

9780593184554

The Farnsworth Invention

By: Aaron Sorkin

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Farnsworth Invention

By: Aaron Sorkin

It's 1929. Two ambitious visionaries race against each other to invent a device called "television." ... Who will unlock the key to the greatest innovation of the 20th century: the ruthless media mogul, or the self-taught Idaho farm boy?"--P. [4] of cover.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

101

Published Date

ISBN 10

057366286X

ISBN 13

9780573662867

The Trial of the Chicago 7: The Screenplay

By: Aaron Sorkin

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Trial of the Chicago 7: The Screenplay

By: Aaron Sorkin

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

176

Publisher

Simon and Schuster

Published Date

ISBN 10

1982163259

ISBN 13

9781982163259

A Few Good Men

By: Aaron Sorkin

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

A Few Good Men

By: Aaron Sorkin

Shows daily life at a Marine Corps boot camp.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

130

Publisher

Samuel French, Inc.

Published Date

ISBN 10

0573692009

ISBN 13

9780573692000

Jacob Neusner

An American Jewish Iconoclast

By: Aaron W. Hughes

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Jacob Neusner

An American Jewish Iconoclast

By: Aaron W. Hughes

Biography: Neusner is a social commentator, a post-Holocaust theologian, and an outspoken political figure. Jacob Neusner (born 1932) is one of the most important figures in the shaping of modern American Judaism. He was pivotal in transforming the study of Judaism from an insular project only conducted by—and of interest to—religious adherents to one which now flourishes in the secular setting of the university. He is also one of the most colorful, creative, and difficult figures in the American academy. But even those who disagree with Neusner’s academic approach to ancient rabbinic texts have to engage with his pioneering methods. In this comprehensive biography, Aaron Hughes shows Neusner to be much more than a scholar of rabbinics. He is a social commentator, a post-Holocaust theologian, and was an outspoken political figure during the height of the cultural wars of the 1980s. Neusner’s life reflects the story of what happened as Jews migrated to the suburbs in the late 1940s, daring to imagine new lives for themselves as they successfully integrated into the fabric of American society. It is also the story of how American Jews tried to make sense of the world in the aftermath of the extermination of European Jewry and the subsequent creation of the State of Israel in 1948, and how they sought to define what it meant to be an American Jew. Unlike other great American Jewish thinkers, Neusner was born in the U.S., and his Judaism was informed by an American ethos. His Judaism is open, informed by and informing the world. It is an American Judaism, one that has enabled American Jews—the freest in history—to be fully American and fully Jewish.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

333

Publisher

NYU Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1479885851

ISBN 13

9781479885855

Underdogs

The Making of the Modern Marine Corps

By: Aaron B. O'Connell

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Underdogs

The Making of the Modern Marine Corps

By: Aaron B. O'Connell

Exploring the growth of the Marines from disadvantaged to elite force, this history “offers an excellent analysis of how the marines became the Marines.” (Publishers Weekly) The Marine Corps has always considered itself a breed apart. This undying faith in its own exceptionalism is what has made the Marines one of the sharpest, swiftest tools of American military power. Aaron O’Connell focuses on the period from World War II to Vietnam, when the Marine Corps transformed itself from America’s least respected to its most elite armed force. Venerating sacrifice and suffering, privileging the collective over the individual, Corps culture was saturated with romantic and religious overtones that had enormous marketing potential in a postwar America energized by new global responsibilities. Capitalizing on this, the Marines curried the favor of the nation’s best reporters, befriended publishers, courted Hollywood and Congress, and built a public relations infrastructure that would eventually brand it as the most prestigious military service in America. But as O’Connell suggests, the Corps’ triumphs did not come without costs, including a culture of violence that sometimes spread beyond the battlefield. “A significant and original contribution to both the military history of the Cold War and the ongoing conversation about the militarization of American culture.” —Beth Bailey, author of America's Army: Making the All-Volunteer Force “Takes readers inside the culture of the Corps.” —Nathaniel Fick, author of One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer “Insightful.” —Library Journal “A powerful account of the relationship between fighting war and preserving peace, viewed through the lens of the stories that built support for both.” —Kirkus Reviews “Absorbing.” —The Wall Street Journal

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

316

Publisher

Harvard University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0674071468

ISBN 13

9780674071469

The Invention of Jewish Identity

Bible, Philosophy, and the Art of Translation

By: Aaron W. Hughes

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Invention of Jewish Identity

Bible, Philosophy, and the Art of Translation

By: Aaron W. Hughes

Jews from all ages have translated the Bible for their particular times and needs, but what does the act of translation mean? Aaron W. Hughes believes translation has profound implications for Jewish identity. The Invention of Jewish Identity presents the first sustained analysis of Bible translation and its impact on Jewish philosophy from the medieval period to the 20th century. Hughes examines some of the most important Jewish thinkers -- Saadya Gaon, Moses ibn Ezra, Maimonides, Judah Messer Leon, Moses Mendelssohn, Martin Buber, and Franz Rosenzweig -- and their work on biblical narrative, to understand how linguistic and conceptual idioms change and develop into ideas about the self. The philosophical issues behind Bible translation, according to Hughes, are inseparable from more universal sets of questions that affect Jewish life and learning.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

202

Publisher

Indiana University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0253004799

ISBN 13

9780253004796

The West Wing Scriptbook

By: Aaron Sorkin

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The West Wing Scriptbook

By: Aaron Sorkin

The West Wing has been named 'TV Show of the Year' by Entertainment Weekly, and stars Stockard Channing, Dule Hill, Allison Janney, Rob Lowe, Janel Moloney, Richard Schiff, Martin Sheen, John Spencer, and Bradly Whitford. The West Wing Script Book is a unique volume containing six scripts from the television phenomenon - winner of 22 Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Drama Series. The show has also won the Producers Fuild Award, Directors Guild Award, Writers Guild Award, Screen Actors Guild Award, Golden Globe, Humanitas Prize and the Peabody Award. Now, for the first time, you can relive your favourite moments from these superlative scripts. This volume includes some of the most emotive and best-loved episodes from the first two series, including the Emmy Award winning In the Shadow of Two Gunmen. Also featured is an exlusive interview with creator, writer and director Aaron Sorkin, who explains how this idea for a political drama show became one of the most successful of all time, despite being told that 'shows about politics don't work'. These scripts demonstrate TV at its best, and are a thing to treasure and savour, time and time again. 'President Barlet... is the best world leader that never was. Then there's the writing, the reason that The West Wing is so good. Sometimes... the dialogue reaches such levels of perfection, I could weep.' Evening Standard 'With this wonderful political drama, the writer Aaron Sorkin has created a cast of "savvy political operatives" who you would not only wqnt to run the country, but wouldn't mind letting into your life. The sense of brilliant people behaving honourably cannot fail to be moving: in the George Dubya age, we need this more than ever.' The Times 'When it's like this - fast, funny, moving and smart - The West Wing is about as good as TV gets.' Mirror 'The show remains one of TV's most satisfying hours, a savvy blend of great acting, whip-smart dialogue and grand gestures. If ever the time were ripe for a romantic saltue to the value of public service, now would seem to be it.' Robert Bianco, USA Today 'The TV show of the Year! Prime-time's snuggliest blanket in which to curl up, The West Wing is terrific and only getting better. Grade: A.' Ken Tucker, Entertainment Weekly

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

406

Published Date

ISBN 10

0752265288

ISBN 13

9780752265285

Exponential Theory

The Power of Thinking Big

By: Aaron D. Bare

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Exponential Theory

The Power of Thinking Big

By: Aaron D. Bare

"A Blueprint for Future Entrepreneurs"-Daymond John, Shark Tank Investor"Innovating Through Extreme Uncertainty"-Ash Maurya, Lean Canvas Creator According to Steve Jobs, “Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” The rise of digital technology in business has made this statement truer now more than ever. Today, businesses can be created, marketed, and ready to interact with customers in the blink of an eye, with nothing more than an internet connection! This accelerated pace of business is wreaking havoc on companies that are “too big to fail,” sometimes in a matter of months. Any company or leader that doesn't move at an exponential pace will be crushed by new, massively transformative organizations that are invading new industries every day. Thankfully, guides like Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, and Elon Musk continue to provide us a roadmap for navigating this exponential horizon. Exponential Theory provides ten keys of exponential leadership in order to solve climate change, social imbalances, and other wicked problems. It is time for a new generation of leadership—one that is purposeful, conscious, digital, and above all, exponential.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

212

Publisher

Morgan James Publishing

Published Date

ISBN 10

163195668X

ISBN 13

9781631956683

The Ubiquitin-proteasome Proteolytic System

From Classical Biochemistry to Human Diseases

By: Aaron J. Ciechanover,Maria G. Masucci

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Ubiquitin-proteasome Proteolytic System

From Classical Biochemistry to Human Diseases

By: Aaron J. Ciechanover,Maria G. Masucci

Ubiquitin-proteasome-dependent proteolysis is central to an incredible multitude of processes in all eukaryotes, including the cell cycle, cell growth and differentiation, embryogenesis, apoptosis, signal transduction, DNA repair, regulation of transcription and DNA replication, transmembrane transport, endocytosis, stress responses, antigen presentation and other aspects of the immune response, the functions of the nervous system including circadian rhythms, axon guidance and acquisition of memory.This book tells the story of the ubiquitin system as we currently know it: from the regulation of basic cellular processes to quality control and the pathogenetic mechanisms of disease, from X-ray crystallography of the 26S proteasome to the interaction between substrates and their ligases, to the development of mechanism-based drugs, and to target-specific aberrant processes.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

242

Publisher

World Scientific

Published Date

ISBN 10

9812381007

ISBN 13

9789812381002

Financial Risk Management For Dummies

By: Aaron Brown

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Financial Risk Management For Dummies

By: Aaron Brown

Take the risk out of financial risk management Written by bestselling author and past winner of the GARP Award's Risk Manager of the Year, Aaron Brown, Financial Risk Management For Dummies offers thorough and accessible guidance on successfully managing and controlling financial risk within your company. Through easy-to-follow instruction, you'll find out how to manage risk, firstly by understanding it, and then by taking control of it. Plus, you'll discover how to measure and value financial risk, set limits, stop losses, control drawdowns and hedge bets. Financial risk management uses financial instruments to manage exposure to risk within firms, large and small—particularly credit risk and market risk. From managing and measuring risk to working in financial institutions and knowing how to communicate risk to your company and clients, Financial Risk Management For Dummies makes it easy to make sense of the management of risk when working in various different financial institutions and concludes by covering the topic of how to communicate risk — how to report it properly and how to deal with and comply with all of the regulations. Covers managing risk and working as a financial risk manager Provides everything you need to know about measuring financial risk Walks you through working in financial institutions Demonstrates how to communicate risk If you work in the financial sector and want to make financial risk management your mission, you've come to the right place!

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

395

Publisher

John Wiley & Sons

Published Date

ISBN 10

111908220X

ISBN 13

9781119082200

The Entrepreneurial Artist

Lessons from Highly Successful Creatives

By: Aaron P. Dworkin

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Entrepreneurial Artist

Lessons from Highly Successful Creatives

By: Aaron P. Dworkin

In The Entrepreneurial Artist: Lessons from Highly Successful Creatives, Aaron Dworkin offers an engaging, practical guide to achieving artistic fulfillment, both personally and professionally. Based on the accomplishments of Shakespeare, Mozart, and several contemporary creatives, these lessons will help you realize your goals—no matter your medium. Among those Dworkin personally interviewed for this book are Emmy-winning actor Jeff Daniels, Tony-award winning choreographer Bill T. Jones, Grammy award-winning musician Wynton Marsalis, and Pulitzer Prize winner Lin-Manuel Miranda, among others. The stories of these twelve remarkable individuals come alive with lessons of love, loss, despair, sacrifice, perseverance, and triumph. Some of the artist-entrepreneur takeaways explored in this book include: Build partnerships—with peers, patrons, and sponsors Embrace diversity Expand your focus Allow your work to mature Whether one is an aspiring student artist in search of practical tools to build a sustainable career, or a veteran seeking reinvention, The Entrepreneurial Artist offers insights—well-tested, unusual, or innovative—that are meaningful for every kind of creative.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

185

Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield

Published Date

ISBN 10

153812954X

ISBN 13

9781538129548

Politics and the Professors

The Great Society in Perspective

By: Henry Aaron

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Politics and the Professors

The Great Society in Perspective

By: Henry Aaron

In the early 1960s America was in a confident mood and embarked on a series of efforts to solve the problems of poverty, racial discrimination, unemployment, and inequality of educational opportunity. The programs of the Great Society and the War on Poverty were undergirded by a broad consensus about what our problems as a nation were and how we should solve them. But by the early seventies both political and scholarly tides had shifted. Americans were divided and uncertain about what to do abroad, fearful of military inferiority, and pessimistic about the capacity of government to deal affirmatively with domestic problems. A new administration renounced the rhetoric of the Great Society and changed the emphasis of many programs. On the scholarly front, new research called into question the old faiths on which liberal legislation had been based. In this book, the sixteenth volume in the Brookings series in Social Economics, Henry Aaron describes both the initial consensus and its subsequent decline. He examines the evolution of attitude and pronouncements by scholars and popular writers on the role of the federal government and its capacity to bring about beneficial change in three broad areas: poverty and discrimination, education and training, and unemployment and inflation. He argues that the political eclipse of the Great Society depended more on events external to it—war in Vietnam, dissolution of the civil rights coalition, and, finally, the Watergate scandal and all its repercussions—than on its intrinsic failings. Aaron concludes that both the initial commitment to use national polices to solve social and economic problems and the subsequent disillusionment of scholars and laymen alike rest largely on preconceptions and faiths that have little to do with research themselves.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

198

Publisher

Brookings Institution Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0815717776

ISBN 13

9780815717775

The End of Greatness

Why America Can't Have (and Doesn't Want) Another Great President

By: Aaron David Miller

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The End of Greatness

Why America Can't Have (and Doesn't Want) Another Great President

By: Aaron David Miller

The Presidency has always been an implausible—some might even say an impossible—job. Part of the problem is that the challenges of the presidency and the expectations Americans have for their presidents have skyrocketed, while the president's capacity and power to deliver on what ails the nations has diminished. Indeed, as citizens we continue to aspire and hope for greatness in our only nationally elected office. The problem of course is that the demand for great presidents has always exceeded the supply. As a result, Americans are adrift in a kind of Presidential Bermuda Triangle suspended between the great presidents we want and the ones we can no longer have. The End of Greatness explores the concept of greatness in the presidency and the ways in which it has become both essential and detrimental to America and the nation's politics. Miller argues that greatness in presidents is a much overrated virtue. Indeed, greatness is too rare to be relevant in our current politics, and driven as it is by nation-encumbering crisis, too dangerous to be desirable. Our preoccupation with greatness in the presidency consistently inflates our expectations, skews the debate over presidential performance, and drives presidents to misjudge their own times and capacity. And our focus on the individual misses the constraints of both the office and the times, distorting how Presidents actually lead. In wanting and expecting our leaders to be great, we have simply made it impossible for them to be good. The End of Greatness takes a journey through presidential history, helping us understand how greatness in the presidency was achieved, why it's gone, and how we can better come to appreciate the presidents we have, rather than being consumed with the ones we want.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

290

Publisher

St. Martin's Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1137464461

ISBN 13

9781137464460

Steven Soderbergh

By: Aaron Baker

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Steven Soderbergh

By: Aaron Baker

A Hollywood director who blends substance with the mainstream Steven Soderbergh's feature films present a diverse range of subject matter and formal styles: from the self-absorption of his breakthrough hit Sex, Lies, and Videotape to populist social problem films such as Erin Brockovich, and from the modernist discontinuity of Full Frontal and filmed performance art of Gray's Anatomy to a glossy, star-studded action blockbuster such as Ocean's Eleven. Using a combination of realism and expressive stylization of character subjectivity, Soderbergh's films diverge from the contemporary Hollywood mainstream through the statements they offer on issues including political repression, illegal drugs, violence, environmental degradation, the empowering and controlling potential of digital technology, and economic inequality. Arguing that Soderbergh practices an eclectic type of moviemaking indebted both to the European art cinema and the Hollywood genre film, Aaron Baker charts the common thematic and formal patterns present across Soderbergh's oeuvre. Almost every movie centers on an alienated main character, and Soderbergh has repeatedly emphasized place as a major factor in his narratives. Formally, he represents the unconventional thinking of his outsider protagonists through a discontinuous editing style. Including detailed analyses of major films as well as two interviews with the director, this volume illustrates Soderbergh's hybrid flexibility in bringing an independent aesthetic to wide audiences.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

154

Publisher

University of Illinois Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0252093011

ISBN 13

9780252093012

Jewish Philosophy A-Z

By: Aaron W. Hughes

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Jewish Philosophy A-Z

By: Aaron W. Hughes

This volume covers the major traditions of thought from Philo to Levinas and, since Jewish philosophy has occurred in broader environments (e.g., Hellenistic Alexandria, Medieval Baghdad, Weimar Germany), non-Jewish thinkers who have had an important influence on Jewish philosophy are also included (e.g., Plotinus, Alfarabi, Heidegger).

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

200

Publisher

Edinburgh University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0748680853

ISBN 13

9780748680856

Presidential Elections

Strategies and Structures of American Politics

By: Nelson W. Polsby,Aaron Wildavsky,Steven E. Schier,David A. Hopkins

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Presidential Elections

Strategies and Structures of American Politics

By: Nelson W. Polsby,Aaron Wildavsky,Steven E. Schier,David A. Hopkins

Brimming with data and examples from the historic 2008 election, and laced with previews of 2012, the thirteenth edition of this classic text offers a complete overview of the presidential election process from the earliest straw polls and fundraisers to final voter turnout and exit interviews. The comprehensive coverage includes campaign strategy, the sequence of electoral events, and the issues, all from the perspective of the various actors in the election process: voters, interest groups, political parties, the media, and the candidates themselves.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

354

Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Published Date

ISBN 10

144221225X

ISBN 13

9781442212251

Whole World in an Uproar

Music, Rebellion and Repression – 1955-1972

By: Aaron Leonard

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Whole World in an Uproar

Music, Rebellion and Repression – 1955-1972

By: Aaron Leonard

How the radical music of the 1960s was birthed amid unprecedented upheaval and systemic repression. Seventy years since the radical music of the 1960s first hit the airwaves, the anthems of the era continue to resonate with our current times. Through studying these musicians and the political contexts in which their pioneering songs were birthed; amidst paranoia, psychedelic delusions, desire and civil unrest; Aaron Leonard’s Whole World in an Uproar is an important new critical history of countercultural music from the Summer of Love to the unwelcome arrival of Bob Dylan.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

288

Publisher

Watkins Media Limited

Published Date

ISBN 10

1914420934

ISBN 13

9781914420931

Mobile Persuasion Design

Changing Behaviour by Combining Persuasion Design with Information Design

By: Aaron Marcus

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Mobile Persuasion Design

Changing Behaviour by Combining Persuasion Design with Information Design

By: Aaron Marcus

Mobile Persuasion Design presents ten conceptual design projects (or ‘Machines’) for new mobile application's (smartphone or tablet with Web portals) that combine theories of persuasion and information design to change people’s behaviour. Areas such as the environment, health, learning and happiness are explored, looking at ways of marrying people’s wants and needs to make simple, usable and desirable mobile applications. A user-centred design approach has been used, adopting user experience (UX) methods, in-depth case studies and market analysis to see what a modern user needs from their mobile application. By applying concepts like persuasion theory and information architecture, try to find ways to satisfy these needs and positively change their user habits. In 2011, the Green, Health, and Money Machines won design awards in an international competition hosted by the International Institute for Information Design, Vienna.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

688

Publisher

Springer

Published Date

ISBN 10

1447143248

ISBN 13

9781447143246

The Problem that Won't Go Away

Reforming U.S. Health Care Financing

By: Henry Aaron

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Problem that Won't Go Away

Reforming U.S. Health Care Financing

By: Henry Aaron

Why did President Clinton's efforts to reform the financing of American health care fail? For years to come, politicians and scholars of public policy will revisit the debate over Clinton's health care plan. What did planners do right? And what did they do wrong? How can the mistakes of that experience be avoided in the future? What steps can now be taken to achieve some measure of reform in smaller pieces? In The Problem That Won't Go Away, economists, political scientists, sociologists, public opinion experts, and government staff offer answers to these and other crucial questions. They recount the history of the Clinton health care plan, present several alternative strategies the administration might have pursued, and conclude that none was likely to achieve the administration's goals of universal coverage and cost containment. Many support the view that the administration, Congress, and the nation lacked the political consensus and the information to credibly describe the effects of any single bill to reform the U.S. health care system. In that case, was the only option available to the administration to reach for goals far more modest than those it sought? Health care financing as a national political issue will not go away. Pressure to cut public spending to balance the budget means that medicare and medicaid will stay in the legislative spotlight; the retirement of the baby-boom generation in the beginning of the next century promises large increases in the cost of medicare; and a flood of new and costly medical technologies will continue to put financial pressure on everyone responsible for paying for health insurance. But, as this book illustrates, the nature of the debate in the years after the demise of the Clinton plan will be altogether different from that of the past several decades.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

316

Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield

Published Date

ISBN 10

0815719590

ISBN 13

9780815719595

Orthopaedic Basic Science: Foundations of Clinical Practice 5: Ebook without Multimedia

By: Roy Aaron

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Orthopaedic Basic Science: Foundations of Clinical Practice 5: Ebook without Multimedia

By: Roy Aaron

The fifth edition of Orthopaedic Basic Science: Foundations of Clinical Practice is your concise and clinically relevant resource for the diagnosis and treatment of musculoskeletal diseases and conditions. This completely rewritten edition explains the functions and limitations of the science behind the decisions, treatments, and procedures you perform in your practice every day. Use it to build and reinforce your foundation of knowledge for applying advances in scientific discovery to your decision-making in the clinic and the OR.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

1151

Publisher

Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

Published Date

ISBN 10

1975148193

ISBN 13

9781975148195

Building the New Urbanism

Places, Professions, and Profits in the American Metropolitan Landscape

By: Aaron Passell

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Building the New Urbanism

Places, Professions, and Profits in the American Metropolitan Landscape

By: Aaron Passell

The New Urbanism is perhaps the most influential movement that has emerged in suburban design, planning, and development in recent decades. It proposes to reform conventional suburban development by "building community." Building the New Urbanism asks "why new urbanism now?" to provide the first in-depth sociological investigation of the emergence of this phenomenon. This volume situates the growth of New Urbanism in the history of urban and suburban policy and development. The book builds an account of the movement’s founding and development, linking its progress to the making of new places. The volume also investigates how the movement capitalized upon dynamics within architecture, planning, and the homebuying public to recruit support from among those groups. The book establishes a framework for analyzing the opportunities and constraints that confront any effort to change the way we produce the built environment. Moreover, it reveals how elaborately social the production of the built environment is and how specific the material solutions to social conditions must be to resolve this process. Building the New Urbanism is an accessible volume that encapsulates and engages the dominant history of American suburbia. It draws on interviews with key figures, brings the work of prominent theorists of culture and science into the investigation, and broadens the focus of urban studies to the metropolitan region. It will be of particular interest to scholars and students of urban and suburban development, sociology, geography, and planning.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

162

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

113626681X

ISBN 13

9781136266812

Taking Leave, Taking Liberties

American Troops on the World War II Home Front

By: Aaron Hiltner

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Taking Leave, Taking Liberties

American Troops on the World War II Home Front

By: Aaron Hiltner

American soldiers overseas during World War II were famously said to be “overpaid, oversexed, and over here.” But the assaults, rapes, and other brutal acts didn’t only happen elsewhere, far away from a home front depicted as safe and unscathed by the “good war.” To the contrary, millions of American and Allied troops regularly poured into ports like New York and Los Angeles while on leave. Euphemistically called “friendly invasions,” these crowds of men then forced civilians to contend with the same kinds of crime and sexual assault unfolding in places like Britain, France, and Australia. With unsettling clarity, Aaron Hiltner reveals what American troops really did on the home front. While GIs are imagined to have spent much of the war in Europe or the Pacific, before the run-up to D-Day in the spring of 1944 as many as 75% of soldiers were stationed in US port cities, including more than three million who moved through New York City. In these cities, largely uncontrolled soldiers sought and found alcohol and sex, and the civilians living there—women in particular—were not safe from the violence fomented by these de facto occupying armies. Troops brought their pocketbooks and demand for “dangerous fun” to both red-light districts and city centers, creating a new geography of vice that challenged local police, politicians, and civilians. Military authorities, focused above all else on the war effort, invoked written and unwritten legal codes to grant troops near immunity to civil policing and prosecution. The dangerous reality of life on the home front was well known at the time—even if it has subsequently been buried beneath nostalgia for the “greatest generation.” Drawing on previously unseen military archival records, Hiltner recovers a mostly forgotten chapter of World War II history, demonstrating that the war’s ill effects were felt all over—including by those supposedly safe back home.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

294

Publisher

University of Chicago Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

022668718X

ISBN 13

9780226687186

Black Market

The Slave's Value in National Culture after 1865

By: Aaron Carico

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Black Market

The Slave's Value in National Culture after 1865

By: Aaron Carico

On the eve of the Civil War, the estimated value of the U.S. enslaved population exceeded $3 billion--triple that of investments nationwide in factories, railroads, and banks combined, and worth more even than the South's lucrative farmland. Not only an object to be traded and used, the slave was also a kind of currency, a form of value that anchored the market itself. And this value was not destroyed in the war. Slavery still structured social relations and cultural production in the United States more than a century after it was formally abolished. As Aaron Carico reveals in Black Market, slavery's engine of capital accumulation was preserved and transformed, and the slave commodity survived emancipation. Through both archival research and lucid readings of literature, art, and law, from the plight of the Fourteenth Amendment to the myth of the cowboy, Carico breaks open the icons of liberalism to expose the shaping influence of slavery's political economy in America after 1865. Ultimately, Black Market shows how a radically incomplete and fundamentally failed abolition enabled the emergence of a modern nation-state, in which slavery still determined--and now goes on to determine--economic, political, and cultural life.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

297

Publisher

UNC Press Books

Published Date

ISBN 10

1469655594

ISBN 13

9781469655598

Leading with Strategic Thinking

Four Ways Effective Leaders Gain Insight, Drive Change, and Get Results

By: Aaron K. Olson,B. Keith Simerson

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Leading with Strategic Thinking

Four Ways Effective Leaders Gain Insight, Drive Change, and Get Results

By: Aaron K. Olson,B. Keith Simerson

Be a more effective leader with strategic thinking Leading with Strategic Thinking reveals what effectiveleaders do differently. Eschewing the one-size-fits-all leadershipmodel, this helpful guide outlines four general leadership typesand demonstrates how each type achieves success – whetherthrough personal vision, structured process, collaboration, or byempowering others. The authors identify the actions and skills thatdistinguish strategic leadership, drawn from interviews and focusgroups with over three hundred leaders from around the world.Examples and case studies illustrate these concepts in action, andthe provided reference materials steer readers toward more advancedinformation on this important topic. The disruptive forces of technology and globalization raise newchallenges for leaders. This book is a manual that will helpexecutives and aspiring leaders harness these forces and addressthe two central questions of strategic leadership: How do the best leaders develop their strategy? How do effective leaders drive strategic change? Becoming a strategic leader isn’t about mimicking an icon.The most effective leaders seize opportunity in a way thatconsciously integrates environmental requirements, stakeholderexpectations, and personal ability. Leading with StrategicThinking shows what these leaders do, and gives anyone thetools to be a more strategic leader.

Average ratings

N/A