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Blockchain Fundamentals for Web 3.0

By: Mary C. Lacity,Steven C. Lupien

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Blockchain Fundamentals for Web 3.0

By: Mary C. Lacity,Steven C. Lupien

Our book explains the movement to establish online trust through the decentralization of value, identity, and data ownership. This movement is part of ‘Web 3.0’, the idea that individuals rather than institutions will control and benefit from online social and economic activities. Blockchain technologies are the digital infrastructure for Web 3.0. While there are many books on blockchains, crypto, and digital assets, we focus on blockchain applications for Web 3.0. Our target audience is students, professionals, and managers who want to learn about the overall Web 3.0 landscape—the investments, the size of markets, major players, and the global reach—as well as the economic and social value of applications. We present applications that use Web 3.0 technologies to unlock value in DeFi, NFTs, supply chains, media, identity, credentials, metaverses, and more. Readers will learn about the underlying technologies, the maturity of Web 3.0 today, and the future of the space from thought-leaders. This textbook is used by undergraduate and graduate Blockchain Fundamentals courses at the University of Arkansas, the University of Wyoming, and other universities around the world. Professors interested in adopting this book for instructional purposes are welcome to contact the authors for supporting instructional materials.

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University of Arkansas Press

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1610757904

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The Rise of Legal Services Outsourcing

Risk and Opportunity

By: Mary Lacity,Andrew Burgess,Leslie Willcocks

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The Rise of Legal Services Outsourcing

Risk and Opportunity

By: Mary Lacity,Andrew Burgess,Leslie Willcocks

Here, Mary Lacity, Leslie Willcocks and Andrew Burgess present practices used by clients, providers and advisors to realize value from LSO. The book is based on data from 27 LSO providers, interviews with clients, consulting assignments and lessons learned from prior Information Technology Outsourcing (ITO) and Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) research. Based on the authors' deep understanding of the evolution of ITO and BPO, and their experiences of sourcing LSO, The Rise of Legal Services Outsourcing addresses the transformation of legal work, LSO strategy, provider selection and contractual governance, as well as predicting the trends that will come to shape the LSO market.

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A&C Black

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1472906411

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Local and Regional Government Information

By: Mary Martin

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Local and Regional Government Information

By: Mary Martin

Local and regional government information is essential to government workers, corporate researchers, students, and many other citizens, but finding a city ordinance or a county report can be a daunting experience. This unique, timesaving, and easy-to-use reference guide offers strategies for locating local and regional government information, including what to look for, how and where to search, and what to expect. Leading users through the labyrinth of records and reports available from a wide variety of sources, this guide provides tips on how to use sources effectively and efficiently in real-world research. An accessible overview covers the different types of government documents, how local governments are organized, and how to contact government agencies and archives. The guide also describes the major general indexes and bibliographies covering local government information, including the Index to Current Urban Documents and the BRB Public Record Research System. Whether researching census records, looking up local laws and regulations, or determining eligibility for government assistance, this reference offers indispensable assistance.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0313059063

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Recycled Stars

Female Film Stardom in the Age of Television and Video

By: Mary R. Desjardins

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Recycled Stars

Female Film Stardom in the Age of Television and Video

By: Mary R. Desjardins

The popularity of television in postwar suburban America had a devastating effect on the traditional Hollywood studio system. Yet many aging Hollywood stars used television to revive their fading careers. In Recycled Stars, Mary R. Desjardins examines the recirculation, ownership, and control of female film stars and their images in television, print, and new media. Female stardom, she argues, is central to understanding both the anxieties and the pleasures that these figures evoke in their audiences’ psyches through patterns of fame, decline, and return. From Gloria Swanson, Loretta Young, Ida Lupino, and Lucille Ball, who found new careers in early television, to Maureen O’Hara’s high-profile 1957 lawsuit against the scandal magazine Confidential, to the reappropriation of iconic star images by experimental filmmakers, video artists, and fans, this book explores the contours of female stars’ resilience as they struggled to create new contexts for their waning images across emerging media.

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Duke University Press

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0822376032

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9780822376033

The City and Sex

Private Vice and Public Scandal in the American Republic

By: Mary Beth McConahey

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The City and Sex

Private Vice and Public Scandal in the American Republic

By: Mary Beth McConahey

The City and Sex examines American political sex scandals at the national level. Studying these events over time with an emphasis on the evolving responses of both statesmen and citizens reveals the republic’s deteriorating moral health and illuminates the country’s dangerous tendency toward servitude. Using scandals as a window through which to glimpse our deterioration, the book identifies a trajectory of decline beginning in the twentieth century, by which Americans became less tutored in virtue, less spirited in citizenship, less agreed on questions of moral significance, and ultimately less dexterous in exercising the skills of self-government. It seeks to show that the freedom from virtue won through the collapse of moral standards has produced an American citizenry increasingly prone to the kind of dependence and enslavement Alexis de Tocqueville cautioned against in the 1830s.

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Lexington Books

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149851829X

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Going the Distance

Why Some Companies Dominate and Others Fail

By: Kevin John Kennedy,Mary Moore

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Going the Distance

Why Some Companies Dominate and Others Fail

By: Kevin John Kennedy,Mary Moore

Going the Distance" identifies eight key obstacles to the long-term success of great businesses--and shows exactly how to overcome them. Former Cisco SVP Kevin Kennedy and leading consultant Mary Moore show how to assess corporate health and correct weaknesses in leadership, strategy, product, marketplace alignment, governance, and more--before it's too late. "Going the Distance" provides a total framework for maintaining market leadership into the next generation!

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FT Press

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0130461202

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Elder Abuse: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly

By: Meghan Fields,Veronica Kelly,Megan Phillips,Tory Graham,Sierra McClelland,Mary Bend,Brittany Gilliard,Sonya Crisanto,Arneise Smallwood

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Elder Abuse: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly

By: Meghan Fields,Veronica Kelly,Megan Phillips,Tory Graham,Sierra McClelland,Mary Bend,Brittany Gilliard,Sonya Crisanto,Arneise Smallwood

Elder Abuse: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly is a therapeutic workbook created to address the underlying issues surrounding elder abuse in the U.S. This workbook contains information and exercises which are an excellent resource for therapists and other professionals who work with the geriatric population. It is designed for individuals or group treatment settings. This workbook is a helpful support for family members, caretakers, and anyone who simply wants to learn more about elder abuse and prevention.

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Lulu.com

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130472431X

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California For Dummies

By: Mary Herczog,Paula Tevis

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California For Dummies

By: Mary Herczog,Paula Tevis

With two of the nation’s largest megalopolises — Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay area—California has the largest, wealthiest, and most urbanized population of any state in the nation. Yet it’s also an agricultural wonderland, a nature-lovers paradise, a wine-lover’s dream, an outdoor enthusiast’s ideal playground, and more. In fact, there’s so much to see and do in California that you’ll probably have to choose. With this guide, you can’t lose. It gives you the scoop on: Northern California, including San Francisco, the Napa and Sonoma Valleys, Redwood Country, Yosemite National Park, and more The central coast, including the Monterey Peninsula and the spectacular Big Sur Coast The Southland cities, including L.A., San Juan Capistrano and Laguna Beach, ritzy Palm Springs, and San Diego Major attractions like Hearst Castle, Disneyland, the San Diego Zoo, and Alcatraz Activities like hiking in the Yosemite Valley, biking along the Monterey coastline, cruising Sunset Boulevard, taking in the scenery on the Pacific Coast Highway, and more All kinds of dining options, ranging from foodie favorites like the French Laundry in Yountville and Campanile, Patina, and Providence in L. A. to good restaurants for picky eaters, and great places to enjoy a vegetarian meal or incredible Vietnamese, Italian, Mexican, or Thai specialties Can’t miss family destinations in various parts of the state, including Humboldt Redwood State Park, the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk, the Monterey Bay Aquarium, the California Science Center, in L.A., and more All sorts of accommodations, from new Treebones Resort in Big Sur that houses you in a gorgeous yurt, L. A.’s Chateau Marmont, with its Art Deco and Beaux Arts castle-style main building and individual bungalows, the Grand View and Seven Gables inns in Monterey/Pacific Grove with their spectacular ocean views, Chateau du Sureau in Oakhurst for pure pampering and four-star dining, and more Like every For Dummies travel guide, California For Dummies, 4th Edition includes: Down-to-earth trip-planning advice What you shouldn’t miss — and what you can skip The best hotels and restaurants for every budget Handy Post-it Flags to mark your favorite pages Complete with all kinds of planning tips plus actual time-tested itineraries, this covers the must-see attractions, suggests things to see or do that are off the beaten path, and answers questions you might not even think to ask, like where to go to get down and wacky the way actual Californians do, where to find great inexpensive, gifts, and even where to find the graves of some of Hollywood’s biggest stars. With this guide, you’ll soon be singing, "California, here I come.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0470124032

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9780470124031

Tools to Aid Environmental Decision Making

By: Virginia H. Dale,Mary R. English

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Tools to Aid Environmental Decision Making

By: Virginia H. Dale,Mary R. English

This te×t identifies and presents tools to environmental decision-makers to help them improve the quality and clarity of their work. These tools range from software to policy approaches, and from environmental databases to focus groups.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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0387985557

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Madonna

A Rebel Life

By: Mary Gabriel

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Madonna

A Rebel Life

By: Mary Gabriel

New York Times Editors’ Choice, One of NPR’s Best Books of the Year In this “infinitely readable” biography, award-winning author Mary Gabriel chronicles the meteoric rise and enduring influence of the greatest female pop icon of the modern era: Madonna (People Magazine) With her arrival on the music scene in the early 1980s, Madonna generated nothing short of an explosion—as great as that of Elvis or the Beatles—taking the nation by storm with her liberated politics and breathtaking talent. Within two years of her 1983 debut album, a flagship Macy's store in Manhattan held a Madonna lookalike contest featuring Andy Warhol as a judge, and opened a department called “Madonna-land.” But Madonna was more than just a pop star. Everywhere, fans gravitated to her as an emblem of a new age, one in which feminism could shed the buttoned-down demeanor of the 1970s and feel relevant to a new generation. Amid the scourge of AIDS, she brought queer identities into the mainstream, fiercely defending a person's right to love whomever—and be whoever—they wanted. Despite fierce criticism, she never separated her music from her political activism. And, as an artist, she never stopped experimenting. Madonna existed to push past boundaries by creating provocative, visionary music, videos, films, and live performances that changed culture globally. Deftly tracing Madonna’s story from her Michigan roots to her rise to super-stardom, master biographer Mary Gabriel captures the dramatic life and achievements of one of the greatest artists of our time.

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Little, Brown

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0316456446

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9780316456449

Nine Keys to World-Class Business Process Outsourcing

By: Mary Lacity,Leslie Willcocks

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Nine Keys to World-Class Business Process Outsourcing

By: Mary Lacity,Leslie Willcocks

Business Process Outsourcing (BPO)-the sourcing of business services through external third parties-is a global phenomenon, which generated nearly $300 billion worldwide in 2012. BPO is highly IT-enabled, and on a growth trajectory that impacts across functions of major, medium and small enterprises, including procurement, human resources, accounting and finance, sales, marketing, legal, asset management and key administrative processes. Despite this size and spread, BPO services and the ability of clients to manage their providers, are still evolving and have a mixed record. In the course of their research, the authors have found only 20% of outsourcing arrangements are world-class performers. A further 25% are 'good', 40% are 'OK' and 15% are 'poor'. This book pinpoints and describes in detail the effective practices that characterize the top global BPO performers, including Microsoft, BP, EMC and TalkTalk. The authors provide case illustrations and examples throughout of how world-class practices were generated and evolved, and how they can be applied to real life settings and problem areas.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1472918509

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9781472918505

The Practice of Outsourcing

From Information Systems to BPO and Offshoring

By: Mary C. Lacity,Leslie P. Willcocks

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The Practice of Outsourcing

From Information Systems to BPO and Offshoring

By: Mary C. Lacity,Leslie P. Willcocks

A close look at the main developments in IT, business processes and offshore outsourcing. This book studies these topics in both theory and practice, exploring the rising prominence of outsourcing with a multi-dimensional, contextual perspective.

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Springer

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0230240844

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Police Power and the Video Revolution

Proof, Policing, Privacy, and Audiovisual Big Data

By: Mary D. Fan

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Police Power and the Video Revolution

Proof, Policing, Privacy, and Audiovisual Big Data

By: Mary D. Fan

This is the first book on the policy questions raised by two revolutions in recording the police - copwatching and police-worn body cameras. This accessible book with compelling stories and coverage of the most important debates over proof, privacy and police regulation will appeal broadly to students, laypersons, practitioners, and experts.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108418554

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Netsourcing

Renting Business Applications and Services Over a Network

By: Thomas Kern,Mary Cecelia Lacity,Leslie Willcocks

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Netsourcing

Renting Business Applications and Services Over a Network

By: Thomas Kern,Mary Cecelia Lacity,Leslie Willcocks

Annotation The complete, strategic guide to ASP options for every business and technical decision-maker. -- Written by the world's leading ASP researchers based on their extensive studies at leading companies. -- Discover which ASP applications have been most successful -- and which have been most likely to fail. -- Review the leading players -- and learn best practices for evaluating and partnering with them. Effective ASP decision-making has never been more crucial, as companies increasingly prepare to explore outsourcing mission critical operations into a rapidly-changing ASP marketplace. Now, the world's leading ASP research team shares its up-to-the-minute, provocative findings -- offering practical advice for every aspect of the outsourcing decision, and every phase of the outsourcing project lifecycle. You'll learn which ASP applications have proven most and least successful; who the leading market players are and how their services have evolved; how to manage technology infrastructure in an outsourced environment; and much more. This book includes detailed guidance on defining an ASP strategy and mitigating its attendant risks; evaluating and selecting ASPs; and managing ASP partnerships. It also previews new trends that will shape the future of ASPs -- and your relationships with them.

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FT Press

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0130923559

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Blockchain Foundations

For the Internet of Value

By: Mary C. Lacity

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Blockchain Foundations

For the Internet of Value

By: Mary C. Lacity

While there are many books on blockchains, this guide focuses on blockchain applications for business. The target audience is business students, professionals, and managers who want to learn about the overall blockchain landscape -- the investments, the size of markets, major players and the global reach -- as well as the potential business value of blockchain applications and the challenges that must be overcome to achieve that value. We present use cases and derive action principles for building enterprise blockchain capabilities. Readers will learn enough about the underlying technologies to speak intelligently to technology experts in the space, as the guide also covers the blockchain protocols, code bases and provides a glossary of terms. We use this guide as the textbook for our undergraduate and graduate Blockchain Fundamentals course at the University of Arkansas. Other professors interested in adopting this guide for instructional purposes are welcome to contact the author for supporting instructional materials.

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1682261573

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9781682261576

The Elusive Eden

A New History of California, Fifth Edition

By: Richard B. Rice,William A. Bullough,Richard J. Orsi,Mary Ann Irwin,Michael F. Magliari,Cecilia M. Tsu

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The Elusive Eden

A New History of California, Fifth Edition

By: Richard B. Rice,William A. Bullough,Richard J. Orsi,Mary Ann Irwin,Michael F. Magliari,Cecilia M. Tsu

California is a region of rich geographic and human diversity. The Elusive Eden charts the historical development of California, beginning with landscape and climate and the development of Native cultures, and continues through the election of Governor Gavin Newsom. It portrays a land of remarkable richness and complexity, settled by waves of people with diverse cultures from around the world. Now in its fifth edition, this up-to-date text provides an authoritative, original, and balanced survey of California history incorporating the latest scholarship. Coverage includes new material on political upheavals, the global banking crisis, changes in education and the economy, and California's shifting demographic profile. This edition of The Elusive Eden features expanded coverage of gender, class, race, and ethnicity, giving voice to the diverse individuals and groups who have shaped California. With its continued emphasis on geography and environment, the text also gives attention to regional issues, moving from the metropolitan areas to the state's rural and desert areas. Lively and readable, The Elusive Eden is organized in ten parts. Each chronological section begins with an in-depth narrative chapter that spotlights an individual or group at a critical moment of historical change, bringing California history to life.

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Waveland Press

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1478639911

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9781478639916

Management Information Systems

Managing the Digital Firm

By: Kenneth C. Laudon,Jane Price Laudon,Mary Elizabeth Brabston

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Management Information Systems

Managing the Digital Firm

By: Kenneth C. Laudon,Jane Price Laudon,Mary Elizabeth Brabston

Designed for courses in MIS, E-Commerce, and Management and E-Business.With relevant coverage of today's Digital Firm that is fully integrated throughout the text, the authors clearly illustrate the impact of information technology on business through vivid examples, engaging and interactive exercises, and the most current information.

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Prentice Hall

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0130338095

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