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The Difference

How the Power of Diversity Creates Better Groups, Firms, Schools, and Societies - New Edition

By: Scott E. Page

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The Difference

How the Power of Diversity Creates Better Groups, Firms, Schools, and Societies - New Edition

By: Scott E. Page

In this landmark book, Scott Page redefines the way we understand ourselves in relation to one another. The Difference is about how we think in groups--and how our collective wisdom exceeds the sum of its parts. Why can teams of people find better solutions than brilliant individuals working alone? And why are the best group decisions and predictions those that draw upon the very qualities that make each of us unique? The answers lie in diversity--not what we look like outside, but what we look like within, our distinct tools and abilities. The Difference reveals that progress and innovation may depend less on lone thinkers with enormous IQs than on diverse people working together and capitalizing on their individuality. Page shows how groups that display a range of perspectives outperform groups of like-minded experts. Diversity yields superior outcomes, and Page proves it using his own cutting-edge research. Moving beyond the politics that cloud standard debates about diversity, he explains why difference beats out homogeneity, whether you're talking about citizens in a democracy or scientists in the laboratory. He examines practical ways to apply diversity's logic to a host of problems, and along the way offers fascinating and surprising examples, from the redesign of the Chicago "El" to the truth about where we store our ketchup. Page changes the way we understand diversity--how to harness its untapped potential, how to understand and avoid its traps, and how we can leverage our differences for the benefit of all.

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The Difference

How the Power of Diversity Creates Better Groups, Firms, Schools, and Societies - New Edition

By: Scott E. Page

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How the Power of Diversity Creates Better Groups, Firms, Schools, and Societies - New Edition

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The Model Thinker

What You Need to Know to Make Data Work for You

By: Scott E. Page

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The Model Thinker

What You Need to Know to Make Data Work for You

By: Scott E. Page

Work with data like a pro using this guide that breaks down how to organize, apply, and most importantly, understand what you are analyzing in order to become a true data ninja. From the stock market to genomics laboratories, census figures to marketing email blasts, we are awash with data. But as anyone who has ever opened up a spreadsheet packed with seemingly infinite lines of data knows, numbers aren't enough: we need to know how to make those numbers talk. In The Model Thinker, social scientist Scott E. Page shows us the mathematical, statistical, and computational models—from linear regression to random walks and far beyond—that can turn anyone into a genius. At the core of the book is Page's "many-model paradigm," which shows the reader how to apply multiple models to organize the data, leading to wiser choices, more accurate predictions, and more robust designs. The Model Thinker provides a toolkit for business people, students, scientists, pollsters, and bloggers to make them better, clearer thinkers, able to leverage data and information to their advantage.

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Basic Books

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0465094635

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The Diversity Bonus

How Great Teams Pay Off in the Knowledge Economy

By: Scott E. Page

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The Diversity Bonus

How Great Teams Pay Off in the Knowledge Economy

By: Scott E. Page

A book about how businesses and other organizations can improve their performance by tapping the power of differences in how people think. What if workforce diversity is more than simply the right thing to do? What if it can also improve the bottom line? Because it can. The autuor presents overwhelming evidence: teams that include different kinds of thinkers outperform homogenous groups on complex tasks, producing what he calls diversity bonuses. These bonuses include improved problem solving, increased innovation, and more accurate predictions - all of which lead to better results. Drawing on research in economics, psychology, computer science, and many other fields, the book also tells the stories of businesses and organizations that have tapped the power of diversity to solve complex problems. The result changes the way we think about diversity at work-and far beyond

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Princeton University Press

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0691191530

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Access to History for the IB Diploma: Rights and protest

By: Michael Scott-Baumann,Peter Clements

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Access to History for the IB Diploma: Rights and protest

By: Michael Scott-Baumann,Peter Clements

A new book for Paper 1, Prescribed Subject 4: Rights and Protest The renowned IB Diploma History series, combining compelling narratives with academic rigor. An authoritative and engaging narrative, with the widest variety of sources at this level, helping students to develop their knowledge and analytical skills. Provides: - Reliable, clear and in-depth content from topic experts - Analysis of the historiography surrounding key debates - Dedicated exam practice with model answers and practice questions - TOK support and Historical Investigation questions to help with all aspects of the Diploma

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Hodder Education

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1471839230

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Diversity and Complexity

By: Scott E. Page

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Diversity and Complexity

By: Scott E. Page

This book provides an introduction to the role of diversity in complex adaptive systems. A complex system--such as an economy or a tropical ecosystem--consists of interacting adaptive entities that produce dynamic patterns and structures. Diversity plays a different role in a complex system than it does in an equilibrium system, where it often merely produces variation around the mean for performance measures. In complex adaptive systems, diversity makes fundamental contributions to system performance. Scott Page gives a concise primer on how diversity happens, how it is maintained, and how it affects complex systems. He explains how diversity underpins system level robustness, allowing for multiple responses to external shocks and internal adaptations; how it provides the seeds for large events by creating outliers that fuel tipping points; and how it drives novelty and innovation. Page looks at the different kinds of diversity--variations within and across types, and distinct community compositions and interaction structures--and covers the evolution of diversity within complex systems and the factors that determine the amount of maintained diversity within a system. Provides a concise and accessible introduction Shows how diversity underpins robustness and fuels tipping points Covers all types of diversity The essential primer on diversity in complex adaptive systems

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Princeton University Press

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1400835143

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Pathways to Literacy Excellence Language Arts Workbook Book 1

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Pathways to Literacy Excellence Language Arts Workbook Book 1

By: Scott

Increase reading & spelling activities through the exploration of phonetic variations. Leveled by spelling proficiency, the threebook series promotes abilities in phonics, punctuation, word families and grammar. Each book contains 40 units with each focused on three key sounds. A corresponding set of words is provided which demonstrates these sounds. Accompanying word study activities encourage students to explore word families and understand the concept of grouping words as nouns, adjectives, verbs and adverbs. Also investigates the spelling aberrations of the English language.

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NewPath Learning

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1632120089

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J.K. Lasser's Real Estate Investor's Tax Edge

Top Secret Strategies of Millionaires Exposed

By: Scott M. Estill,Stephanie F. Long

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J.K. Lasser's Real Estate Investor's Tax Edge

Top Secret Strategies of Millionaires Exposed

By: Scott M. Estill,Stephanie F. Long

Top tax guidance for today's turbulent real estate market Despite the downturn in the real estate market, savvy investors can continue to capture profits by using money-saving tax strategies. In The Real Estate Investor's Tax Edge, authors Scott Estill and Stephanie Long provide all of the necessary tax planning techniques to lower your tax bill and fully capitalize upon your real estate investments. In addition to this, you'll learn how to protect your assets and avoid losses in a down market through smart tax planning strategies. Containing the most updated tax law information, and offering tax-planning tips geared toward today's real estate market, this reliable resource is a complete guide to managing your real estate taxes. Outlines effective strategies for legally reducing the impact of taxes on your real estate assets Offers detailed coverage of the newest tax laws and rules affecting real estate Focuses on tax smart techniques for making the most of your real estate investments In today's volatile real estate market, it's important to make the most of your assets by paying the legal minimum in taxes-no more and no less. The Real Estate Investor's Tax Edge will show you how to achieve this goal, and put you in a better position to profit during even the most difficult of times.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0470558059

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Complex Adaptive Systems

An Introduction to Computational Models of Social Life

By: John H. Miller,Scott E. Page

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Complex Adaptive Systems

An Introduction to Computational Models of Social Life

By: John H. Miller,Scott E. Page

This book provides the first clear, comprehensive, and accessible account of complex adaptive social systems, by two of the field's leading authorities. Such systems--whether political parties, stock markets, or ant colonies--present some of the most intriguing theoretical and practical challenges confronting the social sciences. Engagingly written, and balancing technical detail with intuitive explanations, Complex Adaptive Systems focuses on the key tools and ideas that have emerged in the field since the mid-1990s, as well as the techniques needed to investigate such systems. It provides a detailed introduction to concepts such as emergence, self-organized criticality, automata, networks, diversity, adaptation, and feedback. It also demonstrates how complex adaptive systems can be explored using methods ranging from mathematics to computational models of adaptive agents. John Miller and Scott Page show how to combine ideas from economics, political science, biology, physics, and computer science to illuminate topics in organization, adaptation, decentralization, and robustness. They also demonstrate how the usual extremes used in modeling can be fruitfully transcended.

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Princeton University Press

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1400835526

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Access to History for the IB Diploma: The Arab-Israeli conflict 1945-79

By: Michael Scott-Baumann

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Access to History for the IB Diploma: The Arab-Israeli conflict 1945-79

By: Michael Scott-Baumann

Ensure your students have access to the authoritative, in-depth and accessible content of this series for the IB History Diploma. This series for the IB History Diploma has taken the clarity, accessibility, reliability and in-depth analysis of our best-selling Access to History series and tailor-made it to better fit the IB learner's needs. Each title in the series provides depth of content, focussed on specific topics in the IB History guide, and examination guidance on different exam-style questions - helping students develop a good knowledge and understanding of the topic alongside the skills they need to do well. Ensures students gain a good understanding of the IB History topic through an engaging, in-depth, reliable and up-to-date narrative - presented in an accessible way. Helps students to understand historical issues and examine the evidence, through providing a wealth of relevant sources and analysis of the historiography surrounding key debates. Gives students guidance on answering exam-style questions with model answers and practice questions

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Hodder Education

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1444156373

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The Internet

By: Scott Windeatt,David Hardisty,David Eastment

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The Internet

By: Scott Windeatt,David Hardisty,David Eastment

This popular series gives teachers practical advice and guidance, along with resource ideas and materials for the classroom. The tasks and activities are clearly presented, and offer teachers the information they need about level, time, preparation, materials, classroom management, monitoring, and follow-up activities. Each book offers up to 100 ideas, as well as variations that encourage teachers to adapt the activities to suite their individual classrooms.

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Oxford University Press

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0194372235

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Gay Century

Volume One: 1900-1962

By: Peter Scott-Presland

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Gay Century

Volume One: 1900-1962

By: Peter Scott-Presland

A Gay Century: Vol 1' is a canter through 60 years of gay history in ten serious or comic playlets.Wilde's deathbed encounter with Queen Victoria; the theft of the Irish crown jewels by a sadomasochistic cabal in Dublin Castle; Compton Mackenzie demanding of the Home Secretary that his own lesbian novel be prosecuted like 'The Well of Loneliness', because he needs the money; matinee idol Ivor Novello sharing a cell in Wandsworth with teenage psycho 'Mad' Frankie Fraser; the Jeremy Thorpe/Norman Scott affair seen through the eyes of the dogs involved, etc. etc. A sideways look at our queer past offers vivid vignettes which may or may not be true - and if they're not, they ought to be.

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eBook Partnership

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1839783826

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Progressive Guitar Method for Young Beginners - Book 3

Teach Your Kids How to Play Guitar (Free Online Video & Audio)

By: Muzician.com,Andrew Scott,Gary Turner

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Progressive Guitar Method for Young Beginners - Book 3

Teach Your Kids How to Play Guitar (Free Online Video & Audio)

By: Muzician.com,Andrew Scott,Gary Turner

For young guitarists. This course extends the range to cover the natural notes on all six strings in the open position and introduces Bb and another F# note. The C major scale is also explained. Contains very easy arrangements of over 20 songs, using 6 simplified chord shapes (G, D7, C, G7, D and a new chord, F).

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9825324163

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New Perspectives on Microsoft Office Word 2003, Comprehensive, CourseCard Edition

By: Ann Schaffer,S. Scott Zimmerman,Beverly B. Zimmerman,Ann Shaffer

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New Perspectives on Microsoft Office Word 2003, Comprehensive, CourseCard Edition

By: Ann Schaffer,S. Scott Zimmerman,Beverly B. Zimmerman,Ann Shaffer

Part of the New Perspectives series, this text offers a case-based, problem-solving approach and innovative technology for meaningful learning of Microsoft Word 2003 in a full-semester course. By popular demand, this book now includes coverage of file management!

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1418839116

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Map Skills Asia (eBook)

By: R. Scott House,Patti M. House

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Map Skills Asia (eBook)

By: R. Scott House,Patti M. House

Explore the varied features of the Asian continent while reinforcing basic map reading skills. Sixteen student pages and accompanying blackline and full-color maps coordinate to provide a relational study of the elevation, vegetation, products, population, and peoples of Asia. Full-color maps are provided as transparencies for print books and PowerPoint slides for eBooks. Student pages challenge students to combine maps and additional resources in order to answer questions and make judgments. Question topics follow the Five Themes of Geography as outlined by the National Geographic Society: finding absolute and relative locations on a map, relating physical and human characteristics to an area, understanding human relationships to the environment, tracing movement of peoples and goods throughout an area, and organizing countries and continents into regions for detailed study.

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Lorenz Educational Press

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078778298X

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New Perspectives on Microsoft Office Word 2003, Introductory, CourseCard Edition

By: Beverly Zimmerman,S. Scott Zimmerman,Ann Schaffer,Ann Shaffer,Beverly B. Zimmermann

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By: Beverly Zimmerman,S. Scott Zimmerman,Ann Schaffer,Ann Shaffer,Beverly B. Zimmermann

Part of the New Perspectives series, this text offers a case-based, problem-solving approach and innovative technology for meaningful learning of Microsoft Word 2003 in an introductory course.

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Access to History for the IB Diploma: Rights and protest

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Diversity and Complexity

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Pathways to Literacy Excellence Language Arts Workbook Book 1

Pathways to Literacy Excellence Language Arts Workbook Book 1

J.K. Lasser's Real Estate Investor's Tax Edge

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Complex Adaptive Systems

Complex Adaptive Systems

Access to History for the IB Diploma: The Arab-Israeli conflict 1945-79

Access to History for the IB Diploma: The Arab-Israeli conflict 1945-79

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The Internet

Gay Century

Gay Century

Progressive Guitar Method for Young Beginners - Book 3

Progressive Guitar Method for Young Beginners - Book 3

New Perspectives on Microsoft Office Word 2003, Comprehensive, CourseCard Edition

New Perspectives on Microsoft Office Word 2003, Comprehensive, CourseCard Edition

Map Skills Asia (eBook)

Map Skills Asia (eBook)

New Perspectives on Microsoft Office Word 2003, Introductory, CourseCard Edition

New Perspectives on Microsoft Office Word 2003, Introductory, CourseCard Edition

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