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Meditations for Parents Who Do Too Much

By: Jonathon Lazear,Wendy Lazear

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Meditations for Parents Who Do Too Much

By: Jonathon Lazear,Wendy Lazear

The authors of Meditations For Men Who Do Too Much look at the obligations, responsibilities, and rewards of raising children and give thoughtful, considerate advice on how parents can learn to take care of themselves, in order to become even better at parenting.

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Simon and Schuster

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0671796356

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9780671796358

The Theory and Practice of Social Machines

By: Nigel Shadbolt,Kieron O’Hara,David De Roure,Wendy Hall

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The Theory and Practice of Social Machines

By: Nigel Shadbolt,Kieron O’Hara,David De Roure,Wendy Hall

Social machines are a type of network connected by interactive digital devices made possible by the ubiquitous adoption of technologies such as the Internet, the smartphone, social media and the read/write World Wide Web, connecting people at scale to document situations, cooperate on tasks, exchange information, or even simply to play. Existing social processes may be scaled up, and new social processes enabled, to solve problems, augment reality, create new sources of value, and disrupt existing practice. This book considers what talents one would need to understand or build a social machine, describes the state of the art, and speculates on the future, from the perspective of the EPSRC project SOCIAM – The Theory and Practice of Social Machines. The aim is to develop a set of tools and techniques for investigating, constructing and facilitating social machines, to enable us to narrow down pragmatically what is becoming a wide space, by asking ‘when will it be valuable to use these methods on a sociotechnical system?’ The systems for which the use of these methods adds value are social machines in which there is rich person-to-person communication, and where a large proportion of the machine’s behaviour is constituted by human interaction.

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Springer

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3030108899

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9783030108892

No Word for Welcome

The Mexican Village Faces the Global Economy

By: Wendy Call

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No Word for Welcome

The Mexican Village Faces the Global Economy

By: Wendy Call

Wendy Call visited the Isthmus of Tehuantepec—the lush sliver of land connecting the Yucatan Peninsula to the rest of Mexico—for the first time in 1997. She found herself in the midst of a storied land, a place Mexicans call their country's “little waist,” a place long known for its strong women, spirited marketplaces, and deep sense of independence. She also landed in the middle of a ferocious battle over plans to industrialize the region, where most people still fish, farm, and work in the forests. In the decade that followed her first visit, Call witnessed farmland being paved for new highways, oil spilling into rivers, and forests burning down. Through it all, local people fought to protect their lands and their livelihoods—and their very lives. Call’s story, No Word for Welcome, invites readers into the homes, classrooms, storefronts, and fishing boats of the isthmus, as well as the mahogany-paneled high-rise offices of those striving to control the region. With timely and invaluable insights into the development battle, Call shows that the people who have suffered most from economic globalization have some of the clearest ideas about how we can all survive it.

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803268254

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9780803268258

Aligning Incentives, Information, and Choice

How to Optimize Health and Human Capital Performance

By: Wendy D. Lynch,Harold H. Gardner

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Aligning Incentives, Information, and Choice

How to Optimize Health and Human Capital Performance

By: Wendy D. Lynch,Harold H. Gardner

Why would someone intentionally gain forty pounds in four months? Why are over thirty percent of doctor visits for reasons that the American Medical Association recommends against? Why would the size of someone's bonus pay affect his or her interest in health? Incentives, that's why. Incentives are imbedded into the rules and structures of our social systems, businesses, communities, and healthcare programs. Similar to the force of gravity, incentives pull behaviors in a particular direction. Maybe you don't pay attention to incentives now-after reading this, we think you will.

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Health as Human Capital Fou

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0980070201

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9780980070200

Meditations for Parents Who Do Too Much

By: Jonathon Lazear,Wendy Lazear

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Meditations for Parents Who Do Too Much

Meditations for Parents Who Do Too Much

The Theory and Practice of Social Machines

The Theory and Practice of Social Machines

No Word for Welcome

No Word for Welcome

Aligning Incentives, Information, and Choice

Aligning Incentives, Information, and Choice

Meditations for Parents Who Do Too Much

Meditations for Parents Who Do Too Much

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