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Serving people & planet in mystery, love and gratitude / by Work, Robertson,author.;
"This book celebrates the love between one person and one planet, between the Earth-community of people and ecosystems, and Robertson Work. It is a fascinating story of his life of love and gratitude for family, friends, colleagues, and much more. His journey begins in small-town Oklahoma and travels around the planet as he works with ICA, UNDP and NYU in service to poor villages and slums, cities, nations, ecosystems, organizations, and those who serve. The reader journeys with the author from his birth (and before) to his 75th birthday (and beyond) and participates in his awakening, calling, travels, loves, adventures, beliefs, acts of service, struggles, tragedies, ecstasies, reflections, and life lessons. In all of history, this story has never before been told. Enjoy the journey and be inspired." -- Amazon.com
Subjects: Autobiographies.; United Nations Development Programme. Local Initiative Facility for Urban Environment.; Educators; Psychologists; Philosophers; Philosophy, Asian.; International relations.; Environmental management.;
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Crypto investing guide : how to invest in bitcoin, DeFi, NFTS, and more / by Balina, Ian,author.;
Introduction to blockchain and cryptocurrencies -- How to use and store cryptocurrencies -- Securing your crypto from hackers -- Introduction to value investing -- Introduction to risk management -- Building a portfolio -- Introduction to fundamental analysis -- Introduction to trading -- How to evaluate crypto technology -- Introduction to token sales: ICOs, IEOs, and IDOs -- Introduction to security tokens -- Introduction to decentralized finance (DeFi) -- Introduction to mining and staking -- Introduction to non-fungible tokens (NFTs)."What if we told you that one book could contain an entire education in crypto investing topics? Whether you're an uninitiated newbie or an established veteran, this book exists to help you get a profitable start as a new crypto investor. The committed reader will go on an educational journey that starts in the world of conventional finance before crossing the crypto bridge to go deep on crypto assets, decentralized finance, NFTs, and security token offerings"--"You don't need to be a math genius to invest in crypto successfully. But you do need a strong base of knowledge to work from. This book is your foundation"--
Subjects: Handbooks and manuals.; Cryptocurriencies.; Digital Currencies.; Introduction to Investing.; Investment Analysis & Strategy.;
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Cryptocurrency investing / by Danial, Kiana,author.(CARDINAL)802255;
"Currencies like Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, and XRP are gaining popularity, and this trusted guide can help you strike while the iron is hot to profit from the explosive growth in cryptocurrency. We'll help you understand decentralized currency, get started with leading crypto exchanges and brokers, learn techniques to buy and sell, and strategize your crypto portfolio. You'll even dig into the details on cryptocurrency tax laws and new opportunities for investors"--
Subjects: Cryptocurrencies.; Electronic funds transfers.; Bitcoin.; Electronic commerce.;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 5
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Papua New Guinea / by Gascoigne, Ingrid.(CARDINAL)355259;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Provides comprehensive information on the geography, history, wildlife, governmental structure, economy, cultural diversity, peoples, religion, and culture of Papua New Guinea"--Provided by publisher.Accelerated Reader AR
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Social justice and local development policy / by Mier, Robert.(CARDINAL)190847;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 200-213) and index.Introduction -- 1. Full employment at living wages (with Thomas Vietorisz and Bennett Harrison) -- 2. Social justice and public policy (with Howard M. McGary, Jr.) -- 3. Job generation as a road to recovery -- 4. Political development in Chicago: From campaign to government (with Kari J. Moe) -- 5. Strategic planning and the pursuit of reform, economic development, and equity (with Kari J. Moe and Irene Sherr) -- 6. Managing planned change (with Kari J. Moe) -- 7. Decentralization of policy-making (with Wim Wiewel and Lauri Alpern) -- 8. Democratic population in the United States: The case of Playskool and Chicago (with Robert P. Giloth) -- 9. Spatial change and social justice (with Robert P. Giloth) -- 10. Cooperative leadership for community problem solving (with Robert P. Giloth) -- 11. Community development and diversity.
Subjects: Case studies.; Economic development projects; Community development; Social justice;
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The decline and resurgence of Congress / by Sundquist, James L.(CARDINAL)123447;
Congress at Nadir -- The Congress Looks Inward -- Some Persistent Questions -- A Semantic Digression -- Decline -- Two Centuries of Ups and Downs -- The Constitutional Ambiguities -- Strong and Weak Presidents -- Competition in the Early Decades -- The Golden Age of Congressional Ascendancy -- The Modern Era of the Strong President -- Congressional Acquiescence in Decline -- The President as General Manager -- A New Executive Responsibility: Fiscal Leadership -- The General Manager Role Develops -- The General Manager as Constitutional Intent -- Reorganization: "Congress Cannot Do It" -- The Unification of Military Management -- Command and Control -- The President as Economic Stabilizer -- The Employment Act of 1946: The President Shall Propose -- But the Congress Shall Dispose -- President Truman and Congressional Dominance -- President Eisenhower and Executive Dominance -- President Kennedy and Congressional Deliberateness -- President Johnson and Congressional "Blackmail" -- President Nixon and Congressional "Abdication" -- The Mismatch of Authority and Accountability -- The President as Foreign Policy Leader -- The Failure of Congressional Foreign Policy: Neutrality -- The Delegation of Tariff-Making Power -- Collaboration in the Postwar World -- Presidential War-Making in Korea -- Delegation of the War-Making Power -- Congressional Acquiescence in Presidential War -- The President as Chief Legislator -- Before the Hundred Days -- During the Hundred Days -- Institutionalizing the President as Legislative Leader -- The President as Legislative Policy Planner -- The President as "a Sort of Prime Minister" -- Endemic Weaknesses of the Congress -- The Incapacity to Act Quickly -- The Incapacity to Plan -- The Void in Centralizing Institutions -- Power in the Leadership: The Era of the Czars -- Power in the Majority Caucus: The Sixty-third Congress -- Decentralized Power: The Era of the Barons -- The Demand for Responsible Party Government -- Power in Policy Committees: A Senate Experiment -- Resurgence -- To Regain the Power of the Purse -- Nixon and the Impoundment Issue -- The Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 -- Resolution of the Impoundment Issue -- Establishment of the Budget Process -- A "Bad" Year -- and a "Good" One -- The "Balanced" Budget of 1980-81 -- The New Congressional Capacity -- To Recapture the War Power -- The Deepening Distrust of Presidential Power -- The National Commitments Resolution of 1969 -- The Beginnings of Congressional Control -- Deadlock on the Constitutional Issue -- The War Powers Resolution of 1973 -- The First Tests -- Symbol or Substance? -- To Take Command of Foreign Policy -- The New Congressional Ascendancy -- "Impermissible Shackles" on the President -- The Pendulum Swings Back -- Partway -- Groping toward Collaboration -- Searching for a Structural Solution -- To Tighten Control over Administration: Oversight -- Difficulties of Before-the-Fact Control -- Limitations in After-the-Fact Control -- The Intensification of Congressional Oversight -- Lifting the Shrouds of Secrecy -- The Uses and Pathology of Oversight -- Sunrise Legislation and Other Remedies -- To Tighten Control over Administration: The Legislative Veto -- A Half-Century Constitutional Tug-of-War -- Never, or Always, or Sometimes? -- The Executive Would Regret "Never" -- The Congress Would Regret "Always" -- If Sometimes, When and How? -- To Strengthen Congressional Capacity -- From Party Regularity to Political Individualism -- Remolding the Power Structure in the House -- Redistributing Power in the Senate -- Leadership in the Age of Individualism -- Expanding Staff Resources -- Prospect -- Missing Capabilities: Political Leadership and Policy Integration -- Turning Away from Presidential Leadership -- The Congress as Political Leader -- The Congress as Policy Integrator -- Representation and the Will to Govern -- Distraction -- Parochialism -- Irresponsibility -- From Representation to Decline -- and Resurgence -- The Unending Conflict -- The Issue of Constitutional Reform -- Reform without Constitutional Amendment -- The Responsible Party Model -- Comity within the System -- The New Equilibrium.1620L
Subjects: United States. Congress.;
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Employees first, customers second : turning conventional management upside down / by Nayar, Vineet.(CARDINAL)499236;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-188) and index.Mirror mirror: creating the need for change -- Trust through transparency: creating a culture of change -- Inverting the organizational pyramid: building a structure for change -- Recasting the role of the CEO: transferring the responsibility for change -- Find understanding: renewing the cycle of change.One small idea can ignite a revolution just as a single matchstick can start a fire. One such idea, putting employees first and customers second, sparked a revolution at HCL Technologies, the IT services giant. In this candid and personal account, Vineet Nayar, HCLT's celebrated CEO, recounts how he defied the conventional wisdom that companies must put customers first, then turned the hierarchical pyramid upside down by making management accountable to the employees, and not the other way around. By doing so, Nayar fired the imagination of both employees and customers and set HCLT on a journey of transformation that has made it one of the fastest-growing and profitable global IT services companies and, according to BusinessWeek, one of the twenty most influential companies in the world. Chapter by chapter, Nayar recounts the exciting journey of how he and his team implemented the employee first philosophy by: Creating a sense of urgency by enabling the employees to see the truth of the company's current state as well as feel the "romance" of its possible future state, Creating a culture of trust by pushing the envelope of transparency in communication and information sharing, Inverting the organizational hierarchy by making the management and the enabling functions accountable to the employee in the value zone, Unlocking the potential of the employees by fostering an entrepreneurial mind-set, decentralizing decision making, and transferring the ownership of "change" to the employee in the value zone. Refreshingly honest and practical, this book offers valuable insights for managers seeking to realize their aspirations to grow faster and become self-propelled engines of change.
Subjects: Case studies.; HCL Technologies; Organizational change.; Customer relations.; Corporate culture.; Management;
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Travel forecasting, 2011. by National Research Council (U.S.).Transportation Research Board.(CARDINAL)141287;
Includes bibliographical references.Incremental integration of land use and activity based travel modeling -- Modeling of effects of peak load pricing on metropolitan network and activities -- Cross entropy optimization model for population synthesis in activity based microsimulation models -- Joint model of vehicle type choice and tour length -- Integration of activity based and agent based models -- Problem of transshipment in travel forecasting -- Development of indicators of opportunity based accessibility -- Modeling of job mobility and location choice decisions -- Forecasting location of new housing in integrated models of land use -- Historical validation of integrated transport land use model system -- Simultaneous modeling of endogenous influence of urban form and public transit accessibility on distance traveled -- What happens when government workers move to the suburbs? -- Bottleneck and queuing analysis -- Change in land use through microsimulation of market dynamics -- Travel by university students in Virginia -- Traffic use of rest areas on rural highways -- Investigation of parking dwell time at rest areas on rural highways -- Simulation of impact of strategy development frameworks on performance of transportation infrastructureTRB Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2255 consists of 18 papers that explore workplace choices and travel demand, effects of peak load pricing on metropolitan network and activities, population synthesis in activity based microsimulation models, vehicle type choice and tour length, integration of activity based and agent based models, problem of transshipment in travel forecasting, opportunity based accessibility, and job mobility and location choice decisions. This issue of the TRR also examines forecasting the location of new housing, historical validation of integrated transport land use model system, influence of urban form and public transit accessibility on distance traveled, impact on transport of planned decentralization of employment, bottleneck and queuing analysis, change in land use through microsimulation of market dynamics, travel by university students, traffic use of rest areas on rural highways, parking dwell time at rest areas on rural highways, and the impact of strategy development frameworks on performance of the transportation infrastructure.
Subjects: Conference papers and proceedings.; Choice of transportation; Transportation demand management;
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Our next reality : how the AI-powered metaverse will reshape the world / by Graylin, Alvin W.,author.(CARDINAL)896957; Rosenberg, Louis(AI researcher),author.(CARDINAL)896958; Stephenson, Neal,author of foreword.(CARDINAL)342505;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Over the last 100 years, technology has changed our world. Over the next decade it will transform our reality. We are entering a new technological age in which artificial intelligence and immersive media will transform society at all levels, mediating our lives by altering what we see, hear, and experience. Powered by immersive eyewear and driven by interactive AI agents, this new age of computing has the potential to make our world a magical place where the boundaries between the real and the virtual, the human and the artificial, rapidly fade away. If managed well, this could unleash a new age of abundance. If managed poorly, this technological revolution could easily go astray, deeply compromising our privacy, autonomy, agency, and even our humanity. In Our Next Reality, two industry veterans provide a data-driven debate on whether the new world we're creating will be a technological utopia or an AI-powered dystopia and give guidance on how to aim for the best future we can. With a Foreword by renowned author Neal Stephenson and section contributions from industry thought-leaders such as Peter H. Diamandis, Tom Furness, Phillip Rosedale, Tony Parisi, Avi Bar Zeev and Walter Parkes, this book answers over a dozen of the most pressing questions we face as spatial computing and AI accelerates the digitization of our world. Find out why our actions in the next decade could determine the trajectory of our species for countless millennia.Is the metaverse really going to happen? -- What is the role of AI in our immersive future? -- Will our next reality be centralized or decentralized? -- The AI-powered metaverse: How will the ecosystem unfold? -- Privacy, identity and security: Can society manage? -- Will AI and immersive media redefine marketing? -- How will tech advancement disrupt art, culture and media? -- What will be the impact on our health and medicine? -- How will our kids learn and develop in an AI-powered future? -- Will superintelligence and spatial computing unleash an Age of Abundance? -- What will be the geopolitical impact of a Global Metaverse? -- The human condition: Will the future make us happier? -- How can we realize the future we want? -- Epilogue: Our next reality -- Utopia or Dystopia?
Subjects: Metaverse.; Computers and civilization.; Artificial intelligence; Mixed reality;
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From intention to impact : a practical guide to diversity, equity, and inclusion / by Lazu, Malia C.,author.(CARDINAL)888572;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Waking up to uncomfortable truths -- Evolve or die -- Making antiracism the new normal -- From performative action to business performance -- Finding your company's authentic voice -- Goals alone do not make change - uninformed goals are a reputation risk-- Creating a curious work culture -- It's not them... it's you -- Vendor procurement, building a diverse ecosystems -- Where to from here?"In the aftermath of George Floyd’s murder, corporate America has doubled down on its public intentions to be more inclusive and equitable. Yet beyond the pledges it is difficult to see which system changes make a real difference. In From Intention to Impact, Malia Lazu draws on her background as a community organizer, her corporate career as a bank president, and now her experience as a leading DEI consultant to explain what has been holding organizations back and what they need to do better. First and foremost, she recognizes that truly moving from intention to impact means targeting and changing the traditions and culture that normalize whiteness.From Intention to Impact shows what organizations, leaders, and people at all levels must do to create more inclusive environments that honor and value diversity. Lazu shares a seven-stage guide through this process as well as a 3L model of listening, learning, and loving that readers can use from the initial excitement of doing "something" to the frustration when the inevitable pushback comes, and finally to the determination to do the hard work despite the challenges—on corporate and political fronts. Most compelling, From Intention to Impact shows that, while commitment from the top is paramount, for DEI to be most effective, it needs to be decentralized—among managers, within teams, and across the organization. A crucial read for anyone looking to future-proof their company, From Intention to Impact goes beyond the "feel good" PR-centric actions to showcase the real DEI work that must be done to create true and lasting systemic change." -- Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Anti-racism.; Racial justice.; Social responsibility of business.; Anti-racism.;
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