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Brain magnet : Research Triangle Park and the idea of the idea economy / by Cummings, Alex Sayf,author.(CARDINAL)855332;

Includes bibliographical references and index."Beginning in the 1950s, a group of academics, businesspeople, and politicians set out on an ambitious project to remake North Carolina's low-wage economy. They pitched the universities of Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill as the kernel of a tech hub, Research Triangle Park, which would lure a new class of highly educated workers. In the process, they created a blueprint for what would become known as the knowledge economy: a future built on intellectual labor and the production of intellectual property. Alex Sayf Cummings reveals the significance of Research Triangle Park to the emergence of the high-tech economy in a postindustrial United States. She analyzes the use of ideas of culture and creativity to fuel economic development, how workers experienced life in the Triangle, and the role of the federal government in bringing the modern technology industry into being. As Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill were transformed by high-tech development, the old South gave way to a distinctly new one, which welded the intellectual power of universities to a vision of the suburban good life. Cummings pinpoints how the story of the Research Triangle sheds new light on the origins of today's urban landscape, in which innovation, as exemplified by the tech industry, is lauded as the engine of economic growth against a backdrop of gentrification and inequality. Placing the knowledge economy in a broader cultural and intellectual context, Brain Magnet offers vital insight into how tech-driven development occurs and the people and places left in its wake"--

Subjects: Research Triangle Park (N.C.); Knowledge economy; Technology;

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Peter F. Drucker on management essentials / by Drucker, Peter F.(Peter Ferdinand),1909-2005,author.(CARDINAL)148922;

Part I. What is management?: Why managers? -- Management: its roots and its emergence -- Management: a look backward and a look forward -- The dimensions of management -- The challenges of management -- Part II. What is a manager?: Managers and their work -- Management by objectives and self-control -- From middle management to knowledge organization -- Staffing for excellence -- Part III. What is a business?: What is a business? -- Business realities -- The power and purpose of objectives -- The delusion of profits -- Managing capital productivity -- Managing the public service institution -- Part IV. Organizing and managing for performance: The innovative organization -- The building blocks of organizations... -- ...And how they join together -- Part V. How can managers use the strengths of people?: Is personnel management bankrupt? -- What we know about work, working, and worker -- Worker and working -- theories and reality -- How to be an employee -- Part VI. Management in society and culture: Management and the quality of life -- Social impacts and social problems -- The limits of social responsibility -- The ethics of responsibility."What is management? What is the relationship between management and the society and culture it seeks to direct? How is a business organised, and how can managers use people's strengths more effectively? These and many more questions are discussed in Peter Drucker's classic survey of management thought and practice. Spanning all the main dimensions of management, Drucker used his direct experience as an adviser to businesses, government departments, public institutions, and as a widely sought lecturer to examine evergreen topics in business thinking. Management Essentials is the ideal volume for those who want to experience the essence of Drucker's early thinking in a series of short and cogent essays"--

Subjects: Industrial management.; Management.; Success in business.;

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Reprogramming the American dream : from rural America to Silicon Valley--making AI serve us all / by Scott, Kevin,1972-author.(CARDINAL)831901; Shaw, Greg(Microsoft executive),author.(CARDINAL)350053; Vance, J. D.,writer of foreword.(CARDINAL)627195;

Includes bibliographical references and index.Foreword by J. D. Vance -- Introduction -- Part I: Where we've been. When our jobs first went away -- The career choice I made -- Stories of revival -- The intelligent farm -- Part II: Where we're headed, and how to get there. AI: Why it's needed -- AI: What it is (and isn't) -- How models learn -- AI: A threat or boon to jobs? -- Politics and ethics -- Conclusion."Native rural Virginian and now Chief technology officer at Microsoft, Kevin Scott, discusses the future of AI and how it can be realistically used to promote growth even as the job landscape shifts"--"There are two prevailing stories about AI: for heartland low- and middle-skill workers, a dystopian tale of steadily increasing job destruction; for urban knowledge workers and the professional class, a utopian tale of enhanced productivity and convenience. But there is a third way to look at this technology that will revolutionize the workplace and ultimately the world. Kevin Scott argues that AI has the potential to create abundance and opportunity for everyone and help solve some of our most vexing problems. As the chief technology officer at Microsoft, he is deeply involved in the development of AI applications, yet mindful of their potential impact on workers--knowledge he gained firsthand growing up in rural Virginia. Yes, the AI Revolution will radically disrupt economics and employment for everyone for generations to come. But what if leaders prioritized the programming of both future technology and public policy to work together to find solutions ahead of the coming AI epoch? Like public health, the space program, climate change and public education, we need international understanding and collaboration on the future of AI and work. For Scott, the crucial question facing all of us is this: How do we work to ensure that the continued development of AI allows us to keep the American Dream alive" --

Subjects: Informational works.; Documents d'information.; Technological innovations; Artificial intelligence; Automation; Economic development; Innovations; Intelligence artificielle; Développement économique;

Available copies: 7 / Total copies: 7

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Railroad tigers [videorecording] / by Ding, Sheng,1970-film director.; Cheng, Long,1954-actor.(CARDINAL)529875; Ikeuchi, Hiroyuki,actor.; Xu, Fan,1967-actor.; Fang, Zuming,1982-actor.; Well Go USA, Inc.,publisher.(CARDINAL)343708;

Jackie Chan, Hiroyuki Ikeuchi, Fan Xu, Jaycee Chan.In 1941, Chinese railroad worker Ma Yuan organizes a group of freedom fighters to derail the Japanese war effort. Using his extensive knowledge of the train network, he leads his team of unlikely heroes on the most dangerous mission yet.DVD, widescreen 2.35:1; 5.1 Dolby digital.

Subjects: Feature films.; Action and adventure films.; War films.; Fiction films.; Comedy films.; Historical films.; Foreign films.; World War, 1939-1945; Railroads;

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I am the most dangerous thing : poems / by Williams, Candace(Poet),author.(CARDINAL)888499;

"Over the course of these poems, the Black, queer protagonist begins to erase violent structures and fill the white spaces with her hard-won wisdom and love. I Am the Most Dangerous Thing doesn't just use poetry to comment on life and history. The book is a comment on writing itself. What have words done? When does writing become a form of disengagement, or worse, violence? The book is an exercise in paring the state down to its true logic of violence and imagining what can happen next. There are many contradictions-Although the protagonist teaches the same science that was used to justify enslavement and a racial caste system, she knows she will die at the hands of science and denies the state the last word by penning her own death certificate. As an educator and knowledge worker, she is an overseer of the same racist, misogynistic, and homophobic systems that terrorize her. Yet, she musters the courage to kill Kurtz, a primordial vision of white terror. She is Black and queer and fat and angry and chill and witty and joyful and depressed and lovely and flawed and an (im)perfect dagger to the heart of white supremacist capitalism"--

Subjects: Poetry.; Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.); Power (Social sciences); Self-actualization (Psychology) in women; Racism; Discrimination; Poetry.; Racism.;

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Mastering AI [large print] : a survival guide to our superpowered future / by Kahn, Jeremy(Jeremy A.),author (CARDINAL)897144;

Introduction -- The conjurers -- The voice inside your head -- Talk to me -- Everyone on autopilot -- Pillars of industry -- Rich, only to be wretched? -- Aristotle in your pocket -- Art and artifice -- A microscope for data -- More heat than light -- The trust bomb -- War at machine speed -- Lights out for all of us -- Conclusion: Toward our superpowered future."Within the next five years, Jeremy Kahn predicts, AI will disrupt almost every industry and enterprise, with vastly increased efficiency and productivity. It will restructure the workforce, making AI copilots a must for every knowledge worker. It will revamp education and revolutionize health care. It will compel us to reimagine how we make art, compose music, and write and publish books. The potential of generative AI to extend our skills, talents, and creativity as humans is undeniably exciting and promising. But while this new technology has a bright future, it also casts a dark and fearful shadow. Leveraging his unrivaled access to the leaders, scientists, futurists, and others who are making AI a reality, Kahn will argue that if not carefully designed and vigilantly regulated, AI will deepen income inequality, and risks undermining democracy. Continuing a process begun by the internet, AI will rewire our brains, likely inhibiting our ability to think critically, to remember, and even to get along with one another -- unless we all take decisive action to prevent this from happening."--

Subjects: Large print books.; Informational works.; Artificial intelligence.; Artificial intelligence; Artificial intelligence; Artificial intelligence; Artificial intelligence;

Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 8

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Cultivating the seeds of knowledge : what you should know about pesticides (prepared for those who work in tobacco). by North Carolina.Department of Labor.Agricultural Safety and Health Section.;

Subjects: Tobacco workers;

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Peter F. Drucker on economic threats / by Drucker, Peter F.(Peter Ferdinand),1909-2005.(CARDINAL)148922;

Introduction: A Society of Organizations -- Part I Executive Agenda. Inflation-Proofing the Company -- A Scorecard for Management -- Helping Small Businesses Cope -- Is Executive Pay Excessive? -- On Mandatory Executive Retirement -- The Real Duties of a Director -- The Information Explosion -- Learning from Foreign Management -- Part II Business Performance. The Delusion of Profits -- Aftermath of a Go-Go Decade -- Managing Capital Productivity -- Six Durable Economic Myths -- Measuring Business Performance -- Why Consumers Aren't Behaving -- Good Growth and Bad Growth -- The "Re-Industrialization" of America -- The Danger of Excessive Labor Income -- Part III The Non-Profit Sector. Managing the Non-Profit Institution -- Managing the Knowledge Worker -- Meaningful Government Reorganization -- The Decline in Unionization -- The Future of Health Care -- The Professor as Featherbedder -- The Schools in 1990 -- Part IV People at Work. Unmaking the Nineteenth Century -- Retirement Policy -- Report on the Class of '68 -- Meaningful Unemployment Figures -- Baby-Boom Problems -- Planning for Redundant Workers -- The Job as Property Right -- Part V The Changing Globe. The Rise of Production Sharing -- Japan's Economic Policy Turn -- The Battle Over Co-Determination -- A Troubled Japanese Juggernaut -- India and Appropriate Technology -- Toward a New Form of Money? -- How Westernized Are the Japanese? -- Needed: A Full-Investment Budget -- A Return to Hard Choices -- A Final Note: The Matter of "Business Ethics"Selection of essays that were written between 1975 and 1981.

Subjects: Economics; Economics;

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Greater heart and greater knowledge : a guide for training volunteers to work with battered women / by Newton, Erin.(CARDINAL)194114; Reaves, Amy.(CARDINAL)194115; North Carolina.Domestic Violence Project.(CARDINAL)170627; North Carolina.Department of Administration.(CARDINAL)145845;

Bibliography: pages [131]-[138].

Subjects: North Carolina. Domestic Violence Project.; Volunteer workers in social service; Abused wives;

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Labor day / by Hamilton, Lynn,1964-(CARDINAL)667931;

What is Labor Day? -- Labor Day history -- Important people -- Labor Day celebrations -- Celebrating today -- Labor Day in the United States -- Labor Day symbols -- A song to remember -- Labor Day collage -- Labor Day potato salad -- Test your knowledge!Accelerated Reader AR

Subjects: Labor Day;

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