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Why do we fight? : conflict, war, and peace / by Walker, Niki,1972-author.(CARDINAL)638052;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 76-77) and index."Using real world examples, Why Do We Fight? teaches kids to recognize the structures, factors, and complex histories that go into creating conflicts, whether personal or global - as well as the similarities between both. They'll be given tools to seek out information, enabling them to make informed opinions while learning to respect that others may form different ones. From culture clashes and trade disputes to disagreements about how to govern, Why Do We Fight? insists that the key to fulfilling humankind's wish for "world peace" lies in how we choose to deal with conflict and provides a genuine cause for optimism in the face of an at-times frightening world."--990L

Subjects: Conflict management; Fighting (Psychology); War; Peace;

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Rashid Johnson : blocks. by Johnson, Rashid,1977-artist.(CARDINAL)353066; Alemani, Cecilia,interviewer.(CARDINAL)337948; Galerie Hauser & Wirth,publisher.(CARDINAL)335171; Friends of the High Line.(CARDINAL)353065;

Published on the occasion of an exhibition held on the High Line at Little West 12th Street, New York City, May 2015-March 2016.Rashid Johnson and Cecilia Alemani in conversation.The High Line is a 1.45-mile stretch of disused elevated freight tracks on Manhattan's West Side that was converted into a park between 2006 and 2014. In 2015, the American artist Rashid Johnson (b. Chicago, Ill., 1977; lives and works in New York, N.Y.) installed a publicly accessible sculpture on the tracks. Commissioned by the High Line Art program, it consisted of a shelf-like black metal construction that housed a number of bright yellow busts. Blocks presents comprehensive photographic documentation of the eponymous work's evolving interaction with the lush vegetation into which it intervened. Over the course of the full year for which the sculpture stood on the site, plants of different species grew through its grid structure, lending it a forever changing aspect as the seasons passed. The pictures illustrate the poetic quality of the time-limited relationship between a man-made construction and nature, touching on themes such as optimism, failure, regeneration, and desolation. A conversation between Cecilia Alemani, chief curator of High Line Art, and Rashid Johnson sheds light on the genesis of Blocks and the artist's approach to making work for public settings.

Subjects: Exhibition catalogs.; Interviews.; Johnson, Rashid, 1977-; Johnson, Rashid, 1977-; Installations (Art); Outdoor art;

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Mathematics, philosophy, and the "real world" [videorecording] / by Grabiner, Judith V.,author,teacher.; Teaching Company.(CARDINAL)349444;

Includes bibliographical references.Lectures by Judith V. Grabiner, Professor of mathematics at Pitzer College.These lectures reveal how mathematics has changed the way people look at the world. We study how the model of certainty in Euclid's revolutionary Elements influenced philosophers for centuries, and how the invention of non-Euclidean geometry further influenced philosophy and changed modern views of the world. As well. we consider how the newer disciplines of probability and statistics gave scientists ways of dealing--with precision--with events that did not seem to follow laws but were due to chance. We look at some elementary probability theory and its applications to the study of society, and we examine such issues as free will, determinism, and chance in the context of the philosophical views of thinkers from Pascal to Gould.DVD.

Subjects: Educational films.; Lectures.; Nonfiction films.; Video recordings.; Mathematics; Philosophy.;

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Infinite impact : the entrepreneur's strategic guide to books & business success by Vilhauer, Amber (author);

We live in an era when misinformation and artificially created content are on the rise. This is breeding consumer distrust, causing traditional marketing and sales strategies to plummet in effectiveness. There is one proven way forward to ensure your business survival and create sustainable long-term growth in your profit and impact. You must optimize your books and business platform by becoming authentically self-expressed in sharing your cause. Only then will your ideal buyers be attracted to you and convert more naturally, allowing infinite impact and personal freedom to inevitably follow. The major problem? The vast majority of entrepreneurs are hustling and grinding, operating out of alignment. Your business is like the game of Jenga. If one piece is out of alignment, it threatens the stability of the entire structure. In Vilhauer's deep dive into what she calls "The Work" (her Foundational Four Framework), entrepreneurs identify their blind spots, overcome resistance, and strengthen their core to then lead their company into greatness.

Subjects: Strategic planning; Personal success;

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What's wrong with the United Nations and how to fix it / by Weiss, Thomas G.(Thomas George),1946-(CARDINAL)524327;

Includes bibliographical references and index.pt. one diagnosing the ills -- 1. Westphalia, alive but not well -- 2. North-south theater -- 3. The feudal system, or dysfunctional family -- 4. Overwhelming bureaucracy and underwhelming leadership -- pt. Two palliatives if not cures -- 5. Redefining national interests -- 6. Moving beyond the north-south divide -- 7. Truly delivering as one -- 8. Reinvigorating the international civil service.Six decades after its establishment, the United Nations and its system of related agencies and programs are perpetually in crisis. While the twentieth-century's world wars gave rise to ground-breaking efforts at international organization in 1919 and 1945, today's UN is ill-equipped to deal with contemporary challenges to world order. Neither the end of the Cold War nor the aftermath of 9/11 has led to the "next generation" of multilateral institutions. But what exactly is wrong with the UN, and how can we fix it? Is it possible to retrofit the world body? In his succinct and hard-hitting analysis, Thomas G. Weiss takes a diagnosis-and-cure approach to the world organization's inherent difficulties. In the first half of the book, he considers: the problems of international leadership and decision making in a world of self-interested states; the diplomatic difficulties caused by the artificial divisions between the industrialized North and the global South; the structural problems of managing the UN's many overlapping jurisdictions, agencies, and bodies; and the challenges of bureaucracy and leadership. The second half shows how to mitigate these maladies and points the way to a world in which the UN's institutional ills might be "cured." His remedies are not based on pious hopes of a miracle cure for the UN, but rather on specific and encouraging examples that could be replicated. With considered optimism and in contrast to received wisdom, Weiss contends that substantial change in intergovernmental institutions is plausible and possible. The new and expanded second edition of this well-regarded and indispensable book will continue to spark debate amongst students, scholars, and policymakers concerned with international politics, as well as anyone genuinely interested in the future of the United Nations and multilateral cooperation.

Subjects: United Nations.;

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Machiavelli : political, historical, and literary writings / by Machiavelli, Niccolò,1469-1527,author.(CARDINAL)137849; Jurdjevic, Mark,editor.(CARDINAL)831040; Ray, Meredith K.,1969-editor,translator.(CARDINAL)832817;

Includes bibliographical references and index.Ch. 1. Early letters, poems, and military writings (1498-1513) -- ch. 2. Excerpts from The Prince (1513-15) -- ch. 3. Excerpts from Discourses on Livy (1515-19) -- ch. 4. The Mandrake (1515-17) -- ch. 5. Articles for a Pleasure Company (post-1504) -- ch. 6. Belfagor (1524) -- ch. 7. Excerpts from The Art of War (1519-20) -- ch. 8. Allocution to a Magistrate (1519-20) -- ch. 9. Discourse on Florentine Affairs After the Death of Lorenzo de' Medici the Younger (1520-1521) -- ch. 10. Midcareer letters (1517-24) -- ch. 11. Duties of an Ambassador (1522) -- ch. 12. Excerpts from the Florentine Histories (1525) -- ch. 13. Late letters (1525-27).Throughout his life, Niccolo Machiavelli was deeply invested in Florentine culture and politics. More than any other priority, his overriding central concerns, informed by his understanding of his city's history, were the present and future strength and independence of Florence. This volume highlights and explores this underappreciated aspect of Machiavelli's intellectual preoccupations. Transcending a narrow emphasis on his two most famous works of political thought, The Prince and the Discourses on Livy, Mark Jurdjevic and Meredith K. Ray instead present a wide sample of the many genres in which he wrote-not only political theory but also letters, poetry, plays, comedy, and, most substantially, history. Throughout his writing, the city of Florence was at the same time his principal subject and his principal context. Florentine culture and history structured his mental landscape, determined his idiom, underpinned his politics, and endowed everything he wrote with urgency and purpose. The Florentine particulars in Machiavelli's writing reveal aspects of his psyche, politics, and life that are little known outside of specialist circles-particularly his optimism and idealism, his warmth and humor, his capacity for affection and loyalty, and his stubborn, enduring republicanism. Machiavelli: Political, Historical, and Literary Writings has been carefully curated to reveal those crucial but lesser known aspects of Machiavelli's thought and to show how his major arguments evolved within a dynamic Florentine setting.

Subjects: Machiavelli, Niccolò, 1469-1527.; Machiavelli, Niccolò, 1469-1527; Machiavelli, Niccolò, 1469-1527.; Machiavelli, Niccolò, 1469-1527;

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The end of theory : financial crises, the failure of economics, and the sweep of human interaction / by Bookstaber, Richard M.,1950-author.(CARDINAL)511930;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-219) and index.Section I: introduction -- Crises and sunspots -- Being human -- Section II: the four horsemen -- Social interactions and computational irreducibility -- The individual and the human wave: emergent phenomena -- Context and ergodicity -- Human experience and radical uncertainty -- Heuristics: how to act like a human -- Section III: paradigm past and future -- Economics in crisis -- Agent-based models -- Agents in the complexity spectrum -- Section IV: agent-based models for financial crises -- The structure of the financial system: agents and the environment -- Liquidity and crashes -- The 2008 crisis with an agent-based view -- Section V: the end of theory -- Is it a number or a story? Model as narrative -- Conclusion." An in-depth look at how to account for the human complexities at the heart of today's financial system Our economy may have recovered from the Great Recession--but not our economics. In The End of Theory, Richard Bookstaber, one of the world's leadingrisk managers, discusses why the human condition and the radical uncertainty of our world renders the standard economic model--and the theory behind it--useless for dealing with financial crises. What model should replace it? None. At least not any version we've been using for the past two hundred years. Instead, Bookstaber argues for a new approach called agent-based economics, one that takes as a starting point the fact that we are humans, not the optimizing automatons that standard economics assumes weare. Bookstaber's groundbreaking paradigm promises to do a far better job at preventing crises and managing those that break out. As he explains, our varied memories and imaginations color our economic behavior in unexpected hues. Agent-based modeling embraces these nuances by avoiding the mechanistic, unrealistic structure of our current economic approach. Bookstaber tackles issues such as radical uncertainty, when circumstances take place beyond our anticipation, and emergence, when innocent, everydayinteractions combine to create sudden chaos. Starting with the realization that future crises cannot be predicted by the past, he proposes an approach that recognizes the human narrative while addressing market realities. Sweeping aside the historic failure of twentieth-century economics, The End of Theory offers a novel and innovative perspective, along with a more realistic and human framework, to help prevent today's financial system from blowing up again. "--

Subjects: Financial crises; Business failures; Economics.; Human behavior.;

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Learning web design : a beginner's guide to HTML, CSS, Javascript, and web graphics / by Niederst Robbins, Jennifer,author.(CARDINAL)266675;

Preface -- Part 1: Getting started in web design: Where do I start? -- It takes a village (website creation roles) -- Gearing up for web design -- What you've learned -- Test yourself -- How the web works: -- the Internet versus the web -- Serving up your information -- A word about browsers -- Web page addresses (URLs) -- The anatomy of a web page -- Putting it all together -- Test yourself -- Some big concepts you need to know: -- A multitude of devices -- Sticking with the standards -- Progressive enhancement -- Responsive web design -- One web for all (accessibility) -- The need for speed (site performance) -- Test yourself -- Part 2: HTML Markup For Structure: -- Creating a simple page: -- A web page, step by step -- Launch a text editor -- Step 1: Start with content -- Step 2: Give the HTML document structure -- Step 3: Identify text elements -- Step 4: Add an image -- Step 5: Change the look with a style sheet -- When good pages go bad -- Validating your documents -- Test yourself -- Element review: HTML document setup -- Marking up text: -- Paragraphs -- Headings -- Thematic breaks (horizontal rule) -- Lists -- More content elements -- Organizing page content -- The inline element roundup -- Generic elements (div and span) -- Improving accessibility with ARIA -- Character escapes -- Putting it all together -- Test yourself -- Element review: Text elements -- Adding links: -- Href attribute -- Linking to pages on the web -- Linking within you own site -- Targeting a new browser window -- Mail links -- Telephone links -- Test yourself -- Element review: Links -- Adding images: -- First, a word on image formats -- The img element -- Adding SVG images -- Responsive image markup -- Whew! We're finished -- Test yourself -- Element review: Images -- Table markup: -- How to use tables -- Minimal table structure -- Table headers -- Spanning cells -- Table accessibility -- Row and column groups -- Wrapping up tables -- Test yourself -- Element review: Tables -- Forms: -- How forms work -- The form element -- Variables and content -- The great form control roundup -- Form accessibility features -- Form layout and design -- Test yourself -- Embedded media: Window-in-a-window (iframe) -- Multipurpose embedder (object) -- Video and audio -- Canvas -- Test yourself -- Element review: embedded media -- Part 3: CSS For Presentation: -- introducing cascading style sheets: -- The benefits of CSS -- How style sheets work -- The big concepts -- CSS units of measurement -- Developer tools right in your browser -- Moving forward with CSS --Test yourself -- Formatting text: -- Basic font properties -- Advancing typography with CSS3 -- Changing text color -- A few more selector types -- Text line adjustments -- Underlines and other "decorations" -- Changing capitalization -- Spaced out -- Text shadow -- Changing list bullets and numbers -- Test yourself -- CSS Review: Font and text properties -- Colors and backgrounds: -- Specifying color values -- Foreground color -- Background color -- Clipping the background -- Playing with opacity -- Pseudo-class selectors -- Pseudo-element selectors -- Attribute selectors -- Background images -- The shorthand background property -- Like a rainbow (gradients) -- Finally, external style sheets -- Wrapping it up -- Test yourself -- CSS Review: Color and background properties -- Thinking inside the box: -- The element box -- Specifying box dimensions -- Padding -- Borders -- Margins -- Assigning display types -- Box drop shadows -- Test yourself -- CSS Review: Basic box properties -- Floating and positioning: -- Normal flow -- Floating -- Fancy text wrap with CSS shapes -- Positioning basics -- Relative positioning -- Absolute positioning -- Fixed positioning -- Test yourself -- CSS Review: Floating and positioning properties -- CSS layout with flexbox and grid: -- Flexible boxes with CSS flexbox -- CSS grid layout --Test yourself -- CSS review: layout properties -- Responsive web design: -- Why RWD? -- The responsive recipe -- Choosing breakpoints -- Designing responsively --A few words about testing -- More RWD resources -- Test yourself -- Transitions, transforms, and animation: Ease-y does it (CSS transitions) -- CSS transforms -- Keyframe animation -- Wrapping up -- Test yourself -- CSS review: transitions, transforms, and animation-- More CSS techniques: Styling forms -- Styling tables -- A clean slate (Reset and normalize.css) -- Image replacement techniques -- CSS sprites -- CSS feature detection -- Wrapping up style sheets -- Test yourself -- CSS review: table properties -- Modern web development tools: Getting cozy with the command line -- CSS power tools (processors) -- Build tools (grunt and gulp) -- Version control with git and github -- Conclusion -- Test yourself -- Part 4: JavaScript For Behaviors: -- Introduction to JavaScript: -- What is JavaScript? -- Adding JavaScript to a page -- The anatomy of a script -- The browser object -- Events -- Putting it all together -- Learning more about JavaScript --Test yourself -- Using JavaScript: -- Meet the DOM -- Polyfills -- JavaScript libraries -- Big finish -- Test yourself -- Part 5: Web images: Web image basics -- Image sources -- Meet the formats -- Image size and resolution -- Image asset strategy -- Favicons -- Summing up images -- Test yourself -- Image asset production: -- Saving images in web formats -- Working with transparency -- Responsive image prodcution tips -- Image optimization -- Test yourself -- SVG -- Drawing with XML-- Features of SVG as XML -- SVG tools SVG production tips Responsive SVGs -- Further SVG exploration -- Test yourself -- And ... we're done -- Appendices: Answers -- HTML5 global attributes -- CSS selectors, levels 3 and 4 -- From HTML + to HTML5 -- Index.Do you want to build web pages but have no prior experience? This friendly guide is the perfect place to start. You l begin at square one, learning how the web and web pages work, and then steadily build from there. By the end of the book, you l have the skills to create a simple site with multicolumn pages that adapt for mobile devices. Each chapter provides exercises to help you learn various techniques and short quizzes to make sure you understand key concepts. This thoroughly revised edition is ideal for students and professionals of all backgrounds and skill levels. It is simple and clear enough for beginners, yet thorough enough to be a useful reference for experienced developers keeping their skills up to date.

Subjects: Handbooks and manuals.; Web sites; HTML (Document markup language); XHTML (Document markup language); Web sites; Cascading style sheets; JavaScript (Computer program language); Computer graphics;

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The psychology of leadership : timeless principles to perfect your leadership of individuals, teams...and yourself! / by Page, Sebastien,author.(CARDINAL)888397; Culp, H. Lawrence, Jr.writer of foreword.; Zimet, Daniel M.writer of afterword.;

Includes bibliographical references.Foreword / H. Lawrence Culp Jr. -- Introduction -- Part I: Setting Long-Term Goals. Don't die on Everest-beware of the side effects of measurable goals -- Don't become a miserable rich person-redefine success -- Learn to enjoy mowing the lawn-set goals that maximize engagement -- Make year-end reviews useless-prioritize relationships -- Don't fake it-when you talk about meaning, mean it! -- Ignore the gifted kids-don't' focus on winning -- Don't admire billionaires-choose your models carefully -- Build a bigger rocket-unleash the power of social comparison -- Upgrade your operating system-identify and manage your core beliefs -- Takeaways on goals -- Part II: Executing Your Goals. Tune the engine-optimize stress for peak performance -- Think about death-work backwards from your goals -- Sit on it-learn strategic patience -- Separate signal from noise-focus on what matters -- Takeaways on execution -- Part III: Unleashing the Power of Personality Psychology. Read the room-call on the introverts -- Don't run your business like a democracy -- be disagreeable sometimes -- Learn to love worry-harness the positive side neuroticism -- Be like Jim Morrison and the Pope-balance openness and structure -- Eat your vegetables-unleash the power of good habits -- takeaways on personality psychology -- One Last Story and Conclusion -- Afterword / Daniel Zimet -- Acknowledgments -- Endnotes.The Psychology of Leadership offers a revelatory fresh take on business leadership through the lens of groundbreaking research in positive, sports, and personality psychology. Witty, conversational, and personal, The Psychology of Leadership blends research, fascinating true stories, humor, and self-improvement advice to deliver simple yet powerful principles to master the mental game of leadership. Leaders will develop what feels like mind-reading abilities for interpreting workplace personalities, hidden motivations, and group dynamics. They will learn how to inspire their organization to move mountains, improve their ability to listen, communicate and, when necessary, persuade. Along the way they will dramatically improve their own mindset and resilience. -- from jacket

Subjects: Leadership; Leadership.; Management.; Management;

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The nature of plants : an introduction to how plants work / by Huegel, Craig Norman,author.;

Plants play a critical role in how we experience our environment. They create calming green spaces, provide oxygen for us to breathe, and nourish our senses. In The Nature of Plants, ecologist and nursery owner Craig Huegel demystifies the complex lives of plants and provides readers with an elucidating journey into their inner and outer workings. Beginning with the importance of light, water, and soil, Huegel describes photosynthesis, plant circadian rhythms, and how best to position plants to receive optimal sunlight. He explains choosing artificial lights for landscaping, giving lucky bamboo its twisted shape, and tricking flowers like poinsettias to bloom at a specific time of year. He reveals how plants use water, what paths it takes to move nutrients and fuel growth, and why too much--or too little--can hurt. He also explains what essential elements plants need to flourish and what friendly bacteria, fungi, and insects help make a healthy soil. Sections on plant structure and reproduction focus in detail on major plant organs--roots, stems, and leaves--and cover flowering, pollination, fruit development, and seed germination. The intricacies behind how plants reproduce are unraveled, including why not all flowering plants need pollinators, how it can take decades for some plants to produce offspring, and whether parents recognize their kin. Huegel even delves into the mysterious world of plant communication, exploring the messages and warnings conveyed to animals or other plants through chemical scents and hormones. With color illustrations, photographs, and real-life examples from his own gardening experiences, Huegel equips budding botanists, ecologists, and even the most novice gardeners with knowledge that will help them understand and foster plants of all types.

Subjects: Plants.; Nature.; Science.;

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