Social Sciences
epub |eng | 2010-05-09 | Author:Clay Shirky

Kelly’s conclusion that defaults allow the designer to steer the system is critical. Defaults don’t drive the system, because they don’t create the motivations to use it. They simply steer ...
( Category: Communication & Media Studies March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-02-20 | Author:John C. Maxwell

CONNECTING WITH PEOPLE AT ALL LEVELS CONNECTING PRACTICE: Connectors connect on common ground. KEY CONCEPT: Know the reasons you and your listener want to communicate and build a bridge between ...
( Category: Leadership March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-09-04 | Author:Paul Tough [Tough, Paul]

The first day and a half was pretty bad. I was on a complete rampage, going over every game and being a huge bitch all the time: saying things like ...
( Category: Reform & Policy March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-07-11 | Author:Alison Baverstock

The culture of museum trading A career in museum trading is not for everybody. For anyone used to the business fundamentals of high street trading or commercial publishing, the juggling ...
( Category: Job Hunting & Careers March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-07-15 | Author:Marshall Goldsmith

The Four Commitments When I work with a coaching client, I always get confidential feedback from many of my client’s coworkers at the beginning of the process. The fewest I ...
( Category: Management March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-02-26 | Author:Warner, Melanie [Warner, Melanie]

Something Fishy The science of dietary fats has got to be one of the most eye-glazing and head-spinning things in all of human nutrition. The whole business is laden with ...
( Category: Hospitality, Travel & Tourism March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2013-05-07 | Author:Jaron Lanier [Lanier, Jaron]

PART SIX Democracy CHAPTER 16 Complaint Is Not Enough Governments Are Learning the Tricks of Siren Servers A revolutionary narrative is common in digital politics. Broadly speaking, that narrative counterpoises ...
( Category: Popular Culture March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-11-05 | Author:Erik Qualman

Advertising within Social Networks Is Actually Effective Because social media lends itself to unobtrusive advertising, that advertising is effective. In a 2008 survey done by Razorfish—“The Razorfish Consumer Experience Report”—76 ...
( Category: Web Marketing March 26,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2004-03-25 | Author:Lawrence Lessig [Lessig, Lawrence]

Derivative works were now regulated by copyright law—if published, which again, given the economics of publishing at the time, means if offered commercially. But noncommercial publishing and transformation were still ...
( Category: Communication & Media Studies March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2009-07-17 | Author:Gail A. Eisnitz [Eisnitz, Gail A.]

"Streamlined Inspection didn't formally affect line speeds," said GAP's Tom Devine. "Rather, at these plants inspectors were stripped of their ability to detect conditions that would justify stopping the line." ...
( Category: Agriculture March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-04-07 | Author:Abhijit Banerjee

For these reasons, micro insurance may not become the next billion-client market opportunity: There seem to be deep reasons that most people don’t yet feel very comfortable with the kinds ...
( Category: Poverty March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-02-24 | Author:Thommen, Lukas [Thommen, Lukas]

2 Jashemski 1979, 172ff., 233ff.; 1998. 3 Grimal 1969, 107ff.; Frass 2006, 428ff. Chapter 16 Animals For the Romans, too, keeping animals was of basic economic and social importance. Under ...
( Category: Human Geography March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-04-25 | Author:Richard Wilkinson & Kate Pickett [Wilkinson, Richard & Pickett, Kate]

So social mobility is lower and geographical segregation greater in more unequal societies. It is as if greater inequality makes the social structure of society more rigid and movement up ...
( Category: Social Policy March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:John Nichols [Nichols, John and McChesney, Robert W.]

ELECTION COVERAGE IN RECENT TIMES If we begin with the idea that the election coverage in the partisan era tended to be rich and engaging because the broader political journalism ...
( Category: Elections March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2007-03-25 | Author:Collier, Paul

Aid and the Natural Resource Trap The second trap was the natural resource trap. Here, frankly, aid is fairly impotent. Evidently, the resource-rich countries have money coming into the government. ...
( Category: Economic Policy March 26,2014 )