mobi |eng | 2010-06-10 | 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 ...

mobi, pdf |eng | 2012-09-20 | Author:Kerry Patterson; Joseph Grenny; Ron McMillan; Al Switzler

Watch for Three “Clever” Stories As we begin to piece together why people are doing what they’re doing (or equally important, why we’re doing what we’re doing), with time and ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-10-06 | Author:Palast, Greg [Palast, Greg]

Now, Schwartz stands. Giffen’s mouthpiece is about to earn his $600 an hour. At a dark-wood lectern, tall and dramatic, the attorney says that his client had merely “failed to ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2012-09-11 | Author:Bob Woodward

25 Obama’s exchange with Cantor at the previous day’s meeting sent an angry Harry Reid to the Senate floor on the morning of Thursday, July 14. “With so much at ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2010-06-17 | Author:Marrs, Jim [Marrs, Jim]

OBAMA’S SCHOOL TALK When kindergartners in B. Bernice Young School sang a medley of two short songs praising the president in February 2009, alarm bells went off among many who ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2009-11-24 | Author:Naomi Klein

During the late 1990s, the process of turning the service sector into a low-wage ghetto advanced rapidly in Germany. The German unemployment rate reached 12.6 percent in 1998, primarily because ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-11-11 | Author:Lawrence Schiller

Now that they had completed police and media interviews, the Ramseys began to cooperate to some degree with the DA’s office. They had met Pete Hofstrom earlier in the year ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2013-09-23 | Author:Stephen Jimenz

TWENTY-FOUR Honor Camp The first time I interviewed Ken Haselhuhn, he was incarcerated at the “Honor Conservation Camp,” a minimum-security detention facility in Newcastle, Wyoming. I was interested in Haselhuhn ...

mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2008-09-16 | Author:Howard Blum

In the days that followed, McManigal and McNamara remained hidden away while Billy waited with increasing impatience for the extradition writs from Los Angeles. He tried to convince himself that ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2007-03-14 | Author:Vincent Wyckoff

GUS WAS AN OLD schnauzer mixed-breed who belonged to Karl, a retired letter carrier who lived on my route. Karl had been retired for more years than I had worked ...

mobi |eng | 2010-06-30 | Author:Femina, Jerry Della [Femina, Jerry Della]

CHAPTER EIGHT FIGHTS HEADACHES THREE WAYS ‘The average copywriter and art director never stop learning. You have to know your product so well you could go out and be a ...

mobi, epub |eng | 1998-01-02 | Author:Geraldine Brooks

Earlier that month I had finally walked through the big stone gates of Sydney University. I’d arrived there brimming with confidence, proud of good exam results. But the exhilaration didn’t ...

mobi, pdf |eng | 2010-10-19 | Author:James W. Douglass

Acknowledgments I am deeply grateful to the friends who read and critiqued this work in progress: Bob and Janet Aldridge, Robert Aitken, Marya Barr, Karol Schulkin, Sandy Bishop, Rhea Miller, ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2014-02-22 | Author:boyd, danah [boyd, danah]

6 inequality can social media resolve social divisions? In a school classroom in Los Angeles, Keke sat down, crossed her arms defensively, and looked at me with suspicion. After an ...

epub |eng | 2013-12-05 | Author:Christian Fuchs [Fuchs, Christian]

One should think about Google in terms of commodity logic and ideology, but at the same time one should see how, from this very logic, potential alternatives emerge. Karl Marx ...