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The crypto era has arrived, and business will never be the same.
Real applications of crypto technology are growing exponentially:
cryptocurrency payments are moving frictionlessly across borders;
NFTs are generating real value for creators and consumers alike;
and new blockchain-enabled business models are being built around
decentralized finance and Web3. What do you and your company need
to know and do today to create new opportunities and avoid
disruption? Crypto: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business
Review will show you how innovative organizations of all kinds are
embracing decentralized technology, reinventing themselves, and
thriving in the new age of crypto. Business is changing. Will you
adapt or be left behind? Get up to speed and deepen your
understanding of the topics that are shaping your company's future
with the Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review series.
Featuring HBR's smartest thinking on fast-moving issues-blockchain,
cybersecurity, AI, and more-each book provides the foundational
introduction and practical case studies your organization needs to
compete today and collects the best research, interviews, and
analysis to get it ready for tomorrow. You can't afford to ignore
how these issues will transform the landscape of business and
society. The Insights You Need series will help you grasp these
critical ideas-and prepare you and your company for the future.
Originally commissioned from an independant group of transport
analysts by shadow minister John Prescott as a blueprint for an
environmentally friendly transport policy, this collection of
essays has developed into one of the most comprehensive studies in
the field ever published. Few areas of government policy have such
immediate and potentially damaging effects on our quality of life
as that which governs Britain's dangerously over-crowded and
polluted road system. With the growing public realisation that a
continued programme of roadbuilding and expanding car ownership are
unsustainable, "Travel Sickness" provides a survey of the viable
alternatives. Suggesting realistic shifts in policy and looking
across to Europe's more benign forms of transport, this book shows
how Britain could be a more pleasant, less stressful and safer
place to live and work.
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John Robert Lee’s Christian faith is always present in his
perceptions of experience and in the shaping of his art, and even
those who don’t share his faith should be grateful for this
because he gives us a poetry of an empathetic sensitivity to human
frailty, celebrations of the beauty of enduring love, prophetic
anger in calling out injustices and a sense of the sacredness of
the natural world and the terrible insults we offer it. It's a
magnificent and varied collection in which different kinds of
voices -- all JRL -- mesh together: the observational, the
sacramental, the elegiac, the prophetic and the personal. It’s a
collection in which four major suites of poems give the whole an
organic unity, which is not to say that the individual poems that
fall outside the suites don't make their fine contribution. The
‘Belmont Portfolio’, dedicated to Earl Lovelace, records a time
spent on his own in the unfamiliar streets of Belmont in Trinidad
in poems that catch the sense of being on the edge of adventure,
that see the numinous behind the ordinary. The ‘Office Hours’
suite, with its gracious nods to W.H. Auden, is both an engagement
with the hours of divine office and the Bible readings that go with
it, and a very human series of reflections on that most universal
of experiences – how we live through our diurnal cycles. There is
the rousing, prophetic, Old Testament righteous anger of the
‘Watchman’ sequence, which reflects on the hell of living in
Babylon and the gap between the deceits of ‘liberal
democracies’ and the ghastly realities of their global crimes. In
the last sequence, ‘What Remains to be Said’ the poet emerges
to the front of the stage and speaks directly and confidentially to
the reader. It is a sequence that gathers together what must be
treasured as sustenance through ‘this Purgatorio’ of our times,
reflections on how one can speak in an era where you are
“collared in faith in agnostic seasons”, where the frequency of
the deaths of those with whom you have shared the struggle is a
“haunting against my faith in the Tree of Life” – and a
wondering, slightly tongue-in-cheek: “approaching mid-seventies,
what do I know?”
The late E. Roy John is considered the pioneer in the field of
neurometrics - the science of measuring the underlying organization
of the brain's electrical activity. Volume 1, co-authored by Robert
W. Thatcher, and Volume 2 both originally published in 1977, were
among the first books this field. Volume 3, written by colleague
Thalia Harmony, followed in 1984. The field expanded significantly
in the 1990s and thousands of articles have subsequently been
published. Available together for the first time these 3 volumes
were important foundational works for the fields of quantitative
electrophysiology and neurometrics.
Launched in 1906, HMS Dreadnought was the first 'all-big-gun'
battleship and as such revolutionised battleship design for more
than a generation. She was built at Portsmouth in 14 months, a
record which has never been equalled, and when she was launched she
was superior in both firepower and speed to anything then afloat.
Perhaps even more radical than her design was the proposal to adopt
Parsons turbines, which at the time had been hardly tested. Though
she saw little action during her career, her influence was profound
and she gave her name to a class of ship that dominated the high
seas for more than a generation. As part of the renowned Anatomy of
the Ship series, this book provides the finest documentation of the
Bellona, with a complete set of superb line drawings, supported by
technical details and a record of the ship's service history.
Today we often hear academics, commentators, pundits, and
politicians telling us that new media has transformed activism,
providing an array of networks for ordinary people to become
creatively involved in a multitude of social and political
practices. But what exactly is the ideology lurking behind these
positive claims made about digital publics? By recourse to various
critical thinkers, including Marx, Bakhtin, Deleuze and Guattari,
and Gramsci, Digital Publics systematically unpacks this ideology.
It explains how a number of influential social theorists and
management gurus have consistently argued that we now live in new
informational times based in global digital systems and new
financial networks, which create new sbjectivities and power
relations in societies. Digital Publics traces the historical roots
of this thinking, demonstrates its flaws and offers up an
alternative Marxist-inspired theory of the public sphere, cultural
political economy and financialisation. The book will appeal to
scholars and students of cultural studies, critical management
studies, political science and sociology.
This handsome manual offers an architectural overview of the
Syracuse University campus. Intended for prospective students,
faculty, alumni, and visitors, it shows how the campus evolved in
response to the changing character of the academic community and
urban environs. It also gives an inside look at the university's
most engaging structures--"from the stately Hall of Languages
(1871) to Crouse College (1889) to the landmark Carrier Dome
stadium (1980), and more. Here are the chancellors and architects,
benefactors and builders whose vision and grit helped turn dreams
into brick-and-lime. Here, too, are the grand plans and false
starts, external events, and policy choices that transformed a
small, bucolic nineteenth-century school into the architecturally
and culturally complex campus that is Syracuse University today.
Richly illustrated and compellingly written, this is a crucial
companion for anyone interested in exploring the architectural
heritage of Syracuse University.
Today we often hear academics, commentators, pundits, and
politicians telling us that new media has transformed activism,
providing an array of networks for ordinary people to become
creatively involved in a multitude of social and political
practices. But what exactly is the ideology lurking behind these
positive claims made about digital publics? By recourse to various
critical thinkers, including Marx, Bakhtin, Deleuze and Guattari,
and Gramsci, Digital Publics systematically unpacks this ideology.
It explains how a number of influential social theorists and
management gurus have consistently argued that we now live in new
informational times based in global digital systems and new
financial networks, which create new sbjectivities and power
relations in societies. Digital Publics traces the historical roots
of this thinking, demonstrates its flaws and offers up an
alternative Marxist-inspired theory of the public sphere, cultural
political economy and financialisation. The book will appeal to
scholars and students of cultural studies, critical management
studies, political science and sociology.
In this ambitious theoretical encounter with five imaginary artists
from the 1980s, John Roberts produces a set of richly constructed
artistic thought experiments. But in creating the work on the page
these thought experiments are not thereby novelistic fictions. On
the contrary, the fictiveness of each artist's work and biography
is formed from Roberts's critical engagement with the historical
and theoretical determinates of the work he has created - artwork
and its theoretical engagement forming an interdependent whole.
Before D-Day, regular army soldiers called the National Guardsmen
of Virginia's 116th Infantry Regiment 'Home Nannies', 'Weekend
Warriors', and worse. On June 6, 1944, on Omaha Beach, however,
these proud Virginians who carried the legacy of the famed
Stonewall Brigade showed the regular army and the world what true
valor really was. In this moving World War II memoir, the author
captures the day-to-day comings and goings of GI Joe from pre-World
War II National Guard days through induction, training, and
deployment overseas. All leads up to D-Day and Normandy on June 6,
1944, when Sergeant Bob Slaughter came across Omaha Beach with
Company D of the 116th Infantry. This was the beginning of his long
march to final victory in Europe, a march that would take him and
his fellow soldiers of Company D, at least those who survived, to
Holland, the Bulge, and on into Germany itself - a fascinating,
detailed look at the life and times of an ordinary soldier in the
battlefield of Europe.
Drawing on more than one hundred personal interviews--including
Chancellors Corbally and Eggers, and the current chancellor,
Kenneth A. Shaw--historian John Robert Greene has crafted a highly
readable work on the history of Syracuse University. This volume,
the fifth in the series, focuses on the administrations of John
Corbally (1969-71) and Melvin A. Eggers (1971-91). Corbally came
into office during a sweeping national student revolt and the black
power and civil rights movements. He faced a series of crises in
rapid succession. In February, after two short years, Corbally
resigned. Greene shows how Melvin Eggers, building upon Chancellor
William Tolley's success and the administrative improvements begun
under Corbally, stewarded Syracuse University through its economic
crisis to establish it as one of the leading institutions in the
country. Greene examines Eggers's management style, his financial
plan, his physical and academic expansion of the university's
undergraduate institutions, and the financing and building of the
Carrier Dome. He provides a compelling account of student life and
controversies during the late sixties, the seventies, and the
eighties, and details the growing importance of sports for the
university.
The Presidency of George W. Bush is the first balanced academic
study to analyze the entirety of his presidency-domestic, social,
economic, and national security policies-as well as the
administration's response to 9/11 and the subsequent "War on
Terror." In so doing, John Robert Greene argues persuasively that
the judgment of most scholars-that the Bush administration was a
complete failure-has been made in haste and without the benefit of
primary sources. This book is the first scholarly work to make wide
use of the documents at the George W. Bush Presidential Library,
many of which have only recently been made available to researchers
through the Freedom of Information Act. John Robert Greene offers
balanced assessment and nuanced conclusions supported by
documentary evidence. Yet in doing so he does not absolve the Bush
administration of its shortcomings. The Presidency of George W.
Bush shows that the administration could be vindictive, as
demonstrated by the Wilson-Plame affair and the firing of the US
attorneys. It all too often moved too slowly, as shown by the
National Security Council's lethargic handling of terrorism
pre-9/11, the failed attempt to revise Social Security, and the
sluggish reaction to Hurricane Katrina. It was an administration
that accepted, and acted on, the highly suspect theory of the
unitary presidency as advocated by Dick Cheney and accepted by the
president. On the other side of the balance sheet, however, the
evidence also makes it eminently clear that the Bush administration
was responsible for many positive achievements: No Child Left
Behind set the nation on the road toward affecting serious
educational reform. In healthcare reform, the Bush administration
both strengthened the Medicare system and extended its benefits for
millions of Americans. And Bush did more to combat the worldwide
scourge of AIDS as well as for Africa than any other president. In
sum, the actions of this presidency continue to affect the
presidencies of each of his successors as well as the trajectory of
world history to the present day.
God's Daring Dozen is the first children's picture book series ever
published on the minor prophets. The twelve books between Daniel
and Matthew are unfamiliar to many believers, so this series
accurately introduces these inspired writings with vivid images and
simple words that engage children and adults alike. Each volume
both retells the prophet's message to his original audience and
relates its rich truths to Jesus and God's people today. This
second boxed set contains: Jonah's Journeys, which teaches
compassion and encourages obedience. Malachi's Final Message, which
teaches respect for and hope in God. Nahum and the Ninevites, which
teaches the power and deliverance of God. Joel and the Locusts,
which teaches repentance and promises renewal. The first set
includes Haggai, Habakkuk, Zephaniah and Obadiah, and the final set
will include Hosea, Amos, Micah, and Zechariah. God's Daring Dozen
delivers enduring messages that are very much relevant today. These
biblically faithful, theologically rich, gospel-centered books
teach truth, promote virtue, and inspire faith in God and in His
Son. The minor prophets offer major lessons for all ages, and their
timeless truths are now shared in story book form for the very
first time!
"Tech writer Roberts debuts with a page-turning account of the rise
of cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase from the Y Combinator startup
incubator to becoming a 'pillar of the larger crypto economy.'" -
Publisher's Weekly For a moment late in 2018, one bitcoin, which
physically amounts to a few electrons blipping on a tiny bit of
silicon, was worth $20,000—the same as a pound of gold.
Libertarian technologists who believed bitcoin would be the
foundation of a new world order saw the moment as an apotheosis.
Everyone else saw a bubble. Everyone else was right, and the bubble
burst. But bitcoin survived, and the battle for its soul rages on.
Kings of Crypto drops us into the unfolding drama, tracing the
rise, fall, and rebirth of cryptocurrency through the experiences
of major players across the globe. We follow Silicon Valley
entrepreneur Brian Armstrong and the turbulent rocket ride of his
startup, Coinbase, as he tries to take bitcoin mainstream while
fighting off hackers, thieves, and zealots. Author Jeff John
Roberts keenly observes the world of virtual currencies and what
happens when startups try to disrupt the world of high finance.
Clear explanations of crypto technology are woven into an amazing
landscape full of meme-fueled startup hijinks, hacking (so much
hacking!), shady investors, government investigations, billionaire
bros and their Lambos, and closed-door meetings with Jamie Dimon.
This is the surprising story of the origins of cryptocurrency and
how it is changing money forever.
Within many societies across the world, new social and political
movements have sprung up that either challenge formal parliamentary
structures of democracy and participation, or work within them and,
in the process, fundamentally alter the ideological content of
democratic potentials. At the same time, some parliamentary
political parties have attracted a new type of 'populist' political
rhetoric and support base. This collection, along with its
accompanying volume 2, examines the emergence of, and the
connections between, these new types of left-wing democracy and
participation. Through an array of examples from different
countries, it explains why left-wing activism arises in new and
innovative spaces in society and how this joins up with
conventional left-wing politics, including parliamentary politics.
It demonstrates how these new forms of politics can resonate with
the real life experiences of ordinary people and thereby win
support for left-wing agendas.
Within many societies across the world, new social and political
movements have sprung up that either challenge formal parliamentary
structures of democracy and participation, or work within them and,
in the process, fundamentally alter the ideological content of
democratic potentials. At the same time, some parliamentary
political parties have attracted a new type of 'populist' political
rhetoric and support base. This collection, along with its
accompanying volume 2, examines the emergence of, and the
connections between, these new types of left-wing democracy and
participation. Through an array of examples from different
countries, it explains why left-wing activism arises in new and
innovative spaces in society and how this joins up with
conventional left-wing politics, including parliamentary politics.
It demonstrates how these new forms of politics can resonate with
the real life experiences of ordinary people and thereby win
support for left-wing agendas.
Within many societies across the world, new social and political
movements have sprung up that either challenge formal parliamentary
structures of democracy and participation, or work within them and,
in the process, fundamentally alter the ideological content of
democratic potentials. At the same time, some parliamentary
political parties have attracted a new type of 'populist' political
rhetoric and support base. This collection, along with its
accompanying volume 2, examines the emergence of, and the
connections between, these new types of left-wing democracy and
participation. Through an array of examples from different
countries, it explains why left-wing activism arises in new and
innovative spaces in society and how this joins up with
conventional left-wing politics, including parliamentary politics.
It demonstrates how these new forms of politics can resonate with
the real life experiences of ordinary people and thereby win
support for left-wing agendas.
J. R. Seeley (1834 1895) was Regius Professor of Modern History at
Cambridge. He was concerned that classics and the study of the
distant past were far too dominant at the university, and believed
that the academic study of contemporary history could provide a
moral and intellectual foundation for modern political life. The
Expansion of England, first published in 1883 and based on his
lectures, was his most successful book, remaining in print for over
seventy years. He believed that the purpose of the study of history
was to see patterns and tendencies which could be used to make
predictions about the future. Foreseeing the rise of America and
Russia as world powers, he wanted to ensure that the British Empire
retained its position of dominance in the twentieth century, which
he saw as its destiny. His clear arguments, and skill in writing
often-quoted epigrams, ensured the book's continued popularity.
A Platonic philosopher, Paracelsian chemist, Ovidian poet, and
devoted family man, Tycho Brahe was the last Renaissance man and
the first great organizer of modern science. This book provides the
fullest portrait available of the research and cultural interests
of the man who became the premier patron-practitioner of science in
sixteenth-century Europe. Starting from Brahe's well reputed role
of astronomer, author Christianson adds lesser known details of the
man who was both a geodetic surveyor as well as a garden designer,
and ultimately established a new role of scientist as
administrator, active reformer, and natural philosopher. Coverage
reveals how from his private island in Denmark, Brahe used
patronage, printing, friendship, and marriage to incorporate men
and women skilled in science, technology, and the fine arts into
his program of cosmic reform. Through their teamwork, they achieved
breakthroughs in astronomy, scientific method, and research
organization that were essential to the birth of modern science.
Also included are over 100 capsule biographies of Tycho's clients,
coworkers, and friends, including Johannes Kepler, Willebrord Snel,
Willem Blaeu, several bishops, and numerous technical specialists
all of whom helped shape the culture of the Scientific Revolution.
This pioneering exposition will appeal to science history buffs,
especially those with an interest in the late Renaissance and will
inspire anyone who has a passion for science and a penchant for the
world of ideas. John Robert Christianson received his Ph.D. from
the University of Minnesota. He was dubbed Knight of the Royal
Norwegian Order of Merit by King Harald II in 1995.
The Lord of Uraniborg is a comprehensive biography of Tycho Brahe,
father of modern astronomy, famed alchemist and litterateur of the
sixteenth-century Danish Renaissance. Written in a lively and
engaging style, Victor Thoren's biography offers interesting
perspectives on Tycho's life and presents alternative analyses of
virtually every aspect of his scientific work. A range of readers
interested in astronomy, history of astronomy and the history of
science will find this book fascinating.
Within many societies across the world, new social and political
movements have sprung up that either challenge formal parliamentary
structures of democracy and participation, or work within them and,
in the process, fundamentally alter the ideological content of
democratic potentials. At the same time, some parliamentary
political parties have attracted a new type of 'populist' political
rhetoric and support base. This collection, along with its
accompanying volume 2, examines the emergence of, and the
connections between, these new types of left-wing democracy and
participation. Through an array of examples from different
countries, it explains why left-wing activism arises in new and
innovative spaces in society and how this joins up with
conventional left-wing politics, including parliamentary politics.
It demonstrates how these new forms of politics can resonate with
the real life experiences of ordinary people and thereby win
support for left-wing agendas.
Tycho Brahe (1546-1601), the premier patron-practitioner of science in sixteenth-century Europe, established a new role of scientist as administrator, active reformer, and natural philosopher. This book explores his wide range of activities, which encompass much more than his reputed role of astronomer. Christianson broadens this singular perspective by portraying him as Platonic philosopher, Paracelsian chemist, Ovidian poet, and devoted family man. From his private island in Denmark, Tycho Brahe used patronage, printing, friendship, and marriage to incorporate men and women skilled in science, technology, and the fine arts into his program of cosmic reform. This pioneering study includes capsule biographies of two dozen individuals, including Johannes Kepler, Willebrord Snel, Willem Blaeu, several artists, two bishops, a rabbi, and various technical specialists, all of whom helped shape the culture of the Scientific Revolution. Under Tycho's leadership, their teamwork achieved breakthroughs in astronomy, scientific method, and research organization that were essential to the birth of modern science. John Robert Christianson is research professor of history at Luther College in Decorah, Iowa, where he taught history for thirty years. In 1985, Christianson was awarded the Bronze Medal of the League of Finnish-American Societies and received the Alf Mjoen Prize in 1989. In 1995, he was dubbed Knight of the Royal Norweigian Order of Merit by King Harald II. Christianson is a former fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies and has held grants from the American Philosophical Society and the National Endowment of the Humanities, among others. He has traveled throughout Scandanavia and has written, edited, or translated several books about Scandanavia and Scandanavian-American topics, as well as articles in Scientific American, Isis, and other journals.
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