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Dusting Off Thunderbolts is not just another book about how to be a
good leader. Having worked in 50 countries on a quest to find what
he calls the heart of leadership, Sir John Jones shares wisdom
gleaned from diverse cultures and continents. You will hear from
giants of sport, literature, art, film and music, and be guided by
poets, philosophers, war heroes and Nobel prize-winners. Sir John
will introduce you to external forces that spark the inner spirit
of leadership. The ancients called such forces "muses" and, like
old friends, they have sustained Sir John through more than 40
years of leadership. Muses favour those courageous enough to work
tirelessly at their craft and travel each day the tough road of
hard practice, dedication and quiet heroism. Sadly, some leaders
deny their existence, believing that they themselves are the sole
source of their success. For these leaders, the gods will dust off
their thunderbolts. Teeming with practical ideas, stories and
suggestions, Dusting Off Thunderbolts will make you laugh, make you
cry, make you think and help you grow. It is an affirmation of
those who lead with deep humanity. It is a clarion call to those
who see themselves as a constant work in progress. It champions
those who take risks but give themselves permission to fail. It is
a companion for those who have the courage to stand at the front
while embracing their own vulnerability. It is a celebration of the
leadership spirit within all of us. For all our failings, flaws and
fears, neither the gods nor their muses can do their work without
us.
This book examines the recent evolution of online spaces and their
impact on networked democracy. Through an illuminating mix of
theoretical and methodological analysis, contributors provide an
understanding of how a range of individuals and groups, including
activists and NGOs, governments and griefers, are using digital
technologies to influence public debates. Contributions consider
these phenomena in a global contemporary context, providing within
the same volume rigorous examinations of the design of digital
platforms for deliberation, users' attempts to manipulate those
platforms, and the ways activists and governments are responding to
emerging threats to democratic discourse. Providing diverse, global
case studies, this collection is a valuable tool for academics
within and beyond the fields of new media, communication, and
information policy and governance.
This book reviews developments in the molecular biology of
plant-nematode interactions that have been driven by the
application of genomics tools. The book will be of interest to
postgraduate students and to researchers with an interest in plant
nematology and/or plant pathology more generally. A series of
introductory chapters provide a biological context for the detailed
reviews of all areas of plant-nematode interactions that follow and
ensure that the bulk of the book is accessible to the
non-specialist. A final section aims to show how these fundamental
studies have provided outputs of practical relevance.
This book reviews developments in the molecular biology of
plant-nematode interactions that have been driven by the
application of genomics tools. The book will be of interest to
postgraduate students and to researchers with an interest in plant
nematology and/or plant pathology more generally. A series of
introductory chapters provide a biological context for the detailed
reviews of all areas of plant-nematode interactions that follow and
ensure that the bulk of the book is accessible to the
non-specialist. A final section aims to show how these fundamental
studies have provided outputs of practical relevance.
This book describes how a key signal/image processing algorithm -
that of the fast Hartley transform (FHT) or, via a simple
conversion routine between their outputs, of the real-data version
of the ubiquitous fast Fourier transform (FFT) - might best be
formulated to facilitate computationally-efficient solutions. The
author discusses this for both 1-D (such as required, for example,
for the spectrum analysis of audio signals) and m-D (such as
required, for example, for the compression of noisy 2-D images or
the watermarking of 3-D video signals) cases, but requiring few
computing resources (i.e. low arithmetic/memory/power requirements,
etc.). This is particularly relevant for those application areas,
such as mobile communications, where the available silicon
resources (as well as the battery-life) are expected to be limited.
The aim of this monograph, where silicon-based computing technology
and a resource-constrained environment is assumed and the data is
real-valued in nature, has thus been to seek solutions that best
match the actual problem needing to be solved.
This book describes how a key signal/image processing algorithm -
that of the fast Hartley transform (FHT) or, via a simple
conversion routine between their outputs, of the real-data version
of the ubiquitous fast Fourier transform (FFT) - might best be
formulated to facilitate computationally-efficient solutions. The
author discusses this for both 1-D (such as required, for example,
for the spectrum analysis of audio signals) and m-D (such as
required, for example, for the compression of noisy 2-D images or
the watermarking of 3-D video signals) cases, but requiring few
computing resources (i.e. low arithmetic/memory/power requirements,
etc.). This is particularly relevant for those application areas,
such as mobile communications, where the available silicon
resources (as well as the battery-life) are expected to be limited.
The aim of this monograph, where silicon-based computing technology
and a resource-constrained environment is assumed and the data is
real-valued in nature, has thus been to seek solutions that best
match the actual problem needing to be solved.
In 1965, British artist and university lecturer John Jones left the
UK with his wife and daughters to live in the US for a year and
interview some 100 artists. There the family lived in Greenwich
Village, and spent three months on a road trip west to visit
artists beyond the immediate reach of New York. Some of the artists
(Yoko Ono and Claes Oldenberg for instance) became John Jones's
personal friends. Jones's daughter Nicolette was young, but her
memories of New York and their trans-American adventure are vivid.
Published here for the first time, this book presents a fascinating
selection of Jones's edited conversations with American artists
practising in 1965-6. A foreword by Nicolette Jones contextualises
the setting in which these interviews took place, and a further
introduction amalgamated from Jones's lecutres in which he drew on
these conversations, illustrates and explores the range of
contrasting ideas behind what became known as Pop Art. Thanks to
his personal interaction with the artists, and his knowledge of
their work, Jones became the foremost expert in the art of this
period in the UK. Amidst a unique family story, this is art
presented not through the filter of art critics, but from the
mouths of the practitioners. Jones's interviews explore a specific
place and time: the USA in the 1960s, and are crucial reading for
those wishing to understand the decade, the influence of American
art and the British tradition on each other, and also anyone
interested in the famous figures of the time, and the thinking that
gave rise to this extraordinarily fertile creative moment.
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly
growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by
advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve
the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own:
digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works
in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these
high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts
are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries,
undergraduate students, and independent scholars.The Age of
Enlightenment profoundly enriched religious and philosophical
understanding and continues to influence present-day thinking.
Works collected here include masterpieces by David Hume, Immanuel
Kant, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, as well as religious sermons and
moral debates on the issues of the day, such as the slave trade.
The Age of Reason saw conflict between Protestantism and
Catholicism transformed into one between faith and logic -- a
debate that continues in the twenty-first century.++++The below
data was compiled from various identification fields in the
bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an
additional tool in helping to insure edition identification:
++++<sourceLibrary>Cambridge University
Library<ESTCID>T189670<Notes>Attributed to the Rev.
John Jones.<imprintFull>Dublin: printed by A. Reilly, 1758.
<collation>24p.; 12
In 1594 George Owen--a historian and geologist from
Pembrokeshire--wrote "The Dialogue of the Government of Wales," a
commentary on the Welsh government after the Acts of Union. The
study detailed the methods used by Henry VII and Henry VIII to
maintain law and order, praising the Tudor monarchs for their
enlightened policies. This new edition, edited by Welsh historian
John Gwynfor Jones, contains an updated version of the text,
numerous explanatory notes, and a lengthy introduction, and is
ideal for anyone interested in the legal institutions of
sixteenth-century Wales.
This book examines the recent evolution of online spaces and their
impact on networked democracy. Through an illuminating mix of
theoretical and methodological analysis, contributors provide an
understanding of how a range of individuals and groups, including
activists and NGOs, governments and griefers, are using digital
technologies to influence public debates. Contributions consider
these phenomena in a global contemporary context, providing within
the same volume rigorous examinations of the design of digital
platforms for deliberation, users' attempts to manipulate those
platforms, and the ways activists and governments are responding to
emerging threats to democratic discourse. Providing diverse, global
case studies, this collection is a valuable tool for academics
within and beyond the fields of new media, communication, and
information policy and governance.
A landmark volume that explores the interconnected nature of
technologies and rhetorical practice. Rhetorical Machines addresses
new approaches to studying computational processes within the
growing field of digital rhetoric. While computational code is
often seen as value-neutral and mechanical, this volume explores
the underlying, and often unexamined, modes of persuasion this code
engages. In so doing, it argues that computation is in fact rife
with the values of those who create it and thus has powerful
ethical and moral implications. From Socrates's critique of writing
in Plato's Phaedrus to emerging new media and internet culture, the
scholars assembled here provide insight into how computation and
rhetoric work together to produce social and cultural effects. This
multidisciplinary volume features contributions from
scholar-practitioners across the fields of rhetoric, computer
science, and writing studies. It is divided into four main
sections: ""Emergent Machines"" examines how technologies and
algorithms are framed and entangled in rhetorical processes,
""Operational Codes"" explores how computational processes are used
to achieve rhetorical ends, ""Ethical Decisions and Moral
Protocols"" considers the ethical implications involved in
designing software and that software's impact on computational
culture, and the final section includes two scholars' responses to
the preceding chapters. Three of the sections are prefaced by brief
conversations with chatbots (autonomous computational agents)
addressing some of the primary questions raised in each section. At
the heart of these essays is a call for emerging and established
scholars in a vast array of fields to reach interdisciplinary
understandings of human-machine interactions. This innovative work
will be valuable to scholars and students in a variety of
disciplines, including but not limited to rhetoric, computer
science, writing studies, and the digital humanities.
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