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Sensemaking: A Structure for An Intelligence Revolution (2nd Edition)

by David T. Moore ...

Sensemaking diagnoses the ills of the US Intelligence community and provides solutions to its shortcomings. This critical thinking book is among the most available books for government, intelligence, military, and corporate leaders. ... Read more

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Sensemaking diagnoses the ills of the US Intelligence community and provides solutions to its shortcomings. This critical thinking book is among the most available books for government, intelligence, military, and corporate leaders.
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Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus

How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity

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**Why doesn’t the explosive growth of companies like Facebook and Uber deliver more prosperity for everyone?What is the systemic problem that sets the rich against the poor and the technologists against everybody else?**When protesters shattered the windows of a bus carrying Google employees to work, their anger may have been justifiable, but it was misdirected. The true conflict of our age isn’t ... Read more

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**Why doesn’t the explosive growth of companies like Facebook and Uber deliver more prosperity for everyone?What is the systemic problem that sets the rich against the poor and the technologists against everybody else?**When protesters shattered the windows of a bus carrying Google employees to work, their anger may have been justifiable, but it was misdirected. The true conflict of our age isn’t
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Technology at the Limits of Comprehension

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Why did the New York Stock Exchange suspend trading without warning on July 8, 2015? Why did certain Toyota vehicles accelerate uncontrollably against the will of their drivers? Why does the programming inside our airplanes occasionally surprise its creators?After a thorough analysis by the top experts, the answers still elude us.You don’t understand the software running your car or your iPhone. ... Read more

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Why did the New York Stock Exchange suspend trading without warning on July 8, 2015? Why did certain Toyota vehicles accelerate uncontrollably against the will of their drivers? Why does the programming inside our airplanes occasionally surprise its creators?After a thorough analysis by the top experts, the answers still elude us.You don’t understand the software running your car or your iPhone.
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Torture and Democracy

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This is the most comprehensive, and most comprehensively chilling, study of modern torture yet written. Darius Rejali, one of the world's leading experts on torture, takes the reader from the late nineteenth century to the aftermath of Abu Ghraib, from slavery and the electric chair to electrotorture in American inner cities, and from French and British colonial prison cells and the Spanish ... Read more

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This is the most comprehensive, and most comprehensively chilling, study of modern torture yet written. Darius Rejali, one of the world's leading experts on torture, takes the reader from the late nineteenth century to the aftermath of Abu Ghraib, from slavery and the electric chair to electrotorture in American inner cities, and from French and British colonial prison cells and the Spanish
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One Human Minute

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Essays by the author of Solaris: "Lem's delightful sense of humor accentuates his essential seriousness about humanity's possible fate" ( Publishers Weekly).In One Human Minute, Stanislaw Lem takes a hard look at our world and technology—what it means now and what dire implications it could have for the future—in satirical, wise, and biting prose.With this collection of three essays, Lem targets ... Read more

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Essays by the author of Solaris: "Lem's delightful sense of humor accentuates his essential seriousness about humanity's possible fate" ( Publishers Weekly).In One Human Minute, Stanislaw Lem takes a hard look at our world and technology—what it means now and what dire implications it could have for the future—in satirical, wise, and biting prose.With this collection of three essays, Lem targets
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WORK HARD FOR THE KIMS!

An introduction to North Korean history, ideology, and culture through the country's propaganda posters

by Scott Fisher ...

The goal of this brief book is to use North Korea’s unique, occasionally beautiful, often threatening propaganda posters to introduce and highlight the country’s history, ideology, and culture. This is not an art critique or an examination of color and painting - the goal is to provoke thought and conversation about one of the world’s most well-known but least understood countries. As the book ... Read more

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The goal of this brief book is to use North Korea’s unique, occasionally beautiful, often threatening propaganda posters to introduce and highlight the country’s history, ideology, and culture. This is not an art critique or an examination of color and painting - the goal is to provoke thought and conversation about one of the world’s most well-known but least understood countries. As the book
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Chris Christie

The Inside Story of His Rise to Power

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New Jersey Governor Chris Christie has become a national Republican Party figure, famous for his blunt public statements, his willingness to confront powerful special interests, and his determination to change the ingrown, corrupt, backroom political culture of New Jersey. In just two years as governor, Christie has moved aggressively to reduce the state's ballooning deficit, rein in lucrative ... Read more

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New Jersey Governor Chris Christie has become a national Republican Party figure, famous for his blunt public statements, his willingness to confront powerful special interests, and his determination to change the ingrown, corrupt, backroom political culture of New Jersey. In just two years as governor, Christie has moved aggressively to reduce the state's ballooning deficit, rein in lucrative
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It's Complicated - The Power of Facebook

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Short descriptionThe 'Power of Facebook' explains every aspect of this mighty internet company. The Power of Facebook is precisely taken apart and reassembled in a comprehensive journalistic fashion, with one eye always towards the future, and always facts and opinions from all sides. What exactly is happening with us on Facebook?Addressing the platform in terms of our restless controlling libido, ... Read more

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Birth of a Beat: How Kana:ta' Creates World Music

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Kana:ta', 'the village,' inclusiveness, communication, respect. This concept is the very basis of the nation of Canada, and it is this perspective which is key to global stability. Birth of a Beat explores the multi-planar approach--cultural, Afrocentric, political, womanist, cross-sectoral--which is vital to our ability to truly see one another, global citizens in pursuit of a more vibrant world. ... Read more

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Transforming Provincial Politics

The Political Economy of Canada's Provinces and Territories in the Neoliberal Era

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Over the past thirty-five years, Canada’s provinces and territories have undergone significant political changes. Abandoning mid-century Keynesian policies, governments of all political persuasions have turned to deregulation, tax reduction, and government downsizing as policy solutions for a wide range of social and economic issues. Transforming Provincial Politics is the first province-by ... Read more

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Over the past thirty-five years, Canada’s provinces and territories have undergone significant political changes. Abandoning mid-century Keynesian policies, governments of all political persuasions have turned to deregulation, tax reduction, and government downsizing as policy solutions for a wide range of social and economic issues. Transforming Provincial Politics is the first province-by
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Wallace

The Classic Portrait of Alabama Governor George Wallace

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“A sensitive, informed and funny feat of high journalism that is a classic of the kind.”—The New York Times Book ReviewWallace is a classic portrait of one of the century’s most fiery and controversial political figures. Initially conceived as a novel, Marshall Frady’s biography of George Wallace retains the narrative force and descriptive powers of fiction. Elizabeth Hardwick noted on Wallace’s ... Read more

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Losing Francis

Essays on the Wars at Home

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While Sgt. Francis D. Sommer was fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, his father stood on a street corner in Kansas City with an antiwar sign. Losing Francis: Essays on the Wars at Home reconciles that seeming contrast in a courageous dive into the personal cost of America's wars. Fusing his eloquent meditations on nature, art, and grief with the political and social backdrop of these wars, Robert F. ... Read more

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