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  • Retirement is Just Another Name for 'Giving Up'

    by John McHale ...
    Retirement needn't be the time of your life when you more or less 'throw the towel in'. It can be a time when you put into action a lot of plans that were there waiting in the wings for you to action. Here are a few ideas on how to really shine in your retirement years. ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • From the Scrapheap to top of the Heap

    by John McHale ...
    The story of how a man finds himself on the scrapheap of life and then decides to improve his life.Taking , first of all, the long journey through re-educating himself and gaining his first job in his new career.Then, 20 years of working for companies across the land to finally land himself a role that puts him amongst the top earners in the country. ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Policy Analysis in Ireland

    by Brendan K O’Rourke, John Mchale, Jason Harold, Eoin Cullina, Clodagh Harris, Pauline Cullen, Diarmuid Scully, Maura Adshead, Orla O'Connor, Chris Mcinerney, Joanna O'Riordan, Bernadette Connaughton, Aodh Quinlivan, Frances Ruane, Muiris MacCarthaigh, Fiona Dukelow, Clare O’Mahony ...
    Series series International Library of Policy Analysis
    Leading Irish academics and policy practitioners present a current and comprehensive study of policy analysis in Ireland.Contributors examine policy analysis at different levels of government and governance including international, national and local and in the civil service, as well as non-government actors such as NGOs, interest groups and think tanks. They investigate the influential roles of ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • The Changing Information Environment

    by John McHale ...
    A revolution has occurred during our lifetime in the collection, storage, and communication of information, a revolution whose full significance is scarcely understood even by those responsible for its development. At the core of this revolution, and its most visible component, is electronic data processing via the computer. The computer has shown an impressive ability to handle increasing ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

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    Technology, Automation, and How We Should Respond

    by Daniel Susskind ...
    A World Without Work: A Visionary Account of How AI Will Transform the World of WorkFrom mechanical looms to computers, new technologies have always provoked panic about workers being replaced by machines. For centuries, such fears have been misplaced, but as Daniel Susskind demonstrates in A World Without Work, this time is different. Breakthroughs in artificial intelligence mean that all kinds ... Read more

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  • The Real World of Technology

    by Ursula Franklin ...
    Series series The CBC Massey Lectures
    In this expanded edition of her bestselling 1989 CBC Massey Lectures, renowned scientist and humanitarian Ursula M. Franklin examines the impact of technology upon our lives and addresses the extraordinary changes since The Real World of Technology was first published. In four new chapters, Franklin tackles contentious issues, such as the dilution of privacy and intellectual property rights, the ... Read more

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  • Entering the Shift Age

    The End of the Information Age and the New Era of Transformation

    by David Houle ...
    Praise for David Houle"Houle breaks down big ideas into easily digestible, entertaining small bites…Crack this book open whenever globalization's gotten you down."—Slate.com."The Shift Age lifts us out of the rapids of techno-change and helps us see the course of the river we've been rafting on."-Howard Bloom, author of the GOD PROBLEM and GLOBAL BRAIN"[The Shift Age] is must read for anyone who ... Read more

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  • Big Mind

    How Collective Intelligence Can Change Our World

    by Geoff Mulgan ...
    A new field of collective intelligence has emerged in the last few years, prompted by a wave of digital technologies that make it possible for organizations and societies to think at large scale. This “bigger mind”—human and machine capabilities working together—has the potential to solve the great challenges of our time. So why do smart technologies not automatically lead to smart results? ... Read more

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  • Design for a Better World

    Meaningful, Sustainable, Humanity Centered

    by Donald A. Norman ...
    How human behavior brought our world to the brink, and how human behavior can save us.The world is a mess. Our dire predicament, from collapsing social structures to the climate crisis, has been millennia in the making and can be traced back to the erroneous belief that the earth’s resources are infinite. The key to change, says Don Norman, is human behavior, covered in the book’s three major ... Read more

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  • Pressed for Time

    The Acceleration of Life in Digital Capitalism

    by Judy Wajcman ...
    "A splendid new book. . . . Takes on—and mostly demolishes—the conventional narrative about the acceleration of life in a digital world." ― ObserverMost of us complain that there aren't enough hours in the day and too many e-mails in our thumb-accessible inboxes. This widespread perception that life is faster than it used to be is now ingrained in our culture, and smartphones and the Internet are ... Read more

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  • In the Bubble

    Designing in a Complex World

    by John Thackara ...
    How to design a world in which we rely less on stuff, and more on people.We're filling up the world with technology and devices, but we've lost sight of an important question: What is this stuff for? What value does it add to our lives? So asks author John Thackara in his new book, In the Bubble: Designing for a Complex World. These are tough questions for the pushers of technology to answer. Our ... Read more

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  • Ethics, Technology, and Engineering

    An Introduction

    by Ibo van de Poel, Lamber Royakkers ...
    Featuring a wide range of international case studies, Ethics, Technology, and Engineering presents a unique and systematic approach for engineering students to deal with the ethical issues that are increasingly inherent in engineering practice.Utilizes a systematic approach to ethical case analysis -- the ethical cycle -- which features a wide range of real-life international case studies ... Read more

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