Organizing for Transgender Rights: Collective Action, Group Development, and the Rise of a New Social Movement (SUNY series in Queer Politics and Cultures)

SUNY Press, 2019

In 2013, the American Psychiatric Association (APA) updated its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (today known as DSM-5), replac ing the term “gender identity disorder” with “gender dysphoria” (Beredjick 2012). This change did not receive as much attention as the APA’s...

The Simple Truths About Leadership: Creating a People-Centric Culture

Springer, 2019

In the middle of the last decade, businesses have suffered serious harm due to the world-wide economic slowdown/great recession, geopolitical tensions and conflicts, and the very unpredictable nature of our government. In the process of staying the course, many business leaders have made a number of decisions and have taken a number...

The Great Firewall of China: How to Build and Control an Alternative Version of the Internet

Zed Books, 2019

Once little more than a glorified porn filter, China’s ‘Great Firewall’ has evolved into the most sophisticated system of online censorship in the world. Even as the Chinese internet grows and online businesses thrive, speech is controlled, dissent quashed, and any attempts to organize outside the official...

The Making of a Democratic Economy: How to Build Prosperity for the Many, Not the Few

Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2019

Our economy is designed by the 1 percent, for the 1 percent. This book offers a compelling vision of an equitable, ecologically sustainable alternative that meets the essential needs of all people.

We live in a world where twenty-six billionaires own as much wealth as half the planet's population. The extractive...

A Light in Dark Times: The New School for Social Research and Its University in Exile

Columbia University Press, 2019

The New School for Social Research opened in 1919 as an act of protest. Founded in the name of academic freedom, it quickly emerged as a pioneer in adult education?providing what its first president, Alvin Johnson, liked to call “the continuing education of the educated.” By the mid-1920s, the New School had become the place to...

Emergent Practices and Material Conditions in Learning and Teaching with Technologies

Springer, 2019

This book explores the complexities of interacting with digital technologies in the everyday flow of practices in schools, museums, and the home. In particular, the authors pay attention to the material conditions of such practices via the exploration of media discourses on information and communication technologies in the...

The Lessons of Tragedy: Statecraft and World Order

Yale University Press, 2019

An eloquent call to draw on the lessons of the past to address current threats to international order

The ancient Greeks hard?wired a tragic sensibility into their culture. By looking disaster squarely in the face, by understanding just how badly things could spiral out of control, they sought to create a...

Data Mining Using SAS Applications (Chapman & Hall/CRC Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Series)

Springer, 2002

Most books on data mining focus on principles and furnish few instructions on how to carry out a data mining project. Data Mining Using SAS Applications not only introduces the key concepts but also enables readers to understand and successfully apply data mining methods using powerful yet user-friendly SAS macro-call files. These methods...

Digital Addiction: Breaking Free from the Shackles of the Internet, TV and Social Media

Independent Publishers Group, 2017

Digital addiction is a very real threat.

Find freedom today and get addiction treatment for video game addiction, technology addiction, cell phone addiction, internet addiction, and social media addiction with this powerful book!

Do you find yourself struggling to break free from TV,...

The Basics of IT Audit: Purposes, Processes, and Practical Information (Basics (Syngress))

Syngress Publishing, 2013

The Basics of IT Audit: Purposes, Processes, and Practical Information provides you with a thorough, yet concise overview of IT auditing. Packed with specific examples, this book gives insight into the auditing process and explains regulations and standards such as the ISO-27000, series program, CoBIT, ITIL, Sarbanes-Oxley,...

Auto Repair For Dummies

For Dummies, 2008

The top-selling auto repair guide--400,000 copies sold--now extensively reorganized and updated

Forty-eight percent of U.S. households perform at least some automobile maintenance on their own, with women now accounting for one third of this $34 billion automotive do-it-yourself market. For new or would-be do-it-yourself...

S Programming (Statistics and Computing)

Springer, 2011

S is a high-level language for manipulating, analysing and displaying data. It forms the basis of two highly acclaimed and widely used data analysis software systems, the commercial S-PLUS® and the Open Source R. This book provides an in-depth guide to writing software in the S language under either or both of those systems. It...

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