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Towards the Learning Grid (Frontiers in Artificial Lintelligence and Applications)
Towards the Learning Grid (Frontiers in Artificial Lintelligence and Applications)
This is a book about a paradigm shift in Informatics in general and in technologies enhancing human learning in particular. It is not unexpected that its content is controversial: the debate between the “evolutionaries” – those that wish to optimize and refine current approaches – and the “revolutionaries”...
Solving Tough Problems: An Open Way of Talking, Listening, and Creating New Realities
Solving Tough Problems: An Open Way of Talking, Listening, and Creating New Realities
ur most common way of solving problems-at home, at work, in our communities, in national and international affairs-is to use our expertise and authority to apply piece-by-piece, tried-and-true "best practices." This works for simple, familiar, uncontentious problems. But it doesn't work for the complex, unfamiliar, conflictual problems...
Designing from Both Sides of the Screen: How Designers and Engineers Can Collaborate to Build Cooperative Technology
Designing from Both Sides of the Screen: How Designers and Engineers Can Collaborate to Build Cooperative Technology
Designing from Both Sides of the Screen: How Designers and Engineers Can Collaborate to Build Cooperative Technology is a must-have book for anyone developing user interfaces (UI). The authors define a seemingly simple goal, the Cooperative Principle for Technology: "[T]hose who are designing, building, or managing the development of...
Love-Letters and Privacy in Modern China: The Intimate Lives of Lu Xun and Xu Guangping
Love-Letters and Privacy in Modern China: The Intimate Lives of Lu Xun and Xu Guangping
This book opens up three new topics in modern Chinese literary history: the intimate lives of Lu Xun and Xu Guangping as a couple; real and imagined love-letters in modern Chinese literature; and concepts of privacy in China. The scandalous affair between modern China's greatest writer and his former student is revealed in their letters to each...
Nice Teams Finish Last: The Secret to Unleashing Your Team's Maximum Potential
Nice Teams Finish Last: The Secret to Unleashing Your Team's Maximum Potential

Don't rock the boat. Don't make waves. Don't offend anyone. There's a palpable feeling that clouds many team meetings and keeps them from being productive: over-politeness. And while the conflict that naturally exists in most organizations hasn't gone away, it manifests itself in passive aggression, mediocrity, and a...

Information Systems: The State of the Field (John Wiley Series in Information Systems)
Information Systems: The State of the Field (John Wiley Series in Information Systems)
The information systems field has contributed greatly to the rise of the information economy and the information society. Yet, after more than a quarter-century since its formation, it still is plagued by doubts about its identity and legitimacy. Information Systems: The State of the Field contains the reflections of leading IS scholars on...
The Promise of Mediation: The Transformative Approach to Conflict
The Promise of Mediation: The Transformative Approach to Conflict
The Guide on the Transformative Mediation Process

Praise for The Promise of Mediation

"The Promise of Mediation has been the single most significant influence on the modern ADR movement. This brilliant work serves as a constant reminder that mediation is about more than settling cases. Any serious student of the mediation...

Going to Extremes: How Like Minds Unite and Divide
Going to Extremes: How Like Minds Unite and Divide
Why do people become extremists? What makes people become so dismissive of opposing views? Why is political and cultural polarization so pervasive in America? Why do groups of teenagers, investors, and corporations take unnecessary risks? What leads groups to engage in such destructive acts as terrorism and ethic cleansing?

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South Korea’s 70-Year Endeavor for Foreign Policy, National Defense, and Unification
South Korea’s 70-Year Endeavor for Foreign Policy, National Defense, and Unification
This book brings Korea's finest foreign policy minds together in contemplating the risks and rewards of finally ending the 70 year stalemate between North and South Korea through reunification. While North Korea is in conflict with the United States over denuclearization and regime security, the South Korean government is focusing on...
Land, Conflict, and Justice: A Political Theory of Territory
Land, Conflict, and Justice: A Political Theory of Territory
'Avery Kolers has written a terrific book on the idea of land and territory in political disputes. This is an incredibly important subject that has been largely ignored in political philosophy and legal theory. Kolers' book is the best writing of its kind: plausibly argued, lucidly written, and richly informed with empirical material. I learned an...
The Korean Peace Process and Civil Society: Towards Strategic Peacebuilding (Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies)
The Korean Peace Process and Civil Society: Towards Strategic Peacebuilding (Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies)
“This is a must-read book for anyone searching for insight into the peace process of the divided Korean peninsula. As a peace researcher and activist, the author highlights the role of civil society in making peacebuilding possible and sustainable on the Korean peninsula. This volume opens a new horizon to the study of...
Programming for Peace: Computer-Aided Methods for International Conflict Resolution and Prevention
Programming for Peace: Computer-Aided Methods for International Conflict Resolution and Prevention
From its beginning in the fifties of the last century, Artificial Intelligence was heavily supported by “defence agencies” in order to make “better warfare”.

But, if an AI researchers assumes that her/his discipline really can deliver results—otherwise s/he would be a dishonest researcher—then why not
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