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Going to Extremes: How Like Minds Unite and Divide

Oxford University Press, 2009

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?

In...

Copy, Rip, Burn: The Politics of Copyleft and Open Source

Pluto Press, 2008

From downloading music and movies to accessing free software, digital media is forcing us to rethink the very idea of intellectual property. While big companies complain about lost profits, the individual has never enjoyed such freedom and autonomy. Berry explores this debate in a concise way, offering an ideal introduction for anyone not versed...

The Dynamics of Peaceful and Violent Protests in Hong Kong: The Anti-extradition Movement

Palgrave Macmillan, 2020

This book shows that Hong Kong’s protests from June to December 2019 originated from not only an attempt to extradite a Hong Kong man involved in a Taiwan murder case, but also China’s effort at extraditing corrupt mainlanders who laundered dirty money in the territory. The mixture of peaceful and violent protests was due...

Outspoken: Free Speech Stories

University of California Press, 2003

"America's national obsession with asserting, and quelling, free-speech comes alive in this collection of profiles of First Amendment firebrands.Ê.Ê.Ê. The author goes beyond the usual polarized corners of political correctness.Ê.Ê.Ê.Êher nuanced treatment of all sides of the debate makes this a...

Organizational Knowledge: The Texture of Workplace L (Organization and Strategy)

John Wiley & Sons, 2006

This book makes an important contribution to our understanding of practice-based organizational learning and knowing.

* Based on the author's detailed study of safety practices in different corporate settings.

* The author uses this study to empirically describe how learning, knowing and organizing are...

Don't Blame the Shorts: Why Short Sellers Are Always Blamed for Market Crashes and How History Is Repeating Itself

McGraw-Hill, 2009

"Sloan's easy and informative writing makes for a thoroughly worthwhile update."--BARRON’S

"A useful corrective to the view of short selling as 'unpatriotic' or uniquely anti-social."--John Plender, Financial Times, November 16, 2009

"I liked this...

Digital Copyright and the Consumer Revolution: Hands Off My Ipod

Edward Elgar Publishing, 2007

This book documents and evaluates the growing consumer revolution against digital copyright law, and makes a unique theoretical contribution to the debate surrounding this issue. With a focus on recent US copyright law, the book charts the consumer rebellion against the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act 1998 (US) and the Digital...

Quantum Mechanics for Pedestrians 2: Applications and Extensions (Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics)

Springer, 2013

The two-volume textbook Quantum Mechanics for Pedestrians provides an introduction to the basics of nonrelativistic quantum mechanics. Originally written as a course for students of science education, the book addresses all those science students and others who are looking for a reasonably simple, fresh and modern introduction to the field....

Why Evolution Is True

Oxford University Press, 2009

For all the discussion in the media about creationism and 'Intelligent Design', virtually nothing has been said about the evidence in question - the evidence for evolution by natural selection. Yet, as this succinct and important book shows, that evidence is vast, varied, and magnificent, and drawn from many disparate fields of science. The very...

The Handbook of Human-Machine Interaction

Ashgate, 2011

"The Handbook of Human-Machine Interaction" features 20 original chapters and a conclusion focusing on human-machine interaction (HMI) from analysis, design and evaluation perspectives. It offers a comprehensive range of principles, methods, techniques and tools to provide the reader with a clear knowledge of the current academic...

A History of Corporate Governance around the World: Family Business Groups to Professional Managers

University of Chicago Press, 2007

For many Americans, capitalism is a dynamic engine of prosperity that rewards the bold, the daring, and the hardworking. But to many outside the United States, capitalism seems like an initiative that serves only to concentrate power and wealth in the hands of a few hereditary oligarchies. In A History of Corporate Governance...

Adobe Edge Preview 5: The Missing Manual

Pogue Press, 2012

It may be hard to imagine, but once upon a time, pages on the World Wide Web didn’t have pictures, let alone animations, videos, and interactive graphics. All these elements were added through trial, error, debate, and debunk. Changes came when brave souls (like you) forged ahead and made things work with the...

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