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Network Nation: Human Communication via Computer
"... In 1978, some of my current graduate students were born, and like more than 99 % of the world’s population, I had never used a computer to communicate with another person. That year, Murray Turoff, a computer scientist at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, and Starr Roxanne Hiltz, a sociologist ..."
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sociologist then at Upsala College, published a visionary book on communicating through computers. A few years later, their book, Network Nation: Human Communication via Computer, would help set my research and life off in a new direction. My dog-eared copy of the book has disappeared from my office, and I
PUB TYPE Books (010)-- Guides Non-Classroom (055)
"... This guide presents a description of the standards and related skills school leaders must master and apply. Since every school leader needs a well-defined philosophy to make decisions, the guide emphasizes philosophical, performance, and ethical dimensions of school leadership. The book's 10 ch ..."
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This guide presents a description of the standards and related skills school leaders must master and apply. Since every school leader needs a well-defined philosophy to make decisions, the guide emphasizes philosophical, performance, and ethical dimensions of school leadership. The book's 10
Published in the book “Psychedelic Medicine (Vol. 2): New Evidence for Hallucinogic Substances as
"... Ayahuasca is a mixture of a least two psychoactive South American plants: the liana ayahuasca (Banisteriopsis caapi) which gives its name to the beverage; and the leaves of chacruna (Psychotria viridis). The ayahuasca beverage constitutes a unique preparation because of its pharmacological action in ..."
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in which the beta-carboline alkaloids of Banisteriopsis caapi, playing the role of MAO inhibitors, enable the visionary effects of the tryptamine alkaloids found in Psychotria viridis. This specific symbiotic action, which modern science identified just a few decades ago, has been empirically known
REVIEWS OF BOOKS Building the Canadian West: The Land and Colonization Policies of
"... land and colonization activities of railroads in Minnesota and the American Northwest. These have matchlessly prepared him to describe similar work of the Canadian Pacific Railway in Building the Cana-dian West. His familiarity with American railroad settlement serves him doubly in this volume, for ..."
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, or visionary, the railroad founded and sustained a frontier civilization. Through its varying fortunes. Pro-fessor Hedges, attentive to both detail and sweep, recounts the Cana-dian Pacific's contributions to the quickening of Canadian life. To his larger assignment of integrating the American
Book Review From Ageism to the Longevity revoLution: robert butLer, Pioneer
"... visionary pioneer in gerontology whose career is so engagingly recounted in this biography by Andrew Achenbaum, concern a swimming pool where he was playfully splashing away at graduate students. It was on a scorching June afternoon in 1966. Bernice Neugarten had invited him to give a workshop at th ..."
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visionary pioneer in gerontology whose career is so engagingly recounted in this biography by Andrew Achenbaum, concern a swimming pool where he was playfully splashing away at graduate students. It was on a scorching June afternoon in 1966. Bernice Neugarten had invited him to give a workshop
The Ego Tunnel: The Science of Mind and the Myth of the Self
"... In The Ego Tunnel, Thomas Metzinger offers us an original and informed overview of the science and philosophy of consciousness. In contrast to his earlier books, Metzinger’s discussion is aimed at not professional philosophers or scientists, but rather the wider public. The book’s most distinctive c ..."
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In The Ego Tunnel, Thomas Metzinger offers us an original and informed overview of the science and philosophy of consciousness. In contrast to his earlier books, Metzinger’s discussion is aimed at not professional philosophers or scientists, but rather the wider public. The book’s most distinctive
sensibilities, Philippe Rosinski’s Coaching Across Cultures will serve personal
"... is an outstanding book that explains how to develop the new breed of leadership necessary to achieve sustainable high performance in today’s global and multicultural environment. This visionary piece of work is both profound and practical. It will show you how to leverage human potential and its ric ..."
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is an outstanding book that explains how to develop the new breed of leadership necessary to achieve sustainable high performance in today’s global and multicultural environment. This visionary piece of work is both profound and practical. It will show you how to leverage human potential and its
Obituary Lawrence B. Slobodkin (1928–2009): Integrating Theory, Models, and Experiments in Ecology
"... the development of the modern science of ecology, passed away on September 12, 2009, at age 81. His innovative thinking and research, provocative teaching, and visionary leadership helped transform ecology into a modern science, with deep links to evolution. A child of the Bronx, New York City, Slob ..."
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the development of the modern science of ecology, passed away on September 12, 2009, at age 81. His innovative thinking and research, provocative teaching, and visionary leadership helped transform ecology into a modern science, with deep links to evolution. A child of the Bronx, New York City
R E D IT M U S E U M S L A N D S C H A F T
"... he Leviathan is a recurrent metaphor for portraying governments as clumsy and pervasive entities that hinder the initiative of business enterprise. The Entrepreneurial State by Mariana Mazzucato begs to differ and exposes the ideological foundations and perils of a rhetoric that, it is claimed, conv ..."
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, conveniently ne-glects instances in which the State has had a key role in shaping visionary undertak-ings and implementing strategic plans. At a time when innovation is expected to solve current economic woes, this book is a wel-come opportunity to take stock of what can be expected from the main characters.
In the Papers and Proceedings of the Forty- eighth Meeting of the American Economic As-
"... proposed a research program that proved vision-ary: “The nature and extent of barriers to free entry needs thorough study. ” Fifteen years later, Joe S. Bain published a book that was the first thorough study of entry barriers. In this book, Bain (1956) defined an entry barrier as anything that allo ..."
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proposed a research program that proved vision-ary: “The nature and extent of barriers to free entry needs thorough study. ” Fifteen years later, Joe S. Bain published a book that was the first thorough study of entry barriers. In this book, Bain (1956) defined an entry barrier as anything
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