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Harvard Business Review Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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"A playbook for long-term value creation. Balancing the short term and the long term is a perennial struggle, but new developments put boards squarely at the center of this dilemma and in need of guidance. Much of the $14 trillion of assets that firms like Vanguard, BlackRock, and State Street manage is now held in index funds, creating a huge class of permanent institutional investors. These so-called passive investors (unlike activist investors,...
Author
Publisher
Apress
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Use this comprehensive Agile product and project management guide with real-world case studies and examples for self-learning or as a student textbook. Whether you are a CEO or a student, this book will take you from Agile delivery to team topology and product-market fit. Agile delivery is becoming a mainstream project management framework, increasing demand for an understanding of modern related concepts. Agile Product and Project Management covers...
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
An innovative and accessible guide to doing social research in the digital age. In just the past several years, we have witnessed the birth and rapid spread of social media, mobile phones, and numerous other digital marvels. In addition to changing how we live, these tools enable us to collect and process data about human behavior on a scale never before imaginable, offering entirely new approaches to core questions about social behavior. Bit by Bit...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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"A "New Yorker"staff writer and Harvard historian chronicles the discovery of Joe Gould's long-lost manuscript, "The Oral History of Our Time," and of the violence, betrayals, and madness that led to its concealment,"--NoveList.
From New Yorker staff writer and Harvard historian Jill Lepore, the dark, spellbinding tale of her restless search for the long-lost, longest book ever written, a century-old manuscript called "The oral history of our time."...
89) Do your research
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Series
Publisher
Lerner Publications Company
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
How can you find out things you don't know? What is a just-right question? What are sources? Learn the answers to these questions and more in this book about how to find, gather, and present information.
Author
Language
English
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Description
"Ditch insomnia in as little as 4 weeks with this 6-step therapeutic program for better sleep. Insomnia looks different for everyone. Whether it's caused by stress, a traumatic life event, or even a snoring partner, poor sleep can affect the quality of your waking life. But Dr. Pedram Navab wants readers to know that it's not a lost cause-falling asleep can be just as easy as waking up. With his cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT-I) program, paired...
Author
Publisher
Atria
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"The cofounder of the holistic lifestyle website DailyOM presents a gentle and accessible step-by-step guide to moving from excessive reliance on medications to fundamentally healing yourself through four pillars of natural wellness. Madisyn Taylor was plagued by depression and anxiety, suffering from chronic physical problems that left her desperate for solutions. Spending decades searching for answers, she first turned to the medical community,...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Editing invitations takes you into Jeff Anderson's sixth-grade classroom as Jeff demonstrates how he naturally links grammar instruction to writer's craft through his 'Invitations to Notice'. The invitations are a warm-up activity used at the beginning of writer's workshops to help students learn to play close attention to mechanics, style and craft. They can be used as an alternative to daily oral language for those teachers who are looking for stronger...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Jean Rouch filmed this loving and humorous portrait of anthropologist and filmmaker Margaret Mead in September 1977 while he was a guest of the first Margaret Mead Film Festival. As both a friend and colleague, Rouch reveals a glimpse of the legendary Mead in her later years. (Fellow filmmaker John Marshall was the sound recordist.)
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
©2015.
Language
English
Description
"Weinberg takes us across centuries from ancient Miletus to medieval Baghdad and Oxford, from Plato's Academy and the Museum of Alexandria to the cathedral school of Chartres and the Royal Society of London. He shows that the scientists of ancient and medieval times not only did not understand what we understand about the world--they did not understand what there is to understand, or how to understand it. Yet over the centuries, through the struggle...
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Numbers are often intimidating, confusing, and even deliberately deceptive---especially when they are really big. The media loves to report on millions, billions, and trillions, but frequently makes basic mistakes or presents such numbers in misleading ways. And misunderstanding numbers can have serious consequences, since they can deceive us in many of our most important decisions, including how to vote, what to buy, and whether to make a financial...
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Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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"A guide to mining and analyzing data from social media websites. Combines both practical exercises and conceptual lessons on topics like writing a script to tap into an API and making sense of emoji usage in collected data"--
"Lam Thuy Vo explains how to mine, process, and analyze data from the social web in meaningful ways with the Python programming language. Did fake Twitter accounts help sway a presidential election? What can Facebook and Reddit...
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