[PDF] Too Big To Know eBook

Author : David Weinberger
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 31,75 MB
Release : 2014-01-07
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0465038727

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"If anyone knows anything about the web, where it's been and where it's going, it's David Weinberger. . . . Too Big To Know is an optimistic, if not somewhat cautionary tale, of the information explosion." -- Steven Rosenbaum, Forbes With the advent of the Internet and the limitless information it contains, we're less sure about what we know, who knows what, or even what it means to know at all. And yet, human knowledge has recently grown in previously unimaginable ways and in inconceivable directions. In Too Big to Know, David Weinberger explains that, rather than a systemic collapse, the Internet era represents a fundamental change in the methods we have for understanding the world around us. With examples from history, politics, business, philosophy, and science, Too Big to Know describes how the very foundations of knowledge have been overturned, and what this revolution means for our future.

Author : David Weinberger
Publisher :
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 10,71 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0465021425

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Internet philosopher Weinberger shows how business, science, education, and the government are learning to use networked knowledge to understand more than ever and to make smarter decisions than they could when they had to rely on mere books and experts.

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Publisher : AAPC Publishing
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 38,90 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781931282925

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Presents ways for young children with anxiety to recognize when they are losing control and constructive ways to deal with it.

Author : Claire Masurel
Publisher : Chronicle Books (CA)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 29,56 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Children's stories
ISBN : 9780811820905

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When Charlie wins at the carnival, he chooses the biggest prize of all-a blue dinosaur. But soon Charlie discovers that Big Tex is too big to go to the park, so he must take Bunny instead. It seems Big Tex is too big to go anywhere! That is until Charlie gets sick and must go to the doctor. All of his small stuffed animals hide. But not Big Tex who is just the right size. This sweet story will appeal to any child who has ever felt too small. Ages 2-6.

Author : Brandon L. Garrett
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 35,66 MB
Release : 2014-11-03
Category : Law
ISBN : 0674744616

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American courts routinely hand down harsh sentences to individual convicts, but a very different standard of justice applies to corporations. Too Big to Jail takes readers into a complex, compromised world of backroom deals, for an unprecedented look at what happens when criminal charges are brought against a major company in the United States. Federal prosecutors benefit from expansive statutes that allow an entire firm to be held liable for a crime by a single employee. But when prosecutors target the Goliaths of the corporate world, they find themselves at a huge disadvantage. The government that bailed out corporations considered too economically important to fail also negotiates settlements permitting giant firms to avoid the consequences of criminal convictions. Presenting detailed data from more than a decade of federal cases, Brandon Garrett reveals a pattern of negotiation and settlement in which prosecutors demand admissions of wrongdoing, impose penalties, and require structural reforms. However, those reforms are usually vaguely defined. Many companies pay no criminal fine, and even the biggest blockbuster payments are often greatly reduced. While companies must cooperate in the investigations, high-level employees tend to get off scot-free. The practical reality is that when prosecutors face Hydra-headed corporate defendants prepared to spend hundreds of millions on lawyers, such agreements may be the only way to get any result at all. Too Big to Jail describes concrete ways to improve corporate law enforcement by insisting on more stringent prosecution agreements, ongoing judicial review, and greater transparency.

Author : Kari Dunn Buron
Publisher : AAPC Publishing
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 34,51 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781931282512

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Presents ways for young children with autism spectrum disorders to recognize when they are losing control and constructive ways to deal with it.

Author : Barry B. LePatner
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 42,60 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0984497803

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A comprehensive overview of the shocking state of our nation's infrastructure and what must be done to fix it

Author : Caylin Louis Moore
Publisher : Thomas Nelson
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 22,9 MB
Release : 2019-06-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1400209927

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In this inspiring and provocative memoir about a young black man, Caylin Moore tells the against-all-odds story of his rise from racial injustice and cruel poverty in gang-ridden Los Angeles to academic success at the University of Oxford, with hope as his compass. A Dream to Big is for readers who want to … enjoy a compelling, true, hard-to-believe inspirational story; thoughtfully embrace a long-overdue conversation about equality and justice in America; and be inspired and find hope from a firsthand account of redemption through even the most painful life experiences. When Caylin Louis Moore was a young child, his mother gathered her three young children and fled an abusive marriage, landing in poverty in a heavily policed, gang-ridden community. When Moore’s mother suffered from health complications and a devastating experience in the hospital and his father was sentenced to life imprisonment, Moore was forced to enter adulthood prematurely. His hope was fueled by embracing his mother's steely faith in a brighter future. Moore skirted the gangs, the police, and the violence endemic to Compton to excel as a student and athlete, eventually reaching the pinnacles of academic achievement as a Rhodes Scholar. Moore's eye-opening, against-all-odds story reveals that there is no such thing as a dream too big.

Author : Raymond Kawamata
Publisher :
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 26,50 MB
Release : 2021-03-09
Category :
ISBN : 9781736525302

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In this must-read, the dirty secret of the American legal system is exposed. Courtrooms are battlegrounds of attrition where justice yields to the financial strength of the respective parties. And the little guy doesn't stand a chance.

Author : Florian Dombois
Publisher : Scheidegger and Spiess
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,38 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Proportion
ISBN : 9783858817938

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The twenty-first century has been marked by our almost boundless ability to imagine things at a larger, or smaller, size; at a faster speed; capable of solving complex problems using less energy. Our imagination on the topic of scale has driven technological progress, but it has also long inspired the creation of art. With the onset of industrialization in the nineteenth century, experimentation with scale across almost all disciplines accelerated to an entirely different dimension. The result of a 2015 symposium at Zurich University of the Arts, Too Big to Scale brings together essays by a diverse interdisciplinary group of artists, designers, engineers, and scholars who explore the significance of scale within their respective disciplines. The contributions take as their point of departure the camera, which combines three pathways for scaling--film speed, lens size and speed, and frame rates for fast and slow motion. The possibility of copying images adds a fourth variable, replication. The camera, as the contributors show, does not merely depict our world but can also be seen as actively producing our thoughts and imagination.