Human Culture

Resilient Black Girl is a must-listen in young-adult nonfiction books for Black girls. As a social justice book for teens and a book about racism, it provides Black teen girls a better understanding of the effects of racism and equips them with skills for navigating spaces in their daily lives.

Most of our everyday life experiences are multisensory in nature. In recent years, many of these experiences have been increasingly transformed, and capitalized on through advancements that adapt the world around us, and to suit our ever-more computerized environment. Multisensory Experiences is a comprehensive introduction that takes the listener from the fundamentals of multisensory experiences and design, through the relationship between the senses and technology, to finally what the future of those experiences may look like, and our responsibility in it.

People are what make companies great. Good leaders know this and spend time, effort, and money taking care of the people who work for them so that their business results are phenomenal. So, why is it that so many people are still miserable at work? Experts around the world offer countless ideas and techniques and training for elevating the joy (and performance) of workers. And still, we fail. Things must change.

Ты когда-нибудь задумывался, почему в The Sims отношения строятся проще, чем в реальной жизни? Или почему враги в Dark Souls иногда кажутся менее пугающими, чем твои собственные страхи? А может, ты просто устал от того, что боссы "Сомнение в себе" и "Общественное мнение" не дают тебе пройти дальше первого уровня? Эта книга – твоя карта к тайным сокровищам счастья, здоровья и благополучия. Словно жизнь наконец-то выпустила руководство с чит-кодами:. • как превратить рутинные задачи в увлекательные квесты;. • как применять баффы для повышения своей устойчивости к стрессам;.

The perils of a disengaged workforce are well known - low productivity, high employee turnover, and failure to meet organization-wide goals. Less well known is what to do about it. How do you create a workforce that is always ready, able, and eager to take the organization to the next level? You have to create a magnetic culture. As CEO of leading employee survey and HR consulting firm HR Solutions, Inc., Kevin Sheridan knows how it's done - and in Building a Magnetic Culture, he shares all his secrets.

Zombies to Zealots is a personal rescue kit and clarion call for us all to wake up and call our spirits back into our work. Ask yourself if now is time to reawaken, remember, reconnect, or rehumanize your organization, and get ready to dust off your gifts, face the light, and emerge from the shadows to manifest the right path for your most brilliant contributions.

There is an unspoken understanding among academics that in the releasing of a new book, an author is expected both to acknowledge the sources of inspiration and support which went into making up this new block of work and, also, to present an introduction to the work, especially when it is a collection of essays. I have decided to do both at once, recognizing that the introducing of my latest collection of essays necessitates an acknowledgment of those sources, personal and institutional, which facilitated the effort. As my memory seems to work best by recollecting recent events and by ...

Joan Didion told us, “We tell ourselves stories in order to live.” And yet, the story of stories has never been told until now. MIT technology pioneer Kevin Ashton was at the forefront of the digital revolution that led to the invention of the smartphone, the ultimate storytelling device. This latest technology in the long arc of human storytelling allows anyone, for the first time in history, to tell stories to everyone. In The Story of Stories, Ashton tells the untold story of storytelling.

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The slippery online ecosystem is the perfect breeding ground for identities: true, false, and in between. The Internet shorthand IRL - "in real life" - now seems naïve. We no longer question the reality of online experiences but the reality of selfhood in the digital age. In The Secret Life, the essayist and novelist Andrew O'Hagan issues three bulletins from the porous border between cyberspace and IRL.

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Gloria Steinem was no stranger to injustice even from a young age. Her mother, Ruth, having suffered a nervous breakdown at only 34, spent much of Gloria's childhood in and out of mental-health facilities. And when Gloria was only 10 years old, her father divorced her mother and left for California, unable to bear the stress of caring for Ruth any longer.

God made both day and night for a reason. If we focus on only the light, we miss half the gospel. And to fully understand the light, we need to fully understand, confront, and—at times—embrace the darkness. The Dark Side of the Gospel: Looking into the Darkness to See the Light traces the “dark side” of the Gospel from its emergence in Genesis to its extinction in Revelation, in its various literal and metaphorical shades—just like it’s presented in the Holy Scriptures.

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Maja Lundes leidenschaftlicher, persönlicher Aufruf zu einem kritischeren Umgang mit digitalen Medien, besonders bei Kindern und Jugendlichen. Norwegen war Vorreiter bei der Digitalisierung. Schon ab der 1. Klasse wurden an Schulen Handys eingesetzt. Doch erste Langzeitstudien stellen die Technologie und ihre Folgen für die kindliche Entwicklung und das psychische Wohlbefinden insgesamt infrage. Was können wir von Norwegen lernen?Maja Lunde, Bestsellerautorin, Medienwissenschaftlerin und Mutter von drei Kindern, beschäftigt sich seit Jahren mit dem Thema, wissenschaftlich und persönlich.

"Intelligent Designer: Evolution for Politicians" is a book that brings badly needed help for a nation in desperate need of science literacy in high places. The litmus test for scientific literacy in public office is provided by the word "evolution," which rarely, if ever, fails to reveal an elected official's understanding of the way science operates, our evidence for what the Earth is really like, and even the meaning of the word "theory." If your elected official has a Kindle, this book will prevent him or her from appearing completely ignorant on issues ranging from science education to...

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