Alex: 4765 books
Mass Starvation
The History and Future of Famine
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2017
The world almost conquered famine. Until the 1980s, this scourge killed ten million people every decade, but by early 2000s mass starvation had all but disappeared. Today, famines are resurgent, driven by war, blockade, hostility to humanitarian principles and a volatile global economy.
In...
Dogs and Demons
Tales From the Dark Side of Modern Japan
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2002
The crises--and failures--of modernization in Japan, as seen up close by a resident expert
Japan is a nation in crisis, and the crisis goes far beyond its well-known economic plight. In Dogs and Demons, Alex Kerr chronicles the crisis on a broad scale, from the failure of Japan's banks and...
Science Left Behind
Feel-Good Fallacies and the Rise of the Anti-Scientific Left
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2012
To listen to most pundits and political writers, evolution, stem cells, and climate change are the only scientific issues worth mentioning-and the only people who are anti-science are conservatives. Yet those on the left have numerous fallacies of their own. Aversion to clean energy programs, basic...
by Alex Burrett
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2016
In developed countries, social cohesion has been sacrificed on the altar of individual gratification. Individuals wanted more and better. Inventors and entrepreneurs rallied to serve our desires. We progressed – pulled along by our hunger for improvement. This strategy worked well for centuries....
Cultural Evolution
How Darwinian Theory Can Explain Human Culture and Synthesize the Social Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2011
Charles Darwin changed the course of scientific thinking by showing how evolution accounts for the stunning diversity and biological complexity of life on earth. Recently, there has also been increased interest in the social sciences in how Darwinian theory can explain human culture.
Covering...
by Alex Bennet, David Bennet
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2004
In this book David and Alex Bennet propose a new model for organizations that enables them to react more quickly and fluidly to today's fast-changing, dynamic business environment: the Intelligent Complex Adaptive System (ICAS). ICAS is a new organic model of the firm based on recent research in complexity...
Noise
Living and Trading in Electronic Finance
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
We often think of finance as a glamorous world, a place where investment bankers amass huge profits in gleaming downtown skyscrapers. There’s another side to finance, though—the millions of amateurs who log on to their computers every day to make their own trades. The shocking truth, however,...
by Alex J. Bellamy
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2013
At the 2005 UN World Summit, world leaders endorsed the international principle of Responsibility to Protect (R2P), acknowledging that they had a responsibility to protect their citizens from genocide and mass atrocities and pledging to act in cases where governments manifestly failed in their responsibility....
by Alex Nkenchor Uwajeh
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2017
Please note: ***This is a Beginner's Basic Guide to Robotics, Artificial Intelligence and Automation***
Technology has advanced significantly since inception, allowing developers and researchers to integrate AI programming and robotics into things you probably already use in your daily life.
Our...
Modern Monopolies
What It Takes to Dominate the 21st Century Economy
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
What do Google, Snapchat, Tinder, Amazon, and Uber have in common, besides soaring market share? They're platforms - a new business model that has quietly become the only game in town, creating vast fortunes for its founders while dominating everyone's daily life. A platform, by definition, creates...
The Planning Game
An Information Economics Approach to Understanding Urban and Environmental Management
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012
Trading information is an essential aspect of the negotiations that underpin planning practice across the globe. In this book, Alex Lord uses information economics to outline a way of thinking about these negotiations that places the strategies that actors in the planning game use at the heart of...
by Alex Andrews
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2015
Some people seem to have been born with the “gift of the gab.” They find it wonderfully easy to initiate any kind of conversation and keep it flowing for a long time. People are willing to listen to them. They believe in them. Often times, they are even ready to do what they want without initiating...
Social Physics
How Social Networks Can Make Us Smarter
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
From one of the world’s leading data scientists, a landmark tour of the new science of idea flow, offering revolutionary insights into the mysteries of collective intelligence and social influence
If the Big Data revolution has a presiding genius, it is MIT’s Alex “Sandy” Pentland....
Cocaine Highway
The lines that link our drug habit to terror
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2014
“The only reason I can write about any of this - how cocaine smuggling is ruining an area of Africa the size of Western Europe – is because I have agreed to identify almost no one who spoke to me.” In Cocaine Highway, Alex Perry lifts the lid on a problem few are willing to talk about: direct connections...