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An Account of the Descendants of Thomas Orton of Windsor, Connecticut, 1641
Thomas Orton (b.1613) emigrated from England to Massachusetts about 1636, and married Margaret Pratt in 1641. They moved to Farmington, Connecticut in 1655, where he died after 1688. Descendants and relatives lived in Connecticut, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio and elsewhere.
Social Responsibility in the Information Age
"Information technology is analyzed in terms of who is affected and what impact those changes have on society in this examination of the social challenges of the modern era. The effects of information resource management, information technology, and information systems are discussed in contexts such as business, government, and human relationships. Policies on e-commerce taxation, Internet privacy, and software piracy are covered."
Sharing Network Leadership
In this book, we elaborate on the dynamic process of leadership sharing in creative project networks by pointing out that the boundaries and relationships of the networks change over time. As the project requirements evolve, new leaders emerge, make their contribution, and move into support positions. This leadership sharing dynamic is a necessary condition for mature LMX and member-member exchange (MMX). This insight about the sharing of leadership within networks directs us to the process of microbehavior being transformed to meso-options and being converted to macrostrategies. This sequence of micro to macro directs us to a marriage of the formal with the informal organization. At this st...
The Tender Soldier
A “sharp-eyed look at the complexities of war” (Parade), that explores the inner workings of the Human Terrain System, a Pentagon program that sends civilian social scientists into war zones to help soldiers understand local culture. On the day Barack Obama was elected president in November 2008, a small group of American civilians took their optimism and experience to a village west of Kandahar, Afghanistan. They were part of the Pentagon’s controversial attempt to bring social science to the battlefield, driven by the notion that you can’t win a war if you don’t understand the enemy and his culture. The field team in Afghanistan that day included an intrepid Texas blonde, a forme...
Ethical Issues of Information Systems
Understanding, appreciating and taking corrective steps to maintain and enhance social and ethical responsibility in the information age is important not only because of our increased dependence on information and communication technologies, but also because information and communication technologies pose complex challenges. Ethical Issues of Information Systems strives to address these pertinent issues. This scholarly and academic book provides insight on many topics of debate and discussion in the field and lends the most recent research in the field of IT ethics and social responsibility.
Project on National Security Reform
The Project on National Security Reform submitted its 2-year study of the national security system, Forging a New Shield, to the President, President-elect, and Congress on November 26, 2008. Before the Project finalized the report's recommendations, its Vision Working Group tested the findings against a diverse set of scenarios to determine if the recommendations were robust and effective. This volume documents the scenario-testing process used by the Vision Working Group and includes the actual pre-reform and post-reform scenarios and details many other scenario techniques used in the overall study. Results revealed that each of the five major findings improved the performance of the curre...
