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Amateur hour has arrived, and the audience is running the show In a hard-hitting and provocative polemic, Silicon Valley insider and pundit Andrew Keen exposes the grave consequences of today’s new participatory Web 2.0 and reveals how it threatens our values, economy, and ultimately the very innovation and creativity that forms the fabric of American achievement. Our most valued cultural institutions, Keen warns—our professional newspapers, magazines, music, and movies—are being overtaken by an avalanche of amateur, user-generated free content. Advertising revenue is being siphoned off by free classified ads on sites like Craigslist; television networks are under attack from free user...
Internet entrepreneur Andrew Keen was among the earliest to write about the dangers that the Internet poses to our culture and society. His 2007 book The Cult of the Amateur was critical in helping advance the conversation around the Internet, which has now morphed from a tool providing efficiencies and opportunities for consumers and business to a force that is profoundly reshaping our societies and our world. In his new book, How to Fix the Future, Keen focuses on what we can do about this seemingly intractable situation. Looking to the past to learn how we might change our future, he describes how societies tamed the excesses of the Industrial Revolution, which, like its digital counterpa...
"Gurindji Journey tells of Hokari's experience living with the Gurindji people of Daguragu and Kalkaringi in the Northern Territory of Australia, absorbing their way of life, and beginning to understand Aboriginal modes of seeing and being. This compelling book, published in English posthumously, seven years after the author's death, is a personal, philosophical, lyrical record of his journey into indigenous Australian culture."--Back cover
The international tax system is in dire need of reform. It allows multinational companies to shift profits to low tax jurisdictions and thus reduce their global effective tax rates. A major international project, launched in 2013, aimed to fix the system, but failed to seriously analyse the fundamental aims and rationales for the taxation of multinationals' profit, and in particular where profit should be taxed. As this project nears its completion, it is becomingincreasingly clear that the fundamental structural weaknesses in the system will remain. This book, produced by a group of economists and lawyers, adopts a different approach and starts from first principles in order to generate an ...
Par son étude détaillée des difficultés - en particulier celles traitées trop sommairement ailleurs - cet ouvrage offre un complément utile aux grammaires traditionnelles. Parmi ses caractéristiques, citons : - une comparaison de chaque élément étudié avec toutes les alternatives possibles; - de nombreux exemples commentés et souvent traduits; - une indication systématique de la fréquence et du registre (formel, informel) des formes proposées; - une étude des divergences entre l'anglais et le français (un index spécial en facilite l'accès); - outre la partie "structurelle", purement grammaticale, une part de l'ouvrage traite en profondeur des principales fonctions langagières.
Dictionarium scoto-celticum a dictionary of the Gaelic language comprising an ample vocabulary of Gaelic words with their signification and various meanings in English and Latin and vocabularies of Latin and English words with their translation in 1