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When his father was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, award-winning journalist Richard Lui left his national news anchor job to care for Dad--no small decision. But decisions to be selfless are rarely so dramatic. Enough About Me equips you with the practical tools to find meaning and compassion in even the smallest of everyday choices.
A brilliant probe into the political and psychological effects of our changing relationship with social media Former social media executives tell us that the system is an addiction-machine. We are users, waiting for our next hit as we like, comment and share. We write to the machine as individuals, but it responds by aggregating our fantasies, desires and frailties into data, and returning them to us as a commodity experience. The Twittering Machine is an unflinching view into the calamities of digital life: the circus of online trolling, flourishing alt-right subcultures, pervasive corporate surveillance, and the virtual data mines of Facebook and Google where we spend considerable portions...
Research Methods for Construction will help you instil rigour into your problem-solving, and into your reports and publications. It will be of value to construction, surveying, architecture and civil engineering students undertaking research, whether for bachelors and masters degree dissertations, or for masters and doctoral research degree theses. Now in its Fourth Edition, this remains one of the few books to provide guidance on research formulation, methodologies, and methods specifically for construction students. Three main sections – Producing a Proposal, Executing the Research and Reporting the Results discuss the key issues in research and examine the primary approaches, both quali...
Once the evil was known, a young man rediscovers the past, thus bringing him into the past. He has to fight his way out to return to the current period, and with the assistance of five martial artists who are his grandfather's contemporaries, he learns about the Chinese culture and spirit in each form of martial art. With the skills he learns, he is commissioned to search for the belongings of the Monkey King and to fight evil. Once he is back to the current time, he finds that the evil is not really destroyed and will be discovered again by his schoolmates. He is again to face the challenge, but this time the evil he will be fighting is even stronger. Will he be able to defeat the evil and save his friends and family?
“This book provides the first book-lengthy study focusing on Artificial Intelligence (AI) with Chinese characteristics, in line with China’s open ambition of becoming an AI superpower by 2030. China’s unique domestic politics has developed distinct characteristics for its AI approach. By analysing national strategy, security and governance aspects of AI in China, this book argues that China’s AI approach is sophisticated and multifaceted, and it has brought about both considerable benefits and challenges to China. First, many characterize China’s AI approach as a nationally concerted top-down geopolitical strategy to advance Beijing’s unified objective. This book argues that this...
Buffington's vision for a sustainable value chain of the future is already part of a larger, nationwide conversation. This work explores the historical role of supply chains in the global economy; outlines where the system went wrong and what needs to be done to fix it; and demonstrates the possibility of a revitalization of American communities.