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Diversity and Me: Early Experiences -- Encountering the Black/White Binary -- What Biracial Identity Can Teach Us -- No More Bystanders -- Unconditional Love -- Practice Being Anti-Racist -- Agency -- Belonging, Inclusivity, and Culture -- Appreciate, Don't Appropriate -- Embodiment -- Coming Out of the Shadows through Community -- Running Together -- Putting the Glass Back Together.

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Welcome to Your New Job -- Introduction: Make a Duck -- Part I: Misery in the Maze -- Chapter One: Unhappy in Paradise -- Chapter Two: The New Oligarchs -- Chapter Three: A Very Brief History of Management Science (and Why You Shouldn't Trust It) -- Chapter Four: Who's Afraid of Silicon Valley? -- Part II: Four Factors of Workplace Despair -- Chapter Five: Building the Workforce of the Future (or: Sorry, You're Old and We'd Like You to Leave) -- Chapter Six: Money: "Garbage at the Speed of Light" -- Chapter Seven: Insecurity: "We're a Team, not a Family" -- Chapter Eight: Change: "What Happens if You Live Inside a Hurricane that Never Ends?" -- Chapter Nine: Dehumanization: "Think of Yourself as a Machine Within a Machine" -- Part III: The No-Shit-Sherlock School of Management -- Chapter Ten: The Battle for the Soul of Work -- Chapter Eleven: Basecamp: Back to Basics -- Chapter Twelve: Managed by Q: "Everybody Cleans" -- Chapter Thirteen: Kapor Capital: Conscious Capitalists -- Chapter Fourteen: The Social Enterprise Movement -- Epilogue: Can Zebras Fix What Unicorns Have Broken? -- Acknowledgments -- Selected Bibliography -- Index

How did a group with its origins in a small Marxist-Leninist insurgency in northern Ethiopia transform itself into a party (the EPRDF) with eight million members and a hierarchy that links even the smallest Ethiopian village to the center? How do the legacies of protracted civil war and rebel victory over the brutal Derg regime continue to shape contemporary Ethiopian politics? And can the EPRDF, after widespread protests and a state of emergency, transform itself under new leadership to meet popular demands? Answering these questions in his comprehensive study of nearly three decades of Ethiopian politics, Terrence Lyons argues that the very structures that enabled the ruling party to overcome the challenges of a war-to-peace transition are the source of the challenges that it faces now. While the new political leadership has promised dramatic reforms, Lyons observes, the powerful authoritarian ruling party remains in place, unreconstructed.

"Examines how the ideas of Silicon Valley and its "new oligarchs" have changed work culture, making employees subject to constant change, dehumanizing technologies, and even health risks, and discusses how to restore the social contract between employers and employees."--

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Part 1: British Social Work Education in Context: Policy Change and Professional Education -- 1 British Social Work Education -- Introduction -- Setting the Scene -- Origins of Social Work Education -- The Late 1940s to 1969 -- The 1970s -- The 1980s -- Developments in the 1990s -- The Diploma in Social Work -- The Continuum of Training -- Further Change -- Concluding Comments -- 2 Social Work: New Paradigms and the Professional Debate -- Introduction -- Unification and Genericism -- Continuity and Change: The Return to Specialisms -- Task and Mandate: Care, Protection and Control -- Professional Status, Accountability and Regulation -- Concluding Summary -- 3 Higher Education: Changing Policies and Expectations -- Introduction -- Post-War Development of the Higher Education System -- Policy Change Since 1979 -- Policy Developments in the 1990s -- Accountability and Academic Freedom -- Enterprise in Higher Education -- Concluding Comments -- 4 Professional Education and Knowledge -- Introduction -- Some Characteristics and Issues of the Professions -- Education for the Professions -- Partnerships and Accountability -- On the Nature of Knowledge -- Knowledge and the Reflective Practitioner -- Assessment and Competencies -- Conclusions: Professional Education and Higher Education -- Part 2: Characteristics of Contemporary Social Work Education -- 5 Social Work in Higher Education: Rationale, Location and Scope -- Introduction -- The Rationale for Social Work in Higher Education -- The Naming and Organisational Location of Social Work -- Alliances -- Epistemological Characteristics -- The Scope and Scale of the Subject Area -- Collaborative Activities -- Summary and Concluding Comments -- 6 Curricular and Pedagogical Characteristics

Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Chapter 1 Introduction: Can Robots Die? -- Abstract -- References -- Chapter 2 Death, Humanity and Existence -- Abstract -- Fear of Death -- Transhumanism and the Conquest of Death -- Non-biological Death -- References -- Chapter 3 Machine Consciousness: Ethics and Implications -- Abstract -- Creating Consciousness -- Ethics and Essentialism -- Killer Robots -- The Frankenstein Complex: Fear of the Robot -- References -- Chapter 4 Imagining a Robot Death -- Abstract -- The Robot's Fear of Death -- Semantics of a Robot Death -- Functionalism and the Non-biological Human -- References -- Chapter 5 Conclusion: Death Beyond Biology -- Abstract -- References -- Bibliography -- Index.

This books challenges conventional notions of biological life and death in the area of robotics, discussing issues such as machine consciousness, autonomous AI, and representations of robots in popular culture. Using philosophical approaches alongside scientific theory, this book offers a compelling critique on the changing nature of both humanity and biological death in an increasingly technological world.

"Cover" -- "Title Page" -- "Author's Note" -- "Contents" -- "Prologue: Welcome to the Content Factory" -- "Chapter 1: Beached White Male" -- "Chapter 2: When the Ducks Quack" -- "Chapter 3: What's a HubSpot?" -- "Chapter 4: The Happy!! Awesome!! Start-Up Cult" -- "Chapter 5: HubSpeak" -- "Chapter 6: Our Cult Leader Has a Really Awesome Teddy Bear" -- "Chapter 7: We Need to Make the Blog a Lot More Dumberer" -- "Chapter 8: The Bozo Explosion" -- "Chapter 9: In Which I Make a Very Big Mistake" -- "Chapter 10: Life in the Boiler Room" -- "Chapter 11: OMG the Halloween Party!!!" -- "Chapter 12: The New Work: Employees as Widgets" -- "Chapter 13: The Ron Burgundy of Tech" -- "Chapter 14: Meet the New Boss" -- "Chapter 15: Grandpa Buzz" -- "Chapter 16: Ritual Humiliation as Rehabilitation" -- "Chapter 17: A Disturbance in the Farce" -- "Chapter 18: A House of Cards?" -- "Chapter 19: Go West, Old Man" -- "Chapter 20: Glassholes" -- "Chapter 21: Excuse Me, but Would You Please Get the Fuck Out of Our Company?" -- "Chapter 22: Inbound and Down" -- "Chapter 23: Escape Velocity" -- "Chapter 24: If I Only Had a HEART" -- "Chapter 25: Graduation Day" -- "Epilogue" -- "Acknowledgments

A memoir of life inside the tech bubble by a writer and co-producer for "Silicon Valley" describes how, after losing his magazine writing job, he took a position with a tech company rife with cultish millennials, absent bosses, and venture-capital amenities

A handy guide to legal wisdom past and present. To be a lawyer or a politician or a judge, one must dedicate their lives to serving the public good. For anyone considering a career in law or anyone interested in philosophy, politics, and/or government, herein you will find an entertaining and educational collection of legal wisdom from some of history's greatest thinkers. The road to justice is not always easy. It is fraught with conflict, scandal, adversity, and sleepless nights. It is a noble and necessary pursuit as society continues to progress and seek equality for all. Words from renowned lawyers, judges, authors, politicians, philosophers, and preachers make up this diverse assortment of over two hundred memorable, bite-sized quotations about justice, philosophy, crime, the life of a lawyer, landmark cases, and more! Included are such quotations as: "Let all laws by clear, uniform, and precise; to interpret laws is almost always to corrupt them." --Voltaire "If in your own judgment you cannot be an honest lawyer, resolve to be honest without being a lawyer." --President Abraham Lincoln "The first duty of society is justice." --Alexander Hamilton "A system of justice is the richer for diversity of background and experience." --U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

In the next twenty years the world economy will enjoy one of its strongest periods of growth. Greater innovation and technical change will increase opportunities. Life expectancy, income and educational standards will rise. The West's share in the global economic cake may get smaller, but there will be more cake than ever before. These are the predictions of Gerard Lyons, a leading international economist who spent nearly thirty years working in the City. He is now the chief economic adviser to the Mayor of London. Over the last quarter-century he has been ahead of the game in predicting the major economic trends that we now take as a given. The Consolations of Economics is a lucid and accessible expert's attempt to look objectively at the changing global economy - what is happening and what it means. He shows how we can embrace change, rather than hide from it. The results are fascinating, refreshing - and unusually cheering.--