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    Reboot

    AI and the Race to Save Democracy

    Narrated by Charles Constant ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 3 min

    A blueprint for rescuing our fragile democracy by harnessing AIDemocracy is in retreat at home and abroad. Our institutions and our politics are more broken than ever. At this delicate moment, artificial intelligence has burst onto the scene, a powerful technology that holds as much potential to bolster democracy as to harm it. But we have stopped treating democracy as a solvable problem. We have ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Smart Citizens, Smarter State

    The Technologies of Expertise and the Future of Governing

    Government “of the people, by the people, for the people” expresses an ideal that resonates in all democracies. Yet poll after poll reveals deep distrust of institutions that seem to have left “the people” out of the governing equation. Government bureaucracies that are supposed to solve critical problems on their own are a troublesome outgrowth of the professionalization of public life in the ... Read more

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  • Solving Public Problems

    A Practical Guide to Fix Our Government and Change Our World

    How to take advantage of technology, data, and the collective wisdom in our communities to design powerful solutions to contemporary problemsThe challenges societies face today, from inequality to climate change to systemic racism, cannot be solved with yesterday’s toolkit. Solving Public Problems shows how readers can take advantage of digital technology, data, and the collective wisdom of our ... Read more

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  • Wiki Government

    How Technology Can Make Government Better, Democracy Stronger, and Citizens More Powerful

    Collaborative democracy-government with the people-is a new vision of governance in the digital age. Wiki Government explains how to translate the vision into reality. Beth Simone Noveck draws on her experience in creating Peer-to-Patent, the federal government's first social networking initiative, to show how technology can connect the expertise of the many to the power of the few. In the process ... Read more

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  • The State of Play

    Law, Games, and Virtual Worlds

    Series Book 2 - Ex Machina: Law, Technology, and Society
    The State of Play presents an essential first step in understanding how new digital worlds will change the future of our universe. Millions of people around the world inhabit virtual words: multiplayer online games where characters live, love, buy, trade, cheat, steal, and have every possible kind of adventure. Far more complicated and sophisticated than early video games, people now spend ... Read more

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  • International Management Behavior

    Global and Sustainable Leadership

    This is the seventh edition of International Management Behavior, an established text for students and executives developing the knowledge, perspective and skills required for leading and managing people in global business.This guide provides a comprehensive overview of international management, structured around the core challenges and opportunities faced by global managers. This encompasses: the ... Read more

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  • Teaching 2030

    What We Must Do for Our Students and Our Public Schools--Now and in the Future

    In the raging controversy over how to fix the nation’s underperforming schools, the voices of America’s best teachers are seldom heard. Now, in a provocative book about the future of teaching and learning, 12 of America’s most accomplished classroom educators join a leading advocate for a 21st-century teaching profession to bring expert classroom know-how and fresh policy ideas to the school ... Read more

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    Public organizations matter, now more than ever. Be it hospitals providing us healthcare, schools offering us education, police officers keeping our streets safe, museums safeguarding our cultural heritage, one can provide multiple examples of how public organizations impact our daily lives. But running public organizations is complex and expectations towards these organizations have never been ... Read more

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    Written with a fresh voice and a dash of humor, Do Good Well is an exciting and readily adaptable guide to social innovation that not only captures the entrepreneurial and creative spirit of our time, but also harnesses the insights, wisdom, and down-to-earth experience of today’s most accomplished young leaders. Do Good Well offers a winning combination of theory, anecdote, and application, ... Read more

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