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  • Ethics for Engineers

    Toward Ethical Behavior within Engineering Organizations

    by Seppo J. Ovaska, Andrew T. Brei ...
    Series series What Every Engineer Should Know
    Ethics for Engineers: Toward Ethical Behavior within Engineering Organizations offers a multilevel perspective on engineering ethics with considerable breadth and depth, making it a valuable resource for students, educators, and professionals alike.This pragmatic book contains case studies of micro-level ethical violations, evaluating their moral implications and discussing moral self-licensing ... Read more

    $104.99 CAD

  • Real-Time Systems Design and Analysis

    Tools for the Practitioner

    by Phillip A. Laplante, Seppo J. Ovaska ...
    The leading text in the field explains step by step how to write software that responds in real timeFrom power plants to medicine to avionics, the world increasingly depends on computer systems that can compute and respond to various excitations in real time. The Fourth Edition of Real-Time Systems Design and Analysis gives software designers the knowledge and the tools needed to create real-time ... Read more

    $181.99 CAD

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    The Folly of Technological Solutionism

    by Evgeny Morozov ...
    A New York Times Notable Book of the YearIn the very near future, "smart" technologies and "big data" will allow us to make large-scale and sophisticated interventions in politics, culture, and everyday life. Technology will allow us to solve problems in highly original ways and create new incentives to get more people to do the right thing. But how will such "solutionism" affect our society, once ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Managers Not MBAs

    A Hard Look at the Soft Practice of Managing and Management Development

    by Henry Mintzberg ...
    In this sweeping critique of how managers are educated and how, as a consequence, management is practiced, Henry Mintzberg offers thoughtful and controversial ideas for reforming both.“The MBA trains the wrong people in the wrong ways with the wrong consequences,” Mintzberg writes. “Using the classroom to help develop people already practicing management is a fine idea, but pretending to create ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • The Future of the Professions

    How Technology Will Transform the Work of Human Experts, Updated Edition

    by Richard Susskind, Daniel Susskind ...
    This book predicts the decline of today's professions and introduces the people and systems that will replace them. In an internet-enhanced society, according to Richard Susskind and Daniel Susskind, we will neither need nor want doctors, teachers, accountants, architects, the clergy, consultants, lawyers, and many others, to work as they did in the 20th century. The Future of the Professions ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Is Technology Good for Education?

    by Neil Selwyn ...
    Series series Digital Futures
    Digital technologies are a key feature of contemporary education. Schools, colleges and universities operate along high-tech lines, while alternate forms of online education have emerged to challenge the dominance of traditional institutions. According to many experts, the rapid digitization of education over the past ten years has undoubtedly been a ‘good thing’.Is Technology Good For Education? ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Big Mind

    How Collective Intelligence Can Change Our World

    by Geoff Mulgan ...
    A new field of collective intelligence has emerged in the last few years, prompted by a wave of digital technologies that make it possible for organizations and societies to think at large scale. This “bigger mind”—human and machine capabilities working together—has the potential to solve the great challenges of our time. So why do smart technologies not automatically lead to smart results? ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

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  • Guardrails

    Guiding Human Decisions in the Age of AI

    by Urs Gasser, Viktor Mayer-Schönberger ...
    How society can shape individual actions in times of uncertaintyWhen we make decisions, our thinking is informed by societal norms, “guardrails” that guide our decisions, like the laws and rules that govern us. But what are good guardrails in today’s world of overwhelming information flows and increasingly powerful technologies, such as artificial intelligence? Based on the latest insights from ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Ethics, Technology, and Engineering

    An Introduction

    by Ibo van de Poel, Lamber Royakkers ...
    Explore the moral and ethical issues which arise at the intersection of novel technology and engineeringIn Ethics, Technology, and Engineering: An Introduction, a team of distinguished researchers delivers an insightful and thought-provoking exploration of some of the toughest ethical questions found at the crossroads of engineering and technology. The book demonstrates the skills necessary to ... Read more

    $48.99 CAD

  • Get Better at Flatter

    A Guide to Shaping and Leading Organizations with Less Hierarchy

    by Markus Reitzig ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    When should organizations think about adopting a flat structure? And what does it take to make it work? Is it even the silver bullet that we’ve been told it is? Often we have heard about how businesses should organize in non-traditional ways to succeed in today’s world: be ‘agile’, or adopt approaches such as ‘holacracy,’ ‘RenDanHeYi’ or ‘scrum’. But what do these concepts actually mean? Are they ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD

  • Hot Spots

    Why Some Teams, Workplaces, and Organizations Buzz with Energy - And Others Don't

    by Lynda Gratton ...
    You always know when you are in a Hot Spot. You feel energized and vibrantly alive. Your brain is buzzing with ideas, and the people around you share your joy and excitement. Things you've always known become clearer, adding value becomes more possible. Ideas and insights from others miraculously combine with your own to create new thinking and innovation. When Hot Spots arise in and between ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Ethics for People Who Work in Tech

    by Marc Steen ...
    This book is for people who work in the tech industry—computer and data scientists, software developers and engineers, designers, and people in business, marketing or management roles. It is also for people who are involved in the procurement and deployment of advanced applications, algorithms, and AI systems, and in policy making. Together, they create the digital products, services, and systems ... Read more

    $52.99 CAD