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Kate never expected to become a home care worker. But when she left her senior role in the NHS, burnt-out and disheartened, she thought caring for people in their own homes would be a simpler job. But despite being determined not to become too involved with her 'customers', she soon found herself developing firm friendships, forging deep connections and bearing witness to the extraordinary drama to be found in ordinary lives. With energy, compassion and clarity her memoir gives an astonishing insight into this unsung profession, and into the hidden lives of the housebound and infirm.

Mi propósito es errático, casi irresponsable: ir a verlas cada semana, munida de libros de relatos, papeles y lápices, para incitar en ellas su imaginación y sus propios cuentos. No sé cuánto tiempo me llevará esa tarea: puede ser un día, tal vez muchos meses, quizás hasta que el proyecto de refugio diurno deje de ser renovado por el Ministerio.

In 1995, Karen Horwitz, aka the CHANGE EVERYTHING TEACHER, discovered our schools suffered from the 'Harvey Weinstein syndrome'—the powerful get their way no matter how wicked until someone finds the courage to expose them. She wrote a memoir to do to those running our schools what that brave actress who testified against Weinstein did. Listeners will learn why we have school shootings and how to end them and restore democracy. She names the corruption that transformed our schools from revered institutions to mere shells White Chalk Crime™ and reveals how it dismantled democracy.

Growing up, Reid was confused and disturbed by the different opportunities his best friend received. The gap widened as Reid's classes enabled him to pursue an elite college degree across the country studying educational opportunity and teaching. Then, Reid became a teacher at an under-resourced South Carolina high school where efforts to serve the incredible students were stymied by internal segregation and administrative ambivalence. After Reid assigned students a project to create a positive change, they pushed him to figure out how he, too, could make a bigger difference.

There are many versions of this work in English, and it is included as a useful reflection once one has pondered Daoism’s key texts. The title is properly ‘'Sun Tzu's Military Method'. It was written at the time of the Dao and Zhuang Zi, several centuries before the Lieh Tzu. For fifteen hundred years, it was part of China’s canonical strategic anthology, which became known as the Seven Military Classics.

Generationenkonflikte gab es schon immer. Doch der derzeit vorherrschende ist geprägt von einem erheblichen Machtgefälle, während gleichzeitig ein enormer gesellschaftlicher Wandel gestemmt werden muss, wenn wir die Klimakatastrophe abwenden und unsere Zukunft bewahren wollen. Barbara Streidl zeigt, welche Kraft wir freisetzen können, wenn die Generationen ihre Differenzen überwinden und gemeinsam an einem Strang ziehen. Es wird deutlich, dass wir einen neuen Generationenvertrag benötigen, wenn wir die enormen Herausforderungen unserer Gegenwart meistern wollen.

財政の将来負担率が黒字、外郭団体への借金はゼロ、自治体最高のムーディーズ格付け。パナソニック創業者の故・松下幸之助、スズキ相談役の鈴木修氏を師と仰ぎ、両者の教え通り自治体の債務を改善した著者。「市長在任中は、常に経営者としての視点で市政を推進してきました。

This comprehensive guide navigates the complexities of AI in education, equipping educators with practical strategies, real-world applications, and ethical considerations. Imagine yourself as a tech-savvy, innovative educator, transforming your students' learning experience with the positive power of Artificial Intelligence.

Robodebt was a new debt-creation system that was used to illegally pursue close to half a million Australian welfare recipients for fake debts generated by the thousands. It was described by the Royal Commission's report as a 'massive failure of public administration' caused by 'venality, incompetence and cowardice'. Essentially, Australians were gaslit by their own government, which doggedly and knowingly concocted a program that was both mathematically wrong and illegal, just to shake down innocent people for money, then lied about it for four and a half years.

Esta obra ofrece un análisis crítico y profundo de cómo las tecnologías emergentes, como la inteligencia artificial, el big data y las redes sociales, están transformando las dinámicas de poder en la sociedad contemporánea. Al explorar las intersecciones entre tecnología, gobernanza digital y control social, el libro revela las implicaciones éticas y políticas del uso de estas innovaciones.

Bostrom’s previous book, Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies (OUP, 2014) sparked a global conversation on AI that continues to this day. That book, which became a surprise New York Times bestseller, focused on what might happen if AI development goes wrong. But what if things go right? Suppose we develop superintelligence safely and ethically, and that we make good use of the almost magical powers this technology would unlock.

The Problem with Solutions combines an analysis of the rise of tech company solution culture with findings from actual research on the sector's ill-informed attempts to address the problems of food and agriculture.

Kate Conger und Ryan Mac erzählen die wahre Geschichte hinter der Übernahme von Twitter durch Elon Musk! Der Kauf von Twitter für 44 Milliarden Dollar durch den reichsten Mensch der Welt ist anders als alles, was in der Wirtschaft oder den Medien bisher geschehen ist. Ein streitbarer, launischer CEO entschied nach der Übernahme 2022 darüber, was unter freie Meinungsäußerung fiel – und was nicht.

In "Beyond the Classroom: Unconventional Education for a Changing World," author delves into the urgent need for a paradigm shift in education. With the world rapidly evolving, traditional classroom methods fall short in preparing students for the challenges ahead. Through meticulously researched chapters, the book explores the limitations of conventional education and the myriad benefits of embracing alternative approaches. From experiential learning to online platforms, apprenticeships to community-based initiatives, listeners discover diverse pathways to holistic education.

“Peak oil” is the phrase used to describe the point where the world’s oil supply, well, peaks. A fairly easy concept there. It’s the best we can do, and the best we will ever do, when it comes to pumping conventional crude oil out of the ground. After peak oil, it’s all downhill, production-wise.Too many people think that peak oil means that the oil is going to run out, and that’s not quite right. The oil will not run out.

Un relato en primera persona del caso bancario que conmocionó a España. El 7 de mayo de 2012, Rodrigo Rato anunció su dimisión como presidente de BFA y de Bankia para dar paso a José Ignacio Goirigolzarri, banquero de prestigio. Ese mismo día había amanecido con varias noticias en medios de comunicación apuntando a la inminente inyección de dinero público en la entidad.

To an American, oligarchy is something that happens somewhere else. In Oligarchy in America, Luke Winslow reveals oligarchy's deep intellectual roots and alarming growth in America. The book provides conceptual tools the lack of which have prevented Americans from recognizing oligarchy at home. Winslow argues that generic labels like "billionaires" for a class of ultra-rich masks the pervasive structures that entrench their power.

The land of the free. The home of the brave. But what has America achieved in the aim of ‘spreading democracy’ — except wreak havoc across the globe and establish a reckless foreign policy that serves the interest of few and has endangered all too many? In this timely book, Noam Chomsky writing with Nathan J. Robinson, vividly traces America’s pursuit of global domination, offering an incisive critique of the self-serving myths that dominant elites in the United States continue to push.

From wood to coal to oil and gas, the sources of energy on which civilization depends have always changed as technology advances. Now renewables are overtaking fossil fuels, with wind and solar energy becoming cheaper and more competitive every year. Growth in renewable energy will further accelerate as electric vehicles become less expensive than traditional automobiles. Understanding the implications of the energy transition will prepare us for the many changes ahead.

With clarity and moral courage, Shelton charts the course to a brighter future. She’s one of the few economists bold enough to challenge the inflationary policies of the Federal Reserve, emphasizing how today’s policies enrich elites at the expense of—you guessed it—poor and middle-class Americans. This, Shelton insists, must end. And it can end—easily. But Shelton doesn’t stop there. Her vision is for not only America but also for people around the world. Global, economic upliftment, she insists, need not come at the expense of domestic prosperity. We can have both.