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Adrift: 100 Charts that Reveal Why America is on the Brink of Change / Scott Galloway by Series: In Adrift, Scott Galloway looks from the past to the present - from 1945 to the 2020s - to explain how America has reached its current state of financial and social crisis. It is on the brink of massive change, change that will disrupt the working of its economy and drastically impact its financial backbone, the middle class. Telling America's story through 100 charts, Galloway demonstrates how crises such as Jim Crow, World War II, and the Stock Market Crash of 2008, as well as the escalating power of technology, an entrenched white patriarchy, and the socio-economic effects of the pandemic, created today's perfect storm. Adrift seeks to make sense of it all, and offers Galloway's unique take on where America is headed and what it will become. It's a vital guide for anyone who wants to understand the state the country is in and how and why its influence on the world has changed
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Publication details: London : Bantam, 2022
Availability: Items available for loan: Samtse College of Education (1)Call number: 338.973 GAL.
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Berlin Now: The Rise of the City and the Fall of the Wall / Peter Schneider by Series: In Berlin Now, and on the 25th Anniversary of the fall of the Wall, a legendary Berliner tells the inside story of the city.Over the last five decades, no other city has changed more than Berlin. Divided in 1961, reunited in 1989, it has morphed over the last twenty-five years into Europe's most vibrant melting-pot of artists, immigrants and entrepreneurs. Pieces of the wall are collected around the world. Blending memoir, history, anecdote and reportage, this legendary Berliner takes us behind the scenes - from wrenching stories of life under the Stasi, to the difference between East and West Berliners' sex-lives, to a present-day investigation of its arts scene, night-life, tumultuous politics and hidden quirks - revealing what makes Berlin the uniquely fascinating place it is.Peter Schneider makes the city come alive. He knows his stuff and shares it beautifully, elegantly, generously and informatively. Berlin has found its bard'Breyten Breytenbach, author of 'Notes from the Middle World'Praise for The Wall Jumper:'Marvelous . . . creates, in very few words, the unreal reality of Berlin' Salman Rushdie, New York Times Book Review 'Schneider's description of the Berlin wall from both sides . . . is the ultimate depiction of this structure. Nothing more need be said' Werner Herzog'Wonderful' Ian McEwanPeter Schneider was born in Lübeck, Germany, in 1940, and has lived in Berlin on and off since the 1960s, when he was a key spokesperson for its radical student movement. Renowned as a novelist and essayist, he is now the author of more than twenty books, including the Penguin Modern Classic The Wall Jumper. He has taught at many universities, including Stanford, Princeton and Harvard, and written for many international newspapers, including Der Spiegel, The New York Times, Le Monde and La Repubblica
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Publication details: London : Penguin books, 2014
Availability: Items available for loan: Samtse College of Education (1)Call number: 943.155 SCH.
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2020 Commission Report On The North Korean Nuclear Attacks against The United States / Dr. Jeffrey Lewis. by Series: In January 2018 the world’s Doomsday Clock was moved to ‘two minutes to midnight’, meaning we are officially closer to nuclear annihilation now than ever before. This book, written by the world’s leading nuclear expert, is a terrifyingly real account of how a coming conflict might well play out. It is 'speculative history', written in the style of The 9/11 Commission Report: pacey, highly readable, and crammed with plausible detail. Through a series of human errors, communications failures, paranoia and inflammatory tweets from President Trump, military events rapidly escalate. Poor DPRK guards using outmoded radar systems fire on a South Korean passenger plane, triggering a nuclear conflict, and catastrophic attacks on New York and Washington, with the ultimate loss of 2 million lives
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Publication details: London : WH Allen , 2018
Availability: Items available for loan: Samtse College of Education (1)Call number: 813.6 LEW.
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The American West and the World: Transnational and Comparative Perspectives / Janne Lahti by Series: The American West and the World provides a synthetic introduction to the transnational history of the American West. Drawing from the insights of recent scholarship, Janne Lahti recenters the history of the U.S. West in the global contexts of empires and settler colonialism, discussing exploration, expansion, migration, violence, intimacies, and ideas. Lahti examines established subfields of Western scholarship, such as borderlands studies and transnational histories of empire, as well as relatively unexplored connections between the West and geographically nonadjacent spaces. Lucid and incisive, The American West and the World firmly situates the historical West in its proper global context
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Publication details: Newyork and London : Routledge , 2019
Availability: Items available for loan: Samtse College of Education (1)Call number: 978 LAH.
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Knowing What We Know / Simon Winchester by Series: From the creation of the first encyclopedia to Wikipedia, from ancient museums to modern kindergarten classes—here is award-winning writer Simon Winchester’s brilliant and all-encompassing look at how humans acquire, retain, and pass on information and data, and how technology continues to change our lives and our minds. With the advent of the internet, any topic we want to know about is instantly available with the touch of a smartphone button. With so much knowledge at our fingertips, what is there left for our brains to do? At a time when we seem to be stripping all value from the idea of knowing things – no need for maths, no need for map reading, no need for memorisation – are we risking our ability to think? As we empty our minds, will we one day be incapable of thoughtfulness? Addressing these questions, Simon Winchester explores how humans have attained, stored and disseminated knowledge. Examining such disciplines as education, journalism, encyclopedia creation, museum curation, photography and broadcasting, he looks at a whole range of knowledge diffusion – from the cuneiform writings of Babylon to the machine-made genius of artificial intelligence, by way of Gutenberg, Google and Wikipedia to the huge Victorian assemblage of the Mundaneum, the collection of everything ever known, currently stored in a damp basement in northern Belgium. Studded with strange and fascinating details, Knowing What We Know is a deep dive into learning and the human mind. Throughout this fascinating tour, Winchester forces us to ponder what rational humans are becoming. What good is all this knowledge if it leads to lack of thought? What is information without wisdom? Does René Descartes’ ‘Cogito, ergo sum’—'I think, therefore I am’, the foundation for human knowledge widely accepted since the Enlightenment—still hold? And what will the world be like if no one in it is wise?
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Publication details: London : William Collins , 2023
Availability: Items available for loan: Samtse College of Education (1)Call number: 306.42 WIN.
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The Glass Cliff : Why women in power are undermined and how to fight back / Sophie Williams. by Series: The Glass Cliff is a conversation about what happens when women break the rules, and break through The Glass Ceiling. 'Every current and aspiring leader needs to read this book' - Helen Tupper & Sarah Ellis, authors of The Squiggly Career and You Coach You 'Clever, brilliantly researched and vitally important' - Dawn O'Porter, bestselling author of The Cows and Cat Lady Have you ever wondered why there are so few success stories of women in business leadership? Or maybe you've wondered what life is really like on the other side of The Glass Ceiling? The world of work is supposedly changing, embracing diversity - yet are the opportunities we're giving to women really equal to those of men? Drawing on almost twenty years of research from around the world, The Glass Cliff phenomenon - whereby women are often only hired in leadership roles when a business is already underperforming, meaning their chances of success are limited before they ever even start in the role - is well established, but little known. Until now. This is the story of The Glass Cliff: a story of a structural inequality disguising itself as the personal failures of women. When Sophie Williams gave her viral TED talk on the subject, she was subsequently flooded with accounts of confident, accomplished women who had taken what seemed like a dream leadership role only to quickly find themselves in a waking nightmare. Without the language to describe their experiences they had been left blaming themselves. But learning about The Glass Cliff enabled them to reframe and reexamine what they'd gone through. Once we understand The Glass Cliff - once we can stand together and face it head-first - we can start to unravel so many other false narratives about women's leadership experiences that just don't make sense without it. By understanding the phenomenon, and by telling one another about it, we can affect the conversation, empower one another to overcome societal bias and, ultimately, change the world of work for women forever
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Publication details: London : Macmillan Business , 2024
Availability: Items available for loan: Samtse College of Education (1)Call number: 658.409 WIL.
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Gen Z, Explained: The Art of Living in a Digital Age / Roberta Katz (Author), Sarah Ogilvie (Author), Jane Shaw (Author), Linda Woodhead (Author) by Series: An optimistic and nuanced portrait of a generation that has much to teach us about how to live and collaborate in our digital world. Born since the mid-1990s, members of Generation Z comprise the first generation never to know the world without the internet, and the most diverse generation yet. As Gen Z starts to emerge into adulthood and enter the workforce, what do we really know about them? And what can we learn from them? Gen Z, Explained is the authoritative portrait of this significant generation. It draws on extensive interviews that display this generation’s candor, surveys that explore their views and attitudes, and a vast database of their astonishingly inventive lexicon to build a comprehensive picture of their values, daily lives, and outlook. Gen Z emerges here as an extraordinarily thoughtful, promising, and perceptive generation that is sounding a warning to their elders about the world around them—a warning of a complexity and depth the “OK Boomer” phenomenon can only suggest. Much of the existing literature about Gen Z has been highly judgmental. In contrast, this book provides a deep and nuanced understanding of a generation facing a future of enormous challenges, from climate change to civil unrest. What’s more, they are facing this future head-on, relying on themselves and their peers to work collaboratively to solve these problems. As Gen Z, Explained shows, this group of young people is as compassionate and imaginative as any that has come before, and understanding the way they tackle problems may enable us to envision new kinds of solutions. This portrait of Gen Z is ultimately an optimistic one, suggesting they have something to teach all of us about how to live and thrive in this digital world
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Publication details: Chicago and London : The University of Chicago Press , 2021
Availability: Items available for loan: Samtse College of Education (2)Call number: 305.242 GEN, ...
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The Importance of being earnest / oscar-wilde by
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Publication details: NewYork and London : W.W. Norton & company, 2006
Availability: Items available for loan: Samtse College of Education (2)Call number: 822.8 WIL, ...
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Disabling Barriers - Enabling Environments / John Swain (Editor), Sally French (Editor), Colin Barnes (Editor), Carol Thomas (Editor) by Series: Since it was first published in 1993, Disabling Barriers, Enabling Environments has established itself as essential reading for anyone coming to the subject of disability studies. The book tackles a wide range of issues in numerous succinct chapters written by contributing authors, many of whom are disabled themselves. From the outset, the chapters take a multidisciplinary and international approach. The third edition is made up of 42 chapters, 15 of which are completely new to this edition, including: ? Early seminal writings in disabled studies ? Death and dying ? Psychology ? Hate crime and the criminal justice system ? Sport ? Psycho-emotional disablism and internal oppression. This seminal textbook conveys the continuing developments in the lives and experiences of disabled people. It is valuable reading for students and professionals in the fields of social work, sociology, social policy, health and nursing as well as disabled people
Edition: 3RD ed.
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Publication details: Los Angeles, London, New Delhi, Singapore,Washington DC : SAGE , 2014
Availability: Items available for loan: Samtse College of Education (2)Call number: 362.4 DIS, ...
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Renovating Your Writing: Shaping Ideas and Arguments into Clear, Concise, and Compelling Messages / Richard Kallan by Series: Renovating Your Writing outlines the principles of effective composition by focusing on the essential skill set and mindset every successful writer must possess. Now in its second edition, this novel text provides readers with unique strategies for crafting and revising their writing, whether for school, work, or play. The new edition emphasizes, in particular, the importance of the writer embracing a rhetorical perspective, distinguishing between formal and social media compositional styles, and appreciating the effort needed to produce clear, concise, and compelling messages
Edition: 2nd Edition
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Publication details: Newyork and London : Routledge , 2018
Availability: Items available for loan: Samtse College of Education (2)Call number: 808.042 KAL, ...
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Portfolio Building Activities in Social Media: Exercises in Strategic Communication / Karen Freberg by Series: Portfolio Building Activities in Social Media shows students how to communicate on social media professionally and strategically by giving them hands-on experiences with real-world challenges. From brand analyses to budget assignments to pitch activities, this practical exercise guide offers students multiple opportunities to create and build their portfolio of work. Designed to be used with Freberg’s Social Media for Strategic Communication, but flexible enough to bundle with any PR textbook, these exercises are useful to any professor looking to incorporate more activities around social media and digital brand development
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Publication details: Los Angeles, London,New Delhi, Singapore,Washington DC & Melbourne : SAGE Publications, Inc, 2019
Availability: Items available for loan: Samtse College of Education (2)Call number: 659.202 FRE, ...
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