Tag: Amazon.com

  • Buy or die: The survivalist approach

    Buy or die: The survivalist approach to climate doom By Susie Cagle, grist.org Cli­mate change is com­ing! Quick, buy more stuff!! That’s the advice from the New York Times Mag­a­zine fea­ture “How to Sur­vive Soci­etal Col­lapse in Suburbia.” Wait, don’t laugh yet — we’ll get to that. First, meet Ron Dou­glas, a… RT @grist: A…

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  • Site launches to help hunt Amazon’s free ebooks

    Site launches to help hunt Amazon’s free ebooks By David Cornish, wired.co.uk Business There’s a ubiq­ui­tous smug­ness that appears to accom­pa­ny the pur­chase of an eread­er. It’s not in the box, nor is it down­loaded as an option­al extra — but a quick glance at the expres­sion of an eread­ing com­muter beside their… RT @WiredUK:…

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  • The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives

    Connected: The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives [Hardcover] Albert-Laszlo Barabasi, amazon.com Har­vard pro­fes­sor and health care pol­i­cy spe­cial­ist Chris­takis (Death Fore­told: Prophe­cy and Prog­no­sis in Med­ical Care) became inter­est­ed in social con­nec­tiv­i­ty when observ­ing that the mor­tal­i­ty rate of spous­es spike after … http://flpbd.it/0isRt Related articles Gastrophysics: Some…

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  • Looking Down the Road: A Systems Approach to Futures Studies by Hamilton College anthropologist Douglas Raybeck

      Amazon.com: Looking Down the Road : A Systems Approach to Futures Studies (9781577661160): Douglas Raybeck: Books.   Douglas Raybeck, one of my professors at Hamilton, taught me the importance of a socio cultural perspective on new technologies, technical communications, ethnography, and physiological anthropology.     Related articles   Anthropologists Approve Comprehensive Overhaul of Ethics…

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  • Competitive Intelligence (CI) books

    Amazon.com: Competitive Intelligence (CI). I’m looking for good books that I can recommend to others on searching online using major databases such as Lexis, Factiva, Ovid Related articles The Importance of Competitive Intelligence for B2B Companies Outlined in Latest White Paper (prweb.com) CI Radar Announces New Competitive Intelligence Tool (prweb.com) Comintelli Wins Major Competitive Intelligence…

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