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AI for Everything eBook Series

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  • AI for the Sustainable Development Goals

    by Henrik Skaug Sætra ...
    Series series AI for Everything
    What is artificial intelligence? What are the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)? How does AI affect the SDGs?Artificial Intelligence has a real impact on our lives and on our environment, and the Sustainable Development Goals enable us to evaluate these impacts in a systematic manner. This book shows that doing so requires us to understand the context of AI – the infrastructure it is built on, ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

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  • The Fourth Industrial Revolution

    by Klaus Schwab ...
    World-renowned economist Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum, explains that we have an opportunity to shape the fourth industrial revolution, which will fundamentally alter how we live and work.Schwab argues that this revolution is different in scale, scope and complexity from any that have come before. Characterized by a range of new technologies that are ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • Mutual Aid

    Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next)

    by Dean Spade ...
    Mutual aid is the radical act of caring for each other while working to change the world.Around the globe, people are faced with a spiralling succession of crises, from the Covid-19 pandemic and climate change-induced fires, floods, and storms to the ongoing horrors of mass incarceration, racist policing, brutal immigration enforcement, endemic gender violence, and severe wealth inequality. As ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Getting Beyond Better

    How Social Entrepreneurship Works

    by Roger L. Martin, Sally Osberg ...
    Who drives transformation in society? How do they do it?In this compelling book, strategy guru Roger L. Martin and Skoll Foundation President and CEO Sally R. Osberg describe how social entrepreneurs target systems that exist in a stable but unjust equilibrium and transform them into entirely new, superior, and sustainable equilibria. All of these leaders--call them disrupters, visionaries, or ... Read more

    $23.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Need, Speed, and Greed

    How the New Rules of Innovation Can Transform Businesses, Propel Nations to Greatness, and Tame the World's Most Wicked Problems

    by Vijay V. Vaitheeswaran ...
    World-renowned economist Vijay V. Vaitheeswaran provides a deeply insightful, brilliantly informed guide to the innovation revolution now transforming the world. With echoes of Clayton Christensen’s The Innovator’s Dilemma, Tim Brown’s Change by Design, and Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs, and Steel, Vaitheeswaran’s Need, Speed, and Greed introduces readers to the go-getters, imagineers, and ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Dream Factories

    Why Universities Won't Solve the Youth Jobs Crisis

    by Bill Morrison, Ken S. Coates ...
    Two professors look at the mystique around universities and the consequences of “credentialism.”For decades, we have promoted the idea that a university degree is a passport to future career success. Ken Coates and Bill Morrison argue that the over-promotion of higher education and university degrees is actually undermining the lives of young people, saddling them with enormous debts, and costing ... Read more

    $8.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Futureproof Your Career

    How to Lead and Succeed in a Changing World

    by Shaheena Janjuha-Jivraj, Naeema Pasha ...
    Futureproof Your Career is the essential guide to improving your career and taking full advantage of opportunities for progression. With a major focus on the changing business, economic and technological landscape, it explores the new challenges of job retention and career progression.With the impact of the pandemic, the ongoing fourth industrial revolution, the broadening awareness of ... Read more

    $13.59 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • If I Had A Water Buffalo

    Empowering Others Through Sustainable Lending

    by Marilyn A. Fitzgerald ...
    An expert in fighting global poverty shares lessons from her travels and outlines a path to help impoverished people achieve self-sufficiency.Dr. Marilyn A. Fitzgerald has travelled the globe working to end world poverty through humanitarian aid and microfinance. With her unique opportunity to observe what works and what doesn't, she set out to find a system that not only provides resources, but ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Advanced Introduction to National Innovation Systems

    by Cristina Chaminade, Bengt-Åke Lundvall, Shagufta Haneef ...
    Series series Elgar Advanced Introductions series
    Innovation studies is an evolving interdisciplinary field that has moved away from the weaknesses of neoclassical thinking and embraced evolutionary theory. In this timely book, the authors offer a precise introduction to the nature of national innovation systems (NIS), examining the history of the concept and its use in today's world.This book uses language appropriate for both social science and ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • Business, Power and Sustainability in a World of Global Value Chains

    by Stefano Ponte ...
    The interaction of sustainability governance and global value chains has crucial implications the world over. When it comes to sustainability the last decade has witnessed the birth of hybrid forms of governance where business, civil society and public actors interact at different levels, leading to a focus on concepts of legitimacy within multi-stakeholder initiatives (MSIs).Based in over 15 ... Read more

    $28.39 USD

  • The Work of the Future

    Building Better Jobs in an Age of Intelligent Machines

    by Elisabeth Reynolds, David H. Autor, David A. Mindell ...
    Why the United States lags behind other industrialized countries in sharing the benefits of innovation with workers and how we can remedy the problem.The United States has too many low-quality, low-wage jobs. Every country has its share, but those in the United States are especially poorly paid and often without benefits. Meanwhile, overall productivity increases steadily and new technology has ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Is AI Good for the Planet?

    by Benedetta Brevini ...
    Series series Digital Futures
    Artificial intelligence (AI) is presented as a solution to the greatest challenges of our time, from global pandemics and chronic diseases to cybersecurity threats and the climate crisis. But AI also contributes to the climate crisis by running on technology that depletes scarce resources and by relying on data centres that demand excessive energy use.Is AI Good for the Planet? brings the climate ... Read more

    $10.00 USD