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Latan, Hengky, and Richard Noonan, eds. Partial Least Squares Path Modeling. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64069-3.

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Lohmöller, Jan-Bernd. Latent variable path modeling with partial least squares. Heidelberg: Physica-Verlag, 1989.

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Resistance, Central Health Services Council Sub-Group on Antimicrobial. The path of least resistance: Summary and recommendations. London: Department of Health, 1998.

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Lohmöller, Jan-Bernd. Latent Variable Path Modeling with Partial Least Squares. Heidelberg: Physica-Verlag HD, 1989. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-52512-4.

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Garcia, Ivan. Solving the weighted region least cost path problem using transputers. Monterey, Calif: Naval Postgraduate School, 1989.

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Ivanko, John D. The least imperfect path: A global journal for the future. Royal Oak, Mich: Paradigm Press, 1996.

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Mackenzie, Hugh. Funding postsecondary education in Ontario: Beyond the path of least resistance. [Toronto, ON]: Ontario Coalition for Postsecondary Education, 2004.

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The path of least resistance for managers: Designing organizations to succeed. San Francisco, CA: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 1999.

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Baker, Malcolm. Corporate financing decision when investors take the path of least resistance. Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research, 2004.

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Ekin, Cengiz. Efficient grid based techniques for solving the weighted region least cost path problem on multicomputers. Monterey, Calif: Naval Postgraduate School, 1992.

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The path of least resistance: Learning to become the creative force in your own life. New York: Fawcett Columbine, 1989.

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European Association of Archaeologists. Annual Meeting, ed. Go your own least cost path: Spatial technology and archaeological interpretation : proceedings of the GIS session at EAA 2009, Riva del Garda. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2011.

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Giovannini, Paolo, ed. Teorie sociologiche alla prova. Florence: Firenze University Press, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.36253/978-88-6453-045-1.

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Intellectual integrity and a challenge to rhetoric are the two strategic objectives of those who take up the hazardous path of sociological knowledge. This book does not presume to respond fully, but at least attempts to target these aims. The fruit of many years' teaching and research experience, it adopts a line of interpretation that highlights the point of view of the social agent considered in his close, symbiotic and procedural relation with the society in which he acts; this society is not abstract and generic but explored and construed in the tangible dimension of daily life and social relations. The book is organised with a practically identical layout in all the chapters: in dialogue format it proceeds from the identification of the categories central to the issue addressed through to its empirical application/s, hinging the two together with contributions from the sociological school or writer most relevant to the subject in question.

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Path of Least Resistance. Et Cetera Press, 2010.

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Path of Least Resistance. PublishAmerica, 2006.

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Fritz, Robert. The Path of Least Resistance. Butterworth-Heinemann Ltd, 1994.

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Higgins, Morag. Equido: Path of Least Resistance. Fisher King Publishing, 2017.

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The Path of Least Resistance. Elsevier, 1994. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/c2013-0-01250-9.

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Wilson, Matt. THE GODLY PATH OF LEAST RESISTANCE. Xulon Press, 2007.

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Latan, Hengky, and Richard Noonan. Partial Least Squares Path Modeling: Basic Concepts, Methodological Issues and Applications. Springer, 2018.

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Latan, Hengky, and Richard Noonan. Partial Least Squares Path Modeling: Basic Concepts, Methodological Issues and Applications. Springer, 2017.

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Fritz, Robert. The Path of Least Resistance for Managers. 2nd ed. Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 1999.

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The path of least resistance: Transportation in Arkansas, 1800-2000. Little Rock: Dept. of Arkansas Heritage, 2000.

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Maharaj, Indar. The Eloquence of Effort: Beware the Path of Least Resistance. Indar Maharaj, 2018.

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Cushman, Samuel A., Andrew J. Shirk, Glenn T. Howe, Melanie A. Murphy, Rodney J. Dyer, and Stéphane Joost, eds. The Least Cost Path From Landscape Genetics to Landscape Genomics. Frontiers Media SA, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/978-2-88945-548-5.

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J, Choi James, and National Bureau of Economic Research., eds. Defined contribution pensions: Plan rules, participant decisions, and the path of least resistance. Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research, 2001.

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Fritz, Robert. The Path of Least Resistance: Principles for Creating What You Want to Create. Dma, 1986.

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Fritz, Robert. The Path of Least Resistance: Learning to Become the Creative Force in Your Life. Ballantine Books, 1996.

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(Editor), Vincenzo Esposito Vinzi, Wynne W. Chin (Editor), Joerg Henseler (Editor), and Huiwen Wang (Editor), eds. Handbook of Partial Least Squares: Concepts, Methods and Applications in Marketing and Related Fields (Springer Handbooks of Computational Statistics). Springer, 2008.

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Butler, Kim D. H., and Jimmy Vreeland. Busting the Real Estate Investing Lies : Build Wealth the Smart Way: Through the Most Time-Tested, Least Volatile Path to Financial Freedom. Prosperity Economics Movement, 2019.

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Coopersmith, Jennifer. Final words. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198743040.003.0009.

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The Principle of Least Action has near-universal applicability, and the actual path taken by the system is the one that occurs in the flat region of the “space-of-paths.” While the Principle needs a whole book, maybe a whole library, to explain it, yet any candidate for a “TOE” (Theory of Everything) would share this feature. Teleological questions are dismissed, however the Principle can only be understood if concepts and philosophical implications are examined. It is probable that this must be done from within physics, that is, by a physicist. A comparison with economics is made. Finally, it is asked whether the Principle of Least Action is a necessary theory, that is, does it answer Einstein’s question: “[could] God … have made the world in a different way”?

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Smith, Leonard V. Mastering Revolution. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199677177.003.0006.

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Revolution in various forms had been endemic to the Great War. The Paris Peace Conference sought not so much to oppose revolution as to master it in the formation of a new international system. It created the International Labour Organization to institutionalize a transnational approach to labor relations, and thus head off worker unrest as a source of revolution. The Mandate Principle put all mandates at least theoretically on the path to independence, however indefinite the period of tutelage. The Mandate Principle, at least discursively, provided a means of pre-empting anti-colonialism as a source of international instability. The conference also sought to master revolution in successor states. Recognizing Czechoslovakia as a model liberal democracy provided a template ill-suited to recognizing the other successor states. The war between Romania and Hungary in 1919–20 left the Supreme Council with recognition as its only means to control the behavior of successor states.

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Arent, Douglas, Channing Arndt, Finn Tarp, and Owen Zinaman, eds. Moving Forward. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198802242.003.0029.

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With the passage of CoP21, the world is leaving a relatively inactive stage and entering a second stage characterized by broad-based efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. A third stage of reductions will almost certainly be required. This should chart a feasible path to a stabilized climate and put in place the necessary policy architecture for following that path, marking a global tipping point where effective climate change mitigation is no longer a goal but an accepted fact, with broad implications for behaviour and decision-making, not least a massive reduction in the resources allocated to prospecting for new fossil fuel reserves. A clear proximate operational challenge for achieving this tipping point involves effective implementation of country Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs) with attendant information needs. Looking further ahead, four key research frontiers are presented, focused on achieving this tipping point and entering the third stage of emissions reductions.

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Syrett, Kristen. Acquisition of Comparatives and Degree Constructions. Edited by Jeffrey L. Lidz, William Snyder, and Joe Pater. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199601264.013.20.

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This chapter looks at the acquisition of comparatives from formal, theoretical, and cross-linguistic perspectives. It begins by reviewing children’s aberrations from adults in the form of the comparative constructions that they produce through at least age 6, and then turns to theoretical accounts of comparatives and degree constructions across a range of languages to pinpoint specific areas in the construction of a comparative in which children’s representations and interpretations may go astray, or converge with adults. A range of studies and methodologies used over the years are reviewed in order to present a clear picture of what we currently know about children’s developing understanding of comparison and comparatives, and to clear a path for future research in this area.

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Deruelle, Nathalie, and Jean-Philippe Uzan. Lagrangian mechanics. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198786399.003.0008.

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This chapter shows how the Newtonian law of motion of a particle subject to a gradient force derived from a ‘potential energy’ can always be obtained from an extremal principle, or ‘principle of least action’. According to Newton’s first law, the trajectory representing the motion of a free particle between two points p1 and p2 is a straight line. In other words, out of all the possible paths between p1 and p2, the trajectory effectively followed by a free particle is the one that minimizes the length. However, even though the use of the principle of extremal length of the paths between two points gives the straight line joining the points, this does not mean that the straight-line path is traced with constant velocity in an inertial frame. Moreover, the trajectory describing the motion of a particle subject to a force is not uniform and rectilinear.

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Ferguson, Margaret W. Fatal Cleopatras and Golden Apples. Edited by Jonathan Post. Oxford University Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199607747.013.0004.

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This chapter argues that Shakespeare’s wordplay is integral to his communication of ideas in audible and/or visual signs that must be interpreted by a reader or audience member. The essay builds on and counters Samuel Johnson’s famous critique of Shakespearean ‘quibbles’ as excessive deviations from a proper communicative path. Shakespeare’s theory and practice of wordplay does not accept the Johnsonian view that a word has a single or even a predominant ‘proper’ meaning. Paradoxically marked both by a concern for ‘measure’ (in syllable or line counting) and by a tendency toward transgression of rules, Shakespeare’s interest in ‘numbers’—a figure for poetry in metrical forms—shows his awareness of wordplay as a game requiring at least three players: a historically situated writer, a text (in Shakespeare’s case, usually an unstable one); and an interpreter. Key examples of wordplay come from As You Like It,Love’s Labours Lost, and the Sonnets, particularly 135, which plays on the word ‘will’ in ways some have found excessive.

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Chopra, Bhavna, and Stanley Goldfarb. Approach to the patient with kidney stones. Edited by Mark E. De Broe. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199592548.003.0200.

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A detailed history can identify some risk factors and narrows down the potential causes of kidney stone formation. Radiological investigations confirm the diagnosis and give information on likely stone type. Urine and serum biochemistry is invaluable, but a more comprehensive investigation is reserved for recurrent stone formers. In that case at least two 24h collections, remote from any acute event are recommended, measuring volume, pH, calcium, oxalate, citrate, uric acid and phosphate. Urinary crystals can shed light on some stone types.For single or recurrent stones, analysis of stones themselves is invaluable. Analysis may include X-ray diffraction, infrared spectroscopy and a number of other techniques. .Dietary evaluation is valuable in recurrent stone formers.

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Kingsbury, Benjamin. An Imperial Disaster. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190876098.001.0001.

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The storm came on the night of 31 October. It was a full moon, and the tides were at their peak; the great rivers of eastern Bengal were flowing high and fast to the sea. In the early hours the inhabitants of the coast and islands were overtaken by an immense wave from the Bay of Bengal — a wall of water that reached a height of 40 feet in some places. The wave swept away everything in its path, drowning around 215,000 people. At least another 100,000 died in the cholera epidemic and famine that followed. It was the worst calamity of its kind in recorded history. Such events are often described as "natural disasters." This book turns that interpretation on its head, showing that the cyclone of 1876 was not simply a "natural" event, but one shaped by all-too-human patterns of exploitation and inequality — by divisions within Bengali society, and the enormous disparities of political and economic power that characterized British rule on the subcontinent. With Bangladesh facing rising sea levels and stronger, more frequent storms, there is every reason now to revisit this terrible calamity.

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Gottlieb, Michah. The Jewish Reformation. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199336388.001.0001.

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Beginning in the late eighteenth century, Jews entered the German middle class with remarkable speed. This process has often been identified with Jews’ increasing alienation from religion and Jewish nationhood. In fact, this period was one of intense engagement with Jewish texts and traditions. An expression of this was the remarkable turn to Bible translation. In the century and a half between Moses Mendelssohn’s pioneering translation and the final one by Martin Buber and Franz Rosenzweig, German Jews produced fifteen different translations of at least the Pentateuch. Buber and Rosenzweig famously critiqued bourgeois German Judaism as a craven attempt to establish social respectability to facilitate Jews’ entry into the middle class through a vapid, domesticated account of Judaism. Exploring Bible translations by Moses Mendelssohn, Leopold Zunz, and Samson Raphael Hirsch, the author argues that each sought to ground a “reformation” of Judaism along bourgeois lines, which involved aligning Judaism with a Protestant concept of religion. They did so because they saw in bourgeois values the best means to serve God and the authentic actualization of Jewish tradition. Through their learned, creative Bible translations, Mendelssohn, Zunz, and Hirsch presented distinct visions of middle-class Judaism that affirmed Jewish nationhood while lighting the path to a purposeful, emotionally rich, spiritual life grounded in ethical responsibility.

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Fiscal Space for Health in Latin America and the Caribbean. Organización Panamericana de la Salud, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.37774/9789275120002.

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Countries that have made the most progress toward universal coverage have public expenditures in health equivalent to at least 6% of their gross domestic product (GDP), which is the percentage established in PAHO’s universal health strategy as the benchmark for the countries. However, while higher expenditure is a prerequisite, it is not enough to combat inequities and advance toward universal health. In addition to greater resources, the quality of the expenditure must be improved, reducing health system inefficiencies. Moreover, public expenditure in health should be sustainably increased in a fiscally responsible manner. The concept of fiscal space for health refers to the ability of governments to provide additional budgetary resources for the health system without affecting the financial position of the public sector or supplanting other socially necessary expenditures. Any analysis of fiscal space, therefore, will attempt to identify the prospects for increasing health expenditure in the short and medium term to address a series of clearly established health needs. These efforts are under way at a critical time in the Region of the Americas, particularly in the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, which are engaged in a singular health system reform process. For the first time in history, these countries have formalized their intention of increasing public expenditure in health, putting themselves firmly on the path to real and effective access to health care through the universal health strategy. Without achieving basic well-being at this level, it will be impossible to improve social cohesion and social development in the countries of the Region. This publication brings together and summarizes PAHO’s studies on fiscal space for universal health in the Americas and draws on the contributions of the regional forum held in Washington, D.C. on 7-8 December 2015. With this publication, whose target audience is the technical personnel responsible for policy development, decision-makers, and authorities, PAHO hopes to contribute to the analysis and discussion of health financing policies on the path toward universal health.

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Oda, Hiroshi. Japanese Law. 4th ed. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198869474.001.0001.

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This book analyses the current state of Japanese law after a series of reforms since 1990. In that year, the US–Japan Structural Impediments Initiatives Talk necessitating fundamental changes to the conventional system in Japan was completed. At the same time, the ‘bubble economy’ came to an end and Japan embarked on a long path to economic recovery. As a result, the Japanese legal system has undergone significant changes. Depending on the area of law, not all the reforms were successful, but it is beyond doubt that major changes took place across the board. The core of the book is commercial and business-related laws such as corporate law, securities law, contract law, and competition law. There was a fundamental change in corporate law over past three decades, not the least because of the new Company Law of 2004. The entire system of corporate governance now is very different from the previous insider-dominated system. Major changes took place in securities law after the Japanese ‘Big Bang’. Competition law in Japan, which had once been regarded as ‘dormant’, is now in full operation. The book also considers contract law, which, as part of the Civil Code, has undergone a major change in 2020. In order to understand commercial and business law, accurate understanding of the dispute settlement mechanism and the procedure is needed and this is duly covered. The book addresses these issues by studying the case law as well as legislative history and business practice.

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Hammersley, Rachel. James Harrington. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198809852.001.0001.

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James Harrington was a significant political and intellectual figure of the mid-seventeenth century, whose life and works embody the complex and contested web of political, religious and cultural ideas that lay at the heart of the English Revolution. His innovative constitutional proposals exercised a profound influence on political debate during that period and for at least two centuries thereafter, and his insights - particularly on democracy - remain relevant today. The complexity of Harrington’s thought has been under-appreciated by scholars in recent years due to the tendency to view him solely from the perspective of republicanism. While research into English republicanism has enriched accounts of seventeenth-century England and the history of political thought, it has also narrowed and obscured our perspective on Harrington. This book offers a broader account of Harrington’s life and work. It addresses Harrington’s contributions to the parliamentary cause and his role as the English agent of Charles I’s nephew, the Prince Elector Palatine. It takes seriously Harrington’s role as a literary figure and his engagement with historical, religious, scientific, and philosophical debates. It puts the case for Harrington as a radical political thinker, committed to democracy and social mobility. It also shows that in a variety of areas he deliberately pursued a middle path, or a balance, between different positions so as to promote reconciliation among a variety of groups. The broader view of Harrington offered here has implications both for our understanding of the seventeenth century and for the discipline of intellectual history.

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Dufallo, Basil, ed. Roman Error. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198803034.001.0001.

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In the eyes of posterity, ancient Rome is deeply flawed, whether because of political corruption or imperial domination, the practice of slavery or religious intolerance, sexual immorality or other “decadence”—the list could extend considerably. Without denying the good reasons why certain aspects of Roman behavior are unacceptable within our present worldview, this volume reveals how, for centuries, the Romans’ “errors” have not only provoked opprobrium but also inspired wayward, novel, errant forms of thought and representation, for whose historical importance and continued relevance the contributors argue. Treating examples from history, philosophy, literature, psychoanalysis, and art history, extending chronologically from antiquity to the present, Roman Error examines ways in which the Romans’ faults have become the basis for creative experimentation, rejections of prevailing ideology, revolutionary departures from received opinion, even comedy and delight. Thus “Roman error,” as used here, comes to signify both something that the Romans did and something that their heirs (including ourselves) do, when receptions of Rome attract charges of “error” or at least make us especially aware of reception as “error” of a kind. The reception of Rome’s missteps and mistakes has been far more complex than simply denouncing or condemning them, simply labeling them as an exemplum malum to be shunned and avoided. This volume, its play on words joining the moral, cognitive, and physical senses of the Latin verb errare (“to stray from the path of virtue,” “to be mistaken,” “to wander about,” etc.), examines a particular, recurring manner in which this is so.

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Gordon, Eric, and Gabriel Mugar. Meaningful Inefficiencies. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190870140.001.0001.

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Public trust in civic organizations is low. And many public-serving organizations assume that greater efficiency will build trust. As a result, they are quick to adopt new technologies to enhance what they do. However, efficiency, in the sense of charting a path to a goal with the least amount of friction, can sometimes be at odds with the goal of building trust. This book is about those practices that challenge the normative applications of “smart technologies” in order to build or repair trust with publics. Based on over 60 interviews with change makers in public-serving organizations throughout the United States, as well as detailed case studies, this book provides a practical and deeply philosophical picture of civic life in transition. It is a book about design, but not necessarily about designers. Without coordinating, these civic designers embedded within organizations have adopted an approach to public engagement we call “meaningful inefficiencies,” or the deliberate design of less efficient over more efficient means of achieving some ends. This book illustrates how civic designers are creating meaningful inefficiencies in less than ideal conditions and encourages a rethinking of how innovation within public-serving organizations is understood, applied, and sought after. Different from market innovation, civic innovation is not just about invention and novelty; it is concerned with building communities around novelty, and cultivating deep and persistent trust. It involves a plurality of publics (not just a single public good); it creates the conditions for those publics to play; and it results in people caring for the world.

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Geheran, Michael. Comrades Betrayed. Cornell University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501751011.001.0001.

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At the end of 1941, six weeks after the mass deportations of Jews from Nazi Germany had begun, Gestapo offices across the Reich received an urgent telex from Adolf Eichmann, decreeing that all war-wounded and decorated Jewish veterans of World War I be exempted from upcoming “evacuations.” Why this was so, and how Jewish veterans at least initially were able to avoid the fate of ordinary Jews under the Nazis, is the subject of this book. The same values that compelled Jewish soldiers to demonstrate bravery in the front lines in World War I made it impossible for them to accept passively, persecution under Hitler. They upheld the ideal of the German fighting man, embraced the fatherland, and cherished the bonds that had developed in military service. Through their diaries and private letters, as well as interviews with eyewitnesses and surviving family members and records from the police, Gestapo, and military, this book challenges the prevailing view that Jewish veterans were left isolated, neighborless, and having suffered a social death by 1938. Tracing the path from the trenches of the Great War to the extermination camps of the Third Reich, the book exposes a painful dichotomy: while many Jewish former combatants believed that Germany would never betray them, the Holocaust was nonetheless a horrific reality. In chronicling Jewish veterans' appeal to older, traditional notions of comradeship and national belonging, the book forces reflection on how this group made use of scant opportunities to defy Nazi persecution and, for some, to evade becoming victims of the Final Solution.

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Mitchell, Graham. How Giraffes Work. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197571194.001.0001.

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There are few creatures more beautiful, more aloof, and more fascinating than giraffes. Once they were plentiful and filled African landscapes, but in 2016 they were re-classified from “least concern” to “vulnerable” by the International Union for Conservation of Nature. Their survival in the wild is not assured. Much has been written about their private lives, about their behavior, social biology, and ecology, and their history in art and diplomacy. But so far no book has been written about their private lives, their physiology, and their anatomy and biochemistry—in short, the normal functions of a free-living animal in its natural environment—and it is these aspects of their lives that are the focus of this book. The study of a single species could be concise and relatively simply told. In reality it is not. A species never evolves in isolation from the general biological milieu in which it finds itself. Tectonics, astronomical physics, climate, and purely biological factors affecting food and water resources all shape the path of their evolution and all interact with its morphology, its internal physiological and biochemical systems, and the behavior patterns that regulate its daily life. Giraffes are no exception, as is revealed as the story told here unfolds. How do giraffes work? The answers lie in a story filled not only with the internal workings of a unique creature, but with geography, climate changes of great magnitude, and the labors of extraordinary people who put many pieces of the puzzle together.

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