Political Design

Analyzing the political and banking history of the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Brazil through several centuries, Fragile by Design demonstrates that chronic banking crises and scarce credit are not accidents due to unforeseen circumstances. Rather, these fluctuations result from the complex bargains made between politicians, bankers, bank shareholders, depositors, debtors, and taxpayers.

Data is fundamental to the modern world. From economic development, to healthcare, to education and public policy, we rely on numbers to allocate resources and make crucial decisions. But because so much data fails to take into account gender, treating men as the default and women as atypical, bias and discrimination are baked into our systems. And women pay tremendous costs for this bias in time, money, and often with their lives. Celebrated feminist advocate Caroline Criado Perez investigates the shocking root cause of gender inequality and research in Invisible Women.

Political Research Design and the Science of Politics offers listeners detailed information about the basic principles and nuances of developing empirical research design procedures to predict and describe political phenomena. In chronicling the predominant approaches used in empirical political research, the strengths and limitations of various research strategies are contrasted. Major controversies in contemporary political science are discussed.

After decades of unchecked sprawl, more people than ever are moving back to the city. Dense urban living has been prescribed as a panacea for the environmental and resource crises of our time. But is it better or worse for our happiness? Are subways, sidewalks, and tower dwelling improvements on the car dependence of sprawl?

The world is working exactly as designed. And it’s not working very well. Which means, we need to do a better job of designing it. Design is a craft with an amazing amount of power. The power to choose. The power to influence. As designers, we need to see ourselves as gatekeepers of what we are bringing into the world and what we choose not to bring into the world.

Protecting her is the most important job I've ever had. But I'll have to resist her charms—and her scent—if I want to keep her safe. As an alpha in the Secret Service, I protect important people every day. But none have been quite as important as her—the omega senator I'm tasked to protect. Not just any omega senator—the first since our world changed. Since we all got our designations. Sloane Ashford is independent. Unmated. So why does her scent drive me and my men crazy? I'll have to defend her from an assassination plot and try to keep my sanity—all while tamping down my ...

The Reid and Toles families are settling into their roles at the White House. President Candace Reid is grateful to have the counsel and support of close friends Alex and Cassidy Toles. Alex assumes a position as Deputy National Security Adviser. She searches to determine the cause of the Russian president’s death. Her brother, Jonathan Krause, continues to decrypt a data disc from a lab in Kaliningrad. And her partner, Claire Brackett, infiltrates the inner circle of a power broker in Poland. Candace juggles a complex agenda while supporting her children through life changes.

How can we design for equity and justice in our community partnerships? This field guide offers a vision for enacting social justice with community partners. Working from a community’s resources and strengths toward the goal of building its internal capacity, this book considers how actions such as grassroots activism, decolonization efforts, co-resistance movements, and social change initiatives can support reciprocity and mutuality.

Against the backdrop of post-9/11 America, listeners are taken behind the scenes of some of the most important civil liberties cases in America. From the story of the "American Taliban" to the battle against the National Security Agency's warrantless spying program, In Defense of Our America tracks a roster of skirmishes in the larger fight for civil liberties in this country.

What if the system designed to prevent terrorism started creating it instead? Mira Falk spent a decade building Hypnos—the most sophisticated predictive AI ever created. It was supposed to see terrorist attacks before they happened. Supposed to save lives. Supposed to make the world safer. She was wrong. When Mira discovers that Hypnos isn't predicting a bombing in Munich—it's engineering one—she has 72 hours to stop an innocent man from becoming a mass murderer. But Lukas Heinrich doesn't know he's being manipulated. Every video he watches, every forum post he reads, every emotion he...

"[A] dystopian novel too close to today's political world..." –Lea Wait, USA Today Bestselling author 2020 International Book Awards Finalist – Humor 2019 Best Book Awards Finalist - Humor Life on Mars takes a satirical look at evolution vs. Intelligent Design — a sort of feint by anti-evolutionists to get creationism into the classroom by assiduously avoiding the mention of God. Instead, reference is made to a “higher” or “superior” intelligence. The novel’s conceit is this: what if the Intelligent Design folks are right and the evolutionists are wrong? What if a higher ...

Lucas is an adventurer of the alternative. A seeker of the offbeat and unconventional discourses from the peripheries of society. He has been called “odd”, “fringe”, “eccentric” and “enigmatic”. Where will these attributes take the aspiring traverser of Terra Incognita? What motivates him? Why is there an ostensible war? Who is Earl Pierce?

Questionable police tactics didn't begin in 2014. The awareness and threats caused by aggressive police actions have recently changed, but they're not without precedent. A city manager has the inside story. Listen to Power Play, a story set in the 1970s when blind trust was too often the case: deceit, revenge, militaristic police, affected legal system, and gay tragedy; the end of the Hoover era, amidst the death throes of the Nixon debacle. The author has captured an era, depicting a battle for the soul of the Republic, at the local level.

Här kartlägger jag förutsättningarna för konstnärer, arrangörer och politiker att sätta konsten på kartan. En bok fylld av fakta och tips för konstnärer. En inblick bakom kulisserna för den konstälskande publiken. Funderingar och vägledning för konstföreningar, utställare och uppdragsgivare. Ett helhetsperspektiv för kulturpolitiker. Allt sprinklat via en personlig berättelse från en konstnär som vandrat från aningslös glad amatör till internationellt yrkesverksam konstnär.

「都市集中型」か、「地方分散型」か。東京一極集中・地方衰退→格差拡大→財政は改善？
地方への人口分散→格差縮小・幸福感増大→財政は悪化？果たして、第3の道はあるのか。

誰だってコンサルタントにはなれる。これは間違いない。 僕もコンサル経験なしにコンサルができている。コンサルっていうのは、知識の 問題ではなくてスタンスの問題なんです。別の言い方をすれば、無理なコンサル と無理のないコンサルがあって、無理のないほうを選べば、誰だってコンサルで きる。アドバイスできるんですよ。ホントです。 ■偉そうにして自分を守る愚かさ たとえば、広告会社相手に、彼らの本業である広告のコンサルティングをしよう としたら、相当な覚悟が必要です。 専門家に専門領域を説くわけですから、最新の知見を提供しなければ納得しません し、間違いがあればすぐに見破られてしまう。これは辛い。辛そうで辛くない、では なくほんとに辛い。そのため、本人も過剰に防衛的になってしまいます。偉そうな雰 囲気を漂わせ、質問しにくい感じに振る舞う。偉そうにしている人は自信がない人で、 見る人が見ればすぐにバレてしまう。「ああ、無理してるな」と思うわけです。（本文より） 小山龍介の「ライフハック・ストリート」はこちらから→http://yakan-hiko.com/koyama.html