Lane's friend, Morgan, has fallen down a mine airshaft. In an attempt to save him, Larry becomes trapped as well. In the black inky darkness, Larry carries on a one-sided conversation hoping they both can stay alive until rescuers get to them. Meanwhile, Lane's mother and father are using this disaster to advance their own separate goals. Timing is everything! For the two below ground, time is running out and everyone knows it. For the two above ground, Lane's parents, well, time will tell...

As you can probably tell by the title, this book explains what you need to know about dates and times in computing. Its sole purpose is to quickly get you up to speed on this ubiquitous and commonly misunderstood topic. This is the first in a series of Cromulent Guides. We produce concise, easy to read guide(s) about technical topics. The size of each guide is about the same as a chapter from a normal book, so you only have to buy what you need. Never judge a book by its description.

EXCELLENCE THE GUIDING PRINCIPLE Excellence is the ultimate state of performance based on purpose and preparedness. It is one of my life’s privileges as the coach, to be in the position to assist to the extraordinary achievements of ambitious individuals and groups, throughout their quest for success and fulfillment. It is my privilege to experience and to support the realization of their vision of excellence, by teaming up with them in the development of synchronicity between their though...

Austerity was presented as the antidote to sluggish economies, but it has had far-reaching effects on jobs and employment conditions.With an international team of editors and authors from Europe, North America and Australia, this illuminating collection goes beyond a sole focus on public sector work and uniquely covers the impact of austerity on work across the private, public and voluntary spheres.Drawing on a range of perspectives, the book engages with the major debates ...

We've all heard it: according to Hal Varian, statistics is the next sexy job. Five years ago, in What is Web 2.0, Tim O'Reilly said that "data is the next Intel Inside." But what does that statement mean? Why do we suddenly care about statistics and about data? This report examines the many sides of data science -- the technologies, the companies and the unique skill sets.The web is full of "data-driven apps." Almost any e-commerce application is a data-driven application. There's a databa...

Winner: Donner Prize for Excellence and Innovation in Public Policy Writing by Canadians (2016)Winner: New Brunswick Book Award for Non-Fiction (2016)Recent decades have shown the public's support for government plummet alongside political leaders’ credibility. This downward spiral calls for an exploration of what has gone wrong. The questions "What is government good at?" and "What is government not good at?" are critical ones - and their answers should be the basis for goo...

**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!Part how-to, part girl-empowerment, and all fun, from the leader of the movement championed by Sheryl Sandberg, Malala Yousafzai, and John Legend.**Since 2012, the organization Girls Who Code has taught computing skills to and inspired over 40,000 girls across America. Now its founder, and author Brave Not Perfect, Reshma Saujani, wants to inspire you to be a girl who codes! Bursting with dynamic artwork, down-to-earth ...

The neo-liberalism that dominated economic thinking since the advent of Thatcher and Reagan is now seen to have serious flaws. Progressive Capitalism seeks to replace it with a new Progressive political economy, based on an analysis of why the growth rates of countries differ, and what firms have to do to achieve competitive advantage in today's global economy. The cornerstone of the political economy of Progressive Capitalism is a belief in capitalism. But it also incorporates the three d...

The strategies adopted by governments and public officials can have dramatic effects on peoples' lives. The best ones can transform economic laggards into trailblazers, eliminate diseases, or sharply cut crime. Strategic failures can result in highly visible disasters, like the shrinking of the Russian economy in the 1990s, or the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans in 2005. This book is about how strategies take shape, and how money, people, technologies, and public commitment c...

Using this universal guide to basic logic, obtain or rediscover the perspective required to build technical knowledge by way of observation. The analogies in this book will help you build a foundation for facing any technical challenge, regardless of complexity. Take this guide with you -outside- of the computer network, and you may be surprised where else these rules apply.

From schools to hospitals, from utilities to food banks, over the past thirty years corporatization has transformed the public sector in Canada. Economic elites take control of public institutions and use business metrics to evaluate their performance, transforming public programs into corporate revenue streams.Senior managers use corporate methodology to set priorities in social services and create “market-friendly” public sector cultures. Even social activist organizations increa...

Since the third edition of this authoritative volume, most of Western Europe and North America have entered an era of austerity which has pervasive effects on programmes of public management reform. Even in Australasia extensive measures of fiscal restraint have been implemented. In this fourth edition the basic structure of the book has been retained but there has been a line-by-line rewriting, including the addition of extensive analyses and information about the impacts of austerity. Ma...