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Smart Legal Contracts
Smart Legal Contracts: Computable Law in Theory and Practice is a landmark investigation into one of the most important trends at the interface of law and technology: the effort to harness emerging digital technologies to change the way that parties form and perform contracts. While developments in distributed ledger technology have brought the topic of 'smart contracts' into the mainstream of legal attention, this volume takes a broader approach to ask howcomputers can be used in the contracting process. This book assesses how contractual promises are expressed in software and how code-based artefacts can be incorporated within more conventional legal structures. With incisive contributions from members of the judiciary, legal scholars, practitioners, and computer scientists, this book sets out to frame the borders of an emerging area of law and start a more productive dialogue between the various disciplines involved in the evolution of contracts as software. It provides the first step towardsa more disciplined approach to computational contracts that avoids the techno-legal ambiguities of 'smart contracts' and reveals an emerging taxonomy of approaches to encoding contracts in whole or in part. Conceived and written during a time when major legal systems began to engage with the adventof contracts in computable form, and aimed at a fundamental level of enquiry, this collection will provide essential insight into future trends and will provide a point of orientation for future scholarship and innovation.
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You Only Live Once
Get your finances in order with smart budgeting and money mindfulness You Only Live Once is the guide to achieving your best life through smart money moves. Before you even begin making a budget, you need to think about why. Where do you see yourself financially in ten years? Five years? This time next year? What does money do for you? Once you know your destination, you can begin charting your course. Step-by-step guidance walks you through the budgeting process, and shows you how to plan your financial path to point toward your goals. You'll learn how to prioritize spending, how to save efficiently, and how to take advantage of simple tools you didn't know you had. Next comes the most important part: taking control. You need to really look at how you perceive and use money day-to-day. Chances are, changing a few habits could give you some breathing room and help you reach your goals sooner. You work hard for your money, yet there never seems to be enough. You don't need to live like a pauper, but you need to be truly aware of just where your money is going, and why. Financial awareness is the key to a financially secure future, and this book unpacks it all to help you get where you want to go. Accept past decisions and articulate your financial goalsAlign your lifestyle with your budgetExplore your relationship with moneyRe-evaluate financial habits and behaviors You know you need a budget, but you never seem to get around to doing it. Or maybe you did, but you can never seem to stick to it. Smart planning is a major factor in financial security, and it involves just as much introspection as math. You Only Live Once is more than a budgeting guide—it's a guide to revamping your financial behaviors to achieve the life you want.
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Post-Modem: the Interwebs Explained
You know absolutely nothing about The Internet, even if you think you do. Whether an expert or a "newber," Post-Modem is guaranteed to tell you something you would have never known about The Internet without picking up this book. How did housewives in the 50s combine a turntable and a HAM radio to get Wi-Fi? What is the connection between "Mad Men"'s Jon Hamm and AskJeeves? (hint: you might want to ask Jon Hamm!) Is Richard Dawkins real? How did Stalin create the first LOLCat via Sputnik? Post-Modem is the unabridged, unedited history of the Internet you've always needed. Rob Kutner (The Daily Show, Conan) says: "With an inspired mix of real historical texture, ballsy anachronism, countless whip-smart jokes, and spot-on 'archival photos,' Jason Klamm spins a delightful John Hodgman-esque look at the Internet throughout history and today."
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Science of Talent Dynamics
The Science of Talent Dynamics: Smart Workforce Design for Biomanufacturing and Industry 4.0 reframes workforce strategy as a Workforce Architecture problem, approached through predictive and quantitative methods to improve company performance, process reliability, and enterprise value. At a time when intangible assets dominate corporate valuation, organizations measure markets, technology, and capital with precision, yet lack a rigorous system for engineering the workforce that delivers execution. This book addresses that gap by introducing Talent Efficiency (TE), a scientific framework that models how capability, execution load, and organizational friction interact to determine performance outcomes, establishing workforce systems as measurable, optimizable assets that can be designed, stress-tested, and continuously adjusted.Structured across eight parts, the book progresses from the economic shift toward human capital through the mathematical foundation of Talent Efficiency to advanced applications in biomanufacturing, Industry 4.0/5.0 systems, and AI-enabled operations. It integrates Monte Carlo simulation, network analysis, complexity theory, and real-options modeling to demonstrate how workforce dynamics can be predicted and engineered at scale. The central insight reveals that performance variability is driven by how effectively an organization's Workforce Architecture aligns capability to execution demand, with Talent Efficiency providing a predictive system to quantify this alignment, identify where execution will degrade under load, and guide precise interventions across hiring, sequencing, automation, and operating model design. Detailed case studies and implementation frameworks translate theory into practical decision-making across R&D, manufacturing, and enterprise leadership environments, demonstrating how Workforce Architecture can improve execution quality, reduce volatility, and increase financial performance, including EBITDA stability and value-at-risk reduction.Written for C-suite leaders, board directors, investors, and technical operators, this book equips decision-makers with a finance-grade framework to link workforce design directly to company and process performance. While grounded in biopharma and advanced manufacturing, the principles apply to any knowledge-intensive industry where execution, innovation, and regulatory complexity define competitive advantage, establishing Workforce Architecture as a predictive, quantitative discipline for the modern enterprise.
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Your Money and Your Brain: How the New Science Of Neuroeconomics Can Help Make You Rich
Drawing on the latest scientific research, Jason Zweig shows what happens in your brain when you think about money and tells investors how to take practical, simple steps to avoid common mistakes and become more successful. What happens inside our brains when we think about money? Quite a lot, actually, and some of it isn't good for our financial health. In Your Money and Your Brain, Jason Zweig explains why smart people make stupid financial decisions--and what they can do to avoid these mistakes. Zweig, a veteran financial journalist, draws on the latest research in neuroeconomics, a fascinating new discipline that combines psychology, neuroscience, and economics to better understand financial decision making. He shows why we often misunderstand risk and why we tend to be overconfident about our investment decisions. Your Money and Your Brain offers some radical new insights into investing and shows investors how to take control of the battlefield between reason and emotion. Your Money and Your Brain is as entertaining as it is enlightening. In the course of his research, Zweig visited leading neuroscience laboratories and subjected himself to numerous experiments. He blends anecdotes from these experiences with stories about investing mistakes, including confessions of stupidity from some highly successful people. Then he draws lessons and offers original practical steps that investors can take to make wiser decisions. Anyone who has ever looked back on a financial decision and said, "How could I have been so stupid?" will benefit from reading this book.
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Science of Talent Dynamics
The Science of Talent Dynamics: Smart Workforce Design for Biomanufacturing and Industry 4.0 reframes workforce strategy as a Workforce Architecture problem, approached through predictive and quantitative methods to improve company performance, process reliability, and enterprise value. At a time when intangible assets dominate corporate valuation, organizations measure markets, technology, and capital with precision, yet lack a rigorous system for engineering the workforce that delivers execution. This book addresses that gap by introducing Talent Efficiency (TE), a scientific framework that models how capability, execution load, and organizational friction interact to determine performance outcomes, establishing workforce systems as measurable, optimizable assets that can be designed, stress-tested, and continuously adjusted.Structured across eight parts, the book progresses from the economic shift toward human capital through the mathematical foundation of Talent Efficiency to advanced applications in biomanufacturing, Industry 4.0/5.0 systems, and AI-enabled operations. It integrates Monte Carlo simulation, network analysis, complexity theory, and real-options modeling to demonstrate how workforce dynamics can be predicted and engineered at scale. The central insight reveals that performance variability is driven by how effectively an organization's Workforce Architecture aligns capability to execution demand, with Talent Efficiency providing a predictive system to quantify this alignment, identify where execution will degrade under load, and guide precise interventions across hiring, sequencing, automation, and operating model design. Detailed case studies and implementation frameworks translate theory into practical decision-making across R&D, manufacturing, and enterprise leadership environments, demonstrating how Workforce Architecture can improve execution quality, reduce volatility, and increase financial performance, including EBITDA stability and value-at-risk reduction.Written for C-suite leaders, board directors, investors, and technical operators, this book equips decision-makers with a finance-grade framework to link workforce design directly to company and process performance. While grounded in biopharma and advanced manufacturing, the principles apply to any knowledge-intensive industry where execution, innovation, and regulatory complexity define competitive advantage, establishing Workforce Architecture as a predictive, quantitative discipline for the modern enterprise.
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How To Lead A Quest
Unlock progress through doubt and uncertainty The biggest threat facing modern business is the sheer complexity of an uncertain future. That, and the fact that everyone is busy. Too busy for progress. Workplace cultures have become cursed with efficiency. And so when it comes to developing strategy, we default to our defaults.We favour quick fixes, easy templates and familiar approaches, developing ‘robust plans' that do little to mitigate strategic risk or generate new value. The result? The future comes, and businesses die. But no longer! *cue trumpets* How to Lead a Quest is a book for pioneering leaders - folks who know that enterprise strategy is far too important to condemn to ‘smart goals', 'a clear vision for the future' and other such rubbish. Within this book, you'll discover how to: liberate enterprise leadership and workplace cultures from the curse of efficiency, default thinking and the delusion of progressexplore complex and uncertain futures to find profound insights that mitigate strategic risks and ensure your business model remains viablecreate new value and enduring relevance by pioneering into unchartered and unprecedented territory embed new structures and rituals into your enterprise to build for the future, while still delivering operational excellence today. Not for the faint of heart or short-of-wit, this uniquely refreshing book bravely tackles the paradox that is pioneering leadership. You'll discover how to lead meaningful progress - even if you don't know what the goal or destination looks like.
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Pocket Guide to the Bible
"Jason Boyett's Pocket Guides are smart and hilarious. And they're sneaky too: You don't realize how much you're learning because you're having so much fun." AJ Jacobs, author, The Year of Living Biblically Americans consistently identify the Bible as the most influential book in history, but seriously: are you really reading it? Probably not. If all you know about the Bible are a few Psalms and the Christmas story, then you're missing out on a book that's wilder, weirder, and more entertaining than you ever imagined. With a stealthy combo of entertainment and insight, Jason Boyett's Pocket Guide to the Bible fills the gaps in your religious education. It introduces you to the characters you must know, reveals the thrilling development of the biblical canon, and details the less-churchy parts of Scripture (hello, sex and violence!). Don't miss out on discovering How God employs talking donkeys, mentally unstable prophets, and helpful prostitutes in his master plan Which moral failures may result in an old-fashioned smiting Why Catholic Bibles include books some Protestants refuse to recognize Whether your New International Version of the Bible may in fact be demonic With Pocket Guide to the Bible, you'll finally realize what's so good about the Good Book.
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Communication and Control for Robotic Systems
This book is a collection of high-quality research articles. The book includes topics specific to the emerging areas of control for robotic systems, wireless communication, and development of embedded systems for robotic applications. The book integrates three important aspects of automation, namely (i) communication, (ii) control, and (iii) embedded design for robotic applications. This book is unique as it provides a unified framework for analysis, design, and deployment of the robotic applications across various engineering and non-engineering disciplines including the three primary aspects mentioned above. Furthermore, the emerging research and development work pertaining to the deployment of intelligent, nonlinear, and embedded control for robotic system for non-standard operating environment due to the widespread application of robotics technology for societal benefit is also a focal point of the book.
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