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  • Social Work Management and Leadership

    Managing Complexity with Creativity

    by John Lawler, Andy Bilson ...
    Management and leadership are increasingly important within the organisation and delivery of social care services and now form part of the post qualification framework for social workers. Yet, whilst there is a relatively broad understanding of management concepts and their application in social care, their foundations often go unchallenged both by students and managers. Furthermore, leadership is ... Read more

    $86.99 CAD

  • The Multi-Dimensions of Industrial Relations in the Asian Knowledge-Based Economies

    Edited by Sununta Siengthai, John Lawler, Chris Rowley, Hiromasa Suzuki ...
    Series series Chandos Asian Studies Series
    This collection of work by leading scholars investigates the impact of the globalization process on some selected Asian economies and societies. With particular focus on the role of institutional factors such as labour unions or workers' associations, case studies are presented on labour-management relations at the workplace that have evolved to cope with globalization. The cases describe labour ... Read more

    $119.99 CAD

  • Management, Social Work and Change

    Edited by Elizabeth Harlow, John Lawler ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    This title was first published in 2000: This text focuses on developments in social work and its management. In doing so, it is of necessity multi-disciplinary: research and literature from the fields of management, organization and social policy, as well as social work, are drawn upon. The major theme of the book is change, which, paradoxically, appears to be the major constant. Change is ... Read more

    $71.44 CAD

  • Using Computers in Linguistics

    A Practical Guide

    Edited by Helen Aristar Dry, John Lawler ...
    Computing has had a dramatic impact on the discipline of linguistics and is shaping the way we conceptualize both linguistics and language.Using Computers in Linguistics provides a non-technical introduction to recent developments in linguistic computing and offers specific guidance to the linguist or language professional who wishes to take advantage of them.Divided into eight chapters, each of ... Read more

    $101.68 CAD

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    Analyzing Text with the Natural Language Toolkit

    by Steven Bird, Ewan Klein, Edward Loper ...
    This book offers a highly accessible introduction to natural language processing, the field that supports a variety of language technologies, from predictive text and email filtering to automatic summarization and translation. With it, you'll learn how to write Python programs that work with large collections of unstructured text. You'll access richly annotated datasets using a comprehensive range ... Read more

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  • The Art of the Possible

    A Handbook for Political Activism

    by Amanda Sussman ...
    A political insider tells us how we can make a difference. A must-read for fans of The Rebel Sell and Naomi Klein’s No Logo.What difference can one person make? If I’m not a famous actor, rock star, or multi-millionaire philanthropist, what do I really have to offer?The notion that the government is open only to a few is a myth. In fact, our political system is incredibly accessible, but the ... Read more

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  • Applied Text Analysis with Python

    Enabling Language-Aware Data Products with Machine Learning

    by Benjamin Bengfort, Rebecca Bilbro, Tony Ojeda ...
    From news and speeches to informal chatter on social media, natural language is one of the richest and most underutilized sources of data. Not only does it come in a constant stream, always changing and adapting in context; it also contains information that is not conveyed by traditional data sources. The key to unlocking natural language is through the creative application of text analytics. This ... Read more

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  • The Immigrant Exodus

    Why America Is Losing the Global Race to Capture Entrepreneurial Talent

    by Vivek Wadhwa ...
    A 2012 ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEARMany of the United States' most innovative entrepreneurs have been immigrants, from Andrew Carnegie, Alexander Graham Bell, and Charles Pfizer to Sergey Brin, Vinod Khosla, and Elon Musk. Nearly half of Fortune 500 companies and one-quarter of all new small businesses were founded by immigrants, generating trillions of dollars annually, employing millions of ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

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  • Essential Speech and Language Technology for Dutch

    Results by the STEVIN-programme

    Edited by Peter Spyns, Jan Odijk ...
    Series series Computer Science (R0)
    The book provides an overview of more than a decade of joint R&D efforts in the Low Countries on HLT for Dutch. It not only presents the state of the art of HLT for Dutch in the areas covered, but, even more importantly, a description of the resources (data and tools) for Dutch that have been created are now available for both academia and industry worldwide.The contributions cover many areas of ... Read more

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  • The Race To The Bottom

    Why A Worldwide Worker Surplus And Uncontrolled Free Trade Are Sinking American Living Standards

    by Alan Tonelson ...
    With the end of the 1990s economic boom, The Race to the Bottom deftly explores how the United States has entered a no-win global competition in which the countries with the lowest wages, weakest workplace safety laws, and toughest repression of unions win investment from the U.S. and Europe. Tonelson analyzes how the entry of such population giants as China, India, and Mexico into the global ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Natural Language Annotation for Machine Learning

    A Guide to Corpus-Building for Applications

    by James Pustejovsky, Amber Stubbs ...
    Create your own natural language training corpus for machine learning. Whether you’re working with English, Chinese, or any other natural language, this hands-on book guides you through a proven annotation development cycle—the process of adding metadata to your training corpus to help ML algorithms work more efficiently. You don’t need any programming or linguistics experience to get started ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Tools and Techniques of Leadership and Management

    Meeting the Challenge of Complexity

    by Ralph Stacey ...
    Many of today’s books on the tools and techniques of leadership and management provide descriptions of long lists for use in decision-making, leading, coaching and project management. This book takes a completely different approach. It contests the claims that the tools and techniques are based on evidence and explains why human activities of leading and managing are simply not amenable to ... Read more

    $111.99 CAD