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Free Download Human Leadership for Humane Technology The New AI: Agency Ignited by Cornelia C. Walther
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2024 | 357 Pages | ISBN : 3031678222 | 14 MB
This book explores the relationship of natural and artificial intelligence in our rapidly evolving world. It does so anchored in an innovative multidisciplinary framework and the premise that society is a composition of multiple dimensions, with individuals (micro), communities (meso), countries (macro) and planet (meta) in the collective sphere, and individuals themselves as multidimensional beings (aspirations, emotions, thoughts, sensations). This perspective is applied to analyze the implications of our transition into a phase where online and offline realms are increasingly intertwined. Special attention is given to the influence of all pervasive technology on our perception of the self and society. The central message is that we must learn to harness Agency amid AI, which entails double literacy – of artificial and natural intelligence.

Free Download Lethal Injection and the False Promise of Humane Execution by Austin Sarat
English | June 28, 2022 | ISBN: 1503633535 | 194 pages | MOBI | 2.40 Mb
With a history marked by incompetence, political maneuvering, and secrecy, America’s "most humane" execution method is anything but. From the beginning of the Republic, this country has struggled to reconcile its use of capital punishment with the Constitution’s prohibition of cruel punishment. Death penalty proponents argue both that it is justifiable as a response to particularly heinous crimes, and that it serves to deter others from committing them in the future. However, since the earliest executions, abolitionists have fought against this state-sanctioned killing, arguing, among other things, that the methods of execution have frequently been just as gruesome as the crimes meriting their use. Lethal injection was first introduced in order to quell such objections, but, as Austin Sarat shows in this brief history, its supporters’ commitment to painless and humane death has never been certain. This book tells the story of lethal injection’s earliest iterations in the United States, starting with New York state’s rejection of that execution method almost a century and half ago. Sarat recounts lethal injection’s return in the late 1970s, and offers novel and insightful scrutiny of the new drug protocols that went into effect between 2010 and 2020. Drawing on rare data, he makes the case that lethal injections during this time only became more unreliable, inefficient, and more frequently botched. Beyond his stirring narrative history, Sarat mounts a comprehensive condemnation of the state-level maneuvering in response to such mishaps, whereby death penalty states adopted secrecy statutes and adjusted their execution protocols to make it harder to identify and observe lethal injection’s flaws. What was once touted as America’s most humane execution method is now its most unreliable one. What was once a model of efficiency in the grim business of state killing is now marked by mayhem. The book concludes by critically examining the place of lethal injection, and the death penalty writ large, today.

Free Download Teaching Compassion: Humane Education in Early Childhood By Mary Renck Jalongo Ph.D. (auth.), Mary Renck Jalongo (eds.)
2014 | 237 Pages | ISBN: 9400769210 | PDF | 4 MB
In response to highly publicized incidents of school violence, educators across the United States and in many other nations are seeking effective ways to prevent and modify aggressive and anti-social behaviors in students. One of the major recommendations of the research is that efforts to prevent cruelty need to begin early, during the early childhood years of birth through age eight. The focus of Teaching Compassion: Humane Education in Early Childhood is guiding young children to accept responsibility for and to be kind in their interactions with fellow human beings, animals and the environment. Although humane education is a relatively new concept in the field of early childhood education, professionals in the field are very familiar with many of the related concepts, including: promoting positive interpersonal interactions, teaching children the skills of self-regulation, giving children experience in caring for living things and protecting the environment. This edited volume is an interdisciplinary compendium of professional wisdom gathered from experts in the fields of education, child development, science, psychology, sociology and humane organizations. As the book amply documents, the concept of humane education is powerful, integrative, timely and appropriate in work with young children.Teaching Compassion: Humane Education in Early Childhood shows how it is possible for adults dedicated to the care and education of young children to balance attention to the cognitive and affective realms and, in so doing, to elevate the overall quality of early childhood programs for children, families and communities.

Free Download Iris M. Yob, "Humane Music Education for the Common Good "
English | ISBN: 0253046904 | 2020 | 298 pages | AZW3 | 1467 KB
Why teach music? Who deserves a music education? Can making and learning about music contribute to the common good? In Humane Music Education for the Common Good, scholars and educators from around the world offer unique responses to the recent UNESCO report titled Rethinking Education: Toward the Common Good. This report suggests how, through purpose, policy, and pedagogy, education can and must respond to the challenges of our day in ways that respect and nurture all members of the human family. The contributors to this volume use this report as a framework to explore the implications and complexities that it raises. The book begins with analytical reflections on the report and then explores pedagogical case studies and practical models of music education that address social justice, inclusion, individual nurturance, and active involvement in the greater public welfare. The collection concludes by looking to the future, asking what more should be considered, and exploring how these ideals can be even more fully realized. The contributors to this volume boldly expand the boundaries of the UNESCO report to reveal new ways to think about, be invested in, and use music education as a center for social change both today and going forward.

Free Download Inclusive Tech Conducting Humane Code Reviews
Duration: 42m 11s | Video: .MP4 1280×720, 30 fps(r) | Audio: AAC, 48000 Hz, 2ch | Size: 153 MB
Genre: eLearning | Language: English
Learn how to conduct fair, objective, and productive code reviews and still like your teammates afterward! Instructor Adrienne Braganza Tacke explains why we conduct code reviews, the main pain points teams experience, and what your team needs to make code reviews successful. She explores objectivity and how to write constructive feedback, covers why your team needs a working agreement and how to create one, and offers tools and automations to make the process faster and easier for your team. Successful code reviews have an inclusive mindset, so Adrienne also steps through how to master writing any kind of code review comment, even constructive feedback, and covers how to formalize an enforceable code review process. With buy-in from the whole team and a clear, detailed process laid out, process loopholes should be minimized and hopefully eradicated for good.
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Free Download When History Returns: Psychoanalytic Quests for Humane Learning
by Deborah P Britzman
English | 2024 | ISBN: 143849775X | 195 Pages | True PDF | 1.84 MB

Free Download James R. Otteson, Brandon Pollock (Narrator), "Honorable Business: A Framework for Business in a Just and Humane Society"
English | ASIN: B0CSTFZFK8 | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~10:28:00 | 297 MB

Business has a bad name for many people. It is easy to point to unethical and damaging behavior by companies. And it may seem straightforward to blame either individuals or, more generally, ruthless markets and amoral commercial society.
In Honorable Business, James R. Otteson argues that business activity can be valuable in itself. Done correctly, honorable business can enable flourishing for individuals and prosperity for society.

Free Download Jef Raskin, "The Humane Interface: New Directions for Designing Interactive Systems"
English | 2000 | ISBN: 0201379376 | EPUB | pages: 233 | 1.3 mb
This unique guide to interactive system design reflects the experience and vision of Jef Raskin, the creator of the Apple Macintosh project. Other books may show how to use today’s widgets and interface ideas effectively. Raskin, however, demonstrates that many current interface paradigms are dead ends, and that to make computers significantly easier to use requires new approaches. He explains how to effect desperately needed changes, offering a wealth of innovative and specific interface ideas for software designers, developers, and product managers. The Apple Macintosh helped to introduce a previous revolution in computer interface design, drawing on the best available technology to establish many of the interface techniques and methods now universal in the computer industry. With this book, Raskin proves again both his farsightedness and his practicality. He also demonstrates how design ideas must be built on a scientific basis, presenting just enough cognitive psychology to link the interface of the future to the experimental evidence and to show why that interface will work. Raskin observes that our honeymoon with digital technology is over: We are tired of having to learn huge, arcane programs to do even the simplest of tasks; we have had our fill of crashing computers; and we are fatigued by the continual pressure to upgrade. The Humane Interface delivers a way for computers, information appliances, and other technology-driven products to continue to advance in power and expand their range of applicability, while becoming free of the hassles and obscurities that plague present products.

Free Download Humane Entrepreneurship: Creating A New Economy, Venture By Venture
by Craig S Galbraith;Curt H Stiles;
English | 2023 | ISBN: 9811271232 | 241 pages | True PDF EPUB | 10.36 MB