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Why Biodiversity Matters

Security Architecture – How & Why

Security Architecture – How & Why

Security Architecture or Enterprise Information security architecture as it was originally coined by Gartner back in 2006 has been applied to many things and different areas making a concrete definition of security architecture a difficult proposition. But having an architecture for the cyber security needs of an organization is important for many reasons not least because having an architecture makes working with cyber security a much easier job since we can now build on a hopefully solid foundation. Developing a security architecture is a daunting job for almost anyone and in a company that has not had a cyber security program implemented before the job becomes even harder. The benefits of having a concrete cyber security architecture in place cannot be overstated! The challenge here is that a security architecture is not something that can stand alone it absolutely must be aligned with the business in which it is being implemented. This book emphasizes the importance and the benefits of having a security architecture in place. The book will be aligned with most of the sub-frameworks in the general framework called SABSA or Sherwood Applied Business Security Architecture. SABSA is comprised of several individual frameworks and there are several certifications that you can take in SABSA. Aside from getting a validation of your skills SABSA as a framework focuses on aligning the Security Architecture with the business and its strategy. Each of the chapters in this book will be aligned with one or more of the components in SABSA the components will be described along with the introduction to each of the chapters. | Security Architecture – How & Why

GBP 94.99
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Why Bother? Why and How to Assess Your Continuous-Improvement Culture

Why Bother? Why and How to Assess Your Continuous-Improvement Culture

This book focusses on the importance of creating an internal assessment program to periodically assess the maturity of the organizations transformation journey. It discusses the best approach to designing and implementing an assessment program by answering key questions posed when people resist. The book begins with selecting the positioning of the program not as an audit but as an opportunity to review strengths and opportunities through to selecting senior leader support to design of the program and developing the assessors. More than 10 case studies are documented to show how organizations have approached their assessment programs lessons learned and successes and challenges faced. The book leads the reader through the process of selling the concept and importance of transformation and Lean assessments to embed the desired behaviors within workplace culture. With many case studies the reader is guided to design their own programs and develop their own assessors. This increases the probability of sustainability of the transformation program by focusing on and maturing the behaviors the transformation programs are trying to drive. For example one of the most well-known assessments is the Shingo prize - This book explains the thinking behind the Shingo model and shares examples of assessments that support it. Other examples of assessments are covered such as process maturity quality and business assessments. | Why Bother? Why and How to Assess Your Continuous-Improvement Culture

GBP 31.99
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Why It's OK to Ignore Politics

Why It's OK to Ignore Politics

Do you feel like you’re the only person at your office without an I Voted! sticker on Election Day? It turns out that you're far from alone – 100 million eligible U. S. voters never went to the polls in 2016. That’s about 35 million more than voted for the winning presidential candidate. In this book Christopher Freiman explains why these 100 million need not feel guilty. Why It’s OK to Ignore Politics argues that you’re under no obligation to be politically active. Freiman addresses new objections to political abstention as well as some old chestnuts (But what if everyone stopped voting?). He also synthesizes recent empirical work showing how our political motivations distort our choices and reasoning. Because participating in politics is not an effective way to do good Freiman argues that we actually have a moral duty to disengage from politics and instead take direct action to make the world a better place. Key Features: Makes the case against a duty of political participation for a non-expert audience Presupposes no knowledge of philosophy or political science and is written in a style free of technical jargon Addresses the standard much-repeated arguments for why one should vote (e. g. one shouldn’t free ride on the efforts of others) Presents the growing literature on politically motivated reasoning in an accessible and entertaining way Covers a significant amount of new ground in the debate over a duty of political participation (e. g. whether participating absolves us of our complicity in state injustice) Challenges the increasingly popular argument from philosophers and economists that swing state voting is effective altruism Discusses the therapeutic benefits of ignoring politics—it’s good for you your relationships and society as a whole. | Why It's OK to Ignore Politics

GBP 19.99
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Why It's OK to Eat Meat

Why It's OK to Eat Meat

Vegetarians have argued at great length that meat-eating is wrong. Even so the vast majority of people continue to eat meat and even most vegetarians eventually give up on their diets. Does this prove these people must be morally corrupt? In Why It’s OK to Eat Meat Dan C. Shahar argues the answer is no: it’s entirely possible to be an ethical person while continuing to eat meat—and not just the fancy offerings from the farmers' market but also the regular meat we find at most supermarkets and restaurants. Shahar’s examination forcefully echoes vegetarians’ concerns about the meat industry’s impacts on animals workers the environment and public health. However he shows that the most influential ethical arguments for avoiding meat on the basis of these considerations are ultimately unpersuasive. Instead of insisting we all become vegetarians Shahar argues each of us has broad latitude to choose which of the world’s problems to tackle in what ways and to what extents and hence people can decline to take up this particular form of activism without doing anything wrong. Key Features First book-length defense of meat-eating written for a popular audience Punchy accessible introduction to the multifaceted debate over the ethics of eating meat Includes pioneering new examinations of humane labeling practices Shows why appeals to universalized patterns of behavior can’t vindicate vegetarians’ claims that there’s a duty to avoid meat Develops a novel theory of ethical activism with potential applications to a wide range of other issues | Why It's OK to Eat Meat

GBP 19.99
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Special Education What It Is and Why We Need It

Why It's OK to Not Be Monogamous

What Great Teachers Do Differently Nineteen Things That Matter Most

Scholarly Podcasting Why What How?

Behavioral Ethics in Practice Why We Sometimes Make the Wrong Decisions

Behavioral Ethics in Practice Why We Sometimes Make the Wrong Decisions

This book is an accessible research-based introduction to behavioral ethics. Often ethics education is incomplete because it ignores how and why people make moral decisions. But using exciting new research from fields such as behavioural psychology cognitive science and evolutionary biology the study of behavioural ethics uncovers the common reasons why good people often screw up. Scientists have long studied the ways human beings make decisions but only recently have researchers begun to focus specifically on ethical decision making. Unlike philosophy and religion which aim to tell people how to think and act about various moral issues behavioral ethics research reveals the factors that influence how people really make moral decisions. Most people get into ethical trouble for doing obviously wrong things. Aristotle cannot help but learning about behavioral ethics can. By supplementing traditional approaches to teaching ethics with a clear detailed research-based introduction to behavioral ethics beginners can quickly become familiar with the important elements of this new field. This book includes the bonus of being coordinated with Ethics Unwrapped – a free online educational resource featuring award-winning videos and teaching materials on a variety of behavioral ethics (and general ethics) topics. This book is a useful supplement for virtually every ethics course and important in any course where incorporating practical ethics in an engaging manner is paramount. The content applies to every discipline –business ethics journalism medicine legal ethics and others – because its chief subject is the nature of moral decision making. The book is also highly relevant to practitioners across all sectors. | Behavioral Ethics in Practice Why We Sometimes Make the Wrong Decisions

GBP 31.99
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Keeping Us Engaged Student Perspectives (and Research-Based Strategies) on What Works and Why

Keeping Us Engaged Student Perspectives (and Research-Based Strategies) on What Works and Why

This book offers faculty practical strategies to engage students that are research-grounded and endorsed by students themselves. Through student stories a signature feature of this book readers will discover why professor actions result in changed attitudes stronger connections to others and the course material and increased learning. Structured to cover the key moments and opportunities to increase student engagement Christine Harrington covers the all-important first day of class where first impressions can determine students’ attitudes for the duration of the course through to insights for rethinking assignments and enlivening teaching strategies to ways of providing feedback that build students’ confidence and spur them to greater immersion in their studies providing the underlying rationale for the strategies she presents. The student narratives not only validate these practices offering their perspectives as learners but constitute a trove of ideas and practices that readers will be inspired to adapt for their particular needs. Conscious of the changing demographics of today’s undergraduate and graduate students – racially more diverse older and many employed – Harrington highlights the need to engage all students and shares numerous strategies on how to do so. While many of the ideas presented were used by faculty teaching face to face classes a number were developed by faculty teaching online and the majority can be adapted to virtually any teaching environment. Based on student-centered active learning principles structured to allow readers to quickly identify practices that they may need in particular instances or to infuse in a course as a whole and presented without jargon this book is a springboard for all faculty looking for ideas that will engage their students at any level and in any course. | Keeping Us Engaged Student Perspectives (and Research-Based Strategies) on What Works and Why

GBP 26.99
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Maybe Teaching is a Bad Idea Why Faculty Should Focus on Learning

Flatlined Why Lean Transformations Fail and What to Do About It

Why We Kill Understanding Violence Across Cultures and Disciplines

Design of Internet of Things

Design of Internet of Things

The text provides a comprehensive overview of the design aspects of the internet of things devices and covers the fundamentals of big data and data science. It explores various scenarios such as what are the middleware and frameworks available and how to build a stable standards-based and Secure internet of things device. It discusses important concepts including embedded programming techniques machine-to-machine architecture and the internet of things for smart city applications. It will serve as an ideal design book for professionals senior undergraduate and graduate students in the fields including electrical engineering electronics and communication engineering and computer engineering. The book- Covers applications and architecture needed to deliver solutions to end customers and readers. Discusses practical aspects of implementing the internet of things in diverse areas including manufacturing and software development. Highlights big data concepts and embedded programming techniques. Presents technologies including machine to machine integrated sensors and radio-frequency identification. Introduces global system for mobile communication and precise details of standards based on internet of things architecture models. The book focuses on practical design aspects such as how to finalize a processor integrated circuit which operating system to use etc. in a single volume. It will serve as an ideal text for professionals senior undergraduate and graduate students in diverse engineering domains including electrical electronics and communication computer. | Design of Internet of Things

GBP 44.99
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Public Space notes on why it matters what we should know and how to realize its potential

Responsibility Collapses Why Moral Responsibility is Impossible

Responsibility Collapses Why Moral Responsibility is Impossible

Our worldview assumes that people are morally responsible. Our emotions beliefs and values assume that a person is responsible for what she thinks and does and that this is a good thing. This book argues that this worldview is false. It provides four arguments for this conclusion that build on the free will and responsibility literatures in original and insightful ways: Foundation: No one is responsible because there is no foundation for responsibility. A foundation for responsibility is something for which a person is responsible but not by being responsible for something else Epistemic Condition: No one is responsible because no one fulfills the epistemic condition necessary for blameworthiness Internalism: If a person were responsible then she would be responsible for and only for what goes on in her head. Most of the evidence for responsibility says the opposite Amount: No one is responsible because we cannot make sense of what makes a person more or less praiseworthy (or blameworthy) There is no other book that argues against moral responsibility based on foundationalism the epistemic condition and internalism and shows that these arguments cohere. The book’s arguments for internalism and quantifying responsibility are new to the literature. Ultimately the book’s conclusions undermine our commonsense view of the world and the most common philosophical understanding of God morality and relationships. Responsibility Collapses: Why Moral Responsibility Is Impossible is essential reading for scholars and advanced students in philosophy religious studies and political science who are interested in debates about agency free will and moral responsibility. | Responsibility Collapses Why Moral Responsibility is Impossible

GBP 130.00
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Why It's OK to Love Bad Movies

Why It's OK to Love Bad Movies

Most people are too busy to keep up with all the good movies they’d like to see so why should anyone spend their precious time watching the bad ones? In Why It’s OK to Love Bad Movies philosopher and cinematic bottom feeder Matthew Strohl enthusiastically defends a fondness for disreputable films. Combining philosophy of art with film criticism Strohl flips conventional notions of good and bad on their heads and makes the case that the ultimate value of a work of art lies in what it can add to our lives. By this measure some of the worst movies ever made are also among the best. Through detailed discussions of films such as Troll 2 The Room Batman & Robin Twilight Ninja III: The Domination and a significant portion of Nicolas Cage’s filmography Strohl argues that so-called bad movies are the ones that break the rules of the art form without the aura of artistic seriousness that surrounds the avant-garde. These movies may not win any awards but they offer rich opportunities for creative engagement and enable the formation of lively fan communities and they can be a key ingredient in a fulfilling aesthetic life. Key Features: Written in a humorous approachable style appealing to readers with no background in philosophy. Elaborates the rewards of loving bad movies such as forming unlikely social bonds and developing refinement without narrowness. Discusses a wide range of beloved bad movies including Plan 9 from Outer Space The Core Battlefield Earth and Freddy Got Fingered. Contains the most extensive discussion of Nicolas Cage ever included in a philosophy book. | Why It's OK to Love Bad Movies

GBP 19.99
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17 Things Resilient Teachers Do (And 4 Things They Hardly Ever Do)

Why It's OK to Make Bad Choices

Why It's OK to Make Bad Choices

If we are kind people we care about others including others who tend to hurt themselves. We all have friends or family members who have potential but squander or even ruin their lives from things like drug abuse unwise spending decisions or poor dietary habits. Concern for others often motivates us to endorse laws or private interventions meant to keep people from harming themselves even if that’s what they want to do in the moment. However it is far from clear that such paternalistic measures are on net benign and they tend to violate an understanding that we should let adults make their own decisions. In this little book William Glod argues that it’s OK to allow people to make bad choices. It’s OK even if those choices risk causing a lot of harm. Most defenders of paternalism agree that some bad choices are not harmful enough to require laws to stop them. However Glod goes further. He argues that some people might want – and deserve – the freedom to make truly bad choices because such freedom is the only way they can act responsibly. He also argues that some bad choices may not even be bad even if we can't know with confidence a person's true desires. In addition the book explores choices that are bad because they might impose high monetary costs on others arguing that mandatory insurance may be a better solution than eliminating the choice. Finally it explores the potential pitfalls of paternalistic laws and policies – and how unintended costly consequences can sabotage the most well-intended plans. Key Features Introduces key concepts for understanding paternalism and freedom of choice for undergraduates and general readers Discusses how many of our preferences are not easily understood by others and shows how assumptions of what our true preferences can often backfire Explores ways in which people may want the freedom to make mistakes Examines the unintended consequences and associated problems of many paternalistic laws and regulations | Why It's OK to Make Bad Choices

GBP 19.99
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Microbiomes and Their Functions Why Organisms Need Microbes

Microbiomes and Their Functions Why Organisms Need Microbes

This book provides a fundamental understanding of the importance of the microbiome in the life of virtually all multicellular organisms. It explains why microbes are an integral part of living organisms and describes the diverse roles they perform for their hosts. Although the significance of modified bacteria such as the mitochondrion and chloroplast is deeply rooted in the evolution of all complex organisms it is only recently that the contribution of microbial partners within and on their hosts is becoming fully evident. These communities of microbes are as essential to organisms as are the visible organs. Microbiomes are indeed “invisible organs. ” They participate in the digestive process assist in communication networks supply essential nutrients guard against foreign intrusion promote development and contribute to well-being. This unique approach where the dependence of the hosts on their microbiomes is explained will be a must-read for undergraduate and graduate students. Researchers and professionals probing microbial interactions with living organisms will find this book interesting and enriching. Key Features Emphasizes the roles microbiomes play within their hosts Includes many captivating illustrations enabling easy comprehension Explains microbiome functions from algae to vertebrates Reveals how microbiomes contribute to the health of the hosts and the ecosystems Describes the impact of dysbiosis on diseases food security and climate change Boxed sections provide a detailed analysis of concepts and are accompanied by vivid illustrations | Microbiomes and Their Functions Why Organisms Need Microbes

GBP 59.99
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Language Mind and Power Why We Need Linguistic Equality