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Four Laws for the Artificially Intelligent.
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ISBN: 1637421605 Year: 2021 Publisher: New York : Business Expert Press,

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Four Laws for the Artificially Intelligent redefines possibilities and offers leverage to turn AI visions into reality. It is a story of transformation: of people, of companies, and of artificial intelligence itself. The Four Laws is unique in its combination of stories and science illustrating how a technology competing with human consciousness is introduced and assimilated within a company. A work of creative nonfiction stretched on a frame of research, it is an essential trail guide for navigating the Industry Version 4.0 jungle in a search of the fruits of innovation.


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All services, all the time : how business services serve your business
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ISBN: 1631572776 Year: 2016 Publisher: New York, New York (222 East 46th Street, New York, NY 10017) : Business Expert Press,

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This book takes the position that organizations, such as businesses and government agencies, form a special class of living system. As such they come into being, live through lifecycle stages, and can experience organizational health and various forms of organizational illness along the way. If the latter is frequent or extended, such organizations often die an untimely death. A services perspective can go a long way to combat this outcome and assist in maintaining organizational health. Allowing this perspective to permeate an organization induces a consideration of its genuine value and leads to a greater understanding of the breadth of stakeholders who are the beneficiaries of it. Productivity and services in an organization are symbiotic and must be so in order to achieve the balance that is key to the health of each organization. A services perspective illuminates as well the pivotal role that business-to-business service providers play in ensuring that balance is achieved and maintained. This book explores these factors from the point of view of the business leader and anyone concerned with the health of any organization.


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The Chinese entrepreneurship way : a case study approach
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ISBN: 1606497650 Year: 2013 Publisher: New York, New York (222 East 46th Street, New York, NY 10017) : Business Expert Press,

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China is the second largest economy in the world, and it stands poised to become the largest. China's geo-political power is also developing at a stunning pace. It has been predicted that China will have more impact on the world over the next 20 years than any other country. The world order as we have known it is changing, and China is becoming its leader. But, contrary to the belief that China's economic "miracle" is solely due to its government, the reality is that it has been fuelled by its people's enormous ambitions and entrepreneurial spirit. Private-owned companies account for about 60% of the country's gross domestic product (GDP) and about 75% of the country's jobs. The real secret to the Chinese economy's outstanding development had most to do with the nature and attitude of the Chinese people.


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The Spirit of This Place : How Music Illuminates the Human Spirit
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ISBN: 022609524X Year: 2018 Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press,

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Artists today are at a crossroads. With funding for the arts and humanities endowments perpetually under attack, and school districts all over the United States scrapping their art curricula altogether, the place of the arts in our civic future is uncertain to say the least. At the same time, faced with the problems of the modern world-from water shortages and grave health concerns to global climate change and the now constant threat of terrorism-one might question the urgency of this waning support for the arts. In the politically fraught world we live in, is the "felt" experience even something worth fighting for? In this soul-searching collection of vignettes, Patrick Summers gives us an adamant, impassioned affirmative. Art, he argues, nurtures freedom of thought, and is more necessary now than ever before. As artistic director of the Houston Grand Opera, Summers is well positioned to take stock of the limitations of the professional arts world-a world where the conversation revolves almost entirely around financial questions and whose reputation tends toward elitism-and to remind us of art's fundamental relationship to joy and meaning. Offering a vehement defense of long-form arts in a world with a short attention span, Summers argues that art is spiritual, and that music in particular has the ability to ask spiritual questions, to inspire cathartic pathos, and to express spiritual truths. Summers guides us through his personal encounters with art and music in disparate places, from Houston's Rothko Chapel to a music classroom in rural China, and reflects on musical works he has conducted all over the world. Assessing the growing canon of new operas performed in American opera houses today, he calls for musical artists to be innovative and brave as opera continues to reinvent itself. This book is a moving credo elucidating Summers's belief that the arts, especially music, help us to understand our own humanity as intellectual, aesthetic, and ultimately spiritual.

Chinese capitalists in Japan's new order : the occupied lower Yangzi, 1937-1945
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ISBN: 0520232682 0520928296 128235664X 9786612356643 1597345334 9780520928299 0585465940 9780585465944 9780520232686 6612356642 9781597345330 9781282356641 Year: 2003 Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press,

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In this probing and original study, Parks M. Coble examines the devastating impact of Japan's invasion and occupation of the lower Yangzi on China's emerging modern business community. Arguing that the war gravely weakened Chinese capitalists, Coble demonstrates that in occupied areas the activities of businessmen were closer to collaboration than to heroic resistance. He shows how the war left an important imprint on the structure and culture of Chinese business enterprise by encouraging those traits that had allowed it to survive in uncertain and dangerous times.Although historical memory emphasizes the entrepreneurs who followed the Nationalists armies to the interior, most Chinese businessmen remained in the lower Yangzi area. If they wished to retain any ownership of their enterprises, they were forced to collaborate with the Japanese and the Wang Jingwei regime in Nanjing. Characteristics of business in the decades prior to the war, including a preference for family firms and reluctance to become public corporations, distrust of government, opaqueness of business practices, and reliance of personal connections (guanxi) were critical to the survival of enterprises during the war and were reinforced by the war experience. Through consideration of the broader implications of the many responses to this complex era, Chinese Capitalists in Japan's New Order makes a substantial contribution to larger discussions of the dynamics of World War II and of Chinese business culture.

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China - Foreign relations - Japan. --- Shanghai (China)-- Economic conditions. --- Sino-Japanese Conflict, 1937-1945. --- Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945. --- Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945 --- Business & Economics --- Economic History --- Economic aspects --- Shanghai (China) --- China --- Japan --- Economic conditions. --- Politics and government. --- Foreign relations --- Chinese-Japanese War, 1937-1945 --- Japan-China War, 1937-1945 --- Japanese-Chinese War, 1937-1945 --- Second Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945 --- Sino-Japanese Conflict, 1937-1945 --- Shanghai --- Changhaï (China) --- Shang-hai (China) --- Shang hai shi (China) --- Shanghai Shi (China) --- Shanghai Municipality (China) --- Shanghai Shi ren min zheng fu (China) --- Shankhaĭ (China) --- Xangai (China) --- 上海 (China) --- Ṣămhayi (China) --- Chang-hai (China) --- Schanghai (China) --- 上海市(China) --- 上海市人民政府 (China) --- Шанхай (China) --- Śangqai (China) --- battle of shanghai. --- beijing. --- business culture. --- business. --- capitalism. --- central china. --- changzhou. --- china. --- chinese businessmen. --- chinese corporations. --- chinese history. --- collaboration. --- colonialism. --- confucian capitalism. --- corporate culture. --- corporation. --- empire. --- entrepreneur. --- family business. --- government regulation. --- guanxi. --- historical memory. --- invasion. --- japan. --- japanese imperialism. --- military. --- nanjing. --- nationalist army. --- nonfiction. --- occupation. --- rebellion. --- regime. --- resistance. --- wang jingwei. --- war. --- world war two. --- ww2. --- yangzi.

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