“…Yet the journey is long, filled with uncertainties, extremities, and black swan events. It can wear out the best and the brightest. …”

“…COVID-19 has been one of the worst pandemics of the century due to its high contagiousness emerging like a Black Swan phenomenon, which created crises worldwide in the health systems, economies, financial systems, retail markets, tourism, and hospitality industries, educational systems, and employment. …”

“…It features updated chapters and two new sections on Black Swan and the Stochastic Information Packet (SIP) and Stochastic Library Units with Relationships Preserved (SLURP) Standard. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Foreword -- Preface -- Disaster resiliency : interdisciplinary perspectives -- Introduction to conceptual insights and applications of resilience -- All hazards, whole community : creating resiliency -- Sociological insights on the role of social capital in disaster resilience -- Understanding hurricane vulnerability : Florida mobile home parks -- Building collaborative capacity for disaster resiliency -- Resilient rural communities: housing recovery patterns following hurricane Katrina -- Taking action in uncertain environments : connecting resilience to hazards -- Public risks and disaster resilience : rethinking public and private sector roles -- Networks, collaborative planning, and perceived quality of comprehensive plans -- Examining environmental factors contributing to community resilience along the Gulf of Mexico coast -- Resilience planning in the face of uncertainty : adapting to climate change effects on coastal hazards -- Incorporating resilience of rural communities for pro-active risk reduction in Shikoku, Japan -- Improving community resilience through networks -- The role of responder networks in promoting community resilience : toward a measurement framework of network capacity -- Coping with catastrophe : "black swan" in northeastern Japan, March 11, 2011 -- Enhancing community resilience : a matter of multi-level framework, mixed methods, and multi-sectoral tools -- Management capacity and rural community resilience -- Inter-organizational coordination : analysis of 2011 van earthquake -- Community capacity and interorganizational networks for disaster resilience : comparison of rural and urban counties -- (Conclusion): emerging research in disaster resiliency and sustainability : implications for policy and practice -- Bibliography -- Appendices -- List of contributors…”
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Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- The three forces -- Storm outriders -- VUCA -- How to understand change -- Chapter 2: The VUCA world -- The three forces -- Breaking down VUCA -- Black Swans -- Chapter 3: The old world -- The opposite of VUCA -- The Comfort Paradox -- The problems with exponentiality -- The three symptoms of VUCA -- A crafted future? …”

“…Learn practical tips to apply the elegant parts of the language and the gotchas to avoid. JavaScript is a black swan that no one, including the author of the language, thought would become a popular and ubiquitous language. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Multiple selves: understanding the nature of dissociation in Black Swan Büke Sağlam -- 11. Passage and flow: oceanic dystopia in the self-conscious Anthropocene Florian Mussgnug -- Part III, Political passages related to identity, othering, supremacy and power. 12. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Chapter 3 The Washington Principle The Skills of a Leader; Why We Need IT Governance; A Process for Generating Commitment; They Cannot Read Your Mind; Multiple Levels of Governance; Delivering Expected Value; The Basics of Good Governance; Chapter 4 Balancing Risk and Exposure; The CIA Model of Risk Assessment; An Easy Method for Modeling Risk; The Risk Profile Matrix; Bring Options and Recommendations to the Table; Managing IT Security Risks; What about the Black Swan?; Note; Chapter 5 Time Is the Enemy; Riding to Nowhere?…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Collateral social and community impacts -- Collateral employment, income and wealth impacts -- Conclusion: reducing collateral damage through politics and policy -- FOUR Pandemic precarity: inequalities in the economic crisis -- Introduction -- An unequal crisis -- Recessions, health and inequality19 -- Lessons from the global financial crisis: social security nets matter -- Conclusion -- FIVE Pandemic politics: inequality through public policy -- Syndemic pandemic: black swan, white swan, or grey rhino? -- Three worlds of inequality -- How political policy choices affected pandemic inequalities…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Multiple selves: understanding the nature of dissociation in Black Swan Büke Sağlam ; 11. Passage and flow: oceanic dystopia in the self-conscious Anthropocene Florian Mussgnug Part III, Political passages related to identity, othering, supremacy and power. 12. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Chapter 5: Security Audit Strategies and TacticsCentres of gravity and their types; Identifying critical points; The strategic exploitation cycle; External technical assessment recon; Social engineering recon; Internal technical assessment recon; Technical vulnerability discovery process; A brief on human vulnerabilities; The tactical exploitation cycle; Front, flank, simple, complex; The strategies of creating gaps; Chapter 6: Synthetic Evaluation of Risks; Risk, uncertainty and ugly Black Swans; On suitable risk analysis methodologies; On treatment of information security risks…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Implications of Tail Events and Black Swans for Risk Analysis -- 4.7.8. Identifying the Risk of Tail Events or Black Swans -- 4.8. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Chapter 5: Existing Approaches to Capture Sentiments in Financial Markets, and Why They Do Not WorkBehavioural Finance; Technical Analysis; Efficient Market Hypothesis; Black Swans; Social Mood; Emotion Words; Conclusion; Notes; References; Chapter 6: Developing a Conceptual Measurement Methodology Based on Archetypal Forces, Part I: Building Blocks; Linking Symbols to Archetypes; Capturing Symbols; Active Imagination; Dreams; Intuition; Freudian Slips; Metaphors; Myths, Legends, and Sagas; Taboos; Conclusion; Notes; References…”

“…We are already in the beginning stages of this black swan event, and most people don't know what's coming—but it will come much sooner and much faster than anyone thinks. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The reform of China's exchange rate regime / Yongding Yu -- Private sector development / Nicholas Lardy -- State-owned enterprise reform in China : Past, present and prospects / Ligang Song -- State enterprise reform today / Barry Naughton -- Rural-to-urban migration and migrants' labour market performance, 2008-16 / Bob Gregory and Xin Meng -- The structure of and changes to China's land system / Shouying Liu -- New urbanisation in China : A multidimensional perspective--Empirical analysis of 289 prefecture and higher-level cities / Biliang Hu and Kunling Zhang -- China's 40 years of agricultural development and reform /Jikun Huang and Scott Rozelle -- Energy price reform in China / ZhongXiang Zhang -- The evolution and transformation of China's climate change response strategy : From preventing "black swan" events to reducing "grey rhino" risks / Jiahua Pan -- China and the global trading system : Then and now / Peter Drysdale and Samuel Hardwick -- China's foreign trade : Reform, performance and contribution to economic growth / Kunwang Li and Wei Jiang -- The liberalisation of FDI policies and the impacts of FDI on China's economic development / Chunlai Chen -- Outward direct investment : Restricted, relaxed and regulated stages of development / Bijun Wang and Kailin Gao - Outward direct investment : Restricted, relaxed and regulated stages of development / Bijun Wang and Kailin Gao…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Intro -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 IT use in contemporary organizations -- 1.1 IT in organizations -- 1.1.1 IT - definition -- 1.1.2 IT importance for organizations -- 1.1.2.1 IT deployment -- 1.1.2.2 IT-business alignment -- 1.1.2.3 Perceived usefulness of IT support -- 1.1.3 IT in organization - typology -- 1.1.4 IT life cycle -- 1.1.5 IT adoption models and IT success models -- 1.1.5.1 TAM model -- 1.1.5.2 PRECEDE model -- 1.1.5.3 IT success model -- 1.1.6 The need for a new model for IT use -- 1.2 Crisis as a cause for change of the perspective on IT -- 1.2.1 Crisis typologies -- 1.2.1.1 Conventional crisis: predictable, sensitive to influence, with well-known influence possibil -- 1.2.1.2 Unexpected crisis: unpredictable, sensitive to influence -- 1.2.1.3 Intractable crisis: predictable, not sensitive to influence -- 1.2.1.4 Fundamental crisis: unpredictable, not sensitive to influence -- 1.2.2 BSE as a specific type of crisis -- 1.2.2.1 Crisis caused by BSE - research perspective -- 1.2.2.2 Crisis caused by BSE - stages -- 1.2.2.3 Crisis management in various crisis stage -- 1.2.3 COVID-19 as a specific example of Black Swan event -- 1.3 IT in crisis -- 1.3.1 IT during crisis caused by BSE -- 1.3.2 IT during crisis caused by specific BSE - the COVID-19 pandemic -- 1.3.3 IT after the COVID-19 pandemic -- 1.4 New understanding of IT support after BSE - the COVID-19 pandemic -- 2 EDC-enabled IT adaptability model of organizational performance -- 2.1 IT adaptability influence on organizational performance -- 2.2 IT adaptability -- 2.2.1 IT adaptability during BSE -- 2.2.2 IT adaptability, job performance, and organizational performance -- 2.2.2.1 Organizational performance and job performance - definition -- 2.2.2.2 IT adaptability influence on organizational performance through job performance…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The Introspection IllusionBlind Spot Bias, Revisited; Rose-Colored Investing; Past and Present Failures; Depressed but Wealthy; Disposed to Lose Money; Loss Aversion; Anchored; Two Strangers; Hindsight's Not So Wonderful; Deferral to Authority; Emotion; Black Swans; Dirty Money, Mental Accounting; A Faint Whisper of Emotion; Psychologically Numbed; Martha Stewart's Biases; Retrospective; Annual Returns; Nudged; Mindfulness; Be Preoccupied with Failure; Do Not Simplify Interpretations; Be Sensitive to Odd Events; Be Resilient; Don't Get Too Clever; The Seven Key Takeaways; Notes…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Economy; Greece: Between a Rock and a Hard Place; China: A Short-Term Threat to the Party; Iran: Our Next Black Swan?; The Passage of Time; A Closer Look at the Current U.S. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Kioko -- Framing the future of national parks / Thomas Widlok and Ndapewa Fenny Nakanyete -- The future of communal lands in Africa : experiences from Namibia / Romi Vonki Nghitevelekwa -- Connected Sahel-Sahara in turmoil : the past in the future / Mirjam de Bruijn -- Black swan, grey swan? Pandemic scenarios and African peace and security futures / Ulf Engel -- The youth and land access challenges : critical reflections from post-fast track land reform Zimbabwe / Clement Chipenda and Tom Tom -- "We will not watch like monkeys" : development visions and conflict potentials in Northern Kenya / Kennedy Mkutu Agade -- Spells of moral panic and flashes of pride : Digital Kinois' engagements with the search for a COVID-19 cure / Katrien Pype -- Beyond the dead end : Gikuyus and Englishes in colonial and postcolonial debates on language and decolonizing (Kenya) / Inge Brinkman -- Animating the future : storytelling and super heroes in Africa / Ute Fendler -- Conceptual design and fashion's futures in the Afropolis -- Future tense / Anne Storch -- CityLabs : making cities, making futures / Steven van Wolputte, Ann Cassiman, and Filip de Boeck -- Innovation, music and future making by young Africans in a challenging environment : examples from Cameroon and Nigeria / Jonathan Ngeh and Michaela Pelican -- A future of hope : artists in a context of insecurity / Ludovic Ouhonyioué Kibora -- 'Girling' the future and 'futuring' girls in Niger / Adeline Masquelier -- Queer futures, national utopias : notes on objects, intimacy, time, and the state / George Paul Meiu -- Futuring together : inside and outside of marriage on Namibia / Julia Pauli -- The future of female genital cutting : an evolution of its medicalization / Tammary Esho -- Imagination of the past and memory for the future : re-establishment of the Lifeworld through rituals among the Glua/Gllana / Akira Takada and Yuriko Sugiyama -- Visitations / Martha Ndakalako -- Academic cooperation in the humanities and social sciences : a post-COVID future / Andreas Mehaler and Francis B. …”