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Qatar and Russia World Championships sense exactly how and why the FIFA old men – we do not add the adjective "wise" – concludes that Russia and Qatar is fine World Cup hosts could always remain part of their litany of secrets. But the more time goes by, …
Pre-game news: US vs England in 2nd Day of World Cup in South Africa – June 12, 2010

History of Soccer: The Beautiful Game $26.95 HISTORY OF SOCCER: BEAUTIFUL GAME – DVD Movie…

Outcasts United: A Refugee Team, an American Town $1.90 The extraordinary tale of a refugee youth soccer team and the transformation of a small American townClarkston, Georgia, was a typical Southern town until it was designated a refugee settlement center in the 1990s, becoming the first American home for scores of families in flight from the world’s war zones—from Liberia and Sudan to Iraq and Afghanistan. Suddenly Clarkston’s streets were fill…

Hide and Seek $2.81 It was the trial that electrified the world. Not only because of the defendant, Maggie Bradford, the woman whose songs captivated the world’s heart. Not only because of the victim, Will Shepard, the world’s most glamorous athlete. But also because everyone said Maggie had murdered not just one husband, but two. And because in Maggie’s world – the world she feared and despised but could not escape,…

Wiki Government $19.95 Wiki Government shows how to bring innovation to government. In explaining how toenhance political institutions with the power of networks, it offers a fundamentalrethinking of democracy in the digital age. Collaborative democracy—government of the people, by the people, for the people—is an old dream. Today, Wiki Government shows how technology can make that dream a reality.In this thought-provoking book, Beth Simone Noveck illustrates how collaborativedemocracy strengthens public decisionmaking by connecting the power of the many to the work of the few. Equally important, she provides a step-by-step demonstration of how collaborative democracy can be designed, opening policymaking to greater participation.Wiki Government tells the story behind one of the most dramatic public sector innovations in recent years—inviting the public to participate in the patent examination process. Patent examiners usually work in secret, cut off from essential information and racing against the clock to master arcane technical claims. The Peer-to-Patent project radically transformed this process by allowing anyone with Internet access to collaboratewith the agency in reviewing patent applications.Wiki Government describes how a far-flung team of technologists, lawyers, and policymakers pried open a tradition-bound agency’s doors. Noveck explains how she brought both fiercely competitive companies and risk-averse bureaucrats on board. She discusses the design challenges the team faced in creating software to distill online collaboration into useful expertise, not just rants or raves. And she explains how law, policy, and technology can be revamped to help government work in more open and participatory ways in a wide range of policy arenas, including education and the environment.“Everyone seems to be talking about collective intelligence, but no one has developed that idea in the context of democracy and self-governance. No one, that is, until Beth Noveck. At once visionary and pragmatic, Wiki Government offers the first glimpse of how public officials might enlist the wisdom of crowds in order in order to improve government’s decisions—while promoting participation at the same time. A brilliant book and a truly extraordinary achievement.”—Cass R. Sunstein, Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law, Harvard Law School“A sweeping visionary yet highly pragmatic book! Beth Noveck concretely shows how to leverage the participatory nature of web 2.0 technologies to build a new kind of participatory democracy and a smart, lean government. She speaks from experience. A must read not just for policy folks and the digerati but for any of us wanting to understand how to tap the collective and diverse wisdom of America to create a better, more connected style of democracy.”—John Seely Brown, former chief scientist, Xerox, and director of its Palo Alto Research Center

Wiki $74.95 The popularity of the internet encyclopedia Wikipedia has attracted attention from small organizations to business enterprises. This book is a guide to installation and configuration of the wiki-clones MediaWiki and TWiki. It provides a tutorial based on collaborative planning for a conference, and includes a CD-ROM with OpenSource Wiki Tools.

Deadly Shoals (Wiki Coffin Mysteries) $4.99 Wiki Coffin plays many parts on the U.S. Exploring Expedition – sailor, linguist, navigator, and, as half-Maori, cultural go-between. But then the brig Swallow reaches the coast of Patagonia, an area infamous for its rough gauchos and revolutionary spirit, and he must take on his other role, that of agent of U.S. law and order. A New England whaler shows up, desperate to find the devious trader who has cheated him of a thousand dollars and a schooner. Wiki is assigned to find the missing ship, only to follow a trail of clues to a dead body, half-buried in a hill of salt, its skull picked clean by vultures. The adventure unravels in the impoverished village of El Carmen de Patagones, where the threat of French invasion is imminent, and business is at a standstill under the orders of General de Rosas, the tyrant of Buenos Aires. Wiki must risk both life and reputation in pursuit of a vicious and determined killer who has set his sights on another target: the U.S. Exploring Expedition itself.