In clear, accessible language, Brecher and Costello describe how people around the world have started challenging the New World Economy. From the Zapatistas of Chiapas to students in France to the broad-based anti-NAFTA and anti-GATT coalitions in the United States, opposition to economic globalization, Brecher and Costello argue, is becoming a worldwide revolt.

Global Village or Global Pillage: Economic Reconstruction from the Bottom Up

Business & Money

Brecher, Jeremy

Costello, Tim

Economics

South End Pr

In clear, accessible language, Brecher and Costello describe how people around the world have started challenging the New World Economy. From the Zapatistas of Chiapas to students in France to the broad-based anti-NAFTA and anti-GATT coalitions in the United States, opposition to economic globalization, Brecher and Costello argue, is becoming a worldwide revolt.

Global Village or Global Pillage (Second Edition): Economic Reconstruction From the Bottom Up

South End Press

Global Village or Global Pillage, Second Edition: Economic Reconstruction From the Bottom Up

Globalization from Below

World business leaders' greed-as-usual came to a dramatic halt last November when tens of thousands of protesters flooded the streets of Seattle and shut down the 1999 meeting of the World Trade Organization. This powerful but virtually unknown organization was spotlighted through coordinated actions by such diverse constituencies as environmental, labor, and human rights advocates, catching the attention of the world. The New York Times declared its amazement, "The surprisingly large protests point to the emergence of a new and vocal coalition." According to the Times, that movement includes "a wide swath of Main Street America." As fewer people take greater control of the world's wealth, natural resources, and decision-making power, more and more people are feeling enraged at what amounts to the theft of democracy. Working with their neighbors to wrest power back from the multinational corporations, these citizens will find Globalization from Below an invaluable tool, a concise presentation of the reasons and the means to galvanize a winning challenge to the powers that be. This accessible, practical guide lays out a strategy that will reverse the damaging effects of unfettered pursuit of profits: environmental degradation, a widening gap between rich and poor, and a lack of accountability in international organizations such as the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and the World Trade Organization. Globalization from Below will inspire ordinary citizens and challenge veteran organizers as it delineates a process of forging lasting links with activists around the world to gain economic and environmental security now and in the future. Jeremy Brecher is the author of Strike! Tim Costello is a union activist based in Boston and has co-authored several books with Brecher, including Global Village or Global Pillage. Brendan Smith is a former staff assistant to Representative Bernie Sanders (Independent, Vermont) and is currently working at Stone Soup, Inc. in Connecticut.

Smith, Brendan

International

Brecher, Costello, and Smith chart out a dynamic and innovative strategy for building the movement to challenge unchecked coporate globalization.

Focus on the most important and most often overlooked factor in a successful Tableau project―data. Without a reliable data source, you will not achieve the results you hope for in Tableau. This book does more than teach the mechanics of data preparation. It teaches you: how to look at data in a new way, to recognize the most common issues that hinder analytics, and how to mitigate those factors one by one. Tableau can change the course of business, but the old adage of "garbage in, garbage out" is the hard truth that hides behind every Tableau sales pitch. That amazing sales demo does not work as well with bad data. The unfortunate reality is that almost all data starts out in a less-than-perfect state. Data prep is hard. Traditionally, we were forced into the world of the database where complex ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) operations created by the data team did all the heavy lifting for us. Fortunately, we have moved past those days. With the introduction of the Tableau Data Prep tool you can now handle most of the common Data Prep and cleanup tasks on your own, at your desk, and without the help of the data team. This essential book will guide you through: <ul>
<li>The layout and important parts of the Tableau Data Prep tool 
</li>
<li>Connecting to data 
</li>
<li>Data quality and consistency 
</li>
<li>The shape of the data. Is the data oriented in columns or rows? How to decide? Why does it matter?</li>
<li>What is the level of detail in the source data? Why is that important? 
</li>
<li>Combining source data to bring in more fields and rows 
</li>
<li>Saving the data flow and the results of our data prep work 
</li>
<li>Common cleanup and setup tasks in Tableau Desktop 
</li>
</ul> What You Will Learn <ul>
<li>Recognize data sources that are good candidates for analytics in Tableau 
</li>
<li>Connect to local, server, and cloud-based data sources 
</li>
<li>Profile data to better understand its content and structure 
</li>
<li>Rename fields, adjust data types, group data points, and aggregate numeric data 
</li>
<li>Pivot data 
</li>
<li>Join data from local, server, and cloud-based sources for unified analytics 
</li>
<li>Review the steps and results of each phase of the Data Prep process 
</li>
<li>Output new data sources that can be reviewed in Tableau or any other analytics tool 
</li>
</ul> Who This Book Is For Tableau Desktop users who want to: connect to data, profile the data to identify common issues, clean up those issues, join to additional data sources, and save the newly cleaned, joined data so that it can be used more effectively in Tableau

Prepare Your Data for Tableau: A Practical Guide to the Tableau Data Prep Tool

Computers & Technology

Computer Science

Apress

Stories are a way we can make sense of experience and in a world that is full of dramatic and soul-searching events, Tim Costello reveals the stories of hope he has encountered in the most dramatic of circumstances. A book that reminds us all that there are so many that suffer yet still find hope. Hope can be found in the smallest of moments. A book to savor and to bring home the importance of love, life and the best that there is to be found in people. A wonderful celebration of humanity. This gift book will be a gift of HOPE. "Essentially, I am a hopeful person who believes that life can and does have a way of giving us the impetus to keep going in hard times, and to keep working for what might otherwise seem like a 'hopeless' cause." - Tim Costello

Hope: Moments of inspiration in a challenging world

Self-Help

Motivational

Hardie Grant Books

Faith is an important message of hope and reconciliation — as well as an invitation to think about the many soul-searching events that challenge belief. Tim Costello, who is a respected speaker on social justice issues, points us to an inclusive faith, bringing people from across the spectrum of society together. In this thought-provoking collection he gives us reason to pause and consider our world from the myriad perspectives of others as he meditates on the importance of true faith to humanity.

Faith: Embracing Life in All its Uncertainty

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Streets of hope: Finding God in St Kilda

Albatross Books

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Books by Costello, Tim

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Global Village or Global Pillage: Economic Reconstruction from the Bottom Up

Global Village or Global Pillage (Second Edition): Economic Reconstruction From the Bottom Up

Global Village or Global Pillage, Second Edition: Economic Reconstruction From the Bottom Up

Globalization from Below

Globalization from Below

Prepare Your Data for Tableau: A Practical Guide to the Tableau Data Prep Tool

Hope: Moments of inspiration in a challenging world

Faith: Embracing Life in All its Uncertainty

Streets of hope: Finding God in St Kilda