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Download or read book FlatWorld2^ written by John Girdwood and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2024-04-26 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dive into the spellbinding realm of FlatWorld, where Edinburgh’s own adventurous couple, Mac’ and Mari MacKenzie, find themselves ensnared by an ancient and mystical chessboard, gateway to the sprawling Multiverse of endless worlds. In FlatWorld, which intriguingly mirrors a vast chessboard landscape, the couple is thrust into a race against time. They grapple with deciphering ancient scripts, separating myth from reality, all the while being ensnared in a looming conflict between the luminous White Tower, the stronghold of the Light’s King and Queen, and the enigmatic Grey Court. To their astonishment, Mac’ and Mari discover they’ve assumed the roles of the Dark King and his Grey Queen. Amidst the backdrop of fierce Goblorcs, valiant Knight Riders, stern men of steel, and Church-Cross Bishop armies gearing for war, Mac’ and Mari’s quest becomes twofold: find a way back to their beloved Edinburgh before FlatWorld claims them eternally and thwart an impending war that threatens to plunge both kingdoms into an abyss of endless darkness and turmoil.
Book Synopsis Optics and Photonics by : National Research Council
Download or read book Optics and Photonics written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2013-03-19 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Optics and photonics technologies are ubiquitous: they are responsible for the displays on smart phones and computing devices, optical fiber that carries the information in the internet, advanced precision manufacturing, enhanced defense capabilities, and a plethora of medical diagnostics tools. The opportunities arising from optics and photonics offer the potential for even greater societal impact in the next few decades, including solar power generation and new efficient lighting that could transform the nation's energy landscape and new optical capabilities that will be essential to support the continued exponential growth of the Internet. As described in the National Research Council report Optics and Photonics: Essential Technologies for our Nation, it is critical for the United States to take advantage of these emerging optical technologies for creating new industries and generating job growth. The report assesses the current state of optical science and engineering in the United States and abroad-including market trends, workforce needs, and the impact of photonics on the national economy. It identifies the technological opportunities that have arisen from recent advances in, and applications of, optical science and engineering. The report also calls for improved management of U.S. public and private research and development resources, emphasizing the need for public policy that encourages adoption of a portfolio approach to investing in the wide and diverse opportunities now available within photonics. Optics and Photonics: Essential Technologies for our Nation is a useful overview not only for policymakers, such as decision-makers at relevant Federal agencies on the current state of optics and photonics research and applications but also for individuals seeking a broad understanding of the fields of optics and photonics in many arenas.
Book Synopsis Educating for the Knowledge Economy? by : Hugh Lauder
Download or read book Educating for the Knowledge Economy? written by Hugh Lauder and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-01-06 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading scholars from the US, the UK, Australia and New Zealand question whether current policies relating to knowledge, learning and assessment are consistent with the kinds of workers and skills required for the knowledge economy?
Book Synopsis Cyber Attacks by : Edward G. Amoroso
Download or read book Cyber Attacks written by Edward G. Amoroso and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2012-02-17 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Ten basic principles that will reduce the risk of cyber attack to national infrastructure in a substantive manner"--
Book Synopsis Learning, Creating, and Using Knowledge by : Joseph Donald Novak
Download or read book Learning, Creating, and Using Knowledge written by Joseph Donald Novak and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2010 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fully revised and updated, this second edition updates Novak's theory for meaningful learning and autonomous knowledge-building along with tools to make it operational - that is, concept maps, created with the use of CMapTools and the V diagram. It is essential reading for educators at all levels and corporate managers who seek to enhance worker productivity.
Book Synopsis Sanskrit Non-Translatables by : Rajiv Malhotra
Download or read book Sanskrit Non-Translatables written by Rajiv Malhotra and published by Manjul Publishing. This book was released on with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sanskrit Non-Translatables is a path-breaking and audacious attempt at Sanskritizing the English language and enriching it with powerful Sanskrit words. It continues the original and innovative idea of nontranslatability of Sanskrit, first introduced in the book, Being Different. For English readers, this should be the starting point of the movement to resist the digestion of Sanskrit into English, by introducing loanwords into their English vocabulary without translation. The book presents a thorough mechanism of the process of digestion and examines the loss of adhikara for Sanskrit because of translating its core ideas into English. The movement launched by this book will resist this and stop the programs that seek to turn Sanskrit into a dead language by translating all its treasures to render it redundant. It discusses fifty-four non-translatables across various genres that are being commonly mistranslated. It empowers English speakers with the knowledge and arguments to introduce these Sanskrit words into their daily speech with confidence. Every lover of India’s sanskriti will benefit from the book and become a cultural ambassador propagating it through routine communications.
Book Synopsis Russia in the Indo-Pacific by : Gaye Christoffersen
Download or read book Russia in the Indo-Pacific written by Gaye Christoffersen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-23 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume zones in on Russia’s relations with the Indo-Pacific region through the lens of theoretical pluralism, presenting alternatives to the mainstream Realist view of Russia as a major power using geopolitical strategies to establish itself. Russia in the Indo-Pacific is an understudied topic that needs a fresh perspective. Contributors to this volume are based across Russia, China, Japan, Malaysia, Vietnam, and the USA, drawing on a range of multinational perspectives and theoretical approaches encompassing realism and liberalism, constructivism and the English school of international relations. Reflecting a trend of internationalization in the Russian study of IR, such theoretical pluralism could facilitate Russian contributions to emerging global IR theory. Russia in the Indo-Pacific contributes towards a more intelligible common discourse in the Indo-Pacific, of interest to students and scholars of Sino-Russian relations, Indo-Pacific international relations, and international relations theory. It will also be of interest to policymakers and general readers following foreign policy and economic trends in the Indo-Pacific who want to better understand Russia's role.
Book Synopsis Conquest Of Time And The Happy Turning by :
Download or read book Conquest Of Time And The Happy Turning written by and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Flat World written by Ivor Kovač and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-05-09 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roger Strauss was a pilot for the US Air Force, a young soldier with a promising career. His record was impressive enough for him to be chosen to test an experimental vehicle, the like of which the which the world had never seen before, and of which most of the world had never imagined. In theory, the vehicle would instantly travel from one point in the universe to another by leaving the physical universe and coming in at a different point. But what would happen when the vehicle was actually tested, and where would the pilot go when it left the physical universe? Would it even work at all? Those were the questions that Roger Strauss was to answer, and the answers would be more than he had ever imagined.
Book Synopsis Education in the Age of Biocapitalism by : C. Pierce
Download or read book Education in the Age of Biocapitalism written by C. Pierce and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-12-28 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biocapitalism, an economic model built on making new commodities from existing forms of life, has fundamentally changed how we understand the boundaries between nature/culture and human/nonhuman. This is the first book to examine its implications for education and how human capital understandings of education are co-evolving with biocapitalism.
Book Synopsis Blogosphere and its Exploration by : Christoph Meinel
Download or read book Blogosphere and its Exploration written by Christoph Meinel and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-03-20 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book represents an attempt to fully review the phenomenon of the blogosphere. The intention is to provide a reliable guide to understanding and analyzing the world of the unimaginable number of diverse blogs, each consisting of innumerable posts, which in their entirety form the blogosphere. We go on to answer the questions of how to grasp the complexity of the blogosphere and extract useful knowledge from it. In setting out to write this book, our central aim was to increase the reader’s awareness and understanding of the blogosphere phenomenon, including its structure and characteristics. This can be achieved through a better understanding of individual blogs and their particular technical characteristics, as well as a deeper knowledge of how a single blog is embedded and interconnected within the entire blogosphere. The shape and form of the blogosphere can be described using the analogy of different continents. In our description the defining features and characteristics of the continents are illustrated by paradigmatic example blogs. Following on from the structural analysis we provide details of the available methods and describe the complex challenge of automatically retrieving information from the abundance of data contained in the blogosphere. Finally, we present our blog search platform, called BLOGINTELLIGENCE and describe all the tools and features we have developed during the last couple of years to explore the blogosphere.
Author :Elisabeth Mudimbe-Boyi Publisher :State University of New York Press ISBN 13 :0791488551 Total Pages :344 pages Book Rating :4.7/5 (914 download)
Book Synopsis Beyond Dichotomies by : Elisabeth Mudimbe-Boyi
Download or read book Beyond Dichotomies written by Elisabeth Mudimbe-Boyi and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beyond Dichotomies examines literary texts, cultural production, and concrete local practices within the context of modernity and globalization by focusing on the ways in which some societies confront the complexity of cultures reflected in new forms of knowledge, narratives, and subjectivities. The contributors explore how particular societies negotiate the relations between the global and the local, and use a geographical, comparative perspective combined with an interdisciplinary approach to offer a diversity of views and illuminate the cultural impact of globalization on different societies around the world: Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas. These societies face complex questions regarding people's histories, identities, and cultures that embody the ambivalence, contradictions, and anxieties generated by the process of globalization. The contributors provide a compelling conclusion for a rethinking and reconfiguration of cultures and intercultural relations in today's global world in which dichotomized representations coexist with a discourse of globalization.
Book Synopsis Multipolar Globalization by : Jan Nederveen Pieterse
Download or read book Multipolar Globalization written by Jan Nederveen Pieterse and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-07 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like a giant oil tanker, the world is slowly turning. The rapid growth of economies in Asia and the global South has led to a momentous shift in the world order, leaving much of the traditional literature on globalization behind. Multipolar Globalization: Emerging Economies and Development is the perfect guide to these ongoing 21st-century transformations, combining engaging and wide-ranging coverage with cutting-edge analysis. The rise of China and other emerging economies has led to the emergence of a new geography of trade, new economic and political combinations, new financial actors, investors and donors, and weaker American hegemony. This interdisciplinary volume combines development studies, global political economy, sociology, and cultural studies to ask what this growth means for domestic and global inequality and examines the role of multipolarity in the reshaping of globalization. Renowned globalization scholar Jan Nederveen Pieterse deftly guides the reader through the development of globalization in the West and the East, explaining key topics such as the 2008 crash, trends in inequality, the changing fortunes of the BRICs, and the role of governance and democracy. Accessible and insightful, this book will be an essential guide for both students in the social sciences and for professionals and scholars seeking a fresh perspective.
Download or read book Making Global MBAs written by Andrew Orta and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A generation of aspiring business managers has been taught to see a world of difference as a world of opportunity. In Making Global MBAs, Andrew Orta examines the culture of contemporary business education, and the ways MBA programs participate in the production of global capitalism through the education of the business subjects who will be managing it. Based on extensive field research in several leading US business schools, this groundbreaking ethnography exposes what the culture of MBA training says about contemporary understandings of capitalism in the context of globalization. Orta details the rituals of MBA life and the ways MBA curricula cultivate both habits of fast-paced technical competence and “softer” qualities and talents thought to be essential to unlocking the value of international cultural difference while managing its risks. Making Global MBAs provides an essential critique of neoliberal thinking for students and professionals in a wide variety of fields.
Book Synopsis Flora of New South Wales by : Gwen Jean Harden
Download or read book Flora of New South Wales written by Gwen Jean Harden and published by UNSW Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 766 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive revised edition incorporating recent developments such as changes to species names, significant changes to classifications, as well as information on newly described plants.
Book Synopsis The Age of Intelligent Cities by : Nicos Komninos
Download or read book The Age of Intelligent Cities written by Nicos Komninos and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-08-27 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book concludes a trilogy that began with Intelligent Cities: Innovation, Knowledge Systems and digital spaces (Routledge 2002) and Intelligent Cities and Globalisation of Innovation Networks (Routledge 2008). Together these books examine intelligent cities as environments of innovation and collaborative problem-solving. In this final book, the focus is on planning, strategy and governance of intelligent cities. Divided into three parts, each section elaborates upon complementary aspects of intelligent city strategy and planning. Part I is about the drivers and architectures of the spatial intelligence of cities, while Part II turns to planning processes and discusses top-down and bottom-up planning for intelligent cities. Cities such as Amsterdam, Manchester, Stockholm and Helsinki are examples of cities that have used bottom-up planning through the gradual implementation of successive initiatives for regeneration. On the other hand, Living PlanIT, Neapolis in Cyprus, and Saudi Arabia intelligent cities have started with the top-down approach, setting up urban operating systems and common central platforms. Part III focuses on intelligent city strategies; how cities should manage the drivers of spatial intelligence, create smart environments, mobilise communities, and offer new solutions to address city problems. Main findings of the book are related to a series of models which capture fundamental aspects of intelligent cities making and operation. These models consider structure, function, planning, strategies toward intelligent environments and a model of governance based on mobilisation of communities, knowledge architectures, and innovation cycles.
Book Synopsis Organizational Culture and Commitment by : V. Miroshnik
Download or read book Organizational Culture and Commitment written by V. Miroshnik and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-11-29 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Formation of company citizenship leads to success for the multinational companies by creating psychological alignments of the employee. This, therefore, should be considered as the international strategy of a multinational firm to create unique resources for competitive success. Successful multinational firms develop a common pattern of business performance by creating company citizenships, which include a primary focus on such values as organizational innovation, and a goal orientation. These values ultimately create commitment of the employees. This book proposes that there are some specific espoused values in every important multinational company, which form their organizational cultures and create values, which in turn may create enhanced performance of the organization. We can call this interrelationship between culture and performance as the company citizenship. This company citizenship can be transmitted from one part of the globe to another through the transmission of its corporate management and operations management system as a strategy of a multinational company.
