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 Successfully Achieving Strategy Through Effective Portfolio Management English | 2022 | ISBN: 1637420846 | 150 Pages | EPUB | 7 MB Why didn't you achieve your strategy? Too many organizations waste time and money on developing strategy but don't achieve their goals. What goes wrong? Poor predictions about the future; internal politics that impact the projects selected; biases in the decision-making process, and other stumbling blocks.  Software Engineering and Algorithms English | 2021 | ISBN: 3030774414 | 755 Pages | PDF | 78 MB This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Software Engineering and Algorithms section of the 10th Computer Science On-line Conference 2021 (CSOC 2021), held on-line in April 2021. Software engineering research and its applications to intelligent algorithms take an essential role in computer science research. In this book, modern research methods, application of machine and statistical learning in the software engineering research are presented.  Sidewinder: Creative Missile Development at China Lake by Ron Westrum English | August 15, 2013 | ISBN: 1591149819, 1557509514 | EPUB | 352 pages | 2.3 MB In the mid-1950s a small group of overworked, underpaid scientists and engineers on a remote base in the Mojave Desert developed a weapon no one had asked for but everyone was looking for. This is the story of how that unorthodox team, led by visionary Bill McLean, overcame Navy bureaucracy and other more heavily funded projects to develop the world's best air-to-air missile. Author Ron Westrum examines that special time and place-when the old American work ethic and "can do" spirit were a vital part of U.S. weapons development-to discover how the dedicated team was able to create a simple and inexpensive missile. Today, some forty-four years after its invention, Sidewinder is still considered the best America has.  Roots of Our Renewal: Ethnobotany and Cherokee Environmental Governance By Clint Carroll 2015 | 256 Pages | ISBN: 0816690898 | PDF | 8 MB Honorable Mention: Labriola Center American Indian National Book AwardInRoots of Our Renewal,Clint Carroll tells how Cherokee people have developed material, spiritual, and political ties with the lands they have inhabited since removal from their homelands in the southeastern United States. Although the forced relocation of the late 1830s had devastating consequences for Cherokee society, Carroll shows that the reconstituted Cherokee Nation west of the Mississippi eventually cultivated a special connection to the new land-a connection that is reflected in its management of natural resources.Until now, scant attention has been paid to the interplay between tribal natural resource management programs and governance models. Carroll is particularly interested in indigenous environmental governance along the continuum of resource-based and relationship-based practices and relates how the Cherokee Nation, while protecting tribal lands, is also incorporating associations with the nonhuman world. Carroll describes how the work of an elders' advisory group has been instrumental to this goal since its formation in 2008.An enrolled citizen of the Cherokee Nation, Carroll draws from his ethnographic observations of Cherokee government-community partnerships during the past ten years. He argues that indigenous appropriations of modern state forms can articulate alternative ways of interacting with and "governing" the environment.  Psychology at the Movies by Skip Dine Young English | April 9, 2012 | ISBN: 0470971770 | EPUB | 272 pages | 1.99 MB Psychology at the Movies explores the insights to be gained by applying various psychological lenses to popular films including cinematic depictions of human behavior, the psychology of filmmakers, and the impact of viewing movies.
 Fernanda Magallanes, "Psychoanalysis, the Body, and the Oedipal Description: A Critical Re-Imaging of the Body in Psychoanalysis" English | ISBN: 1138391263 | 2018 | 126 pages | PDF | 3 MB Psychoanalysis, the Body, and the Oedipal Description is a new radical departure in psychoanalytic exposition. An attempt is made to convey, in a language accessible for people from different disciplines, some of the most difficult processes that conform our subjectivity and our concept of difference and alterity.  Priestly Celibacy: Theological Foundations By Gary B Selin 2016 | 226 Pages | ISBN: 0813228417 | PDF | 1 MB Pope Francis has called mandatory priestly celibacy a "gift for the Church," but added "since it is not a dogma, the door is always open" to change. As this Church discipline continues to be debated, it is important for Catholics to delve into the theological and not merely pragmatic reasons behind its continuation. Priestly Celibacy: Theological Foundations, therefore, fills a critical gap in the current theological literature on this important topic of ecclesial ministry and life, and also helps to contribute to the advancement of the rather underdeveloped theology of priestly celibacy.A review of contemporary literature shows that works abound on the history, sociology, psychology and spirituality of priestly celibacy. However, little has been offered in the way of a theology per se. This book will catch readers up on the theological reflection that has been done, while proposing a Eucharist-based theology of celibacy distinguising priestly celibacy from general theologies of celibacy or virginity.Fr. Gary Selin presents a systematic theology of priestly celibacy, with a special focus given to the development of the threefold scheme of priestly celibacy, i.e. its christological, ecclesiological, and eschatological dimensions. The volume begins with a summary of the biblical foundations of clerical continence and celibacy, and then reviews the development of the discipline in the Latin Church from the patristic era to the twentieth century, while also tracing the emerging theology that underlies the practice. The focus then switches to the teaching of Vatican II, Paul VI and subsequent magisterial texts, as elaborated through the threefold dimension of celibacy. The final two chapters consists of Selin's original contribution to the discussion, particularly in the form of various proposals for a systematic theology of priestly celibacy, each of which is organized around the Eucharist as the interpretative key. These proposals should stimulate further debate and development in this timely theological area.  Janet Delve, "Preserving Complex Digital Objects" English | 2013 | ISBN: 1856049582 | 224 pages | PDF | 10.6 MB This groundbreaking edited collection explores the challenges of preserving complex digital objects such as simulations, visualisations, digital art and video games. Drawing on the outputs of the JISC-funded Preservation of Complex Objects (POCOS) symposia, enhanced with specialist pathfinder solutions, this book will cover topics such as the legal and technical challenges of preservation, curation and authority, and digital archaeology. Written by international experts from a broad background of library, collecting institutions, information and computer science, and digital preservation backgrounds, this collection showcases the state of the art of the discipline and brings together stakeholder perspectives from across the preservation community. Readership: Academics and students on digital preservation, digital humanities and information management courses, those working in preservation and collecting for memory institutions, computer scientists, artists, games and emulation communities, archaeologists and digital forensic scientists.
 Positive Psychology at Work: How Positive Leadership and Appreciative Inquiry Create Inspiring Organizations by Sarah Lewis English | April 25, 2011 | ISBN: 0470683201 | EPUB | 270 pages | 2.1 MB Positive Psychology at Work brings the fields of positive psychology and appreciative inquiry together for the first time to provide leaders and change agents with a powerful new approach to achieving organizational excellence.  Multiply Your Business Value Through Brand & AI English | 2022 | ISBN: 1637421079 | 150 Pages | EPUB | 0.7 MB Brand building is believed to be a long-term activity and has lost prominence in this current age of venture capital valuations. In reality, brand building is a competitive advantage that organizations can leverage to multiply their value. Artificial intelligence (AI) on the other hand, is a recent phenomenon and enables organizations reduce errors, build efficiencies and increase profitability, thereby freeing their human capital to perform more intellectual tasks. This book presents the case for building brands effectively and optimally using AI, thereby enhancing the overall value of the organization. |
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