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Anticorruption
Winning the anticorruption battle: a guide for citizens and politicians. The phenomenon of corruption has existed since antiquity; from ancient Mesopotamia to our modern-day high-level ethical morass, people have sought a leg up, a shortcut, or an end run to power and influence. In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, Robert Rotberg, a recognized authority on governance and international relations, offers a definitive guide to corruption and anticorruption, charting the evolution of corruption and offering recommendations on how to reduce its power and spread. The most important component of anticorruption efforts, he argues, is leadership that is committed to changing do...
The Form of Cities
The Form of Cities offers readers a considered theoretical introduction to the art of designing cities. Demonstrates that cities are replete with symbolic values, collective memory, association and conflict. Proposes a new theoretical understanding of urban design, based in political economy. Demonstrates different ways of conceptualising the city, whether through aesthetics or the prism of gender, for example. Written in an engaging and jargon-free style, but retains a sophisticated interpretative edge. Complements Designing Cities by the same author (Blackwell, 2003).
User-centered Design
User-Centered Design: An Integrated Approach will help you optimize your customers' total experience with any technology product or service - from purchase and installation through support, upgrades, and beyond. Karel Vredenburg, Scott Isensee, and Carol Righi, the field's leading experts, present methods, techniques, case studies, and CD-ROM-based tools for introducing, deploying, and optimizing UCD to make products that are simpler, more elegant, more powerful, and more profitable.
Rebellion in Black Africa
Collection of essays revealing trends in African nationalism during and after the era of colonialism and the role of social movements of resistance to the dominant role of Europe in political leadership in Africa south of Sahara - shows various methods adopted to cope with social change, such as armed racial conflict, pressure exerted by interest groups, political partys, traditional religion, etc. Maps.
Designing the Total User Experience at IBM
Volume 14, Numbers 3 & 4 Contents: K. Vredenburg, Introduction: Designing the Total User Experience at IBM: An Examination of Case Studies, Research Finding, and Advanced Methods. ARTICLES: R. Sobiesiak, R.J. Jones, S.M. Lewis, DB2 Universal Database: A Case Study of a Successful User-Centered Design Program. D.A. Swain, K. Yamazaki, A. Kumaki, Putting the "D" in UCD: User-Centered Design in the ThinkPad Experience Development. V. Healy, R. Herder, A Walk-Up-and-USE Information System for the Sydney Olympics: A Case Study in User-Centered Design. M. Ominsky, K.R. Stern, J.R. Rudd, User-Centered Design at IBM Consulting. C-M. Karat, J. Karat, J. Vergo, C. Pinhanez, D. Reicken, T. Cofino, That...
On Taste
This volume offers an original and innovative collection of fresh approaches to the investigation of the idea of taste. It is divided into three sections: the concept of taste; taste and culture; and gustatory taste. The papers in all three parts deal with the way that aesthetics interpenetrates discussions of food, political conflict, art appreciation, aesthetic judgement, and education. These are fresh, never-before published contributions from a range of scholars, using the most recent literature in their areas of expertise. There is no other book available that collects the latest research in this field, and, as such, it represents a key contribution to recent aesthetic, and more broadly philosophical, interest in matters of taste.
Transformative Political Leadership
Accomplished political leaders have a clear strategy for turning political visions into reality. Through well-honed analytical, political, and emotional intelligence, leaders chart paths to promising futures that include economic growth, material prosperity, and human well-being. Alas, such leaders are rare in the developing world, where often institutions are weak and greed and corruption strong—and where responsible leadership therefore has the potential to effect the greatest change. In Transformative Political Leadership, Robert I. Rotberg focuses on the role of leadership in politics and argues that accomplished leaders demonstrate a particular set of skills. Through illustrative case studies of leaders who have performed ably in the developing world—among them Nelson Mandela in South Africa, Seretse Khama in Botswana, Lee Kuan Yew in Singapore, and Kemal Ataturk in Turkey—Rotberg examines how these leaders transformed their respective countries. The importance of capable leadership is woefully understudied in political science, and this book will be an important tool in exploring how leaders lead and how nations and institutions are built.
Time and Uncertainty
The essays in this volume all originated at the 2001 conference of the International Society for the Study of Time. The theme 'Time and Uncertainty' sounds redundant, but the contributions try to come to terms with the irreducible openness of time and the impermanence of life. The essays from various disciplines have been grouped around 'fracture and rupture' (grappling with time and uncertainty as a breach) and 'rapture and structure (solving uncertainty into pattern).
Normal Norm
norman is a normal man, with a normal life and normal habits. until the day he finds a 'miss normal' in the phonebook...
