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The Dream Team Nightmare: Boost Team Productivity Using Agile Techniques

Pragmatic Bookshelf, 2013

This first-ever interactive Agile Adventure is the gripping tale of an experienced team struggling with agile adoption. In this unique mashup of a business novel written in the gamebook format, you'll overcome common yet daunting challenges that come from using agile methods. As Jim, the agile coach, you'll learn to apply a range of...

Work (The Art of Living Series)

Acumen Publishing, 2008

Work is one of the most universal features of human life; virtually everybody spends some part of their life at work. It is often associated with tedium and boredom; in conflict with the things we would otherwise love to do. Thinking of work primarily as a burden - an activity we would rather be without - is a thought that was shared by the...

The Vietnam War: The Definitive Illustrated History

DK Adult, 2017

Created in association with the Smithsonian Institution, this authoritative guide chronicles America's fight against Communism in southeast Asia during the 1960s and 1970s, and comprehensively explores the people, politics, events, and lasting effects of the Vietnam War.

Honoring those who served in the war at home or abroad,...

A Theory of the Drone

New Press, 2015

Drone warfare has raised profound ethical and constitutional questions both in the halls of Congress and among the U.S. public. Not since debates over nuclear warfare has American military strategy been the subject of discussion in living rooms, classrooms, and houses of worship. Yet as this groundbreaking new work shows, the full...

Global Networking, Communication and Culture: Conflict or Convergence?: Spread of ICT, Internet Governance, Superorganism Humanity and Global Culture (Studies in Systems, Decision and Control)

Springer, 2018

Pursuing an interdisciplinary approach, this book offers detailed insights into the empirical relationships between overall social key figures of states and cultures in the fields of information and communication technology (ICT) (digital divide/inequality), the economy, education and religion. Its goal is to bridge the ‘cultural...

MCITP Developer: Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Database Solutions Design

Sybex, 2006

Welcome to what is probably the most difficult exam in the current range of SQL Server 2005 exams available, the “Designing Database Solutions by Using Microsoft SQL Server 2005” 70-441 exam.

The reason why it is such a difficult exam is because it has both a breadth and a depth that...

Lewis Fry Richardson: His Intellectual Legacy and Influence in the Social Sciences (Pioneers in Arts, Humanities, Science, Engineering, Practice)

Springer, 2019

This is an open access book. Lewis F Richardson (1981-1953), a physicist by training, was a pioneer in meteorology and peace research and remains a towering presence in both fields. This edited volume reviews his work and assesses its influence in the social sciences, notably his work on arms races and their...

War and Childhood in the Era of the Two World Wars (Publications of the German Historical Institute)

Cambridge University Press, 2019

The histories of modern war and childhood were the result of competing urgencies. According to ideals of childhood widely accepted throughout the world by 1900, children should have been protected, even hidden, from conflict and danger. Yet at a time when modern ways of childhood became increasingly possible for economic, social, and political...

Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine

Cambridge University Press, 2019

Justice in the Question of Palestine is often framed as a question of law. Yet none of the Israel-Palestinian conflict's most vexing challenges have been resolved by judicial intervention. Occupation law has failed to stem Israel's settlement enterprise. Laws of war have permitted killing and destruction during Israel's...

Uproar: Calm Leadership in Anxious Times

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2019

If “these are the times that test men’s souls,” never more than for the leader’s ability to think clearly, to be present calmly, and to challenge effectively. It’s a time when leaders cannot be as anxious as those they serve; otherwise, the system is leaderless. Anxiety flows down like water from a leaky...

Freedoms, Fragility and Job Creation: Perspectives from Jammu and Kashmir, India (SpringerBriefs in Political Science)

Springer, 2018

This book argues that inequality of basic freedoms?economic, political, sociocultural?is a central cause of fragility and challenge to job creation in fragile geopolitical situations. ?It is based on extensive official data and stakeholder interactions in the conflict-ridden Indian border state of Jammu and Kashmir, and involves a case...

The Europeanisation of the Western Balkans: A Failure of EU Conditionality? (New Perspectives on South-East Europe)

Palgrave Macmillan, 2018

This volume casts a fresh look on how the political spaces of the Western Balkan states (Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro, Kosovo, Macedonia and Albania) are shaped, governed and transformed during the EU accession process. The contributors argue that EU conditionality in the Western Balkans does not work...

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