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UX Fundamentals for Non-UX Professionals: User Experience Principles for Managers, Writers, Designers, and Developers

Apress, 2018

What can a WWII-era tank teach us about design? What does a small, blue flower tell us about audiences? What do drunk, French marathon-runners show us about software? In 40+ chapters and stories, you will learn the ways in which UX has influenced history and vice versa, and how it continues to change our daily lives. ...

Handbook of Financial Cryptography and Security

CRC Press, 2010

Cryptography has made a peculiar journey to become a modern science. It had long been associated with the military and with magic. The rst published work in the eld was Steganographia, by an alchemist named Trithemius. Although written earlier, the book was published in 1606. Cryptography has continued this connection with the arcane...

Fostering Critical Thinking Through Collaborative Group Work: Insights from Hong Kong

Springer, 2018

This book reports on studies contextualised within the curriculum development of General Studies in primary education and Liberal Studies in secondary education in Hong Kong. Both areas call for a learning environment that is conducive to the use of collaborative group work to foster critical thinking. By employing a mixed-methods approach and...

The SAGE Encyclopedia of Trans Studies

Sage Publications, 2021

Transgender studies, broadly defined, has become increasingly prominent as a field of study over the past several decades, particularly in the last ten years. The experiences and rights of trans people have also increasingly become the subject of news coverage, such as the ability of trans people to access restrooms, their...

Creating the Discipline of Knowledge Management: The Latest in University Research

Butterworth-Heinemann, 2005

"The core principles of Knowledge Management are an integral part of every corporate culture. Daily we perform aspects of knowledge management without realizing the source, benefits, or fully understanding the underlying process. With this book, Stankosky illustrates an easy to use framework to link elements from multiple sources into a...

Artificial Vision: Image Description, Recognition, and Communication (Signal Processing and its Applications)

Academic Press, 1996

Artificial vision is a rapidly growing discipline, aiming to build computational models of the visual capabilites in humans, as well as the machines that emulate them. Recent research work suggests that vision is a complex functionality, involving active sensing and attentional mechanisms, and is strictly related to cognitive processes like...

A New History of the Peloponnesian War

John Wiley & Sons, 2009

This stimulating new study provides a narrative of the monumental conflict of the Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta, and examines the realities of the war and its effects on the average Athenian.

A penetrating new study of the Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta by an established scholar
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Up Your Business!: 7 Steps to Fix, Build, or Stretch Your Organization

John Wiley & Sons, 2007

Praise for the first edition of Up Your Business!

"Dave Anderson has hit another home run! Up Your Business! is an invaluable, highly readable guide that should be on the desk--and in the mind--of anyone demanding top-level performance from themselves and others."
--James Strock, author, Reagan on Leadership...

Boundary Spanning Leadership: Six Practices for Solving Problems, Driving Innovation, and Transforming Organizations (Management & Leadership)

McGraw-Hill, 2010

PRAISE FOR BOUNDARY SPANNING LEADERSHIP

"Fostering a culture of teamwork among business units and partners is crucial for bottom-line success. This groundbreaking book, packed with practical examples and based on solid research, shows us how to get started." -- Marc Noel, Chairman, Noël Group LLC

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Matthew Through the Centuries (Wiley Blackwell Bible Commentaries)

John Wiley & Sons, 2019

The reception of the Gospel of Matthew over two millennia: commentary and interpretation

Matthew Through the Centuries offers an overview of the reception history of one of the most prominent gospels in Christian worship. Examining the reception of Matthew from the perspectives of a wide range of...

The Video Game Explosion: A History from PONG to PlayStation and Beyond

Greenwood Press, 2007

In the United States alone, the video game industry raked in an astonishing $12.5 billion last year, and shows no signs of slowing. Once dismissed as a fleeting fad of the young and frivolous, this booming industry has not only proven its staying power, but promises to continue driving the future of new media and emerging technologies. Today video...

The Blackbirch Kid's Visual Reference of the World Edition 1. (Individual Titles)

Blackbirch Press, 2001

What is the highest point in Afghanistan? What countries border Burundi? What’s the difference between Slovakia and Slovenia?

What is a dinar? What language is spoken in Tonga? Chances are, you can’t answer those questions off the top of your head. Not many people can. If you’ve ever been puzzled by questions like...

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