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The Moral Status of Technical Artefacts (Philosophy of Engineering and Technology)

Springer, 2014

This book considers the question: to what extent does it make sense to qualify technical artefacts as moral entities? The authors’ contributions trace recent proposals and topics including instrumental and non-instrumental values of artefacts, agency and artefactual agency, values in and around technologies, and the moral significance...

Neuroethics: Challenges for the 21st Century

Cambridge University Press, 2007

In the late 1960s, a new field of philosophical and moral enquiry came into existence. Bioethics, as it soon came to be called, quickly mushroomed: it developed its own journals, its own professional associations, its own conferences, degree programs and experts. It developed very rapidly for many reasons, but no doubt the main...

Mastering the Complex Sale: How to Compete and Win When the Stakes are High!

John Wiley & Sons, 2003

Fluctuating customer requirements and competitive forces are putting more pressure on sales professionals. If you work in complex sales, you know that it’s the most competitive and lucrative arena in the sales world. But setting yourself apart from the competition is tough. Success demands superior strategies and precise execution. If the...

A Social History of Byzantium

John Wiley & Sons, 2008

Western civilization owes an incalculable cultural and historical debt to the Byzantine Empire. Before falling to the Ottoman Turks in the mid-fifteenth century, the empire flourished for more than a thousand years, bridging the ancient and modern worlds. Byzantium profoundly influenced the pattern of cultural and political development in the lands...

Relationscapes: Movement, Art, Philosophy (Technologies of Lived Abstraction)

MIT Press, 2009

With Relationscapes, Erin Manning offers a new philosophy of movement challenging the idea that movement is simple displacement in space, knowable only in terms of the actual. Exploring the relation between sensation and thought through the prisms of dance, cinema, art, and new media, Manning argues for the intensity of movement. From this...

IT Project Proposals: Writing to Win

Cambridge University Press, 2005

Whether responding to a tender from a potential client or pitching a new IT project to the Board, a well-written proposal can be the difference between success and failure. IT Project Proposals Writing to Win can help you to create high quality, persuasive proposals that will stand out from the crowd. The author explains how to...

Achieving DevOps: A Novel About Delivering the Best of Agile, DevOps, and Microservices

Apress, 2019

Ben is stuck. A development lead with a strong vision for how the intersection of development and operations at his office can be improved, he can’t help but feel overwhelmed and discouraged by common problems such as slow turnaround time, rushed and ineffective handover documentation, mounting technical debt, and a...

Your Code as a Crime Scene: Use Forensic Techniques to Arrest Defects, Bottlenecks, and Bad Design in Your Programs (The Pragmatic Programmers)

Pragmatic Bookshelf, 2015

Jack the Ripper and legacy codebases have more in common than you'd think. Inspired by forensic psychology methods, you'll learn strategies to predict the future of your codebase, assess refactoring direction, and understand how your team influences the design. With its unique blend of forensic psychology and code analysis, this book...

Microbiologically Safe Foods

John Wiley & Sons, 2009

This book focuses on state of the art technologies to produce microbiologically safe foods for our global dinner table. Each chapter summarizes the most recent scientific advances, particularly with respect to food processing, pre- and post-harvest food safety, quality control, and regulatory information.

The book begins with...

The Compiler Design Handbook: Optimizations & Machine Code Generation

CRC Press, 2002

In the last few years, changes have had a profound influence on the problems addressed by compiler designers. First, the proliferation in machine architectures has necessitated the fine-tuning of compiler back ends to exploit features such as multiple memory banks, pipelines and clustered architectures. These features provide potential for...

The Blackwell Encyclopedic Dictionary of Finance (Blackwell Encyclopedia of Management)

John Wiley & Sons, 1997

Although the basic purposes of finance, and the nature of the core instruments used in attaining them, are relatively constant, recent years have seen an explosion in complexity of both products and techniques.

A number of forces are driving this explosion. The first is internationalization encompassing a dramatic growth in...

Sputtering by Particle Bombardment: Experiments and Computer Calculations from Threshold to MeV Energies

Springer, 2007

Within the last 15 years in the field of “sputtering by particle bombardment” several new and important results have been published in internal reports, in PhD thesis, as well as in the open literature. This relates especially to a more detailed understanding of the sputtering process by computational means such as...

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