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Embracing Uncertainty: The Essence of Leadership

M.E. Sharpe, 2001

This book offers a radically different approach from the clever, but overly simplistic and frequently misleading formulas for success offered by most self-help business literature. The authors believe that in today's turbulent competitive environment it is necessary to embrace uncertainty and set more realistic expectations, while creating greater...

A Companion to Modern African Art

John Wiley & Sons, 2013

Offering a wealth of perspectives on African modern and Modernist art from the mid-nineteenth century to the present, this new Companion features essays by African, European, and North American authors who assess the work of individual artists as well as exploring broader themes such as discoveries of new technologies and globalization.

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The Myth of Southern Exceptionalism

Oxford University Press, 2009

More than one-third of the population of the United States now lives in the South, a region where politics, race relations, and the economy have changed dramatically since World War II. Yet historians and journalists continue to disagree over whether the modern South is dominating, deviating from, or converging with the rest of the nation. Has...

The Book of Revelation (For Dummies)

For Dummies, 2008

Acommon cartoon theme involves a person wearing a sandwich sign or carrying a poster that proclaims, “Repent! The end is near!” What’s implied is that some sudden, violent event is just around the corner and that people need to brace themselves for whatever’s coming. And usually, the end that’s near involves...

Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Geography and Growth (Surveys of Recent Research in Economics)

John Wiley & Sons, 2013

Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Geography and Growth provides a timely, accessible review of our understanding of the complex links between innovation, entrepreneurship, geography and growth. Expert contributions provide a thorough roadmap of the developments in research at the interface of these themes.

A timely and...

Wildlife between Empire and Nation in Twentieth-Century Africa (African Histories and Modernities)

Palgrave Macmillan, 2018

This book traces the emergence of wildlife policy in colonial eastern and central Africa over the course of a century. Spanning from imperial conquest through the consolidation of colonial rule, the rise of nationalism, and the emergence of neocolonial and neoliberal institutions, this book shows how these fundamental themes of the twentieth...

Contemplative Studies and Hinduism: Meditation, Devotion, Prayer, and Worship

Routledge, 2020

This book is one of the first wide-ranging academic surveys of the major types and categories of Hindu contemplative praxis. It explores diverse spiritual and religious practices within the Hindu traditions and Indic hermeneutical perspectives to understand the intricate culture of meditative communion and contemplation, devotion,...

Information Modelling and Knowledge Bases XVIII: Volume 154 Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications

IOS Press, 2007

In the last decades information modelling and knowledge bases have become hot topics not only in academic communities related to information systems and computer science but also in business areas where information technology is applied.

The 16th European-Japanese Conference on Information Modelling and Knowledge Bases EJC 2006 continues...

Moodle JavaScript Cookbook

Packt Publishing, 2011

Moodle is the best e-learning solution on the block and is revolutionizing courses on the Web. Using JavaScript in Moodle is very useful for administrators and dynamic developers, as it uses built-in libraries to provide the modern and dynamic experience that is expected by web users today.

The Moodle JavaScript Cookbook will take...

Less Web Development Essentials

Packt Publishing, 2014

Use CSS preprocessing to streamline the development and maintenance of your web applications

About This Book

Produce clear, concise, and well-constructed code that compiles into standard compliant CSS

Explore the core attributes of Less and learn how to integrate them into your site

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Orchard CMS: Up and Running

O'Reilly, 2012

A few months back, I wanted to create an online presence for my band, Daisy’s Gone. In the past, I would have started from scratch. But I remembered all the domains I’ve accumulated over the years that are now nothing more than parking pages at my registrar. It’s generally not hard to throw...

The Construction Industry in the Fourth Industrial Revolution: Proceedings of 11th Construction Industry Development Board (CIDB) Postgraduate Research Conference

Springer, 2019

This book gathers papers from the 11th Construction Industry Development Board (cidb) Postgraduate Research Conference, held on 28–30 July 2019 in Johannesburg, South Africa. The conference provided an essential forum for reviewing and generating knowledge on Construction 4.0 and, consequently, highlighted processes and...

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