Mezhlum A. Sumbatyan, "Wave Dynamics, Mechanics and Physics of Microstructured Metamaterials: Theoretical and Experimental Methods"
English | 2019 | ISBN: 3030174697 | PDF | pages: 261 | 9.0 mb
This book addresses theoretical and experimental methods for exploring microstructured metamaterials, with a special focus on wave dynamics, mechanics, and related physical properties. The authors use various mathematical and physical approaches to examine the mechanical properties inherent to particular types of metamaterials. These include:* Boundary value problems in reduced strain gradient elasticity for composite fiber-reinforced metamaterials* Self-organization of molecules in ferroelectric thin films* Combined models for surface layers of nanostructures* Computer simulation at the micro- and nanoscale* Surface effects with anisotropic properties and imperfect temperature contacts* Inhomogeneous anisotropic metamaterials with uncoupled and coupled surfaces or interfaces* Special interface finite elements and other numerical and analytical methods for composite structures

Visual Strategy: Strategy Mapping for Public and Nonprofit Organizations by John M. Bryson, Fran Ackermann, Colin Eden
English | ISBN: 1118605926 | 2014 | 240 pages | PDF | 30 MB
Strategic planning becomes visual with strategy maps and the tools, techniques, and guidance for turning them into effective action. Developed as a companion workbook to John Bryson's best-selling Strategic Planning in Public and Nonprofit Organizations , Visual Strategy: A Workbook for Strategy Mapping in Public and Nonprofit Organizations , goes beyond making the case for good and effective strategic planning to making strategy visual through effective strategy mapping. Strategy mapping prevents groups of people from talking over one another and going around in circles. It helps people speak and be heard, produce lots of ideas and understand how they fit together, make use of causal reasoning, and clarify ultimately what they want to do in terms of mission, goals, strategies, and actions. Strategy mapping can join process and content in such a way that good ideas worth implementing are found and the agreements and comments needed to implement them are reached. The result is living strategic plans that act as useful guides to action. With detailed examples, actual strategy maps, process guidelines and hand-drawn illustrations, the book will help leaders, managers, students and other professionals see patterns across mission, goals, strategies and actions while helping to identify areas of alignment and misalignment and determine, real time, where elements are needed, missing or not useful in a strategic plan. For leaders and managers of public and nonprofit organizations, facilitators and consultants, professors and students of strategic planning, strategic management, strategic mapping, and public policy, professional development workshops focused on strategic planning and strategy mapping.

Utilitarianism, Institutions, and Justice by James Wood Bailey
English | September 4, 1997 | ISBN-10: 0195105109 | 224 pages | PDF | 14 Mb
This compelling book advances utilitarianism as the basis for a viable public philosophy, effectively rebutting the common charge that, as moral doctrine, utilitarian thought permits cruel acts, justifies unfair distribution of wealth, and demands too much of moral agents.

Unfriendly Witnesses: Gender, Theater, and Film in the McCarthy Era (Theater in the Americas) by Milly S. Barranger
English | ISBN 10: 0809328763 | 2008 | PDF | 224 pages | 4,9 MB
Unfriendly Witnesses: Gender, Theater, and Film in the McCarthy Era examines the experiences of seven prominent women of stage and screen whose lives and careers were damaged by the McCarthy-era "witch hunts" for Communists and Communist sympathizers in the entertainment industry: Judy Holliday, Anne Revere, Lillian Hellman, Dorothy Parker, Margaret Webster, Mady Christians, and Kim Hunter.

Ultrasound Scoring of Joint Synovitis: Objective Quantification of Articular Inflammation by Ami Ben-Artzi
English | PDF | 2021 | 217 Pages | ISBN : 3030432718 | 36.9 MB
A common manifestation of many autoimmune diseases is joint inflammation. The degree of inflammation of the joints is often used as a metric of disease activity. Assessing disease activity has diagnostic, therapeutic, and prognostic implications. Inflammation of the joints is often used as a proxy for inflammation in other tissue, and assessing this inflammation has implications for the health of numerous organs in in the body.

Traction: How Any Startup Can Achieve Explosive Customer Growth by Gabriel Weinberg, Justin Mares
English | ISBN: 1591848369 | 2015 | EPUB | 240 pages | 0,7 MB
Most startups don't fail because they can't build a product.

Lakshmi Subramanian, Gurcharan Das (Intro.), "Three Merchants of Bombay: Business Pioneers of the Nineteenth Century"
English | 2016 | ISBN: 0143426192 | PDF | pages: 282 | 56.1 mb
Three Merchants of Bombay is the story of three intrepid merchants who traded out of Bombay in the nineteenth century Tarwady Arjunjee, Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy and Premchand Roychand founding pioneering business empires based on trade in cotton and opium. Set against the backdrop of global and local economies undergoing rapid and unforeseen change, these stories stand as a microcosm for the history of indigenous capitalism in western India. In this succinct and lucid account, Lakshmi Subramanian traces that history and locates it in the greater narrative of the economic development of India, South Asia and the world.

Roger Walsh, "The World's Great Wisdom: Timeless Teachings from Religions and Philosophies "
English | ISBN: 1438449577 | 2014 | 266 pages | EPUB | 567 KB
Surveying spiritual and philosophical traditions, this volume revives the search for wisdom for modern times.

The Winning Manager: Timeless Principles for Corporate Success by Walter Vieira
English | ISBN: 8132113713 | 2014 | 248 pages | PDF | 8 MB
This is not a standard book on management. It does not attempt to take the reader through the process of planning, forecasting, organising, delegating, motivating, monitoring, controlling and communicating in a sequential order, as in Fayol's wheel of managerial functions. Instead, it goes 'beneath the skin' of management as it were, to discuss issues that are not normally dealt with either in speech or in writing.

Marvin Formosa, "The University of the Third Age and Active Ageing: European and Asian-Pacific Perspectives"
English | 2019 | ISBN: 3030215148 | PDF | pages: 277 | 3.1 mb
This comparative resource charts the interface between the University of the Third Age (U3A) movement and active ageing, and in doing so, offers a comprehensive and thorough understanding of what U3A means in different geographical and sociocultural contexts. After first providing introductory chapters to introduce the U3A movement and active ageing in global perspective and tracing the origins of U3As in France, the book sets off charting the international development of U3As in both European and Asian-Pacific contexts. Deliberately, the book moves away from the dominant Anglo-centric US- and UK-rooted analyses of U3As to account for contexts of different political ideology, sociocultural values, geography, and degrees of urbanisation and industrialisation. Lastly, it thematises foreseeable issues, concerns, and predicaments that the global U3A movement faces while meeting the challenges and seizing the opportunities presented by active ageing.