Rome and the Worlds beyond Its Frontiers, Dani?lle Slootjes, M. Peachin
Автор: Keller Scott Название: Beyond Performance: How Great Organizations Build Ultimate Competitive Advantage ISBN: 1118024621 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781118024621 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 2993.00 р. 4275.00-30% Наличие на складе: Есть (более 5-х шт.) Описание: What makes your company great today, however, won't necessarily make it great tomorrow. Evolving is critical to long-term corporate performance and health. Humankind's greatest invention isn't the wheel, it is organization: people working together towards a goal that is beyond what can be achieved by the sum of individuals acting alone. As each generation finds better and better ways of working together, we perform at levels that previous generations could never have imagined. On top of long term trends like cost-free availability of information and deriving differentiation by creating an experience, the world appears to be emerging from the most profound and far-reaching economic crisis since the great depression of the 1930's. And five other factors will continue to drive global change: the historic shift in economic growth from the developed to the developing world; an unprecedented imperative for mature economics to raise productivity to preserve living standards; the rise of new networks of communication and trade; a profound challenge in balancing economic growth and environmental sustainability; and an expanded role for the state in regulating markets. For organizations to not only be excellent but stay excellent, companies need to respond to these challenges with tact and understanding that with the right techniques, change can be driven to a company's advantage. If you are a leader of people who wants to change things for the better, this book is for you. If you want to leave a profound and lasting legacy in your organization and the stakeholder it serves, this book will help you do so.
Название: Attacks on the Press : Journalism on the World`s Front Lines ISBN: 1119088429 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781119088424 Издательство: Wiley Цена: 2328.00 р. 3325.00-30% Наличие на складе: Есть (1 шт.) Описание: THE WORLD?€?S MOST COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE TO INTERNATIONAL PRESS FREEDOM Recent highly publicized murders of journalists have heightened awareness of the grave dangers that reporters and photographers face around the world. Less widely known are the myriad
Автор: Zaheer Ul-Haq Название: Frontiers in Computational Chemistry vol 1 ISBN: 1608058654 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781608058655 Издательство: Elsevier Science Рейтинг: Цена: 19201.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Frontiers in Computational Chemistry, originally published by Bentham and now distributed by Elsevier, presents the latest research findings and methods in the diverse field of computational chemistry, focusing on molecular modeling techniques used in drug discovery and the drug development process. This includes computer-aided molecular design, drug discovery and development, lead generation, lead optimization, database management, computer and molecular graphics, and the development of new computational methods or efficient algorithms for the simulation of chemical phenomena including analyses of biological activity. In Volume 1, the leading researchers in the field have collected eight different perspectives in the application of computational methods towards drug design to provide an up-to-date rendering of the current field. This volume covers a variety of topics from G protein-coupled receptors, to the use of cheminformatics and bioinformatics, computational tools such as Molecular Mechanics Poisson-Boltzmann Surface Area, protein-protein interactions, the use of computational methods on large biological data sets, various computational methods used to identify pharmaceutically relevant targets, and more.
Название: Ethnography and virtual worlds ISBN: 0691149518 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780691149516 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 4435.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Suitable for students, teachers, designers, and scholars interested in using ethnographic methods, this title provides practical and detailed techniques for ethnographic research customized to reflect the specific issues of online virtual worlds, both game and nongame.
The odyssey of a group of "refugees" from a closed-down online game and an exploration of emergent fan cultures in virtual worlds.
Play communities existed long before massively multiplayer online games; they have ranged from bridge clubs to sports leagues, from tabletop role-playing games to Civil War reenactments. With the emergence of digital networks, however, new varieties of adult play communities have appeared, most notably within online games and virtual worlds. Players in these networked worlds sometimes develop a sense of community that transcends the game itself.
In Communities of Play, game researcher and designer Celia Pearce explores emergent fan cultures in networked digital worlds -- actions by players that do not coincide with the intentions of the game's designers. Pearce looks in particular at the Uru Diaspora -- a group of players whose game, Uru: Ages Beyond Myst, closed. These players (primarily baby boomers) immigrated into other worlds, self-identifying as "refugees"; relocated in There.com, they created a hybrid culture integrating aspects of their old world. Ostracized at first, they became community leaders. Pearce analyzes the properties of virtual worlds and looks at the ways design affects emergent behavior. She discusses the methodologies for studying online games, including a personal account of the sometimes messy process of ethnography. Pearce considers the "play turn" in culture and the advent of a participatory global playground enabled by networked digital games every bit as communal as the global village Marshall McLuhan saw united by television. Countering the ludological definition of play as unproductive and pointing to the long history of pre-digital play practices, Pearce argues that play can be a prelude to creativity.
Автор: Hallin Название: Comparing Media Systems Beyond the Western World ISBN: 1107699541 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107699540 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 4435.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Comparing Media Systems Beyond the Western World explores the relation between media and political systems in a wide range of non-Western contexts, analyzing the variety of ways in which media interact with the state and with various political actors and the roles journalists play in these relationships.
Описание: This up-to-date book provides a comprehensive survey of female endocrine regulation and metabolism and relevant disorders and treatment. Coverage ranges from primary amenorrhea to menopause, fertility, polycystic ovary, prevention of premature labor and more.
Автор: Quigley Muireann Название: Stem Cells: New Frontiers in Science & Ethics ISBN: 9814374245 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789814374248 Издательство: World Scientific Publishing Рейтинг: Цена: 15048.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Deals with various aspects of the stem cell debate, from the ethical challenges of conducting stem cell research to those of the clinical application of stem cell technology. This title brings fresh perspectives on the permissibility of using embryos in stem cell research.
Автор: Zaheer Ul-Haq Название: Frontiers in Computational Chemistry ISBN: 1608059790 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781608059799 Издательство: Elsevier Science Рейтинг: Цена: 19201.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
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"Frontiers in Computational Chemistry," originally published by Bentham and now distributed by Elsevier, presents the latest research findings and methods in the diverse field of computational chemistry, focusing on molecular modeling techniques used in drug discovery and the drug development process. This includes computer-aided molecular design, drug discovery and development, lead generation, lead optimization, database management, computer and molecular graphics, and the development of new computational methods or efficient algorithms for the simulation of chemical phenomena including analyses of biological activity. In Volume 2, the authors continue the compendium with nine additional perspectives in the application of computational methods towards drug design. This volume covers an array of subjects from modern hardware advances that accelerate new antibacterial peptide identification, electronic structure methods that explain how singlet oxygen damages DNA, to QSAR model validation, the application of DFT and DFRT methods on understanding the action of nitrogen mustards, the design of novel prodrugs using molecular mechanics and molecular orbital methods, computational simulations of lipid bilayers, high throughput screening methods, and more. Brings together a wide range of research into a single collection to help researchers keep up with new methodsUniquely focuses on computational chemistry approaches that can accelerate drug designMakes a solid connection between experiment and computation, and the novel application of computational methods in the fields of biology, chemistry, biochemistry, physics, and biophysics
Including a chapter by 2014 Nobel laureates May-Britt Moser and Edvard Moser
An unprecedented look at the quest to unravel the mysteries of the human brain, "The Future of the Brain" takes readers to the absolute frontiers of science. Original essays by leading researchers such as Christof Koch, George Church, Olaf Sporns, and May-Britt and Edvard Moser describe the spectacular technological advances that will enable us to map the more than eighty-five billion neurons in the brain, as well as the challenges that lie ahead in understanding the anticipated deluge of data and the prospects for building working simulations of the human brain. A must-read for anyone trying to understand ambitious new research programs such as the Obama administration s BRAIN Initiative and the European Union s Human Brain Project, "The Future of the Brain" sheds light on the breathtaking implications of brain science for medicine, psychiatry, and even human consciousness itself.
Contributors include: Misha Ahrens, Ned Block, Matteo Carandini, George Church, John Donoghue, Chris Eliasmith, Simon Fisher, Mike Hawrylycz, Sean Hill, Christof Koch, Leah Krubitzer, Michel Maharbiz, Kevin Mitchell, Edvard Moser, May-Britt Moser, David Poeppel, Krishna Shenoy, Olaf Sporns, Anthony Zador."
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