Here's a no-nonsense approach to the proposal process by an engineer who has worked in the trenches and knows the practical solutions to getting the job done. This book brings order out of the often chaotic frenzy that characterizes most proposal efforts. From marketing effort to BAFO, this book takes you step by step trough each phase -- the substance of what makes a winner.

A diverse compendium of biographies of leading American women in the field of technology. American Women in Technology: An Encyclopedia tells the fascinating story of women's contributions to numerous fields, including aerospace, engineering, information technology, telecommunications, and medical technology. Entries focus on technological events that opened scientific areas to women, biographies of women who made important contributions to technology, and organizations that aided women to enter specialties ranging from astrophysics and aerospace to telecommunications and textiles. Illustrations

This book was awarded the 2019 Axiom Business Book Award - Business Technology, Bronze Medal. Users of twenty-first century, digital-era technologies are "technology takers," accepting of and adjusting to whatever the market offers them. Similar to small firms that lack the market power to set prices and are economic "price takers," managers today are increasingly unable to customize the digital-era technologies their organizations use. Technology takers have little influence over the capabilities of the technologies they adopt; they cannot expect to improve on or customize for themselves the features of Facebook, Google, the iPhone, the blockchain, cloud-based enterprise resource planning systems, or other game-changing and often disintermediating technologies. The inability to modify available information technologies is a shock to leaders and managers alike. Cloud-based technologies arrive with set processes developed by others, and users must learn new ways of working each time the technologies themselves evolve. But refusing to adopt and adapt to digital-era technologies is, increasingly, not an option. Change in the digital era is constant and behavior-transforming. Managers must respond to these changes, or they will get left behind by those who do. The constancy of change also means that organizations have to do more than launch typical, one-off change management or transformation projects to succeed. To adopt efficiently and adapt effectively to behavior-changing technologies, astute leaders should employ change leadership techniques as a strategy for the digital era. This book offers technology takers a playbook to manage change, create value, and exploit the digital era's strategic opportunities. The book draws on research and recent case studies to explain what it means to be a technology taker. Organizations and their managers are offered change leadership plays, which emphasize the iterative nature of change management in the digital era. The book also describes how technology taking can create value through data stream analytics and be used strategically to respond proactively to the challenges of the digital era.

This book represents the first calm, detailed, and rational description of the imminent end of western industrial civilization as we know it. Despite this alarming premise Gimpel is far from pessimistic, save in the short term: with the sure hand of the historian, he emphasizes how humanity has always recovered from its previous collapses in the past, and will certainly do so again. The unique value of this book is that it gives us a baseline from which we can now work into the future.

This book represents the first calm, detailed, and rational description of the coming end of our current world culture. The author seeks to show that, particularly when we compare actual technological reality in the 1990s with the heady predictions of futurologists back in the 1960s, technology has levelled off, reached a plateau--even in the leading-edge areas like infomatics, space, and medicine.

Even that plateau will prove to be temporary, claims Gimpel, and the end of western industrial society as we know it will inevitably ensue. However exceptional, our civilization has no reason to expect that it will evolve any differently from every civilization before it: decadence and decay have engulfed them all, one after the other. The unique value of this book is that it gives us a baseline from which we can now work into the future. The conclusion, which is not pessimistic--save in the short term--points out that humanity has always recovered from such collapses, and gone on again to reach new heights. By way of making his case, Gimpel leaves us with a final simple thought: The future, he asserts, is China.

This book (hardcover) is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS. It contains classical literature works from over two thousand years. Most of these titles have been out of print and off the bookstore shelves for decades. The book series is intended to preserve the cultural legacy and to promote the timeless works of classical literature. Readers of a TREDITION CLASSICS book support the mission to save many of the amazing works of world literature from oblivion. With this series, tredition intends to make thousands of international literature classics available in printed format again - worldwide.

CONTENTS - PART ONE: THE SKIN AND SKIN PRODUCTS - 1 The Skin - 2 Irritation and Sensitization of the Skin - 3 Nutrition and Hormonal Control of the Skin - 4 Skin Creams - 5 Astringents and Skin Tonics - 6 Protective Creams and Hand Cleansers - 7 Bath Preparations - 8 Skin Products for Babies - 9 Skin Products for Young People - 10 Antiperspirants and Deodorants - 11 Depilatories - 12 Shaving Preparations - 13 Foot Preparations - 14 Insect Repellents - 15 Sunscreen, Suntan and Anti-sunburn Preparations - 16 Skin Lighteners or Bleaches - 17 Face Packs and Masks - 18 Face Powders and Make-up - 19 Coloured Make-up Preparations - 20 The Application of Cosmetics - PART TWO: THE NAILS AND NAIL PRODUCTS - 21 The Nails - 22 Manicure Preparations - PART THREE: THE HAIR AND HAIR PRODUCTS - 23 The Hair - 24 Shampoos - 25 Hair Setting Lotions, Sprays and Dressings - 26 Hair Tonics and Conditioners - 27 Hair Colorants - 28 Permanent Waving and Hair Strengtheners - 29 Hair Straighteners - PART FOUR: THE TEETH AND DENTAL PRODUCTS - 30 The Tooth and Oral Health - 31 Dentifrices - 32 Mouthwashes -

Ideal for undergraduate students in philosophy and science studies, "Philosophy of Technology" offers an engaging and comprehensive overview of a subject vital to our time.
An up-to-date, accessible overview of the philosophy of technology, defining technology and its characteristics.
Explores the issues that arise as technology becomes an integral part of our society.
In addition to traditional topics in science and technology studies, the volume offers discussion of technocracy, the romantic rebellion against technology.
Complements "The Philosophy of Technology: The Technological Condition: An Anthology," edited by Robert C. Scharff and Val Dusek (Blackwell, 2003).

This book, in two volumes, has been produced for engineers and technicians in the electrical discipline who work, or wish to work, in the offshore oil and gas industry.

This book, in two volumes, has been produced for engineers and technicians in the electrical discipline who work, or wish to work, in the offshore oil and gas industry.