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This open access textbook introduces the emerging field of
Development Engineering and its constituent theories, methods, and
applications. It is both a teaching text for students and a
resource for researchers and practitioners engaged in the design
and scaling of technologies for low-resource communities. The scope
is broad, ranging from the development of mobile applications for
low-literacy users to hardware and software solutions for providing
electricity and water in remote settings. It is also highly
interdisciplinary, drawing on methods and theory from the social
sciences as well as engineering and the natural sciences. The
opening section reviews the history of "technology-for-development"
research, and presents a framework that formalizes this body of
work and begins its transformation into an academic discipline. It
identifies common challenges in development and explains the book's
iterative approach of "innovation, implementation, evaluation,
adaptation." Each of the next six thematic sections focuses on a
different sector: energy and environment; market performance;
education and labor; water, sanitation and health; digital
governance; and connectivity. These thematic sections contain case
studies from landmark research that directly integrates engineering
innovation with technically rigorous methods from the social
sciences. Each case study describes the design, evaluation, and/or
scaling of a technology in the field and follows a single form,
with common elements and discussion questions, to create continuity
and pedagogical consistency. Together, they highlight successful
solutions to development challenges, while also analyzing the
rarely discussed failures. The book concludes by reiterating the
core principles of development engineering illustrated in the case
studies, highlighting common challenges that engineers and
scientists will face in designing technology interventions that
sustainably accelerate economic development. Development
Engineering provides, for the first time, a coherent intellectual
framework for attacking the challenges of poverty and global
climate change through the design of better technologies. It offers
the rigorous discipline needed to channel the energy of a new
generation of scientists and engineers toward advancing social
justice and improved living conditions in low-resource communities
around the world.
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Compulsion (Blu-ray disc)
Dean Stockwell, Martin Milner, E. G. Marshall, Robert F Simon, Wilton Graff, …
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Discovery Miles 4 200
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Orson Welles stars in this 1950s crime drama based on the novel by
Meyer Levin, which in turn is based on a real legal case that took
place in 1920s Chicago. Two wealthy law students, Judd Steiner
(Dean Stockwell) and Arthur Strauss (Bradford Dillman), decide that
they can get away with committing the perfect murder. They kidnap
and kill the teenage son of a millionaire, but a pair of spectacles
left at the crime scene leads to them being identified as the
murderers. Their families hire America's top lawyer Jonathan Wilk
(Welles) - a known opponent of the death penalty - to defend them
in their trial, and Wilk goes on to make American legal history by
successfully arguing in favour of a life sentence rather than the
pair's execution.
Interrogates the development of the world's first international
courts of humanitarian justice and the subsequent "liberation" of
nearly two hundred thousand Africans in the nineteenth century. In
1807, Britain and the United States passed legislation limiting and
ultimately prohibiting the transoceanic slave trade. As world
powers negotiated anti-slave-trade treaties thereafter, British,
Portuguese, Spanish, Brazilian,French, and US authorities seized
ships suspected of illegal slave trading, raided slave barracoons,
and detained newly landed slaves. The judicial processes in a
network of the world's first international courts of humanitarian
justice not only resulted in the "liberation" of nearly two hundred
thousand people but also generated an extensive archive of
documents. Liberated Africans and the Abolition of the Slave Trade,
1807-1896 makes use of theserecords to illuminate the fates of
former slaves, many of whom were released from bondage only to be
conscripted into extended periods of indentured servitude. Essays
in this collection explore a range of topics relatedto those often
referred to as "Liberated Africans"-a designation that, the authors
show, should be met with skepticism. Contributors share an emphasis
on the human consequences for Africans of the abolitionist
legislation. The collection is deeply comparative, looking at
conditions in British colonies such as Sierra Leone, the Gambia,
and the Cape Colony as well as slave-plantation economies such as
Brazil, Cuba, and Mauritius. A groundbreaking intervention in the
study of slavery, abolition, and emancipation, this volume will be
welcomed by scholars, students, and all who care about the global
legacy of slavery.
In a future when Earth is a toxic, abandoned world and humanity has
spread into the outer solar system to survive, the tightly
controlled use of time travel holds the key to maintaining a
fragile existence among the other planets and their moons. James
Griffin-Mars is a chronman - a convicted criminal recruited for his
unique psychological makeup to undertake the most dangerous job
there is: missions into Earth's past to recover resources and
treasure without altering the timeline. Most chronmen never reach
old age, and James is reaching his breaking point. On his final
mission, James meets scientist Elise Kim, who is fated to die
during the destruction of an oceanic rig. Against his training and
common sense, James brings her back to the future with him, saving
her life, but turning them both into fugitives. Remaining free
means losing themselves in the wild and poisonous wastes of Earth,
and discovering what hope may yet remain for humanity's home world.
File Under: Science Fiction
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