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Managers in organisations must make rational decisions. Rational
decision making is the opposite of intuitive decision making. It is
a strict procedure utilising objective knowledge and logic. It
involves identifying the problem to solve, gathering facts,
identifying options and outcomes, analysing them, considering all
the relationships and selecting the decision. Rational decision
making requires support: methods and software tools. The
identification of the problem to solve needs methods that would
measure and evaluate the current situation. Identification and
evaluation of options and analysis of the available possibilities
involves analysis and optimisation methods. Incorporating intuition
into rational decision making needs adequate methods that would
translate ideas or observed behaviours into hard data.
Communication, observation and opinions recording is hardly
possible today without adequate software. Information and data that
form the input, intermediate variables and the output must be
stored, managed and made accessible in a user-friendly manner.
Rational Decisions in Organisations: Theoretical and Practical
Aspects presents selected recent developments in the support of the
widely understood rational decision making in organisations,
illustrated through case studies. The book shows not only the
variety of perspectives involved in decision making, but also the
variety of domains where rational decision support systems are
needed. The case studies present decision making by medical
doctors, students and managers of various universities, IT project
teams, construction companies, banks and small and large
manufacturing companies. Covering the richness of relationships in
which the decisions should and must be taken, the book illustrates
how modern organisations operate in chains and networks; they have
multiple responsibilities, including social, legal, business and
ethical duties. Nowadays, managers in organisations can make
transparent decisions and consider a multitude of stakeholders and
their diverse features, incorporating diverse criteria, using
multiple types and drivers of information and decision-making
patterns, and referring to numerous lessons learned. As the book
makes clear, the marriage of theoretical ideas with the
possibilities offered by technology can make the decisions in
organisations more rational and, at the same time, more human.
We all have stories to tell -- of a rapturous first kiss, a life-altering moment of choice, or the shocking revelation of a long-guarded secret. And these stories are often as distinctive, fascinating, exciting and entertaining as those found in the memoirs and autobiographies that currently top the nation's bestseller lists. We just need to know how to tell them best. Veteran, writing teacher, lecturer, and author of So You Want to Write a Novel, Lou Willet Stanek can help you translate your joys and ordeals, thoughts and triumphs into superbly crafted nonfiction -- taking you step-by-step through the writing process with care, encouragement, and expert advice. She shows you how to unlock your memories, create settings and scenes, protray major characters and dramatic events. And she offers the key to finding your own unique voice, and to presenting your greatest charcter -- yourself -- without boring your reader or sounding egotistical. Complete with invaluable exercises, nuts-and-bolts techniques, and motivational tools, Writing Your Life is indispensible for every aspiring writer who wishes to mine the rich lode of his or her past for all the gems hidden there.
Managers in organisations must make rational decisions. Rational
decision making is the opposite of intuitive decision making. It is
a strict procedure utilising objective knowledge and logic. It
involves identifying the problem to solve, gathering facts,
identifying options and outcomes, analysing them, considering all
the relationships and selecting the decision. Rational decision
making requires support: methods and software tools. The
identification of the problem to solve needs methods that would
measure and evaluate the current situation. Identification and
evaluation of options and analysis of the available possibilities
involves analysis and optimisation methods. Incorporating intuition
into rational decision making needs adequate methods that would
translate ideas or observed behaviours into hard data.
Communication, observation and opinions recording is hardly
possible today without adequate software. Information and data that
form the input, intermediate variables and the output must be
stored, managed and made accessible in a user-friendly manner.
Rational Decisions in Organisations: Theoretical and Practical
Aspects presents selected recent developments in the support of the
widely understood rational decision making in organisations,
illustrated through case studies. The book shows not only the
variety of perspectives involved in decision making, but also the
variety of domains where rational decision support systems are
needed. The case studies present decision making by medical
doctors, students and managers of various universities, IT project
teams, construction companies, banks and small and large
manufacturing companies. Covering the richness of relationships in
which the decisions should and must be taken, the book illustrates
how modern organisations operate in chains and networks; they have
multiple responsibilities, including social, legal, business and
ethical duties. Nowadays, managers in organisations can make
transparent decisions and consider a multitude of stakeholders and
their diverse features, incorporating diverse criteria, using
multiple types and drivers of information and decision-making
patterns, and referring to numerous lessons learned. As the book
makes clear, the marriage of theoretical ideas with the
possibilities offered by technology can make the decisions in
organisations more rational and, at the same time, more human.
When Henri Lefebvre published The Urban Revolution in 1970, he
sketched a research itinerary on the emerging tendency towards
planetary urbanization. Today, when this tendency has become
reality, Lefebvre's ideas on everyday life, production of space,
rhythmanalysis and the right to the city are indispensable for the
understanding of urbanization processes at every scale of social
practice. This volume is the first to develop Lefebvre's concepts
in social research and architecture by focusing on urban
conjunctures in Barcelona, Belgrade, Berlin, Budapest, Copenhagen,
Dhaka, Hong Kong, London, New Orleans, Nowa Huta, Paris, Toronto,
SAGBPo Paulo, Sarajevo, as well as in Mexico and Switzerland. With
contributions by historians and theorists of architecture and
urbanism, geographers, sociologists, political and cultural
scientists, Urban Revolution Now reveals the multiplicity of
processes of urbanization and the variety of their patterns and
actors around the globe.
When Henri Lefebvre published The Urban Revolution in 1970, he
sketched a research itinerary on the emerging tendency towards
planetary urbanization. Today, when this tendency has become
reality, Lefebvre's ideas on everyday life, production of space,
rhythmanalysis and the right to the city are indispensable for the
understanding of urbanization processes at every scale of social
practice. This volume is the first to develop Lefebvre's concepts
in social research and architecture by focusing on urban
conjunctures in Barcelona, Belgrade, Berlin, Budapest, Copenhagen,
Dhaka, Hong Kong, London, New Orleans, Nowa Huta, Paris, Toronto,
SAGBPo Paulo, Sarajevo, as well as in Mexico and Switzerland. With
contributions by historians and theorists of architecture and
urbanism, geographers, sociologists, political and cultural
scientists, Urban Revolution Now reveals the multiplicity of
processes of urbanization and the variety of their patterns and
actors around the globe.
How socialist architects, planners, and contractors worked
collectively to urbanize and develop the Global South during the
Soviet era In the course of the Cold War, architects, planners, and
construction companies from socialist Eastern Europe engaged in a
vibrant collaboration with those in West Africa and the Middle East
in order to bring modernization to the developing world.
Architecture in Global Socialism shows how their collaboration
reshaped five cities in the Global South: Accra, Lagos, Baghdad,
Abu Dhabi, and Kuwait City. Lukasz Stanek describes how local
authorities and professionals in these cities drew on Soviet
prefabrication systems, Hungarian and Polish planning methods,
Yugoslav and Bulgarian construction materials, Romanian and East
German standard designs, and manual laborers from across Eastern
Europe. He explores how the socialist development path was adapted
to tropical conditions in Ghana in the 1960s, and how Eastern
European architectural traditions were given new life in 1970s
Nigeria. He looks at how the differences between socialist foreign
trade and the emerging global construction market were exploited in
the Middle East in the closing decades of the Cold War. Stanek
demonstrates how these and other practices of global cooperation by
socialist countries-what he calls socialist worldmaking-left their
enduring mark on urban landscapes in the postcolonial world.
Featuring an extensive collection of previously unpublished images,
Architecture in Global Socialism draws on original archival
research on four continents and a wealth of in-depth interviews.
This incisive book presents a new understanding of global
urbanization and its architecture through the lens of socialist
internationalism, challenging long-held notions about modernization
and development in the Global South.
This book examines ways of assessing the rational management of
nonrenewable resources. Integrating numerous methods, it
systematically exposes the strengths of exergy analysis in
resources management. Divided into two parts, the first section
provides the theoretical background to assessment methods, while
the second section provides practical application examples. The
topics covered in detail include the theory of exergy cost and
thermo-ecological cost, cumulative calculus and life cycle
evaluation. This book serves as a valuable resource for researchers
looking to investigate a range of advanced thermodynamic
assessments of the influence of production processes on the
depletion of nonrenewable resources.
This book examines ways of assessing the rational management of
nonrenewable resources. Integrating numerous methods, it
systematically exposes the strengths of exergy analysis in
resources management. Divided into two parts, the first section
provides the theoretical background to assessment methods, while
the second section provides practical application examples. The
topics covered in detail include the theory of exergy cost and
thermo-ecological cost, cumulative calculus and life cycle
evaluation. This book serves as a valuable resource for researchers
looking to investigate a range of advanced thermodynamic
assessments of the influence of production processes on the
depletion of nonrenewable resources.
Lyme borreliosi, s commonly known as lyme disease, is now
acknowledged as the most highly prevalent arthropod-borne human
disease in northern temperate regions of the world. This book
describes the basic characteristics of the disease, the biology of
the pathogens in their vectors and vertebrate hosts, their ecology
in different regions of the world and the global epidemiology of
the disease. The final chapters address the prevention and control
measures that have resulted from this knowledge
Disrupted Realism is the first book to survey the works of
contemporary painters who are challenging and reshaping the
tradition of Realism. Helping art lovers, collectors, and artists
approach and understand this compelling new phenomenon, it includes
the works of 38 artists whose paintings respond to the subjectivity
and disruptions of modern experience. Widely published author and
blogger John Seed, who believes that we are "the most distracted
society in the history of the world," has selected artists he sees
as visionaries in this developing movement. The artists' impulses
toward disruption are as individual as the artists themselves, but
all share the need to include perception and emotion in their
artistic process. Six sections lay out and analyze common themes:
"Toward Abstraction," "Disrupted Bodies," "Emotions and
Identities," "Myths and Visions," "Patterns, Planes, and
Formations," and "Between Painting and Photography." Interviews
with each artist offer additional insight into some of the most
incisive and relevant painting being created today.
In this innovative work, Lukasz Stanek frames a uniquely contextual
appreciation of Henri Lefebvre's idea that space is a social
product. Stanek explicitly confronts both the philosophical and the
empirical foundations of Lefebvre's oeuvre, especially his direct
involvement in the fields of urban development, planning, and
architecture.
Countering the prevailing view, which reduces Lefebvre's theory of
space to a projection of his philosophical positions, Stanek argues
that Lefebvre's work grew out of his concrete, empirical engagement
with everyday practices of dwelling in postwar France and his
exchanges with architects and planners. Stanek focuses on the
interaction between architecture, urbanism, sociology, and
philosophy that occurred in France in the 1960s and 1970s, which
was marked by a shift in the processes of urbanization at all
scales, from the neighborhood to the global level. Lefebvre's
thinking was central to this encounter, which informed both his
theory of space and the concept of urbanization becoming
global.
Stanek offers a deeper and clearer understanding of Lefebvre's
thought and its implications for the present day. At a time when
cities are increasingly important to our political, spatial, and
architectural world, this reassessment proposes a new empirical,
and practical, interpretation of Lefebvre's ideas on urbanism.
This volume coins the term "Team 10 East" as a conceptual tool to
discuss the work of Team 10 members and fellow travelers from
state-socialist countries--such as Oskar Hansen of Poland, Charles
Polonyi of Hungary, and Radovan Niksic of Yugoslavia. This new term
allows the book's contributors to approach these individuals from a
comparative perspective on socialist modernism in Central and
Eastern Europe and to discuss the relationship between modernism
and modernization across the Iron Curtain. In so doing, "Team 10
East" addresses "revisionism" in state-socialist architecture and
politics as well as shows how Team 10 East architects appropriated,
critiqued, and developed postwar modernist architecture and
functionalist urbanism both from within and beyond the confines of
a Europe split by the Cold War.
Thermo-ecology: Exergy as a Measure of Sustainability integrates
thermo-ecology and exergy replacement cost as a new and original
tool called thermo-ecology cost, or TEC. This tool allows for a
more inclusive measurement of the impacts of using renewable and
non-renewable resources by including the thermodynamics law in
decision-making and presenting applications of this tool across
industries and lifecycle assessments. It includes ways to
investigate these effects more effectively by combining these
critical aspects. This combination has emerged as a valuable
decision-support tool for policymakers and the industry as they
seek to evaluate the impacts of a product or process.
This edited volume explores ideas of legal realism which emerge
through the works of Russian legal philosophers. Apart from the
well-known American and Scandinavian versions of legal realism,
there also exists a Russian one: readers will discover fresh
perspectives and that the collection of early twentieth century
ideas on law discussed in Russia can be understood as a unified
school of legal thought - as Russian legal realism. These chapters
by renowned European and Eastern European legal philosophers add to
ongoing discussions about the nature of law, especially in the
context of developments around our scientific knowledge about the
mind and behaviour. Analyses of legal phenomena carried out by
legal realists in Russia offer novel arguments in favour of
embracing psychological and sociological perspectives on the law.
The book includes analysis of the St. Petersburg school of legal
philosophy and Leon Petrazycki's psychological theory of law. This
original and multifaceted research on Russian realists is of
considerable value to an international audience. Researchers and
postgraduate students of law, legal theory and legal ethics will
find the book particularly appealing, but it will also interest
those investigating the philosophy or sociology of law, or legal
history.
This open access book looks at the migration of Southern European
EU citizens (from Portugal, Spain, Italy, Greece) who move to
Northern European Member States (Belgium, France, Germany, United
Kingdom) in response to the global economic crisis. Its objective
is twofold. First, it identifies the scale and nature of this new
Southern European emigration and examines these migrants'
socio-economic integration in Northern European destination
countries. This is achieved through an analysis of the most recent
data on flows and profiles of this new labour force using
sending-country and receiving-country databases. Second, it looks
at the politics and policies of immigration, both from the
perspective of the sending- and receiving-countries. Analysing the
policies and debates about these new flows in the home and host
countries' this book shows how contentious the issue of intra-EU
mobility has recently become in the context of the crisis when the
right for EU citizens to move within the EU had previously not been
questioned for decades. Overall, the strength of this edited volume
is that it compiles in a systematic way quantitative and
qualitative analysis of these renewed Southern European migration
flows and draws the lessons from this changing climate on EU
migration.
In this 264-page book are 125 two-sided record sheets for Battle
for Ruin Mist: The Roleplaying Game(tm). 50 two-sided character
record sheets, 25 two-sided quick battle sheets, and 50 two-sided
campaign record sheets. Player Battle System, Campaign Battle
System, Active Cooperative Adventuring, Active Player-vs-Player
Combat, Active Campaign Combat, Dynamic Magic System, d100 System,
and Percentile Gaming System are trademarks or registered
trademarks of Reagent Press.
PARENTING MAGAZINE RECOMMENDED: Robert Stanek's Bugville Critters
stories were recommended to parents for their children by Parenting
Magazine in September 2008. The magazine recommended "Visit Dad and
Mom at Work," "Go To School," "Have A Sleepover," and "Visit Garden
Box Farms." These stories are included in "Bugville Critters
Storybook Treasury Volume 1" and in "Bugville Audio Collection 1."
ABOUT THIS BOOK: Robert Stanek's magical Bugville Critters stories
are capturing the imaginations of young children everywhere. Here
in one enchanting volume are four Stanek favorites in their
entirety, including the Tour Of Bugville from the extended
editions. Starting with Robert's first Lass Ladybug story, Have
Trouble at School, and including Break Their Bad Habits, Stay After
School, and Have a Bad Day, Bugville Critters Storybook Treasury
Volume 3 is the perfect collection to share with the entire family.
A $40 value in a premium, full-size, full-color edition.
A full-color, premium-size, perfect-bound children's picture book!
Robert Stanek, the highly-acclaimed author of more than 75 books
for young people and adults, including Journey Beyond the Beyond
and The Kingdoms and the Elves of the Reaches, has selected an
irresistible combination for this age group--loveable critters and
exciting reading adventures. In this story, Buster's imagination
takes him on a trip through the solar system on a rocket ship. He
sees the earth and moon from space. As he sets off to explore the
rest of the solar system, he encounters asteroids and many strange
and wonderful sights. The wonderfully-crafted story is paired with
energetic illustrations and playful examples that help children
discover the world around them and the joy of reading. Other Big
Little Reader(tm) stories starring Buster Bee that you may enjoy
include: Go to School, Have a Sleepover, Visit Garden Box Farms, Go
on Vacation, Play Their First Big Game, and Rush to the Hospital.
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