When it comes to entering and succeeding in many (especially large) corporate organizations, there are still barriers and challenges (ranging from education and background to not having the right contacts and networks) that the majority encounter. This book provides inside advice on planning your career, overcoming the barriers and "cracking corporate". Through interviewing young professionals who currently have successful corporate careers, and through the authors' own experiences of cracking corporate, the book offers readers valuable lessons in choosing career options and tackling the different challenges at each stage in your career. Furthermore, the authors provide insightful advice on thinking about your purpose in life, planning your education and becoming an expert in a particular field, developing your network of contacts, handling difficult people and situations, and using good ethical principles.

Unlike most other Palestinian cities, Ramallah is a relatively new town, a de facto capital of the West Bank allowed to thrive after the Oslo Peace Accords, but just as quickly hemmed in and suffocated by the Occupation as the Accords have failed. Perched along the top of a mountainous ridge, it plays host to many contradictions: traditional Palestinian architecture jostling against aspirational developments and cultural initiatives, a thriving nightlife in one district, with much more conservative, religious attitudes in the next. Most striking however - as these stories show - is the quiet dignity, resilience and humour of its people; citizens who take their lives into their hands every time they travel from one place to the next, who continue to live through countless sieges, and yet still find the time, and resourcefulness, to create. Translated by Basma Ghalayini, Alexander Hong, Thoraya El-Rayyes, Mohammed Ghalaieny, Raph Cormack, Adam Talib, Yasmine Seale, Andrew Leber, Emre Bennett & Raph Cohen.

In this book, the authors focus on three aspects related to the development of articulated agents: presenting an overview of high-level control algorithms for intelligent decision-making of articulated agents, experimental study of the properties of soft agents as the end-effector of articulated agents, and accurate management of low-level torque-control loop to accurately control the articulated agents. This book summarizes recent advances related to articulated agents. The motive behind the book is to trigger theoretical and practical research studies related to articulated agents.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Global Security, Safety, and Sustainability (ICDS3), and of the 4th e-Democracy Joint Conferences (e-Democracy 2011) which were held in Thessaloniki in August 2011. The 37 revised full papers presented were carefully selected from numerous submissions. Conference papers promote research and development activities of innovative applications and methodologies and applied technologies.