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This book explores how feminist artists continued to engage with
kitchen culture and food practices in their work as women's art
moved from the margins to the mainstream. In particular, this book
examines the use of food in the art practices of six women artists
and collectives working in Southern California-a hotbed of feminist
art in the 1970s-in conjunction with the Women's Art Movement and
broader feminist groups during the era of the Second Wave. Focused
around particular articulations of food in culture, this book
considers how feminist artists engage with issues of gender, labor,
class, consumption, (re)production, domesticity, and sexuality in
order to advocate for equality and social change. The book will be
of interest to scholars working in art history, food studies, and
gender and women's studies.
The Pharmaceutical Industry has been undergoing a major
transformation since the heady days of 'big pharma' in the 1970s
and 80s. Patent expiry, the rise of generics, and the decline of
the blockbuster drug have all changed the landscape over the last
10-15 years. It's an environment where products can take 10 years
or more to come to market, billions are spent on research and
development, jobs are being shed in the western pharma homelands
and regulators and the public are more demanding than ever. So what
part is Knowledge Management playing and going to play in this
vital international industry? Knowledge Management (KM) has many
facets from providing comprehensive knowledge bases for workers,
through the sharing of advice and problem solving, to providing an
environment for innovation and change. This book, focusing on
research and development, and manufacturing-based companies,
explores how a range of techniques and approaches have been applied
in the unique environment of the Pharmaceutical Industry, and
examine how it can help the industry in the 21st century. Whilst
the book is centered on the Pharmaceutical Industry, its objective
will be to discuss and demonstrate how Knowledge Management can be
applied in a variety of environments, and with a range of cultural
issues. KM practitioners, and potential practitioners, both within
and outside the Pharmaceutical Industry, will be able to gain
valuable guidance and advice from both the examples of good
practice and the lessons learned by the authors and contributors.
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Designing Connected Products (Paperback)
Claire Rowland; Contributions by Elizabeth Goodman, Martin Charlier, Alfred Lui, Ann Light
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R915
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The Internet of Things (IoT) promises a wealth of new possibilities
for interacting with the world around us. But it is still an
immature and technology-driven field, and there are many barriers
to creating compelling consumer products. This book explains in
simple terms what the challenges are and explores practical
solutions for solving them. Drawing on the best of current design
practice and academic research, Designing Connected Products
provides an introduction to the technology of IoT and practical
guidance on designing for diverse devices, cross-device
interactions, and complex ecosystems. UX for connected devices is
about much more than UI and interaction design. It requires you to
think about interusability, industrial design, conceptual models,
productization, and platform design. This book provides a clear and
practical roadmap for approaching product strategy and design in
this novel market, suitable for both UX design and technology
experts.
The gap between who designers and developers imagine their users
are, and who those users really are can be the biggest problem with
product development. "Observing the User Experience" will help you
bridge that gap to understand what your users want and need from
your product, and whether they'll be able to use what you've
created.
Filled with real-world experience and a wealth of practical
information, this book presents a complete toolbox of techniques to
help designers and developers see through the eyes of their users.
It provides in-depth coverage of 13 user experience research
techniques that will provide a basis for developing better
products, whether they're Web, software or mobile based. In
addition, it's written with an understanding of how software is
developed in the real world, taking tight budgets, short schedules,
and existing processes into account.
.Explains how to create usable products that are still original,
creative, and unique
.A valuable resource for designers, developers, project
managers-anyone in a position where their work comes in direct
contact with the end user.
.Provides a real-world perspective on research and provides advice
about how user research can be done cheaply, quickly and how
results can be presented persuasively
.Gives readers the tools and confidence to perform user research on
their own designs and tune their software user experience to the
unique needs of their product and its users"
From the first moment that Ben sees Laura, she seems too good to be
true. Stunning, elegant, adventurous, and intolerably charming, she
is everything that he wants in a woman. She even shares his passion
for Bruce Springsteen's music. And before he even realizes that
it's happened, Ben has turned his whole life upside down to follow
Bruce around the country with her. Laura fascinates him because
everything about her is a contradiction. She never lies, but she
never quite tells the truth either. She's wildly outspoken and
passionate, yet smoothly changes the subject whenever she is asked
a direct question about herself. She manages to intrigue and
infuriate, attract and repel, charm and disarm Ben at every turn.
Yet there's something sweet beneath her flippant exterior;
something that Ben realizes that only he is allowed to see. And no
matter how much he tries to stay away, he is unable to resist her.
But Laura has secrets that threaten to destroy their unlikely
friendship. She is wealthy, yet unemployed. She has no family, and
she seems to have almost no past, except for an older man whose
relationship to her Ben cannot figure out. And she claims that she
doesn't believe in love. When the tour ends, Ben knows that he
wants more from his relationship with Laura. But he doesn't know
what Laura wants. And neither does she.
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Paradise (Paperback)
Joan Elizabeth Goodman
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R307
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In 1542, when sixteen-year-old Marguerite is selected by her uncle,
the Sieur de Roberval, as one of the young women to accompany him
on his voyage to the New World, she seizes the chance to escape the
oppressive household of her father. Marguerite persuades her
forbidden young lover, Pierre, to join the voyage so they can be
wed when they reach Canada. But when Marguerite and Pierre are
caught together on the ship, they are banished to the tiny, wild
Isle of Demons, off the coast of Quebec--and their voyage to
freedom becomes a fight for their very survival. Inspired by the
true story of Marguerite de La Rocque, Paradise is a gripping novel
of adventure, courage, love, and hardship.
Beyond the Sea of Ice: The Voyages of Henry Hudson takes readers
into a land of impenetrable fog and crushing ice, a mysterious
place where lie the dreams of kings, merchants and learned
geographers - a passage to the Orient. Sailing small wooden boats
well above the Arctic Circle, guided by maps and charts that were
based on rumour and hope as much as fact, and surrounded by crews
that shared neither his belief nor his commitment, Henry Hudson
searched again and again for what was not there. In 1611, his
mutinous crew set him adrift on the freezing waters of the bay that
would one day bear his name. Beyond the Sea of Ice is the story of
Henry Hudson's four harrowing voyages of discovery. Bringing the
skills of an experienced novelist, Goodman creates an epic
narrative of Henry Hudson's passionate quest. Fernando Rangel's
paintings capture the icy beauty of the North Atlantic, the
lushness of the new world and the cruelty and death that
accompanied a doomed voyage of discovery. Actual entries from the
journals of each voyage bring the reader directly into life at sea
in the 17th century, and Mikaya Press's exclusive gatefold
Read-Along Map(TM) allows the reader to read about the explorer's
travels while following them on a map at the same time.
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