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Prompted by centuries of warfare, political oppression, natural
disasters, and economic collapses, exile has had an enormous impact
not only on individuals who have undergone transplantation from one
culture to another but also on the host societies they have joined
and those worlds they have left behind. Written by prominent
literary critics, creative authors, and artists, the essays
gathered within Exile in Global Literature and Culture: Homes Found
and Lost meditate upon the painful journeys-geographic, spiritual,
emotional, psychological-brought about due to exilic rupture, loss,
and dislocation. Yet exile also fosters potential pleasures and
rewards: to extend scholar Martin Tucker's formulation, wherever
the exile might land in flight, he bears with him the sweetness of
survival, the triumph of transcendence, the luxury of liminality,
and the invitation to innovate and invent in new lands. Indeed,
exile embodies both blessing and curse, homes found and lost.
Furthermore, this book adheres to (and tests) the premise that
exile's deepest and innermost currents are manifested through
writing and other artistic forms.
Prompted by centuries of warfare, political oppression, natural
disasters, and economic collapses, exile has had an enormous impact
not only on individuals who have undergone transplantation from one
culture to another but also on the host societies they have joined
and those worlds they have left behind. Written by prominent
literary critics, creative authors, and artists, the essays
gathered within Exile in Global Literature and Culture: Homes Found
and Lost meditate upon the painful journeys-geographic, spiritual,
emotional, psychological-brought about due to exilic rupture, loss,
and dislocation. Yet exile also fosters potential pleasures and
rewards: to extend scholar Martin Tucker's formulation, wherever
the exile might land in flight, he bears with him the sweetness of
survival, the triumph of transcendence, the luxury of liminality,
and the invitation to innovate and invent in new lands. Indeed,
exile embodies both blessing and curse, homes found and lost.
Furthermore, this book adheres to (and tests) the premise that
exile's deepest and innermost currents are manifested through
writing and other artistic forms.
Winner Of The 2007 Shingo Prize For Excellence In Manufacturing
Research
Lean production, which has radically benefited traditional
manufacturing, can greatly improve the software industry with
similar methods and results. This transformation is possible
because the same overarching principles that apply in other
industries work equally well in software development. The software
industry follows the same industrial concepts of production as
those applied in manufacturing; however, the software industry
perceives itself as being fundamentally different and has largely
ignored what other industries have gained through the application
of lean techniques.
"Lean Software Strategies: Proven Techniques for Managers and
Developers," shows how the most advanced concepts of lean
production can be applied to software development and how current
software development practices are inadequate.
Written for software engineers, developers, and leaders who need
help creating lean software processes and executing genuinely lean
projects, this book draws on the personal experiences of the two
authors as well as research on various software companies applying
lean production to software development programs.
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